Event Information
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Sat23Mar2024
ACT/NSW: Organ recital by Martin Setchell
3pmSt Saviour's Anglican Cathedral, Goulburn
“Basically British”
Martin Setchell will introduce and play English organ music on the 1884 Forster & Andrews organ. The programme has been styled to suit this especially English organ. It will include works by composers Handel, Hollins, Fletcher, Sir Edward German, Frank Bridge and Edwin Lemare.
Martin Setchell, organist of Christchurch Town Hall, New Zealand (recently called ‘New Zealand’s most widely travelled concert organist’) is an international organist who believes in promoting entertaining and enjoyable music to a wide audience.
Born and educated in England where he was awarded his Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists with both the Limpus and Shinn prizes, he studied at various times with Pierre Cochereau, Marie-Claire Alain, Piet Kee, and Peter Hurford. After teaching for over 40 years at the University of Canterbury School of Music in Christchurch, he resigned his role as Associate Professor of Music in 2014, to freelance as a concert organist, conductor, writer and music editor, speaker and teacher.
General Admission $25, RSCM Members $20
Bookings via: https://www.trybooking.com/CPFSR
or at the door.Organised by the ACT Branch of the RSCM.
