Sunday 19 June 2011 at 2:30pm - Admission FREE
Great Hall, Auckland Town Hall, The Edge

Organ Concert by Joseph Nolan (Australia)

formerly organist at Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal, London, currently Organist and Master of the Choristers at St George’s Cathedral, Perth.

Works by Bach, Widor,
Boëllman and Rawsthorne

Retiring donation to support the Auckland Town Hall Trust's ongoing activities.

About Joseph Nolan

Joseph was a scholarship holder at The Royal College of Music, London, and then went on to study in Paris with Marie Claire Alain and in London with New Zealand's most famous organist, Dame Gillian Weir.

Joseph has toured extensively across Europe, North America, New Zealand and Australia, including giving concerts in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, Westminster Abbey, St Paul's Cathedral, London, Melbourne Town Hall and for various US conventions including the 2008 Year of the Organ.

Joseph has also conducted and accompanied some of the world’s leading groups and musicians, including the King’s Singers at the Bad Homburg International Festival as well as giving organ and trumpet concerts with trumpeters Crispian Steele Perkins and Alison Balsom. Joseph also conducted the Hilliard Ensemble, St George’s Cathedral Consort and WASO players in a performance of Pärt’s Passio for the 2010 Perth International Art’s Festival at Perth Concert Hall. William Yeoman of The West Australian said of him: “The greatest praise must go to Joseph Nolan, who steered the performance towards its shattering climax and beyond the final refulgent chorus with such precision and artistry that one felt convinced not only of the existence of a language of suffering - but of redemption”.

Joseph’s latest disc from St Sulpice, Paris, for Signum Records has been particularly well received, winning the star recording award from The Organ magazine.  It is also been described by The Gramophone as a ‘brilliantly played recital’.  MusicWeb International said ‘this disc should find a special place amongst organ collectors’ and American Record Guide: ‘the best Liszt Ad Nos on record’.
He has just returned from recording all of Widor’s Organ Symphonies on the organ of St Sulpice, Paris.

Joseph Nolan's concert on Sunday will comprise:

Although this is a FREE concert, there will be an opportunity at the end of the concert to support the Auckland Town Hall Organ Trust by making a cash donation / koha (preferably notes!) towards the considerable costs of presenting this and subsequent organ concerts at the Auckland Town Hall.