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CAOS INAUGURAL STUDY DAY:
David Ponsford, 22nd May 2004, Emmanuel College Chapel, Cambridge.
The inaugural event of the Cambridge Academy of Organ Studies, in association
with the Royal Academy of Music, took place on May 22 in Emmanuel College
Chapel, Cambridge.
Dr David Ponsford presented a lecture-recital on the recently-published organ
works by Louis Couperin, placing them in context and playing a substantial
selection from this important collection.
Dr Ponsford, a former organ scholar of Emmanuel College, distinguished
recitalist and recording artist on both harpsichord and organ, and Associate
Lecturer in Performance Practice at Cardiff University, has recently been
awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to pursue his studies into French
Classical organ music.
His
audience included both students and professors from Cambridge as well as
organists from the wider region.
The afternoon was devoted to a master class on music from the French Classical
school: four advanced players, including two students from the RAM, performed
movements from Couperin's Messe pour les Paroisses Grigny's Livre d'Orgue.
This was a valuable opportunity to hear and discuss this repertoire with one of
the country's foremost scholars in the field.
A
follow-up event may be planned to take place in France.
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