Composition performance

This Sunday 10 December 2023 at 4pm, the St Jude’s Chamber Choir is performing Brett’s Mass of the Incarnation, a choral Mass setting based on Christmas carol melodies. The service is at St Jude’s Church, Bendooley Street, Bowral. All welcome.

Scores of the setting can be purchased at https://www.australiancomposers.com.au/collections/composers-and-authors/products/communion-service-of-the-incarnation

Next organ recital

Brett is playing a lunchtime concert on Wednesday 29 November 2023 at 1.15pm at St Jude’s Church, Bendooley Street, Bowral. Music will be for Advent (Brahms, Petker, McKern) and St Andrew’s Day (Francis Jackson, Langlais, and the premiere of the McKern Voluntary on St Oswald). All welcome!

New CD

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/

Upcoming recital

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