07/02/2023
After a long gap because of the pandemic the Organ Trust is pleased to announce that an organ recital will take place at St Dunstan's Church on Saturday 25th February. It will be given by Jack Gonzalez- Harding, Director of Music at the church. Further details are attached. There will be a bar (alcoholic as well as musical!).
Jack Gonzalez-Harding
Fantasia in C Minor BWV 562, J.S. Bach
Improvisations on the Stations of the Cross
Praised for his “brilliant infectious enthusiasm” by The Spectator, young conductor and keyboardist Jack Gonzalez-Harding is forging a career as one of the “leading lights” of his generation.
Recent and upcoming highlights include Jack’s debut guest conducting engagements with the London Mozart Players and Hallé Orchestra, alongside debuts at the Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, Barbican, and St. John’s Smith Square for Bach’s B Minor Mass.
Already, Jack has established collaborative relationships with leading internationally acclaimed artists such as Dame Emma Kirkby, Nicholas Daniel, Mary Bevan, Fenella Humphreys, Zoë Martlew and Sir Mark Elder, for whom Jack has assisted.
Born in 2003 in Kent, England, Jack initially trained as an exhibitioner of organ at the Royal Academy of Music before beginning studies in harpsichord and improvisation with David Gordon at the Purcell School.
Currently at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Jack is a mentee of the Head of Music alongside his harpsichord studies in Paris with Pierre Hantaï.
As of September 2023, Jack will continue his studies as a
conductor on the Artist Masters programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
