SAINT THOMAS CHURCH FIFTH AVENUE

The Reverend Andrew C. Mead, OBE, DD, Rector
John Scott, LVO, D.Mus., Organist and Director of Music
Frederick Teardo, Associate Organist

ORGAN RECITAL SERIES


DAVID GOODENOUGH

Sunday, 13 April 2008 at Five-fifteen o’clock


On the Arents Memorial Organ:

Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 14
I. Prélude (1870-1937)
II. Fugue
III. Pastorale
IV. Allegro vivace
V. Andante
VI. Final



Louis Vierne
(1870-1937)
DAVID GOODENOUGH has been Housemaster of Carrington House at Fettes College in Edinburgh since September 2005; he was promoted to that post having been Director of Music at Fettes for the preceding seven years. He received his early musical education at Hutton Grammar School, near Preston, Lancashire before going to the Guildhall School of Music to study the Organ in 1987. During his time in London, David was Organ Scholar (for two years) at The Royal Parish Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square. He graduated in 1990 and, following a year studying Organ Performance on the Guildhall’s Advanced Solo Studies course, David was appointed Assistant Organist at Blackburn Cathedral and Assistant Director of Music at St Wilfrid’s High School in the city. During five years in post at the cathedral, David was Organist and Conductor for numerous recordings and BBC broadcasts, and his premiere recording of Sir Charles Wood’s virtuoso Prelude and Fugue in G Minor on the Priory label received wide critical acclaim. Alongside as his duties at Fettes, David continues to freelance as an Organist. Well-known for his skills in improvisation, most of his recitals include improvisations on material submitted by the audience. On a number of occasions, he has given complete recitals of improvised material. He has performed in many of the UK’s cathedrals and major parish churches, together with recent concerts in Edinburgh’s Usher and McEwan Halls and he has also been the Organist for a number of BBC TV and Radio broadcasts. David also sings tenor with the Exon Singers, one of the UK’s leading Chamber Choirs with whom he has also recently acted as Composer in Residence. Today’s concert in St. Thomas’s marks the end of a nine-day tour of North America which has seen David perform in San Francisco, Minneapolis and New York.