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"The organ is an evocative instrument. Upon touching
it the magination 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 |
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“I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics,
I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare." VLADIMIR HOROWITZ "Taste isn't created from scratch. It is born of influences, cultivated by desire and maintained by knowledge." PIERRE BERGE |
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Performing recitals, concertos, radio and television broadcasts in concert halls, cathedrals, and churches worldwide, D'Arcy has been a regular performer in in international festivals and celebrity series from London to Edinburgh, Paris to Salzburg, Berlin to Münich, Oslo to Ghent, Buenos Aires to Los Angeles, Copenhagen to Montevideo etc.
An unusual feature of his career has been the performance of solo concert series, including a complete Bach cycle. Others have included: Click on each for full details
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He has been repeatedly invited to return by promoters. Among these have been more than 10 recitals in the Été Musical d’Auxerre/Festival International d'Orgue d'Auxerre and 7 in the Kongsberg Internasjonale Orgel Sommer .
As much at home performing on great modern instruments as on famous historic ones, he approaches each with a different stylistic awareness and perception. Particular to choose music most suited to express the character of each instrument, each programme is thus a singular undertaking. In addition to the established masterpieces, he has given many premiers and first performances - including the UK premier of Messiaen's Prélude in 2002.
As much at home performing on great modern instruments as on famous historic ones, he approaches each with a different stylistic awareness and perception. Particular to choose music most suited to express the character of each instrument, each programme is thus a singular undertaking. In addition to the established masterpieces, he has given many premiers and first performances - including the UK premier of Messiaen's Prélude in 2002.
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Alongside his concert career he is the Abbey Organist
of Worth Abbey: Worth Abbey – An English Benedictine monastery in Crawley, England Worth Abbey Parish – A parish of the Diocese of Arundel and Brighton and Organist to the University of West Sussex: University of Sussex - a leading, research-intensive university where he gives monthly recitals on the iconic 1966 Grant, Degens & Rippin organ in the University's Meeting House. http://www.sussex.ac.uk/chaplaincy |
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Current programme details are listed on the CONCERTS page.
Previous series have included:
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Press features & articles include Click on each image to see article
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An Organist of Our Time
The Organ Magazine www.theorganmag.com |
Ask me a question
Music Journal Incorporated Society of Musicians www.ism.org |
Five Questions
The Lady Organist www.theladyorganist.com |
“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.”
CIORAN
The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.”
CIORAN
With Jean Guillou 1988 |
Head Chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, D'Arcy studied piano and organ in London, at the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester) and abroad. Of his various teachers he was perhaps most influenced by Jean Guillou
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With Odile Pierre
Canterbury Festival 1990 |
At work - a lesson 1993 |
His own teaching has included coaching, masterclasses, and examining at conservatoires and colleges at home and abroad.
He has for some years taught at Oxford.
He has for some years taught at Oxford.
"Sooner or later you will recognise that complete freedom does not exist. Do not give in to pure fantasy, nor to current fashions.
One cannot pursue an ideal without disciplining oneself – that is as true in art as in science. Do not worry about being original:
that desire is nothing but an intellectual flirtation, for the originality of great artists is unconscious.”
MARCEL DUPRÉ
One cannot pursue an ideal without disciplining oneself – that is as true in art as in science. Do not worry about being original:
that desire is nothing but an intellectual flirtation, for the originality of great artists is unconscious.”
MARCEL DUPRÉ
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Articles written 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 - Orgues et organistes (musimem.com) Odile Pierre Musica et Memoria - Orgues et organistes (musimem.com) |
“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