Programme 2023

Saturday 28th January 2023 - 2.15 pm –

Masterclass on Organ Technique with Nigel Kerry – Our Lady and English Martyrs, Hills Road, Cambridge.  Edward Dodge and Peter Godden have volunteered to be put in the hands of Nigel as he seeks to show us how to improve our playing technique. The IIIP/35ss organ, a fine example of the work of Abbott & Smith dating from 1890, is situated in the South Transept loft where there is adequate room for an audience.

Saturday 25th March 2023 –

Visit to organs at Long Melford, Chelsworth and Monks Eleigh. Reserve the date in your diaries and timings will follow in due course.

Saturday 27th May 2022 –

East of England Organ Day - French Organ Music for the liturgy and chant – Chelmsford Cathedral – 10 am to 5 pm.

This event is being led by the Essex Organists’ Association with the help of Chelmsford Cathedral staff and will include masterclasses on the Nave organ, a lecture-demonstration, and a service in the afternoon with liturgical audience participation. The day will make use of the cathedral’s two pipe organs (Chancel and Nave), a rarity in English cathedrals but which are ideally suited for the plainsong-based liturgy from the French school at the time of Couperin and De Grigny. The Cambridge Association along with the other IAO affiliated Associations in East Anglia are supporting this event and this will form our May meeting. Further details including how to book tickets will be included in our Spring Newsletter.

Saturday  8th July 2023

A visit to see and play the 1982 Binns organ in Queens’ College Cambridge, still authentic tonally.