Alistair Warwick
enabling musicians : enabling music
- conductor / music director
- organist
- singer
- music typesetter using Score™ and InDesign™
He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in music, and has undertaken studies in theology and liturgy.
Current work includes:
- Conductor, Stirling University Choir
- Organist, St Mary's Church, Dunblane
- Gold Award singing examiner for RSCM
- RSCM Coordinator for Scotland
- Tutor for Sacred Music Studies (Bangor University)
- Organ Advisor, Scottish Churches Organists' Training Scheme (SCOTS)
Informed by previous work:
- Programme Director for Sacred Music Studies, RSCM & Bangor University
- Musical Director, Dunblane Chamber Orchestra
- Director of Music, Arundel Cathedral
- Organist, Worth Abbey
- Pastoral work in South London
Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM)
Since 1992 Alistair Warwick has been a member of the ISM, the UK's professional body for musicians, which retains standards in the profession whilst offering essential backup for today's musician.
Stirling University Choir news
Details of this semester's music, rehearsals and concert
Other services
- The Art of Music (music and typesetting services)
- Music for The Papal Visit to Scotland and England 2010
- Music for Common Worship
- original scores and publications
- SATB & descant for Coe Fen (How shall I sing that majesty?)
- The Typehouse
Current projects
Stirling University Choir
Rehearsals
every Monday at 7.30pm in A4 Cottrell Building
Improve Your Sight-Reading
Following the success of last semester's optional music-reading sessions, there will be an opportunity to take part in "Voice for Life" sessions for 20 minutes or so at 7pm each Monday, starting 26 September. Just see me at the rehearsal on 12 or 19 September.
go to Stirling University Choir website
Future concerts
Duruflé: Requiem
Saturday 12th May 2012
Past concerts
Saturday 3 December 2011 – Holy Rude, Stirling
Concert of seasonal music including Part 1 of Handel's Messiah
14 May 2011 – Holy Rude, Stirling
Haydn: Creation (postponed from 3 December 2010)
8 May 2010 – Dunblane Cathedral
Folk songs in varying arrangements from around the British Isles
Four Burns Songs by Carolyn Sparey
including first performances of
- O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
- My love is like a red, red rose (first choral performance)
- Craigieburn Wood
Other songs included two arrangements by Dennis MacDonald:
- Ye banks and braes
- Will ye no come back again
and Lizzy Ann Dunworth's beautiful Irish Blessing.
5 December 2009 – Dunblane Cathedral
Our first concert together was on Saturday 5 December in Dunblane Cathedral:
- Mozart: Ave verum corpus K618
- Mozart: Masonic funeral music K477
- Mozart (completed Süssmayr): Requiem K626
- Lassus: Justorum animae
Clare Tucker soprano
Rebecca Afonwy-Jones mezzo-soprano
Warren Gillespie tenor
Michel de Souza baritone
Stirling University Choir
City of Glasgow Symphony Orchestra
Benardus Buurmann leader
Alistair Warwick conductor
St Mary's Episcopal Church, Dunblane
Writing psalm refrains
Writing psalm refrains for a use with a common chant for use over the summer period while the choir are away.
Music typeset with SCORE, of course!
(c) 2009 The Art of Music
Dunblane Chamber Orchestra
Midsummer Fantasy
Sunday 28 June 2009, 7pm
Victoria Hall, Dunblane
Grant Golding trumpet
Alistair Warwick conductor
- Mozart: Divertimento in D K136
- Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
- Telemann: Trumpet Concerto
- Copland: Quiet City
- Haydn: Symphony No 85 in B flat "La Reine"
Dunblane Chamber Orchestra
Nocturnes for an Autumn Evening
Following a sell-out first concert, the Dunblane Chamber Orchestra's second concert was on Sunday 9 November 2008 in Victoria Hall, Dunblane.
