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  • Queen’s University, Belfast
    [Queen’s University, Belfast – the Whitla Hall organ grille and (in gallery) console] I always enjoy my organ consulting adventures in Ireland.  This time it was a two-day stay in Belfast (March 26 & 27), surveying and then reporting on the large organ in the Whitla Hall at Queen’s […]
  • Ex Cathedra concert
    [Ex Cathedra choir and players receiving applause at the end of an inspiring concert] On March 9th we attended a concert in Birmingham Town Hall, given by one of our favourite choirs – Ex Cathedra – whose founder/director, Jeffrey  Skidmore, remains at the helm some 50 years after establishing the […]
  • Aldeburgh parish church
    [The beautiful John Piper ‘Curlew River’ memorial window to Benjamin Britten] The first weekend in March saw Anne and me back in Aldeburgh, at the same hotel where we had spent our honeymoon during the 1988 October Half Term holiday.  Lovely though it was to be back there – and the weather […]
  • Rochdale Town Hall
    [The mighty Binns organ] On Saturday 22nd February a cheery audience listened to my afternoon recital on the grand J.J. Binns at Rochdale Town Hall. Not only Binns’s loudest organ, it’s arguably his finest, though having been for a time a Trustee of the Nottingham Albert Hall’s even larger Binns, I […]
  • Louth parish church
    [The nave of Louth parish church] I made a DAC visit to Louth on 4th February.  This and Boston ‘stump’ are the two great glories among Lincolnshire churches.  The organs are fine, too: an H&H at Boston and a Forster & Andrews / HNB at Louth, which needs just a little restorative […]
  • Consultant
    • Significant projects
    • Current projects
    • Completed projects
    • Testimonials
  • Recitalist
    • Recitals & lectures
      • 2025 recitals
      • 2024 recitals
      • 2023 recitals
      • 2022 recitals
      • 2021 recitals
      • 2020 recitals
      • 2019 recitals
      • 2018 recitals
      • 2017 recitals
      • 2016 recitals
      • 2015 recitals
      • 2014 recitals
      • 2013 recitals
      • 2012 recitals
      • 2011 recitals
      • 2010 recitals
      • 2009 recitals
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      • 2007 recitals
    • Reviews
    • Organ recordings
  • Conductor
    • Choral concerts
      • 2019 choral concerts
      • 2018 choral concerts
      • 2017 choral concerts
      • 2016 choral concerts
      • 2015 choral concerts
      • 2014 choral concerts
      • 2013 choral concerts
      • 2012 choral concerts
      • 2011 choral concerts
      • 2010 choral concerts
      • 2009 choral concerts
      • 2008 choral concerts
    • Nottingham Bach Choir
    • Southwell Minster
    • Reviews
    • Choral recordings
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