Lunchtime Recitals: Summer 2007
Robert Munns: 18 July
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ProgrammeThe Nineteeth Century — Musical Highways and Byways
Robert Munns is a former Scholarship holder at the Royal Academy of Music and has had a very extensive career as a concert organist, conductor and church musician. His many overseas tours have included performances, master classes and broadcasts on five continents that have attracted great acclaim. In England, he has performed at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, the St Albans Festival, and at most major concert venues including S Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral and the Royal Festival Hall in London. His overseas appearances include the Salt Lake Tabernacle; S Thomas’ Church, Fifth Avenue, New York; Washington National Cathedral; the Kaiser-Wilhelm Church, Berlin; S Peter’s Cathedral, Geneva and the Laurenskirk, Rotterdam. Appearances in the Far East include Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Adelaide and the Melbourne International Festival. In 1992 he was the first British organist in forty-five years to give concerts in Romania. The Royal Academy of Music has honoured him for services to British Music. As a teacher he has wide recognition. Since 1994 he has given workshops and classes in Malaysia, Singapore and Canada. Since 1996 he has made yearly concert tours to the United States. 2005 took him to the United States, coast to coast. 2006 saw him more home-based with recitals in England, Wales, and at the King’s Chapel, Aberdeen, on the first Aubertin organ in Britain. He is active this year in the tercentenary celebrations of the Danish composer Dietrich Buxtehude, and has recitals at King’s College Cambridge and Chester and Dunblane Cathedrals, as well as concerts in Spain and a six-week tour of the Far East. |
