|
 From
1993-96 Robert Paterson was a music student and organ scholar at
Peterhouse, Cambridge, studying the organ with Dr Peter Hurford and
Anne Page. After Cambridge, he became organ scholar at York
Minster for two years where duties included accompanying the
Cathedral Choir up to 3 or 4 times per week, helping with the
training of the choristers, probationers and lay-clerks, and also
playing on two Cathedral Choir CD recordings. During this
time, Robert also read for an MA at the University of York, studying
Baroque performance practice with Dr Peter Seymour.
|Performing with all the major University choirs and orchestras, he
was also the continuo player for concerts given by the Yorkshire
Baroque Soloists, Northern Sinfonia and English Northern
Philharmonic, and he played Bach’s motet “Lobet den Herrn”
live on Radio 3 with the Yorkshire Bach Choir.
Since
1998, he has been Organist and Music Master at Bradfield College,
accompanying the school choirs and playing for all chapel services
as well as teaching music full-time. In 1999 he gained his
FRCO , winning the Turpin and Durrant prises for performance.
Currently taking organ lessons with Margaret Phillips at the English
Organ School in Dorset, he is now also Assistant Director of Music
at Hampton Court Palace. |
