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INTRODUCTION Message from the Chairman of the Organ Society Biographical details of the Organists Location - click MultiMap to see where we are located. PROGRAMMES 2007/2008 Season of Organ Concerts 2006/2007 Season of Organ Concerts 2005/2006 Season of Organ Concerts 2004/2005 Season of Organ Concerts 2003/2004 Season of Organ Concerts 2002/2003 Season of Organ Concerts LINKS Communigate - this is Hampshire (Alton Organ Society) For future recitals Nationally, see www.organrecitals.com North Hampshire Organ Association Oundle International Summer School for Young Organists) St Lawrence Parish Church, ALTON, Hampshire THE ORGAN History of the St Lawrence Parish Church Organ Details of the Specifications of the Organ
Click on GRAHAM BARBER for his biography
Click on DANIEL COOK for his biography
Click on OLIVER BRETT for biography
Click on ANNE PAGE for her biography
Click on ROBERT SHARPE for his biography
Click on DAVID BRIGGS for his biography
Click on DAVID SANGER for his biography
Click on MALCOLM ARCHER for his biography
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2009/2010 Season of Organ Concerts - Celebrating the 43rd Year
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History of the Organ Society by the Chairman, Mr. Peter Ashworth Cyril Diplock, who was Organist at St Lawrence
Parish Church, Francis Jackson, who at the time was Organist
of York Minster, gave the first concert in December 1966, has played since on
a number of occasions including in 1996 the start of the 30th year of the
Society. He performed again on the 9th November 1999 and 7th
January 2003. The distinguished international concert organist and teacher
David Sanger who lives in I wish you a warm welcome to St Lawrence Parish Church Organ Society and to the forthcoming 2008/2009 Season of Organ Concerts. Please peruse the Website to discover the detailed programmes and pocket biographies of the Organists. 7 October 2008 – GRAHAM BARBER (St Bartholomew, Armley, LEEDS)
4 November 2008 – DANIEL COOK (Salisbury Cathedral)
2 December 2008 - OLIVER BRETT (Nominated by Oundle for Organists)
13 January 2009 - ANNE PAGE (Concert Organist, Cambridge)
10 February 2009 - ROBERT SHARPE (York Minster)
10 March 2009 – DAVID BRIGGS (Organ Emeritus, Gloucester Cathedral/Boston USA)
31 Mar 2009 - DAVID SANGER (International Concert Organist)
28 Apr 2009 - MALCOLM ARCHER (Winchester College)
BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS OF THE ORGANISTS 7th October 2008 – GRAHAM BARBER (St Bartholomew, Armley, LEEDS) Click PROGRAMME to return to Graham's programme
Professor
of Performance Studies at the Graham
Barber is the recipient of a prestigious Fellowship from the National
Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts which has allowed him to
explore innovative ways of presenting the organ in performance. 4th November 2008 – DANIEL COOK (Salisbury Cathedral) Click PROGRAMME to return to Daniel's programme 
Daniel Cook moved to Salisbury Cathedral as Assistant Director of Music in September, 2005. In addition to his work with the Cathedral Choirs his duties involve playing the organ for all major services, broadcasts concerts and recordings as well as being founder director of the newly formed Cathedral chamber choir. Outside of Salisbury he is Musical Director of the Grange Choral Society (a 160 strong mixed choir based in Christchurch), and will take up the position of Musical Director of the Salisbury based chamber choir, The Farrant Singers in January 2009. Daniel received his early musical education at Durham Cathedral with Keith Wright. Following a year as Organ Scholar at Worcester Cathedral, he moved to London to take up a place at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Nicolas Kynaston, James O'Donnell, and Patrick Russill and participated in master classes with many of the worlds leading organists including Marie-Claire Alain, Lionel Rogg and Jon Laukvik. While at the Academy, he worked as Organ Scholar at Southwark Cathedral and Westminster Abbey before graduating with first class honours in July, 2003. Whilst still a student, he was appointed Assistant Organist at Westminster Abbey where he participated in many important national and international services including the 50th anniversary