MR CHRISTOPHER COOK
Assistant Director of Music
A graduate in piano and organ from the Queensland Conservatorium
of Music, Christopher 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 broad 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, including
a growing school of pupils at Queensland
Conservatorium during the late 80’s and early 90’s.
He examines piano for the Australian Music Examinations Board.
Christopher has performed in Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Launceston,
Sydney and Townsville, as well as overseas in Stockholm, Windsor,
Wokingham and London.
He has broadcast 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. Further study
has taken him to courses in Italy, Sweden, Liechtenstein and France
in 1985, 1997, and 2000.
In 2005 he completed his Licence to manage commercial rental property,
and has taken on an exciting venture with Peta Nagle, as part of
MC Group Australia, including the management and upgrading of heritage
buildings in the Brisbane CBD. One aspect of this venture is devising
and promoting concerts, the most recent of which is a short series
of Thursday evening Organ + Recitals in the Brisbane City Hall.
More soon..
As Cathedral Assistant Director of Music Christopher, co-ordinates
the Monthly Organ Recital Series [BORIS], the Choir Library, and
directs the Choral program during January and other holiday Sundays,
as well as normal Sunday accompanimental duties and directing. |