"The organ is an evocative instrument. Upon touching it the imagination is awakened,
and the unforeseen rises from the depths of the unconscious. It is a world of its own,
always new, which will never be seen again, which comes out of the darkness,
as an enchanted island rises from the Sea."
SAINT-SAENS
"Tradition is laziness."
LISZT
"Taste isn't created from scratch. It is born of influences, cultivated by desire and maintained by knowledge."
PIERRE BERGE
and the unforeseen rises from the depths of the unconscious. It is a world of its own,
always new, which will never be seen again, which comes out of the darkness,
as an enchanted island rises from the Sea."
SAINT-SAENS
"Tradition is laziness."
LISZT
"Taste isn't created from scratch. It is born of influences, cultivated by desire and maintained by knowledge."
PIERRE BERGE
Recent features & articles include
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An Organist of Our Time...
The Organ Magazine - May 2015: www.theorganmag.com A 5 page in-depth feature Read it here >>> |
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Ask me a question... The Incorporated Society of Musicians Music Journal - May 2016 www.ism.org Read it here >>> |
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D'Arcy has performed more than 900 recitals in festivals and celebrity series in concert halls, cathedrals, and churches around the world, including concertos, radio and television appearances. He is a regular performer in cities from London to Edinburgh, Paris to Salzburg, Berlin to Münich, Oslo to Ghent, Buenos Aires to Los Angeles, Copenhagen to Montevideo etc.
Solo concert series have included The King of Instruments, the English Romantic Organist, The Great Works of Franck, The Dark Side of the Moon, the symphonies of Widor, etc. He has performed numerous Bach programmes - including a complete series, and he has also given many premiers and first performances. He is repeatedly invited to return by promoters. For example, he has given more than 10 recitals in Auxerre Cathedral as part of the Été Musical d’Auxerre/Festival International d'Orgue d'Auxerre. As much at home performing on great modern instruments as on famous historic ones, he approaches each with a stylistic awareness and perception. He is particular to choose music most suited to the character of each instrument and each occasion: each concert is thus a singular undertaking. “Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.”
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Head Chorister at Canterbury Cathedral under Allan Wicks, he later studied at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester). In addition
to other studies around Europe, he completed his formal training with Jean Guillou and Odile Pierre in Paris. In addition to private pupils, his own teaching has included coaching, masterclasses, coaching and examining at conservatoires and colleges at home and abroad. With Odile Pierre - Canterbury Festival 1990 'Extraordinary teachers don't just teach, they inspire others to learn' |
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Articles by D'Arcy Trinkwon include
Allan Wicks - a personal tribute THE ORGAN, May 2010 The Legend of Jeanne Demessieux THE DIAPASON, November 2008 Jeanne Demessieux: Portrait of a Star ORGANISTS' REVIEW, November 2008 reprinted in Organ News, 2018 Jeanne Demessieux Musica et Memoria Odile Pierre Musica et Memoria |
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“What all artists ought to hold as indisputable – a law that binds them all –
is that there is no true art without reflective thought and purpose”
WIDOR
"As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious"
SCHWEITZER