"Bathurst - A foretaste of heaven in twenty-eleven" - Music for Ascension & Pentecost
The 56th Annual RSCM Summer School will be held from 4 - 11 January at Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW.
Director: Matthew Owens - Organist & Master of the Choristers, Wells Cathedral, UK
Organist: Peter Jewkes - Organist, Christ Church St Laurence, Sydney
Matthew Owens
Matthew Owens is Organist and Master of the Choristers of Wells Cathedral, having previously been Organist and Master of the Music at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, and Sub Organist of Manchester Cathedral. He is also tutor in organ studies at Wells Cathedral School (one of the five specialist music schools in the United Kingdom), and conductor of the Wells Cathedral Oratorio Society and The Exon Singers.
Born in 1971, he studied at Chetham’s School of Music, The Queen’s College, Oxford, the Royal Northern College of Music and the Sweelinck Conservatorium, Amsterdam. From 1994 to 1999, he taught at the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham’s and worked for BBC Religious Broadcasting. He was assistant conductor of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain from 1993 to 1999. He is increasingly in demand for choral workshops, masterclasses and adjudications in the United Kingdom and abroad, and has made over twenty CDs as a conductor or solo organist.
As an organist he has given recitals in France, Ireland, Switzerland and throughout the UK, including numerous festival appearances. As a conductor and solo organist he has premiered many works by leading composers including Gavin Bryars, Gabriel Jackson, Naji Hakim, James MacMillan, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Arvo Pärt, Howard Skempton and Giles Swayne. He is increasingly active as a composer himself and some of his works have been recorded for commercial release, and broadcast on Radio 3.
Peter Jewkes
Peter Jewkes was born in Sydney. His early teachers included Nancy Salas (piano), David Rumsey, Norman Johnston (organ), and William Pierce, under whom he gained his Licentiate of Organ Performance from Trinity College London, at the age of 18.
In 1976 he studied at the Royal School of Church Music, at Addington Palace, studying organ under Christopher Herrick, Sub Organist of Westminster Abbey. Whilst in England he was appointed Assistant Organist at St Bride’s Fleet Street, London.
In Australia he has been Organist of the Sydney University Graduates’ Choir, Organist & Choirmaster of Scots Kirk Mosman, and Assistant Organist of Christ Church St Laurence. For over 9 years Peter was Assistant Organist and Choirmaster of St James’ King Street Sydney, where he specialised in liturgical accompaniment and improvisation. In 1996 he returned to Christ Church St Laurence as Organist. He has given numerous recitals in Australia and abroad on many famous instruments.
Peter Jewkes pursues a dual career as organist and organ builder. His own company, established in 1975, is presently one of the most active in Australia, and apart from restoration and construction work, cares for over 200 instruments on a regular basis. Peter was awarded an Associateship of the Incorporated Society of Organ Builders (UK) in 1986, being made a Fellow in 1991. He is President of the Australian Guild of Master Organbuilders and Deputy President of the Organ Music Society of Sydney Inc.
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