MEET THE ORGAN SCHOLAR HELEN LUNN

The scholarship is a wonderful opportunity and offers me a number of organ lessons every year with Richard Lea, organist at Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral. These have been a fantastic experience so far, being introduced to a number of new pieces and techniques. It has been very beneficial having the experience and guidance of Richard, pointing out things that I would have otherwise missed or wrongly disregarded, though it can be a challenge trying to unlearn bad habits (of which there are plenty)!

At LHU, (perhaps unusually), I don’t study music, rather Politics with Accounting and Finance! It can be a challenge juggling the three subjects, but there is a bit of overlap, my Politics lecturer being the coordinator for the Anglican services I play for! Though I am not a student of the music department, I am often involved with them, as mentioned, primarily singing with the university’s chamber choir. I had stopped the majority of my singing when COVID hit in 2020, and never properly got back into it before I left for university. I hadn’t fully appreciated just how much music meant until getting involved with the chamber choir. The choir is a lovely group of eight, and we sing a wide variety of music, in a wonderful selection of locations, most recently at the Metropolitan Cathedral for a performance of Vivaldi’s Gloria. I am involved in music in a number of places outside of the university. As I have mentioned, I am the organ scholar at St Mary’s, West Derby, and Deputy Organist at St John the Baptist at Tuebrook.