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Friday Lunchtime Organ Music: Dr Giorgio Revelli
Concerts & Events
Our lunchtime concerts take place on the first Friday of the month, from 12.30 to 1.15pm.
Watch videos of recent recitals here on YouTube.
They are kindly sponsored by Ballet4Life and promoted on organrecitals.uk and in The New London Organ Concerts Guide.
Admission is free with a retiring collection (please add Gift Aid where possible) for the church’s music fund.
All welcome.
This month’s organist will be Dr Giorgio Revelli (Imperia Cathedral, Italy)
See his website
Programme
Johann Ludwig KREBS (1713 – 1730): Toccata and Fugue in A minor Krebs-Wv 411
Michel CORETTE (1707 – 1795): Magnificat (Prélude – Duo – Basse de trompette – Tambourin – Grand Jeu)
Johann PACHELBEL (1653 – 1706): Choral Wir Glauben all’an einen Gott
Johann Sebastian BACH (1685 – 1750) : Fugue en sol mineur BWV 578
Gervais-François COUPERIN (1759 – 1826): Offertoire en sol mineur – Récit de chromorne ou hautbois
René Louis BLIN (1884 – 1951): Choral Varié
René Louis BECKER (1882-1956): Toccata (Final de la 1ère Sonate)
Biography
Organist, harpsichordist, pianist and conductor, Giorgio Revelli is titular organist and director of music at Saint Maurice Cathedral, Imperia, Italy.
Native of Taggia, Italy, Mr. Revelli achieved all of his music and academic studies in France.
At the National Conservatory of Nice, he studied organ with René Saorgin, and harpsichord and chamber music with Mireille Podeur (Early Music Department), while piano with Polish pianist Elzbieta Glabowna.
Giorgio Revelli holds the DE, the State Diploma of Professor of Music, organ specialization in Toulouse.
He attended master classes at prestigious French academies with Michel Chapuis, Marie- Claire Alain, Bernard Lagacé, Mireille Lagacé, Jean Boyer, Harald Vogel and he was pupil of Jean Pierre Leguay as for the art of improvisation.
Mr. Revelli has been regularly invited to international music festivals in Europe (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Poland, Spain, Lithuania), in South America (Argentina, Uruguay), Canada and the United States, and he regularly collaborates with the Italian Ministry of Culture through the Italian Institutes of Culture overseas.
Since 2012 he has been a member of the jury at the international improvisation competition of the Abbey of St. Colomban of Luxeuil in France, directed by prof. Pierre Pincemaille.
Since 2016 he has been actively collaborating with the Orchestra of the Genova Theater “Carlo Felice”, Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina (Florence) and the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra (Italy).
Since 2019 Revelli collaborates with the Brass quartet of West Texas University (WTAMU).
Since 2010, Giorgio Revelli has been recording his CDs with CLASSIC CONCERT of Salzburg, Austria, and with the Italo-German CENTAURUS MUSIC in Italy.