Carron Shankland clarinet
Alistair Warwick conductor
The programme featured music for woodwind and strings:
- Grieg: 'Holberg' Suite
- Mackenzie: Benedictus
- Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
- Mozart: Serenade in C minor
- Schubert: Symphony no 5 in B flat
RSCM International Summer School
Alistair Warwick was a presenter at the RSCM's International Summer School and Conference in Canterbury from 1113 August 2008.
With Revd. Wendy Wilby (Precentor, Bristol Cathedral) he gave two sessions:
- Pray? I haven't got time to pray!
- Musicians and clergy working together
He also presented a session on Sacred Music Studies (RSCM & Bangor University).
CD recording: Gregorian Chant from Canterbury Cathedral
Incidentally, Canterbury Cathedral was the location for the CD recording of the Unfinished Vespers: Gregorian Chant The Martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket
sung by the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge directed by Mary Berry
– available from amazon.co.uk (follow the link for other recordings by Schola Gregoriana)
Alistair Warwick was assistant sound engineer for this CD recording and has vivid memories of a sprightly 70-something-year-young Mary Berry climbing up a vertical ladder in the cathedral tower as we recorded the bells.
- For details of other recordings by Alistair Warwick see the Recordings section of this site
Dunblane Chamber Orchestra
The first concert of the Dunblane Chamber Orchestra, founded in February 2008 and conducted by Alistair Warwick, was a sell-out success.
The programme featured music for string orchestra, including Britten's Simple Symphony, Elgar's Serenade for Strings, Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, and, with Simon Rendell (solo oboe), Barbirolli's Oboe Concerto on themes of Pergolesi along with Morricone's Gabriel's Oboe.
Previous appointments
- Interim Choir Trainer, St Mary's, Dunblane
- Founder and Musical Director, Dunblane Chamber Orchestra
- Director of Music and Master of the Choristers for ten years at Arundel Cathedral, where he started the flourishing junior choir
- Organist at Worth Abbey
(home of "The Monastery" as shown on BBC television) - Producer and Director of a number of CD recordings
including the choirs of Dunblane, Ely and Winchester Cathedrals - Television appearances, include live broadcasts from Arundel.
- Various roles within the RSCM over ten years
latterly as Programme Director for Sacred Music Studies
Conducting
Alistair Warwick is Conductor of the Stirling University Choir.
He founded the Dunblane Chamber Orchestra in 2008, and conducted them in their first three concerts.
He has also conducted the Rosenethe Singers (December 2006, March 2008 and May 2010).
Alistair's passion is enabling people of all abilities to make music. As a teenage student at the Bexley Music School in Sidcup, he led a number of music ensembles, and was rewarded by a scholarship to study conducting with Bryan Fairfax to learn how to do it properly!
Later studies included work with Sebastian Forbes, Alasdair Mitchell, Owen Rees and Nicholas Conran, with whom he also studied Feldenkrais (using gentle movement and directed attention to improve movement).
Alistair has also participated in choral-direction masterclasses with Mike Brewer, Stephen Cleobury and David Hill.
What people say
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Congratulations on an excellent concert.
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There were moments when it was hard to realise that this was an amateur orchestra.
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What a wonderful concert!
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It was inspirational to choose Mackenzie's 'Benedictus'.
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Just to say what a great concert.
