Paul Hale

File:Paul Hale This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (June 2010) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to establish notability by adding reliable, secondary sources about the topic. If notability cannot be established, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted., Find sources: "Paul Hale" - news · books · scholar · JSTOR · free images (June 2010) Paul Hale is Director of Music at Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire. He was previously Assistant Organist of Rochester Cathedral and Organist of Tonbridge School. He studied at New College, Oxford where he was Organ Scholar. He studied with Sir David Lumsden and Professor Nicholas Danby, gaining an MA in Music. Hale is Conductor of the Nottingham Bach Choir, an Examiner for the Royal College of Organists. He is also Chairman of the RSCM Southwell & Nottinghamshire Area, and a Trustee of the Percy Whitlock Trust and of the Nottingham Albert Hall Binns Organ Trust. He is Organ Adviser and Consultant to the dioceses of Lincoln and Southwell and Nottingham. He designed and led the restoration of the organ at Solihull School; and has designed organs for Southwell, Rochester and Lincoln Cathedrals; Glasgow University, Bridlington Priory, Glenalmond, Leicester's De Montfort Hall and designed and led the restoration of many others. He has appeared at both the Three Choirs Festival and the St Albans International Organ Festival. As well as this, he was also author of over twenty articles for the second edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. He has toured internationally. In 2005 he represented Britain in the Brussels Organ Festival. Recently he has toured Norway, America and was invited to play at St Sulpice in Paris. He was President of the Cathedral Organists Association 1999-2001 and as of 2010 was Chairman of the annual Diocesan Organ Advisers' Conference and President of the Nottingham & District Society of Organists. He has recorded with the Southwell Minster Choir as well as his own organ performances. Professional achievements edit: FRCO (Fellow of the Royal College of Organists), ARCM (Associate of the Royal College of Music), PGCE (Post-Graduate Certificate in Education), FRSA (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts), Honorary FGCM (Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians), FRSCM (Fellow of the Royal School of Church Musicians), an Accredited Member of the Association of Independent Organ Advisers., Critique edit: The Nottingham Post said "under his direction the score showed a fine sense of pace and impressive climaxes" as he led the Nottingham Bach Choir & Orchestra in 2009 and earlier that year it had suggested that Hale should be recognized as a musician "capable of outstanding feats of stamina" for directing the Bach Society's St John Passion and the Harmonic's Brahms' German Requiem in consecutive weeks. His 2009 organ recital at Liverpool was described as an "exacting champion of subtlety - the difference that but one stop can make.". More recently his direction of Bach's Christmas Oratorio (1734) with the Nottingham Bach Choir was described as being a "thoughtful, spirited performance, truly fine and memorable." He is highly regarded as a choral trainer and conductor. He was recently praised for leading the Nottingham Bach Choir of Elgar's the Kingdom to a performance "which resulted in a confident and emotive reading of the score." Cultural offices Preceded by, Kenneth Bernard Beard Rector Chori of Southwell Minster, 1989- Succeeded by, Incumbent

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