International Organist Series: Benjamin Sheen
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About
Benjamin Sheen is Director of Music at Jesus College Cambridge, returning to the UK after seven years working at the renowned St Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York City. He is the inaugural winner of the Pierre S. du Pont First Prize at the 2013 Longwood Gardens Organ Competition and a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.
Sheen’s growing international reputation has seen him perform throughout the United States of America, Europe, South Africa, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Programme:
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Overture to St. Paul
Wayne Oquin (b. 1977): Reverie
Francis Jackson (1917-2022): Toccata, Chorale and Fugue, Op. 16
Interval
Percy Whitlock (1903-1946): March ‘Dignity and Impudence’
Florence Price (1887-1953): Retrospection
Horatio Parker (1863-1919): Allegretto, from Organ Sonata in E flat minor, Op. 65
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) arr. G. Sheen: Cockaigne Overture (In London Town), Op. 40
Sheen’s growing international reputation has seen him perform throughout the United States of America, Europe, South Africa, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.
Programme:
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): Overture to St. Paul
Wayne Oquin (b. 1977): Reverie
Francis Jackson (1917-2022): Toccata, Chorale and Fugue, Op. 16
Interval
Percy Whitlock (1903-1946): March ‘Dignity and Impudence’
Florence Price (1887-1953): Retrospection
Horatio Parker (1863-1919): Allegretto, from Organ Sonata in E flat minor, Op. 65
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) arr. G. Sheen: Cockaigne Overture (In London Town), Op. 40