Carol Williams celebrates the Spreckels Organ 100th Anniversary
December 31st this year will mark the 100th Anniversary of the outdoor organ in San Diego where Carol Williams is Civic Organist. A festive programme has been planned, including a composition by Carol to show off the newly-installed Centennial Tuba…
Repertoire revivals – Theophania Cecil
Great importance is attached to the fact that both Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams played regularly on the Thaxted Lincoln organ, and this was one of the selling points for its recent restoration. All very worthy of course, but…
Five questions for…..Daniel Moult
I’ve attended some memorable workshops given by Dan Moult. He is excellent on practice and performance psychology, and I now try and stick to his insistence on total discipline right from the start of learning a piece – because his…
Five questions for…..Jon Nisperos
Up till now my interviews have almost exclusively been with organists living and working in the UK – so I though you might enjoy an interview with a young South African organist. Jon Nisperos and I have been exchanging emails…
Anne Page and the demanding Dr Chipp
Anne Page tells me she has gone out and bought a new pair of Organmaster shoes in order to do full justice to the Introduction and variations on ‘God preserve the Emperor’ by E T Chipp, which she will play…
Five questions for…Liam Cartwright
Born in Worcestershire, Liam Cartwright won the Worcester Young Musician of the Year competition in 2000, and went on to study the organ with Margaret Phillips, David Graham and Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin at the Royal College of Music, London, and in…
Lionel Rogg plays Bach: the Goldberg Variations
A reminder that Lionel Rogg will play the Goldberg Variations on the organ of Trinity College, Cambridge this weekend – a unique performance in the UK, and the colours of the Chapel’s Metzler organ will bring a new dimension to…
In the footsteps of Bach
Andrew Benson-Wilson is giving a recital in Leipzig next weekend on an organ where Bach gave the opening recital. The 1723 Hildebrandt organ is in the village of Stormthal – Andrew sent me some photos and I thought you would…
Five questions for…..William McVicker
Dr William McVicker recently gave us an entertaining inaugural recital on the 1858 Walker organ at St Mary’s Ponsbourne, in Hertfordshire, after its restoration – he was consultant on the project, undertaken by Mander Organs of London. As William was…
Five questions for…Katherine Dienes-Williams
Katherine Dienes-Williams was born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand, and was Organ Scholar and then Assistant Organist at Wellington Cathedral before she came to England to take up the position of Organ Scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist…
Five questions for…Nicky Fraser
Nicky Fraser converted from piano to organ eight years ago and under the guidance of Colin Tipple, has recently gained her ARCO. (So she’s a bit like me, but further on!) She’s organist at Inverleith St. Serf’s Church in…
The best young organists in Europe?
For eight years now Catherine Ennis has been promoting an annual series of recitals featuring young artists at the organ. “It’s the only series, as far as I know” she says, “which gives a platform to such organists away from…
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…
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