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 at 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.

Recent appearances have included both the reopening of the restored organ and 950th anniversary celebrations of Selby Abbey; his fifth recital at Madeleine, Paris; City of London Festival, Edinburgh Festival, Leeds International Concert Season, Carlisle International Summer Festival, Mananan International Festival of Music and the Arts, Festival Permanente de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Festival Internacional del Uruguay (Montevideo), Bonner Reger Internationale Tagen (Bonn), Berlin Cathedral Orgelzyklus, Basilika Konzerte Kevelaer, Passau International Organ Festival, Münich International Organ Series, Orgelsommer Darmstadt, Gents Orgelcentrum Europees Orgelfestival, Vox Organi Festival (Belgium), Olomouc International Festival (Czech Republic), XVI Rassegna Internazionale d’Organo ‘Citta della Spezia’ (Italy), Wimbledon International Music Festival, Dimanches Musicaux de la Madeleine, Reutlinger Orgelsommer, Gummarusconcerten Lier, Chemin des Orgues (Troyes), Festival International d’Orgue de Sens, Les Heures Musicales du Havre, Les Éstivales d’Orgue, the 27th Festival International d’Orgue in Bordeaux Cathedral, Radio-France Festival Montpellier Cathedral, Points d’Orgue Saint-Florentin etc. 



An unusual feature of his career has been his performance of many solo concert series, including a complete Bach cycle.
Others have included:                                                   
Click on each  for full details ​
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The above was cancelled due to COVID 


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Repeatedly invited to return by promoters, he has, for example given 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.


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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

He is also 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. 

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Current programme details are listed on the CONCERTS page. 

Previous series have included:

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On a 'local' level has a served as President for the Crawley & Horsham Organists' Association: 
 in February 2022 began a two-year term as President of the Brighton & District Organists' Association

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https://www.bdoa.org.uk/


​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.”  

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CIORAN

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D’Arcy demonstrated a prodigious talent for the graphic arts from earliest childhood; he began piano lessons at the age of four. 
​Head Chorister at Canterbury Cathedral, he subsequently studied in London, the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and Paris; his teachers and mentors were Allan Wicks, H. A. and Jennifer Bate, Jane Parker-Smith, Jean Guillou and Odile Pierre. 
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With Jennifer Bate
​​1978 
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H. A. Bate  at the organ of
​St James', Muswell Hill,
​London
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With Jean Guillou
​1988
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Allan Wicks 
Canterbury Cathedral 
​1976
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With Jane Parker-Smith
1990 
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 With Odile Pierre,  Canterbury Festival 1990 
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At work - a lesson with Odile Pierre,  1993

2020 saw the deaths of three outstanding organists who had each been D'Arcy's mentors at different stages of his development:  ​Jennifer Bate, 
​Jane Parker-Smith & 
 Odile Pierre. 

He paid heartfelt tributes to two of these towering artists in ​
Choir & Organ.
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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   
Odile Pierre                                                              
Music et memoria - Orgues et organists
                                                                                       
(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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