MICHAEL BROADWAY

Michael Broadway received his musical education at the London College of Music, studying the organ with Gordon Phillips, and the viola da Gamba with Nathalie Dolmetsch.

After being given a player-piano, he has since made extensive studies of the several different patent actions, rebuilding and restoring many instruments.

Now retired from work as an organ-builder, from 2012 to 2022 he was the Curator of the organ at the Royal Albert Hall.


Tuning for the Proms, 2008

This video shows Michael at work at the RAH instrument

 

Michael was invited to take part in the Grand Organ Celebration at RAH on 15 May 2018. A full house enjoyed performances from David Briggs, Olivier Latry, and Wayne Marshall, and Michael gave a guided tour of the inside of the organ relayed by video to the auditorium.

Photo: Andy Paradise

His Pianola performances in the UK have included the South Bank, the Barbican, St John's, Smith Square, a duet recital with Thomas Trotter at Symphony Hall Birmingham, and the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham. Broadcasts include two programmes devoted entirely to the Pianola on Radio 3, Radio 4 and BBC2.

In Europe he has performed in Rome, Prague, Budapest, and in Venice for La Biennale di Venezia.

In 2002 he was invited to play at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester.

Michael regularly accompanies the soprano Vaninne Parker.

Michael Broadway lives in London with his wife Frances. In 1981 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 1983 he became a Freeman of the City of London, being admitted as a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Glaziers and Painters of Glass. He is a member of the Court of Assistants, Honorary Musician to the Company - he served as Master in 2013 and Deputy Master in 2014.

In 2001, he became a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, and in 2008, having been elected as Parish Clerk for West Hackney, he was admitted to the Worshipful Company of Parish Clerks. In July 2021 he was installed as Master.


Michael was included in a series of photos shown at London's City Hall in 2010 entitled Working Lives of London.


St Paul's, 2009

The exhibition was compiled by the photographer Harriet Armstrong.


 

 

 

 

 



 

 


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Michael Broadway