Join us for a recital by internationally acclaimed organist Edward Norman playing a program of classical and contemporary organ classics by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Franck and Stamm on our wonderful four-manual Rodgers Hybrid (digital/pipe) Organ.
Edward Norman studied at the Royal College of Music, London, where he studied with Dr. Osborne Peasgood and Dr. Harold Darke. There he gained several performance awards. After emigrating to Canada he studied with Hugh McLean at UBC, and later also taught the organ there.
He has performed widely in Canada and the UK and in Poland and Germany. He has appeared in the Vancouver International Festival, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston SC, and twice with the YNSO in Tokyo. More recently he has given recitals at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, and at the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff. Over many years he has performed with the VSO (including maestro Bramwell Tovey’s farewell tour) and has appeared regularly as organist at the bi-annual International ‘Kathaumixw’ Choral Festival in Powell River. Over the years he has been heard frequently on CBC radio as recitalist and accompanist, and for ten years was a music producer with CBC radio in Vancouver.
Edward has held several major church music positions, including First Baptist, Halifax, St.John-the Divine, Victoria, St. John's Anglican Church Shaughnessy, Vancouver, First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburgh PA, St. George's Anglican Cathedral, Kingston, and St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Charleston SC. As well as at UBC, he has been on faculty at Lester Pearson College of the Pacific, Regent College, Vancouver, UVic and Trinity Western, Langley.
He and his wife, Susan, live on Galiano Island, where they moved four years ago. Edward continues to perform on and off the island, most recently appearing in the Monday Night Silent Movie series being presented at Vancouver's Orpheum, in conjunction with Vancouver Civic Theatres.
Tickets are available at the door for $20 and $10 for students. The program will be approximately 2 hours with an intermission.