Margaret Phillips

Concert organist


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Diary of concerts and masterclasses

Margaret gives a monthly concert at the English Organ School (image below showing the exterior of the EOS chapel), Milborne Port. As space is limited, admission is available only to members of the EOS Association, though there are occasional Open Days. For details of membership and concerts contact EOS on 01963 250022, or e-mail
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Image showing the exterior of the EOS chapel


Engagements for 2012

Friday 20 January 2012, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Friday 24 February 2012, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Friday 23 March 2012, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Friday 27 April 2012, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Saturday 19 May 2012, 18.30: King’s College, Cambridge

Friday 25 May 2012, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Thursday 7 June 2012, 18.30: St. Paul’s Cathedral, London

Wednesday 4 July 2012: St John’s Church, Bergen, Norway

Thursday 5 July 2012: Bergen Cathedral (lunchtime concert)

Sunday 8 July 2012: Bergen Cathedral (evening concert)

Wednesday 18 July 2012: Norden, Germany

Saturday 21 July 2012: Leens, Holland

Monday 23 July - Saturday 28 July 2012: International Organ Festival Haarlem, Holland
Margaret will teach English organ music (1550-1760) in the Summer Academy, and Bach in the YoungTalents Masterclass.
International Organ Festival

Tuesday 31 July 2012: IAO Congress Concert in Badminton Church and the Great Hall of Westonbirt House

Tuesday 7 August - Saturday 11 August 2012: Academie de Musique Tibor Varga, Sion, Switzerland
Masterclasses with Margaret in a beautiful mountain environment.
Academie de Musique Tibor Varga, Sion, Switzerland
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Friday 17 August 2012: Haderslev Cathedral, Denmark

Engagements for 2011

Friday 18 November 2011, 19.30: St Michael the Archangel, Lyme Regis
Concert on the new Skrabl organ which included the first performance of Six Bagatelles by Brian Chapple

Friday 11 November 2011, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Friday 14 October 2011, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Friday 7 October 2011, 19.30: Romsey Abbey

Sunday 25 September 2011, 17.00: St Alban's, Bodenheim, Germany
Concert as part of the Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz

Friday 23 September 2011: Kloster Altenberg (near Wetzlar), Germany
Concert as part of Bachfest Wetzlar 2011 (86. Bachfest der Neuen Bachgesellschaft) on the 1757 Schöler organ.

Sunday 18 September 2011, 17.00: Paulskirche, Kirchheimbolanden, Germany
Concert as part of the Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz

Friday 9 September 2011, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Saturday 3 September 2011: St. Imier, Switzerland

Sunday 14 August 2011, 16.00: Dala-Husby, Sweden

Friday 12 August 2011: Svärdsjö, Sweden

Thursday 11 August 2011: Norberg, Sweden

Tuesday 9 August 2011: Oddernes Church, Kristiansand, Norway

Sunday 7 August 2011: Lillehammer, Norway

Saturday 6 August 2011, 12.00: Hamar Cathedral, Norway

Wednesday 3 August 2011: Kongsberg, Norway
Concert on the largest organ from the Baroque era in the Nordic countries, built by Gottfried Heinrich Gloger in 1765 and restored by Jürgen Ahrend in 2001

Friday 15 July - Tuesday 19 July 2011: Academie de Musique Tibor Varga, Sion, Switzerland
Masterclasses with Margaret in a beautiful mountain environment.

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 19.00: Westminster Abbey

Saturday 25 June 2011, 19.30: Borden Parish Church (near Sittingbourne, Kent)

Friday 3 June 2011, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Friday 6 May 2011, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Friday 1 April 2011, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Friday 4 March 2011, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Friday 4 February 2011, 11.30: The English Organ and Museum, Milborne Port

Engagements for 2010

Saturday 13 November 2010, 19.30: St Albans Cathedral
Margaret played Handel's Organ Concerto Op. 4 no. 4 as part of a concert in celebration of Peter Hurford's 80th birthday.

Friday and Saturday 22/23 October 2010: Trinity College Cambridge
Cambridge Academy of Organ Studies: Study Days on J.S. Bach's Orgelbüchlein led by Margaret Phillips.

Wednesday 29 September 2010, 20.00: Rozsa Centre, Calgary, Canada
Margaret gave the Opening Concert of the Calgary Organ Festival and Symposium on the 2006 Ahrend organ.
Programme included music by Praetorius, Sweelinck, Byrd, Tomkins, Bull, Buxtehude, Bruhns and J.S. Bach

Saturday 18 September 2010: St Andrew's Headington
Class on Boyce and S.S. Wesley for the Oxford Organists' Association

Friday 10 September 2010, 20.00: Finchcocks Musical Museum
Concert at the start of a weekend which celebrated the English Organ

Monday 9 August - Friday 13 August 2010: Academie de Musique Tibor Varga, Sion, Switzerland
Masterclasses with Margaret in a beautiful mountain environment
On 9 August at 19.00 Margaret took part in a Professors' concert, playing works by Tomkins, Bruhns and Heiller.