Orchestral performances
- Britten: Simple Symphony
- Copland: Happy Anniversary
- Copland: Quiet City
- Corelli: Concerto Grosso Op 6, no 8 "Christmas Concerto"
- Delius: Brigg Fair
- Elgar: Serenade for Strings
- Franceschini: Sonata in D for two trumpets *
- Gabrieli: In ecclesiis
- Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
- Grieg: Holberg Suite
- Handel: The Pendlebury Water Music *
- Haydn: Symphony no 85 "La Reine"
- Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
- Ives: The Unanswered Question
- Judd, Graham: Earthwork
(First performance: University of Surrey, 12 March 1997) - Judd, Graham: Russian Ballet
(First performance: University of Surrey, 1997) - Mackenzie: Benedictus
- Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
- Morricone: Gabriel's Oboe
- Mozart: Divertimento in D K136
- Mozart: Serenade in B flat K361
- Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik K525
- Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music K477
- Mozart: Clarinet Concerto K622
- Pergolesi arr. Barbirolli: Oboe Concerto *
- Purcell: Trumpet Sonata *
- Schubert: Symphony no 5
- Stravinsky: Suites for Small Orchestra
- Telemann: Trumpet Concerto in D *
- Telemann: Concerto for three trumpets
- Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
- Vivaldi: Guitar Concerto in D RV93 *
* directed from organ/harpsichord
Choral performances
too numerous to count, but they include:
- Bach, JS: Cantatas 11, 129, 147
- Elgar: The Spirit of the Lord
- Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
- Fauré: Requiem
- Grainger: Brigg Fair
- Handel: Messiah
- Lassus: Justorum animae
- MacMillan: Nunc Dimittis
- Mozart: Mass K197
- Mozart: Coronation Mass K317
- Mozart: Laudate Dominum K339
- Parry: I was glad
- Purcell: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei
- Rutter: A Gaelic Blessing
- Scarlatti D: Stabat Mater
- Sparey, Carolyn: Four Burns Songs
including world premiere of 'O wert thou in the cauld blast' - traditional, arr. Jayne Davies: Ar lan y môr (Beside the sea)
- Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs
Choral performances with orchestra
- Gabrieli: In ecclesiis
- Handel: Messiah
- Haydn 'Creation' *
- Haydn: Nelson Mass
- Mozart: Coronation Mass K317
- Mozart: Ave verum corpus K618
- Mozart (completed Süssmayr): Requiem K622
* directed from harpsichord
Choral and orchestral rehearsals
He has prepared orchestras and choirs for other conductors:
- Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 3
- Bach: Concerto for Oboe and Violin
- Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
- Beethoven: Egmont overture
- Beethoven: Symphonies 4, 5, 7, 8, 9
- Copland: Three Dances from Rodeo
- de Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat
- Elgar: Sea Pictures
- Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius
- Holst: The Hymn of Jesus
- Lerner: Camelot
- MacMillan: A New Song
- MacRae: Adam lay y-bounden
- Mahler: Symphony No 4
- Orff: Carmina Burana
- Sibelius: Karelia Suite
- Sibelius: Symphonies 2 & 5
- Stravinsky: Concertino for 12 instruments
- Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks
- Stravinsky: Petrouchka
- Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations
- Walton: Belshazzar’s Feast
- Weber: Der Freischütz overture
- Webern: Concerto Op 24
- Yeadon, Joseph: "Ummm.... (can't think what to call it!)"
Workshops
In facilitating workshops, Alistair Warwick provides an enriching opportunity for those using music.
Additionally, for those involved in music in the life of the Church, he offers an approach that develops sensitivity, spirituality and understanding.
Practical skills training available
- cantors / animateurs
- choir trainers
- choir directors
- organists
- other keyboard players
- music groups
Services include
- Repertoire workshops for parish communities
- Choral workshops
- Reflection on the role of music in worship
What people say
- Many thanks once again for your wonderful support today. It was quite a marathon but we all learned something from it and we have received very positive feedback.
Organist
Alistair Warwick first played the organ aged 10 at Christ Church, Sidcup. He later studied the organ with Janet McCleery, Andrew Millington, Peter Hurford and Matthew Beetschen.
Churches in which he has played include the following:
Austria
- Innsbruck, ...
