I post this on behalf of my colleague Greg Howard.
Regards,
Bob Wagner.
St Benedict's Catholic Church
Broadway NSW
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
St Benedict's has held an important place in the history of the Catholic Church in Sydney.The parish is currently experiencing an uplifting phase of renewal due to the recent partnership with the University of Notre Dame Australia and the redevelopment of the Broadway site.
The parish wishes to enlist the services of a capable and enthusiastic musician for the new position of Director of Music.A job description, outlining accountabilities, terms and conditions and the application process is available on the parish website: www.stbenedicts.org.auTelephone inquiries may be made by contacting the interim director on 0419 276682.
Applications close on Friday 29 June 2007.The commencement date will be as soon as possible.
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Rev Bill Crews from the Ashfield Parish Mission and Exodus
Foundation needs a volunteer pianist for Wednesday
20th June and as relief on other occasions.
You will play for the 11
am service, then be accompanist for a choir rehearsal (familiar
hymns and evergreen favourites – like the TV choir of ‘hard knocks’,
but with church members as well) for 2 hours from 1 pm. You would be welcome to join them for lunch.
Please contact Hans Timmers on 8752 4600. if you can help.
Subject: [sydneyorgan] Position Vacant: Director of Music, St Stephen's Uniting Church, Sydney
St Stephen's Uniting Church seeks applications from well qualified people to fill the impending vacancy of Director of Music.
For a job description and advice as to the application process, visit http://www.ssms.org.au/Default.aspx?tabid=62 or contact the "Music Search Committee", St Stephen's Uniting Church, 197 Macquarie St, Sydney, 2000. Applications will require supporting material, and close at 2pm on Tuesday 19 June 2007. The vacancy begins on Monday 6 August, 2007.
Please forward this email to anyone who may be interested in this position.
St Stephen's Uniting Church seeks applications from well qualified people to fill the impending vacancy of Director of Music.
For a job description and advice as to the application process, visit http://www.ssms.org.au/Default.aspx?tabid=62 or contact the "Music Search Committee", St Stephen's Uniting Church, 197 Macquarie St, Sydney, 2000. Applications will require supporting material, and close at 2pm on Tuesday 19 June 2007. The vacancy begins on Monday 6 August, 2007.
Please forward this email to anyone who may be interested in this position.
For all those in the Sydney area, please remember all the special
organ events with Paul Jacobs over the next few days (these are in
addition to several other events - The Sydney Organ Competition on
Saturday and the Organ Ramble to the Southern Highlands and Goulburn
on the Queen's Birthday Holiday).
For more information on the organs and programs, please go to the
"Organ Music Society of Sydney" website calendar page for June:
http://www.sydneyorgan.com/Calendar7/June.html
June 1 Friday
6.30pm - Sydney Grammar School - Paul Jacobs (Juilliard School, NY)
(Mander)
Bach Festival
June 3 Sunday
3.30pm Recital/Lecture – Paul Jacobs University of Sydney – Great
Hall (von Beckerath)
June 4 Monday
12.30pm Sydney Town Hall lunchtime recital. Paul Jacobs (Hill & Son)
June 5 Tuesday
3.30pm - 5.30pm - Masterclass – Sydney Grammar School - Paul
Jacobs (Mander)
June 8 Friday
1.10pm - 1.40pm St Andrew's Cathedral lunchtime recital - Paul Jacobs
(Hill/Létourneau)
June 9 Saturday
5.00 - 6.30pm St Jude's, Bowral - Paul Jacobs (Fincham)
June 10 Sunday
4.00pm Recital at Wesley Uniting Church, Canberra - Paul Jacobs
June 15 Friday
6.30pm St Andrew's Cathedral "Head of School" recital with Paul
Jacobs (Hill/Létourneau)
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Mark Quarmby
Assistant Organist, St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney
1006/5 Albert Road
Strathfield NSW 2135
Australia
Tel: +61 2 9746 8742
Mob: +61 413 166 803
Email: mark_quarmby@...
Website: http://mq.sydneyorgan.com
Next Friday, 4th May, at the usual time of 1.10pm, I will be
playing the "Kyrie", "Gloria in excelsis" and "Offertoire"
from Couperin's "Mass for the Convents".
Bold extrovert music, deeply felt but never self-indulgent,
from a time when worship was WORSHIP, not therapy or cheap
entertainment.
John Aitchison.
I am writing on behalf of the Muswellbrook and Upper Hunter Eisteddfod in regard to requesting you assistance in notifying your members of our Organ Competition. Thank you for your help.
