Joseph Nolan
Joseph Nolan is an internationally renowned organist who was appointed to Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal, St James’s Palace, United Kingdom in 2004 where he played for the regular services. He broadcast with the choir on Radio 3 and Classic FM as well as playing at the Thanksgiving service for Princess Diana at The Guards Chapel in August 2007 broadcast on BBC Television.

Joseph also performed on numerous occasions at Buckingham Palace, most notably giving the inaugural recital of the refurbished Ballroom organ in November 2005 to a distinguished invited audience. Joseph was the first ever Organist to record a commercial CD of this instrument in November 2006 for the Signum label. This CD was lauded by Gramophone Magazine, UK ‘Nolan uses the organ to amazing effect...such an astute musician’.

A scholarship holder at The Royal College of Music, London, Joseph won major organ prizes and was awarded First Class Honours for his B Mus Final Recital at The Temple Church, London. Joseph then studied in Paris with Marie Claire Alain and in London with Dame Gillian Weir supported by scholarships from The Countess of Munster Trust, The Hattori Foundation and The Royal Philharmonic Society.

Joseph’s career is being recognised internationally with his CD recordings on the Signum, Sanctuary, Herald and Priory labels being lauded by International Record Review, BBC Music Magazine, Diapason (France and USA), Klassik (Germany), Fanfare (USA), American Record Guide, Gramophone (UK), The Saturday Telegraph, Novita Gennaio (Italy), Luisata (Holland) and the Penguin Good CD Guide. They have also been broadcast in part on BBC Radio 3, Radio France and Radio New Zealand.

Joseph has toured extensively across Europe, North America, New Zealand and Australia, including giving concerts in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, London, St John’s College Cambridge and for various US conventions including the 2008 Year of the Organ. Festival appearances include Cambridge, Thaxted, Oundle and Perth, Australia, where he conducted a performance of Part’s Passio with the legendry Hilliard Ensemble at Perth Concert Hall in February 2010.

Joseph has also performed organ and trumpet concerts with the world’s leading trumpeters including Crispian Steele Perkins and Alison Balsom and he will appear in concert with the King’s Singers at the Fugato Festival in Frankfurt in September, 2010.

Joseph’s latest disc from St Sulpice, Paris for Signum Records has been particularly well received winning the star recording award from the Organ Magazine. It is also been described by Gramophone Magazine as a ‘brilliantly played recital’ Music Web international ‘this disc should find a special place amongst organ collectors’ and American Record Guide ‘the best Liszt Ad Nos on record’. The disc was also awarded ‘disc of the week’ on Swedish national radio.

Joseph took up the post of Organist and Master of the Choristers at St George’s Cathedral, Perth, Australia in March 2008 where he directs the professional Cathedral men and boys Choir and Cathedral Consort and is responsible for the Cathedral concert series.