Organ Recital Of Sacred Music Monday 26 March 8 pm
Mark Elliott Smith entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1983, where he studied Organ with David Sanger and Alan Harverson and Harpsichord with Virginia Black. During his time at the Academy he won the HW Richards, Hubert Kiver, E. Power Biggs and Eric Thiman prizes for organ playing, to which he later added the Royal College of organists Limpus prize. In his fourth year he gained the Academy’s highest award by examination, the Recital Diploma (Dip RAM). He taught and performed for a number of years until he entered St Stephen’s House in Oxford, to study for the Anglican ministry. After nearly seventeen years of Anglican parish life, he was received into the Catholic church within the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, was ordained Priest on 10 June 2011 at Westminster Cathedral, and serves as Catholic Chaplain to the Whittington Hospital and Pastor of the Central London Ordinariate. Music, and especially organ music, still plays a huge part in his life and, despite advancing age and a decaying technique, the recital will include works by Bach, Mendelssohn and Vierne.
