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St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney 1866, rebuilt by Hill, Norman & Beard and Orgues Letourneau; Trinity Methodist Church in Burton-upon-Trent, 1869. After the closing of the church in 2011, the organ was transferred to the Catholic St. Afra church in Berlin, and inaugurated on 22 November 2015. It is regarded as the most significant English organ in ...
Organ scholars often gain experience on a cathedral or collegiate chapel organ, such as this one at King's College Chapel, Cambridge An organ scholar is a young musician employed as a part-time assistant organist at a cathedral, church or institution where regular choral services are held.
Manchester Cathedral 1908–1912; Organist of: St. Mary the Virgin, Blackburn 1912–1914; St Columb's Cathedral 1914–1920; Peterborough Cathedral 1921–1944; Hatfield Parish Church 1947–1948; All Saints' Church, Eastbourne 1949–1959; Chapel Royal, Brighton; Director of music at: Chailey Heritage School from 1920 [2]
In 2005 a collection of his major organ works was published, and a scholarship and trust in his name was founded by Major and Mrs Vernon Yon, an American who heard the Peterborough Cathedral Choir whilst posted to the UK.
Robert Quinney was born in Nottingham [4] and was a chorister at Dundee Cathedral and then at All Saints Church, Ecclesall, where he learned to play the organ. [4] [5] [6]He attended Silverdale School [7] and then received a sixth-form full academic scholarship to Eton College, which Eton offers to pupils from state schools. [4]
Robert Costin was a chorister at Peterborough Cathedral and a music scholar at Oundle School. He studied organ and harpsichord at the Royal Academy of Music from 1989 to 1990, and was organ scholar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, from 1990 to 1993. In 1990, he was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists.
Peterborough Cathedral, properly the Cathedral Church of St Peter, St Paul and St Andrew, and formerly known as Peterborough Abbey or St Peter's Abbey, is a cathedral in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, in the United Kingdom.
The young Armstrong was a chorister at the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace from 1907 to 1910, during which time he sang at the funeral of King Edward VII in Westminster Abbey. [1] In 1912 Armstrong was appointed organist of Thorney Abbey, and the following year he was articled to Haydn Keeton, organist of Peterborough Cathedral.