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Gordon Stewart is pleased to be getting his hands on the keyboard of the new organ in the Phipps Concert Hall at Huddersfield University in order to raise money for Kirkwood Hospice.

He’s particularly delighted since the last time he played the replica 17th century pipe organ was when it was in its original home, that of Castleford businessman Michael Phipps who donated it to the university.

“It is a beautiful little organ. I was the last person to play it when it was still in Michael’s home. Simon Lindley and I went along to play it before it was removed to be installed at the university,” said Gordon.

“Michael is a real music lover and organ enthusiast. He studied with Francis Jackson at York and had a room added to the back of his home to house the organ that he had built. He’s coming to Sunday’s concert.”

“They had a posh opening of the new hall and the organ looks lovely there.”

That inaugural concert featured renowned concert organist David Titterington, Professor of Organ at the Royal Academy of Music.

Now Gordon, who is Kirklees Borough Organist, will be putting the instrument through its paces in a concert at 2.30pm on Sunday which is in aid of Kirkwood Hospice.

It is definitely one for the many fans of Gordon’s lunchtime organ concerts for which he has built substantial audiences both in Huddersfield and Dewsbury.