Daniel Moult

Daniel Moult (born 1973) is a concert organist, organ tutor and animateur, ensemble player and presenter of films about music.^[1]

Education

Daniel Moult was born in Manchester, England. He attended Manchester Grammar School and St John’s College, Oxford, where he was organ scholar. While at Oxford he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists winning three of the top prizes, and was jointly awarded the University of Oxford’s John Betts Organ Scholarship. He studied as a post-graduate at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, where his teacher was Jacques van Oortmerssen.

Career

Daniel Moult was organist and assistant director of music at Coventry Cathedral from 1995 to 2002. He has performed concerts throughout the UK, as well as in Europe and the Far East, and has been a soloist with orchestras such as Kammerorchester Basel, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Capella Cracoviensis and the English String Orchestra. He works frequently as an accompanist for choirs such as the RSCM Millennium Youth Choir and the choir of St Peter's Church, Eaton Square. In 2010 he toured Switzerland and France with the Kammerorchester Basel as the soloist in Handel’s F Major Organ Concerto, Opus 4.

He teaches at the Royal College of Music Junior Department, Birmingham Conservatoire and the RCO St Giles Organ School, London.

Broadcast and Film Work

Daniel Moult has performed for many broadcasts on BBC Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4 and BBC Television, including numerous broadcasts of Songs of Praise and Choral Evensong.

Daniel Moult co-wrote and presented the documentary The Elusive English Organ,^[2]a film that traced the development of the English organ from 1550 to 1830, discovering why so few pre-1830 English organs survive and to what extent it is possible to perform repertoire written during this period on instruments from the composers’ times. Locations included Lanvellec, Ploujean, Adlington Hall, St Botolph's Aldgate and St James Bermondsey. This film was produced by Fugue State Films and released in 2010 on DVD with an accompanying CD with recordings by Daniel Moult of music by William Byrd, Thomas Tomkins, John Blow, Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, John Stanley and Samuel Wesley.

His second film was Virtuoso! Music for Organ.^[3] He performed a programme of virtuosic works by Marcel Dupre, Franz Schmidt, Jehan Alain, Jean Langlais, Maurice Durufle as well as works by contemporary composers Ad Wammes, Graeme Koehne and Andries van Rossem. This was recorded on the organ of Bridlington Priory and released in 2010.

Gramophone magazine reviewed it as “a thrilling production...allowing one to marvel even more at Moult’s exhilarating musicianship”.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Partial discography:

• The Elusive English Organ (Fugue State Films)
• Virtuoso! Music for Organ (Fugue State Films)
• Handel: Athalia (Sony BMG) organ concerto soloist with Basel Kammer Orchester and Paul Goodwin.
• Out of the Stillness (RSCM) Millennium Youth Choir conducted by David Ogden with Daniel Moult, organ.

References

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