Wednesday 4 August 2010, 19.30: Durham Cathedral
Programme included works by Bach, Mendelssohn, S.S. Wesley, Franck, Sixten, Lefébure-Wély and Litaize

19-24 July 2010: Oundle for Organists
Margaret gave classes for young organists during Oundle's summer course, now in its 25th year
20 July 2010, 21.00: Fotheringhay Church
Margaret played organ pieces by Bach and Buxtehude, interleaved with movements from Bach's Sonata in C for solo violin played by Pavlo Besnosiuk.

Wednesday 7 July 2010, 19.30: Christchurch Priory
Organ by Nicholson 1999
Programme included music by Bach, Weber, S.S. Wesley, Saint-Saëns, Franck, Sixten, Lefébure-Wély and Grison

Sunday 13 June 2010: Kloster Altenberg (near Wetzlar)
Organ by Schöler, 1757

Monday 31 May 2010, 11.30: Bromley Parish Church
Organ by J.W. Walker, 1991
Programme included music by Bach, S.S. Wesley, Saint-Saëns, Sixten, Bovet and Grison

Thursday 22 April 2010, 19.30: Reading Town Hall
Organ by "Father" Willis, 1864
Programme included music by Bach, Saint-Saëns, Lefébure-Wély and Guilmant

Tuesday 13 April 2010, 20.00: Turner Sims Concert Hall, University of Southampton
Organ by Peter Collins, 1977
Programme included music by Bach, Schumann, Saint-Saëns, Alain and Litaize

Engagements for 2009

Sunday 15 November 2009, 15.00: St Mary's Thorncombe, Dorset (near Chard)
Concert to mark completion of the refurbishment of the organ

Tuesday 3 November 2009, 13.00: St David's Hall, Cardiff
Programme included works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Guilmant and Litaize

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 11.30: St Saviour's Church, St Albans
Masterclass on Bach's Clavierübung III organised by the Assistant Cathedral Organists' Association.

Saturday 10 October 2009, 14.00 - 17.00: Bryanston School, Dorset
Masterclass on Bach's Orgelbüchlein organised by the Bournemouth Association of Organists.

Sunday 27 September 2009, 18.30: Chapel of God's Gift, Dulwich
Festival Evensong followed by organ recital to celebrate the restoration of the 1760 George England organ by William Drake.

September 2009: concerts in the Internationale Orgelfestwochen Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany:

- Sunday 13 September, Ehemaligen Klosterkirche, Lambrecht

- Friday 11 September, Evangelische Kirche, Klingelbach

Sunday 6 September 2009, 19.00: Protestantischen Kirche, Schweigen, Germany

Sunday 23 August 2009, 16.00: Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden

Friday 21 August 2009: Avesta Church, Sweden

Thursday 20 August 2009: Smedjebacken Church, Sweden

Monday 10 August - Friday 14 August 2009: Academie de Musique Tibor Varga, Sion, Switzerland
Masterclasses

Saturday 4 July 2009: Brentwood Cathedral
14.00 - 16.00: Masterclass, 18.00: Concert

Friday 3 July 2009, 18.30-20.30: Chelmsford Cathedral
Masterclass

Saturday 16 May 2009, 17.00: All Saints Church, Maidstone
Programme included works by J.S. Bach, Weber, Mendelssohn, Guilmant and Litaize.

Saturday 9 May 2009, 19.30: Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London W1
Handel and Haydn Organ Concertos with orchestra.

Sunday 26 April 2009, 15.00: Cheap Street Church, Sherborne
Concert celebrated the restoration of the organ

Monday 30 March 2009, 13.00: Birmingham Town Hall
Programme included works by J.S. Bach, Weber, Mendelssohn, Bonnet, Bourgeois and Fredrik Sixten.

Saturday 28 February 2009, 17.30: Merchant Taylor's School, Northwood, Middlesex
Concert on the restored 1982 Harrison organ
Programme included works by J.S. Bach, Reubke and Vierne.

Monday 2 February 2009, 13.00: Huddersfield Town Hall
Programme included works by J.S. Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn, Bonnet, Bourgeois and Fredrik Sixten.

