Top organist to perform at abbey
One of the UK’s most distinguished organists will play in Paisley on Sunday.
Gordon Stewart will give a recital at Paisley Abbey of work by composers who include Bach, Handel and Widor.
Scots-born Mr Stewart studied in Manchester and later Geneva with the world-renowned Dame Gillian Weir.
For 15 years he was a cathedral organist, first in Manchester then in Blackburn.
He has recorded on organs in the UK and in South Africa on the Priory, Dolcan and Lammas labels and has played concertos with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Northern Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North and Orchestra Victoria.
For more than 20 years he broadcast regularly as organist and conductor on BBC radio and television.
George McPhee, musical director of Paisley Abbey, said:“Gordon’s repertoire is large and covers all the major schools of organ composition.
“He is well-known as a teacher and after several years as senior organ tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music, was for several years one of the organ teachers at Cambridge University, teaching the organ to scholars at, among others, King’s, St John’s and Jesus Colleges. He has appeared as visiting tutor at courses for the Royal College of Organists, Oundle Organ Week, Gothenburg Organ Academy and Shenandoah Church Music Institute in Virginia.”
There will be two further organ recitals at Paisley Abbey in the summer – one by George McPhee on Sunday, June 3, and another by Kevin Bowyer of Glasgow University on Sunday, June 17.
This Sunday’s recital will be at 3pm and admission is £10.