Our newly elected Committee member and Minutes Secretary, Chris Denney has organised a day’s visits for us in Southend – somewhere which the EOA has not visited for many years, and we hope members will take advantage of this opportunity to play the organs at these churches in the bottom right corner of coastal Essex! […]
Jonathan Lilley has kindly offered to host this year’s summer party as an afternoon/evening picnic, with members providing their own food and drink, at Waltham Abbey, using the Church Hall as a base and with the Abbey organ available for players. It will be a picnic style event (bring your own food) based around the […]
A handful of keen members of all ages began our all day visit to coastal Suffolk in the market town of Woodbridge, at the historic (and former Abbey) church of St Mary’s, Woodbridge. This impressive medieval flint church boasts a very good parish church choir to supplement its Anglo-Catholic liturgy, and St Mary’s is very […]
With the help of Dr Dave Hyatt who has known the organs of Bath all his life, EOA Vice Chairman and Treasurer, Dr Michaela Cottee organised a very varied three day extended visit to the city of Bath and its environs for EOA Members and friends. It included visits to the two churches at Bathwick, […]
Your committee was delighted to accept an invitation from the EOA Vice-Chairman, Treasurer and Membership Secretary, Dr Michaela Cottee, for EOA members to take part - as players or audience members - in her 60th birthday celebration composite recital at the Old Independent Church in Haverhill (where the EOA’s AGM took place in 2022). Michaela […]
One of the goals of this event was to encourage those working with small or inexperienced choirs and singers to explore new repertoire and gain support on choir training and conducting. All participants had the chance to conduct the choir and receive some helpful tips and feedback from both EOA President Philip Prior (Director of […]
As we welcome Dr Emma Gibbins to her new role as Master of the Music at Chelmsford Cathedral, and to membership of the Association, we were delighted that she agreed to be the castaway for a Desert Island Discs event, with a very good attendance from members. Emma has both a background in cathedral music […]
A good number of our members drove the distance to Hertfordshire for this joint event organised by our colleagues in the Bedfordshire & Hertfordshire Organists’ Association, to visit 4 very different organs that the EOA had not visited before. We began with a brand new 2 manual & pedal tracker organ built in 2024 by […]
On a lovely April day with super weather, a good number of members and friends visited three interesting and historic instruments at parish churches in Bradfield, Mistley and Ardleigh. At St Lawrence, Bradfield, John Barrow, the church’s organist, met us and talked about the organ that we see today. Originally a 3 manual and pedal […]
To mark the 75th anniversary of the re-founding of the Essex Organists’ Association (then known as the Chelmsford & District Organists’ Association) after the Second World War in June 1950, by the then Master of the Music at Chelmsford Cathedral, Dr Stanley Vann, this year’s Annual General Meeting took place at Chelmsford Cathedral and was […]
In this joint visit with The Organ Club, organised by EOA Committee Member Andrew Stevens, we are delighted to be able to visit the large 2 manual and pedal Binns organ at St Mary’s Dedham, recently installed, as well as to be invited back to play the huge 4 manual and pedal 1933 Hill Norman […]
We do hope that members will be able to join us on the afternoon Sunday 17th August for what promises to be an enjoyable programme of social activities organised by EOA Vice-Chairman & Treasurer Michaela Cottee, beginning with a recital at 3pm by the new EOA President Dr Emma Gibbins at St Lawrence Church in […]