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Martin Stacey (born in 1975) is a British concert organist, composer and teacher. Born and raised in Somerset, he was organ scholar at Queen's College, Taunton, before joining the Royal Academy of Music in the mid 1990s where he studied under Nicholas Danby and Naji Hakim among others, winning all the major prizes for organ and early-music. With support from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust he furthered his studies with Nicolas Kynaston and Dame Gillian Weir. In his early career, regular concert appearances throughout the UK, Europe and Scandinavia established a reputation amongst the foremost exponents of his generation of organists. Engagements included regular concerts at major venues in England, Portugal, Greece and Poland as well as several concert-tours of Finland, some of which were broadcast on national radio in each country.

In addition to performing, Stacey lectured for a time at Trinity College of Music in London, (historical notation including Iberian 'cifra' and North German 'tablature') and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Stacey has been Director of Music at St. Dominic's Priory in London (The Rosary Shrine) since 2020 where he established regular recitals on the famous 1883 'Father' Henry Willis organ, and installed a smaller Victorian instrument built in 1859 by Henry Bryceson (originally for a church at Old Cleeve in Somerset).

Recordings on various labels (including Priory, Somm and Lammas) have included contemporary music by British composers. He collaborated with the late Jennifer Bate in two world-premiere recordings of organ duets by Mendelssohn.

His own compositions are recorded and performed worldwide, receiving premieres in the UK, the USA, Finland, France and Spain. Totentanz (a work commissioned by Choir & Organ magazine) was a set-work on the syllabus for the FRCO examination from 2008 to 2020 and he is frequently commissioned to write new music. Several new CDs have been recorded of his music; one by Kevin Bowyer on the organ of Glasgow University including the Little Stanmore Suite and more recently by Eleni Keventsidou at Rugby College (Somerset Scenes for violin and organ).

In 2006 Stacey founded AFNOM (the Annual Festival of New Organ Music) to promote the work of contemporary composers of organ music; featuring 'exhibition-concerts' at Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Westminster Central Hall, Marylebone Parish Church, St John's Islington and St Dominic's Priory. After a year in the post of organist at Bradfield College in Berkshire, he spent two years in direct sales before resuming a varied musical career. Having taught music and Spanish in various north London schools, Stacey was also organ tutor at University College School in Hampstead and since September 2019 has been Head of Music at a secondary school in Bushey, Hertfordshire.

Key Works for organ solo


 * Icarus
 * Totentanz
 * The Hymn of the Pearl (Symphony)
 * Prelude & Fugue on DSCH
 * Visionary Fragments - Kubla Khan