‘Music in the local church’ was originally developed as a three week course, but this is the supersonic version in two seminars. To get the balance of the material, it is best to come to both sessions, if possible, on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon.

Part 2 (Wednesday afternoon) will look at choosing songs, rehearsing and arranging music for congregational worship. There will be time for Q&A, some interaction and maybe even a song or two.

Jonathan Rea is Creative Director of New Irish Arts, which aspires to be an artistic presence in the church and a Christian presence in the arts. Best known for their concerts with the New Irish Choir and Orchestra and New Irish Youth Choir, the group also records albums and broadcasts regularly. Jonathan studied music at Cambridge, winning the Rima Alamuddin prize for performance. He taught music for 15 years in Bangor Grammar School, but is now combining his work in New Irish with a busy freelance career as conductor, pianist, arranger, producer and occasional contributor to BBC’s Thought for the Day. Jonathan’s passion is to use music to point people to God.