Category Archives: News and Views

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by | August 14, 2015 · 3:56 pm

Music Vacancies

– Let there be music –

Heritage Lottery Fund joint funders

Director of Music – Organist and Choir Leader  –  £8k p.a. for 3 years + weddings and funerals –

and opportunity for post at Whitley Parish Church. Posts of organist after 3 years.

Project Officer – £2400 p.a. for 3 years – Binns Organ currently being restored.

To develop music and a choir in church and in the community   See full details and forms:

http://www.thornhillparishchurch.org.uk/music.htm

Thornhill Parish Church, Dewsbury WF12 0JZ

This is an exciting opportunity, as a result of Heritage Lottery and other funding, to undertake the restoration of the church organ and run an innovative development project aimed at encouraging local people of all ages to appreciate and enjoy choral music in the church and community.  Full details of the scheme, targets and budget will be available for genuine applicants prior to interview.

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by | August 12, 2015 · 3:27 pm

Royal College of Organists Classes

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Places are still available for the following RCO classes:-

Saturday 17 October 2015

Accompany and Conduct

(ABRSM grades 3 to 6)

St Giles’ Cripplegate, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DA

1100-1400

This class is for any organist with little or no experience accompanying a choir, leading a choir from the organ, or conducting. Simon Williams will have a group of singers on hand to help you practise any or all of these skills. You might like to prepare a piece from our list or  check your preferred piece with us in advance.

Fee: £67

Saturday 24 October 2015

Preparing for grades 5 to 8

(ABRSM grades 5 to 8)

St John’s, Notting Hill, London W11 2NN

14oo-1700

Gabriele Damiani leads an inspiring class on a recently rebuilt organ for anyone preparing for a forthcoming ABRSM exam from grade 5 to 8. There will be coaching on all, or any, of the components you most want help with, whether playing pieces, scales, sight-reading, aural, or general strategies for practice and coping with exam stress.

Fee: £67

Book your place on one of these classes now.

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by | · 3:26 pm

NIGEL OGDEN AT KING’S LYNN MINSTER

NIGEL OGDEN

Nigel Ogden plays at King’s Lynn Minster, St. Margaret’s Place, King’s Lynn, PE30 5DL on Friday 4th September 2015 at 7.30 pm

Nigel is Presenter of BBC Radio 2’s ‘The Organist Entertains’ – join him for an evening of popular and light classical music

Tickets are £5.00 from King’s Lynn Minster Office (01553 767090) or on the door

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by | August 10, 2015 · 7:25 pm

Organ Recitals at The Coffee House

Organ Recitals held on Wednesdays at 6:30 pm at The Coffee House, Everingham, YO42 4JD.

Enjoy free admission and a champagne reception.

Coffee House Recitals 2015 (2)

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by | August 5, 2015 · 1:59 pm

RCO Organ Recitals and Choral Services in Oxford – August 2015

Choral Services will be directed and performed by students.  Full details of players, recitals and choral services can be found at the Royal College of Organists Academy website (www.rco.org.uk). Welcome and free admission to all events:

Tuesday 4 August – Choral Compline – 9.15 pm – Queen’s College Chapel

Wednesday 5 August – Organ Recital – 1.15pm – Merton College Chapel; Choral Evensong – 5.15pm – Keble College Chapel

Thursday 6 August – Lunchtime Organ Recital – 1.15pm – Exeter College Chapel; Choral Compline – 9.15 pm – Exeter College Chapel

Friday 7 August – Lunchtime Organ Recital – 1.15pm – Pembroke College Chapel; Choral Evensong – 5.15pm – Jesus College Chapel

Saturday 8 August – Lunchtime Organ Recital – 1.15pm – New College Chapel; Students’ Showcase Organ Recital – 7.30pm – Christ Church Cathedral

Sunday 9 August – Choral Evensong – 3.30pm – New College Chapel

 

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by | June 15, 2015 · 3:43 pm

Organ Recital by Sam Barber at Holy Trinity, Huddersfield – 11 July 2015 – 7.30 pm

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Sam Barber at Notting Hill

Sam Barber is Organ Scholar at St John’s Notting Hill, London.  He started playing the organ at Holy Trinity in 2011.  He is in his first year studying trombone at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama.  Sam studied organ to grade 8 (which he passed with distinction) with David Baker through the Halifax Organ Academy.

The recital will take place on Saturday 11 July at 7.30 pm at Holy Trinity Church, Huddersfield.  Refreshments will be served afterwards and there will be a retiring collection in aid of the African Children’s Choir and the upkeep of the Holy Trinity Organ.

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by | May 25, 2015 · 9:57 am

St Alfege, Greenwich: Assistant Organist Required

The Church of St Alfege in Greenwich, is looking for an assistant organist from September. Details of the post can be seen here: http://www.stalfegechoir.org.uk/assistant-organist/.

Details of the organ are at: http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=E00392

 

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by | May 18, 2015 · 2:06 pm

Upcoming courses

Two Royal College of Organists upcoming courses worth signing up for:
27th June: Improvisation
18th July: JS Bach (Oxford)
Both the above classes are for all standards.

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by | May 11, 2015 · 1:27 pm

Organ Recital at Westgate Chapel, Wakefield, 29 May, 2015

Professor David Baker will be giving the lunchtime organ recital at Wainsgate Chapel, Wakefield, commencing at 1300 on 29 May. His programme will be as follows:

Toccata                                                                                  Theodore Dubois

Solemn Melody                                                                    Henry Walford Davies 

Variations on ‘God save the King’                                    Charles Wesley

Toccata in B minor                                                              Eugène Gigout

Humoresque                                                                         Pietro  Yon

Lied                                                                                        Louis Vierne

Two Chorale Preludes: ‘Wir glauben all’                         Johann Sebastian Bach

Rhosymedre                                                                         Ralph Vaughan Williams

Toccata                                                                                  Charles-Marie Widor

For further information  and details of location, go to http://www.ukunitarians.org.uk/wakefield/index.htm

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by | May 10, 2015 · 3:59 pm

Pipe Organ Free to Good Home

The owner of a redundant Methodist Church is looking to get rid of its pipe organ. The instrument is at Old Town Methodist Church near Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire. Details are at http://www.npor.org.uk/NPORView.html?RI=G01483

 

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