Nathanael Smith is the organist at St Andrew's Kingsbury and Head of Music at a West London secondary school. He studied BA Music at Durham University and MSt Musicology at Oxford University, specialising in composition and the analysis of 20th century music. His programme juxtaposes baroque technicality and high-romantic seriousness alongside his own Two Love Preludes in F, composed a decade apart. He has also published essays on music history and aesthetics at historyofclassicalmusic.wordpress.com