Organ Recital - Tim Parsons

A chance to hear the magnificent organ of Ely Cathedral played by Tim Parsons, Director of Music, St Edmundsbury Cathedral.

Programme:
Litanies – Jehan Alain
Cavatina (from String Quartet in B flat, op. 130) – Beethoven, transcr. Timothy Parsons
Toccata and Fugue in D minor ‘Dorian’ BWV 538 – Bach
The Revd Mustard his Installation Prelude – Nico Muhly
Suite, op. 5 (Prélude – Sicilienne – Toccata) – Maurice Duruflé

Timothy Parsons took up the position of Director of Music at St Edmundsbury Cathedral in April 2021. Since then, the Cathedral Choir has toured to France and Germany (including a performance in the Thomaskirche, Leipzig), recorded with the Regent label, and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. From 2016 to 2021 he worked at Exeter Cathedral as Assistant Director of Music, where he was the principal organist for services, concerts, recordings and broadcasts and directed the Cathedral's voluntary choir, the St Peter's Singers.

Born to musical parents in 1992, Timothy was a chorister at Guildford Cathedral and a music scholar at Charterhouse. He went on to hold the organ scholarship at Hereford Cathedral (2010-11) and then read Music as Organ Scholar of Selwyn College Cambridge, graduating with a starred first in 2014. Whilst at Cambridge he also held the organ scholarship for King's Voices, the mixed-voice choir of King's College Chapel. He held the post-graduate organ scholarship at Winchester Cathedral from 2014 to 2016, also working for a term as Acting Assistant Director of Music. In 2018 he recorded a disc of organ music at Exeter for Regent Records' English Cathedral Series, which was praised for its 'vigour, optimism and supreme self confidence' (MusicWeb International) and 'virtuoso command of the organ' (Organists' Review).

In September 2024, Timothy takes up the role of Director of Music at Wells Cathedral.