Fyvie Festival: Inaugural concert on the Fyvie Hall organ by Paul Hale

Performer: Paul Hale, Concert Organist and Consultant

Programme:

1. Nun danket alle Gott - Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
    
2. Adagio in G minor - Tomáso Albinoni (1671-1751)
    
3. Fantasia in G - J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
    
4. Trumpet Voluntary in D - William Boyce (1710-1779)
    
5. Solemn Melody - Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)
    
6. Variations on ‘Amazing grace’ - Denis Bédard (born 1950)
    
7. Prelude on Rhosymedre - Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
    
8. Knightsbridge March - Eric Coates (1886-1957)

About Paul Hale

Paul Hale was Cathedral Organist and Rector Chori at Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire for 27 years. He has previously been Assistant Organist of Rochester Cathedral, Assistant Director of Music at Tonbridge School, Organ Scholar of New College, Oxford and a music scholar at Solihull School, where his lifelong passion for the organ was ignited. He was appointed Cathedral Organist Emeritus on his retirement from Southwell in 2016.

On 9 June 2017, in a ceremony at Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury conferred on Paul the Thomas Cranmer Award in recognition of his “outstanding contribution to church music in Southwell and beyond”.

Location

This event will take place at Fyvie Hall, 309 Regent Street. 

Fyvie Festival

The Festival will run from 31 October to 3 November and includes the following events:

• The history and restoration of Fyvie Hall murals at the University of Westminster
• A symposium on the life, work and influence of Ethel Wood CBE
• Inaugural concert on the Fyvie Hall organ by Paul Hale 
• Lunchtime concert on the Fyvie Hall organ 
• The finale: Play on the restored Fyvie Hall organ