Event:Organ Recital - Relf Clark

Join us for the next concert in our organ recital series at 1pm on Friday 27 March.

After tuition with Dr Sidney Campbell at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, Relf Clark won an exhibition to Oxford, where he studied with Robert Sherlaw Johnson and F.W. Sternfeld and assisted at the University Church; and at the age of twenty, while still an undergraduate, he became a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists.   He completed his musical education at London University, where he read musicology, and at Reading University, where he was taught by David Sanger and gained both a distinction in performance studies and the degree of PhD for work on Robert Hope-Jones. Dr Clark writes and lectures on music and has contributed to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and musical periodicals of various kinds.   From 1990 to 2005 he was a member of the council of the British Institute of Organ Studies, and for seven of those years he was the BIOS publications officer.   He is an honorary life member of the Elgar Society, having been one of its officers from 1995 to 2007; his publications include four volumes of Elgar-related essays; and he featured in the Durham University DVD about Elgar’s Sonata for Organ, Op.28.   He composes for the organ and has given recitals in many parts of the UK. In 1982, after attending what is now the University of Law, Relf Clark qualified as a solicitor.   Having spent a decade as an in-house lawyer with Costain Group plc, in 1993 he returned to private practice, and from 1998 until 2017, when he retired, he was with a City of London law firm.   His clients there included the Royal Society of Musicians of Great Britain, of which he is now an honorary life member.

As capacity is limited in the gallery, pre-booking is essential. 

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