Speakers: Paul Greally, Joseph Zubier
Event Recorded on 24th April 2021
A recital by first year Organ Scholar Paul Greally (KC 2020, Music), live from the Organ Loft and hosted by Choral Scholar Joseph Zubier (KC 2017, Music).
His repertoire includes:
Brahms - Prelude in G minor (WoO 10/i)
Schumann - Fugue on B-A-C-H “Mässig, doch nicht zu langsam” (Op. 60 No4)
Albinoni - Adagio in G minor
Stanford - Fantasia and Toccata (Op. 57)
Paul (b.2001) is the organ scholar and first-year music student at King’s College, Cambridge. He was the inaugural Harry Gabb scholar of the Royal College of Organists and was awarded the ARCO, aged sixteen, with three prizes, and the FRCO, aged nineteen, winning all four of the available prizes.
Paul previously spent three years as a joint first study composer and organist at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Department where his teachers included Anne Marsden Thomas, Frederick Stocken and Edmund Jolliffe. Formerly the organ scholar of Pinner Parish Church, Paul performed for services in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin and Llandaff Cathedral, Wales. He has also given many solo organ recitals in venues including Leeds Town Hall, Shrewsbury Abbey, St. Lawrence Jewry and for the Bloomsbury Organ Day 2020.
Composition awards include the BBC Proms Inspire competition: his chamber work Daddy Longlegs was performed by members of the Aurora Orchestra at the 2018 BBC Proms and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He was subsequently commissioned to write for the BBC Singers, mentored by Errollyn Wallen: his choral work, The Slow Moon Climbs, was broadcast in 2019 on BBC Radio 3, conducted by Anna Lapwood. He also composed for the international project ‘250 piano pieces for Beethoven’: Indecision was premiered in Germany by Susanne Kessel at the Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, and published by Editions Musica Ferrum.
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