ORGANZ - The New Zealand Association of Organists, Inc

NZAO Council Meeting

(For councillors only)

Registration opens

President's drinks party, mix and mingle

Buffet meal

Official opening

Concert – “Pièces de Résistance”

Age of Discovery and James Tibbles

Featuring French music from the court of Louis XIV and beyond – baroque flute, early voice, harpsichord, organ

Supper available

Registration continues

Congress choir welcome and rehearsal

Michael Cox & Hayko Siemens

9:00am

Registration desk opens

St Mark's Hall

9:30am
– 10:40am

Professional Development Workshops

choose one of two options

CH-

Choral Masterclass

Hayko Siemens

Incorporating Congress Choir Rehearsal

Hall

PL-

St Mark's Organ playing and tuition

Church

10:40am

Morning tea

Lounge

11:00am

Bus departs for Dilworth School (or 15 minutes brisk walk)

Outside St Mark's

11:20am
– 12:45pm

NZAO Organ Performance Competition 2008

St Patrick's Chapel,
Dilworth School

12:50pm

Bus departs for St Mark's

Outside chapel

1:00pm
– 1:45pm

Lunch

Lounge

1:55pm

Organ Tours

Choose one of two options. Afternoon tea ingredients available (no formal stop). Groups rejoin at Pitt St by 4:00pm

Depart from outside St Mark's

HIS-

Three Organs of Historical Lineage

Holy Sepulchre Anglican Church, Newton
St Benedict's Catholic, Newton
Auckland Unitarian Church, Ponsonby

DIV-

Three Diverse Organs of Auckland City

St Paul's Anglican Church, Symonds St
Maclaurin Chapel, Auckland University
Baptist Tabernacle, Queen St

4:00pm
– 4:45pm

Understanding the organ music of Max Reger

Hayko Siemens

Lecture recital

Pitt St Methodist Church

5:15 pm
– 6:15pm

Dinner

Pitt St Methodist Parlour

6:30pm
– 8:00pm

Two Options

Choose one of OPT or MYS

OPT-

NZOPT Annual General Meeting

Bus departs for Ponsonby at 7:45pm

Pitt St Methodist Church

MYS-

Auckland night lights mystery tour

Bus departs from outside Pitt St church and arrives at Ponsonby Baptist in time for concert

You'll find out!

8:00pm

Concert - “The Eighteenth Century Organ Concerto”

Age of Discovery Chamber Baroque, James Tibbles, Douglas Mews, Jenny Thomas

Famous Handel organ concertos on historic instruments, featuring the 1779 John Avery organ

Ponsonby Baptist Church

9:15pm

Supper

Ponsonby Baptist

9:45pm

Bus departs for St Mark's after supper

8:40am
– 9:15am

Congress Choir warm-up

St Mark's Hall

9:30am
– 10:40am

Festal Choral Eucharist

Joining with the parish of St Mark's Remuera

Choir Directors – Hayko Siemens & Michael Cox, Organist – Dianne Halliday

Church

10:45am

Morning Tea

Hall

11:15am

Presentation on ORGANZ web site

Peter Gilmour & Walter Nicholls

Hall

11:30am
– 12:30pm

Professional Development Workshops

Choose one of NR, HP, OO

NR-

North American Organ Repertoire

Dianne Halliday

Church

HP-

Hymn Playing and the Digital Organ

Ralph Cullen

Explore the digital organ

Hall

OO-

Organ Outreach

Informal session - varied topics including ORGANZ website, publicity, engaging with your community

Upstairs rooms

12:30pm

Lunch – make your own arrangements

Newmarket, Parnell, visit family...

2:00pm
– 3:30pm

Concert - “Toccata”

Hayko Siemens on the Harrison & Harrison organ

An exciting programme of European organ music

Auckland Cathedral of the Holy Trinity

3:45pm

Afternoon Tea

Visitor's Centre at back of Cathedral

3:45pm
– 5:00pm

Visit St Mary's church

Organ available for playing, or visit family and friends, but please come back!

St Mary's Church

5:00pm
– 6:15pm

Congress Choral Evensong

Cathedral Choir, Peter de Blois, Philip Smith

Auckland Cathedral of the Holy Trinity

6:15pm

Change for dinner

Downstairs rooms at Cathedral

7:00pm

Bus departs for Hopetoun Alpha

7:15pm
for 7:45pm

Congress Dinner

Solo piano music of the 20th Century, after-dinner speaker, announce winners of NZAO Performance Competition, and nice food

Hopetoun Alpha

10:30pm

Bus departs for St Mark's

9:00am
– 9:30am

Organ Music for a Royal Day

Explore the stained-glass windows

St Mark's Church

9:3oam
– 10:15am

Forty Years of the South Island Organ Company, Inc

Presentation by John Hargraves and staff

Hall

10:15am

Morning Tea

Including cutting of SIOC Anniversary cake

Lounge

10:45am
– 12:00pm

NZAO Annual General Meeting

Hall

12:15pm

Lunch and Close of Congress

Presentations, passing of the NZAO banner, farewells

Lounge

1:15pm
– 2:00pm

ORGANZ Council Meeting

Lounge

2:30pm

NZOPT Conference

Seminars on organ history and construction

NZOPT Council meeting

Knox Presbyterian Church, Parnell