Event:Organ Recital

Richard Walker is Assistant Director of Music at St Chad’s Church, Shrewsbury, where he accompanies most of the major services, organises the 45 lunch-hour concerts each year and gives organ recitals. He also plays regularly at Ludlow Parish Church. Richard studied organ with David Willcocks, gaining both ARCO and FRCO diplomas in the same year, and both with prizes.  

His career has been largely in teaching, first at The Edinburgh Academy, and then as Director of Music successively at Daniel Stewart’s and Melville College Edinburgh (1975  – 80), The Leys School Cambridge (1980 – 85), and Harrow School (1985 – 2005).  He was also Assistant Organist at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral Edinburgh and subsequently Organist at St John’s, Princes Street, Edinburgh.  

Apart from his organ playing, Richard plays piano chamber music and duets and is a member of the double bass sections in the Ludlow and Shrewsbury Orchestras.