of the Queen's Coronation. Daniel has twice been a finalist in the St Albans International Organ Competition. As a recitalist, he has played across England and Wales, as well as making appearances in Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy and Norway. Recent years have seen engagements in most of the cathedrals in Britain, several Oxbridge College Chapels and in Westminster Abbey's Summer Organ Festival. He is also well known as an accompanist and has worked with many of the distinguished vocal ensembles and choral groups in the UK such as the BBC Singers and the Holst Singers. His first solo organ recording (of the organ works of Sir Walter Alcock recorded in Salisbury Cathedral) will be released by Priory Records later this year. Current projects include a performance of the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in six recitals to celebrate the centenary of his birth and a CD recording of contemporary organ music for the John Armitage Memorial and Choir and Organ magazine. 2nd December 2008 – OLIVER BRETT (Nominated by Oundle for Organists) Oliver was educated as a music and
academic scholar at
As a solo recitalist, Oliver has
performed all over
A keen pianist, Oliver has been an active chamber musician, performing works such as Schubert’s Winterreise, Britten’s Canticles, Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto under Stephen Cleobury, and most recently, Schubert’s last three piano sonatas in Westminster Cathedral Hall. Oliver is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, having passed both of his diplomas before leaving school with top prizes. He has studied the organ with Sarah Baldock, Thomas Trotter and David Briggs. Click PROGRAMME to return to Oliver's programme 13th January 2009 - ANNE PAGE (Concert Organist, Cambridge) Click on PROGRAMME to return to Anne's programme Anne
Page is known in the
Interest
in historical performance led to her engagement with the harmonium, an
instrument only recently receiving attention from scholars and musicians as a
serious medium for Romantic, early modern and contemporary music. She is
acknowledged as one of the country's leading experts and has appeared as
soloist at the Edinburgh, Three choirs and Oundle Festivals. The Royal Academy
of Music invited her to establish a course in Harmonium, the first in modern
times at any conservatory in the During
eight years (1987-1994) as Artistic and Executive Director of the Cambridge
Summer Recitals she programmed many first performances of new works and
invited major recitalists from abroad to give Gaston
Litaize and Louis Thiry gave masterclasses for As
the musical co-ordinator of the Historic Organ Sound Archive Anne Page has
been closely involved with this project since 2004 and has made recordings on
23 of the 45 organs which can be accessed for free via the British Institute
of Organ Studies (BIOS) website: www.bios.org.uk
and click on Historic Organ Sound Archive on the front page. 10th February 2009 - ROBERT SHARPE (York Minster) Click on PROGRAMME to return to Robert's programme
His work centres around the daily
choral tradition of Truro Cathedral, with its magnificent liturgy and
ceremonial and well-known choir and in addition he performs frequently as an
organ soloist and accompanist, having played in many parts of Europe and the He has made numerous recordings
with the cathedral choir; Pader
an Arleth, a disc of music written specially written for them, has
recently been reviewed: “Truro Choir…one of truly international quality, a
fact underlined by these richly satisfying performances…a gem of a disc”
(International Record Review). Truro
Cathedral Choir’s Gibbons album, Peace on Earth, was reviewed as
number one choice for a single composer compilation at Christmas 2007.
The choir’s most recent project, a recording of the complete
liturgical music of Louis Vierne, has recently been released and will be
followed by a special recording commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Carols
from His work as Musical Director of Three Spires Singers has included concerts with the Three Spires Orchestra and with the period instrument ensemble, Charivari Agréable. In 2007, he conducted Bach’s St Matthew Passion and Rachmaninov’s Vespers and in 2008, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis.
