Wednesdays at Christ Church
Hill, Norman & Beard organ
Marion Bettsworth is currently Assistant Director of Music at St Michael’s Church, Highgate, North London. She also holds the organ scholarship at Alexandra Palace, and is Accompanist for Enfield Choral Society. Inspired to take up the organ in her final years of school, Marion was awarded an organ scholarship at Lancaster Priory in 2008. She went on to read Music at Lincoln College, Oxford, where she held the organ scholarship and studied with Steven Grahl. She also directed the college’s chapel choir for two years, performing with them in venues including St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican and several UK cathedrals. After graduating she spent a year as Organ Scholar at St Marylebone Parish |
The Christ Church organ was built by Hill, Norman & Beard in 1970 with 16 stops, using some pipes from previous organs plus some neo-baroque sounds typical of the 1960's and '70's (Chimney Flute and Fifteenth on open-foot voicing, like the Royal Festival Hall organ). In 1995, HNB moved some loud stops from the Great to a new double case in the nave, 6 stops were added, and the tone was refined. In summer 2015 the nave organ was re-voiced to produce a more robust tone. |
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