Tournemire: The Seven Last Words of Christ

Iain Quinn was born in Cardiff, Wales. He grew up as a chorister at Llandaff Cathedral, also studying the organ, piano, and trumpet. At fourteen, he was appointed Organist at St. Michael’s Theological College, Llandaff. He later joined the faculty of the Blackheath Conservatoire of Music, London. In 1994 he moved to the USA for study at The Juilliard School, the University of Hartford (BM) and the Institute of Sacred Music, Yale University (MM), returning to the UK in 2009 as a Doctoral Fellow at the University of Durham (PhD historical musicology). During 2011 he was a Visiting Composer in Chapel at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and in 2012 a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University. In 2017 he was a Fulbright Scholar teaching at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory, St. Petersburg, Russia and in 2018 he was the Rudolph Ganz Fellow at the Newberry Library, Chicago. In 2020 he was a Fellow at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin.

He has held church appointments in New York, Connecticut and Georgia, and from 2005–2010 served as Director of Cathedral Music & Organist at the Cathedral of St. John, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has released fifteen CDs on the Chandos, Guild, Hyperion, Paulus, Raven and Regent labels. His most recent recordings include Haydn Organ Concertos with Arcangelo and Jonathan Cohen (Chandos) and Organ Music of Vincent Persichetti (Naxos). He has completed critical editions of the previously unpublished organ works and early Christmas cantata of Samuel Barber (G. Schirmer), the complete organ works of Carl Czerny (2 volumes, A-R Editions), the complete anthems of John Goss (A-R Editions), and two volumes volume for the Elgar Complete Edition. He is the editor of an ongoing series of English Organ Sonatas (Ut Orpheus Edizioni) and the author of four books: The Genesis and Development of an English Sonata (Routledge – Royal Musical Association Monograph Series); The Organist in Victorian Literature (Palgrave Macmillan); Music and Religion in the writings of Ian McEwan (Boydell and Brewer); Rudolph Ganz, Patriotism and Standardization of The Star-Spangled Banner, 1907-1958 (Routledge). Dr. Quinn is Professor of Organ at Florida State University where he is also the Research Fellow in the Arts and Humanities and Director of the Festival of the Creative Arts.

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