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Gerard Brooks
12+ albums
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GERARD BROOKS is a concert organist and teacher of wide experience. He studied music as Organ Scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford and then won the Stephen Arlen Memorial Award which enabled him to study with Daniel Roth in France where he was also active as an accompanist and tutor. He also studied with John Webster, Susi Jeans, Nicolas Kynaston. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and was the first recipient of the Forsyth-Grant/Hurford Travelling Scholarship awarded by the RCO. In April 2008, he took up the post of Director of Music at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster. Previous to this, he was for twenty years Associate Director of Music at the world-famous church of All Souls, Langham Place in London, where he was in charge of the choir and regularly conducted instrumental ensembles; he is the composer or arranger of many religious works for choir and orchestra. Gerard is a Tutor for the St. Giles International Organ School. He has become particularly associated with French repertoire and has contributed many articles to musical journals as well as writing the chapter on French and Belgian organ music for the Cambridge Companion to the Organ. His acclaimed recordings on the Priory label have all been broadcast on national radio and he has recorded the complete works of Eugène Gigout. The first volume of the series was voted an Editor's Choice in the May 2002 edition of Gramophone magazine. He is a director of the London Organ Improvisation Course. He has
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Abbey Spectacular! Organ Favourites from St. Ouen, Rouen
Abbey Spectacular!
Great European Organs No.48: St.Ouen, Rouen
Great European Organs No. 58: St Francois de Sale, Lyon
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Langham Place Fantasia
Complete Organ Works Of Eugene Gigout Vol 3, The Cavaille-Coll Organ Of St. Etienne, Caen, France
Langham Place Fantasia: The Organ of All Souls, Langham Place, London
Complete Organ Works of Eugene Gigout - Vol 2 - The Cavaille-Coll Organ of St. Ouen, Rouen, France
Saint Saens - Complete Organ Works, Volume 1 - Transcriptions
Complete Organ Works of Eugene Gigout - Vol 5 - The Cavaille-Coll Organs of Perpignan Cathedral
Complete Organ Works of Eugene Gigout - Vol 3 - The Cavaille-Coll Organ of St. Etienne, Caen, France
Great European Organs No. 52: St Pierre, Douai, France