FOCHO’s Honorary President Gordon Stewart joins us to celebrate the centenary of the Caird Hall organ in a concert presented by Leisure & Culture Dundee and supported by FOCHO.

Join us to hear a varied ‘Town Hall’ style programme showing off the Caird Hall’s fantastic Harrison and Harrison organ in all its glory… from gentle strings and lyrical flutes, to the mighty trumpets and trombones, it is truly ‘the finest concert organ in Scotland!’ You can join Gordon in the cafe bar during the interval.

• Overture The Yeoman of the Guard Arthur Sullivan arr Andrew Johnstone
• Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor Johann Sebastian Bach
• Symphonie VI (first movement) Charles-Marie Widor
• Introduction and Passacaglia (Sonata 2) William Ditchburn Bernard
• Prelude on the Londonderry Air Noel Rawsthorne
• Concert Overture in C Minor Alfred Hollins

Tickets available from Dundee City Box Office, City Square. Visit in person, telephone 01382 434940 (transaction fee £1) or book online www.dundeebox.co.uk (transaction fee £1.50).

Gordon Stewart was born in Dundee and after studies in Manchester and Geneva with Gillian Weir, Eric Chadwick and Lionel Rogg, he was for 15 years a cathedral organist, first in Manchester then in Blackburn. Earlier this year he was appointed Organist Emerititus of Kirklees after 30 years as Borough Organist during which he played regular concerts on the 1860 Father Willis organ in Huddersfield Town Hall. 

He has recorded on organs in the UK and in South Africa on the Priory, Dolcan and Lammas labels and has played concertos with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Northern Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North and Orchestra Victoria. For over 20 years he broadcast regularly as organist and conductor on BBC radio and television, chiefly as a musical director on Daily Service, Sunday Half Hour and Songs of Praise.

Gordon’s repertoire is large and covers all the major schools of organ composition. He is well-known as a teacher and after several years as Senior Organ Tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music, became one of the organ teachers at Cambridge University, teaching the organ scholars at, amongst others, King’s, St John’s and Jesus Colleges. He has appeared as visiting tutor at courses for the Royal College of Organists, Oundle Organ Week, Gothenburg Organ Academy and Shenandoah Church Music Institute in Virginia.

Gordon has played concerts throughout the UK including Celebrity Concerts at St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral and Symphony Hall, Birmingham, throughout Europe, and in the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

He is a former President of the Incorporated Association of Organists. He has been awarded honorary fellowships by the Royal College of Organists, the Royal School of Church Music and the Guild of Church Musicians, and an honorary doctorate by the University of Huddersfield.

Gordon is Honorary President of the Friends of the Caird Hall Organ.