Bernard Edmonds Research Conference 2025

Saturday February 22nd 2025 – 10.30 for 11.00

The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200, Jennens Road, Birmingham B3 7XR

The Bernard Edmonds Research Conference took place in February at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.  We were most grateful to Daniel Moult, Head of Organ Studies (and BIOS member) for arranging this.  Our meeting was in a seminar room as there was another event in the Organ Studio that day, but we took the opportunity to see and also have a demonstration of the new instrument recently installed by William Drake Ltd.

The day’s programme included:

• Drew Cantrill-Fenwick — English influences on nineteenth-century French organ culture;
• David Shuker — The organs and women organists of Eaton Hall, Cheshire in the Georgian and Victorian era;
• Owen Woods — Harrison and Harrison and the History of the French Horn Stop;
• William McVicker — The Holdich Album, recently acquired for the British Organ Archive;
• and papers by Dr Anna Steppler (Cambridge), Robin St John Shakespeare (Dublin) and Martin Renshaw (London).

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Tel: 01923 718870. Email: meetings@bios.org.uk