Comments Off on Electronic Organ Available
Filed under News and Views
|
Organ Recitals 2014Wednesdays at 6:30
30 July John Scott Whiteley – Bach’s Orgelbüchlein & not…
13 August Maximillian Elliott – Cathedral Organists of Yesteryear
27 August Gordon Stewart, John Pemberton & John Scott Whiteley In Memoriam Alan Spedding, MBE
10 September John Scott Whiteley – Music associated with World War I
AT The Coffee House, Everingham YO42 4JD Free admission & champagne! Each recital will last c40 minutes
|
Comments Off on Coffee House Concerts
Filed under News and Views
Organ builders Goetze & Gwynn have launched a new website at http://www.goetzegwynn.co.uk , with the same features
as the old website, but with downloadable reports, soundfiles and blogs. The website includes
pictures and details of most of the 100 projects they have completed in the third of a century they
have been in business, making and restoring classical pipe organs.
In that time they have contributed to the revival of the historic English classical organ, restoring
important organs like St Botolph Aldgate London ca1704, St Helen Bishopsgate London 1743, and
St James Bermondsey London 1829, many with the substantial financial assistance of the Heritage
Lottery Fund. They have just completed the restoration of the 1821 H.C.Lincon organ at Thaxted in
Essex, and are starting the partial restoration of the 1969 Grant, Degens and Bradbeer organ at New
College Oxford.
Of the 100 projects, 65 are restorations of historic organs and most of these have a picture, a short
history and specifications. There are historical monographs of individual organs and restoration
reports available for free download.
Comments Off on Goetze & Gwynn launch new website
Filed under News and Views
A new conductor is needed for the benefice choir based at Leathley Church. The choir only performs at major festivals, and rehearses for five or six weeks beforehand each time.
Comments Off on Choir Director wanted at Leathley, North Yorkshire
Filed under News and Views
Good to read about the Halifax Organ Academy in the latest issue of the Institute of British Organ Building Newsletter (issue 74, June 2o14) about the ‘growing number of organ academies which are being established around the country, with the aim of providing teaching and experience of the instrument for anybody who is interested’. Thus writes Chris Batchelor, current President of the IBO and an accomplished layer and senior administrator himself. ‘The emergence of more people who are passionate about the organ has to be good for all of us’, he continues.
Comments Off on Mentioned in Dispatches
Filed under News and Views
Congratulations to George Ford, who has been appointed Organ Scholar at Leeds Cathedral. George is currently a music student at Huddersfield University.
George will be giving a recital at Halifax Minster at 1.00pm on 14 August.
Comments Off on Organ Scholar at Leeds Cathedral
Filed under News and Views
Congratulations to Helen Austwick, who has been appointed to the post of Organist and Choirmaster at Luddenden, near Halifax
Comments Off on St Mary’s, Luddenden
Filed under News and Views
Organist and Choir Master: St Mary’s, Luddenden with Luddendenfoot
We have a Viscount Physis Digital Organ (installed 2011)
and a small committed SATB choir which is affiliated to the RSCM.
Duties currently include:
Weekly – Sunday morning sung Eucharist at 10am and Wednesday choir practice 8pm – 9.15pm
Additional services on Christmas Eve (midnight) Christmas Day (10am), also 9 Lessons and Carols (Sunday before Christmas at 6.30pm) and Good Friday service (7.30pm) with hymns and choir anthems. In addition, one Choral Evensong at 4pm usually for the Patronal Festival in August.
Honorarium:
£2,000 p.a. (Holidays – 4 Sundays per year)
Weddings (between 5 & 15 per year – sometimes with choir) – £90
Funerals (about 10 per year) – £75
The organ is available outside service times for private music tuition.
Filed under News and Views
The Halifax Organ Academy (HOA) and the Calderdale Methodist Circuit wish to appoint an Organ Scholar.
The Scholar will play the organ at different churches – all with pipe organs – within Calderdale Methodist Circuit. The churches – each within easy travelling distance of central Halifax – are:
Southgate Methodist Church, Elland
St Andrew’s Methodist Church, Halifax
Highgate Methodist Church, Halifax
The Scholar will be expected to play for six Sunday services each quarter. The schedule will be agreed by negotiation.
The main benefits of the scholarship are:
This appointment would suit a candidate preparing for an Oxbridge scholarship, a gap year student or an undergraduate/postgraduate student who wishes to develop skills in church music. The scholarship is also open to young professionals wishing to develop their careers.
The post is subject to DBS checks.
The Organ Scholar will:
Priority will be given to candidates who:
For further information or to discuss the post informally, please contact Professor David Baker.
E-mail d.baker152@btinternet.com
Telephone 01422-884655
Comments Off on Halifax Organ Academy – Calderdale Methodist Circuit
Filed under News and Views
