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Paul Carr - Organ

Biography

Everywhere he plays his organ recitals are received with much acclaim.......a perfect fusion of programme planning, musical playing and exciting stop registrations' - Victoria Hall, Hanley

'Carr's enthusiasm is infectious' - The Metro


Paul Carr is Organist and Director of Music at St Paul's in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham, and leads a busy schedule as both solo recitalist and choral accompanist. He studied under Dr Roy Massey MBE at Hereford Cathedral and Professor David Saint at Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating with first-class honours.

He was elected President of the Birmingham Organists' Association in March 2008.

Paul has performed on many of the finest instruments in the UK. Recent and forthcoming engagements include solo recitals at Birmingham's Cathedrals, Birmingham Town Hall, Westminster Abbey, Blenheim Palace, Truro Cathedral, Victoria Hall Hanley, Rochdale Town Hall, St Giles' Cathedral Edinburgh, Portsmouth Cathedral, Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow and Alexandra Palace, London.

He has performed often in Germany, most recently in Münster where in August 2010 he will return to give a third Angeluskonzert at the Lambertikirche. In August 2008 Paul gave a Sunday audition d'orgue at Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris.

Paul gives an additional twelve concerts throughout the year in his series of Sunday Afternoon Organ Music which he established at Holy Trinity Parish Church Wordsley, Stourbridge, in 2003. These take place on the first Sunday of every month at 3.00pm. During the 2009 season Paul performed all six of Felix Mendelssohn's organ sonatas, to mark the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

In July 2008 Paul launched Thursday Live, a new series of organ recitals at St Paul's in the Jewellery Quarter, on the first Thursday of every month at 1.15pm.

Between 1993 and 2003 he performed 100 lunchtime organ recitals on the very fine 1909 Norman & Beard organ at Cradley Heath Methodist Church. Leading up to and following the closure of the church in July 2004, Paul and his wife Hannah worked tirelessly to re-home the instrument, which was eventually re-homed on the other side of the world, at the Gulangyu Organ Museum in Xiamen, China. Future plans include a visit to Xiamen where Paul will give concerts on this and other instruments acquired by the museum from around the world.

In collaboration with pianist Michael Jones Paul has explored repertoire for organ and piano by composers including Dale Wood, Flor Peeters and Marcel Dupré. He has toured with choirs to Poland, the Czech Republic and Birmingham's sister city, Chicago, USA, to where he returned in 2010 and will return again in 2011 to give a solo recital at the Fourth Presbyterian Church, whose instrument is one of the largest in the Midwest. In the UK his work with choirs has a particular emphasis on French repertoire. He also regularly accompanies visiting choirs in cathedrals around the country.

Paul has taught in primary education for 15 years, and also serves as Council member of the Worcestershire Organists' Association. He lives in the West Midlands with his wife Hannah.

