Dr. Wilbur G. Hughes Born Sydney 7.2.1941

Music Qualifications:
A.Mus.A, (Piano perf) 1962
Licentiate Trinity College of Music, London (Organ Perf) 1967
Fellowship Trinity College of Music, London (Organ Perf) 1969
B.Mus.(Hons.Lond. Composition)

1961 - 1963 Piano with Dallas Haslam at the NSW Conservatorium of Music
1963 - 1965 Organist and Choirmaster St Philip's Anglican Church Eastwood.
1963 A.Mus.A Piano
1963-1968 Organ with Norman Johnston NSW Conservatorium of Music
1967-1970 Organist and Choirmaster at St John's Cathedral Parramatta. First LP Recording
1967 Several Recitals, the Sydney Town Hall.
1967 L.T.C.L. Organ Performance.
1968 Organ with David Rumsey
1969 F.T.C.L. Organ performance
1969-70 Organ Recital Tour as assistant to David Rumsey. Played organs by
Frobenius and Marcussen in Denmark and Sweden, the Bavokerk (Möller) Holland, Marmoutier & St Paul le Jeune (Andreas Silbermann) Strasbourg, Linz Cathedral (Marcussen), Monastery in Schägel (16c Renaissance) Austria.
The Grossmunster and Frauenkirche (Metzler) Switzerland.
St Vincente (1730) Lisbon and Mafra (1780), Portugal
1969 & 1970 Organised Sydney Organ Festivals. Recitalists: Sergio de Pieri, David & Christa Rumsey, Robert Boughen and Peter Planyavsky (Vienna).
1971-1974 Tutorials from Sergio de Pieri (early Italian Music), Christa Rumsey and Peter Planyawsky.(Bach & Improvisation)
1974 Year in Ulm Germany. Played historic organs by Holzay, Riepp, Gabler at Weingarten, Ochsenhausen, Ottobeueren, Bamberg, and contemporary organs by Schmidt, Simon, Rieger, Walker, Sandtner including Cathedrals in Freiburg and Ulm
Visited Sergio de Pieri in Venice and played a vast number of historic and modern Italian Organs including St Friari (Venice) and 16c instrument in Brescia.
1975 Recitals in Jettingen, Ulm, Oberelchingen (Germany)
Attended the Haarlem Summer Academy (Heiller-Bach, Hasselböck - Improvisation.)
Paris: 3 Months studying performance of early French Music under Verhasselt Organiste titulaire at St Gervais, Paris.
Played historic organs at Poitiers & St Gervais, (Cliquot), Pithiviers, Bayeux and Caen (Artistide Cavaillé-Coll); Dôle (Riepp) in French Countryside
Visited and played extant historic organs in Spain: Toledo, Malaga, Zaragossa, Valencia.
London 3 Months with Peter Hurford at St Alban's. - Keyboard improvisation
Organ recital in St Giles' Cripplegate for St Bartholomew's Hospital London.
1978 Further recitals in Ulm and Jettingen
1980 Further recitals in Ulm and Jettingen. Recital Early English Organ Music in Treviso, Italy at request of Sergio de Pieri
1981 Recital, The Great Hall, Sydney University.
1982 Recital in Günzburg. Played organs in Spain - Minorca and Mallorca
1985 European organ recital tour:
Germany
The Münster, Ulm 5/93 Walker
The Petruskirche, Ulm 2/30 Simon
Katholische Pfarrkirche, Jettingen 3/35
Spain:
Minorca 1780
Leon 1725
Benevente 1760

Played: Schnitger organs in Lübeck and near Hamburg. Ebersmünster (Andreas Silbermann), Cavaillé-Coll St Sernin, Toulouse, and Historic Instruments in Santiago de Compestela, Zaragossa and Vallidolid. (Spain)
1995 Studied composition with Dr. Eric Gross, Emeritus Professor of Music from Sydney University
1996 Spent 1 year in Berlin. Part time organist at numerous Lutheran, Catholic and Baptist churches. Gave numerous recitals on modern and historic instruments.
· St Ansgar, Hansaplatz
· Die Pauluskirche, Moabit
· Versöhnungskirche, Wedding
· Alt-Rheinickendorf, Ev. Kirche
· Nathanielkirche, Schöneberg
· Zionskirche Mitte, Berlin
· Ev. Freikirche, WeddIng
· Kath Kirche St. Matthias
· Grosskmehlendorf, Ev. Kirche (Silbermann, 1734)
· Schönewalde, Ev. Kirche (Wagner, 1733)
· Sachsenhausen, Ev Kirches
· Alt-Schmöckwitz, Ev. Kirche
· Ev Kirche Heilige-Geist, Moabit (Walker, 1903)
· Final recital for Charité in Berlin at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtnis-Kirche
· Petruskirche, Ulm

Played nearly all playable Gottfried Silbermann organs in Saxony, plus Wagner organs from 1730 at Brandenburger Dom and Tangermünde
One month at the Kirchenmusikschule in Spandau, Berlin, studying choir conducting and training.

2000 Recitals in St Agustin (Intramuros) and the Bamboo Organ, las Pineas, Manila Philippines.

2001 Retired as medical practitioner.

2003 B.Mus. (Hons.Lond.) 2003. in composition and musicology.