Titus Grenyer Organ Recital
Sydney City Organist Titus Grenyer presents a recital of organ music, featuring the first full performance of Titus’ own Organ Symphony.
Sydney City Organist Titus Grenyer presents a recital of organ music, featuring the first full performance of Titus’ own Organ Symphony.
Cathedral Assistant Director of Music presents a programme of Organ Music on the Cathedral’s Grand Organ, with music by Stanford, Grainger, Rączkowski and Niemiński
Purchase your tickets here! Join us for an evening of festive cheer that has become a beloved part of Sydney’s Christmas tradition.
Join us for a free Organ Recital on Tuesday 22 December given by Assistant Director of Music, Simon Nieminski. Simon’s program comprises of:
Feliks Rączkowski: Suita Kolęd (Suite of Christmas Carols)
Arthur Somervell: Shepherd’s Cradle Song
Henry Balfour Gardiner arr. Niemiński: Noel
Marcel Dupré: Variations sur un Noël, Op. 20
Admission is free, please remember to register at the door upon entry.
It gives us great pleasure to be able to invite you to join us for a special performance of ‘Carols from St Mary’s’ on Friday 18th December. Whilst this year has brought great hardship to some, and disappointment to most, there have nevertheless been multiple, often surprising, causes for happiness, and even some special occasions to which we all can look forward. We hope that the opportunity to enjoy beautiful carols and Christmas readings, with the St Mary’s Cathedral Choir and Orchestra, in our stunning Cathedral, will be one of these silver linings for you.
Guests are requested to arrive early, so that registration in accordance with the Cathedral’s COVID-safe plan can take place. Furthermore, the 7pm concert will be recorded for broadcast. Please note that should you wish to attend the 11am concert that the performance may be subject to minor interruptions for technical reasons, as we prepare for the filming of the evening concert.
Please note that all attendees must move directly to a seat and remain seated for the duration of the concert.
We are grateful to our supporters, who this year, have given us the opportunity to make this concert FREE for all attendees.
It gives us great pleasure to be able to invite you to join us for a special performance of ‘Carols from St Mary’s’ on Friday 18th December. Whilst this year has brought great hardship to some, and disappointment to most, there have nevertheless been multiple, often surprising, causes for happiness, and even some special occasions to which we all can look forward. We hope that the opportunity to enjoy beautiful carols and Christmas readings, with the St Mary’s Cathedral Choir and Orchestra, in our stunning Cathedral, will be one of these silver linings for you.
Guests are requested to arrive early, so that registration in accordance with the Cathedral’s COVID-safe plan can take place. Furthermore, the 7pm concert will be recorded for broadcast. Please note that should you wish to attend the 11am concert that the performance may be subject to minor interruptions for technical reasons, as we prepare for the filming of the evening concert.
Please note that all attendees must move directly to a seat and remain seated for the duration of the concert.
We are grateful to our supporters, who this year, have given us the opportunity to make this concert FREE for all attendees.
Join us for a free Organ Recital on Wednesday 16 December given by Director of Music, Thomas Wilson. Admission is free, please remember to register at the door upon entry.
Join us for a free Organ Recital on Tuesday 15 December given by Assistant Organist, Titus Grenyer. Titus’ program will include a transcription of J.S. Bach’s Orchestral Suite in C Major, BWV 1066. Admission is free, please remember to register at the door upon entry.
“There is nothing like the traditional Christmas experience: choristers singing beautiful music in such an inspiring building at this special time of year. What a great way to start Christmas” - Thomas Wilson, Cathedral Director of Music
“There is nothing like the traditional Christmas experience: choristers singing beautiful music in such an inspiring building at this special time of year. What a great way to start Christmas” - Thomas Wilson, Cathedral Director of Music
On Wednesday 10th April, the cathedral will present the Australian première of Stations of the Cross
for organ (played by Simon Niemiński) and the Stabat Mater tropes sung by (The St Mary’s Cathedral Scholars) by Giles Swayne, one of the worlds most distinguished living composers.
Stations of the Cross (2004-5) is possibly the most significant organ work to have been commissioned in recent times: intensely powerful and descriptive, and at the pinnacle of virtuosic organ repertoire. Swayne’s own Stabat Mater plainchant tropes will be sung between movements.
Please join us for this devotional performance of this significant and challenging work.
Wednesday 10th April, 7.00 p.m.
Free admission (retiring collection)
This will be Simon's 3rd recital at St Mary's Cathedral since starting in January 2018.
Simon was born in London and descended from an unlikely mixture of Edwardian Japanese acrobats, Lancastrian Music Hall artistes and a Polish army veteran. Before moving to Sydney, he was Organist of St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral and Director of Music at The Robin Chapel in Edinburgh, having previously been Organist and Master of the Music at Edinburgh’s other (Episcopal) St Mary’s Cathedral. As a recitalist, he has played at venues around the UK and beyond, including at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, St Florian’s Abbey in Austria, The Royal Canadian College of Organists’ national convention in Ontario, and Washington National Cathedral, USA. For the last two years, he was the featured recitalist in the International Organ Festival in Japan. He has recorded 11 solo CDs to date, and reviews have included: “This is a splendid release… There is a lot of poetry here.” (The American Record Guide) and “Simon Niemiński’s playing is utterly convincing and at one stroke establishes him as a recording artist of the first rank.” (Organists’ Review.) Simon can be found online at www.niemin.ski.
