Christopher Eastwood
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Upon leaving the cathedral, he was awarded a music scholarship to The Oratory School, Woodcote, where he studied the organ with Quentin Thomas. After leaving The Oratory School, Christopher read music at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he was also Senior Organ Scholar with responsibility for the choir and the music in the college chapel. In 2001 Christopher toured with the college choir to the North of England and then to Venice in 2003. During this period he also directed the choir in a recording of music by the Wesley family, which was released in 2003 to favourable reviews. During his time at Oxford, Christopher managed to maintain an active interest in singing, especially with the new early music group, Magdala, directed by David Skinner, and on recordings of the music of Orlando Gibbons, and the soundtrack for the BBC's new Blue Planet series with Magdalen College Choir.
Following his graduation from Oxford, Christopher
was appointed as organ scholar to Portsmouth Cathedral. During this time
he has performed on the Remembrance Day Songs of Praise programme and
toured with the choir to Belgium and Holland, as well as to Caen for the
60th anniversary of the D-Day landings, which involved radio broadcasts
for Radio 3 & 4. He has studied the organ with Iain Simcock, David
Sanger and David Goode.
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