8 March Yarm Parish
Church (Saint Mary Magdalene)
Michaelmas Singers and
Cleveland Consort. 7.30pm
For a copy of the programme: Click Here
..Music of the Tudors..
16th Century Anthems and Byrd 4-part Mass
With viol music from the Cleveland Consort
Conductor: Matt Lennox
Tickets £5.00 or pay at the door.
phone - 01642 590044,
or e-mail michelmas.singers@tiscali.co.uk
The Michelmas Singers are a renowned mixed choir performing a wide range of music both unaccompanied and with orchestras, specialising in music of the 16th and 20th centuries. There are 25-30 singers giving 4-8 concerts per year.Founded on Michelmas day 1967, they are now in their 41st season and under a new conductor – Matt Lennox who joined in 2008.Favourite composers include Monteverdi, Byrd, Purcell, Poulenc, Parry and Vaughan-Williams, but the choir has a very wide repertoire. Concerts range from intimate unaccompanied performances of madrigals and part songs through to major and challenging works of the choral repertoire with orchestral accompaniment. The choir is always keen to perform for charities.
23 April United
Reformed Church, Stockton
Organ Recital by George McPhee
(Click here for a
downloadable poster)
George McPhee was born in
Glasgow and was a student at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and
at Edinburgh University. He studied organ with the late Herrick
Bunney and later, with the assistance of a Cross Trust Scholarship,
with Fernando Germani in Italy. Prizes include the Sir Donald Francis
Tovey Prize at Edinburgh University and the Limpus Prize for the FRCO
examination as well as the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
He was Assistant Organist of St.
Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh for four years before his present
appointment as Director of Music at Paisley Abbey in 1963. At that
time he also joined the staff of the RSAMD where he became Senior
Lecturer in Academic Studies as well as teacher of organ. He also had
responsibilities for choral activities.
George McPhee has been in
frequent demand as an organ recitalist in this country and abroad,
particularly in North America, and has broadcast and recorded
frequently as a soloist and as a conductor.
As composer and arranger he has
many published works, both sacred and secular.
In 1991 he was made a Fellow of
the Royal School of Church Music in recognition of his services to
church music in Scotland and in 1995 he was awarded an MBE. In July
1997 he was awarded an honorary Doctorate by the University of Paisley.
In 2000 George McPhee was
President of the Incorporated Society of Musicians and is currently
Professor of Organ at St. Andrews University. He is also a Vice
President of the Royal College of Organists. (excerpt
from http://www.scottishmusiccentre.com/)
17 May Saint Luke, Hartlepool
President's Evening & Annual General Meeting
21 June T.B.A.
All events begin at 7.30
p.m. (note new time)
Admission charge to support the costs of some events
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