Concerts

Last updatedSaturday 4th February, 2012, Gatwick Airport, UK

2012

 
9-12 JanuaryConference of Roman Catholic Cathedral Musicians, St Joseph's Cathedral, Columbus, Ohio
11 JanuaryRecital on the Paul Fritts Organ at St Joseph's Cathedral
14 FebruaryCommunity Arts College, Forrest City, AR
Silent Movie Improvisation Concert (postponed until 2013)
9 MarchNEXT CONCERT: Cathedral of the Assumption, Louisville, KY at 7.30pm
Music by J S Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Cesar Franck and Improvisations
18 MarchCathedral of the Sacred Heart, Newark, New Jersey
J. S. Bach, Dukas, Dupre, Rachmaninoff, Souza, Improvisations
19 MarchCathedral of the Sacred Heart, Newark, NY
Improvisation Masterclass (Montclair State University)
23 March(Postponed due to late installation) St Michael-and-all-Angels, Exeter, Devon
on the recently relocated organ which was previously in St Jude's Church, Birmingham (and played by my grandfather for over 40 years...)
24 MarchTruro Cathedral, UK
Concert with the Three Spires Singers
Magnificat (J S Bach)
Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani (Poulenc)
Requiem (2003), David Briggs
25 MarchTruro Cathedral, UK
Silent movie improvisation concert 'King of Kings' (Cecil B de Mille, 1928)
27 MarchConcert in the Inauguration Festival for the Studio Acusticum Organ in Pitea, Sweden
postponed due to Japanese earthquake
27/28 MarchTeaching in Cambridge, UK
31 MarchGillingham Methodist Church, Dorset, UK
Silent movie Improvisation Concert: Cecil B de Mille's 'King of Kings' (1928)
16-19 AprilRecording Elgar Symphonies 1 and 2 for Acclaim Productions
on the Kenneth Tickell Organ at Worcester Cathedral
24 AprilMemorial Church, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Part of opening series on new organ by C B Fisk Inc.
29 AprilAscension Episcopal Memorial Church, Ipswich, MA at 3pm
5 MayMetropolitan United Church, London, Ontario (After dinner speech for Choir Association)
6 MayMetropolitan United Church, London, Ontario at 3pm
18 MayChristchurch, Cambridge, MA
accompany Haydn's 'Creation' (Stuart Foster, director)
19 MayAscension Episcopal Memorial Church, Ipswich, MA at 7.30pm
Silent movie improvisation concert - Fritz Lang 'Metropolis' (IMADA Benefit Concert)
10 JuneRiver Road Church, Baptist, Richmond, VA
Choral workshop and Concert, including 'Messe pour Notre-Dame'
13 and 14 JuneTeaching at Cambridge, UK
15 JuneSt Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, UK at 7.30pm
21 JuneWarwick Festival, UK
23 JuneWarwick Festival, UK
with Choirs of St Mary's, Warwick - including first performance of new anthem 'Gaudeamus Omnes'
6 JulyBoone United Methodist Church, Boone NC
Silent Movie Improvisation Concert: 'Phantom of the Opera' (1929)
9-15 JulySt Michael's Episcopal Church, Raleigh, NC
Organist for North Carolina Course of the Royal School of Church Music
13 JulySt Michael's Epsicopal Church, Raleigh, NC
part of opening series of new Nicholls and Simpson organ (2011)
27 JulyThree Choirs Festival, Hereford
Mark Bebbington gives premiere of new Piano Sonata (2011)
31 AugustRiverside Church, New York
Silent movie Improvisation Concert: Cecil B de Mille's 'King of Kings' (1928) (tbc)
26 OctoberFirst Congregational Church, Wenham, MA
Silent Movie Improvisation Concert: 'Phantom of the Opera' (1929) (tbc)
10 NovemberLancaster Priory, UK
Silent Movie Improvisation Concert: 'Phantom of the Opera' (1929)
Opening Series on new organs

2013

 
18 AprilPhilharmonie, Essen, Germany
Three Preludes and Fugues 'Hommage a Marcel Dupre' (DJB)
Symphony No 1, Sir Edward Elgar (transcribed DJB)
20 AprilSt Mary's Church, West Byfleet, Surrey, UK
27 SeptemberSt Wenzel, Naumberg, Germany
Improvisation concert on 1746 Hildebrandt Organ

 
2010/2011 Recital highlights included:
BBC Promenade Concert from the Royal Albert Hall, London (broadcast live to an audience of over 2 million)
St Sulpice, Paris (Concert Spirituel)
International Performing Centre, Moscow, Russia (including Tchaikovsky Symphony No 4)
King's College, Cambridge, UK (Elgar Symphony No 1 transcription)
Worcester Cathedral, UK (Elgar Symphony No 1 transcription)
Cirencester Parish Church, UK (re-opening recital)
St Joseph's Cathedral, Columbus, Ohio
Philharmonie Concert Hall, Haarlem, Holland
Harrow School, UK
Opening recital on new Peter Collins Organ
Turin and Piacenza Music Festivals, Italy
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington DC
Final Concert of the American Guild of Organists National Convention
Belmont Abbey, UK (Opening recital)
Leipzig Gewandhaus, Germany (Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
York Minster (Symphony No. 3 Gustav Mahler - transcribed DJB)
Worcester Cathedral, UK (Three Choirs Festival Recital)
Premiere of new transcription of Symphony No 2 in E flat (1911)
St Sernin Basilica, Toulouse, France
2 concerts in the Festival 'Toulouse les Orgues'
St James Church, Muswell Hill, London, UK
Re-opening concert on refurbished Harrison and Harrison organ
Church of the Sacred Heart, Wimbledon, London, UK
Re-opening recital of organ by J W Walker
King's College, Cambridge, UK
Elgar Symphony No 2 transcription
St Edmundsbury Cathedral, UK at 7.30pm
Dedicatory Series of new organ by Harrison and Harrison
Cathedral of the Redeemer, Calgary, AB
Canadian premiere of 'Messe pour Saint-Sulpice' (2011)

 
“Insouciantly brilliant…

Mr. Briggs, a Briton now based in Boston, has formidable technique, both for playing notes and for kaleidoscopic stop changes and pumpings of swell pedals. Known for virtuoso organ transcriptions of orchestra works, he put on quite a show of Strauss' tone poem Death and Transfiguration.

And he demonstrated his genius at improvisation at both piano (in the hypnotic style of the French composer/organist Olivier Messiaen) and organ (in the dazzling manner and with deliciously saturated harmonies of another Frenchman, Pierre Cochereau).

He masterfully sustained and built tension through Messiaen's Vision of the Eternal Church and tossed off Marcel Dupré's flashy Prelude and Fugue in G minor with insouciant brilliance.”

(The Dallas Morning News)

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