It was a great pleasure to speak at the VdGS meeting at St John’s church in Chichester recently. My talk focussed on aspects of the consort organ’s role in the string consort repertoire with an emphasis on the viol player’s perspective.

There were some interesting questions afterwards from Peter Holman, Jo Wainwright and others, and I’ve had some stimulating feedback via email from some of the other participants. Robert Carrington was even inspired to write a piece for consort organ in response – an unexpected but delightful outcome!

There are some further potential spin-offs in the pipeline from the day that I hope to share in due course.