Forthcoming BIOS conferences and events

For the latest position, and details as they become available,
please contact the Meetings Officer.


 BIOS Residential Conference 2010 . . . . . London Organ Concerts Guide

Day events


  Saturday 22 May 2010

Day Conference at St Mary, Stafford
Further information will appear in BIOS Reporter in due course

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Saturday 3 July 2010

North Wiltshire Day
at Bowood House Chapel, Bremhill
and St Andrew, Chippenham

Further information will appear in BIOS Reporter in due course.

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Future Meetings

 

Further Day Conferences are being discussed at 

  • the Taylor Organ at De Montford Hall, Leicester (October 2010)
  • St Swithun, Worcester (Spring/Summer 2011)
  • the Elliott organ at St Margaret of Antioch, Crick, Northampton (Spring/Summer 2011)

 

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For further information about any meeting please contact 
the Meetings Officer on 01737 241355 or e-mail: biosmeetings@hotmail.co.uk
Further details of events will appear here and in the BIOS Reporter in due course.



 
 
The residential conferences in 2007, '08 and '09 were held in Oxford
,
   in a 4 year sequence [2007 to 2010], titled 

THE ORGAN IN ENGLAND: ITS MUSIC, CONSTRUCTION, 
& ROLE IN HISTORY IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM 
 
arranged in association with 
the Betts Fund of the Music Faculty, University of Oxford

 [website, awaiting up-dating]

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Residential Conference 2010

Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 April 2010

Residential Conference co-sponsored by Oxford University (Faculty of Music Betts Fund)

and BIOS,  focusing on the British organ in the 20th centrury and beyond.  

(Residential, based at Merton College)

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
(details also in the January Reporter)

 
BOOKING FORM
(print out, complete and return)

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The first Conference in this series was titled:

"THE ORGAN IN ENGLAND TO THE DEATH OF ELIZABETH I" 
Music, Technology, and the Wider Role
and was centred around the two Early English Organs
constructed from fragments found in Suffolk  [EEOP]

Proceedings :  Performances :  Handouts

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The second in the series was titled:
"THE ORGAN IN STUART AND GEORGIAN ENGLAND (1605-1784)"

Conference Report by David Shuker

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The third:
"HOPE & GLORY - THE BRITISH ORGAN IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE (1785 -1901)"

Conference Report by David Shuker

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For information about the final conference in the series please contact BIOS Meetings Officer
or 
Dr.Katharine Pardee, Betts Scholar in Organ Studies 
University of Oxford 


Stalwarts rarely miss BIOS residential conferences, which are friendly and worthwhile occasions.
A varied programme usually features relevant talks, a recital and other music-making, and visits
for appraisal of organs, often by local builders, with the normal opportunities for discussion and
relaxation - a thoroughly pleasant, interesting, yet casually educative experience. We feel sure
more should come and enjoy these occasions, and would very much like to welcome many newcomers -
members, spouses and friends.
 
Ideas for future Conferences are always welcome

For Conference ideas, bookings and for further information please contact the Meetings Officer:
Melvin Hughes, Ashcroft, 10 Ridgegate Close, REIGATE, Surrey, RH2 0HT
Tel No: 01737 241355:  E-mail



 

For the record

Access details of Terry Charlston's presentation: "A Restoration Organist and his music"
given on
Saturday 24 November 2007 at the
Study Day and AGM at St Botolph, Aldgate,  London EC3
The organ was built by Renatus Harris, 1704, reconstructed and the historic parts restored by Goetze & Gwynn in 2006.

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2005 Residential Conference

The Programme for the residential conference in Cardiff, Mon.22nd to Thurs.25th August 2005 [where we were joined by the Diocesan Organs Advisers' Conference], is still available as a pdf file. 

Please direct enquiries about offers of potential future Residential Conference venues to Melvin Hughes


For the record, fully residential conferences in 2003 and 2004 were not possible. Previously, however, in 2002 the residential conference was held at Sarum College, Salisbury, mid August, and included talks on matters with local interest - Alcock, historical recordings of the Willis organ, the 17thC Harris organ case, music in a "rotten borough", the Cathedral building, together with a recitals at the Cathedral and at Milton Abbey, and a visit to the English Organ School, with its many historic instruments, at Milbourne Port. 

The 2001 residential conference was based at the University of Loughborough, Leics., in late August 2001. The programme focused on country house organs (Staunton Harold, Calke Abbey, Kedlestone, Belton, Wollaton), Handel's organ (Great Packington), and Music Festivals. The reconstructed Tudor organ based on the Suffolk fragment was available, explained and discussed. 

The previous year's residential conference was based at Howell's School, Denbigh, in North Wales, in late August 2000, and was organised by Paul Joslin. The conference visited and heard about some of the area's interesting organs, and their builders - Hill, Willis, Bellamy, Whiteley; and included a lecture about Casson of Denbigh. 

The 1999 residential conference held in Liverpool late in August, was organised on behalf of BIOS, the Institute of British Organ-building, and Diocesan Organs' Advisers, by the Council for the Care of Churches, on the theme Ethics and Conservation of the Organ. Speakers from the world of organ-building and organ studies provided delegates with new thoughts and challenges; time spent at the Conservation Centre in Liverpool gave insights from other conservation disciplines to widen our understanding of materials and issues concerned with organs. Case studies were reported, and we enjoyed recitals at St.George's Hall, and the Metropolitan and Anglican Cathedrals. The Conference Proceedings are now published and circulated, or available from Church House Bookshop , providing an essential resource for organ consultants, builders and owners considering organ conservation for years to come. 

Conferences were held in Bath (1998) and Aberdeen (1997).


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