FORTHCOMING EVENTS AND ORGAN RECITALS

for any non-church sponsored events - see individual entries for purchasing tickets.

ALL RECITALS ADMISSION FREE - RETIRING COLLECTION IN AID OF TUNING AND MAINTENANCE

A PROGRAMME which will include Romantic organ music from the NETHERLANDS & FRANCE

Sollt' ich meinem Gott nicht singen?"

Cortège et Litanie - Marcel Dupré

Chorale No. 3 - César Franck

and other works

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19th May - MALCOLM KEMP (Brighton - former Organist and Choirmaster of St Mary's Church)

PROGRAMME TO INCLUDE

Walton arr H Murrill March - Crown Imperial

Elgar arr. C H Trevor Larghetto from Serenade for Strings

Handel arr E Maynard Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

Duruflé Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain

Franck Chorale No 1 in E

J S Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor.

Howells Master Tallis’s Testament

Elgar arr. E Lemare Pomp and Circumstance March in D

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9th June

TRISTAN MITCHARD

Young virtuoso concert organist

Aged 7 Tristan won a Scholarship to New College Choir, Oxford University, featuring on five CDs and touring Europe and Japan. At 13 he was awarded the Sawbridge Music Scholarship to Abingdon School, where he gained the first of his Associated Board of the Royal School of Music (ABRSM) professional Performance Diplomas. He also broke the ABRSM record by achieving Grade VIII Distinction on 6 different instruments. Aged 15 Tristan won the Frances Kitching Award for the Thames Valley region, and made history by becoming the youngest ever Organist to be appointed at Oxford University, at Pembroke College.

At 17, Tristan was awarded the Associate of the Royal College of Organists (ARCO), and won the Organ Scholarship to read Music at Somerville College, Oxford University. He won First Prize in the Margaret Irene Seymour competition two years running and graduated with an Honours Degree in Music (Oxon) in 2011.

Now aged 21, Tristan is a freelance Concert Organist, travelling to perform on every continent. Tristan is also known for having presented an award-winning radio show on Oxide, and having been a member of The Enid, a well-known rock group.

Tristan studied with David Sanger, the late President of the Royal College of Organists.

THREE REVIEWS

With performances hailed as ‘shocking ... completely unique’ (Drama magazine), ‘outstanding’ (Sunday Times), and ‘outrageously virtuosic’ (Southern Cross Australia, Tristan Mitchard is ‘one of the hottest young talents in the world’ (GT magazine).

From Australia to the USA, the Far East to the Middle East, South America to Africa, the 21-year-old Brit 'has single-handedly reinvented the organ, unprecedentedly succeeding in making it appeal to young audiences’ (PIPORG-L).

'The antithesis to classical music elitism’ (Gedächtiskirche), he is ‘the most exciting musical revolutionary of our time' (DAVAR)

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7th July - JOHN KEYS (Director of music at St. Mary's Church Nottingham and regular recitalist at (and Trustee of) the prestigious Binns organ of the ALBERT HALL NOTTINGHAM - at one time Assistant organist of Chester Cathedral)

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11th August - PHILIP LUKE (Organist of Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church - a popular venue for organ recitals in the heart of the West End)

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15th September - PETER DUTTON (Christ's Hospital, Horsham)

Peter Dutton began his music life as a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford. After organ scholarships at, successively, Trinity College Oxford, All Saints’ Margaret Street London, and Birmingham Cathedral, he became Director of Music at St Peter’s Bexhill in 2005. In 2009 he moved to Christ’s Hospital as School Organist, where he is also a house tutor.

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6th October - MARK BRAFIELD (Dorking) Making a welcome return to St Mary's, over the past year Mark's engagements have included the Cathedral of Nôtre Dame, Paris, and many other prestigious venues - St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral, Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church etc

PROPOSED PROGRAMME TO INCLUDE .....

Sark – Toccata Primi Toni

Bach – Pastorale

Duruflé – Prelude sur l’introit de l’Epiphanie

Boely – Andante con moto in E flat.

Binge – Elizabethan Serenade.

Bonnet – Variations de Concert.

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READ WHAT EMINENT ORGANISTS HAVE SAID ABOUT THE BEVINGTON ORGAN AT ST MARY'S

FRANCIS CHAPELET; FRÉDÉRIC DESCHAMPS

Francis Chapelet is a famous French organist who has given recitals at the most prestigious venues in Europe and South America, and who specialises in recording historic French and Spanish organs (A three-CD set of Francis playing twelve historic Spanish instruments is available from spanishorgans.com and all proceeds go to the maintenance of the organs).

Frédéric is one of Francis Chapelet's star pupils, and at the age of 25 is one of the finest improvisers I have ever heard. They both visited St Mary's in February 2011, and I received the following appraisal of the organ from them (English translation below):

Une grande poésie dans cet orgue, qui sonne à la fois sombre et clair. Les sonorités proches des orgues d’Aristide Cavaillé-Coll sont source d’inspiration pour l’improvisation, ce qui en fait un instrument remarquable. Il n’est pas étonnant que le facteur d’orgues ait été primé deux fois à Paris.

(There is great poetry in this organ, which sounds at the same time dignified & sombre, but also having brightness and clarity. Its sound palette, close to that of Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, is a source of inspiration for improvisation, which makes this an outstanding instrument. It is not surprising that its builder was awarded two prizes in Paris.)

JAMES REED - former Organist of Stowe School

"beautiful, delicate flutes; shimmering strings; a clear, crisp diapason chorus; and electrifying reeds - what a splendid instrument"

PAUL HALE - organist of Southwell Minster visited us in 2008 and his comment was

"Wow! - just like a cathedral organ!"

JOHN BELCHER - former organist of Tewkesbury Abbey, visited and after spending an afternoon playing the Bevington, said

"This is a jewel of an organ - a stunner!"

MARK BRAFIELD - concert organist - wrote,

"My head is still reeling from the Bevington - it was just gorgeous. It is the closest English organ to a Cavaillé-Coll I have played".

DANIEL BATTLE - Director of Music All Saint's Carshalton - wrote

"I haven't had this much fun playing an organ for quite a while. Where else would Postman Pat, Danny Boy and Pièce Heroique work so well together?!"

2011 BRIGHTON FESTIVAL

LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITALS

given by members of the Brighton & District Organists' Association

St Bartholomew's Church, Anne Street

TUESDAYS at 1.05 pm

8th May - Alastair McFadyen,

15th May - Nicholas Houghton

22nd May - John Burdett

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COUNTRY - CLICK ON THE ABOVE PICTURE LINK

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