Please visit Paul's website: http://www.paulcarr.co.uk/

Repertoire

Alain Choral Dorien; Alain Litanies; Albinoni Adagio in G minor; Anderson Sleigh Ride; Andriessen Praeludium O Filii et Filiae; Andriessen Thema met Variaties; Andriessen Veni Creator Spiritus Ricercare; Archer Elegy; JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in E flat BWV 552; JS Bach 4 Short Preludes and Fugues BWV 554 556 558 560; JS Bach Ach bleib bei uns Herr Jesu Christ BWV 649; JS Bach Air from Suite no3 in D; JS Bach An Wasserflussen Babylon BWV 653; JS Bach Bist du bei mir; JS Bach Badinerie from Suite no 2; JS Bach Christe aller Welt Trost BWV 670; JS Bach Concerto in A minor after Vivaldi BWV 593; JS Bach Concerto in D minor after Vivaldi BWV 596; JS Bach Concerto in G after Ernst BWV 592; JS Bach Dorian Toccata and Fugue BWV 538; JS Bach Erbarm dich mein O Herre Gott BWV 721; JS Bach Es ist das Heil uns kommen her BWV 638; JS Bach Fantasia in C minor BWV 562; JS Bach Fantasia in G BWV 572; JS Bach Fugue in G minor BWV 578; JS Bach Gigue Fugue in G BWV 577; JS Bach Gottes Sohn ist kommen BWV 600; JS Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G minor BWV 542; JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543; JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544; JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 547; JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV 546; JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541; JS Bach Herr Christ der ein ge Gottes-Sohn BWV 601; JS Bach Herr Gott nun Schleuss den Himmel auf BWV 617; JS Bach Herzlich tut mich verlangen BWV 727; JS Bach In dir ist Freude; JS Bach In Dulci Jubilo BWV 608; JS Bach In Dulci Jubilo BWV 729; JS Bach Jesu Joy; JS Bach Jesu meine Freude BWV 610; JS Bach Komm Gott Schöpfer Heiliger Geist BWV 667; JS Bach Liebster Jesu wir sind hier BWV 731; JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 533; JS Bach Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 599; JS Bach Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 659; JS Bach Nun komm der Heiden Heiland BWV 661; JS Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582; JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in D BWV 532; JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in F minor BWV 534; JS Bach Prelude in G BWV 568; JS Bach Schmucke dich O liebe Seele BWV 654; JS Bach Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 545; JS Bach Siciliana 2nd Flute Sonata; JS Bach Sinfonia to Cantata BWV 29; JS Bach Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565; JS Bach Toccata in F BWV 540 a; JS Bach Toccata Adagio and Fugue in C BWV 564; JS Bach Trio in D minor BWV 583; JS Bach Trio Sonata no 1 in E flat BWV 525; JS Bach Trio Sonata no 4 in E minor BWV 528; JS Bach Trio Sonata no 5 in C BWV 529; JS Bach Von Gott will ich nicht lassen BWV 658; JS Bach Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645; JS Bach Wenn wir in Höchsten Nöthen Sein BWV 641; Bairstow Allegro giocoso from Sonata in E flat; Batiste Andante in G; Batiste Grand Offertoire in D; Beethoven/Carr March from Egmont; Behnke Go tell it on the mountain; Berlioz Marche au Supplice Symphonie Fantastique; Berlioz/Best Rákóczi March from La Damnation de Faust; Bizet Fantasia on Carmen; Boellmann Suite Gothique; Bolcom Sweet Hour of Prayer; Bonnet Elfes; Bonnet Etude de Concert; Bonnet Pastorale; Bonnet Variations de Concert; Bossi Etude Symphonique; Bossi Scherzo in G minor; Bourgeois Serenade; Bourgeois Variations on a theme by Herbert Howells; Boyce Allegro from Symphony 4; Boyce Gavot from Symphony no 4; Brahms Es ist ein ros entsprungen; Brahms Herzlich thut mich verlangen; Brahms O welt Ich muss dich lassen; Brahms O wie selig seid Ihr doch Ihr; Brahms Schmucke dich O liebe Seele; Brewer arche Heroïque; Bridge Adagio in E major; Briggs Improvisation on a theme by Holst; Briggs Marche Episcopale; Briggs Sortie on In Dulci Jubilo ; Briggs Theme and Variations on Laudi Spirituali ; Briggs Variations on Greensleves; Bruce Payne Flute-A-Peal; Buck The Star Spangled Banner Concert Variations; Bull Rondo in G; Buxtehude Präludium in D; Buxtehude Präludium Fuga und Ciacona in C; Carter Toccata on Veni Emmanuel ; Charpentier Trumpet Tune in D Te Deum; Choveaux Three Pieces; Clarke Trumpet Voluntary; Clerambault Basse et Dessus de Trompette Suite du Premier Ton; Clerambault Suite du Deuxieme Ton; Coates March The Dambusters; Cochereau Gigue from Suite de danses; Cochereau Menuet from Suite de danses; Cochereau Sarabande from Suite de danses; Cochereau Tambourin from Suite de danses; Cocker Tuba Tune; Coleman Festal Finale; Daquin Noel Etranger; Daquin Noel Grand jeu et duo; Daquin Noel Suisse; Decio Processional; Delibes Pizzicato from Sylvia; Delius On hearing the first cuckoo in spring; Dubois Grand Choeur; Dubois Toccata; Dukas Fanfare pour preceder La Peri; Dupre Choral et Fugue; Dupre Cortege et Litanie; Dupre Final from Sept Pieces; Dupre Placare Christe Servulis; Dupre Prelude and Fugue in B Op 7 no 1; Dupre Prelude and Fugue in G minor Op 7 no 3; Dupre Symphonie-Passion; Dupre Te Lucis ante Terminum; Dupre Variations sur un vieux Noel; Durufle Chant donne; Durufle Choral varie sur le theme du Veni Creator; Durufle Fugue sur le theme du Carillon des Heures de la cathedrale de Soissons; Durufle Prelude from Suite Op 5; Durufle Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d Alain; Durufle Prelude sur l Introït de l Epiphanie; Durufle Scherzo; Durufle Suite; Dvorak Hungarian Dance no1; Edmundson Toccata on Vom Himmel Hoch ; Eldridge Andante Sostenuto from Four Impressions; Eldridge Four Impressions; Elgar Imperial March; Elgar Organ Sonata in G; Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March no1; Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March no4; Elgar Prelude and Angel s Farewell from The Dream of Gerontius; Elgar Salut d Amour; Etherington Carillon; Faulkes Grand Choeur in D; Faure Pavane; Felton A Little Tune; Ferguson Toccata for Joy; Finzi Carol from Five Bagatelles; Finzi Forlana from Five Bagatelles; Franck Choral no 1 in E major; Franck Choral no 2 in B minor; Franck Choral no 3 in A minor; Franck Pastorale; Franck Piece Heroïque; Franck Prelude Fugue and Variation; Gárdonyi Be thou my vision; Gigout Grand Choeur Dialogue; Gigout Toccata in B minor; Gossec Tambourin; Gounod Judex from Mors et Vita; Grieg Anitra s Dance; Grieg In the Hall of the Mountain King; Grieg Morning; Grieg Peer Gynt Suite no 1; Grieg The Death of Ase; Guilmant Fantasie on two English Melodies; Guilmant Grand Choeur in D major; Guilmant March upon Handel s Lift up Your Heads; Guilmant Offertoire sur Deux Noels; Guilmant Paraphrase: See the conq ring hero comes!; Guilmant Sonata no 1 in D minor; Hakim Bagatelle; Hakim Final; Hommage à Igor Stravinsky; Hakim In Organo Chordis et Choro; Hakim Ouverture Libanaise; Hakim Vexilla Regis prodeunt; Handel Air from The Water Music; Handel Alla Danza Hornpipe from The Water Music; Handel And the Glory of the Lord from Messiah; Handel Bouree Minuet & Trio Music for the Royal Fireworks; Handel Finale from Concerto no5; Handel Hallelujah Chorus Messiah; Handel Largo; Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks: Bouree Minuet & Trio La Rejouissance; Handel Organ Concerto no 10 in D minor; Handel Organ Concerto no 