Robert Sharpe has a keen interest in liturgy and music and the interplay between them, and also in food, interesting wines, real ale, architecture, clocks and furniture. He holds Fellowships of the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal College of Organists and is a member of the Victorian Society and the Wine Society. In 2008, he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians. In September 2008, Robert Sharpe succeeds Philip Moore as Director of Music at York Minster. 10th March 2009 - DAVID BRIGGS (Organ Emeritus, Gloucester Cathedral/Boston USA) Click on PROGRAMME to return to David's programme
David studied organ with Jean Langlais in Paris. The first British winner of the Tournemire Prize at the St Albans International Improvisation Competition, he also won the first prize in the International Improvisation Competition at Paisley. At the age of 17 he obtained his FRCO (Fellow of the Royal College of Organists) diploma, winning the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Having held positions at Truro and Hereford Cathedrals and King’s College, Cambridge, where he was Organ Scholar, David Briggs is Organist Emeritus at Gloucester Cathedral, where he directed the music for eight years. While at Gloucester, he oversaw the complete rebuilding of the Cathedral organ by Nicholson, and directed the Three Choirs Festivals, conducting some of the UK’s finest professional orchestras, notably the Philharmonia. A gifted and inspirational teacher, David regularly
gives masterclasses at the Royal Northern College of Music and at Oxford and
Cambridge. He is frequently invited to serve on international competition
juries, and was Chairman of the Jury at Nurnberg in June 2007.
David’s schedule includes more than 50 concerts a year. In 2004, he was one of three international recitalists invited to celebrate the reopening of the organ at the Royal Albert Hall in London. Recent engagements include National Cathedral in Washington, DC, Notre Dame in Paris, Severance Hall in Cleveland and Symphony Hall, Birmingham, in the UK. Future recitals include the Royal Albert Hall, Temple Church, and Westminster Abbey in London; St Ignatius Loyola and St. Bartholomew’s in New York City; King’s College, Cambridge; St. John’s Cathedral in Albuquerque, New Mexico and a ‘Battle of the Organs’ with Wayne Marshall in Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, UK. He is frequently asked to perform improvisation to silent films such as Phantom of the Opera, Nosferatu, King of Kings, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jeanne d’Arc and Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. BBC Music Magazine recently selected David to record a disc celebrating the French composers, Widor and Vierne. Scheduled for recording in October 2007 at St Sernin in Toulouse, France, the disc will be featured on the cover of BBC Magazine in spring 2008 and distributed to more than 60,000 subscribers. He has also recorded 23 solo CDs including his transcription of Mahler 5, Bach at Gloucester, and Organ Spectacular, recorded on the largest church organ in the world: First Congregational Church in Los Angeles. David Briggs now lives in Boston, Massachusetts and is represented by Chestnut Music. 31st March 2009 - DAVID SANGER - INTERNATIONAL CONCERT ORGANIST Click on PROGRAMME to return to David's programme The Chairman and members of the Society were delighted that David Sanger accepted the invitation to be the first Patron of the ALTON ORGAN SOCIETY The Society congratulates DAVID SANGER (International Concert Organist) on his appointment as President of the Royal College of Organists.
He has toured many countries as recitalist - Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Italy, France, Russia, Iceland, the United States, Mexico and South Korea - as well as giving many recitals in the British Isles, notably at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, the City of London Festival, the Bath Festival, the Chester Festival, the West-Riding Cathedrals' Festival, and many similar occasions. He has given Master Classes in many places including Copenhagen, Stockholm and Oslo, and was 'Headmaster' of the Church Music Seminar in Bergen for fourteen years. He is frequently partnered by Hans Fagius from Sweden for Organ Duet Concerts. As a recording artist he has made over 20 CDs, all of which have received favourable reviews. His debut on the organ was with Polydor (DG Début Series) with Bach and Franck recorded in Munich. He recorded the complete organ works of César Franck at the Katarina Church in Stockholm (before the fire) for BIS. His Meridian recordings of Vierne's Six Organ Symphonies have received wide acclaim and he has embarked on recordings of the complete organ works of Bach. The most recent Bach CDs were recorded on the newly constructed, historic-style, Carsten Lund organ in Copenhagen's Garnisons Church.