Regards
Sally Jackson
Details are as follows
BISHIP GEOFFREY PARKER PIPE ORGAN COMPETITION
Endowed by St Alban’s Anglican Church Muswellbrook in memory of Bishop Geoffrey Parker
Date: Monday 1st October 2007
Closing date for entries: Friday 7th September 2007
Venue: St Alban’s Anglican Church, Brook Street, Muswellbrook
Encouragement Award $100.00 for church organists in the shires of Merriwa, Murrurundi, Muswellbrook, Singleton and Scone.
Section no. 50 Two Pieces – A hymn – suitable for congregational singing AND one piece of music of not more than 4 minutes which would be appropriate for the beginning or end of a church service.
OPEN Section no. 51 Two Contrasting pieces, both not to exceed 12 minutes.
Entry fee $15.00
1st Prize $1,000.00
2nd Prize $150.00
3rd Prize $100.00
Contact Mr Tony Neate for entry forms and organ details. Phone – 02 6543 3091
Rehearsals by arrangement with the Rector on 02 6541 2713 or convenor.
ORGANIST FOR EASTER SERVICES !
Country Parish in Northern NSW INVERELL / MT RUSSELL
is seeking the services of an Organist for the Easter Ceremonies
(Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday).
The Liturgy is 'high church'. No choir-congregational singing.
Small congregation. Organ is a 'late model' Johannus two manual/
pedal. Fess according to the accepted Australian standard, private
accommodation offered and travel expenses negotiated.
Please apply:
Fr. M . Pope PP
Our Lady of Walsingham Parish (TAC)
Phone 02 6724 8303
e-mail: fassolo@...
All the organ music which has been left to the Society for members to borrow has been uploaded to the website for members to peruse. (Go to the new "Library" page). When I was organising the collection some years ago, I remember that some of the music listed was beyond repair and could not be included. I did not have this listing at that time to make a note of what had to be thrown out, but I don't seem to remember it being a great deal so most of it should still be available. Thanks to Kathy Drummond for putting these two catalogues together for me to upload.
Please note that Andrej's recital at St Andrew's Cathedral tomorrow (Friday 2nd March) will have to start at 1pm (10 minutes earlier than usual) owing to a funeral commencing at 2pm. The funeral directors have advertised the funeral as starting at 1.45pm so people may be arriving earlier than expected and the recital will need to be finished by 1.30pm.
Please pass this message on to anyone you think might be attending and who doesn't get these messages.
Subject: [sydneyorgan] Organ Music Society website changes
Dear all,
I have done some more work on the appearance of the Society's website today after receiving several comments from those using laptops. These computers have much smaller monitors than most home computers so this meant that those viewing our site on laptops had to do a lot of scrolling back and forth. Having a menu down the left hand side of the page took up a lot of valuable space so I have removed this and inserted a drop down menu at the top of each page. I have also tweaked all the pages so that they rarely take up more than 800 pixels in width.
I have checked the site on several Mac browsers and all is OK. Could you please check the site http://sydneyorgan.com on your own computers and let me know if there are any problems, particularly with PCs. According to the site I got the information from on how to set up drop down menus, it should work on all browsers and computers. Hopefully this will be true!
I’ve had a quick look at the website
and it works fine on my laptop. It’s a Lenovo (IBM) which uses Windows
XP. However I’m fortunate in that mine has a wide screen which is 1680 by
1050 pixels so I wasn’t having to scroll with the previous website. I
went through various parts of the pulldown menu and all appeared to work well.
From time to time I’ve mentioned the
website on air, but sometimes I’m beaten by time. I have been recently
trying to cut the music part of the programme back a little to leave plenty of
time for some mention of the Society as well as the concert announcements, and
I will be continuing to aim that way. The 2MBS Programming Committee is rather
fussy and I have to tread a fine line here as they don’t like too much
talk relative to the music content.
Regards,
Andrew
From:
sydneyorgan@... [mailto:sydneyorgan@...] On Behalf Of Mark Quarmby Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2007
6:52 PM To: Sydney organ Subject: [sydneyorgan] Organ Music
Society website changes
Dear all,
I have done some more work on the appearance of the Society's website
today after receiving several comments from those using laptops. These
computers have much smaller monitors than most home computers so this meant
that those viewing our site on laptops had to do a lot of scrolling back and
forth. Having a menu down the left hand side of the page took up a lot of
valuable space so I have removed this and inserted a drop down menu at the top
of each page. I have also tweaked all the pages so that they rarely take up
more than 800 pixels in width.
