Maitland Farmer

Maitland Adam Ernest Farmer (born February 24, 1904 in London , † June 12, 1995 in Eastern Passage ) was an English-Canadian organist , harpsichordist , church musician and music teacher .

Farmer was a student of Reginald Goss-Custard and George Dorrington Cunningham . He was first organist at the “Holy Trinity Church” in Cloudeslay Square in London, then at “St-André” in Pau, France, and after his return to London in 1923 at the “St. Luke's Church ”in South Kensington . During this time he gave his first organ concerts and recorded piano pieces on paper rolls for the “Duo-Art Company”.

In 1929 he moved to Canada and became an organist at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Quebec . From 1932 to 1944 he was organist at the “St. Paul's Anglican Church ”in Toronto . In 1944 he went to Montreal , where he worked as a piano teacher at McGill University and organist at the “St. George's Anglikan Church ”worked. From 1946 to 1971 he was organist at "All Saints Cathedral" in Halifax ; he also taught organ from 1966 to 1971 at Dalhousie University . After that he was organist at the “St. James Anglican Church ”.

Farmers' organ students include u. a. Leon Cole , Don Forbes , Nancy Fraser , Alexander Gray , John Grew , Michael Gormley and David Macdonald . As a concert organist, Farmer began performing on the radio in 1930 and has given more than 100 concerts at the CBC in Toronto and Halifax. At Expo 67 in Montreal , he performed daily in the Canadian pavilion for a week. As a harpsichord soloist, he gave concerts with the string orchestra of the CBC and the Halifax Symphony Orchestra .

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• The Canadian Encyclopedia - Maitland Farmer
• Cathedral Church of All Saints Halifax - Organ and Organists