Director of Music Blog
What is the sound we make as musicians?
September 20th, 2018 What is the sound we make as musicians? Is it just noise? Or is it something which grows from silence and stillness? So that through the sound we ...
You are the glory of Jerusalem
September 8th, 2018 As we celebrate the Nativity of Our Lady today, I remember a few years ago when this feast also fell on a Saturday. The Mass of the feast ...
What no eye has seen and no ear has heard…
September 1st, 2018 In preparation for our week of musical celebrations for Our Lady’s birthday we are preparing a special programme of music for this Sunday’s 11am Solemn Sung Mass (2nd ...
What is in the sound of a pipe organ?
August 24th, 2018 What is in the sound of a pipe organ? Well, let’s see - there’s lots of pipes, cabling, magnets, bellows and increasingly more and more electronic components...how about beyond ...
Heartfelt gestures for our heavenly Mother
August 16th, 2018 Just as we love and cherish our own mothers, and some of the most heartfelt gestures of love are given to our mothers, so I think some of ...
Orchestras – what can they teach us?
Aug 5, 2018 As we started the prelude to our Orchestral Mass last Sunday and the orchestra played the opening strains of ‘Our Lady of the Southern Cross’ not only did ...
Totus Tuus – Totally yours
28 July, 2018 Our 2018 Orchestral Mass is now less than 24 hours away !! Included in our programme is the piece 'Totus Tuus' of Henryk Gorecki written for the third ...
10 years on…
As I write this I’m heading back to Perth having played a recital at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney. I remember first seeing this pipe organ a few years ago - ...
Hush…the Organ Scholar is practising
As I was working with our Organ Scholar yesterday on the piece she is preparing for the upcoming Orchestral Mass (Sunday 29th July, 11am Mass), something sprang to mind which ...
While the Cathedral Choir is enjoying their winter break…
While the Cathedral Choir enjoys a well earned two week break, preparations are going on in earnest for our 2018 Orchestral Mass to be held on Sunday 29th July (11am ...