Christopher Wrench to Perform Mother's Day Concert at Christ Church North Adelaide

The 2017 Concerts at Christ Church North Adelaide season opens with the majestic sounds of the Christ Church North Adelaide organ played by Christopher Wrench, one of this country's most celebrated organists.

Christopher will perform at Christ Church North Adelaide at 2.30pm Sunday 14 May, making this an exceptionally beautiful and original gift for Mothers' Day.

Program for 14 May will include works by Johann Sebastian Bachh, César Franck, John Ireland, Ad Wammes, and Alexandre Guilmant.

Christopher Wrench is currently the Director of Music at Christ Church St Lucia in Brisbane and organist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Wrench has continually received rave reviews for his performances.

Christopher commands a solo repertoire spanning six centuries of music, including the complete organ works of J.S. Bach, Buxtehude, Duruflé, Franck, Hindemith, Mendelssohn, and Mozart.

The 2017 Christ Church North Adelaide concert series continues with the following concerts:
17 September 2:30pm Aurora: The Lightness of Being, and 5 November 2:30pm Simon Cobcroft & Andrew Georg: 'Cello & Organ

The Christ Church North Adelaide Organ
The organ in Christ Church has evolved from a small but significant organ of 12 stops, installed in 1873. This instrument was built by the German-born organ builder August Gern, who worked with famous French organ builder Cavaillé-Coll before establishing his own business in England.

A series of rebuilds and expansions by several organ builders followed, culminating in a major rebuild in 2003 by Australian Pipe Organs and George Stephens. The instrument now contains 43 speaking stops distributed over three manuals and pedals and around 2,300 pipes.
Christ Church's pipe organ is in the English Romantic style, and is an outstanding instrument for both liturgical and concert use.

For full details of the organ and its history, please see: http://ohta.org.au/organs/organs/ChristchurchNAdelaide.html.

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