Paul Stubbings
"Masterful organ playing of one of the best organists that Britain has to offer!"
Festival 'Music and Beyond', Ottawa
photography by Tina Norris
Brought up on the North Yorkshire coast Paul Stubbings was educated at Chetham’s and Manchester University, studying organ with Francis Jackson at York Minster and Gordon Stewart at Manchester Cathedral. Major awards from the Dutch Government and the Countess of Munster Trust enabled him to pursue postgraduate studies with Bach Scholar Jacques van Oortmerssen at the Amsterdam Conservatorium, where he subsequently gained a First Class Masters.
Paul’s career was launched at St Martin-in-the-Fields where he presided over one of the most vibrant choral and concert programmes in the country. Until recently Paul was Director of Music at the northernmost of the UK’s five Specialist Music Schools, the prestigious St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh, which is also the Cathedral Choir School.
As a recitalist he has played in major venues and at festivals throughout Europe, and in Australia. More recently he gave two tours in Russia, two in the US and three in Canada; another trip to Australia is planned for next summer.
With a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology, he now leads a busy freelance career as a performer, teacher, administrator, and writer. He is a Sessional Academic at Canterbury Christ Church University and Research Associate on the 'Lives of Instruments' project at Oxford University's Centre for Life-Writing (OCLW).
Solo recitals given at major UK venues and throughout Europe, also Canada (three tours), Russia (two tours), US (two tours) and Australia.
Guest recitalist:
Brussels Organ Festival
Royal College of Organists
Monastic Musicians
Royal School of Church Music
Edinburgh Festival
IAO Organ Festivals
Bodensee Festival
University of St Andrews New Music Week
St Andrews University Organ Week
Ottawa's 'Music & Beyond'
International Organ Festival St Petersburg
Kulturfestival Stummer Schrei
Guest performances BBC Radio 2, 3, 4; ABC.
International Concert Series, Moscow
Repertoire includes:
- The complete Organ Works of J S Bach
- The complete Organ Works of César Franck
- The Organ Works of Nicolaus Bruhns
- Complete Organ Music from the
English Restoration - Couperin Messes
- Clérambault Suites
- Sonatas by Reubke, Bairstow,
Elgar, Mendelssohn, CPE Bach,
York Bowen and William Harris
- Karg-Elert Triptych; Partita in E
- Liszt Ad nos; BACH
- Jackson Toccata, Chorale & Fugue
- Whitlock Plymouth Suite
- Willan Introduction, Passacaglia & Fugue
- Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
- Tchaikovsky Nutcracker
- MacDowell Sea Pieces (tr. PS)
- Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals
- The Hovingham Sketches
- Messiaen L’Ascension,
Messiaen Les Corps glorieux,
Messiaen La Nativité - Dupré Symphonie-Passion
- Duruflé Veni Creator;
Duruflé Requiem - Jongen Sonata Eroica
- Poulenc Organ Concerto
- Alain Suite
- Grunenwald Hymne aux mémoires héroïques
- 'An A to Z of Organ Composers'
An A to Z of Organ Composers
St Clement's, Sandwich
'Bach Day' Recital
Winter Buxtehude Series
Rubislaw Parish Church, Aberdeen
Music from York and Paris
St Mary's, Walmer
St John's, Mongeham
St Mary's Dover
St Andrew's, Dover
An A to Z of Organ Composers
Winter Bach Series
Canterbury Cathedral
Christmas Programme
Canterbury Cathedral
Advent Programme
Canterbury Cathedral
'This day the Organs did play at White-hall before the King'
Music by Christopher Gibbons, Blow and Purcell
St Andrews University Organ Week
Staff Tutor
Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh
'Give me Scotland, or I die!'
Music by Tallis, O and C Gibbons, Tomkins,
Blow and Purcell
Westminster Cathedral Grand Organ Recital Series
St Petersburg Tour
part of the St.Petersburg International Organ Festival
White Hall, Peter the Great Polytechnic University
Summer 2019: West Coast Tour
Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, British Columbia
The complete Organ Music of Nicolaus Bruhns
Memorial Church, Stanford University
Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
The National Shrine of St Augustine, Ramsgate
2018 Henry Willis organ - opening series
PASSIONTIDE RECITALS 2019
Marcel Dupre: 'Symphonie-Passion' Op.23 (1925)
Passion Sunday
St Marylebone Church, London
Wednesday in Passion Week
Temple Church, London
Easter Day
St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
Music by Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-97)
'Town Hall' recital, including music by Hamish MacCunn
Pfarrkirche St. Rupert, Stumm, Tyrol
Bach Recital
Bach's Kirnberger Chorales
St John's Kirk, Perth
Holy Trinity, Broadstairs (Centenary of the Hill Organ)
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Moscow
'Royal Favourites'
Dunblane Cathedral
'A Portrait of J S Bach'
2017 US West Coast Tour
St Paul's Cathedral, San Diego
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Los Angeles
Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption,
San Francisco
Memorial Chapel, Stanford University
Scherzos, Songs without words
& the allure of Felix Mendelssohn
Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh
Bach Recital
Temple Church, London
Liszt: Ad nos, ad salutarem undam
Scottish Federation of Organists' Conference
Melrose Parish Church
St Stephen's Centre, Edinburgh
Franck: Three Pieces (Fantaisie in C, Priere, Pastorale)
Pierne: Three Pieces (Prelude, Cantilene, Scherzando)
St Andrews University Organ Week
Petr Eben: Sunday Music
Three pieces, Camphuysen Manuscript
Liszt: Ad nos, ad salutarem undam
Edinburgh University Concert Series
Bach en style français
St Cuthbert's, Lothian Road, Edinburgh
Karg-Elert: Partita in E
Conference of Monastic Musicians
Sarum St Martin, Salisbury
'In Praise of Plainsong' (including Durufle's Veni Creator)
University of Strathcyde Concert Series
Barony Hall, Glasgow
Music by Bach and Buxtehude
St Nicolaasbasiliek, Amsterdam
Farnborough Abbey
J S Bach: Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr
(3 settings from the Great Eighteen)
from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London
20'33"
Daphne
anon. c.1670
played on the Walker Organ of St Martin-in-the-Fields
5'21"
Triptych
Karg-Elert
in concert, Willis Organs, Westminster Cathedral
and St Michael's Croydon
22'23"
J S Bach: Dies sind die heil'gen zehn Gebot'
(2 settings from Clavier-Übung III)
in concert, Mariendom, Hamburg
7'32"
Fuga in Eb
J S Bach
played on the Rieger Organ of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
7'29"
Sonata Eroïca (1930)
Joseph Jongen
in concert, Rieger Organ of St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh
16'07"
Finale of Sunday Music (Nedelní Hubda)
Petr Eben
in concert, Ruffatti Organ, San Francisco Cathedral
12:08"
