Matt Geer, composer and organist
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As an organist, conductor and pianist

As a recital-award winning organist and conductor, I have taken masterclasses and lessons under some of the UKs greatest organists such as Dame Gillian Weir, Robert Quinney and Gordon Stewart. I have played at many of the UKs major Cathedrals including Westminster Cathedral and Abbey, Southwark, Peterborough, Hereford, Canterbury, Liverpool, Chichester, Belfast, most Oxford and Cambridge Chapels and major churches as well as abroad in France and Belgium. From 2020/21 I was the pianist for the Emily Davies Dance Academy, working as a ballet accompanist for workshops, rehearsals and exams. ​I am a member of the Royal College of Organists (RCO) and Fellow of the Society of Crematorium Organists (FSCO).

I am currently choral director for the Queen's Consort and the Mossgrove singers, and have previously worked as a director for the Guildhall Schola Cantorum, the London Conservatoire Singers and the St Agnes Liturgical Choir. I am a Fellow of the Society of Crematorium Organists (FSCO), a member of the Incorporated Society of Musicians and the Royal College of Organists. From 2015-2021, I held the position of director of music at St Agnes Church, Kennington Park. As well as this, from 2015-2021, I was director of music at St Agnes, Kennington Park and directed the Kennington Park recital series, hosting 13 concerts per year.

Performing:

​at St Agnes, Kennington

Conducting:

​at Southwark Cathedral

Accompanying: 

at Croydon Minster

     

at St Agnes, Kennington

    

​at Guildford Cathedral

   

at Croydon Minster

Most recent recital



​repertoire

J.S. Bach
Fantasia in G Minor (BWV 572)
Fantasia in C minor (BWV 562)
8 Short Preludes and Fugues att. Krebs
Chorale Partita 'Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig' (BWV 768)
Selected works from the Orgelbûchlein
J. Brahms
Prelude and Fugue in G minor (WoO 10)
D. Buxtehude
Chaconne in E minor, BuxWV 160
Prelude and Fugue in F, BuxWV 145
M. Duruflé
Scherzo, Op. 2
C. Franck
Choral no. 1 in E (from 3 Chorals
Final in B♭, op. 21 (from 6 Pieces) 
H. Howells
Prelude ‘De Profundis’ 
Rhapsody no. 1 for Organ
J. Langlais
Suite brève
F. Mendelssohn
Sonata No. 6 in D minor
O. Messiaen
Combat de la mort et de la vie (no. 4 from Les corps glorieux)
Dieu parmi nous (from La Nativité du Seigneur vol. 4)
La vierge et l'enfant (from La Nativité du Seigneur vol. 1)
J. Rheinberger
Sonata no. 3 in G, op. 88 
Sonata no. 18 in A, op. 188
L. Vierne
24 pièces en style libre
​Carillon de Westminster (from Pièces de fantaisie suite 3)

As a recitalist

As a composer, naturally my organ performance repertoire is quite focused on new music. I have a deep passion for playing music by the wandelweiser composers, the holy minimalists, the English and American experimental schools and any other composer that doesn't fit into those categories but of whom I like.

​Working as a composer, I only give 5-6 recitals per year but usually advertise these on either:

- organrecitals.com
- stagneskenningtonpark.com
or this site. 

Performances included: 

2021 recitals
15th December - St Patrick's Jordanstown (joint choir and organ recital)
27th December - St Luke's Sevenoaks
5th November - First Presbyterian Church, Belfast (book launch for Lord Alderdice)


2019 recitals
11th January - St Stephen's Walbrook (City of London)
16th February - St Johns, Hollington (Hastings)
20th June - St Agnes, Kennington Park
16th October - St Luke's, Sevenoaks

2018 recitals
10th January - St Mary Magdalene, Enfield
3rd February - St Peters, Bexhill
4th April - St Luke's, Sevenoaks
13th April - St Stephen's, Walbrook (City of London)
11th May - King Charles the Martyr, Potters Bar (N. London)
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In-situ: mgeer01@qub.ac.uk
Ex-situ: mrmatthewgeer@gmail.com

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46 Albert Road, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim
​Northern Ireland, BT38 8AE
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