4 in F; Handel Overture to The Occasional Oratorio; Handel The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Handel Two Marches: Judus Maccabaeus in G & Scipio in D; Harris Fantasy on Easter Hymn ; Harris Organ Sonata in A minor; Harris Prelude; Harris Reverie; Harwood Sonata in C sharp minor; Haydn Three Pieces for musical Clocks; Hendrie Toccata and Fugue: Le Tombeau de Marcel Dupre; Hollins A Song of Sunshine; Hollins A Trumpet Minuet; Hollins Concert Overture in C minor; Holst Jupiter The Bringer of Jollity from The Planets; Holst Venus The Bringer of Peace from The Planets; Høvland Nu La Oss Takke Gud; Howells Rhapsody no 1 Op 17; Howells Rhapsody no 3 Op 17; Howells Saraband for the Morning of Easter; Howells Siciliano for a High Ceremony; Ireland Alla Marcia; Ireland Sursum Corda; Ireland Villanella; Ives Variations on America; Jackson Pageant; Johnson Trumpet Tune in F; Johnson Trumpet Tune in G; Johnson Trumpet Tune in A; Johnson Processional in D; Johnson Trumpet Tune in D major; Jongen Chant de Mai; Jongen Sonata Eroica; Joplin The Entertainer; Karg-Elert Nun Danket alle Gott; Ketelbey In a Monastery Garden; Kiefer Blues Chorale: Die ganze Welt hast du uns uberlassen ; Lang Tuba Tune; Langlais Bells from Three characteristic Pieces; Langlais Dominica in Palmis; Langlais Fête; Langlais Final from Triptyque; Langlais Hymne d Actions de Grâce: Te Deum; Langlais Incantation pour un jour Saint; Langlais Melody from Triptyque; Langlais Mors et resurrectio; Langlais Poem of Peace; Langlais Trio from Triptyque; Langlais Triptyque; Lanquetuit Toccata in D major; Lefebure-Wely Bolero de Concert; Lefebure-Wely March in E flat; Lefebure-Wely Marche in C; Lefebure-Wely Marche in F; Lefebure-Wely Sortie in B flat; Lefebure-Wely Sortie in E flat; Lemare Andantino in D flat; Lemare Scherzo from Symphony in G minor; Lemare When Johnny comes marching home; Lemmens Fanfare in D; Lemmens Finale; Lidon Sonata de Primo Tono; Liszt Adagio in D flat Consolations; Liszt/Guillou Fantasie & Fugue on BACH; Litaize Scherzo; Lubeck Prelude and Fugue in F; Marsh March; Marsh Toccata: La vallee verte sur le theme Pat le Facteur Mendelssohn Sonata no 1 in F minor; Mendelssohn Sonata no 2 in C minor; Mendelssohn Sonata no 3 in A ; Mendelssohn Sonata no 4 in B flat; Mendelssohn Sonata no 6 in D minor; Mendelssohn War March of the Priests; Mendelssohn Wedding March from A Midsummer Night s Dream; Messiaen Apparition de l Eglise eternelle; Messiaen La Nativite du Seigneur: Dieu Parmi Nous; Messiaen Le Banquet Celeste; Messiaen Priere du Christ l Ascension; Messiaen Transports de joie l Ascension; Meyerbeer Coronation March Le Prophete; Morandi/Best Bell Rondo; Moussorgsky/Carr Gopak; Mozart Fantasie in F minor; Mulet Carillon-Sortie; Mulet Noel from Esquisses Byzantines; Mulet Rosace from Esquisses Byzantines; Mulet Toccata: Tu es Petra; Murrill Carillon ; Mushel Toccata; Mussorgsky Baba Yaga The Hut on Fowl s Legs; Mussorgsky The Great Gate of Kiev; Nevin Will o the Wisp; Nibelle Carillon Orleanais; Pachelbel Canon in D; Parry March from The Birds of Aristophanes; Pärt Trivium; Peeters Adagio from Suite Modale; Peeters Aria; Peeters Chorale Fantasie on Lasst uns erfreuen ; Peeters Suite Modale; Pierne Trois Pieces; Preston Alleluyas; Prizeman Toccata Songs of Praise; Prokofiev/Guillou March from The Love of Three Oranges; Purcell Rondeau from Abdelazer; Purcell/Dupre Trumpet Tune in D; Rachmaninoff/Carr Vocalise; Rapley Postlude for a Joyful Occasion; Ravel Rigaudon from Le tombeau de Couperin; Ravel/Briggs Daphnis et Chloe; Rawsthorne Rêverie; Rawsthorne Dance Suite; Reger Benedictus; Reger Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor; Reuchsel