Appointments 2

[DaveHarries]

On 11/2/2017 at 08:58, David Cynan Jones said:

http://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/official-studentship-and-organist-christ-church-oxford-association-associate-professorship

From this can we assume that Stephen Darlington is retiring having been in post since 1985.

 

Certainly looks that way.

Dave

[David Cynan Jones]

https://www.stpauls.co.uk/news-press/latest-news/st-pauls-welcomes-new-young-and-talented-organists

The Music Department of St Paul’s Cathedral are delighted to announce three new organist appointments:

1. William Fox has been appointed Sub Organist from July 2018.
2. James Orford has been appointed William and Irene Miller Organ Scholar from January 2018.
3. Nicholas Freestone has been appointed Acting Sub Organist from January-July 2018.

[ross cobb]

Some news from the Antipodes as we bask in the heat of a Sydney summer.
Simon Niemiński, has this week taken up the post of ADOM at St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Sydney. 
Simon has been previously organist of St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral, Edinburgh and Director of Music at The Robin Chapel. He was also previously assistant at London's St Bartholomew the Great.
Happy New Year from a very sultry Sydney!
Cheers,
Ross Cobb (DOM, St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral, Sydney)

[DaveHarries]

13 hours ago, ross cobb said:

Some news from the Antipodes as we bask in the heat of a Sydney summer.
Simon Niemiński, has this week taken up the post of ADOM at St Mary's Roman Catholic Cathedral, Sydney. 
Simon has been previously organist of St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral, Edinburgh and Director of Music at The Robin Chapel. He was also previously assistant at London's St Bartholomew the Great.
Happy New Year from a very sultry Sydney!
Cheers,
Ross Cobb (DOM, St Andrew's Anglican Cathedral, Sydney)

Greetings Ross. You weren't previously organist of a church here in Bristol, Uk were you? Your name rings a bell.

Dave

[Peter Allison]

 Ross Cobb (Organist and Director of Music, St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney) to St John’s Cathedral to give the next recital in this year’s Twilight International Organ Series. Ross studied at the Guildhall School of Music, the Royal Academy of Music, and King's College London (where he was an assistant to the late David Trendell), and was the first Thalben-Ball Organ Scholar at St Michael's, Cornhill. He was later Director of Music at Christ Church Clifton in Bristol, and St Barnabas' Kensington in London. In 2005, Ross relocated to Sydney to take up the position of Organist and Director of Music at St Andrew's Cathedral.
 

[ross cobb]

Hi Dave, erm, I would have just said yes!
Are you Brizzle-based?
Ross

 

[David Drinkell]

King's College, Cambridge has announced that a new Director of Music is being sought, to take over on October 19th 2019.

[sbarber49]

Details here: http://www.rhinegoldjobs.co.uk/job/8433/director-of-music-in-cambridge

[DaveHarries]

14 hours ago, ross cobb said:

Hi Dave, erm, I would have just said yes!
Are you Brizzle-based?
Ross

 

Hi Ross. Yes I am and I was thinking of Christ Church, Clifton but I have just noticed that Peter Allison mentioned that in his post. I remember the organ at Christ Church as being a nice instrument and I also remember Wayne Marshall's recital on it some years back (can't recall when!) which included a round of variations on the theme from "The Flintstones". Hope you are enjoying life in Aus.

Dave

[David Cynan Jones]

https://www.chchchoir.org/2018/02/new-organist-christ-church/

The rumour train can now stop.

[David Cynan Jones]

White Smoke from the RSCM ..... at last

https://www.rscm.com/we-are-delighted-to-welcome-hugh-morris-as-our-new-director/?platform=hootsuite

[Tony Price]

Norman Harper retiring from St. George's cathedral:

http://www.stgeorgescathedral.org.uk/music/StGeorgesDirectorOfMusic2018.pdf

Tony

[Zimbelstern]

I’ve just had a look at the job spec. £15,000 for 20 hours per week for a top class, highly experienced allround musician, organist, conductor, manager and administrator with a list of skills, duties and responsibilities as long as your arm. Presumably a graduate with an FRCO. All for around £15 an hour. For that you can get a job in London as a handyperson, a door-to-door fundraiser for Shelter, a labourer, a mini-cab supervisor, or a housekeeper (all advertised on Gumtree). The Shelter advert actually says: “Ideal for Performing Arts Graduates!” 

Super flumina Babylonis ibi sedimus et flevimus.

[ross cobb]

That salary really is rather wicked for the church to offer. The Diocese should be ashamed.

[S_L]

2 hours ago, ross cobb said:

That salary really is rather wicked for the church to offer. The Diocese should be ashamed.

 

Birmingham Cathedral are advertising for a Head of Music, a full time position and they are paying £33,000. No accommodation is offered. I won't work out the Mathematics but I would imagine that equates to very little more - if anything!

[David Drinkell]

There was a move, largely successful, by the Cathedral Organists Association some years ago, to bring organists' salaries into line with those paid to residentiary canons.  I don't know if the same principle still applies.  Of course, the two posts are not completely comparable, as clergy tend to have a lot of perks and expenses which organists don't, whereas organists may make a nice little extra sum from concerts and pupils.

One cathedral, while raising the organist's salary to that of a residentiary canon, stopped paying him fees for weddings and funerals. However, the assistant did get paid for such of these services as he accompanied, so he ended up doing all of them....

[Christopher Allsop]

There's a very nice job indeed available at Worcester Cathedral from September...

Application pack attached below.

Worcester Cathedral Assistant Director of Music recruitment pack.pdf

[S_L]

1 hour ago, Christopher Allsop said:

There's a very nice job indeed available at Worcester Cathedral from September...

Application pack attached below.

Worcester Cathedral Assistant Director of Music recruitment pack.pdf

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[Vox Humana]

Hopefully this one will work:
http://www.worcestercathedral.co.uk/media/Assistant_Director_of_Music_recruitment_pack.pdf

[handsoff]

There's a chance to hear Christopher play the PPO organ in the Guild Chapel, Stratford-upon-Avon on 5 May at 5pm..

Very much looking forward to it!

P

[Zimbelstern]

I see that one of the requirements for the Worcester job is “gravitas”.  I’d be interested to see the assessment criteria for this characteristic. 

[Ageing Muso]

..... and it's gladdened the end of a long teaching Friday to see that the job spec. also asks for

An ability to play the organ with flare...... (sic); we can all think of instruments that may deserve just that, but surely not Mr Tickell's?

This link also springs to mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI37T3vA7fM

 

 

[Zimbelstern]

Didn’t Rick Wakeman used to play the organ with flares during the 1970s?

[Peter Allison]

not quite the 70's, and no flares in sight?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtrKdt7saCc

Edited April 27, 2018 by Peter Allison

[DaveHarries]

The May/June 2018 issue of Choir & Organ magazine says that "Matthew Owens (Organist & Master of the Choristers, Wells Cathedral) has been made a Prebendary (Canon) of Wells Cathedral by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, in recognition of 'outstanding service to the Church in the Diocese and particularly to the Cathedral'.

Dave