DAVID GAMMIE

David Gammie was born in Sutton, and educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He began organ lessons at Winchester, and gave his first public recital in London at the age of 16, but it was only after leaving Oxford with a Classics degree that he took up music more seriously, studying with H.A. Bate in London and, then, with Peter Hurford in Cambridge. From 1974 until 1992 he was organist at his family church, St Andrew's URC in Cheam, and he is now Organist and Assistant Director of Music at the Church of the Sacred Heart in Wimbledon. Over the years David has kept up a regular schedule of organ concerts; these have included several recitals at all of the London cathedrals, solo recitals on BBC Radio 3, and festival appearances at St Albans, Brighton, and Guildford. Choral accompaniment has taken him to Belgium, Germany and the USA. During the past year he has played for the Balliol College Music Society, and at Westminster Abbey, and made his solo debut in France. In addition to playing, David also writes about music, and he provides programme notes for CDs and for organ concert series in cathedrals and concert-halls all over England, including Symphony Hall in Birmingham, the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, and the Royal Festival Hall in London.