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| Philip Drew's Home Page 
Philip Drew is a composer, organist, counter-tenor, singing teacher and choral conductor living in Portsmouth, UK. He is also Diocesan Organs Adviser for Portsmouth Diocese and an Organ Adviser for the Methodist Church in London and the South East. The Biography page has not had any new information added for a few years but is good on history! It may be updated during the Christmass holidays.
The listing of Organs in Portsmouth Diocese (in the manner of listed buildings) is now available on this site on the Organs of Portsmouth Diocese page.
See some of his compositions here
I have been interested in taking photographs of trains, buses, ships, interesting buildings and lovely views for some time and digital cameras have allowed me to indulge much more. I would not call myself a real photographer but nonetheless I thought I should share with you some of my favourites on a new page called simply Interesting Photographs.
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| NEWS of PERFORMANCES
Compositions
The Portsmouth Baroque Choir (Malcolm Keeler conductor) will perform my setting of 'There is no Rose' at their Christmass Concert at All Saints' Church, Portsmouth on Saturday 3rd December at 19:30.
At the PDCA Showcase concert on Saturday 19th November I performed my organ solo pieces 'Halo' and 'Magnificat' and played the organ part in 'Hymn' and piano part in 'Offering' by Brian Wilshere. See next column for full programme.
On Friday 19th August 2011, the Flute Quartet CAMPSIS (directed by François Veilhan) performed my Trio for Piccolo, Flute and Alto Flute and Vistas 2 for Flute Quartet at a concert that was part of the Festival that weekend in Fécamp, Normandy. Both pieces were completed last Summer.
My latest piece The Altar was sung at the re-dedication Mass at Holy Spirit Church on 20th November 2010 (see below).
Trois poèmes de Verlaine for soprano and guitar was given its first performance on Saturday 13th June 2009 in a concert given by TRIO DUMESNIL-SIROIS
[Nathalie Dumesnil (soprano) and André and Monique Sirois (guitarists)] in
FECAMP, Normandy. The piece is dedicated to Nathalie Dumensil who is married to composer Dominique Lemaitre [PDCA member].
Halo, a solo organ piece composed using spectralist techniques in 2009,
was given its first performance by Mark Wardell (Assistant Organist at
Chichester Cathedral) at St Mary's Alverstoke, Hampshire on Saturday
16th May 2009.
Holy Spirit Church
http://www.holyspiritsouthsea.org.uk Sadly Fr Michael Lewis, our Vicar for the last 15 years, retired after Evensong on Easter Sunday. We are now, therefore, in a vacancy but we have appointed a new Priest-in-charge, former curate Fr. Phillip Amey who will be licensed early in the new year. Services are continuing as normally as possible during this time. Details of the Christmass services can be found on the Holy Spirit Church page.
The next Solemn Choral Evensong and Benediction will be on the Feast of the Epiphany, Sunday 8th January 2012. On other Sundays Evensong without Benediction is led by lay members of the Parish.
Building work began on Monday 1st March 2010 and was completed in mid- November 2010. The church was re- dedicated and the new liturgical furniture consecrated on Saturday 20th November at a Pontifical Concelebrated High Hass at 16:00 at which the Principal Celebrant and Preacher was The Rt Rev'd Christopher Foster, Lord Bishop of Portsmouth.
See the Holy Spirit Church page for details of this and other services. Cantores Vagantes We sang in Lichfield Cathedral on 2nd and 3rd April and in Llandaff Cathedral from 1st to 7th August. Next year we visit Worcester and Exeter Cathedrals Go to this page for music list and comments on Cathedrals and Pubs.
Wyndcliffe Voices On Palm Sunday 17th April 2011 18:30 in Holy Spirit Church, Southsea we performed the Passion according to St Mark by Charles Wood almost exactly 90 years after the work's first performance.
On June 30th, Wyndcliffe Voices took part in a Memorial Concert for former choir member Margaret Harley in Holy Spirit Church, Southsea. After retiring from teaching, Margaret supported the National Osteoporosis Society, Portsmouth Branch and the Portsmouth Area Talking News for the Blind and Visually Impaired with voluntary work in organization and fund raising and reading news articles for PATN recordings. Margaret's friend and former teaching colleague Dame Emma Kirkby performed in the concert which raised £1000 for each of the charities concerned. See the Wyndcliffe Voices page for a full programme. | | | |
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