Kevin Duggan, Director of Music at Dunblane Cathedral, will perform a recital on the 3-manual Brindley & Foster/Hill, Norman & Beard organ at St John’s Renfield Church, Glasgow.

Kevin Duggan seemed to be destined for an illustrious singing career after repeating the opening motif of Beethoven’s Fifth at the age of two. According to his music teacher, he made an unpleasant sound, but this didn’t stop him from singing in church choirs and teaching himself to read music the wrong way up. Kevin read music at Bath University and the Royal College of Music in London, and was taught by Dudley Holroyd, David Ponsford, George Odam, Richard Popplewell and Nicolas Kynaston. Further inspiration came from participating in masterclasses and Competitions, and since then he has performed widely as an international recitalist. For many years he worked in Rønne on the Danish island of Bornholm, where he made the CD recording Notes from a Small Island and was the driving force behind Skt. Nicolai International Music Summer. Kevin has been Director of Music at Dunblane Cathedral since 2015. He also conducts the Rosenethe Singers and accompanies RSCM Scottish Voices. Kevin’s most recent CD recording, Hymne til Ærø comprises Danish music performed on the superb Flentrop organ in Dunblane Cathedral. Produced by Odradek Records, this recording has received favourable reviews in Choir and Organ, RSCM Church Music Quarterly and in the Danish press.

Programme:

Dieterich BUXTEHUDE (1685-1750): Præludium in G minor

ANON. Scottish (c. 1610): GallIiard

Girolamo FRESCOBALDI (1583-1643): Toccata nona

Jesper MADSEN (1957-1999): Five Preludes

George Frederick HANDEL (1685-1759): Passacaglia in G minor

Henry PURCELL (1659-1695): A New Ground

Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750): Passacaglia in C minor, BWV 582

Igor STRAVINSKY (1882-1971): Berceuse and Final, from The Firebird Suite

Naji HAKIM (born 1955): Danse, from Homage to Stravinsky

Hans-André STAMM (born 1958): Bach in Ireland