Admission will be free, with a retiring collection.
Born in Kent in the UK in 1985, Oliver Brett was educated as a music and academic scholar at Tonbridge School and then as organ scholar of King’s College, Cambridge from where he graduated in 2007 with a degree in music. Since then, he has held positions at Westminster Cathedral, Durham Cathedral and St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney. He is currently studying for a doctorate in organ performance with David Higgs and a masters in harpsichord performance with William Porter at the Eastman School of Music. He also serves as Director of Music at St Anne’s RC Church and plays the organ for Christ Church’s Schola Cantorum. He is in demand as a choral accompanist and continuo player, regularly collaborating with many of Eastman’s choral ensembles. His former organ and harpsichord teachers include Sarah Baldock, Thomas Trotter, David Sanger, David Briggs, Dame Gillian Weir and Edoardo Bellotti. In October 2017, Oliver was awarded second prize and the Royal Canadian College of Organists’ Prize at the Canadian International Organ Competition.
As a recitalist, Oliver has performed across five continents. Whilst organ scholar of King’s College, Cambridge, he was heard by millions worldwide when he played for the 2006 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. He has performed in venues such as the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam; the Royal Albert Hall, London; the Seoul Arts Centre in South Korea; the Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore; the Istanbul International Music Festival; concerts in Scandinavia and the Baltic States. As a solo concert artist, he has performed at the Festival of Sacred Music in Ecuador; and venues across the USA, including Washington National Cathedral and St Thomas’, Fifth Avenue, NYC. In the UK, he has given recitals at Westminster Abbey, St Albans Abbey, Lichfield Cathedral, Westminster Cathedral, Truro Cathedral, and at Worcester Cathedral as part of the Three Choirs Festival. In Australia he has given recitals in Melbourne, Perth, Hobart, Adelaide and Sydney, including at Sydney Town Hall, collaborating frequently with David Elton (currently principal trumpeter of the London Symphony Orchestra). He has performed with orchestras such as the Philharmonia, Britten Sinfonia, Florilegium, the Armonico Consort and the Academy of Ancient Music.
PROGRAMME:
Symphony No.5 in F minor (Allegro vivace) - Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
The Hands of Time (Australian Premiere) - Jean-Baptiste Robin (b. 1976)
Praeludium in E minor BuxWV 142 - Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Choral No. 2 in B minor - César Franck (1822-1890)
Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue - Healey-Willan (1880-1976)
Admission is free, with a retiring collection.
Director of Music and Organist of The Temple Church, London, will be joining us for his only Sydney Organ Concert while in Australia.
Roger Sayer began his musical career as a chorister in Porsmouth and then studied at the Royal College of Music under Nicholas Danby. Between 1980 and 1984 he was an organ student at St Paul's Cathedral, London, and was appointed organist of Woodford Parish Church in 1981. In 1989 he was appointed Assistant Organist at Rochester Cathedral and was promoted to Organist and Director of Music in 1994. He was appointed Organist & Director of Music at the Temple Church in 2013.
Roger Sayer's most well known recording to date is as organist on Hans Zimmer's soundtrack for Christopher Nolan's 2014 film 'Interstellar'. Roger collaborated directly with Zimmer and Nolan as elements of the score were crafted around possibilities offered by the organ at Temple Church.
Admission is free and refreshments (and a chance to meet Roger) will be available at the conclusion of the concert.
A concert for voice and organ and organ solo, featuring Handel, Purcell and Vierne, and some Americana for the 4th July: Copland, Gershwin, and more!
Anna is well known to Sydney audiences as a fine soprano with an international reputation, and Simon now invites you to meet him for his second concert at the cathedral - his first collaboration with an Australian soloist.
Free admission (retiring collection.) Refreshments afterwards.
Come to a candlelight concert of Music and Readings for Lent presented in the Crypt of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
Come to a candlelight concert of Music and Readings for Lent presented in the Crypt of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
Come and hear Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur played at St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday 17th December 2017.
Christmas is a time for celebration, and what better way than with some excellent music? A Christmas Celebration has proved so popular that last year we performed it twice, and that practice is continuing.
Christmas is a time for celebration, and what better way than with some excellent music? A Christmas Celebration has proved so popular that last year we performed it twice, and that practice is continuing.
Dominic Moawad, one of the Cathedral organists, will give an organ recital in St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday 12th November 2017.
Thomas Wilson, Director of Music at the Cathedral, will perform a Grand Organ Concert on Friday 27th October 2017.
Heather Moen-Boyd of Scots’ Kirk, Mosman will give an organ recital in St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday 15th October 2017.
Alistair Nelson of St James’, King Street will give an organ recital in St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday 17th September 2017.
Saint Mary’s Cathedral Choir is collaborating with The Song Company to perform Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610, a Baroque favourite whose intricate layering fills the Cathedral with sublime sound.
David Drury, Director of Music at St Paul’s College within the University of Sydney, will perform a Grand Organ Concert on Friday 25th August 2017.
Joshua Ryan of Christ Church St Laurence will give an organ recital in St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday 20th August 2017.
Daniel Cook of Westminster Abbey will perform a Grand Organ Concert on Friday 28th July 2017.
Sydney organist David Tagg will give an organ recital in St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday 16th July 2017.
Following its sell-out success with Angel Voices in 2016, Saint Mary’s Cathedral Choir is returning to City Recital Hall in June for another extraordinary concert.
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