20 June 2010: David Bremner
David Bremner is an organist, pianist and composer based in Dublin. He presents recitals (both solo and with duo-partner soprano Elizabeth Hilliard) featuring works by living Irish composers (including his own work), combined imaginatively with music from the past. Originally from West Cumbria, UK, he moved to Ireland in 1999 following an organ scholarship at Keble College, Oxford. He has studied organ with David Sanger and Mark Duley, piano with Mary Lennon, and has participated in masterclasses with Rolf Hind, Helen Yorke and Ben van Oosten. He was organ scholar at both Christ Church Cathedral and St Patrick’s Cathedral in 2002–2003. Since then he has been in demand as a recitalist and accompanist on organ and piano, and has performed with many of Dublin’s leading ensembles, including the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and the Crash Ensemble. He also performs in an improvisation duo with Jonathan Nangle (live electronics). He is currently completing a PhD in composition at DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama under the supervision of Gráinne Mulvey. A member of the Irish Composers' Collective, he is currently writing a brass quintet for the Ottoni Ensemble.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV 671
Jonathan Nangle (b 1981) BACH est mort
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562–1621) Ricercar
David Bremner (b 1977) Sweelinck fractal (première)
Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) from Il Primo Libro di Capricci (1626) — Capriccio sopra il cucho
Philipp Jarnach (1892-1982) Konzertstück (Romancero III), op. 21 (1928)
Georg Muffat (1653–1704) from Apparatus musico-organisticus (1690) — Toccata Quinta
Benedict Schlepper-Connolly (b 1985) Your Light Illuminates Everything
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck Toccata (Aeolian)