We hope you will join us for a free concert in the College Chapel with a Richard Pinel performance.

We are honoured to welcome international, award-winning organist, Richard Pinel, who will be performing in Mansfield’s Chapel for this celebratory recital to inaugurate the College’s famous and newly restored organ. This is a free event, open to all, though limited seating is available. Please book early to avoid disappointment. We will be raising funds in support of Music at Mansfield.

Richard Pinel is a Fellow and the Director of Music at Jesus College, Cambridge. Prior to this he was Assistant Director of Music at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle. He previously held the organ scholarship at St Albans Cathedral.

Hailing from Northampton, where he was a chorister and later organ scholar at All Saint’s Church, Richard was awarded the organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford in 2002. During this time, the Grammy-nominated college choir undertook several recording projects with Harmonia Mundi, on which Richard’s playing was hailed as ‘a force of nature’. More recently, Richard has enjoyed competition success, winning the First Prize and both special prizes at the Breda International Organ Competition.

Richard has taught for the RCO and tutored for Oundle for Organists. His organ CD, L’Orgue Symphonique, has been praised for its ‘electrifying impact’ and ‘truly tremendous verve’ and his latest release, with Jesus College Choir and Britten Sinfonia entered the classical charts in the top ten. Recitals have taken him across the UK, notably King’s College, Cambridge and St John’s, Smith Square and further afield to Europe and the USA.

Mansfield Public Talks are free and open to all. See this term's full programme here: https://www.mansfield.ox.ac.uk/mansfield-college-public-talks .

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Since its founding in the 1880s as a non-conformist theological college, Mansfield is proud of its achievements in welcoming previously excluded constituencies to Oxford University. It is now the Oxford College with the highest proportion of students from state schools (on average 95% of its UK undergraduate intake year on year); of students who are the first in their families to go to University; and who come from the least advantaged backgrounds.