Engagements for 2008

Wednesday 3 December 2008, 18.30: St Giles in the Fields, London WC2
Margaret made a return visit to play the historic organ, restored by William Drake in 2007

Wednesday 1 October 2008, 13.10: The Building of Bath Museum, The Paragon, Bath
Music by Bach, Buxtehude, Stanley, Ethyl Smyth, Hugo Distler and Mendelssohn on the Telford organ in The Countess of Huntingdon's Chapel

Friday 19 September 2008: St Peter's Limpsfield, Surrey

Wednesday 27 August 2008, 18.00: Sainte-Croix, Bordeaux, France
Concert on the organ built in 1748 by Dom Bedos de Celles

Friday 18 July - Tuesday 22 July 2008: Academie de Musique Tibor Varga, Sion
Masterclasses

Thursday 17 July 2008, 20.00: St Martinskirche, Wehr, Germany
Concert on the Metzler organ completed in 2007

Tuesday 15 July 2008, 20.00: Evangelische Kirche, Oberotterbach, Germany
Concert on the 1753 organ by Johann Michael Hartung

Thursday 10 July 2008, 20.00: Altenberger Dom, Germany
Programme, on the renovated Klais organ, including works by J.S. Bach, Saint-Saëns, Bairstow and Messiaen

Sunday 29 June 2008, 14.00: Börstil Church, Sweden
Concert on the 1783 organ by Olof Schwan

Saturday 28 June 2008, 15.00: Leufstabruk Church, Sweden
Concert on the 1728 organ by Johan Niclas Cahman

Friday 13 June 2008, 19.30: The Priory Church of St Andrew, Stogursey, Somerset
Programme including works by Böhm, Buxtehude, Pachelbel, J.S. Bach, S. Wesley, and Mendelssohn.

Saturday 7 June 2008, 20.00: Kumla Church, Sweden
Performance of Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 with the Västerås Sinfonietta

Friday 6 June 2008: St Nicolai, Örebro, Sweden
13.00: Organ Concert
14.30: Masterclass on Messiaen's La Nativité du Seigneur

Thursday 5 June 2008, 17.00: Kumla Church, Sweden

Saturday 24 May 2008, 15.30: Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London W1
This concert launched volumes three and four of Margaret's recordings of the complete organ works of J.S Bach, including chorale preludes from the Clavierübung part III, and the Toccata and Fugue in F, BWV 540.
www.grosvenorchapel.org.uk

Tuesday 22 April 2008: Charterhouse, Charterhouse Square, London EC1
Harpsichord and organ concert including music by Byrd, Gibbons, Buxtehude, J.S. Bach, Rameau and Mendelssohn.

Engagements for 2007

Wednesday 5 December 2007, 18.30: St Giles-in-the-Fields, London
Organ: Anon. 17thC, Gerard Smith 1734, Gray and Davison 1856, reconstructed by William Drake 2007

Saturday 29 September 2007, 19.00: St John the Baptist, Westbourne, Emsworth
Lecture recital: 'Mendelssohn Rediscovered'
Event organized by the West Sussex Organists' Association

Thursday 13 September 2007, 19.30: Wells Cathedral
Programme including works by Buxtehude, Mendelssohn, Parry, Forbes and Langlais

Sunday 19 August 2007, 12.00: St Wenzel, Naumburg, Germany
(1746 organ by Zacharias Hildebrandt)

Wednesday 15 August 2007, 20.00: Frauenkirche, Dresden
Programme including works by Buxtehude, J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Parry and Forbes

Friday 10 August 2007, 21.00: St Bartholomäuskirche, Dornum, Germany
Works by Buxtehude, J.S. Bach, Scheidt, Byrd, Bull, Purcell and Stanley played on the 1711 organ by Gerhard-von-Holy.

Sunday 29 July - Saturday 4 August 2007: EOS, Milborne Port, Sherborne
Canford Summer School of Music held an organ course at EOS, taught by Margaret.

Tuesday 17 July - Saturday 21 July 2007: Academie de Musique Tibor Varga, Sion
Masterclasses

Sunday 15 July 2007, 17.00: Marmoutier Abbey, Alsace, France
(1710 organ by Andreas Silbermann)

Saturday 16 June 2007, 19.00: Blessed Sacrament Church, Aintree, Liverpool
This concert was cancelled owing to repairs being carried out to the church.

Sunday 3 June 2007, 15.00: Farnborough Abbey
Programme including music by J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns, Langlais and Mulet.

Friday 25 May 2007, 13.10: Truro Cathedral
Margaret played both the Tickell chamber organ and the Father Willis in works by Scheidt, Byrd, Buxtehude, Parry, Saint-Saëns and Langlais.

Saturday 19 May 2007, 19.30: Brentwood Cathedral
Celebrity Organ Recital
Programme including works by Buxtehude, J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Parry, Guilmant, Dupré, Saint-Saëns and Mulet.

Friday 18 May 2007, 18.00 - 19.00: Brentwood Cathedral
Organ Master Class

Saturday 17 March 2007
Workshop on the organ music of Mendelssohn.
Event organized by the Oxford and District Organists' Association

Saturday 3 March 2007, 17.30: St Albans Abbey
Programme including works by Buxtehude, Bach, Franck (Grande Pièce Symphonique) and Langlais

Tuesday 20 February 2007: Hope College
Lecture recital on Mendelssohn

Monday 19 February 2007: Hope College, Holland, Michigan, USA


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