Robert Costin Explained
Robert Costin is a British teacher, organist, and harpsichordist. He is Head of Academic Music at Sherborne School.[1]
Life and career
Robert Costin was a chorister at Peterborough Cathedral and a music scholar at Oundle School. He studied organ and harpsichord at the Royal Academy of Music from 1989 to 1990, and was organ scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, from 1990 to 1993. In 1990, he was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists. His teachers included Christopher Gower, James Parsons, Nicholas Danby, and David Sanger. He has held organist posts at the Wellington Cathedral of St Paul, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, and Blackburn Cathedral, and teaching posts at Worksop College, Bedford School, Ardingly College, Highgate School, St Paul's Cathedral School, St Louis School, Milan, Rugby School Thailand, and Sherborne School. He has performed extensively throughout Europe, Australasia, and North America.[2]
Discography
- Organ Triumphant (Kiwi Pacific Records)
- Howells Organ Music (Atoll Records)
- Liszt and Reubke Organ Works (Atoll Records)[3]
- The Excellent Art of Voluntary (Atoll Records)
- Bach Goldberg Variations (Stone Records)[4] [5]
- Bach Trio Sonatas (Stone Records)[6]
- Bach Well-Tempered Clavier (Stone Records)[7]
- The Classical Organ - music by C.P.E. Bach, Mozart and Haydn (First Hand Records Records)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Sherborne School Staff . 11 August 2023.
- Web site: Seen and Heard International recital review, Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, New York . 11 August 2023.
- Web site: Liszt and Reubke Organ Works review. May 2009 . MusicWeb International.. 12 August 2023.
- Web site: Goldberg Variations review. August 2013 . The Independent.. 29 January 2022.
- Web site: CD booklet. 17 August 2023.
- Web site: CD booklet. 17 August 2023.
- Web site: CD booklet. 17 August 2023.
