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Paul Carr
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| Type: | Organ |
| Genre: | Chamber, Choral, Concerti, Orchestral | | Location: | Birmingham
United Kingdom |
| | Website: | www.paulcarr.co.uk | |
General | | Biography: | Paul Carr: Organist, Recitalist.
Paul Carr is Organist and Director of Music at St Paul’s in the Jewellery Quarter,
Birmingham, and leads a busy schedule as both solo recitalist and choral accompanist. He
studied under Roy Massey at Hereford Cathedral and David Saint at Birmingham
Conservatoire, graduating with first-class honours. He was elected President of the
Birmingham Organists’ Association in March 2008.
Engagements in 2008 include solo recitals at Victoria Hall Hanley, Rochdale Town Hall,
Birmingham’s Cathedrals, St Mary Redcliffe Bristol, Truro Cathedral, St Peter’s Ruthin, and
Portsmouth Cathedral. He also performed a series of three informal Sunday Music
concerts on the famous Father Willis Organ at Blenheim Palace during April.
Paul has played frequently in Germany to where he returned in June to give a second
Angeluskonzert at the Lambertikirche in Münster. In August he gave a recital at Notre-
Dame Cathedral, Paris.
Since 2003 he has given an additional twelve concerts throughout the year in the series
which he established at Holy Trinity Parish Church Wordsley, Stourbridge. These take place
on the first Sunday of every month at 3.00pm.
In July 2008 Paul launched 'Thursday LIVE' a new organ recital series at St Paul's Birmingham on the first Thursday in every month at 1.15pm.
Between 1993 and 2003 he performed 100 lunchtime organ recitals on the very fine 1909
Norman & Beard organ at Cradley Heath Methodist Church. Leading up to and following the
closure of the church in July 2004, Paul and his wife Hannah worked tirelessly to re-home
the instrument, which was eventually acquired by the Gulangyu Organ Museum in Xiamen
City, South East China. Now that the installation there is complete, plans are being made
for Paul to give the organ’s 100th anniversary concerts in 2009.
Previous recital venues include Hereford Cathedral, Tewkesbury Abbey, Alexandra Palace
London, and many others throughout the UK. He performed the inaugural concert on the
restored organ at All Saints' Church Wing, Buckinghamshire, the rebuilt organ of Wylde
Green United Reformed Church and the new organ at Shernhall Methodist Church,
Walthamstow. During 2007 Paul gave concerts with pianist Michael Jones, exploring
repertoire for organ and piano by composers including Dale Wood, Flor Peeters and Marcel
Dupré.
He has also performed in Poland and the Czech Republic, and further afield in Birmingham’s
sister city, Chicago, USA, to where he will return in 2010 to give a recital at the Fourth
Presbyterian Church, whose instrument is the largest in the city and one of largest in the
Midwest
Paul is a primary school teacher, and also serves as Council member of the Worcestershire
Organists’ Association. He lives in the West Midlands with his wife Hannah.
| | Teachers: | Michael Burton, Dr Roy Massey, Professor David Saint |
Concerts| Performance | Organizer | Venue | Location | Year | | Angelus Konzert | St Lamberti | Lambertikirche | Münster, Germany | 2008 | | Audition d'orgue | Musique sacrée Notre Dame de Paris | Notre Dame Cathedral | Paris, France | 2008 | | Thursday LIVE (monthly recitals) | St Paul's Church | St Paul's in the Jewellery Quarter | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 2008 | | Sunday Afternoon Organ Music (monthly series) | SAOM | Holy Trinity Parish Church, Wordsley | Stourbridge, United Kingdom | 2003 |
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