Ultimate Chill: Piano Music by Einaudi - 8pm show

Richard Pinel is the Assistant Director of Music of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where he accompanies the famous choir in some eight services a week. Prior to his appointment in 2009, he held similar posts at Magdalen College, Oxford and Perth Cathedral, Australia and the organ scholarship of St Albans Cathedral. Richard read for a degree in music at Magdalen College, Oxford as the organ scholar. Under the direction of the former King’s Singer, Bill Ives, the Grammy-nominated choir undertook several recording projects on the Harmonia Mundi USA label, on which Richard’s playing was hailed as ‘a force of nature’.

On the international stage, Richard has recently won the First Prize, Ad Wammes Prize and Naji Hakim Prize at the Breda International Organ Competition. He has been selected to compete in the Canadian International Organ Competition in Montréal this October.

Richard currently studies the organ with Henry Fairs as a Junior Fellow at Birmingham Conservatoire. He received his formative musical education as a chorister, and later organ scholar of All Saints’ Church, Northampton and can be heard with them, as chorister, organist and composer on Lammas Records in several recordings. Richard has taken part in various live broadcasts, as both organist and pianist, on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, Classic FM and Radio France Culture.

Outside of St George’s, Richard holds teaching posts at Birmingham Conservatoire and Eton College and he maintains an active recital career. Recent recital venues include St John's College, Cambridge and Antwerp Cathedral.