I have checked the site on several Mac browsers and all is OK. Could
you please check the site http://sydneyorgan.com
on your own computers and let me know if there are any problems, particularly
with PCs. According to the site I got the information from on how to set up
drop down menus, it should work on all browsers and computers. Hopefully this
will be true!
I have done some more work on the appearance of the Society's website today after receiving several comments from those using laptops. These computers have much smaller monitors than most home computers so this meant that those viewing our site on laptops had to do a lot of scrolling back and forth. Having a menu down the left hand side of the page took up a lot of valuable space so I have removed this and inserted a drop down menu at the top of each page. I have also tweaked all the pages so that they rarely take up more than 800 pixels in width.
I have checked the site on several Mac browsers and all is OK. Could you please check the site http://sydneyorgan.com on your own computers and let me know if there are any problems, particularly with PCs. According to the site I got the information from on how to set up drop down menus, it should work on all browsers and computers. Hopefully this will be true!
I'll be presenting the Friday lunchtime recital at St
Andrew's this week, at the usual time of 1.10 pm.
The programme will consist of a Mendelssohn sonata (# 2,
predictably, since that's the easiest one, and the one
everyone plays); JSB's "Dorian" Toccata & Fugue; and
Messiaen's "Le Banquet Celeste".
Gee it would be nice to have an audience.
John Aitchison.
Does anyone know of a London church of St Mark in Audsley Street? I came across a review of a late 1948 Decca recording by Jeanne Demessieux supposedly in this church where the organ was described as superlative, etc, etc, typical of the work of the English organ-builder at his best.
Does anyone have the recording or can verify details of the church and organ? Perhaps the church no longer exists.
Any comments or hints would be useful. I have checked Wikipedia and Googel lists of London churches but without result.
I have just realised dates I sent about Petersham church are wrong in case anyone is really interested. Reopening function on SATURDAY 11 November 3-5 pm. Jazz concert on Saturday 25 November 2-5 pm.
I have just heard from Marrickville Heritage Society that All Saints' Church, Petersham, is being re-opened on afternoon of Sunday 11 November after three years renovation. A Jazz concert is to be held from 2-5 pm, so obviously the organ has continued to languish if even still there. I wonder what the renovations involved - surely not removal of the fine woodwork surrounding the chancel, holy table, and so on - but I would not be surprised igiven the current Sydney Diocese atitudes.
Claudia Termini gained her Diploma with Full Honors at
the Parma Conservatorium. She took courses in Harpsichord and Organ at the InternationalAcademy
in Haarlem.
After having won numerous prizes, her career incorporated many recitals in
Europe, Scandanavia, England,
Africa, Japan, Korea and South America.
Claudio is involved with broadcasting concerts, transcribing/playing past
Italian Masters and performing new works by current composers. Since December
2004 she is the Director of the Pesaro Conservatorium.
www.aidualc.org (click: about us)
St Patrick’s Church Hill,
Grosvenor Street
Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm $25 $20 Concession
ARNAUD
DUMOND
Unique Sydney Recital
First-Prize, 15th
Radio-France International Guitar Competition, Paris
First-Prize Gaudeamus
Competition for Interpreters of Contemporary Music
Prize-winner
International Musical Youth Competition.
Prize-winner Tokyo Yamaha Competition for
composer-performers.
www.arnauddumond.com
According to the Sydney
Guitar Society, Eric Cathan – an absolute must hear. Not to be missed.
On
Sunday 5 November three well known Canberra
performers will present an attractive concert of gems from the baroque
repertoire for voice, flute and piano. The concert will be in the Wesley Music
Centre, 20 National Circuit, Forrest, at 3pm.
It
will offer an opportunity to hear rarely performed Vivaldi cantatas as well as
glorious, popular operatic arias by Handel and stately, emotive music of JS
Bach including a sonata for piano and flute and arias from the St Matthew and
St John Passions. There will be duets and trios to delight the ears.
The
performers will be Louise Page (soprano), Phillipa Candy (piano) and Teresa
Rabe (flute). All three are highly respected graduates of the Canberra
School of Music.
Louise
Page was the 1989 vocal grand finalist in the ABC
Young Performer of the Year competition, she won the inaugural Mietta¡¯s City of Melbourne Song Recital Award in
1995 and over the years she has performed in operas, oratorios and concerts in
Europe and Australia.
