A Harvest Celebration Organ Recital with Edward Taylor

About

We look forward to hearing Edward Taylor on Wednesday 2nd October, at his next Organ Recital, A Harvest Celebration, organised as part of the Free Live Music Series at Carlisle Cathedral.

This event is free to enter; there will be a retiring collection at the end of the concert - please give what you can to support the artist and the Cathedral.

About the artist:
Edward Taylor is currently Assistant Organist, and Director of the Cathedral Consort, at Carlisle Cathedral. He is also in demand as a concert organist and Choral conductor.

Edward holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of Leeds and is an Associate of the Royal College of Organists. He has studied the organ with David Sanger, Simon Lindley and Henry Fairs and attended masterclasses with Naji Hakim, , David Briggs and Gillian Weir. Edward has also studied at the Strasbourg Conservatoire in France with Parisian, Christophe Mantoux.

Edwards main role at the cathedral is accompanying the cathedral choirs in their 7 weekly services but he has found time to develop a large repertoire of solo organ music spanning the centuries and the genres across the world. Edward has a large portfolio of recital venues including Westminster Abbey, Bridlington Priory, the town halls of Hull, Leeds and Rochdale and many cathedrals in the UK, Hardenburg Parish Church, Holland, and St Petrikirche in Germany. As director of the Cathedral Consort Edward has directed the choir on television and radio, has organised and led two successful international tours to France and Mallorca and directed the choir in their debut CD 'God is gone up with a triumphant shout' in collaboration with Borders Brass in 2014.