Christopher Herrick

Christopher Herrick (* May 23, 1942 in Bletchley Buckinghamshire or ) is an English organist and harpsichordist.

Herrick was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral and attended the choir school. He sang at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953 in Westminster Abbey and entered in the same year at the White House, President Dwight D. Eisenhower on.

Since 1944, Herrick had organ lessons at Sir John Dykes Bower, the organist at St. Paul's. He put the organ formation continued during his visit, the Cranleigh School and studied from 1959 to 1962 music at Exeter College, Oxford, then at the Royal College of Music. He also took harpsichord lessons with Millicent Silver, private organ lessons with Geraint Jones and studied conducting with Sir Adrian Boult. As a harpsichordist, he founded the Taskin Trio, with whom he performed Baroque music on period instruments, and led in London on the entire Well-Tempered Clavier by Bach.

From 1967 to 1974, Herrick organist at St Paul 's Cathedral, then at Westminster Abbey. In 1984, he began a career as a concert organist, he launched a solo appearance at the Proms. Under the title Organ Fireworks appeared at Hyperion Records, a twelve-part series of recordings of virtuoso and striking compositions by Camille Saint- Saëns, André Jolivet, Dmitri Shostakovich, Charles- Marie Widor, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Carl Nielsen, Edward Elgar, Johann Pachelbel, Franz Liszt, John Rutter and others. A contrasting recording series, titled Dreams organ comprises four albums so far.

Between 1989 and 1999, played Herrick Hyperion the complete organ works of Bach on Swiss Metzler organs a. At the Lincoln Center Festival 1998, he was Bach's entire organ works on a fourteen- part concert series at the Kuhn organ at Alice Tully Hall. At the Parisot organ in the church of Saint -Remy in Dieppe, he took on the Noels Louis -Claude Daquins, followed in 2003 by a recording of the complete works for keyboard instruments by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck on organ replica of a 17th century in Sweden. 2007 Herrick began with a recording of the complete organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude.