Although only 5 EOA Members were able to attend the 2024 EOA AGM held in the Octagon Hall of St Mary’s Church, in Maldon to celebrate and review the Association’s year from 2023-2024, the meeting received full and inspiring reports from its President and Treasurer leaving no doubt about the secure financial state the Association […]
Bastille Day organ recital with a French flavour – Will Warns (Felsted School)
Krystian Kaniecki (EOA Student Member and organist of St Francis RC Church, Halstead)
In this, the 400th anniversary year of the death of the Essex composer, William Byrd (1540-1623), for our July event, EOA members were very pleased to be able to support EOA Member Dr Richard Overill’s lecture-recital, “A Byrd in the Hand”, at St Nicholas Church in Witham.
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! […]
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Timothy Patient (St Peter & St Paul, Eye)
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 […]
Richard Brasier (St George’s Lutheran Church, London)
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 […]