place on Friday evening when one of England's leading organists will give a special recital.

New Zealand-born Katherine Dienes who, at the age of only 26, is Acting Master of the Music and organist at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool, will play a programme that includes some of the greatest works composed for this spectacular instrument. These include the Toccata and Fugue by Back, Purcell's Voluntary in D minor, Mendelssohn's Sonata No. 3, Louis Vierne's Clair de Lune and the Prelude and Fugue in B major by Marcel Dupre.

Ms Dienes, who won a scholarship to obtain degrees in both music and modern languages from the Victoria University of Wellington, became the Richard Prothero Organ Scholar (and then assistant organist) at Wellington Cathedral in New Zealand before she travelled to Britain. There, she became organ scholar at Winchester Cathedral, and assistant organist at Winchester College.

Ms Dienes has also been the conductor of the Cathedral Choirs of Auckland and Wellington and the New Zealand Youth Choir. She has conducted the Winchester Cathedral Choir and, during her tenure at Liverpool, has also been in charge of the choir, devising and conducting the music at the televised installation service for Archbishop Patrick Kelly last July. Her efforts on this occasion were given a rare `Five Star' rating by The Times newspaper.

In 1994 she trained the Waynflete Singers of Winchester to perform Walton's `Belshazzar's Feast' with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Katherine Dienes, who has made several recordings in New Zealand, has given major recitals at Westminster Abbey, and at the cathedrals of Winchester, Peterborough, Blackburn, St. Asaph and at both the Anglican Cathedral and at the Roman Catholic Metropolitan in Liverpool.

The 375th anniversary Organ Recital by Katherine Dienes will take place at St.

John's Church on Friday, November 8 at 8 p.m. Admission by programme, $15.00.

Katherine Dienes