GERARD BROOKS

Gerard Brooks has wide experience as a concert organist and teacher. He studied music as organ scholar at Lincoln College, Oxford, and won the Stephen Arlen Memorial Award. This enabled him to study with Daniel Roth in France, where he was also active as an accompaniest and tutor. He also studied with John Webster, Susi Jeans, and Nicolas Kynaston. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists and was the first recipient of the College's Forsyth-Grant/Hurford Travelling Scholarship. Gerard is Associate Director of Music at All Souls, Langham Place, in London. He is also a tutor with the St Giles International Organ School and a director of the London Organ Improvisation Course. He has become particularly associated with French repertoire and has contributed many aticles to music journals. Also, he is the author of a chapter on French and Belgian organ music in the Cambridge Companion to the Organ. His acclaimed recordings on the Priory label have all been broadcast on national radio. He is currently recording the complete works of Eugène Gigout - the first volume of which was voted an Editor's Choice by Gramophone magazine in May, 2002. In 2003, Gerard was a tutor/player at the Edinburgh Organ Academy and the London Organ Week, organised by the Royal School of Church Music. In the last year, he has played concerts in England, Scotland, France, and Germany, and at Yale University in the U.S.A.