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7 June 2015, 9pm (GMT) - Robert's new CD will be featured on MDR Figaro's radio programme Orgelmagazin.
Presenter Claus Fischer and producer Horst Brauner will be discussing the Franz Liszt Memorial Organ in Weimar, the repertoire featured on the CD and Robert's collaboration with composer Bertie Baigent. 19 May 2015, 12:15pm - Robert is playing a lunchtime recital at St. Paul's Cathedral, London (Ontario). Copies of Robert's debut album will be available for purchase after the recital.
1 May 2015, 7pm - Robert will be playing a solo recital at St. Paul's Church Bloor Street, Toronto.
Click here to download the programme. Robert's debut CD will be available for purchase after the recital. Today Robert's first solo CD, a portrait of the Franz Liszt Memorial Organ at the Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Weimar, was released by the classical CD label JUBAL. A more detailed article about the album and an interview with Robert can be found on the Somerville College website. Click here for more information and full track listings. The CD is available for purchase from Amazon UK.  The first live recording from Robert's summer tour has been uploaded to YouTube: Bach's Prelude in C minor played on the 1735 Silbermann organ of the St.-Petri-Kirche, Freiberg (Saxony). Additional recordings (including works by Mendelssohn, Sweelinck, Boyce, Byrd and Gowers) will be added to the YouTube channel over the next few weeks. Robert's two summer tours and his upcoming CD release are mentioned in Somerville College's alumni magazine. Click here to read the article.
Robert has been appointed Assistant Organist of St. Paul's Church Bloor Street, Toronto (Canada), for the duration of the academic year 2014/2015.
St. Paul's, the largest Anglican church in Toronto, boasts strong musical tradition and a 111-stop Casavant Frères organ. Previous incumbents have included composer Healey Willan (1880-1968), whose famous Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue in E flat minor (1916) was written with the organ of St. Paul's in mind. Robert will be undertaking an extensive solo recital tour of Germany starting this week. He will be playing a recital at the Auenkirche in Berlin to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal College of Organists followed by six additional recitals in Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia, including an evening recital on the famous 1735 Silbermann organ of the St.-Petri-Kirche in Freiberg. The programmes will feature works by Bach, Reger, Howells, Elgar, Gowers and Pärt as well as the first performance of Bright spark, shot from a brighter place, a newly commissioned piece written by Bertie Baigent, a former member of Somerville Choir. Please see Robert's concert diary for full details of all upcoming recitals.  This summer Robert will be undertaking his first US tour. The itinerary includes five services/concerts with the Choir of Somerville College, Oxford, in Washington DC, Delaware and Massachusetts as well as a full-length solo recital at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross (Boston): Tuesday 1st July 2014, 5:30pm Washington National Cathedral, Washington D.C. Choral Evensong Plainsong Responses; Stainer/Beethoven: Psalm 143; Wood: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D; Wood: Expectans expectavi; Leighton: Paean (Organ Voluntary) Facebook Event Wednesday 2nd July 2014, 7:30pm National City Christian Church, Washington D.C. Music from the Dreaming Spires Programme - Poster - Facebook Event Thursday 3rd July 2014, 7:30pm Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Wilmington, Delaware "Long Live the King!" - A Very British Independence Day Concert Programme - Poster - Facebook Event Saturday 5th July 2014, 7pm St. John's Episcopal Church, Northampton, Massachusetts "Long Live the King!" - A Very British Independence Day Concert Programme - Poster - Facebook Event Sunday 6th July 2014, 9:45am Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts Choral Prelude and Holy Eucharist Music by Somervell, Howells, Wood, Carter, Stanford, Wood, Byrd and Buxtehude Facebook Event Sunday 6th July 2014, 6pm Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston, Massachusetts Recital on the Historic Hook & Hastings Organ (1875) Robert Pecksmith (organ) Works by Bach, Wesley, Howells, Williams, Reger, Vierne, Elgar, Walton and Sousa Facebook Event  A live recording of the fourth movement of Vierne's Organ Symphony No. 3 in F-sharp minor (op. 28) has just been uploaded to YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGMcukPiDTQ. The video was recorded at Merton College Chapel last week and features the Merton's new Dobson organ. |
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