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Christopher Herrick is an English organist. Born in Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, Herrick was a boy chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and attended its choir school; he sang at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and later that year went with the choir on a three-month tour of America which included a private concert in the White House and a meeting with President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Christopher Herrick (Organ, Harpsichord). Born: May 23, 1942 - Bletchley, Buckinghamshire, England. The English organist and harpsichordist, Christopher Herrick, was a boy chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral and attended its choir school; he sang at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 and later that year went with the choir on a three-month tour of America which included a private concert in the White House and a meeting with President Eisenhower. From 1959 to 1962, Christopher Herrick held an organ scholarship at Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied music. Following this, he obtained a Boult scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music. His interests expanded to the harpsichord. Malcolm Russell, one of London's principal suppliers of harpsichords, was an early neighbour, and Christopher Herrick was able to acquire a Dulcken harpsichord on permanent loan.

Suite Gothique, for organ, Op. 25. 3. Toccata. Allons voir ce divin Gage, noël varié for organ. Pièces Nouvelles (12) for organ.

Welcome to the london organ concerts guide. 2019 sees twenty years since I joined the LOCG team. These included the Royal College of Organists, City of London Society of Organists and Adrian Adams publicising the newly-rebuilt T C Lewis organ at St John’s Upper Norwood. Adrian Gunning was the President of the Organ Club, the RCO was still at St Andrew ’s Holborn and Alexander Fiseisky was giving a masterclass there. So we fast-forward to a fresh generation of fine young organists carrying the torch into the future.

Organ Recital (Christopher Herrick). Thursday 2nd August 2018 at 19:00. Christopher Herrick’s career as one of the world’s leading concert organists is based on firm foundations. As a boy he was a chorister at St Paul’s Cathedral, lucky to sing in the 1953 Coronation Choir and to take part in a 40-concert tour of North America later that year. He was Music Scholar at his senior school, Organ Scholar at Oxford University and Boult Scholar at the Royal College of Music in London.

Herrick later studied organ at Oxford University and the Royal College of Music. By his early twenties he was virtuoso organist of the highest caliber. Herrick served as assistant organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in London from 1967 to 1974, then worked as an organist at Westminster Cathedral for the next decade, all the while regularly appearing in concerts and recitals. In 1984 he left his Westminster Cathedral post to become a freelance concert artist and found immediate rewards

Christopher Herrick (organ of Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway) - BBC Music Magazine, February 2010, Mor. elease Date: 4th Jan 2010. Catalogue No: CDA67809. Series: Organ Music, Christopher Herrick Buxtehude Complete Organ Works.

The latest volume of Christopher Herrick’s acclaimed series of Buxtehude’s complete organ works comes from Paris and the admired organ of St-Louis-en-l’Île – formally opened in 2005, and based on the work of Zacharias Hildebrant (1688-1757). As with previous discs, it includes a selection of the composer’s praeludia, ostinato works, canzonettas and canzonas, interspersed with chorale preludes, chorale fantasias and variations