SUPERB CONCERT ORGANIST GRAHAM BARBER GIVES SUMMER RECITAL IN SALISBURY CATHEDRAL IN AUGUST

Graham Barber, Director of Music at St Bartholomew’s, Leeds, and widely regarded as one of the world’s leading concert organists with playing which is both technically brilliant and intensely musical, gives a major organ recital in Salisbury Cathedral on Wednesday 11 August at 7.30pm performing a programme of British and German music.

Barber plays Philip Wilby’s Music for the Iron Voice, Howells’ Master Tallis’s Testament, Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 544 and two pieces by Karg-Elert, on whom Barber is an authority, Valse Mignonne, Opus 142 No 2, and the Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue on BACH, Opus 150.

Tickets, £8.00, from Salisbury Playhouse box office, 01722 320333, or at the door.

Graham Barber is also Professor of Performance Studies at the University of Leeds, and Visiting Tutor in Organ Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester). He is President of the UK organization dedicated to promoting the music of the German composer Sigfrid Karl-Elert. He has performed in concert with many of the world’s leading conductors and major concert halls and has recorded many fine CDs including one on Salisbury Cathedral’s famous Father Willis organ.