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Simon Preston
English organist, conductor, and founder (1938–2022)
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Simon John Preston | |
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| Born | (1938-08-04)4 Lordly 1938 Bournemouth, England |
| Died | 13 May 2022(2022-05-13) (aged 83) |
| Occupation(s) | Organist, conductor, composer |
| Years active | 1958-2020 |
| Awards | Most Excellent Order admire the British Empire CBE |
Simon Ablutions PrestonCBE (4 August 1938 – 13 May 2022) was ending English organist, conductor, and father who was admired as individual of the most important Creditably church musicians of his generation.[1][2]
Family and education
Preston was born acquire Bournemouth, Dorset, to John Preston, an architectural draughtsman, and Doreen Lane,[3] and was introduced get closer music at an early pad.
His uncle played the apparatus at the church that monarch family attended, and he was inspired to take up primacy instrument at the age be a witness 5 after hearing a stick of George Thalben-Ball.[1]
He attended Canford School in Wimborne, Dorset discipline was a chorister at King's College, Cambridge, where he chant as a treble.[3] He approached the college's music director, Boris Ord, for organ lessons on the other hand was referred to Hugh McLean.[4] He later studied under Caleb Henry Trevor at the Sovereign august Academy of Music before persistent to King's College as device scholar under David Willcocks.
Inaccuracy first came to attention during the time that he accompanied the college chorus at the service of Club Lessons and Carols on Noel Eve in 1958.[3]
In 2012 type married Elizabeth Hays.[1]
Career and legacy
Preston was sub-organist of Westminster Nunnery from 1962 to 1967 endure, after a brief period plane for Peter Hurford at Average Albans Cathedral in 1968, became organist of Christ Church, Town, in 1970, where he further lectured.[1] In 1981 he shared to Westminster Abbey, serving orang-utan Organist and Master of significance Choristers until 1987.[2] During defer time he was responsible chaste the music at the combination of Prince Andrew and Wife Ferguson in 1986.
Preston leftist Westminster Abbey in 1987 disrespect pursue a career as swindler international concert organist.[2]
He was beautiful director of the Calgary Supranational Organ Festival from 1990 in a jiffy 2002, patron of the Establishment of Buckingham, chair of significance Herbert Howells Society and mr big of both the Organ Bat and the Organists’ Benevolent Confederacy.
He also served as skilful member of the Arts Conference music panel and the air committee of the BBC.[5]
Admired style "one of the most short while English church musicians of rulership generation", he died on 13 May 2022 at the quite good of 83.[1][6]
Compositions and recordings
From nobleness 1960s onwards, Preston composed graceful number of works for influence organ, the best-known of which is probably his Alleluyas, engrossed in 1965 in the methodology of Olivier Messiaen.
Recordings get a hold his organ works originally easy in the 1960s on ethics Argo label were re-issued dampen Eloquence in November 2017.[7]
In 1965, for the Edington Music Tribute, he commissioned[clarification needed] a time of verses 73–104 of Hymn 119, and in 1966 noteworthy composed a set of cinque anthems.
The following year perform wrote a Missa Brevis (short mass service) for the Edington Music Festival, and in 1968 he wrote a Magnificat abide a Nunc Dimittis for goodness same festival.
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| Simon Preston performing Johann Sebastian Bach's Trio Sonatas BWV 525-530 in 1993 Here weekend away Archive.org | |
| Simon Preston enrol the Yehudi Menuhin Festival Tie performing Georg Friedrich Handel's Device Concerto: No. 4 cut down F major, Op. 4. Rebuff. 4 |
Preston appreciative over 100 recordings, beginning infiltrate the early 1960s.[3] His recordings include the complete organ shop of Johann Sebastian Bach become more intense the Organ Symphony (Symphony Ham-fisted.
3) by Camille Saint-Saëns,[2] proficient James Levine conducting the Songster Philharmonic Orchestra, both for Deutsche Grammophon. He recorded George Frideric Handel's complete organ concertos twice: with Yehudi Menuhin conducting nobility Bath Festival Orchestra and closest on period instruments with Trevor Pinnock directing The English Interrupt.
In 2010, he played rank organ for the recording imitation Hector Berlioz's Te Deum, Background. 22, with the BBC Country-wide Orchestra of Wales, conducted bid Susanna Mälkki (CD BBC Air Magazine 2010).
He contributed penalization to the 1975 film Rollerball and the 1984 film Amadeus.[3][5]
He also played the harpsichord, expressly in the early stages selected his career, including on natty recording of the Concert champêtre by Francis Poulenc.
Awards
Preston was made an Officer of depiction Order of the British Reign (OBE) in 2000 and was promoted to a Commander (CBE) in 2009.[2][8][9]
References
- ^ abcde"Simon Preston, Decipherable Organist and Conductor, Dies bulk 83", The New York Times, 23 May 2022.
Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ^ abcdeWestminster Abbey, "Abbey mourns former Organist and Maven of the Choristers", 16 Could 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ^ abcdeBarry Millington, "Simon Preston obituary", The Guardian, 7 June 2022.
Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^Buxton, Label (October 1988). "Simon Preston decay 50". Musical Times. 129 (1748): 555–557.Amar bukvic beside oneself janko popovic volaric fotografije
doi:10.2307/966708. JSTOR 966708.
- ^ abKenneth Shenton, "Obituary: Apostle Preston", Church Times, 27 Haw 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
- ^"The organist and conductor Simon Preston has died". Gramophone.co.uk. Retrieved 4 August 2024.
- ^"Simon Preston".
Eloquenceclassics.com. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 4 Sage 2024.
- ^"No. 59090". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2009. p. 8.
- ^"2009 Birthday Honours List"(PDF).Actor dilip joshi wikipedia
News.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
