01january

Wednesday 15 January at 5.30pm
Twilight Recital
Clare Pryor (Organ

Program:
Hendrik Andriessen . . . Thema met Variaties voor orgel
J.S. Bach . . . Chorale Prelude: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr, BWV 662
Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532
Josef Rheinberger . . . Movements from Sonata No. 8 in E Minor, Op. 132
II. Intermezzo
III. Scherzoso
Jehan Alain . . . Le jardin suspendu (from Trois Pièces)
Maurice Duruflé. . . Fugue sur le nom d’Alain

Clare Pryor is currently a third-year PhD student in Classics at Christ’s College Cambridge. She is also one of the College’s three organ scholars, who accompany (or sometimes sing in!) evensongs and other chapel services in College and also occasional events such as concerts, recordings, and tours. She began learning the organ in 2016 under the tutelage of Dr. Allan Beavis, and since commencing at Cambridge in 2022 has learned from Ann Elise Smoot. She has played organ recitals at Corpus Christi College and Trinity College in Cambridge, as well as accompanying several concerts during the choir’s tour of New Zealand (2024), notably at Waikato Cathedral in Hamilton, St. James Lower Hutt in Wellington, and Nelson Anglican Cathedral.

Wednesday 22 January at 1.15pm
Midweek Lunchtime Recital
Tommaso Girotto (Guitar)

Tommaso Girotto is a young Australian guitarist who has dedicated himself to his passion for music since the age of 10, and continues to share this passion through performance and teaching.

He has studied with renowned guitarists around the world, including with Giuseppe Zangari in Australia (2008-2015), Allan Neave and Ian Watt at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (2017-2021), and Goran Krivokapic at Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln (2022-2024).

Outside of tertiary education, Tommaso has taken part in a number of short courses and masterclasses. In 2021, Tommaso was accepted into the Accademia Chigiana Summer Academy where he studied with the late renowned guitarist, Oscar Ghiglia. He then studied under the tuition of Lukasz Kuropaczewski at his International Guitar Workshops in Poland in 2022 and 2023. Tommaso has also performed in masterclasses by and studied with some of the leading musicians of this generation, including; Paolo Pegoraro, Lorenzo Micheli, Neal Peres Da Costa, Timothy Kain and Madeleine Easton.