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Barry Smith (born 13 May 1939) is a South African organist, choral and orchestral conductor, author, and musicologist. [1]
Born in Port Elizabeth in South Africa, Smith was a chorister at St Mary's Collegiate Church, Port Elizabeth. [2] Educated at the Grey School in Port Elizabeth (1946–1955), in 1956 Smith was awarded a scholarship to Rhodes University, [2] where he completed his PhD degree. In 1960, Smith went to the United Kingdom on scholarship to the Royal School of Church Music. [2] Smith then returned to South Africa to serve as Director of Music for two years at the Michaelhouse senior school for boys in KwaZulu-Natal province from 1962 to 1964. He was appointed as Organist and Master of the Choristers at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town in 1964 – the first South African to hold this position, in which he continued for 42 years. [3]
From 1966 to 1999, Smith was an Associate Professor on the staff of the Faculty of Music at the University of Cape Town, and during his time there, he completed a PhD at Rhodes University on the subject of Peter Warlock. Later, he was also awarded a DMus from the University of Cape Town in 1996. In 1964, Smith founded the St. George's Singers, which he directed until 2015. [4] Besides conducting in the United Kingdom, Austria, and Israel, Smith has made several solo recital tours both in America, England and Australia and played in Westminster Abbey and King's College, Cambridge.
He has adjudicated in Hong Kong and directed music courses in Perth, Australia and in Washington D.C. In June 2007, Smith and his St George's Singers took part in the Sir Edward Elgar 150th Anniversary Celebrations in Worcester, England, where he also conducted the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Worcester Cathedral. In 2013, he conducted the English Symphony Orchestra at the Bromsgrove Music Festival. Smith was the choirmaster and organist at St Michael's Catholic Church. [5] in Rondebosch, Cape Town from 2007 until 2014. [6] He now plays for the Sunday morning service at the Gardens Presbyterian Church in Cape Town.[ citation needed ]
In 1989 Archbishop Desmond Tutu awarded Smith with the Order of Simon of Cyrene, the highest honour the Anglican Church of Southern Africa can bestow on a layman. [1]
Smith has received honorary fellowships from the Guild of Church Musicians in the United Kingdom in 1989, [7] the Royal School of Church Music in 1994, and the Academy of St Cecilia in 2008. [8] He is an honorary associate of the Centre for the History of Music in Britain, the Empire and the Commonwealth at the University of Bristol. [9]
In 2009 the Cape Tercentenary Foundation awarded him the Gold Molteno Medal for lifetime achievement in the performing arts. [10] [11]
Smith received the Parnassus award from the Stellenbosch University music department in 2010, and in 2011 a mayor's medal from Cape Town mayor Dan Plato. [12]
In May 2013 he was appointed President of the Peter Warlock Society. [13]
HONORARY FELLOWS [...] 1989 Dr Barry Smith
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Philip Arnold Heseltine, known by the pseudonym Peter Warlock, was a British composer and music critic. The Warlock name, which reflects Heseltine's interest in occult practices, was used for all his published musical works. He is best known as a composer of songs and other vocal music; he also achieved notoriety in his lifetime through his unconventional and often scandalous lifestyle.
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St George's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, and the seat of the Archbishop of Cape Town. St. George's Cathedral is both the metropolitical church of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and a congregation in the Diocese of Cape Town.
David John Chandler Price is a British choral conductor and organist.
Michael Bernard Nicholas FRCO, FRSCM is a British organist, conductor and composer, who was organist and master of choristers at Norwich Cathedral from 1971 to 1994 before becoming Chief Executive of the Royal College of Organists.
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Jonathan Gregory is the Director of Music of the UK-Japan Music Society and UK-Japan Choir, having previously been Director of Music at Leicester Cathedral from 1994 - 2010.
Richard Cock is a South African musician and conductor currently based in Johannesburg.
Charles Harrison has been Organist and Master of the Choristers of Chichester Cathedral since September 2014, succeeding Sarah Baldock. He has also held musical posts at Southwell Minster, Carlisle and Lincoln Cathedral.
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