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A piece is only thoroughly learned when you have had the opportunity to perform it several times to others. This class provides one of those opportunities and is aimed at players of at least grade 5 through to diploma level. Six playing places (giving 25 minutes time at the console) are available. Observer places will be added once four playing places have been booked.
Please note the start and end times for this class: 15:00 - 18:00.
What to prepare
Take a look at the specification of the organ and then choose one longer or two shorter pieces of up to c. 6 minutes in duration. Click here to see the organ specification (scroll down to the entry for St Giles). Read more about the organ organ here .
Although one of the most historic organs in the country, this three-manual and pedal organ is very versatile, aided by beautifual vocing and sensitive mechanical action. Any music from any period will be suitable provided it does not require rapid and complicated registration changes (the organ has no playing aids). Note that both the Great and Choir divisions go down to low G beneath the usual 'bottom C', enabling the performance of pre-nineteenth-century English organ music requiring these low notes.
The teacher
Jonathan Bunney studied on a scholarship at the Royal College of Music. His teachers have included Anne Marsden Thomas, Nigel Stark, David Graham and Margaret Phillips. During his time at the RCM he won all the major prizes for organ. In 2004 Jonathan became Director of Music at St. Giles-in-the-Fields and in 2008 he returned to the RCM to study for a Masters in Advanced Performance, achieving a distinction. He has made several broadcasts on radio and recorded the organ at St Giles for Regent Records ('Let the Pealing Organ Blow').
The venue
The beautiful eighteenth-century church of St Giles in the Fields is situated in Central London close to Tottenham Court Road underground station. Many buses stop nearby.
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Fee: RCO member player £78; non-member player £91; RCO members observer £30; non-member observer £35