Sunday 26 March at 4pm Choral Evensong at St Jude’s Church Bowral, Brett’s new Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis setting “Evening Service in C” will be premiered by the St Jude’s Chamber Choir. This setting was commissioned for the Festal Evensong service that concludes the Bowral Autumn Music Festival. All welcome!
Some upcoming recitals for those in the area…
My new solo organ CD, called ‘Noteworthy’, recorded on the 2019 South Island Organ Company organ at St John’s Gordon, NSW is now available.
Music is by Mendelssohn, J.S. Bach, Handel, Guilmant, Howells, McKern, and others.
Available as a physical CD or download, it is available from https://soundwright.com.au/?product=noteworthy or from the church at http://stjohnsgordon.org.au/st-johns-music-association/
This Thursday, 22 February, Brett is playing the organ recital at St Andrew’s Cathedral Sydney 1.10-1.40pm. The programme is below. All welcome!
J.S. Bach Fugue a la Gigue
Sir George Thalben-Ball Elegy
Mendelssohn Prelude & Fugue Op.37, No.1
Brett McKern
Meditation on In Paradisum
Tuba Tune
Verset No.1
Théodore Dubois Toccata
Brett’s new chant setting of the ‘Anima Christi’ has been performed the last two weeks with favourable comments.
Also, his new congregational ‘Gloria’ is in rehearsal for upcoming trial.
Both these performances are happening at St John’s Church, Gordon, NSW.
Brett McKern 