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From 12.30pm to 1.15 on the first Friday of every month, we present Friday Lunchtime Organ Music.
All welcome, free entry, collection at the end for music at St Michael’s.
The 2025 season of Organ Recitals is kindly sponsored by Home Instead and Ballet4Life.
See this year’s Recitals programme.
On Friday May 2nd the organist is Gary Sieling
Provincial Grand Organist for the Province of Bedfordshire, UK; President, Beds and Herts Organists Association, UK.
Gary Sieling was born in Bedfordshire and educated at Dunstable Grammar School. He read for his BMus degree at the University of London, Goldsmiths’ College and while a student played for the debut of the London Cantata Choir. He studied organ with Peter Moorse, Nicholas Danby at the Royal College of Music, Dr Peter le Huray at St Catherine’s College Cambridge, and Jane Parker-Smith. He was awarded FRCO in 1981 and MA in Performance from Anglia Ruskin University in 1997, studying organ with Nicholas Kynaston at Caius College Cambridge.
Having graduated he took up teaching work back in Bedfordshire. He was organist of Dunstable Priory and then Assistant Master of Music at Peterborough Cathedral. During his time there he was Conductor of the Peterborough Philharmonic Society, Director of the St Peter’s Singers, and Founder and Associate Conductor of the City of Peterborough Symphony Orchestra. He also taught organ and piano at Oundle and Stamford Schools. He played for the Cathedral Choir on two tours of America in addition to regular TV and radio broadcasts and recordings.
After 6 years in London as Director of Music at Bromley Parish Church and All Saints Blackheath, Gary has now returned to live in Rushden and, as a Bedfordshire Freemason, has been appointed Provincial Grand Organist for Bedfordshire. He is also President of the Beds and Herts Organists Association, founder and director of the chamber choir ‘FineChants’ which has recently sung at Brussels, Cologne and St Paul’s Cathedrals. He works as a freelance organist, harpsichordist, conductor, adjudicator, and examiner for the Royal College of Organists and interim Chapel Organist of Oakham School. He spent the summers of 2009 and 2011 as the Music Adjudicator to the Sri Lanka Performing Arts Festival.
His CD recordings include one for Priory Records from Chelmsford Cathedral featuring the major organ works of Stanley Vann, sometime organist of Peterborough Cathedral, and the ‘Kenneth Leighton Memorial Album’ which Gary compiled and published. Gary has also recorded a CD of harpsichord and organ music at Bromley Parish Church. Organ concert venues in this country include St Paul’s, Canterbury and Westminster Cathedrals, King’s College Cambridge and Westminster Abbey. He has made many international concert tours visiting Denmark, Germany, Italy, USA, South Africa and Australia.
Gary likes to relax by travelling, exploring old churches, and cruising around Europe in his motorhome.
https://www.facebook.com/Gary-Sieling-Music
Programme
Nicolas de Grigny Recit de Tierce en Taille 4’
(1671-1703)
Louis Marchand Dialogue 3’
(1669-1732)
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault Suite du deuxième ton 15’
(1676-1749) Plein Jeu, Duo, Trio, Basse de Cromorn, Flûtes, Récit de Nazard, Caprice
César Franck Pastorale 9’
(1822-1890)
Théodore Dubois Toccata 6’
(1837-1924)
Jean Langlais Hymne d’Actions de grâces “Te Deum” 5’
(1907-1992)
