14/11/2021 18:00 - 18:30

Organ Recital - Katherine Dienes-Williams (Guildford Cathedral)

Smyth: Prelude and Fugue ‘O traurigkeit’
Smyth: Chorale Prelude ‘Du, o schönes Weltgebäude’
Boulanger: Improvisation III
Duruflé: Prélude (Suite, op. 5)

 

Katherine Dienes-Williams, MA, BMus, FRCO, Hon. FRSCM, Hon. FGCM was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral in January 2008. The Cathedral Choir is recognised as one of the finest in the UK, with several recordings, tours and live broadcasts to its name.

Katherine was born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand and came to England in 1991 to take up the post of Organ Scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist at Winchester College. She has worked as Assistant Organist variously at Liverpool Metropolitan and Norwich Cathedrals and as Director of Music at St. Mary’s Collegiate Church, Warwick.

She is a sometime guest tutor for the Royal College of Organists and is regularly asked to be a guest choral workshop leader for the Royal School of Church Music in the UK, the USA, South Africa and Australia. Katherine has given several organ recitals in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Germany, U.S.A., Bermuda, the Netherlands, Australia, Spain and Singapore. She has performed as organ soloist with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hallé and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. She is active as a music festival adjudicator and as a composer, having received several commissions both in the UK, the USA and New Zealand.

Katherine holds a Master of Arts in Music and Liturgy from Leeds University. She herself features both as organist and choral conductor on several recordings. She is in demand as a choral workshop leader in the UK, the USA and several other European countries. In July 2022, she will direct the St. Thomas girl chorister course in New York.