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COVENTRY & WARWICKSHIRE ORGANISTS' ASSOCIATION
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The Annual General Meeting of the Association took place on 14th March at the Hinckley United Reformed Church, attended by a small but select number of members. After the meeting had concluded we enjoyed refreshments, followed by the customary excellent organ recital on the famous Holdich organ by our President Adrian Moore. The programme may be viewed here, timings here, and the recital, recorded and made available by Peter Lock, here. A copy of the church's informative leaflet about the organ and its history is reproduced here.
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Adrian Moore
Adrian and his 'registrant'
Ed Goldsmith
On May 30th CWOA organised a concert for the Rugby Musical Union in Rugby School Chapel. Five CWOA members accepted the opportunity to play this magnificent organ (details of organ below).
Firstly, Alexander Hooton - organist at St Mark's Bilton, with his own composition 'Trumpet Tune', an 'Own Piece' for his Grade 4 Trinity Exam in 2025, in which he obtained a Distinction.
Michael Spencer - organist at Rugby Baptist Church and St Leonard's, Ryton gave a spirited performance of the Percy Fletcher 'Festival Toccata'
John Wilderspin from Wellesbourne gave a very polished performance of the Bach Passacaglia and Fugue BWV 582.
Geoff Cowley - organist at St Peter, Higham-on-the-Hill in south Leicestershire played his own arrangement of 'Dance of the Blessed Spirits' by Gluck.
Sam Horton - a young organist from Weedon near Rugby played the Leon Boellmann Suite Gothique, ending with a note-perfect, brilliant performance of the Toccata.
Interspersed between the organ pieces there were performances from
Miles Beddows - a guitarist from Lichfield who played 3 Venezuelan dances,
Mini Sine - a brilliant choir directed by Andy Cope, based in Rugby but who sing in cathedrals around the country, sang
Sing Joyfully - William Byrd
Mother of God, here I stand - John Tavener
Pader agan Arloedh - Russell Pascoe
Three English Folk Songs - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Rosemary Robinson and Laura Cope from Rugby and Bolton played a Sonata of Scotch tunes by James Oswald on Spinet and Voice Flute.
Together these performers provided an enthusiastic audience with a varied, entertaining and very professional concert. The organists who played all said how they enjoyed playing this wonderful organ in such a beautiful setting.
Details of the Rugby School Chapel Organ
This Cathedral Sized 4 Manual pipe organ was made and installed by Kenneth Jones and Associates in about 2002.
This was mainly 'Tracker Action', but the Solo manual did have EP Action. In early 2019 the instrument had a significant overhaul and upgrading where the tracker action was scrapped,and Electro-pneumatic action supplied for Swell, Great and Choir Organs. The Current NPOR spec is NOT up to date; the correct specification as in use now (2026) is here. Note the * pipe ranks 2024 all changed after water damage, also the Bombarde section is all brand new.
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