| Come As You Are, Leave Uplifted. | ||||
 |  | |||
David Poon, BMus (UBC), FRCCO, is a professional organist, choirmaster, continuo player, accompanist, teacher, adjudicator, and music engraver based on the Sunshine Coast and Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Having played in churches his entire adult life, he is enamoured with Anglican, Byzantine, and Roman Catholic liturgy. He is simultaneously determined to increase the airtime…
As one of Canada’s more active and versatile organists, Vancouver Civic Organist Michael Dirk is equally at home offering solo concerts, accompanying the many fine choirs/ensembles of the region, improvising an entertaining accompaniment to a silent film, or serving liturgically in various worship styles. During his BMus program at UBC, he studied organ with Ed…
Jonathan was born in Birmingham UK, has lived in New Zealand for many years, and is now a grateful adopted kiwi. He came to Montréal and now Vancouver with his black Labrador Beau to join his husband Soqati, a Saudi refugee at Vancouver Film School. Jonathan long ago funded his rent through law school singing…
Cantor Paul Bunnell grew up at St. Faith’s, studying piano at age 6, organ age 11, and played his first service at age 13. Following high school he studied accounting and computers while serving as chorister and alternate organist to Ryerson and then similar role at SJS in 1979. Paul has served as music director…
A native of British Columbia, an organist, teacher and conductor, Terence Fullerton is one of Canada’s leading organ soloists and church musicians. Fullerton spent much of his career in Calgary where he was the Director of Music at the Anglican Cathedral and Chorus Master and keyboard player with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. He was also the pipe organ instructor at the University…
Dietrich Bartel received his undergraduate degree at the University of British Columbia in 1975, where he majored in Music History and Organ Performance. He completed his PhD at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität in Freiburg, Germany, in 1982. His dissertation, appearing in 1985 as Handbuch der musikalischen Figurenlehre, is presently going into its 4th printing. While in Freiburg, he also held the Kantor position at…
Born Enfield, Middlesex 5th Mar 1913, died Vancouver 28th Jul 1998. Carter was educated at the George Spicer School, Enfield, and studied music under Harold Darke. Took the diplomas of FRCO (1948) and CHM (1949). From 1941 to 1948 was organist of St. Paul’s Church, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, and then, from 1948 to 1951, assistant…