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A nominee for Artist of the Year, Limelight magazine has also recently awarded Joseph its coveted ‘Recording of the Month’ for his ninth disc for Signum Records from St Etienne du Mont, Paris, the church and organ of Maurice Duruflé. This is the first time in the history of the magazine that an organ disc has been awarded this distinction.
Joseph studied at the Royal College of Music, London, winning the Canon Bark Prize for most promising organ student, and was awarded First Class Honours for his final recital at the Temple Church, London.
Scholarships from the Countess of Munster Trust, Hattori Foundation and the Royal Philharmonic Society supported his advanced studies with legendary organists Marie-Claire Alain in Paris and Dame Gillian Weir in London.
Appointed to Her Majesty’s Chapels Royal, St James’s Palace, in 2004, Joseph performed on numerous occasions at Buckingham Palace, most notably giving the opening concert of the refurbished Grand Ballroom organ to a distinguished audience.
Joseph has played in concerts across the globe and made his solo debut at Sydney Opera House in the 2017 Sydney Symphony Orchestra Season to great critical acclaim. Nolan has also performed as a concerto soloist with The Malaysian Symphony Orchestra at Petronas Concert Hall, Kuala Lumpur, and with The West Australian Symphony Orchestra at Perth Concert Hall.
Dr Nolan’s interpretations of the complete works of Charles-Marie Widor for Signum Records—winners of Gramophone’s 2017 ‘Label of the Year’ award—have firmly cemented his international reputation, with both Gramophone and The Australian describing the discs as ‘utterly authoritative’, MusicWebInternational as ‘The Widor cycle of the decade’, BBC Music Magazine as ‘swashbuckling’, and Limelight as ‘Monumental’.
The Nolan/Signum Widor cycle features the finest Cavaillé-Coll organs in France including those of La Madeleine, Paris; St Sernin, Toulouse; and St François de Sales, Lyon, with the discs being awarded multiple five-star reviews and ‘Editor’s Choice’ awards in BBC Music Magazine, Gramophone, and Limelight. They have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and ABC Classic FM amongst many others. Very notably, Gramophone magazine awarded the final disc in the Widor Cycle a ‘Critic’s Choice’ for 2017.
Dr Nolan was invited to take up the position of Organist and Master of Music at St George’s Cathedral, Perth, Western Australia in 2008. Under Joseph’s leadership the Cathedral music programme has been described as ‘elite’ and ‘world class’ in The Australian and The West Australian newspapers. The Cathedral choirs have regularly performed for ABC Classic FM whilst the Cathedral Consort has performed with The Hilliard Ensemble, The Academy of Ancient Music and The King’s Singers.
Joseph has also collaborated in concert with some of the world’s finest trumpeters, including Alison Balsom, Crispian Steele-Perkins and David Elton, Principal Trumpet of The London Symphony Orchestra.
Dr Joseph Nolan was made a Chevalier des Arts des Lettres by the French government for services to French music in 2016 and became an Honorary Fellow of the University of Western Australia in 2013. The University has recently awarded Joseph its prestigious higher doctorate, the Doctor of Letters.
