Barry Smith
Organist
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- Bachelors Organ Performance University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
- Masters Organ Performance University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Barry Smith is a South African organist, choral and orchestral conductor, author, and musicologist. Early life, education, and career Born in Port Elizabeth in South Africa, Smith was a chorister at St Mary's Collegiate Church, Port Elizabeth. Educated at the Grey School in Port Elizabeth , in 1956 Smith was awarded a scholarship to Rhodes University, where he completed his PhD degree. In 1960, Smith went to the United Kingdom on scholarship to the Royal School of Church Music. Smith then returned to South Africa to serve as Director of Music for two years at the Michaelhouse senior school for boys in KwaZulu-Natal province from 1962 to 1964. He was appointed as Organist and Master of the Choristers at St George's Cathedral, Cape Town in 1964 – the first South African to hold this position, in which he continued for 42 years.
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