Catherine Ennis is Director of Music at the City of London church of St. Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall. Her career as recitalist and recording artist has taken her to many international venues, and she has taught or examined at three major London Music conservatoires. Her energy and enthusiasm has helped create four major new London organs. In 1994 she founded the London Organ Concerts Guide, now an indispensible companion to London's organ music scene.
She is Past President of the Royal College of Organists, and Past President of the Incorporated Association of Organists.
Here's a winning formula to pack a concert hall for a Saturday night organ recital: book one of the country's best-known actor-managers to front the evening, invest in televisual effects, and write a good script.
The grand finale to Müpa's mini-festival to celebrate ten years since the installation of the organ in its concert hallwas as spectacular a musical event as you could wish for.
Music from the past, present, with a borrowed choir and a definitely jazzy “blue” finale invested this 70-minute recital with interest and poignancy aplenty.
