Appointments 2

[S_L]

sorry - posted twice!

[Rowland Wateridge]

23 hours ago, S_L said:

Ah!!! I see he began his life playing a proper instrument!!!! (sorry - private family joke!!!)

But very easy, in your case, to guess which proper instrument!

[S_L]

11 hours ago, Rowland Wateridge said:

But very easy, in your case, to guess which proper instrument!

Ah - you see Rowland, we don't just press a key and noise comes out - we had to, firstly, find the note on the string, get the finger in exactly the right place, nurture the note, warm it, decide what type of bow stroke to use! etc.

I never play the 'cello nowadays and, frighteningly, was known amongst the local circle more as an organist than a 'cellist which, at something like ARCO standard, the tests were easy - it's the pieces that would fox me, I always found a little worrying!

 

 

[Vox Humana]

43 minutes ago, S_L said:

Ah - you see Rowland, we don't just press a key and noise comes out - we had to, firstly, find the note on the string, get the finger in exactly the right place, nurture the note, warm it, decide what type of bow stroke to use!

Which explains exactly why the organ is so ill-suited to Romantic music! 😉

[sbarber49]

Though you can't shut a cellist in a room and open and shut the door with your foot!

 

[Vox Humana]

10 minutes ago, sbarber49 said:

Though you can't shut a cellist in a room and open and shut the door with your foot!

But I've done it with a violinist. 😄

[sbarber49]

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[OwenTurner]

Huddersfield Town Hall moves from Gordon Stewart to David Pipe.

[Rowland Wateridge]

The Kirklees Borough Council announcement states that David Pipe will be the Guest Curator for the forthcoming Organ Concert season (initially online recitals) and Gordon Stewart becomes Organist Emeritus of Huddersfield Town Hall, and will be giving a farewell concert before a live audience when circumstances permit.

[David Cynan Jones]

This one has slipped under the radar - Luke Fitzgerald sent to Coventry

Here's the link to the Coventry Website

[David Cynan Jones]

News from Ripon of the appointment of Ronny Krippner as Organist and Master of the Choristers. 

[andrewm]

8 hours ago, David Cynan Jones said:

News from Ripon of the appointment of Ronny Krippner as Organist and Master of the Choristers. 

This looks like an excellent appointment, a very talented musician and organist. 

[David Cynan Jones]

Simon Johnson from St Paul's to Westminster Cathedral

http://www.westminstercathedralchoir.com/news-and-events-detail.php?Westminster-Cathedral-appoints-new-Master-of-Music-136&fbclid=IwAR0zBsqawD7aPLG3AF4yVf9W5tACkUIP9LytV3cIqXilqwxdQumzmqwV5GE

[DHM]

33 minutes ago, David Cynan Jones said:

Simon Johnson from St Paul's to Westminster Cathedral

Another former Rochester Organ Scholar made good. 😃

[David Cynan Jones]

From the Cathedral facebook page 

Many congratulations to Oliver Waterer, whose appointment as the next Director of Music at Selby Abbey was announced this morning.

Oli will be leaving us over the summer - and while we shall miss him very much, we are glad to see that the Abbey houses a very fine organ indeed, which now awaits him!

[Guest]

The advert for Canterbury is out:

https://cvminder.com/jobportal/cvmindervacancy.php?gid=35&jobid=22084

 

 

[S_L]

1 hour ago, michaelwilson said:

The advert for Canterbury is out:

https://cvminder.com/jobportal/cvmindervacancy.php?gid=35&jobid=22084

'Director of Music' - I'm pleased to see that 'it is not a requirement also to be an organist'!

[Martin Cooke]

6 hours ago, S_L said:

'Director of Music' - I'm pleased to see that 'it is not a requirement also to be an organist'!

Yes, that widens the scope brilliantly.

[Choir Man]

The application pack ( https://cvminder.com/cvmdata/documents/35/4079/Director of Music 18May2021 FINAL.pdf ) has much more detail and I am particularly excited by the cathedral's vision statement. It is bold and forward looking as well as maintaining the traditions of the choral liturgy.

[S_L]

1 hour ago, Choir Man said:

The application pack ( https://cvminder.com/cvmdata/documents/35/4079/Director of Music 18May2021 FINAL.pdf ) has much more detail and I am particularly excited by the cathedral's vision statement. It is bold and forward looking as well as maintaining the traditions of the choral liturgy.

