Lunchtime Recital
📅 Tuesday 13 October, 1 pm
📍 Moot Hall

Francesca Massey is a distinguished organist, choral conductor, and teacher with over 15 years’ experience as a cathedral musician. Educated at Cambridge University and the Royal Northern College of Music, she held organ scholarships at St George’s Chapel, Windsor, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Manchester Cathedral, and has served as Assistant Organist at Great St Mary’s Cambridge, Assistant Director of Music at Peterborough Cathedral, Sub-Organist at Durham Cathedral, and Director of Music at Rochester Cathedral.

A prize-winning performer, Francesca has earned top accolades from the Royal College of Organists and the Worshipful Company of Musicians. She performs regularly in the UK and abroad, broadcasts on radio and TV, and has released four critically acclaimed solo recordings. She is also Musical Director of Cranbrook and Gravesham Choral Societies, an accompanist for ensembles including The BBC Singers, and an experienced teacher, continuo player, pianist, and examiner.

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Admission Free Retiring Collection in aid of the Friends of the Moot Hall Organ

Colchester Town Hall High St, Colchester

Programme

Overture to Henry V
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), arr. Malcolm Riley

‘Little’ Fugue in G minor, BWV 578
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)

Adoration
Florence Price (1887–1953)

Animal Parade
Iain Farrington (b. 1977)