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.

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)

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.

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.

2005 Residential Conference

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).