PROGRAMME

• Overture: The Marriage of Figaro
  - W.A.Mozart (1756-1795) arr Setchell
  
• March on a theme of Handel (Lift up your heads) 
  - Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)
  
• Pokare Kare Ana Suite
  - Martin Setchell (b. 1949)
  Introduction and Theme
  Dance
  Lament
  Scherzo
  Toccata
  
• Fugue in G major BWV 577 (alla Giga) - J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
  
• Chorale No 3 in A minor
  - César Franck (1822-1890)
  
• from Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
  - W.A. Mozart (1756-1795) arr. Setchell
  Allegro
  Romanze
  Menuetto
  
• Introduction and Grand Concert variations on a hymn-tune by Sir Arthur Sullivan - (Onward Christian Soldiers)  - ‘The Not-so-Young Person’s Guide to the organ’ -
  - Richard Francis b.1946
  
  Introduction (in modo di Guilmant)
  Andante piacevole (Aria in mood operatico)
  Variation 1: tempo di Galoppa
  Variation 2: tempo di Case Noisette
  Variation 3: Pedal solo (quasi recitative)
  Variation 4: Dialogue (in modo di Duruflé)
  Variation 5: Musette (alla Zipoli)
  Variation 6: Finale Alla Marcia Grande Verdi
  Variation 7: Toccata (in modo di Widor)
  
• Carillon-Sortie
  - Henri Mulet (1878-1967)

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Martin Setchell will introduce his programme. Please switch off all cellphones, pagers and watch alarms. Thank you.

Concert organist Martin Setchell is Organ Curator of the Christchurch Town Hall, New Zealand, where he regularly performs on the acclaimed Rieger pipe organ.

He was born in Blackpool, England where he received his early musical education, studied organ at Exeter University and Cathedral, and graduated with Honours degrees in Music and French. Advanced studies in Classical organ technique followed with various teachers including Pierre Cochereau, then titular organist of Notre Dame in Paris, Marie-Claire Alain, Piet Kee, and Peter Hurford.

Martin was awarded both the Limpus and Shinn prizes when he received his Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists in London . He emigrated to New Zealand on his appointment to the University of Canterbury School of Music where he is Associate Professor of Music and tutor in organ, combining his University teaching and research career with a busy schedule of recitals and concerts as soloist, accompanist and continuo player on organ and harpsichord. He regularly fulfils engagements as organist with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony, Christchurch City Choir and the Woolston Brass.

Some of his overseas solo concert highlights include the Spreckels organ in Balboa Park, San Diego, the famous Hill organ in Sydney Town Hall, Australia, Oliwa Cathedral in Poland as part of the Gdansk International Organ Festival, the Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Guangdong Xinghai Concert Hall in Guangzhou, China, St Paul ’s Cathedral, London and St Giles Cathedral Edinburgh. Concert engagements in 2006-7 will take him to Japan, Australia, Singapore, Canada, USA, England, Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

An active composer and choral conductor, his organ and choral compositions are published by Oxford University Press, Kevin Mayhew Music and Fagus Music in England. He is the founder and first director of Christchurch 's chamber choir the Jubilate Singers, Director of the University Chamber Choir, and an examiner for Trinity College, London.

Martin’s solo organ CDs recorded on the Christchurch Town Hall Rieger pipe organ, Let the pealing organ blow (the inaugural recording on the new instrument in 1997), Bonbons for organ (Atoll 600) and Bonbons for organ 2 (Atoll 603) have achieved international recognition and are regularly featured on radio in England, America, New Zealand and Australia. He recently recorded a DVD of his performance at the organ of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, a unique artistic collaboration with artist Philip Trusttum. In 2005 Atoll released his fourth CD Pink and White, an anthology of organ music by New Zealand composers. Next year he will record a new CD in England for Quantum records.

Martin aims to make his organ concerts and CDs of as wide appeal as possible, through his choice of repertoire, the projection of his playing and his lively personality. His multi-media performances, Bach’s Back! in which he appeared as Bach himself in a special concert to mark the 250th anniversary of the death of JSB in July 2000, and its sequel Jacques Back! celebrating French organ music have entertained large audiences of adults and children alike with a combination of musical artistry and verbal and visual humour. Above all he believes that organ music can and should be entertaining.

Martin’s website www.organist.co.nz

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