Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja - Tom Winpenny, organ - St. Albans, UK
Organ Summer in Hallgrímskirkja
Sunday August 6th at 17hrs
Tom Winpenny, organ St. Albans, UK
Tickets are available at the entrance and on https://tix.is/is/
Admission ISK 3.500
Tom Winpenny is Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral, UK, where his duties include accompanying the daily choral services and directing the Cathedral Girls Choir. He studied as Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he played twice for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast internationally. He was subsequently Sub-Organist at St Paul's Cathedral, London, where he played for many great state occasions. He has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio and has been featured on American Public Media's Pipedreams. In recent years he has performed throughout Europe, the United States and the UK at venues including Hamburg Mariendom, Kalmar Cathedral (Sweden), Grace Cathedral (San Francisco), and Westminster Cathedral (London). Concerts in 2023 include recitals at St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna and the Summartónar Festival, Faroes. His many solo organ recordings include surveys of music by British composers including Judith Bingham, Malcolm Williamson, John Joubert, Elisabeth Lutyens, and Francis Pott’s monumental organ symphony Christus. For Naxos he has recorded five critically-acclaimed volumes of music by Olivier Messiaen, including the Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité at Hallgrímskirkja. His most recent release, of music by Edward Elgar, was selected as a Critic’s Choice in Gramophone magazine. His recordings as choral director include discs for Naxos of sacred music by Felix Mendelssohn and Michael Haydn.