Lunchtime Recital: Matthew Foster

Programme

Prelude in E-flat BWV 552 – J.S. Bach

Nun ruhen alle Wälder – Jacques van Oortmerssen

Venus (from the Planets Suite) – Gustav Holst, arr. Arthur Wills

Légende (from 24 Pièces en style libre, Opus 31) – Louis Vierne

Cathédrales (from 24 Pièces de Fantaisie, Opus 55) – Louis Vierne

Finale (From Organ Symphony No.5, Opus 47) – Louis Vierne)

Matthew Foster is reading music at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he is organ scholar. He was previously organ scholar at St Edmundsbury Cathedral where he taught and performed, as well as continuing studying piano and organ. Matthew began his musical career in 2008 as a chorister at Chelmsford Cathedral. In 2016, he was offered an organ scholarship at St Mary’s Church, Maldon. With St Mary's Choir, he played for a variety of services and concerts in Chelmsford, Newcastle, Peterborough, Carlisle, and Coventry Cathedrals, and abroad in Bavaria and Bruges.