Upcoming Events
Meet the Organ Recital
November 22 at 7:30, St. Andrew's River Heights: Learn all about the sounds of the organ in this entertaining lecture/recital!
Second Annual Organ and Harp Duo
December 9 at 7:30, St. James' Anglican: A different sort of Christmas concert - Christmas carols played on the Woodstock organ and the lap-sized Gothic Harp! A great success last year, we're hoping that it'll be just as fun this year!
The Great Ego Trip (working title)
May? - specific time and location TBA: A gathering of great local musicians come together to play my music! Further bulletins as events warrant.
Update: The musicians are almost all on board, and the set list is getting shaped up. Exciting!
Ongoing Long-term Projects
The St. James Psalter - a complete set of lectionary (and a few non-lectionary) psalms for use each Sunday. So named ("St. James") because that's where the project began - St. James the Assiniboine Anglican Church! CURRENTLY AVAILABLE IN VERSION 2.0
Cataloguing and updating - Well, it has come to this. There's too much music on here, and I want to catalogue it, sort it, update it, and put it in reasonable order so that there's some continuity here. Also, it will make life much easier for browsing and requesting information about - and maybe even purchasing - the music that I write.
Recording my own hymn tunes - rather than MIDI files of them, I plan to make decent organ-based recordings of my hymn tunes. Part of Hymn Project 2009. The first six hymns of the 2009 project are recorded.
The Rheinberger Recordings - fitting in very nicely with my obsession with a certain Leichtensteinian organist, theory professor and composer (that being the eponymous Josef Rheinberger) I have plans to learn and record the complete short organ works of said composer, consisting of two sets of twelve fughettas, twelve character pieces, twelve preludes, twelve "Miscellaneen", and the twelve Monologues. This project is still in the planning stages, but has taken a fairly large step forward with the acquisition of some basic recording equipment.
Stealing Back the Keyboard - Another long-term project in the long-term works. This is a reaction to nineteenth- and twentieth-century pianists thinking that they can just waltz in and start taking away organ music. Franz Liszt and Ferruccio Busoni, I'm looking directly at you guys. My response is to start to gather some of the great piano works together, with plans for playing them at the organ. Suggestions appreciated. More information as things happen.
Keep your eye on this page; I'll be updating this as often as I can!
