Everyone has been invited to celebrate and enjoy God’s gift of music at a special organ recital at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Railway Parade, Lithgow on Saturday, October 20 at 2.30pm.
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Titled ‘The Splendour of the Organ’, the recital with Michael Deasey will include a program featuring JS Bach, Handel, Dvorak and more.
All are welcome.
About Michael Deasey
Michael Deasey is best-known as the tenth and second longest serving organist and master of the choristers at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Sydney after previous organist positions in England and Canada.
After 25 years at St Andrew’s he became Director of Music and Precentor at All Saints Cathedral Bathurst in 2005, concluding his time there at the end of 2015.
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As an organ recitalist Michael has played extensively, including Westminster Abbey, Reykjavik and Skalholt Cathedrals in Iceland, the Isle of Man, Norfolk Island and many locations in Canada and Australia.
He has taken his English, Canadian, Sydney and Bathurst choirs on many international tours including England, Ireland, Belgium, Iceland, the USA and New Zealand.
In 2004 Michael was made an Associate of the Royal School of Church Music at a conferral ceremony in Salisbury Cathedral and a year later was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to church music. In 2015 he received an honorary Fellowship of the Guild of Church Musicians.
He holds the organ performing diplomas of both the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music, is a Fellow of Trinity College of Music and an Associate of the Royal College of Organists.
