Andrew Millington has been Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral since September 1999. He studied the organ at Worcester Cathedral before gaining an Organ Scholarship to Downing College, Cambridge. In 1975 he became Assistant Organist at Gloucester Cathedral and in 1983 he succeeded Philip Moore as Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral. He has worked with several leading orchestras and he is well known as a recitalist. He has made several recordings as an organ soloist, including a highly-acclaimed DVD on the organ of Exeter...
Heinrich Wimmer was born in 1964 and studied with Prof. Klemens Schnorr at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Munich.
For over 20 years he has been organist at the church of St. Jacob to Burghausen, Salzach , where he initiated the construction of the church's Rieger organ.
He has given recitals across Europe and the Far East including all the major organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Max Reger.
Heinrich Wimmer's programme in Exeter include's Reubke's Sonata on the 94th...
In an event organised by Exeter musician Luke Bliss-Thompson and his band Swarm, Exeter’s finest musicians have teamed up with Exeter Phoenix to put on a charity concert raising money for the victims of the Nepal earthquake.
Buildings have been flattened, communities shattered and lives torn apart. Dozens of aftershocks continue to hit the area, and people are sleeping in the open air from fear of further destruction. More than 6,000 people are reported to have died and thousands are feared to be trapped under rubble.
All the money from this show will go towards providing...
Exeter University’s top choir are busy rehearsing a lively programme ahead of a special concert at Exeter Cathedral next week.
The University Chapel Choir (made up of 20 of the campus’s best choral singers) will sing Bob Chilcott’s lively A Little Jazz Mass as part of a programme that includes familiar works by Parry and Stanford. The performance takes place in Exeter Cathedral on Saturday 30th May at 19.30
Michael Graham, the choir’s director, said: “It’s a great honour for the choir to perform such an exciting programme in the Cathedral. Several of its members are...
Exeter University's Chapel Choir give an evening concert to include works from their varied repertoire. Major works include Stanford "For lo, I raise up" and Parry "I was glad"
The choir's Organist and Director of Music is Michael Graham. Michael also directs Budleigh Salterton Male Voice Choir and Exeter College Choral Society and is the founder and Artistic Director of Exodus. He is a full time member of Exeter Cathedral Choir.
Ticket Information
£8 Adults, £5 Students. Tickets from 01392 285983...
Saturday 13th June 2015 at 19.30 (doors open 18.45)
A programme of music from medieval to modern showcasing Exeter Cathedral choir’s wide liturgical repertoire, including works from (or inspired by) our own 965 year-old Library and Archive.
The concert will include a performance of 'Flyht' by Nicholas O'Neill. This piece was composed for the 700th anniversary of Exeter College (Oxford) and sets to music selections from our own Exeter Book and other words by Samuel Wesley.
Exeter Cathedral's professional choir is made up of 36 Choristers who...
Paul Morgan is the Organist Emeritus of Exeter Cathedral. He studied at the Royal College of Music, London and at Christ Church, Oxford where he was Organ Scholar. He moved to Exeter in 1969 as Assistant Organist under Lionel Dakers and was appointed Organist in 1999. Until its closure, Paul was a Lecturer in the Music Department of the University of Exeter and, for twenty years, Organs Adviser to the Exeter Diocesan Advisory Committee. His numerous organ recitals have mostly been in the West Country, but he has also given a number of recitals...
David Davies is the Assistant Director of Music at Exeter Cathedral. Originally a native of Snowdonia in North Wales, David was educated at Eton College, Magdalen College, Oxford (where he was organ scholar), and Yale University. He has worked in church music on both sides of the Atlantic, living in the USA for five years, and as Director of the Girls’ Choir and Sub Organist at Guildford Cathedral for six years.
David has given concerts in South Africa, Japan, North America and several countries in Europe. In the UK he has performed at Westminster Abbey and the Royal Festival Hall...
Newton Abbot Racecourse can reveal that singer and television presenter Alesha Dixon will be Boyzone’s Special Guest at their headline show at Newton Abbot Racecourse on Sunday June 28.
The concert, which is confirmed to be Boyzone’s only South West tour date, will take place on Sunday June 28.
2015 is shaping up to be another great year for Britain’s Got Talent judge Alesha Dixon. She is presently a TV judge on Britain’s Got Talent which is in its ninth series, now airing.
'The Boy Does Nothing' singer is also confirmed to be bringing out a new record in...
