Norman Coke-Jephcott
Norman Coke-Jephcott FRCO FAGO, FRCCO, FTCL was an English composer and organist based both in his native England and the United States of America.Life
Norman Coke-Jephcott was born in Coventry on 17 March 1893. He was educated at Bablake School.
He was awarded his Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists in 1911. He was admitted Fellow of the American Guild of Organists in 1912.
In 1945 he was admitted to the Fellowship in the Canadian College of Organists and in the same year received the honorary degree of the D. Mus. from Ripon College in the same year.
He was made a Fellow of Trinity College, London in 1947.
Regarded by his colleagues as one of the world's greatest masters in organ improvisation, he had also to his credit over twenty published works.Appointments
His compositions include:
- Bishop's Promenade
- Surely the Lord is in this Place
- Classical Fugue on a subject by Paul Vidal
- Fantasie on a National Air
- Improvisation on an Irish Air
