Jake Scicinski – RCM
Organ Recital
Wednesday 29 January 2025 – 1 pm to 1:45 pm
On Wednesday 29 Jan 2025 we were very happy to welcome again Jake Scicinski (Royal College of Music) to the Cathedral for a lunchtime Organ Recital. We were treated to an excellent and wide-spanned programme of music, including works by Felix Mendelssohn and Max Reger, Charles Villiers Stanford, Henri Carol and Hubert H. Parry. In this way, Jake was able to demonstrate his considerable skill and musicality in a most enjoyable recital. Recordings of the recital are available on this webpage. See below. |
Programme
Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) | Organ Sonata no. 3 in A |
Max Reger (1873 – 1916) | Meinem Jesum |
Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 – 1924) | Two Preludes on a Theme of Orlando Gibbons |
Henri Carol (1910 – 1984) | Prière à Notre Dame de Miséricorde |
Hubert Parry (1848 – 1918) | Chorale Fantasia on the Old Hundredth |
Jake grew up in Ealing and began studying organ with Richard Leach and later with Martin Singleton and George de Voil. Following a year working at the organ builder Bishop and Sons, Jake enrolled to study organ at the Royal College of Music. He continues his studies there under David Graham and Charlie Andrews, where his course has taken him to play some of Europe’s most famous organs, most notably in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig and St Bavo’s Church in Haarlem. Until July 2023, Jake served as organ scholar at St John’s, Notting Hill where he was responsible for accompanying and occasionally conducting the professional choir. He has recently taken up posts at the Jesuit Church in Farm Street, Mayfair as well as Brentwood Cathedral. He also maintains a busy freelance career, playing for services and concerts around London, most notably at St John’s Smith Square alongside the West London Sinfonia. Solo recitals include those at St Mary Redcliffe, Southwark Cathedral and Holy Trinity Sloane Square. Jake is also a member of the University of London Chamber Choir with whom he has performed Handel’s ‘Dixit Dominus’ and Purcell’s ‘Dido and Aeneas’ and has also accompanied them on the organ at Chichester and Salisbury cathedrals. |
Refreshments were available in the Song School afterwards
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PRS Music Licence- LE-0032994–Brentwood Cathedral Music©2025 – Photos & Recordings ©Graham Hillman