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Ralph
Lane OAM Organist and Artistic Director
Ralph Lane is a senior recording/music producer with the
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, producing studio and concert
recordings of orchestral, instrumental and vocal music for broadcast on
the ABC's Classic FM network. Associated with this are his many
productions for commercial release (over 100 Compact Discs to date) on a
variety of Australian and international labels, but particularly for the
Corporation's in-house label, ABC Classics. Often nominated for
recording industry awards these productions have, in past years,
garnered the prestigious French Diapason d'Or Spain's Ritmo
Prize and, in Australia, one of the inaugural Soundscapes
Awards
and ‘Best Classical Recording’
in the ‘Fine Arts’ Category of the ARIA awards.
Still a practicing musician, Ralph Lane studied organ performance with
Christa Rumsey (a pupil of Anton Heiller), both privately, and at the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music where he also obtained the Associate
Diploma in Church Music. A past President of the Organ Society of
Sydney, he has held positions as organist/choirmaster in a variety of
Sydney churches since 1965 and, in 1981, was appointed to his present
position as organist of the Hunter Baillie Memorial Presbyterian Church
in the Sydney suburb of Annandale.
Ralph Lane established, and has been the guiding force in ensuring
the continuation of this annual concert series since its inception. In
recognition of his services to the Arts (through his profession) and to
the Community (through his promotion of the organ and its music), he was
awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the 2006 Australia Day
Honours List.
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