I quickly read the application pack too and thought it was bold, imaginative and exciting. There was lots there for a person of considerable musicianship but also of vision and commitment to a wider brief as well as, as you say, to maintaining the high standard of music within the liturgies of the Cathedral.

If I had been 30 years younger I might have read the application pack a good deal more carefully!!!!!

[David Cynan Jones]

News of an appointment at Llandaff Cathedral

The Cathedral Chapter are delighted to announce the appointment of Aaron Shilson as the new Assistant Director of Music.

Aaron joins us from Ely Cathedral where he is currently Assistant Organist for the Girls' Choir. He has previously held posts at the Cathedrals in St Davids, Manchester and Leeds.

 

Click the link to read more about the appointment

https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3w8BbFR%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR3v3AdkLFZxP_jBzhhb5vZxeXN4t2wOnQcC57WNOOxIKTMJLWPtqX8nD_w&h=AT0PMV6U5n7LtsFLa2NYU1p5T4cJrWb-MQKVypjceo9POYkj6k2lkzbZGg_b5gjfzqyvuPOnadMVNuOIS7HmNMTPfTN5BgLPtrrUb641byHmssdkjXKlJUIyMUk9m8RYCgUNLeqSF_z59fbWyOAS9Eg&__tn__=-UK-y-R&c[0]=AT2MpXOa85K4k0b6CLdVS9LkNG2gNkmLDxSizqQQY9mWTSYoZCOt36KwWZmNEOj3RZV08F3L7ysI_p9m9c2iGqHrPDuxj3FMEHrAPxuKFsgrY-mOWCQD_A2C2RPQkNZYqyr4XO1x0VYMiNLt-QzuQHbWlRxXSVg37TKw6gfRGB_qlnWfuPJwG1YuQVLTRG7A6KmcIFUvXTG5oZNxDnE12xDE0a2myEc_L4C7

[DaveHarries]

Some news from Sheffield Cathedral which emerged today, 29th June.

Many members may recall the fiasco which broke out when the previous Dean of Sheffield, the Very Rev. Peter Bradley, decided to dispense with the choral provision at the Cathedral there back in July 2020.

https://www.sheffieldcathedral.org/news/2020/7/21/sheffield-cathedral-choir

The arguments went on for slightly over 3 months until Dean Bradley announced his resignation from the office of Dean of Sheffield on 04th October 2020.

https://www.sheffieldcathedral.org/news/2020/10/4/announcement-from-the-dean-of-sheffield-cathedral

There was also this:

On 09/04/2021 at 07:02, S_L said:

I see, in the 'Church Times' today there is an advert for Dean of Sheffield.

"Previous Cathedral experience is not essential"

Anyone who might have wondered what the implications might have been of appointing someone not used to Cathedral life need not worry however: the announcement has now been made today, 29-Jun-2021, that the next Dean of Sheffield is to be Rev. Canon Abigail Thompson who is currently Acting Dean and Sub-Dean of St. Albans Cathedral but is no stranger to the Diocese of Sheffield or the cathedral there. In his introduction, which can be found on YouTube, the Bishop of Sheffield describes Canon Thompson as "an accomplished musician with a particularly strong track record for developing choirs." The introduction can be found at

https://www.sheffieldcathedral.org/news/2021/6/29/new-dean-of-sheffield-announced-and-welcomed-to-cathedral

Sorry this post is perhaps a bit long but HTIOI,

Dave

[S_L]

Canon Abi Thompson

"She graduated in Music at Kings College London and in Theology at Westcott House Cambridge. Abi holds both ABRSM Grade 8 Piano and ABRSM Grade 8 Singing and before ordination was a youth worker and freelance professional singer."

[Martin Cooke]

I saw a tweet yesterday announcing Imogen Morgan as the new Assistant DoM at St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. She is presently Organ Scholar at Peterborough Cathedral having been ORgan Scholar at Durham University and Durham Cathedral.

[S_L]

It is so good to see more and more ladies appointed to Cathedral positions. My own grandmother was a fine player and, and I may be wrong about this, was one of the first women to be appointed FRCO. Of course, in those days, ladies were barely allowed past the Chancel arch let alone in the exalted position of Master or the Choristers - or whatever!!

Of the 43 (?) Church of England Cathedrals in England, even today, only four have ladies at the helm of the Music Department (Coventry, Guildford, Peterborough & Rochester) whilst, to my reckoning only four have female Assistants. 

One could go further and ask how many Cathedral's have a DoM who isn't  product of a Public School - or Oxbridge - or from an 'Ethnic Minority' but, perhaps I better not go there!!!!