Christopher Kent - Overseas Activities

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A third edition of the "Elgar thematic catalogue and research guide" is in progress following the relocation of the composer's manuscripts, proofs and letters etc. from his Birthplace Museum at Broadheath to the British Library.

Current organ consultancies include Pembroke Parish Church and the Church of Christ the King Paolo, Malta.

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Overseas Activities

July 1988	Guest lecturer at the Bicentennial Conference of the Organ Historical Trust of Australia, Sydney, N.S.W. Graduate seminar, University of Sydney, Department of Music, on Elgar sketches.
October 1988	Lecturer and Recitalist at the 28th Annual Conference of the Organ Department of the University of Michigan and a jury member of the Ann Arbor International Organ Competition.
July-August 1990	Examining tour to Singapore for the A.B.R.S.M.
July-August 1992	Examining tour to Hong Kong for the A.B.R.S.M.
September 1994	Contributor to the International Musicological Symposium 'Zagreb and Croatian Lands as a bridge between European and Mediterranean Musical Cultures' held in Zagreb under the aegis of the Croatian Musicological Society on the Occasion of the 900th Anniversary of the Zagreb Bishopric and the First Reference to Zagreb.
December 1994	Paper at the international conference on organ conservation held at the Palácio Nacional de Mafra sponsored by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture and the Council of Europe.
August 1995	Invitation of the Association St-Marc of Souvigny (Allier) to give a recital of English organ music on the 1783 instrument by François-Henri Clicquot as part of a festival featuring the music of Henry Purcell, and gave interview on Purcell's organ music for French National Radio (France Musique).
September 1995	Directed a course on the interpretation of seventeenth and eighteenth century English organ music in Tortona, Italy, for the Conservatoire of Alessandria, and gave a recital on the Serassi organ (1837) in Tortona Cathedral.
September 1997	Examining tour to South Africa, Swaziland and Namibia for the A.B.R.S.M.
July 1998	Lecture tour of South African Universities: Grahamstown (contributor to Annual Conference of The Musicological Society of S.A.), Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Stellenbosch
January and April 1999	Contributor to two organography conferences in the U.S.A: i) 'Conservation or Restoration?' held in Smithfield Virginia under the aegis of The Colonial Williamsburg Institute. ii) 'The Organ in the new Milleneum' held at the Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Seattle under the aegis of The Westfield Center for Early Keyboard Studies.
December 1999	A.B.R.S.M. examining tour to Eire for L.R.S.M. diplomas and Advanced Certificates.
July 2006 September 2015	Lecturer at the Halle Handelfest. Recitalist and teacher at the 36th Annual confence of the 'Stagione internatione di concerti sugli organi storica della provincia di Alessandria'