Talented teen to kick-off Summer Organ Spectacular

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St Bartholomew's Church continues to celebrate the arrival of its new pipe organ with a series of recitals on Sunday afternoons in May and June.

During the two month festival they will be paying tribute to the organists who have helped shape the music at the church over the last 50 years. Recitalists include Peter Johnson - who was organist at St Barts from 2000 to 2015 and initiated the new organ project, Geoffrey Coffin - who was part of the team that designed and built the organ and David Oldfield.

In addition there will be recitals in honour of James Dickinson, Paul Bryan, who also conducted the Barnby Choir of Wilmslow, and Peter Waddington who in addition to his work as the librarian of the Hallé orchestra served the church with great distinction. The current organist Philip Underwood will perform original compositions by James and Paul in these recitals.

The series begins on Sunday 6th May with a recital by the talented young organist George Herbert who is a 17-year old student at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester. George spent two years as the organ scholar of Wilmslow Parish, before taking up the post of organist at St Peter's, Hale. In July 2017 George was a prizewinning recipient of the much coveted ARCO Diploma of the Royal College of Organists. His programme includes Carillon de Westminster by Vierne.

The recitals will commence at 4pm and last 45 minutes. Admission is free and there will be a retiring collection.

Photo: George Herbert.

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