GET AHEAD (GA) –

inspiration days for young organists
3 days out across the country in early 2009

in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (from 10am) with
Tom Bell (virtuoso recitalist, Organworks animateur)
Michael Haynes (Director of Music, Hexham Abbey)
James Parsons
featuring Celebrity Organ Recital (1.15pm) by
James Lancelot (Organist, Durham Cathedral) at St Thomas’s
Church in the Haymarket – programme includes Gigout’s Grand Choeur Dialogué (public welcome – retiring collection) rare opportunity to play epic 4-manual organ in the City Hall
Adult organists (players and observers) also welcome – contact 01832 272026 sponsored by Newcastle & District Society of Organists

in Guildford (from 10am) with
Tom Bell (recitalist and Director of Music, Esher Parish Church)
Katherine Dienes-Williams (Director of Music, Guildford Cathedral)
James Parsons

plus WOOFYT workshops for all ages by
Jeremy Sampson – a fun way to discover what happens behind the organ’s tall front pipes: play
musical games with the WOOFYT (our award-wining‘wooden one-octave organ for young technologists’)
‘Hands-on’ at Guildford Cathedral!

in Cheltenham (from 10am) with
Alexander Ffinch (College Organist, Cheltenham College)
Ashley Grote (Assistant Director of Music, Gloucester Cathedral)
Benjamin Nicholas (Tewkesbury Abbey and Merton College, Oxford)
day concludes with Celebrity Organ Recital (7.30pm) by
Thomas Trotter in Cheltenham College Chapel – programme includes Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture (included in student price
– tickets for public £7, conc. £5, at the door) Fine romantic organ at the College and new tracker instruments at CLC and St Gregory’s

supported by Cheltenham College