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Mark Quarmby B.Mus , L.T.C.L. , L.Dip.A. , A.Mus.A.
Teacher of
Organ, Piano & Musicianship
Mark Quarmby gained his Bachelor of Music degree from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, studying organ with Norman Johnston and piano with Marjorie Hesse. He is President of the "Organ Society of Sydney" and Assistant Organist of St Andrew's Cathedral, Sydney. He teaches organ, piano and musicianship in the Cathedral Choir School and privately, examines for ANZCA and is repetiteur for the Collegium Musicum at the University of NSW.
He has toured Europe several times playing recitals featuring Australian organ music and lecturing on Australian organs and composition. He toured Europe with the choir of Newington College in 1986 and in 1995 toured the UK with the choir of St Andrew's Cathedral playing in St Paul's, London; Salisbury; Winchester; Oxford; Lichfield Cathedrals and St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. In 1997 Mr Quarmby toured France exploring four centuries of French organ building and later that year toured Germany and Switzerland giving recitals.
Mr Quarmby has recorded for CD, radio and television (including with the Queen) and regularly gives recitals in Sydney, having played at the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Town Hall. He has given recitals throughout Australia and New Zealand (including the Town Halls of Melbourne, Adelaide,Wellington and Auckland) and has been a soloist for the "Melbourne International Festival of Organ and Harpsichord" several times.
Contact Details :
Phone : 02 9744 6837
Mobile: 0413 166 803
Dr. Wilbur G. Hughes B.Mus. (Hons. Lond.) Composition, FTCL (Organ) , . A.Mus.A (Piano) , MB BS , FRCPA
Teacher of Classical
Organ, Piano, Theory and
Musicianship
Wilbur Hughes was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1941.His ambition since the age of six was to be a professional organist. He received initial musical training on the piano from his mother, and culminated in gaining the A.Mus.A in piano in 1963, while studying with Dallas Haslam at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, coincidentally with his undergraduate medical studies.
Since the age of 12, he had been self-taught on the local church pipe organ, ultimately receiving lessons at the age ot 16 from local church organist, Roy Williamson.
After completion of his piano diploma, he commenced singing training and studied organ for many years with Norman Johnston at the Sydney Conservatorium. During this period he was organist and choir master at several Sydney Churches, St Philip’s Eastwood, St. John’s Beecroft, and St Anne’s Ryde.
In 1967, while undertaking post graduate medical studies in Haematology, he gained the L.T.C.L., and was appointed in the same year as Director of Music at St John’s Pro-Cathedral at Parramatta near Sydney. In 1969 he gained the F.T.C.L. in organ.
In subsquent years he took up studies with David and Christa Rumsey, and received valuable guidance from Sergio de Pieri, Keith Asboe, and Peter Planyavsky.
During periods overseas, he studied with Ver Hasselt (St Gervais, Paris) and Peter Hurford in London, and more recently at the Kirchenmusikschule in Spandau, Berlin. He also attended the Haarlem Organ school where he was involved in tutorial classes with Anton Heiller. In 1999 he attended the organ school in Alkmaar, Holland. He has given organ music recitals in Sydney, Ulm, Günzburg, Berlin, Venice, Spain, London, Paris, Las Pinãs, and Manila.
Recently he has retired from his medical career and has devoted his attention entirely to music, and in 2003 gained a B.Mus. Hons. at the University of London in Composition and Musicology.
His great passion is 17th and 18th Spanish Organ Music, as well as the original instruments of Gottfried Silbermann in Saxony.
Contact Details :
Studio located in Haymarket, Sydney
Phone : 0419 522 220
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