Talk and recital to mark pipe organ restoration
TO CELEBRATE the completion of the restoration of the 120-year-old pipe organ, Paul Hale agreed to talk about the organ and give a recital on Saturday, October 6.
This was a free concert, with the church packed to capacity, and Paul’s recital and commentaries were first class.
Paul Hale is Emeritus Cathedral Organist and Rector Choir of Southwell Minster, Conductor of the Nottingham Bach Choir, Organ Adviser to the Anglican Dioceses of Southwell and Lincoln, a diploma examiner for the Royal College of Organists, and he is the current president of the Nottingham and District Society of Organists.
Paul has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the RSCM and a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians “for distinguished services to Church Music”. In 2017 the Archbishop of Canterbury presented Paul with the Lambeth ‘Thomas Cranmer’ Award in recognition of his national contributions in the field of church music and organ advising. Paul is in international demand as an independent organ consultant.
Everyone appreciated his visit, and the audience felt very fortunate to have such a well-known international organist playing the organ at a small village church. The church was most grateful to Charterhouse Holdings plc for sponsoring this concert.