She studied with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Geoffrey Parsons and other renowned
artists. In Canberra
she has appeared with orchestras, in operas, with choral societies and for Art
Song Canberra.
Phillipa
Candyis a graduate of the
Canberra School of Music and has Masters degrees from Hobart
and Philadelphia.
Since 1984 she has been a professional accompanist, private teacher,
repetiteur, coach and conductor. She was the founding pianist with the
group Austral Skies which toured for Musica Viva, and has been guest musical
director and conductor for Canberra City Opera. She studied with Geoffrey
Parsons and in 1992 was inducted in the Pi Kappa Lambda Society for musical
excellence.
Flautist
Teresa Rabe came to Canberra
to study at the Canberra School of Music with Virginia Taylor and Vernon
Hill. She graduated with distinction in 1992. Since then she has
had a busy career as performer, teacher and adjudicator of eisteddfods
and festivals. She has played with such eminent bodies as the Sydney
Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Canberra Symphony Orchestra
and The Haydn Bande, as well as solo recitals throughout the region.
What?Beautiful
Baroque!A concert for
voice, piano and flute with Louise Page (soprano), Phillipa Candy (piano) and
Teresa Rabe (flute).
When? Sunday 5 November 2006 at 3pm.
Where? Wesley Music Centre, 20 National
Circuit, Forrest (corner of Sydney
Avenue)
Cost? $25, concession $20, full-time
students $10 and children under 12 free.
Enquiries: Wesley Music Centre phone 6232
7248. No bookings required. Tickets at the door.
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October 2006
Wesley Music Centre
Media
Release
Violin Masterworks
Jack Glatzer ¨Cinternational virtuoso
Jack
Glatzer, world renowned violinist, will be performing violin masterworks in the
Wesley Music Centre on Friday 10 November at 8pm. The associate artist
will be pianist Robert Schmidli.
The
great works to be performed include the Sonata in E flat major for piano and
violin by Mozart (K302), the Bach Sonata in G minor for unaccompanied violin
(BWV 1001), and the Beethoven Sonata No.9 for violin and piano Op. 47
(¡°Kreutzer¡±).
Beethoven¡¯s
Kreutzer Sonata is probably the most famous sonata written for violin and
piano. It was originally named the ¡°Bridgetower¡± sonata after the
violinist who performed it with Beethoven at the premi¨¨re.
Jack
Glatzer has played on every continent and in over fifty countries. His
particular interest is the unaccompanied repertoire for the violin and he is
celebrated for his interpretations of Bach, Paganini, Bartok and many romantic
and contemporary composers. He is one of the very few violinists to perform all
24 Caprices of Paganini in one concert as well as the complete solo works of
Bach in a series of two concerts. He is a world class violinist with a wealth
of instrumental beauty at his disposal.
Robert Schmidli Is a medical specialist in
endocrinology and diabetes in addition to being a musician. He has made
frequent appearances as a soloist, accompanist and chamber music player in Canberra and country New South Wales. He has performed as a
soloist with orchestras in New Zealand
and Australia
and with a number of international artists including Jack Glatzer and George
Zukerman.
What? Concert of violin masterworks by Jack
Glatzer (violin) and Robert Schmidli (piano).
When? Friday 10 November at 8pm.
Where? Wesley Music Centre, 20 National
Circuit, Forrest (corner of Sydney
Avenue).
Cost? $25, concession $20, full-time
students $10, children under 12 free. Friends of Wesley Music discounts apply.
Enquiries: Wesley Music Centre 6232
7248. No bookings required. Tickets at the door.
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October 2006
For your
diary¡
Updated 3 November 2006
Music Calendar
Wesley Music Centre and Wesley Uniting Church
20-22 National Circuit, Forrest, ACT, 2603
* Friends of Wesley Music event or joint event ¡Ù
New or revised entry
2006
NOVEMBER
*Sunday 5 November 3pm Beautiful Baroque!A feast
of duets and trios by Bach, Handel and Vivaldi performed by Louise Page
(soprano), Phillipa Candy (piano) and Teresa Rabe (flute).$25, concession $20, full-time students
$10 and children under 12 free. No bookings required with tickets at the door. Wesley
Music Centre.
* ¡Ù Friday 10 November 8pm Violin Masterworks, Jack Glatzer (violin) with Robert Schmidli
(piano).Mozart Sonata in E flat
major for Piano and Violin K302, Bach Sonata in G minor for unaccompanied
Violin BWV 1001, Beethoven Sonata n.9 for Violin and Piano, Op 47 (¡°Kreutzer¡±). Adults $25, concession $20, full-time
students $10 and children under 12 free. No bookings required with tickets at
the door. Wesley Music Centre.
