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Who's Who in the IAO

When reviewing the IAO's Memorandum and Articles of Association, the opportunity was taken to bring the titles of those who hold office in the organisation into line with current company and charity practice. The people concerned are listed below. 

Council 2012 - Directors/Trustees

Please note: The 'Official' titles given below are those registered at Companies House and are the formal titles. However, in normal day-to-day activities the alternative or informal titles given below may be used, as appropriate. The term ‘Hon’. or ‘Honorary’ is not to be used as we are informed that it no longer has any standing.

Name ‘Official’ Title Alternative or Informal title/s
John Stormont Chairman Exec Vice-President
Malcolm Hawke General Secretary
Barry Davis Finance Director Treasurer
Jane Allsopp Director, IAO Congress Administrator
Stewart Alston Director, IAO Trading Organists’ Review Secretary
Peter Yardley-Jones Director, IAO Communications Director
Fiona Chryssides Director, IAO & IAO Trading Ltd Managing Editor, Organists' Review
Jeanne Cawley Director, IAO  
Don Roworth Director, IAO  
Nigel Morris Director, IAO  

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Advisory Committee  – Elected Advisory Members

Elected Members - retiring in 2013
John Balding
Rosemary Evans
Alasdair MacLaughlin
John Pemberton
Graham Rock
Rosemary Thomas
Nigel Webb
Michael Whitehall

Elected Members - retiring in 2014
Peter Chatfield
Michael Eddy
Ian Hare
Sheila Scott
Adriel Yap

Elected Members - retiring in 2015
Gavin Argent
Terrence Hancock
Geoffrey Holdroyd
Denis Littleton
Alan Taylor
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Advisory Committee  –  Others who may be invited to attend in an advisory capacity

Editor, Organists' Review:  Sarah Beedle
Advertising Manager, Organists' Review:  Jane Beeson 

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Our President: Alan Thurlow

Alan ThurlowAlan Thurlow grew up in Essex where his lifelong passion for the organ and choirs began at the age of eight when he joined the choir at St Barnabas' Church, Woodford Green, and subsequently by his years at Bancroft's School, Woodford, with its organ and chapel tradition. While still at school he became Organist of St Barnabas' Church and at the same time became a member of the City of London and Eastern Society of Organists. His love of the music of Jean Langlais was first awakened by an article which he read at that time in Quarterly Record (the predecessor of the Organists' Review magazine). Throughout his career he has remained an active member of Organists' Associations and for the last twenty-eight years he has served as President (and ex-officio Chairman) of the West Sussex Organists' Association.

After studying music at Sheffield University and Emanuel College, Cambridge, he was appointed Sub Organist of Durham Cathedral in 1973, serving first under Dr Conrad Eden and subsequently under Richard Lloyd. In 1980 Alan was appointed to succeed Dr John Birch as Organist and Master of the Choristers at Chichester Cathedral, where his first task was to form a committee to raise money to restore the cathedral's historic pipe organ to working use (it had been abandoned as unplayable in 1972 and remained silent for fourteen years until the completion of the rebuilding by Manders in 1986).

During his time at Chichester Alan Thurlow has served as a past President of the Cathedral Organists' Association and also for twelve years as Chairman of the Friends of Cathedral Music. He is an Organ Adviser for the Diocese of Chichester and spent over twenty years as a member of the Organs Advisory Committee of the Council for the Care of Churches (ten of these years as Chairman). He has recently been appointed a member of the Church of England's new Church Buildings Council. He is Chairman of the Trustees of the ON Organ Fund, the only fund of its kind, which exists specifically to give financial assistance to places of worship (in the British Isles) for work on pipe organs, with no heritage or other similar qualifications required in respect of the instrument. He is also a Trustee of the Organists' Benevolent League and a member of the Executive Council of the Church Music Society.
In 2005 Alan Thurlow was awarded a Lambeth Doctorate in Music by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He retired from his post at Chichester Cathedral on Easter Day this year. He continues to be active in his other musical interests and is now also working as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Chichester.


IAO Presidents

We felt that there would be interest in having a complete list, with dates, of Presidents of the IAO.

This list is believed to be accurate, but the Web Editor would welcome a note of any errors or omissions.

National Union of Organists' Associations

1913-1923 Samuel Wilkinson Pilling
1923-1926 Sydney H Nicholson MVO
1926-1928 Sir Hamilton Harty

Incorporated Association of Organists

1928-1930 Sir Hamilton Harty
1930-1932 Dr William Prendergast
1932-1933 (not recorded)
1933-1936 Dr Stanley Marchant
1936-1938 Dr Harvey Grace
1938-1939 Professor Sir Edward Bairstow
1939-1941 Dr Harold W Rhodes
1941-1943 G D Cunningham
1943-1946 Dr George Thalben-Ball
1946-1948 Sir Ernest Bullock
1948-1950 Sir John Dykes Bower
1950-1952 Sir William McKie
1952-1954 Dr Henry Ley
1954-1956 Sir William Harris
1956-1958 Dr William Greenhouse Allt
1958-1960 Sir Thomas Armstrong
1960-1962 Dr Francis Jackson CBE
1962-1964 Dr H Lowery
1964-1966 Professor Willis Grant
1966-1968 Dr David Lumsden
1968-1970 Christopher H Dearnley
1970-1972 Dr Peter G Le Huray
1972-1975 Dr Lionel Dakers
1975-1977 John Jordan
1977-1979 Nicholas Danby
1979-1981 Dr Allan Wicks
1981-1983 Dame Gillian Weir
1983-1985 Nicolas Kynaston
1985-1987 Stephen Cleobury
1987-1989 Dr George Guest
1989-1991 Dr Richard Seal
1991-1993 Dr Roy Massey
1993-1995 Gordon Stewart
1995-1997 Dr Peter Hurford
1997-1999 Margaret Phillips
1999-2001 John Scott
2001-2003 Professor Ian Tracey
2003-2005 Dr Simon Lindley
2005-2007 Catherine Ennis
2007-2009 Dr David Hill
2009 Dr Alan Thurlow

Honorary Vice Presidents

Professor Johannes Geffert
Sir Edward Heath KG, MBE
Dr Francis Jackson CBE
John Scott LVO




 

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