D'ARCY TRINKWON             International Concert Organist
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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
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sland 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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Click on the titles for full details ​

​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 the Organist to the University of Sussex, D'Arcy gives monthly recitals on the iconic 1966 Grant, Degens & Rippin organ in the Meeting House. 
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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
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www.ism.org

​Five Questions

​The Lady Organist
  

www.theladyorganist.com


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​“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

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​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
​and Odile Pierre.




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With Odile Pierre
​Canterbury Festival 1990
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 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. 


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"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
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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)
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Battle of the organs...
With John Scott Whiteley - Selby Abbey 2018

Battles, dialogue, alliance - but all great humour and  fun...
CLICK to read a commentary on a concert with a difference. 


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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


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Telephone     from the UK  01622 814415         
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