Organ Recital: Martin Setchell
Sun, 17 Mar
|Wesley Uniting Church
Presented by the Royal School of Church Music, the hour long recital will include works by Vivaldi, Saint-Saëns, Bossi, Rheinberger and Toccatas by Marcel Lanquetuit and Hans-André Stamm.
Time & Location
17 Mar 2024, 3:00 pm
Wesley Uniting Church, 20-22 National Circuit, Entrance via, Fitzroy St, Forrest ACT 2603, Australia
About the event
Presented by the Royal School of Church Music, thehour long recital will include works by Vivaldi, Saint-Saëns, Bossi, Rheinberger and Toccatas by Marcel Lanquetuit and Hans-André Stamm.
Martin Setchell, organist of Christchurch Town Hall, New Zealand (recently called ‘New Zealand’s most widely travelled concert organist’) is an international organist who believes in promoting entertaining and enjoyable music to a wide audience.
Born and educated in England where he was awarded his Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists with both the Limpus and Shinn prizes, he studied at various times with Pierre Cochereau, Marie-Claire Alain, Piet Kee, and Peter Hurford. After teaching for over 40 years at the University of Canterbury School of Music in Christchurch, he resigned his role as Associate Professor of Music in 2014, to freelance as a concert organist, conductor, writer and music editor, speaker and teacher.