Top Kiwi organist at Cathedral
Top Kiwi organist Dr Christopher Hainsworth will be in action at Shrewsbury Cathedral next month in "an organ entertainment with a difference" which will be in honour of both St George's Day and Shakespeare's birthday.
Top Kiwi organist Dr Christopher Hainsworth will be in action at Shrewsbury Cathedral next month in "an organ entertainment with a difference" which will be in honour of both St George's Day and Shakespeare's birthday.
Dr Hainsworth, who has been described as New Zealand's premier concert organist, is organist titulaire at Beziers Cathedral in France.
The concert at 7.30pm on April 23 is light-heartedly billed as "The Last Night of the Poms" and is a celebration of the musicians of Britain and other countries who "walked upon England's mountains green".
The concert is free, but donations will be requested afterwards, with profits to the cathedral stained glass windows restoration fund.
During his stay Dr Hainsworth will be staying with John and Anne Kearns of Wellington. His trip also takes him to Beziers, and Ripon Cathedral, where he will perform the day before his Shrewsbury concert.
Dr Hainsworth is the former director of Beziers Conservatoire and former head of music at Waikato University and has been described as New Zealand's most entertaining classical organist.
He has established himself in the forefront of New Zealand's concert organists and graduated from Victoria University.