Sunday 12 November 3pm Art Song Canberra Concert ¡°Reflections¡±with Michael Martin (tenor), Rowan
Harvey-Martin (violin) and Narelle French (piano) performing works by Britten,
Quilter, Kreisler, Sarasate, Gounod and others. Full price $25, seniors, Friends of Wesley
Music and Musica Viva subscribers $20, Art Song Canberra Members and Pensioners
$18, full-time students $10. Tickets available only at the door.
Enquiries 6295 9613 and artsong@...Wesley Music Centre.
Sunday 19 November 2pm ¡°Boys Forever¡±: Canberra
Boys Choir concert as part of their 25th Anniversary Celebrations followed by
afternoon tea and birthday cake! Concert will include items from
current CBC members, with works learned during a Singing Workshop with Stephen
Leek, plus items from recent graduates and a Men¡¯s choir of past members. There
will be a premi¨¨re performance of a newly commissioned work by Tim Bevitt ¡°Boy
Forever¡±. $10,
family $25, children $5. Tickets at the door. Wesley Church.
*Saturday 25 November 3pm In Illo Tempore a concert by leading a cappella
choral ensemble Mixta Mellita singing In Illo Tempore Mass by Monteverdi,
motet In Illo Tempore by Gombert, and works by Dunstable, Lassus and others $20,
concession $18, full-time students $10. Wesley Music Centre.
Sunday 26 November 7pm A Christmas Messiah ¨C solos and choruses from
Handel¡¯s Oratorio with Catriona DeVere, Christina Wilson, Erin Patrick and
Abbey Mackay (sopranos), Barrie Virtue and Colin Milner (baritones),
Wesley choir and orchestra directed by Garth
Mansfield with Gillian Bailey-Graham leader of the orchestra.Retiring offering. Catholic Church
Hall, Cullerin Street,
Gunning, NSW.
DECEMBER
Sunday 10 December 7.30pm A Christmas Messiah ¨C solos and choruses from
Handel¡¯s Oratorio with Catriona DeVere, Christina Wilson, Erin Patrick and
Abbey Mackay (sopranos), Barrie Virtue and Colin Milner (baritones),
Wesley choir and orchestra directed by Garth
Mansfield with Gillian Bailey-Graham leader of the orchestra.Retiring offering. Wesley Church.
* ¡°Friends of
Wesley Music¡± is an activity of the Wesley Music Foundation (WMF).
Revised calendars are
issued every few weeks. Always
check the latest calendar for any changes in listings and times.
If you wish to be on the email distribution list to undisclosed
recipients, please send an email to the address below. Mailouts to postal
addresses are limited to Friends of Wesley Music (WMF brochure available from
Wesley Music Centre). Friends receive a $3 discount on door prices for
Friends events and concessions for many other events.
Enquiries:
Phone 6232
7248; Fax 6239 6836;
Wesley Music Centre, PO Box 3217,
Manuka ACT 2603.
I will be unable to attend the meeting. Could you plrease offer my apology. I also have a pile of music for the Rummage Table - will it be operating this year? If so, I'll contact Andrew (who I assume is still the organist as Strathfield) about dropping it off.
GREAT HALL MONDAY LUNCHTIME ORGAN RECITALS BEGIN THIS WEEK (16 OCT)
The revised dates for the Monday lunchtime recitals (1.10-1.50pm) at SydneyUniversity
are as follows:
Monday 16 Oct The Town and Gown Duo (Robert Ampt, SydneyCity
Organist and Amy Johansen, SydneyUniversity Organist)
Monday 30 Oct Andrej Kouznetsov (SydneyUniversity
Organ Scholar)
Monday 6 Nov Jennifer Chou (Hong
Kong)
Monday 20 Nov Amy Johansen (SydneyUniversity
Organist)
Please note that on Monday 23 Oct, there is a recital by
Czechoslovakian organist Pavel Kohout at 12.30pm in SydneyTown Hall.
Celebrate Spring with invigorating organ music to start your week.
PROGRAM FOR 16 OCTOBER
Prelude and Fugue in C
G.F. Handel
Three movements for Organ
Duet Denis Bedard
Fantasie in f,
K 594
W.A. Mozart
Fugue in d
minor
G.
Merkel
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