Iain Farrington

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  • Home
  • Biography
    • London 2012 Olympics
    • The Coronation 2023
  • Arrangements
    • Symphony Orchestra
    • Chamber Orchestra
    • Chamber Music
    • Choral
    • Vocal
    • Piano/Organ
    • Musical Theatre
    • Opera
    • Jazz/Pop/Folk Songs
    • Piano reductions
    • Elgar Complete Edition
    • List of orchestral performers
  • Compositions
    • Orchestra
    • Piano
    • Organ
    • Chamber
    • Vocal & Choral
    • Brass Band
  • Pianist
    • Mahler Piano Series
  • Organist
  • Art Deco Trio
  • Recordings
  • Diary
  • Contact
Organist
Iain was Organ Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge, and St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. He has given numerous solo recitals, radio broadcasts and accompanied choirs across the world. Iain has made many arrangements for organ which have been recorded and performed. His arrangement of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March No. 5 was performed at the Royal Wedding in 2011. He has composed much organ music, which has been recorded and frequently performed around the world.
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Concerts

Iain has given solo recitals in Reykjavik Iceland, the Bridgewater Hall Manchester, Birmingham Town Hall and in cathedrals around the UK. He performed two organ solos at the Royal Albert Hall in the BBC Proms 2007. He has accompanied choirs in the USA, Japan, South Africa, Malaysia, Hong Kong, across Europe and the UK. In 2011 and 2013 he performed in Los Angeles for a concert of music by Schoenberg and Zeisl, which included Schoenberg’s organ work Variations on a Recitative. As an orchestral organist, Iain has performed with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Britten Sinfonia

Recordings​

Iain has made recordings as a soloist and accompanist on the Naxos, Nimbus, Signum and Herald labels. He has recorded and broadcast extensively with the BBC Singers, including contemporary works by Michael Berkeley, Judith Bingham, Robin Holloway, John McCabe, Peter Maxwell Davies, Arvo Part, Judith Weir. With the BBC Symphony Chorus he recorded a BBC Proms commission, Judith Bingham's The Secret Garden. He recorded a television programme of Christmas music with John Rutter for BBC One in 2011.

Organist Appointments

2003 St Paul's Cathedral, London (Deputy Organist)
1999 - 2000 St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London (Organ Scholar)
1996 - 1999 St John's College, Cambridge (Organ Scholar)
1995 - 1996 St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle (Organ Scholar)

Harpischord, Celeste, Harmonium

Iain also performs as a harpsichordist in Baroque music, as well as in contemporary works. He recorded Handel's Messiah with the Britten Sinfonia under Stephen Layton, and has performed Britten's Phaedra at the Wigmore Hall in London. He performed Ligeti's Contiuum at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, and has also performed Ligeti's Chamber Concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in the Berlin Philharmonic Hall. Iain has performed the Bach Gamba Sonatas with Maxim Rysanov (viola) and friends. He has played the harmonium and celeste in works by Mahler, Schreker, Korngold and Nancarrow.
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