France
- Boulogne Cathedral (liturgy)
- Lourdes, Pius X Basilica (liturgy)
- Lourdes, St Bernadette (liturgy)
- Paris, Notre Dame (choir organ)
Norway
- Oslo, St Edmund's (concert)
England
- Arundel Cathedral (Director of Music – liturgy, concerts and recitals)
- Arundel, St Nicholas (liturgy)
- Cambridge, St Catherine's College (organ lessons)
- Cambridge, Clare College (organ lessons)
- Chislehurst, St Aidan, Edgebury (Organist – liturgy)
- Clapham South, St Bede (liturgy)
- Cockermouth, All Saints (liturgy)
- Crawley Friary (liturgy)
- Eltham, Christ Church Priory (Easter Vigil)
- Forest Hill, St William of York (liturgy)
- Guildford Cathedral (liturgy)
- Guildford, St Nicolas (recital)
- Littlehampton, St Joseph's Convent (liturgy)
- Mottingham, Our Lady Help of Christians (weddings)
- New Eltham, All Saints (liturgy)
- Petworth, Sacred Heart (weddings)
- Sayers Common, Priory of Our Lady (Live BBC Radio broadcast: The Promise of his Glory)
- Sidcup, Christ Church (services)
- Sidcup, St Lawrence (liturgy)
- Southwark, St George's Cathedral (Launch of Churches Together in England)
- Sutton Park, St Edward (Live BBC Radio broadcast)
- Weybridge, Christ the Prince of Peace (Confirmation liturgy)
- Winchester, St Peter (liturgy)
- Woking, St Dunstan (liturgy)
- Wonersh, St John's Seminary (Organist – liturgy)
- Worth Abbey (Organist – liturgy, concerts)
Scotland
- Alloa, Parish Church (service)
- Alloa, St Mungo's Catholic Church (liturgy)
- Blairdrummond, Parish Church (services)
- Bridge of Allan, St Saviour (liturgy)
- Clackmannan, Parish Church (services)
- Dollar, St James the Great (liturgy)
- Doune, St Modoc's (liturgy)
- Dunblane Cathedral (services)
- Dunblane, St Blane (services)
- Dunblane, St Mary (Organist – liturgy)
- Edinburgh, Canongate Kirk (practice)
- Gargunnock, Parish Church (services)
- Killin, Parish Church (services)
- Pluscarden Abbey (practice)
- Stirling, Allan Park South (services)
- Stirling, Church of the Holy Rude (services)
- Stirling, Holy Trinity (liturgy)
And there are other churches yet to be explored…
Repertoire
His repertoire ranges from alternatim Mass settings (from French and Spanish schools), to 21st-century works.
What people say
- Thanks, that was terrific!
- …thank you for the lovely music which contributed so much to the atmosphere and helped to make the service special. We really appreciated your contribution…
- The family were really thrilled with the music… Thanks for all your help/guidance as ever.
- "Instrument king"
The organ was played so delicately … at Arundel Cathedral [where] Alistair Warwick … took us on a short European tour of the king of instruments. Once again, the audience was privileged. (Arun News) - I loved the Messiaen!
Recordings
Recordings
Alistair Warwick has participated in many CD recordings and TV and radio broadcasts as conductor, organist, producer or assistant sound engineer (also in many others as a singer).
Record companies include Herald AV Publications and Ocean Records.
The particular role he has played in the following recordings is noted.
Television & Radio
Celebration for the launch of Churches Together in England (ITV)
organist
The Promise of His Glory (BBC1 live)
organist
Christmas Morning Mass from Arundel Cathedral (ITV live)
conductor
Easter Sunday Mass from Arundel Cathedral (BBC1 live)
conductor
Remembrance Day Service from Dunblane Cathedral (BBC Radio Scotland)
associate conductor
Herald
Alistair Warwick's work for Herald AV Publications has been in several roles, ranging from music director to sound engineer and producer.
The following discs feature world-famous musicians, including Mary Berry, David Hill, James O'Donnell, Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and were recorded at a number of venues, including Abbey Road, Canterbury, Ely and Winchester cathedrals and St George's Chapel, Windsor.
You can buy these Herald CDs – and more – from Amazon by clicking on the appropriate link.
