{"id":4533,"date":"2021-08-13T10:39:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T09:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/?page_id=4533"},"modified":"2023-04-21T15:03:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T14:03:24","slug":"ian-tracey-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/ian-tracey-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Tracey – Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Ian Tracey has a life-long association with the City of Liverpool and its music. A native Liverpudlian, he studied at Trinity College, London, and at Liverpool University, winning scholarships to study organ in Paris with Andre Isoir and Jean Langlais and conducting with Vernon Handley.
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He was appointed Organist of Liverpool Cathedral in 1980, since which time he has played most of the major venues in the UK, many of the prestigious organs in Europe and has made 25 extensive tours of the USA and two of Australia.
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1985 saw his appointment as Liverpool City Organist and as Chorus Master to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society; in which latter capacity, he has conducted over 250 concerts with the Society’s orchestra and choir. In 1988 he was elected Professor, Fellow and Organist at Liverpool, John Moores University, and appointed as a Guest Director of Music for the BBC’s Daily Service.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In addition to that from his Alma Mater, he holds Fellowships from many prestigious musical institutions, including the Royal College of Organists, Royal School of Church Music, Guild of Church Musicians, Guild of Musicians & Singers The Royal Society of Arts and Liverpool John Moores University.
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In 1994, he was awarded the North West Arts Award for Classical Music and in 2006 The University of Liverpool conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Music (Honoris Causa), in recognition of his long and distinguished service to music in Liverpool and of his national and international reputation as a musician.\u00a0<\/p>

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Professor Dr Ian Tracey DL << Deputy Lieutenants R – Z Ian Tracey has a life-long association with the City of Liverpool and its music. A native Liverpudlian, he studied at Trinity College, London, and at Liverpool University, winning scholarships to study organ in Paris with Andre Isoir and Jean Langlais and conducting with Vernon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4533","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/176.32.230.17\/merseysidelieutenancy.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}