"…a state of the art technique and an impressive breadth of true keyboard musicianship"

Organ music should be fun. . .

Martin Setchell is an international concert organist who believes in promoting entertaining organ music to a wide audience.

Born and educated in England, he is based in New Zealand, as curator of the Rieger organ in Christchurch Town Hall, and Associate Professor of Music at the University of Canterbury. He regularly performs throughout the world; recent tours include Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China and Japan.

His fifth CD, A Taste of Shropshire, was recorded at Ludlow Parish church, following his highly successful Bonbons for Organ series and Pink and White, an anthology of New Zealand organ music, on the Atoll label, and the original disk recorded on the new Rieger in 1997, "Let the Pealing Organ Blow!" (no longer available) . In January 2010 he recorded for the Priory label on the Rieger in Christchurch as the seventh in Priory's "Great Australasian Organs" series.

Martin is heard on BBC radio’s The Organist Entertains, the USA’s Pipe Dreams, and Radio New Zealand’s concert programme. He has arranged Fauré, Bizet, and Sousa (published by Kevin Mayhew Music), and edited organ albums of Saint-Saëns and Purcell music for Oxford University Press.