The British Organ in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
This
conference will cover the organ and its music in the present era and
into the
future, and will be the final of the four-year sequence of conferences.
For the first time, the Royal
College of Organists will
be holding its spring meeting in Oxford at the same time, and
several
joint events will be included in the Programme.
Broadly,
the Conference is expected to cover the organ in musical and artistic
culture;
organ building and builders; composers, performers and teachers; organ
builders
and organists in association, and twentieth-century icons.
Evening
concerts/recitals will be included and there will be a Conference
dinner.
Speakers
and performers will include
Jonathan Ambrosino on the Willis dynasty, David Sanger in
concert on the
Rieger organ in Christ Church Cathedral, and Anne Page on the iconic
organ by
Grant, Degens & Bradbeer in New College Chapel, Oxford.
This
Conference will be residential at Merton College.
Click here for the full programme, including abstracts of all papers.
Peter Williams
Dominic Gwynn
Jonathan Ambrosino
For more information:
Dr. Katharine Pardee, Betts Scholar in Organ Studies
University of Oxford
kfpardee@yahoo.com
or visit the contacts page.
See details of other conferences:
I. The Organ in England to the Death of Elizabeth I (2007).
II. The Organ in Stuart and Georgian England (2008).
III. The Organ in Nineteenth Century England (2009).
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