Robin enjoys a busy recital schedule, devising programmes to suit all tastes. He aims to entertain and demonstrate the organ’s amazing scope as a concert instrument. He has performed concerts on organs of one manual and five stops to giant concert instruments. He has a passion for the wide and ever expanding repertoire for the organ and to present concerts with an open and engaging style.
In 2009 Robin recorded two CDs; the music of Frederick Frahm, recorded in Albuquerque, USA, and music of John Ellis in Bolton Parish Church. Click here for more details.
Robin has given recitals at St Paul’s, Southwark, Blackburn and Westminster Cathedrals, Westminster Abbey, St John’s Smith Square, in Wisbech, Cambridge, Athens (Greece) and Bergen (Norway). In 2008 he gave his Finnish debut at Helsinki Cathedral, and his USA debut at St Luke’s, Albuquerque with great success. He has performed Saint-Saens ‘Organ’ Symphony at St John’s, Smith Square, and appeared on BBC and independent radio and television. A passionate interest in newly written music for the organ has led to premiere performances by Nimrod Borenstein, Ian Coleman, Richard Dubugnon, John Ellis and Frederick Frahm, and performances in the 2007 Annual Festival of New Organ Music.
He studied for a performance degree and postgraduate diploma at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Whilst at the Academy Robin won the Organ Recital Award, and prizes for choral conducting and church music. He studied with David Titterington and Patrick Russill, and improvisation with Naji Hakim, and graduated from the Academy with DipRAM, the Academy’s Gold medal.
As accompanist he has performed in Hungary, Italy, Czech Republic, and the Netherlands, with the Sancta Sunniva Choir in Norway, and with other choirs in Rouen Cathedral, Bonn Basilica, Barcelona Cathedral and Brussels Cathedral, Bath Abbey, Wells Cathedral, and many other British and European venues
He performs as soloist and continuo player on the harpsichord and chamber organ, and teaches organ in London and in St Albans for the New School of Organ Studies. Robin is Director of Music of St Mary’s RC church in Hampstead and Organist to the Icelandic Church in London. Before moving to St Mary’s Hampstead he was Director of Music at St Giles-in-the-Fields, London, where he began the restoration of the 18th century English Baroque organ by celebrated organ builder William Drake.
Robin is available for concerts in the UK, Europe and North America, the Far East and Australasia. He has space for students in the London and Florence areas. Fees on request.
Major repertoire includes:
Bach Organ Works
Reubke Sonata
Elgar Sonata
Liszt "Ad nos ad salutarem" and B.A.C.H.
Franck Organ Works
Eben "Sunday Music"
Mendelssohn Organ Sonatas
Bruhns Organ Works