Peter Lea-Cox
English organist, choral director,
orchestral conductor and composer
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. He will make his 25th organ recital tour to Denmark from September 2 to 6, 2012. He will give organ recitals in France from Jun 22 to 24, 2012. See the Events page for more details. In 2011 Peter directed professional musicians in Bach Cantatas and other works in a concert in Amsterdam with nearly 500 in the audience.
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. In 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. "Peter Lea-Cox at 65" was the theme of a birthday concert by the Camden Chamber Choir on June 19, 2010. The program featured music composed by Peter - both as Lecosaldi (in 18th century style) and as Lea-Cox (in 20th century style). Many singers and instrumentalists who have worked with Peter through the years returned to perform in this gala event.
For more than 20 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.
Peter's 19th musical tour to the United State will be from October 4-15, 2012 to lead a choral workshop, give organ recitals and lead hymn festivals and other musical services in Massachusetts. We invite you to consider a visit by Peter Lea-Cox during his USA tour, in October. Peter will be available for organ recitals, workshops and classes for organists, hymn festivals, guest conducting of choirs, “organ meditations” with choir and congregation, choral workshops, as well as serving as a guest organist and choir director at Sunday worship. For more information, contact the Rev. Ronald T. Englund at englund@cape.com or phone him at +1 508-495-1621.
New edition of 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 in a second printing! And we've lowered the price!
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$15 and for UK£10. There is no additional charge for postage and packing. Make checks in US dollars or cheques in UK pounds sterling payable to "Lecosaldi Ensemble" and send to the Rev. Ronald T. Englund, 44 Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth, MA 02540, USA or to Peter Lea-Cox, Leigh Cottage, Pottlelake, Shute, Axminster, Devon EX13 7QN, England, UK
