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Officers of the Academy
Canadian Representative: William Maddox,
BMus, FTCL, FGMS, FCSM, FASC
E-mail:
wcmaddox@hotmail.com
William Maddox was born in Picton, Ontario
and received his early education there. A performance graduate
of Queen's University at Kingston, and Trinity College of Music,
London, William has served churches in Picton, Belleville and
 Kingston,
and in 1996 succeeded his teacher, Catherine M. Palmer, as Organist
and Director of Music of
Yorkminster
Park Baptist Church, Toronto. Yorkminster Park Baptist Church
is the largest Baptist Church in Canada and supports a music
programme which embraces the very finest of the church music
repertoire.
William has also served as Instructor
of Organ in the School of Music at Queen's University at Kingston,
where his students were the recipients of numerous University
and national scholarships and awards. He was elected a Fellow
of the Guild of Musicians and Singers of the United Kingdom in
January, 2000, and the first Canadian Fellow of the Cambridge
Society of Musicians in January of 2001.
William maintains a busy schedule as
a solo recitalist, and has performed throughout Canada and the
northern United States, including appearances at Roy Thomson
Hall in Toronto, Jack Singer Hall in Calgary, Saint Patrick's
Cathedral in New York City and at the
Royal
Parish Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London. As well,
his recordings and live concerts have been featured on many nationally-broadcast
programmes on the CBC, and on American Public Radio (PBS). William
has appeared as a soloist with orchestra, performing the Handel
and Rheinberger Concerti, the Mozart Epistle Sonatas and the
Guilmant Symphony I for Organ and Orchestra.
William plays many dedicatory recitals
on new instruments, and is actively involved as consultant to
many churches and organ builders regarding the tonal design and
console appointments of their new instruments. He has also acted
as a Juror for the National Organ Playing Competition of the
Royal
Canadian College of Organists, and for various national scholarships
and awards.
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