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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Organ Recitals held on Wednesdays at 6:30 pm at The Coffee House, Everingham, YO42 4JD.
Enjoy free admission and a champagne reception.
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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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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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Saturday 23rd May -Donald MacKenzie, of the Odeon Leicester Square, London, will be playing at St Giles’ church Pontefract and accompanying the silent film “Steam Boat Bill Jnr” on the church organ. Click for a Poster of the event.
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St Martin’s Church of England, Brighouse, West Yorkshire.
Applications are invited for the post of Music Director and Organist at this well attended and friendly church. Our main act of worship is a 10.45am Sunday service with robed choir.
Extra services as required, especially at Christmas and Easter (see job description for details.)
The principal organ-located in the chancel, built by Conacher, rebuilt and extended by Wood, 3 manuals and pedals, 48ranks. The chamber organ, located in the West gallery, built by Bryceson, rebuilt and extended by Wood, 2 manuals and pedals, 19 ranks.
Closing date for applications: 30th March 2015. Interviews: 23rd April 2015 from 7pm. Please email in first instance for application form, to andrewdavid@btinternet.com to be posted to the Curate, Revd Andrew Hall,35 Robin Hood Way, Clifton, Brighouse HD6 4LA.
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On 1 March, 2015 at 16.00, the 1770 Snetzler chamber organ originally built for John Waterhouse, Churchwarden of Halifax Parish Church, will be re-dedicated at a service of Evensong with Procession at Halifax Minster. The preacher will be the Archdeacon of Halifax. After the service there will be refreshments and a short recital by Professor David Baker. Further details from info@halifaxminster.org.uk or 01422-355436. Photography by David Glover.
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The 1770 Snetzler organ (a close up of which is pictured on this website’s home page and banner) is now installed in the Houldsworth Chapel at Halifax Minster. The organ is in remarkably good condition after being moved from St Peter’s Convent, Horbury by Rodney Briscoe. Professor David Baker’s lunchtime recital on 8 January 2015 at 1.00pm will feature the instrument in a range of music from Sweelinck to Douglas Bell. More details shortly.
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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.
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