Adrian Lenthall was organ scholar of Westminster Abbey under Simon Preston and studied at the Royal College of Music, before reading Music at Cambridge University. He subsequently worked and consulted in counselling and psychotherapy in various settings including Guys & St Thomas’ Hospital, but little by little returned to music-making, adding to his earlier specialisms an interest in early keyboard instruments (and especially the clavichord, including the rarely-encountered pedal clavichord). He gave two recitals for the (sadly now defunct) British Clavichord Society, and has released two clavichord CDs: A Lament on the Lips of Loved Ones: Private Memorials, Secret Grief, and Heaven & Earth in Little Space: Christmas Music for Clavichord, tracks from which were played on BBC Radio 3. He has a busy teaching practice, and greatly enjoys helping pupils of all ages to find and develop their innate musicality. Adrian has had a number of poems published in various magazines (including Magma, iota, Staple, Smiths Knoll, The Interpreter’s House and Other Poetry), and won the University of Cambridge’s Seatonian Prize for 2024, awarded each year since 1750 for a poem on a sacred subject.
Adrian Lenthall 