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Since his début in London at the Royal Festival Hall in 1979, Graham Barber has been recognised as one of the world’s leading concert organists. He has performed in major venues in Britain, Europe, Far East, USA and Australia, and broadcast widely. Recent concerts include in Prague, Leipzig, Braga, Lisbon, Coimbra, Adelaide, Werne and Himmerod. The Sunday Times described his 1975 debut recording as a ‘technically brilliant, musically mature’. He has made recordings on many English, German and Dutch organs; Gramophone Magazine calls him ‘one of the organ world’s finest recording artists'. Emeritus Professor at Leeds University since 2009 and sometime Visiting Tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music, Graham Barber is a freelance concert organist, keyboard player and Organist at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Armley, playing the celebrated Schulze organ. He has been an Academic Visitor at Adelaide University and received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Graham Barber has commissioned new works from Geoffrey Poole, Philip Wilby, Francis Jackson, Wolfgang Stockmeier, and in 2014 gave the world première of Naii Haim's SINDBAD: Fantasy on Omani popular songs. Graham Barber has performed with conductors including Sir Edward Downes, Sir Charles Groves, Richard Hickox, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Georg Solti, Jan Pascal Tortelier and Sir David Willcocks. In 2016 he recorded Max Reger's complete organ works. https://grahambarber.org.uk/