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Ian Sadler is a Canadian concert organist. Trained in the UK, he was a boy chorister at St. Paul's Cathedral, Organ Scholar at Bristol University and during postgraduate study, Organ Scholar back at St. Paul's Cathedral under John Scott and Christopher Dearnley. At age 22, he was appointed Director of Music at Toronto's Grace Church on-the-Hill. He studied organ with Stephen Darlington (Christ Church, Oxford), David Sanger (Oxford and Cambridge) and Mirielle Lagacé (Montreal).
In 1986 Ian won first prize at Syracuse University's Poister Competiton. In 1999, he won a Juno Award for a CD recording and in the same year was the first Canadian Juror for the International Liszt Organ Playing Competition in Budapest. In March, 2008, his 9th solo CD was released, 'Romantic Music for Organ, Vol. I', from St. James' Cathedral in Toronto. Last season, Ian played concertos with 4 Canadian orchestras including the Saint-Saëns Symphony and Poulenc Concerto with Ontario's Orchestra London.
Ian has recently performed in the UK at St. Paul's Cathedral, King's College Chapel, Cambridge, the Cathedrals in Winchester, Norwich, Truro, Exeter and Coventry. Ian has also presented recitals recently in Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Italy and the USA.
Plans for 2009/10 include 2 further solo CDs - one dedicated to the music of Mendelssohn for his 200th Anniversary, a recital tour in Australia and New Zealand and further concerts in Denmark & Sweden and in the USA in New York, San Francisco and Hawaii.
Ian makes his home in Stratford, Ontario, just west of Toronto, where he conducts the 90 voice Stratford Concert Choir and the Cathedral Singers of Ontario. The Royal Canadian College of Organists recently honoured Ian with their highest award, an Honourary Fellowship, for his dedication to the promotion of the organ both in North America and overseas.
Plans for 2009/10 include 2 further solo CDs - one dedicated to the music of Mendelssohn for his 200th Anniversary, a recital tour in Australia and New Zealand and further concerts in Denmark & Sweden and in the USA in New York, San Francisco and Hawaii. Ian makes his home in Stratford, Ontario, just west of Toronto, where he conducts the 90 voice Stratford Concert Choir and the Cathedral Singers of Ontario. The Royal Canadian College of Organists recently honoured Ian with their highest award, an Honourary Fellowship, for his dedication to the promotion of the organ both in North America and overseas.
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