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| Address: |
Ripon
Yorkshire (North)
HG4 1QR |
| Home Phone: |
07811 275139 |
| Instruments: |
Piano
Organ
Theory |
| Ability Levels: |
Beginners to Advanced |
| Qualifications: |
MA
FRCO |
| Fee (30 minutes): |
£12.00 |
| Fee (60 minutes): |
£22.00 |
| Notes: |
Thomas Leech became Assistant Director of Music at Ripon Cathedral in September 2004 following three years as Organ Scholar at Norwich Cathedral. He graduated from Downing College, Cambridge, in July 2001, after spending three years there as Organ Scholar. Whilst reading for a music degree at the university he conducted Downing College Chapel Choir and Darwin College Choir, also conducting a number of major orchestral works. With Downing College Chapel Choir he toured to Belgium, Holland, Hungary, Poland and the U.S.A. and with Norwich Cathedral Choirs to Italy, Norway and Belgium. He has also given concerts in France and Portugal.
In addition to playing for the daily choral services at Ripon Cathedral he has performed as a soloist in numerous English venues, his playing has been broadcast on BBC1 and live on Radio 3 and recorded on critically acclaimed discs with Norwich Cathedral Girls’ Choir on Lammas Records and Ripon Cathedral Choirs on Regent Records and York Ambisonic.
Recent engagements have included a recital with trumpeter Alison Balsom as part of the Ripon International Festival. He studied organ with David Sanger and in November 2002 studied in Germany with Johannes Geffert and at Klais Orgelbau with the inaugural Klais Organ Scholarship from the Eric Thompson Trust. He has participated in masterclasses and academies with many of today’s leading organists. Thomas is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, winning the Durrant and Turpin prizes in the Fellowship examinations. |
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