Events for May
Wednesday 14th May 2008
SPIERS & BODEM
"Best Duo 2006 - BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards"
Thursday 15th May 2008
Saturday 17th May 2008
IAN COLEMAN & SCHOLA CAECILIANA
SHEAN BOWERS
Shean Bowers is Founder and Director of Purely Choral. Previous to this he was Organ Scholar at Liverpool Cathedral, having been both a Chorister and the holder of its Neilson Organ Bursary. During his time as Neilson Bursar, he studied organ with Professor Ian Tracey.
Sunday 18th May 2008
IAN BOAKES
Organist in Residence
Monday 19th May 2008
CHRISTOPHER BUNDHUN & GREG TASSELL
Tuesday 20th May 2008
ADRIAN GUNNING
Adrian Gunning is organist at the celebrated Roman Catholic church of St John the Evangelist, Duncan Terrace, Islington, and the Anglo Catholic church of St Clement’s, King Square, London.
HANNAH PARRY
Hannah Parry started the organ at the age of 14 with the aid of the Norwich Diocesan Scholarship Scheme and later studied with Ann Elise Smoot at the junior department of the St Giles International Organ School.
Wednesday 21st May 2008
ALAN SAGGERSON
Alan Saggerson has been co-organist of St. James’s Parish Church, Prebend Street, Islington, London, N1 since 1990 having originally trained with Paul Bryan (now St. John’s Cambridge) and latterly with American virtuoso Ann Elise Smoot.
Thursday 22nd May 2008
SUSAN DINGLE
Susan Dingle is a music teacher and organist in north London.
Friday 23rd May 2008
ST GILES JUNIOR ORGAN CONSERVATOIRE
'An evening featuring students of the St Giles Junior Organ Conservatoire, a unique programme of study for young organists. Students at St Giles have gone on to many prestigious organ scholarships and to places in major Conservatoires throughout the UK. Come support the next generation of organists!'
Saturday 24th May 2008
DAYLIGHT - RICHARD WALTERS 12.15 PM FREE
Richard Walters speaks of love and comfort, tenderness and sadness, a ball of emotion pitched straight at the heart.
'DAYLIGHT' - DAVID HURN - 1PM FREE
Singer/Songwriter/Producer from East London.
CARLO CURLEY
CARLO CURLEY is one of the world’s foremost concert organists. Born into a musical family in North Carolina (USA) in 1952, he attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and coached privately with renowned pedagogues Arthur Poister and Robert Elmore. Ultimately, he studied with two of the world’s greatest organists: America’s legendary Virgil Fox and Great Britain’s Sir George Thalben-Ball.
Sunday 25th May 2008
Wednesday 28th May 2008
Friday 30th May 2008
Saturday 31st May 2008
DAYLIGHT - SON VER 12.15PM FREE
SonVer tread a post-rock path of layers, loops and atmospherica, combining abstract and atonal ambience with rich orchestration and live percussion to create their sweeping soundscapes.
DAYLIGHT - DIGITONAL 1PM FREE
Andy Dobson's cinematic electronica project has been going for 8 years and has seen releases through cult UK labels like Toytronic, Seed and Cactus Island. Now in a new home at leading UK chillout label Just Music, and with second album Save Your Light for Darker Days safely in the can, Digitonal's collision of string drenched beauty, melodic electronics and expansive beats continues to push electronica into new territory.
