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Composer Spotlight
One of Australia's best known organists, choir trainers and composers, June Nixon initially obtained Diploma of Music (Piano) and Bachelor of Music (Organ) from Melbourne University.
Post graduate Scholarships enabled further study in London where she gained F.R.C.O. and became the first woman to receive the John Brooke prize for the Choir Training Diploma.
In 1968 she was the winner of the Australian National Organ Competition.
She was appointed Organist and Director of Music at St. Paul's Cathedral Melbourne in 1973 and only relinquished this after 40 years on 3 February 2013 and has been made Organist Emerita. She is on the teaching staff of Melbourne University Faculty of Music.
A Visit From Sarah Watts
Last week we had a visit from fabulous composer Sarah Watts. Sarah is the author of many of our best selling music books such as Red Hot Recorder, Ready Steady Recorder, Razzamajazz, Two At A Time and many others. It’s lovely to finally welcome guests into our new office and show them what we have been working on in the last year.
Song Of The Week
This week instead of a prayer, we have chosen a beautiful song that Garth wrote which tells the story of the words that were said to Stephen Lawrence as he was dying, by Louise and Conner Taafe. Garth had been given some information by a local radio station which he turned into this song. Archbishop Sentamu (then Bishop of Stepney) asked Garth to join him and Doreen and Neville Lawrence and some friends at the place where Stephen had been killed.
An Interview With John Cox
Song For Palestine Song - Garth Hewitt In Concert
Kevin Mayhew Publishers in partnership with GingerDog Records are greatly looking forward to welcoming Garth Hewitt and his band this Friday for his first live concert in 18 months at St Peter's Church, Ipswich.
Garth is an English Christian singer‑songwriter and Anglican priest, active since the early 1970s. His commitment to social justice pervades his music and led him to found the human rights charity Amos Trust in 1985.