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Engraving and typesetting
Music engraving
Details of music engraving and typesetting by Alistair Warwick for The Art of Music can be found here.
They include projects for:
- Papal Visit (Visit of Pope Benedict XVI to UK in 2010)
- Common Worship (Church House Publishing)
- The Christian West and its Singers: The First Thousand Years (Yale)
- Music for Common Worship (The Royal School of Church Music)
- Hymns for Prayer and Praise (The Panel of Monastic Musicians)
- The Play of Daniel (Plainsong and Medieval Music Society)
and hundreds of chants for Worth Abbey (Worth Abbey Music)
Typesetting
Book typesetting projects include:
- Music in Welsh History Before 1650 (Ashgate)
- Bearers of Song (University of Wales Press)
- Welsh Music History VII (University of Wales Press)
Design work
includes publicity leaflets for:
- Corbridge Chamber Music Festival
- Dunblane Chamber Orchestra
- Early English Organ Project
- Goldberg Ensemble
- Gould Piano Trio
- Ludlow Organ Recitals
Website design and development
Alistair Warwick has designed and developed websites for:
- Argaty Red Kites
- Romero the Musical
- Celtic Arrow Media
- CSWilson Ltd
- Dunblane Chamber Orchestra
- The Early English Organ Project
- Elaine Hill Photography
- Kelpie Jewellery
- The Plainsong and Medieval Music Society
- Rosemount Guest House, Kippford
- The Royal School of Church Music
- Sam Baker School of Church Music (Aspirans)
- Sustainable Dunblane (A Transition Town initiative)
More details can be found at The Typehouse:
helping SMEs to grow your business through professional design
Research
Masters dissertation on the Dunkeld Music Book
Alistair Warwick received a distinction for his Masters dissertation in Music at the University of Surrey on the Dunkeld Music Book (otherwise known as the Dowglas-Fischer or Lincluden Partbooks – GB-EdU MS 64).
In the Dunkeld Music Book is an anonymous motet for eight voices, Te Sanctum Dominum. As a result of his research Alistair Warwick has provisionally identified Nicholas Gombert as the composer of this work. A critical edition of the prima pars appears in the dissertation.
Other research
- work on Gregorian chant
- parody technique (especially in Victoria's Missa O magnum mysterium)
- the Wode Partbooks
- performance issues in Monteverdi's Vespers
- the use of inegalité (both in French Baroque and possible use in the music of JS Bach)
- attitudes to the Victorian Organ (especially relating to the 1893 William Hill organ at Arundel Cathedral)
- the identity and nature of music, and especially of sacred music
Writing
Alistair's published writing includes articles, contributions to other works, his MMus dissertation, references in other works, and reviews.
Articles
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The Psalms
Faith Alive – The Universe (1986)
An article on historic and liturgical use of the psalms in the liturgy. -
Herald Triumph! –
The Wire (1995)
– online at www.heraldav.co.uk (2000)
– reprinted in Newsletter of The Association of Latin Liturgy (September 2003)
An account of the recording of Dupré's Les Vêpres de la Vierge Op. 18. -
Choir-training notes
Bulletin of Panel of Monastic Musicians (1999)
– reprinted in Music & Liturgy (2000)
Following a workshop at the Panel of Monastic Musicians 1998 residential course, this article explores rehearsal and warm-up techniques, particularly directed at monks and nuns who sing the Mass and the Office daily. -
Just Treble-makers?
