Frederick Stocken is a composer and organist.
His works include two symphonies, a violin concerto, a ballet, organ and choral pieces, and his music has been broadcast on the BBC and Classic FM.
Frederick's music is published by OUP and Banks Music, and has been commissioned by Southern Cathedrals Festival, The Worshipful Company of Musicians, Rikkyo University Tokyo, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Orchestral works have been performed by the RPO at the Royal Albert Hall and by the orchestra of the State Theatre in Giessen, Germany. His organ works have been performed at King’s College, Cambridge. Choral works have been performed by the choirs of Chichester Cathedral and the Brompton Oratory. Conductors include Vernon Handley, John Lubbock and Charles Hazlewood.
The CD of Lament for Bosnia was number one in the classical charts of Tower Records, and he conducted the Strings of the Academy for a performance marking the opening of the permanent Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. He also conducted a performance in Bosnia by the Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra.
Frederick’s church music appointments include ten years as Organist of George’s Metropolitan Cathedral in Southwark. He was Organ Scholar of St Catharine’s College Cambridge where he studied with Peter Hurford. He won prizes in both the Associate (ARCO) and Fellowship (FRCO) examinations of the Royal College of Organists (RCO). He has played for broadcast services on BBC radio and television, and has recorded on the Priory and Regent labels.
Frederick teaches for the RCO, where he also presented their first live webinars. He has examined for the ABRSM in many countries, and trained examiners for a decade. His educational publications include Scale Shapes (Chester Music), Graded Keyboard Musicianship (OUP) and The New Oxford Organ Method (OUP), the latter two works being co-authored with Anne Marsden Thomas.
His doctoral research at the University of Manchester was published as Simon Sechter’s Fundamental Bass Theory and its influence on the music of Anton Bruckner. As a musicologist he has written articles for Music & Letters and The Musical Times.