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SUMMARY:Lunchtime Organ Recital: Thomas Allery
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DESCRIPTION:Thomas Allery\n\nJohn Stanley (1712-86)  \n- Voluntary op 5 no
  8\n\nJan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)\n- Unter den Linden grüne \n\
 nWilliam Selby (1738-98)\n- Voluntary no 8 in A \n\nJohann Sebastian Bach 
 (1685-1750)\n- Toccata and fugue in D minor \n\n\nIn addition to his dutie
 s running the music programme at Temple Church\, Thomas Allery maintains a
 n active career as a keyboard player\, in demand both as a soloist and con
 tinuo player\, and equally at home on and harpsichord. Recent concert enga
 gements have taken him to festivals at Buxton\, St Albans International Or
 gan Festival\, Paxton\, Orkney\, Cadogan Hall\, Lichfield Festival\, and T
 he Grange opera. In 2024 he was sponsored by the Eric Thompson to make a f
 ilm of historic music from the City of London entitled ‘Sounds of the Sq
 uare Mile’. \n\nThomas is in regular demand as a continuo player on orga
 n and harpsichord\, regularly performing with the Sixteen and with the awa
 rd-winning chamber ensemble\, Ensemble Hesperi. With this group\, he has p
 erformed\, broadcast and recorded widely. This ensemble has a reputation f
 or its imaginative programming and its specialism in Scottish baroque repe
 rtoire. With Hesperi\, Thomas was a ‘Live Music Now’ artist\, deliveri
 ng regular workshops in care homes\, day centres and SEND schools across t
 he UK\, including projects leading choral residency programmes in care hom
 es. In 2014-15\, Thomas was a Junior Fellow in Harpsichord and Continuo at
  the Royal College of Music\, and in 2019\, he was selected as a Britten-P
 ears young artist\, performing Bach cantatas under the direction of Philip
 pe Herreweghe at Snape Maltings. \n\nToday\, Thomas is an advocate for the
  performance of figured bass and is passionate about its use as a pedagogi
 cal tool for music students. He is currently undertaking research into how
  seventeenth and eighteenth centuries continuo treatises can be adapted fo
 r use in keyboard education today and presented on this at the Centro Stud
 i Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini’s Conference on Basso continuo in 2021. T
 homas currently is a professor of basso continuo in the Historical Perform
 ance department at the Royal College of Music. \n\n\nHaving initially stud
 ied Music at the University of Oxford\, he subsequently graduated with dis
 tinction from the Masters programme at the Royal College of Music before b
 eing awarded a scholarship to study for an Artist Diploma at the Guildhall
  School of Music and Drama where he studied with Carole Cerasi and James J
 ohnstone. In 2016 he was supported by the Eric Thompson trust to study his
 toric organ repertoire with Erwin Wiersinga at the Martinikirk in Groninge
 n. \n\n\nThe Temple Church organ\nThe organ in the Temple church was built
  in 1924 for the Castle of Glen Tanar\, Aberdeenshire\, and installed in 1
 954 in the rebuilt church (following war damage)\, the gift of Lord Glenta
 nar. The organ case was designed by W. E. Godfrey and installed in 1966 an
 d is modelled on drawings of the Temple’s Father Smith organ of 1688\, s
 howing the crests of Inner and Middle Temple. The organ was rebuilt in 201
 3 by Harrison and Harrison of Durham and has 66 stops over four manuals.
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LOCATION:The Temple Church\, London
URL:https://www.templechurch.com/music/lunchtime-organ-recitals
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