Sunday February 24 at 3pm
Organist Christopher Cook

Since graduating in piano and organ from the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Christopher Cook has worked as Director of Music at All Saint's, Wickham Terrace, Brisbane; St Peter's Eastern Hill, Melbourne and is currently Assistant Director of Music at St John's Cathedral, Brisbane. He is an imaginative recitalist and accompanist, with repertoire ranging from pre-Baroque to contemporary Australian Music, seeking to attract as wide an audience as possible. He is a Director of the Organ Historical Trust of Australia, to assist in preserving what is left of our fragile organ heritage. Christopher has examined and taught piano and organ at all levels for over 20 years. Christopher performed as widely afield as Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Launceston, Sydney and Townsville, not to mention Stockholm, Windsor and London. He has recorded for the ABC and MBS stations. Christopher holds a Fellowship of Trinity College of Music, London in organ performance, and LTCL and LMusA in piano. Study has taken him to Italy, Sweden, Liechtenstein and France for summer courses in 1985, 1997, and 2000.

Naughty but nice
A fun program of organ transcriptions and other musical indiscretions

Programme

• Overture to Occasional
  Oratorio GF Handel
• Sposalizio
  Franz Liszt arr Edwin Lemaire
• Rigaudon
  Jean Baptiste Lully
• Grand Offertoire
  Antoine Édouard Batiste
• Andante Cantabile
  Petr Tchaikovsky
• Pilgrims’ Chorus
  Richard Wagner
• Sortie in Eb
  Louis Alfred James Lefébure-Wély

Review by Rosslyn Kay (17MB)