Church Music Quarterly (July 1999)
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Gregorian Chant sung in Latin
Church Music Quarterly (September 2003)
– reprinted in The Church Times (June 2004)
The title of this article immediately poses the question: why sing in Latin, when our services are in our own language? For that matter, we might well ask if our services are in English/Welsh/whatever, since we actually use a ritual language rather than that spoken in everyday use. More … - Musick fyne: Scottish Church Music up to 1603
Church Music Quarterly (June 2005)
We are very familiar with the names of William Byrd and Thomas Tallis, perhaps also with those of Robert Parsons, Christopher Tye and John Shepherd. But what about those from England's neighbours? While the names of many English composers trip off the tongue, until recently it has been harder to name many composers writing music for the Scottish Church. More …
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Mind the Gap
Choir & Organ (January/February 2007)
Interviewed by Maggie Hamilton, deputy editor of Choir and Organ, about gap-year study for organists and choral scholars. The Sacred Music Studies course from the University of Wales, Bangor and the Royal School of Church Music fills the gap nicely."…There have been some exciting and unexpected results already, with students looking at what they're doing in a new light and developing their practice. I certainly wish that when I was a cathedral director of music that this course had been available; if it had, I'd have approached it more confidently – and achieved much more."
Contributions to other works
- New editions of Marbeck 'Nicene Creed' and 'Sanctus' in Music for Common Worship I (RSCM Press, 1999). These editions for the new Common Worship texts reflect Marbeck's original notation, breathing new life into this music.
- New editions of Pergolesi 'Stabat mater' (two movements) and Dering: 'Gaudent in caelis' in Songs for Life 2:(RSCM Press, 2002)
- Voice for Life: Choir Trainer's Book and four Singer's Workbooks (RSCM Press, 1998-2004)
In addition to being a co-author for this acclaimed choral scheme, he launched the RSCM's Voice for Life scheme with Esther Jones and John Wardle at the 1999 conference of the Association of British Choral Directors (ABCD). - Sacred Music Studies: Choir Director skills workbook (RSCM, 2004)
MMus Dissertation
- Another look at the 'Dunkeld Music Book' (University of Surrey, 1998)
References in other works
- Isobel Woods Preece: Our awin Scottis use (Glasgow and Aberdeen, 2000)
Reviews
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Church Family Worship – a useful resource for churches looking for new texts for worship
The Universe (1986) -
"Music DTP" music typesetting software for the Atari ST computer
ST World (1989) -
Bennet Zon: English Plainchant Revival
Church Music Quarterly (April 2000) -
Isobel Woods-Preece: Our awin Scottis use: Music in the Scottish Church up to 1603
Church Music Quarterly (April 2001) -
Ronald Corp: The Choral Singer's Companion
Church Music Quarterly (July 2001) -
Donald Boccardi: History of American Catholic Hymnals since Vatican II
Church Music Quarterly (December 2001)
Compositions and arrangements
Various choral pieces and psalm settings have been composed for use at Arundel Cathedral and elsewhere.
Some of these will be published by The Art of Music.
SATB arrangement and descant for Coe Fen
"How shall I sing that majesty".
This wonderful hymn was written for unison singing. Many people have looked for a choir version complete with descant, and one is now available.
This choral arrangement was made for, and first sung at, the RSCM 2006 Scottish Triennial Festival at St Michael's, Linlithgow on 4 November 2006.
It was featured in a choral-reading session with David Briggs, formerly of Gloucester Cathedral, at the 12th Annual East Carolina Religious Arts Festival held from January 24-26, 2008 and in the RSCM Australia Summer School in January 2011.
Over 1500 copies have been bought by choirs from all round the world.