Sanger has appeared in the jury of many international organ competitions; St Alban's, Dublin, Paisley, Speyer, Biarritz, Alkmaar, Odense Nűrnberg and Lucerne. He was for some years Professor of organ at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and chairman of the organ department there from 1987-89. Between 1989 and 1997 he was a Consultant Professor at the RAM. He was guest professor for a period of two years at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen. Currently, he is a Visiting Tutor in organ studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, and teacher of organ at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. He has had many successful students at international competition level, including two winners at the Calgary International Organ Competition. From time to time, he composes music for organ, as well as for strings and choirs. He has written an organ tutor in two volumes for beginners, entitled Play the Organ, which has become the most widely used in Britain in recent years. He runs courses for advanced students at his home in the Cumbrian Lake District, including tuition on the Bevington organ installed there. David Sanger's hobbies include racquet sports, walking, swimming and gardening. 28th April 2009 - MALCOLM ARCHER (Winchester College) Click PROGRAMME to return to Malcolm's programme
Malcolm is much in demand as a
choir trainer and choral and orchestral conductor, and he has directed
concerts, workshops and courses in various parts of the globe, as well as
working with several leading orchestras. As
an organ recitalist he has played in nine European countries, the As a composer, Malcolm receives
regular commissions from both sides of the He has been an adjudicator for the BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the year competition, and for four years was a judge for the BBC Songs of Praise School Choirs competition, including chairing the judging panel for two of those competitions. He is also a frequent contributor to that programme as both interviewee and musical arranger. Malcolm has served as council member of the Royal College of Organists, and he is a member of the council of Salisbury Cathedral, and of the Guild of Church Musicians, from whom he was recently awarded the Fellowship for his services to church music over many years. In 2009, he was awarded the FRSCM for work as a composer for the church. Francis Jackson ( FRANCIS
JACKSON OBE. A native of Malton Yorkshire, was a chorister at York Minster
from 1929 to 1933. He was a pupil of Sir Edward Bairstow, organist of York Minster, and gained the
fellowship of the Royal College of Organists with the Limpus prize for the
highest marks in organ playing in July 1937. In the same year he graduated
Bachelor of Music at Francis
Jackson has played concertos with several British orchestras, and at the
Henry Wood Proms. He has frequently broadcast, and his records include organ
music and the Minster Choir. He remained as Master of the Music until
retiring in 1982, when he received the Fellowship of the Royal Northern
College of Music, the Doctorate of York University, and, at the hands of the
Archbishop of York, Lord Blanch, the Order of Saint William of Cyril DIPLOCK ( In 2006 Cyril Diplock retired as Organist of Alton Parish Church
after 45 years, having been appointed Organist and Choirmaster on 2 Jul 1961.
In 1967 he founded the Parish Church of St Lawrence, ALTON Organ Society and
has to date arranged well over 330 Organ Concerts here, establishing He studied the organ privately and at Trinity College of Music, Under his direction, the St Lawrence's choir has given one radio and nine television performances, led many Cathedral services, and given several first performances. His compositions include the carol "Peace to every Neighbour", which won first prize in ITV's International Carol for Christmas Competition in 1968. In 1977 he made an LP recording of the St Lawrence organ on the Wealden label, which was well reviewed in the musical press and which has since been reissued in cassette form. Since 1986, he has given an annual recital in either Tony WILLMAN. Secretary and Publicity Telephone (home): 01420 543628 or mobile: 079285 16052 Email address: tony.willman@btopenworld.com Gerald MARLOW Treasurer Telephone (home): 01420 85698 History of the Organs of the Parish of St Lawrence The Bryceson Organ of 1830 The earliest record of an organ at St Lawrence is in 1829 when at a vestry meeting on 27th Feb 1829 "it was resolved that a barrel organ be erected in the church. Provided that the cost of the organ and every expense incurred by its erection be paid for by subscription". The organ was purchased from the builders Bryceson, stood in a gallery at the west end of the church (obscuring the west window) and had the following specification: Back to top Open Diapason 8' Stopped Diapason 8' Clarabel Flute 8' (was possibly a 4' stop Principal 4' Twelfth 2½' Fifteenth 2' The Speechly Organ of 1866 In 1866 the Vicar and Churchwardens inaugurated a vast plan of restoration that included the purchase of a new organ. Meanwhile, the Bryceson organ was moved to the Town Hall where the parishioners worshipped for almost a year whilst the church underwent restoration. The "New Organ" by Henry Speechly and Sons possessed 33 speaking stops, 1,960 pipes, 3 manuals and pedals. It was built as a cost of £850 provided by Mr Montague Burnett whose family had raised and given much of the money. The new organ was opened 3rd Oct 1868 and at this time the church was establishing a musical tradition, under the direction of the then organist, Mr Newman, with the formation of a choir of 8 trebles, 3 altos (boys), 4 tenors and 4 basses. This organ must have been the largest in any southern Parish church at that time. In 1893 Henry Speechly and Sons of the Camden Organ Factory at a cost of £850 restored the organ. Dr WG Alcock, assistant at Westminster Abbey, reopened the organ on 11th Dec 1895. Twentieth Century Refurbishments Back to top Two further overhauls were undertaken by Speechly in 1907
and 1939. By 1965 the action was not functioning adequately and a thorough
overhaul was desperately required. Following tender action, Wood, Wordsworth
& Co of Martin Cross Restoration of 1993 Back to top By 1993 the electric action had become unreliable so
Martin Cross of St Lawrence's Parish Church, Detailed Specification of the Organ PEDAL ORGAN Back to top
GREAT ORGAN Back to top
SWELL ORGAN (Enclosed) Back to top
CHOIR ORGAN Back to top
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The
Graham
Barber is one of 
Of
equal importance is her interest in historic instruments, their repertoire and
playing techniques which inform both her playing and teaching. She has been
closely involved with the Historic Organ Sound Archive, playing an essential
role in its organisation as well as researching and performing over 10 hours
of recordings for the project. The HOSA project has been a pioneer of the
current trend towards free internet access for classical music - see below for
details. She continues to give talks to organists' associations about this
major resource for the study of English organs and their music and has
contributed articles on its use to several organ journals.
ROBERT
SHARPE was Director of Music at Truro Cathedral September 2002 to August 2008,
having previously held posts at Lichfield Cathedral, St Albans Abbey and 
Sharpe’s teachers include Roger
Bryan, the late Nicholas Danby and David Sanger as well as those with whom he
has had the privilege of working, most notably Andrew Lumsden, Barry Rose and
Paul Spicer.
David
Briggs is an internationally renowned organist who has built a world-wide
reputation as an innovative musician and dazzling performer. Increasingly
sought after for his orchestral transcriptions and his art of improvisation,
his performances are known for their musicality, virtuosity and ability to
excite and engage audiences of all ages.
David Briggs is also a prolific composer and his
works range from full scale oratorios to works for solo instruments.
Commissions include a setting of the St. John Passion for choir, chamber
orchestra and soloists; Symphony ‘Missa pro defunctis’; a setting of the
Solemn Requiem Mass; Four Concert Etudes; and a Cello Sonata.
‘Dreamworld’, a song cycle for tenor and piano, his ‘Requiem’, and
transcriptions of Tchaikovsky 4 and Schubert 8, have been released on the
independent music label, Chestnut Music.
David Sanger was educated at Eltham College and the
Royal Academy of Music and became well known as an organ recitalist when he
won First Prize in two international competitions: St Alban's, England in
1969 and Kiel, Germany in 1972. His teachers have included Susi Jeans,
Marie-Claire Alain and Anton Heiller.
Recently
with Meridian he has recorded a selection of trifles by Lefébure-Wély, this
latter CD recorded on the recent Cavaillé-Coll style instrument at Exeter
College, Oxford, for which instrument David Sanger also acted as Consultant.
Other recent projects as consultant include new, rebuilt or restored organs at
Bromley Parish Church, Haileybury College, St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh, Usher
Hall, Edinburgh, Sheffield Cathedral and Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Malcolm
Archer is Director of Chapel Music at