Paul Hale is Emeritus Cathedral Organist & Rector Chori of Southwell Minster, where he served from 1989 to 2016, having previously been Assistant Organist of Rochester Cathedral, Organist of Tonbridge School and Organ Scholar of New College, Oxford where he was awarded an MA.

He is Conductor of the Nottingham Bach Choir, Organ Adviser to the Anglican Dioceses of Southwell and Lincoln, a diploma Examiner for the Royal College of Organists, a Trustee of the Percy Whitlock Trust and formerly Chairman of the RSCM Southwell & Notts Area. He has twice been President of the Nottingham & District Society of Organists, and was a Trustee of the East Midlands Choirs Trust, of the Royal College of Organists, and of the Nottingham Albert Hall Binns Trust.

He holds the FRCO and ARCM playing diplomas. Paul was honoured to be President of the Cathedral Organists’ Association for the period 1999-2001 and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the RSCM and a Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians ‘for distinguished services to Church Music’.

Paul is in international demand as an independent organ consultant, interesting current/recent projects including new organs for Merton College Oxford, Manchester Cathedral, Newcastle R.C. Cathedral, Auckland Cathedral (New Zealand), and several parish churches such as St Andrew’s Bedford, St Peter’s Wolvercote, St Michael’s Bishop’s Stortford, St John’s Boxmoor and St Mary’s Maidenhead, with current projects (large and small) also at the cathedrals of Derby, Salisbury, Truro, Newcastle, Bradford, Dundee, Norwich, Downpatrick, Belfast and Carlisle, and current/previous projects at Stonyhurst, Repton, Solihull, Glenalmond, Radcliffe and Dauntsey’s schools, at numerous major churches including Selby, Bridlington, Doncaster, Melton Mowbray, Great Yarmouth and Stirling (Holy Rood), plus Glasgow, Sussex, Oxford, Cambridge, Westminster and Manchester Universities.

Paul gives organ concerts and lectures by invitation all over the world, in recent seasons being privileged to perform on such world-renowned organs as St Sulpice & La Madeleine (Paris), Ottobeuren Abbey, Brussels Cathedral, Magdeburg Dom, Altenburg Dom, Freiberg Dom, Birmingham Town Hall, the Temple Church, Reading Town Hall, Liverpool Anglican cathedral and several in the United States. He is often invited to give inaugural recitals as he specialises in demonstrating every facet of an instrument, as he will attempt to do this afternoon. Paul enjoys teaching the organ; his pupils and previous organ scholars are found in many cathedrals, on the concert platform and in universities. He is particularly well known for his writings on the organ (he is a consultant and author for the New Grove Dictionary of Music) and for his reviews and regular column in the international journal Organists’ Review, of which he was Editor from 1992 to 2005.

Fanfare
Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)

Variations on an old Netherlandish Song
Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654)

Quatrième Choral
Hendrik Andriessen (1892-1981)

Clair de Lune
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)

Southwell Suite
Christopher Rathbone (born 1947)
i. Fantasia; ii. Larghetto; iii. Allegretto scherzando; iv. Adagio; v. Toccata

Homage to Handel
Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)

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