This Sunday at 2pm, in celebration of 90 years of the installation of Bairnsdale’s only pipe organ, renowned Melbourne organist Rhys Boak will give a recital which will showcase the capabilities and versatility of this instrument.
The program chosen by Rhys includes a wide variety of times and styles of the music written for and transcribed for organ from the Baroque to recent years.
Rhys Boak is already well-known as a prestigious and well-liked musician who knows and understands Bairnsdale Uniting Church’s organ. He has travelled the world giving concerts and collaborating with prestigious musicians. In Melbourne he has held the position of organist and manager of music at St Michael’s Church since 2007. He is also a pianist, choral conductor, composer, arranger and has made many recordings.
Sunday’s concert will include some of the great works for the organ including Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor The Dorian, his Passacaglia in C minor and Widor’s ever popular Toccata from the 5th Symphony. However, the program holds many more treasures, with music from the Baroque to modern times, from Handel and Rameau through Haydn and Mozart, to the contemporary Zsolt Gardonyi’s delightful Mozart Changes composed in 1995 for the OK MOZART International Festival in Oklahoma. There are also masterful transcriptions and arrangements of well-known music including that of Handel and Beethoven.
The concert, presented by POMEG, is in the Bairnsdale Uniting Church, corner of Great Alpine Road and Lanes Road, Lucknow, on Sunday, June 1, at 2pm. School students have free admission.
Afternoon tea is provided at interval.
This will be an afternoon of splendid
music to celebrate 90 years of Bairnsdale’s fine pipe organ.
