The second spring program of the Four Seasons Fine Music Festival sees one of Australia’s most gifted organists coming to St John’s Anglican Church at Creswick to play on the State registered 1889 Fincham and Hobday tracker action pipe organ.

Anthony Halliday is invited annually to give organ and piano recitals and concerto performances throughout Europe and Australasia. His playing has won critical praise from several internationally renowned conductors. He has received many awards and prizes including a Churchill Fellowship, all the Fellowship prizes at the Royal College of Organists, and was Commonwealth Winner of the ABC Concerto Competition. He was the first artist outside Europe and America to be invited to open the International Bach Festival in St. Thomas’s Church, Leipzig where J.S. Bach was organist and his recital received a standing ovation.

Following the performance, there is delicious country refreshments at a cost of $10 a head. Donations go towards the upkeep of the church.