Charles Andrews (organist)

Charles Edwards Andrews is a British Organist born September 1989 and is Foundation Scholar at the Royal College of Music.

Biography

Educated at King's School Rochester, Andrews later became Organ Scholar at Rochester Cathedral for five years. Andrews was Assistant Organist of Chelmsford Cathedral, Essex and is now Organist of St John's Hyde Park, London. Andrews holds the Douglas & Kyra Downie Award at the Royal College of Music, studying Piano with John Blakely and Organ with David Graham and Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin.

While studying Andrews has participated in masterclasses at the Royal College of Music, the London Oratory and St Albans International Organ Festival with Lionel Rogg, Pieter van Dijk, Gillian Weir, Olivier Latry and Bine Bryndorf. Andrews' playing has been broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and 3 as well as featuring on two CDs.

Andrews and Roger Sayer have given concerts in the UK, Russia and the US as the Midas Touch Organ Duo. In December 2007 they were guests on BBC Radio 3's In Tune. Their CD of organ duo music was featured on The Organist Enterains.

In 2011 Andrews and Sayer will perform a new piece composed for them by David Briggs (English musician).

Recent solo recitals by Andrews include St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral, Winchester Cathedral, St Michael, Cornhill, Birmingham Cathedral, Brentwood Cathedral and Ripon Cathedral.

Discography

Rochester Cathedral.

2008 Midas Touch Duo James Bond themes on Priory Records

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