David MacFarlane in Concert

Join us for an afternoon of music featuring the Willis organ in Holy Trinity Cathedral Wangaratta with one of Australia's finest organists, David MacFarlane.

The concert will take you on a journey from the world of Amsterdam, through the Bach family circle, to the emotional heights of Paris.

Fantasia à 4: Echo (d3) SwWV 260 -- Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck 

Choral No 1 in mi majeur -- César Franck 

Aria variata in A minor -- Johann Christoph Bach 

Passacaglia in C minor BWV 582 -- Johann Sesbastian Bach

David MacFarlanes’s undergraduate studies were in organ and musicology at the NSW State Conservatorium of Music and the University of Sydney. David studied organ with David Rumsey and Robert Ampt, harpsichord and organ with David Kinsela, and conducting with Clive Pascoe. David's earliest organ teacher was David Clark, now the driving force behind teaching pipe organ using the Suzuki method in Australia.
When based in Vienna, David performed around Europe and officiated on the historically classified 1741 Dacci organ in the church of Salvator am Wienerfeld where he was the Director of Music. He graduated from the University of Performing Arts, Vienna, in 1992, where he studied in the performance and church music departments under Michael Radulescu (organ and improvisation), Gordon Murray (harpsichord), Augusta Campagna (continuo), Maria Seidlhofer (piano) and Erwin Ortner (choir training and conducting). Masterclasses afforded David the opportunity to work with other leading European musicians including Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Susan Landale, Ton Koopman, Rudi Meyer, Marie-Claire Alain, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden and Peter Hurford.