Peter Lea-Cox
English organist, choral director,
orchestral conductor and composer
Titus Liturgical Calendar now on sale
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and the United States
Welcome to news and information about the distinguished English musician Peter Lea-Cox. Founder and director of the Lecosaldi Ensemble, London-based professional singers and instrumentalists, Peter is also an international organ recitalist, composer and choirmaster. (Lecosaldi is the name Peter Lea-Cox uses when composing in 18th century baroque style.) He has given organ recitals at Westminster Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Washington’s National Cathedral and gave eleven organ recitals during his 21st recital tour in Denmark in August and September 2007. 
He has conducted the London-based Camden Chamber Choir for more than twenty years. This excellent amateur choir of 16 to 20 singers gives concerts at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Primrose Hill, London NW3. On March 8, 2008, the Lecosaldi Baroque Ensemble joined the Camden Chamber Choir at St. Mary's Primrose Hill in the first UK performance of the recently published Johannespassion (St. John Passion) by Gottfried August Homilius, an 18th century German Lutheran church composer from Dresden.
For more than twenty years he served at the Lutheran Church of St. Anne & St. Agnes in the City of London, where he developed an extensive program of music and worship with the Rev. Ronald T. Englund, who is now living on Cape Cod, in Falmouth, Massachusetts. With the Lecosaldi Ensemble, Peter completed performances of all 215 cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach mostly in the renowned Bach Vespers series at St. Anne and St. Agnes.
He serves as guest conductor of Schola Cantorum of Falmouth, a choir that specializes in Renaissance and Baroque sacred choral music and is based in Falmouth on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. He will again conduct this fine choir during the weekend of October 24-26, 2008.
Peter has made thirteen musical tours in the United States and and he will return from October 9 to November 3, 2008 to give organ recitals, direct choirs and serve as a guest musician at church services. He will again be based in Falmouth, Massachusetts, but will be available to travel to other places.
Peter’s most recent musical tour to the United States, in October and November 2007, included concerts as guest conductor of Schola Cantorum of Falmouth in Flemish Renaissance choral and organ music. He also gave organ recitals in York and York Springs, Pennsylvania; led a celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of Lutheran hymn writer, Paul Gerhardt in West Barnstable, Massahcusetts; and directed a choral workshop and concert in Falmouth, Massachusetts. In addition he was guest organist and choir director at Sunday worship at Lutheran churches in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Falmouth, Massachusetts.
We invite you to consider a visit by Peter Lea-Cox during his USA tours in the autumn of 2008. Peter is available for organ recitals, workshops and classes for organists, guest conducting of choirs, “organ meditations” with choir and congregation, choral workshops for area singers, as well as being a guest organist and choir director at Sunday worship. Contact the Rev. Ronald T. Englund at englund@cape.com or phone him +1 508-495-1621.
Titus Liturgical Calendar now on sale!
The Titus Liturgical Calendar, featuring the six-inch stuffed dinosaur that has accompanied Peter and Gillian Lea-Cox on their musical tours around the world for the past fifteen years, is now on sale!
Titus is known for his devotion to church services and the liturgy. He wears liturgical vestments for the appropriate seasons of the church year. For ten years, Titus sat proudly in the front pew during services at the Lutheran Church of St. Anne & St. Agnes in the City of London. Those familiar with Lecosaldi music-making in England, Denmark, Australia and the United States, know Titus and his antics.
Stephen Humphreys of Berkshire, England, brother of Gillian Humphreys Lea-Cox, created the calendar. It has pictures of Titus in vestments with sayings for days and seasons, rather than specific dates. So it can be used year after year. The back page tells the "Titus story."
This beautiful 16-page, full colour calendar, is now available for US$20 plus $2.50 postage and for UK£12 plus £1.50 postage. Make checks (cheques) payable to "Lecosaldi Ensemble" and send to Peter Lea-Cox, Leigh Cottage, Pottlelake, Shute, Axminster, Devon EX13 7QN, England, UK or to The Rev. Ronald T. Englund, 44 Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth, MA 02540, US.
