Tuesday 1st August 2023
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Organ Recital with Jeffrey Howard
Tuesday 1st August 2023
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Bethel Chapel
Baker Street
Aberystwyth SY23 2AP
We are delighted to welcome acclaimed Welsh recital organist, Jeffrey Howard, to Musicfest for his first appearance at the festival.
As an accompanist, pianist, organist, arranger, répétiteur and vocal coach, he has worked with world renowned artists from all genres including Sir Bryn Terfel, Nuccia Focile, Dame Shirley Bassey and Michael Ball. A graduate of the University College of Wales, Cardiff and Royal Academy of Music, London, he enjoys a long-standing relationship with Welsh National Opera, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and Welsh International Academy of Voice and his vocal and orchestral arrangements are much in demand for concerts, recordings and for the broadcasting media. He received the British Empire Medal in the 2019 New Year Honoursand this year was admitted to the Gorsedd.
Event Programme
Handel: Overture to the Occasional Oratori
Handel: Waft her angels through the skies (Jephtha)
John Bull: Rondo
Mendelssohn: Sonata in D major (Andante – Andante con moto – Allegro)
Peter Warlock: Pieds en l’air (Capriol Suite)
Peter Warlock: Bethlehem Down
John Ireland: The Holy Boy
John Ireland: Capriccio.
De Lloyd: Er cof
Walford-Davies: Jesu Dulcis Memoria
Williams Mathias: Recessional