You can buy it from
Diary
2010 onwards – see calendar above
archive
2008
| 16 March | conductor | Rosenethe Singers concert Holy Rude, Stirling |
| 20 April | singer | Stirling City Choir concert Holy Rude, Stirling |
| 27 April | conductor | Choral Evensong St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen |
| 15 June | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 22 June | conductor | Dunblane Chamber Orchestra concert Cathedral Hall, Dunblane |
| 02 July | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 06 July | organist | Holy Rude, Stirling |
| 13 July | organist | Holy Rude, Stirling |
| 20 July | organist | Alloa Parish Church |
| 27 July | organist | Alloa Parish Church |
| 28 July – 01 August |
tutor | Sacred Music Studies – residential study week at Bangor University |
| 10 August | organist | Dunblane Cathedral |
| 11–13 August | presenter | RSCM International Summer School, Canterbury |
| 17 August | organist | St Blane's, Dunblane |
| 31 August | organist | Allan Park South, Stirling |
| 14 September | organist | St Saviour's, Bridge of Allan |
| 21 September | organist | Allan Park South, Stirling |
| 21 September | director | Exploring Music, Ministry and Worship Dunblane Cathedral |
| 21 September | director | Plainsong Workshop and Compline, Dunblane Cathedral |
| 27 September | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 28 September | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 19 October | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 01 November | director | RSCM Dunblane Singing Day St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 9 November | conductor | Dunblane Chamber Orchestra concert Victoria Hall, Dunblane |
| 16 November | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 21 December | organist | Alloa Parish Church |
| 21 December | conductor | Carol Service St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 28 December | organist | Holy Rude, Stirling |
2009
| 11 January | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 15 January | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 21 January | director | Christian Unity Week Service and
Welcome for Carol Stobie, new Director of Scottish Churches House |
| 01 March | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 06 March | pianist | World Day of Prayer, Scottish Churches House |
| 12 April | organist | St Blane's, Dunblane |
| 24 April | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 25 April | participant | Musica Scotica conference, RSAMD, Glasgow |
| 26 April | organist | St Saviour's, Bridge of Allan |
| 03 May | organist | Allan Park South, Stirling |
| 09 May | examiner | St Andrew's Singing Awards (RSCM), Glasgow Cathedral |
| 10 May | organist | Allan Park South, Stirling |
| 10 May | organist | St Blane's, Dunblane |
| 23 May | director | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 28 May | director | Installation of Revd Kimberly Bohan as Rector St Mary's Church, Dunblane |
| 06 June | coordinator (& timpanist) |
RSCM Scotland Triennial Festival, St Columba's Cathedral, Oban |
| 13 June | examiner | RSCM Gold award examinations, Wolverhampton |
| 20 June | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 28 June | conductor | Dunblane Chamber Orchestra concert |
| 04 July | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 12 July | organist | St Blane's, Dunblane |
| 18 July | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 19 July | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 26 July | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 02 August | organist | Holy Rude, Stirling |
| 09 August | organist | Allan Park South, Stirling |
| 16 August | organist | Allan Park South, Stirling |
| 23 August | organist | Allan Park South, Stirling |
| 30 August | organist | Allan Park South, Stirling |
| 01-03 September | presenter | Symposium on Scottish Music "Towards a New Narrative" Pluscarden Abbey |
| 06 September | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 20 September | organist | Blair Drummond and Gargunnock churches |
| 20 September | harpsichord | Dunblane Chamber Orchestra concert |
| 04 October | director | Music repertory workshop for congregational singing St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 11 October | presenter | Exploring Music, Worship and Ministry St Saviour's Church, Bridge of Allan |
| 11 October | director | Come and Sing Compline St Saviour's Church, Bridge of Allan |
| 17 October | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 15 November | organist | Allan Park South, Stirling |
| 15 November | director | Choral Workshop & Evensong St Peter's, Peebles |
| 22 November | organist | Allan Park South, Stirling |
| 28 November | examiner | RSCM Gold award examinations, Edinburgh |
| 29 November | director | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 5 December | conductor | Stirling University Choir concert Mozart: Ave verum corpus, Masonic Funeral Music, Requiem; Lassus: Justorum animae |
| 6 December | organist | Blairdrummond Parish Church Gargunnock Parish Church |
| 13 December | organist | St Mary's, Dunblane |
| 20 December | director | St Mary's, Dunblane Carol Service |
What people say
- "…thank you for all you've done with the Choir at Arundel and for the Diocese over these past years – I am really very grateful."
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor,
recently Archbishop of Westminster
- " 'Thank you' seems a terribly inadequate way to express our gratitude for your wonderful contribution to our wedding – you did so much with so many people / events, and a large number of people said to us how much they had enjoyed meeting you, working with you, and/or having you to stay!"