Nuages ensoleilles sur le Cap Negre; Rheinberger Cantilena from Sonata no 11; Rheinberger Sonata no 8 in E minor; Rimsky-Korsakov Flight of the Bumble Bee; Rossini Overture to The Thieving Magpie; Rossini Overture to William Tell; Rowley Benedictus; Rutter Prelude on God rest you merry gentlemen ; Wesley Choral Song and Fugue; Saint-Saens Allegro giocoso: No 7 from Seven Improvisations; Saint-Saens Benediction Nuptiale; Saint-Saens Danse Macabre; Saint-Saens Fantaisie in E flat; Saint-Saens The Swan; Saint-Saens/Briggs Finale from The Organ Symphony; Satie Gymnopedie I; Schmidt Präludium und Fuge in D Halleluja; Schubert Ave Maria; Schubert March Militaire; Schumann Canon in B minor; Schumann Träumerei; Sibelius Alla Marcia from Karelia-Suite; Sibelius Finlandia; Sibelius Intermezzo from Karelia-Suite; Smart Postlude in D; Soler Minue from Concerto no 6; Sousa The Liberty Bell; Sousa The Stars and Stripes Forever!; Spicer Kiwi Fireworks; Spicer Suite for Organ; Stanford Postlude in G ; Stanford Postlude in G minor; Stanley Introduction and Allegro Voluntary in A minor; Stanley Trumpet Voluntary; Strauss Radetzky March; Strauss/Carr Die Fledermaus Overture; Sullivan The Lost Chord; Sumsion Prelude on The Holly and the Ivy ; Suppe Overture to Poet and Peasant; Susato/Carr La Danserie; Sweelinck Mein junges Leben hat ein End ; Sykes Rhapsody in A minor; Tambling Trumpet Tune; Tchaikovsky Arab Dance ; Tchaikovsky Chinese Dance; Tchaikovsky Dance of the Reed Pipes; Tchaikovsky Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; Tchaikovsky March; Tchaikovsky Miniature Overture; Tchaikovsky Russian Dance: Trepak; Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Suite; Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers; Thalben-Ball Elegy; Vaughan-Williams Rhosymedre; Verdi Grand March from Aïda; Vierne Berceuse Pieces en style libre; Vierne Carillon de Westminster Pieces de Fantaisie; Vierne Symphony no 1; Vierne Symphony no 2; Vierne Symphony no 3; Vierne Symphony no 4; Vierne Symphony no 5; Vierne Clair de Lune Pieces de Fantaisie; Vierne Final from Symphony no 6; Vierne Hymne au Soleil Pieces de Fantaisie; Vierne Impromptu from Pieces de Fantaisie; Vierne Marche Nuptiale; Vierne Naïades Pieces de Fantaisie; Vierne Scherzo from Symphony no 6; Vierne Sur le Rhin Pieces de Fantaisie; Vierne Toccata Pieces de Fantaisie; Wagner Grand March from Tannhäuser; Wagner Introduction to Act III Lohengrin; Wagner Isolden s Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde; Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg; Wagner Ride of the Valkyries; Wagner The Bridal Chorus; Wagner Pilgrims Chorus from Tannhäuser; Waldteufel The Skaters Waltz; Walton Alla Marcia from Music for Children; Walton Coronation March 1937: Crown Imperial; Walton Coronation March 1953; Orb and Sceptre; Walton Popular Song from Façade; Walton Prologue from A Wartime Sketchbook; Walton Spitfire Prelude from The First of the Few; Walton Suite from Henry V ; Wesley Air and Gavotte; Wesley Choral Song and Fugue; West Fantasy on two well-known Christmas Carols; Whitlock Fanfare from Four Extemporisations ; Whitlock Five Short Pieces; Whitlock Toccata from The Plymouth Suite; Widor Allegro 1st Movement from Symphony no 6; Widor Allegro Vivace from Symphony no 5; Widor March Pontificale; Widor Marche americaine Op 31 arr Dupre; Widor Symphony no 6; Widor Symphony no 5 in F minor; Widor Toccata from Symphony no 5; Willan Epilogue on St Theodulph; Wills Arioso; Wills Procession; Wolstenholme Allegretto in E flat; Yon Gesu Bambino; Yon Toccatina for flute

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