Composer and Organist
FREDERICK STOCKEN
Composer and Organist
Frederick Stocken is a widely performed and commissioned composer, probably best known for his organ and choral music, including such works as Archangels and Faith Love Hope for organ. Other music includes two symphonies (the First Symphony was commissioned for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra), a commissioned ballet Alice, his Violin Concerto, and the chart-topping Lament for Bosnia for string orchestra.
Frederick is Organist of St George’s Cathedral, Southwark in London, teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and for the Royal College of Organists. He is also well known through tutors such as Scale Shapes and The New Oxford Organ Method.
NEWS
PERFORMANCES
Sunday 5 March 2023, Mass at St Stephen's, Lewisham:
The Newman Mass
Choir of St Stephen's, Lewisham, cond. David Knight
Wednesday 1 February 2023, 4pm, BBC broadcast of choral evensong from Pembroke College, Cambridge:
St Michael from Archangels
Joe Beadle (organ)
Sunday 29 January 2023, 2.30pm, King's College, Cambridge:
Archangels
Paul Greally (organ)
Thursday 15 December 2022, 7.30pm, Carol Service, St George's Cathedral, Southwark, London
Carol of the Annunciation
Choir of St George's Cathedral, cond. Jonathan Schranz
Sunday 24 September 2022, 2pm, St George's Hanover Square, London:
Gieb Fried o frommer treuer Gott
Tom Bell (organ)
Friday 17 June 2022, Evensong, King's College, Cambridge:
St Michael from Archangels
Paul Greally (organ).
Saturday 11 June 2022, Evensong, King's College, Cambridge:
Faith from Faith Love Hope
Paul Greally (organ).
Sunday 15 May 2022, 12pm Mass, St George's Cathedral, London:
The Newman Mass as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.
Thursday 28 April 2022, Eucharist Service, King's College, Cambridge:
Gieb Fried o frommer treuer Gott
Paul Greally (organ)
Sunday 24 April 2022, 3pm, Westminster Central Hall, London:
The Day nor the Hour (first performance) for organ
Recital by Frederick Stocken, also including works by S.S. Wesley,
Statham, Vaughan Williams and Buck
Sunday 6 March 2022, Matins, King's College, Cambridge:
St Gabriel from Archangels
Paul Greally (organ)
Sunday 27 February 2022, 10am, St Giles Cripplegate:
The Transfiguration at the Sunday Eucharist
St Giles Choir cond. Anne Marsden Thomas
Thursday 16 December 2021, 19.30,St George's Cathedral, London:
Carol of the Annunciation at the Cathedral Carol Service
The Choir of St George's, cond. Harry Bradford
Monday 13 December 2021, 18.30, St Giles Cripplegate, London:
Carol of the Annunciation at the Carol Service
Thursday 2 December 2021, 18.00, St Catharine's College, Cambridge: Carol of the Annunciation at the Carol Service
Saturday 23 October 2021, 18.40, King's College, Cambridge:
Faith Love Hope for organ in a recital by Paul Greally
Friday 8 October 2021, 14.30, Southwark Cathedral, London:
Anniversary-of-ordination service for Canon Dr Peter Sills
Prayer of St Richard of Chichester
Choir of Southwark Cathedral, cond. Ian Keatley
Sunday 3 October, 2021, 10,00 Mass, St George's Cathedral:
First performance of The Newman Mass
a new congregational mass setting
The Cathedral Consort, cond. Jonathan Schranz
Saturday 25 September 2021, 14.00, Holy Name Church, Manchester:
First performance of Carol of the Annunciation
Commissioned by the John Bradburne Memorial Society
Bury Choral Society, cond. Juan Ortuno
TEACHING AND PRESENTING
American Guild of Organists, National Conference in Seattle 2022:
Frederick and Anne Marsden Thomas giving two workshops on their teaching methods
Thursday 18 November 2021, Leeds Organists Association
Online presentation with Anne Marsden Thomas on Frederick and Anne's New Oxford Organ Method , released in 2020
Tuesday 9 November and Tuesday 23 November 2021, 20.00
Two online webinars for the RCO on Continuo Realisation for FRCO
Mondays in November 2021, 1800:
Online keyboard classes taught by Anne Marsden Thomas and Frederick using their Graded Keyboard Musicianship (OUP)
Saturday 23 October 2021, 10.30 St Matthew's Reading:
Organ class for the Newbury & District Organists Association
FREDERICK PLAYS HIS LATEST ORGAN WORK IN THE ORGAN RECITAL SERIES AT ST JOHN'S, SMITH SQUARE, LONDON
Mysterium Fidei
Mysterium Fidei (The Mystery of Faith) for organ, was played by Frederick in a recital at St John’s, Smith Square in February 2020. The subtitle of the work is ‘A journey towards faith’, and the music depicts a pilgrimage from doubt towards belief. The six sections are called: Restless Spirit; Intimations; Searching; Prayer; Awakening; Faith. The premiere was given by Frederick last year at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, and the UK premiere at Chichester Cathedral last November was also played by Frederick. In October 2020 Frederick also played Mysterium Fidei in an online recital at St Michael's Cornhill, which is still on Youtube.
SCALE SHAPES REACHES 3RD EDITION
Grades 1-5 updated for the new syllabus which started in 2020
You can buy copies of this popular diagrammatic method for learning scales at:
NEW SETTING OF THE MASS FOR
ST GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL
The Newman Mass
The Newman Mass is a new setting of the Mass written to be sung by both the choir and congregation of St George’s Metropolitan Cathedral, Southwark. Its title commemorates the recent canonization of John Henry Newman in 2019.
