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For Samuel Beckett with Matthew Lee Knowles and organist Katia Farn

Across the last weekend in August, composer Matthew Lee Knowles and organist Katia Farn will present “For Samuel Beckett”, the longest fully notated composition ever written for the organ – this will be an entirely unique experience as Heath Street Baptist Church is filled with sound for up to twenty-seven hours in this world record… 
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RSCM – The Director’s Challenge 2025

Building on the success of the Director’s Challenge in 2023, The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) have developed an idea for a focussed, highly visible event to enable them to expand messaging around playing and learning the organ, and the vital role it plays in supporting worship and communities. This “organ marathon” also forms… 
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A Viscount at the Proms: Supporting Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang

A Viscount organ has been selected for one of this year’s BBC Proms concerts, not in London’s Royal Albert Hall, but in the North-East at the beautiful Glasshouse International Centre for Music, in Gateshead. On Saturday 26th July 2025, the Glasshouse will host BBC Proms: Bach and Mendelssohn, with a full symphony orchestra and chorus… 
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Italian wanderings: Churches, organs, and a touch of golf

About a year ago, an old university colleague proposed a golf trip to Italy, which I immediately signed up to. It was the perfect reunion excuse for a group of Oxford golfing oldies to get together and enjoy time together. Friends who I had not seen for almost 50 years came in from the USA… 
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