- "Great admiration for your work with the cast of assorted musicians [at St Barnabas' Church, Ottawa, Canada] …"
- "…thank you for the lovely music which contributed so much to the atmosphere and helped to make the service special. We really appreciated your contribution…"
- "the family were really thrilled with the music… Thanks for all your help/guidance as ever."
"Instrument king
The organ was played so delicately … at Arundel Cathedral … Alistair Warwick … took us on a short European tour of the king of instruments. Once again, the audience was privileged."
Arun News
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Biography – longer version (c.300 words)
Alistair Warwick has a passion for enabling people of all abilities to make music. As a teenager, he led a number of music ensembles, and was rewarded by a scholarship from the Bexley Music School to study conducting with Bryan Fairfax to learn how to do it properly! Later studies included work with Sebastian Forbes, Alasdair Mitchell, Owen Rees and Nicholas Conran, with whom he also studied Feldenkrais, and participation in choral-direction masterclasses with Mike Brewer, Stephen Cleobury and David Hill.
Theology and liturgy studies led to five years' pastoral work in South London, three years as Organist at Worth Abbey (as featured in the BBC TV series 'The Monastery'). Whilst at Worth, Bishop (now Cardinal) Cormac Murphy-O'Connor appointed him as Director of Music and Master of the Choristers at Arundel Cathedral, where he started the flourishing junior choir. During these ten years, he also worked closely with parishes in the diocese, helping them to be more confident and effective in their music-making.
Alistair has worked more than ten years with the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) in various fields of church music, including music engraving, publishing, educational development (including co-author of Voice for Life and Programme Director for Sacred Music Studies). He is currently Co-ordinator for Scotland, having returned here in 2002.
He has been Conductor of Stirling University Choir since 2009, and has been guest conductor with Rosenethe Singers several times. In 2008 he founded the Dunblane Chamber Orchestra, and conducted their first three concerts.
He has BMus and MMus degrees from Surrey University, specialising in conducting and 16th-century Scottish music, especially the music in the Dowglas-Fisher Partbooks.
As well as enabling music through teaching and performance, he has engraved thousands of pages of music for projects including the Papal Visit to Scotland and England in 2010, Common Worship, and Hymns for Prayer and Praise.
alistairwarwick.com / theartofmusic.com
Biography – shorter version (c.225 words)
Alistair Warwick has a passion for enabling people of all abilities to make music. As a teenager, he led a number of music ensembles, and was rewarded by a scholarship to learn how to do it properly! Later studies included work with Sebastian Forbes, Alasdair Mitchell and Owen Rees, and participation in choral-direction masterclasses with Mike Brewer, Stephen Cleobury and David Hill.
He has been Conductor of Stirling University Choir since 2009.
Theology and liturgy studies led to five years' pastoral work in South London, three years as Organist at Worth Abbey. Whilst at Worth, he was appointed as Director of Music at Arundel Cathedral, where he started the flourishing junior choir. During these ten years, he also worked closely with parishes in the diocese, helping them to be more confident and effective in their music-making.
Alistair has worked more than ten years with the RSCM, including publishing and educational development (Voice for Life and Sacred Music Studies). He is currently Co-ordinator for Scotland, having returned here in 2002.
He has BMus and MMus degrees from Surrey University, specialising in conducting and 16th-century Scottish music, especially the music in the Dowglas-Fisher Partbooks.
As well as enabling music through teaching and performance, he has engraved thousands of pages of music for projects including the Papal Visit to Scotland and England in 2010, Common Worship, and Hymns for Prayer and Praise.
alistairwarwick.com / theartofmusic.com
Contact me
You can contact Alistair Warwick at:
Address: 25 Ramsay Drive, Dunblane, FK15 0NG Scotland
Telephone: +44 (0)1786 823000
Email: info(at)alistairwarwick.com
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