Lunchtime Concert: Paul Rosoman, organ

Music by Bach, Buxtehude and Scheidemann and Bjarne Sløgedal.

International Concert Organist, Paul Rosoman was born and educated in New Zealand, and is currently Director of Music at both St Luke’s Church, and Old St Paul’s in Wellington. As a concert organist, Paul tours in Europe each year, performing in major concert venues and festivals. He plays regularly in New Zealand, and in 2021 performed as part of the Welcome Home’ concert at St Andrew’s on the Terrace on the newly restored Croft Organ.
In 2019 performing with The Orpheus Choir of Wellington in their “Carol of the Bells” concert, while in 2018 he performed as part of the New Zealand Festival chamber music series collaborating with NZSO brass players, in a concert commemorating WW100. He has recently returned from his 2023 European tour which saw him performing in Germany and Austria.
Paul is Artistic Director of the New Zealand International Organ Festival, an event presented by the Zimbelstern Foundation – a charitable foundation of which he is Board Chair and Artistic Director. He is also the Director of Bayard Limited, a boutique artist and concert management company specialising in representing organists. As a recording artist, his CDs include “Great Organ”, recorded at St Peter’s on Willis in Wellington on the 1886 William Hill organ, and “Ciacona!”, the first commercial recording of the organ of Old St Paul’s in Wellington. Performances by Paul are regularly heard on Radio New Zealand and also on the European radio station Organroxx.

Organ works by Bach, Buxtehude and Scheidemann and Bjarne Sløgedal.