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Catherine Ennis is an organ recitalist, teacher, and advisor. She is Director of Music at St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall, Vice- President of the Royal College of Organists, Director of the John Hill Young Artists recitals, Trustee of the Nicholas Danby Trust for young organists, founder-editor of the London Organ Concerts Guide, and Past President of the Incorporated Association of Organists. Last year she was awarded the medal of the Royal College of Organists. Recitals and recordings have taken her to many international venues. She has given master classes throughout the UK and abroad, both as organist and choir director, and is frequently examiner and adjudicator for colleges and festivals. Catherine Ennis has helped create four major new London organs: the Rieger at St Marylebone, shared with the Royal Academy of Music; the Klais at St Lawrence Jewry; the William Drake at Trinity College of Music; and the Queen’s Organ in the Lady Chapel of Westminster Abbey, built by Mander.

"A rushing mighty wind."

The wind that shakes the barley (traditional Irish reel, version collected by Seamus Ennis, arranged for organ by Catherine Ennis)

Franz Tunder (1614-1667)

Komm, heiliger Geist

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Komm, heiliger Geist, BWV 651

Nicolas de Grigny (1672-1703)

from Premier livre d'orgue

Hymne: Veni Creator

En taille à 5

Fugue à 5

Duo

Récit de cromorne

Dialogue sur les grands jeux

Max Reger (1873-1916)

from Sieben Stücke, op.145

Pfingsten, no.6

Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)

From Messe de la Pentecôte

iv. Communion

v. Sortie

Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)

Choral varié sur le 'Veni Creator'