Bromley and Croydon Organists’ Association
PRESIDENT’S ADVENT EVENT AT ST MARY’S EWELL
FRIDAY 1st DECEMBER 1.05pm followed by afternoon tea
RICHARD MANDER
Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély Andante in F
Jean Langlais La Nativité (from Poèmes Évangéliques, Op. 2)
Charles Tournemire Improvisation sur le “Te Deum”
Tr. Maurice Duruflé
Richard started learning the organ whilst in the choir at St Mildred’s, Addiscombe, and graduated in organ studies from the Royal Northern College of Music, subsequently studying with the late David Sanger. He has played as a soloist and accompanist at many cathedrals and concert halls throughout the UK. After graduating, Richard began a career in the City, working as a marine underwriter in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market. He was for nearly twenty years a senior underwriter, leaving the market in 2022 to return to music full time.
In 2020 he founded Sweetnote Music Services and has developed the Sweetnote mobile phone apps to help provide structure and focus to music practice.
Richard returned to St Mildred’s as Director of Music in 2016 and continues to develop the large choir. He is currently overseeing the project to install the new 34-stop West organ, built by Nicholson & Co using Lewis pipework, which will be completed in April 2024. He has also started recording the complete Orgelbüchlein on the 10-stop East organ, with the ten Christmas chorales set for release on Spotify next week.
ANDREW SCOTT
Alexandre Guilmant Sortie No. 2: Chant du Roi René – Noël Provençal
Élévation No. 6: Deux Noels Harmonisés
Sortie No. 1: Introduction et Variations sur un ancien Noël Polonais
Offertoire No. 1 sur les Noëls: Grand Dieu! Allons pasteurs, que l’on s’éveille
Offertoire No. 6 sur un Noël Espagnol
Andrew began his musical education in 1989 as a Chorister at Christ Church, North Shields under the tutelage of Russell Missin. In 1994 he was awarded the Organ Scholarship before being promoted to Assistant Organist, and eventually, Director of Music.
In 1994, on leaving school Andrew was apprenticed to Harrison & Harrison, Organ Builders of Durham to train as a professional Organ Builder. In 2000 at the age of 22 he was appointed as London Tuner, taking on the responsibility for the tuning and maintenance of many parish church organs and for the instruments in many of the main London venues, including Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral and the Royal Festival Hall.
Andrew was appointed Head Voicer of H&H in 2012 and has been responsible for the musical success of many projects, including Canterbury, Salisbury, Norwich and Winchester Cathedrals, King’s College Cambridge, York Minster, together with new organs for Edington Priory, Hakadal Kirke, Norway, St Andrew’s Church, Bedford, Christ Church, Alexandria VA, and most recently, Christ Church, Greenwich CT and many more. He became a director of H&H in 2017 and was appointed Managing Director in 2022.
Apart from many organs in the UK and America, Andrew has worked in Australia, Denmark, India, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, South Korea and Sweden. He is in demand as a writer and speaker on the subjects of organology and voicing. In the wider organ-building world, Andrew was recently elected First Vice-President of The International Society of Organbuilders, having been a board member since 2016. Andrew is also a trustee of The Institute of British Organ Building and was elected Chairman in 2021.
DR HERMAN JORDAAN
Alec Rowley Four Winds
1. North Wind
2. South Wind
3. East Wind
4. West Wind
Triumph Song (from Heroic Suite)
Herman Jordaan grew up in Pretoria, South Africa. He studied organ with Wim Viljoen at the University of Pretoria, then continued his organ studies in The Netherlands with Jacques van Oortmerssen at the Conservatory of Amsterdam, and later also with Jos van der Kooy at the Royal Conservatory The Hague. He was winner of the first prize at the Interpretation Competition at the prestigious St Albans International Organ Festival in the United Kingdom in 2003. He was also awarded first prizes at the Schnitger International Organ Competition, the International Organ Competition Nijmegen, the UNISA National Organ Competition, and second prize at the Kotka International Organ Competition (Finland). He is a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in the UK. International concert tours have taken him around the world – from South Africa to Europe, the United States, and as far as Russia. In 2021, he obtained the degree Doctor of Music (Performing Art). 2023 has seen CD releases of the complete Afrika Hymnus cycle by celebrated South African composer Stefans Grové and a two-CD set of organ music by the English composer Alec Rowley, both available on the Ismeron label.