Richard Lea - Organist & Assistant Director of Music
Richard Lea is Organist and Assistant Director of Music. He studied at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and Christ’s and Notre Dame College in Liverpool and was Organ Scholar at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral studying with Noel Rawsthorne, Terence Duffy and Philip Duffy. He was then Organist at the Church of St. Oswald and St Edmund Arrowsmith, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. He was appointed Organist at the Cathedral in 1999 working with Mervyn Cousins, Keith Orrell, Terence Duffy and Timothy Noon.
Richard continues to direct various ensembles including the Brixi Singers, and the Metropolitan Cathedral Cantata Choir. He has made numerous broadcasts and recordings and has recorded three discs of the music of Lefébure Wely (featured in BBC Radio 2’s The Organist Entertains), the complete organ works of the Welsh composer William Mathias and his most recent disc has received excellent reviews such as It is Richard Lea’s superb playing that steals the show’ (Organists’ Review); really first rate playing...masterful (Gramophone); Here is music and playing that will lift your spirits (American Organist); the performances are brilliant…and genuinely moving (International Record Review); exemplary performances – 5 stars (Orgelnieuws). He has recently returned from a recital tour of Estonia.
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