RCO Easter Course 2014 – a lesson with Margaret Phillips
Slightly daunting to have a lesson on Bach with Margaret Phillips after her exemplary Bach recital the night before – and on the same organ too. But she was generous in sharing the registrations she used, and many other small…
Five questions for…Hilary Norris
Hilary Norris now works as a performer and teacher in Leominster, but is returning to St Mary’s Church, Northchurch, in Hertforshire, where she was Director of Music for three years from 1997, to give the opening recital in a series…
Five Questions for…..James Parsons
James Parsons is teaching us in Oxford this week, and even persuaded us today that transposition and harmonisation at sight were great fun – well almost. He’s an enormously busy recitalist and teacher – organ tutor at the Birmingham Conservatoire…
RCO Easter Course 2014 – Thomas Trotter gets double-booked
Darlings, we went to see The Queen, and all because Thomas Trotter got himself double-booked. Thomas was due to teach us today here in Oxford. Then Buckingham Palace asked if he would kindly give his planned recital at St George’s…
RCO Easter Course 2014 – Sleeping at Merton
Woo hoo! Pardon an adolescent outburst, but I’ve just had an hour playing the new Merton Dobson organ, and after all I’ve written about it on this blog, it was a fab moment. Here’s the view straight up from the…
Get on-trend this Spring with the now colours from the Methodist Church
Given that my day job is teaching at an interior design school in London, I couldn’t resist this, which appeared on Twitter this morning. Thanks Central Methodists @preston_church and Dave Walker @davewalker for tweeting.
Join me on the RCO Easter Course, Oxford, April 2014
The Royal College of Organists runs an Easter Course for those preparing for their examinations, so I’m off to Oxford this week on the Preparation for ARCO strand – tutors Graham Barber, Margaret Phillips, Thomas Trotter (gulp) as well as…
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