Roles
Biography
Andrew Arthur is a Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge where, in addition to his primary College responsibilities as Director of Music and Director of Studies in Music, he is also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Music, Coordinator of the University’s Organ Scholarship Scheme and Chairman of the University’s Organ Scholars’ Forum. Amongst his diverse portfolio of musical activities, he works throughout the academic year training the Organ Scholars and conducting the Chapel Choir at Trinity Hall with whom, in addition to their regular schedule of services in the College Chapel, he undertakes a number of concerts, recordings and foreign tours.
Alongside his educational commitments, Andrew enjoys a busy and varied freelance career that has seen him perform extensively throughout the United Kingdom and on tour across Europe, South Africa, Canada and the USA. Best-known for his work in the field of historically informed performance, he is in great demand as a director, keyboard soloist, accompanist and continuo player, working with many of the UK’s leading period-instrument orchestras and professional choirs. Andrew’s concerto, recital and chamber-music engagements encompass organ, harpsichord and fortepiano literature and his multifarious CD recordings as both keyboard-player and conductor have been met with wide critical acclaim.
Andrew continues to hold long-term positions as Associate Director of The Hanover Band and as a member of the Artistic Leadership Team at the Carmel Bach Festival in California, where he has served as a Director and as Principal Organist & Harpsichordist since 1999. He is also Musical Director of his own period-instrument ensemble and vocal consort, Orpheus Britannicus, with whom he records for Resonus Classics; in 2019, the ensemble was nominated for an International Classical Music Award.
Andrew’s love for chamber music and, in particular, his affinity for keyboard accompaniment has yielded a number of significant collaborations with other leading period-instrumentalists including the eminent violinists, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Theresa Caudle and Peter Hanson. He has also been engaged as a continuo player by many of the UK's leading period-instrument orchestras and professional choirs, working under such conductors as Nicholas Kraemer, Stephen Layton, Bruno Weil, Sir Stephen Cleobury and Sir Charles Mackerras. In 2000, he participated in Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s celebrated Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir. For further information, please visit www.andrewarthur.com
Publications
DISCOGRAPHY:
Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsichord Concertos, BWV 1050, 1053, 1056 & 1057: SIGCD764
The Hanover Band & Andrew Arthur (harpsichord & director)
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Johann Sebastian Bach - Harpsichord Concertos, BWV 1050, 1054, 1055 & 1058: SIGCD710
The Hanover Band & Andrew Arthur (harpsichord & director)
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'See, see the Word is incarnate' - Choral & Instrumental works my Gibbons, Tomkins & Weelkes: RES10295
The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Newe Vialles, Orpheus Britannicus Vocal Consort, Andrew Arthur (director)
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'Mozart Sonatas for Violin & Piano, K301, K304-5 & K454': RES10281
Peter Hanson (classical violin) & Andrew Arthur (fortepiano)
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'Buxtehude - Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75': RES10238
The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Orpheus Britannicus, Andrew Arthur (director)
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'A Courtly Garland for Baroque Trumpet' - works by Fantini, Frescobaldi, Viviani, Grossi, Torelli, Corelli, Pasquini, Biber, Schmelzer, Finger & Reiche: RES10220
Robert Farley (baroque trumpet); Orpheus Britannicus; Andrew Arthur (director)
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'The English Orpheus' - Choral and Instrumental works by Henry Purcell: PRCD 1182
The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Orpheus Britannicus, Andrew Arthur (director)
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'Come Down, O Love Divine' - Choral & Organ Music by Tallis, Cavazzoni, Buxtehude, J.S. Bach, Brahms, Bruckner, Fauré, Duruflé/Tournemire, Arthur, Brough, Ives & Quesnel
The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Andrew Arthur (director)
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'The Young J.S. Bach': PRCD 1176
Organ Works played on the Carsten Lund organ of Trinity Hall, Cambridge,
Andrew Arthur (organ)
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'The Buxtehude Influence': PRCD 1006
Organ Works by Buxtehude & J.S. Bach played on the Carsten Lund organ of
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Andrew Arthur (organ)
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'The Trinity Hall Harpsichord': PRCD 1077
Harpsichord works by J.S. Bach, Böhm, F. Couperin, Greene, Handel & Purcell
played on the Andrew Garlick instrument of 2009, after Goujon, 1748,
Andrew Arthur (harpsichord)
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'J.S. Bach - Organ Chorales from the Leipzig Manuscript': PRCD 820
Organ Chorale Preludes played on the Austrian instrument by Rieger,
Church of St Marylebone, Andrew Arthur (organ)
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'Organ Music for Passiontide': PRCD 818
Organ Works by J.S. Bach, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Howells, Dupré & Tournemire, Andrew Arthur (organ), played on the Harrison & Harrison organ of
All Saints' Church, Margaret Street, London, Andrew Arthur (organ)
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'Exsultate Deo': LIR026
Choral Music inspired by the Psalms of David,
Choir of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London, Andrew Arthur (organ)
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'Carols from All Saints, Margaret Street': PRCD 898
The Choir of All Saints' Church, Margaret Street,
Paul Brough (conductor), Andrew Arthur (organ)
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'The New English Hymnal Vol. 7': PRCD 707
The Choir of All Saints' Church, Margaret Street London,
Andrew Arthur (organ), Harry Bramma (conductor)
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'Bach Cantatas' - BWV 36, 61 & 62: SDG 162
The English Baroque Soloists, Andrew Arthur (organ continuo),
The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
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'Bach Cantatas' (DVD of The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage): OA 0816 D
The English Baroque Soloists, Andrew Arthur (organ continuo),
The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
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'Mozart - The Supreme Decorator': ORR232 CD
The Hanover Band, Andrew Arthur (harpsichord continuo),
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
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'Poulenc - Stabat Mater' (DVD): OA 0817 D
The Cambridge College Choirs of St John's, Clare and Gonville & Caius,
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Arthur (chorus master for Gonville & Caius), Christopher Robinson (conductor)
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'William Child - Sacred Choral Music': CD GAU 182
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Andrew Arthur (organ),
Geoffrey Webber (conductor)
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'Samuel Wesley - Sacred Choral Music: CD GAU 157
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Andrew Arthur (organ),
Geoffrey Webber (conductor)
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'J.S. Bach - St Mark Passion': CD GAX 237
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge,
The Cambridge Baroque Camerata, Geoffrey Webber (Conductor)
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'Regal Fanfares - Baroque Music for Trumpet & Organ': GCCD 4012
Anthony Aarons (trumpet), Andrew Arthur (organ)
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