Paul R Hale   MA  FRCO  ARCM  FGCM  FRSCM  FRSA

Paul Hale is Cathedral Organist at Southwell, Nottinghamshire and was an Organ Scholar at New College Oxford. He undertakes organ consultancies around Britain, advising clients on all matters technical and musical. World-wide travel as a recitalist brings him into contact with the work of many organ builders. He is much involved with the work of the Royal College of Organists and was Editor of Organists’ Review for fifteen years.

Paul is an internationally acknowledged writer, with much published on organ design and construction. On these subjects he frequently lectures, including to the Conference of Diocesan Organ Advisers, the Three Choirs Festival and the St Albans International Festival. He acts as Diocesan Organ Adviser for Southwell and Lincoln (South) and is currently chairman and secretary of the annual national conference of Diocesan Organ Advisers.

New (or substantially new) pipe organs he has designed include the cathedrals of Rochester, Birmingham and Southwell, churches in Cambridge (University Church), Bridlington, Repton, Humberston, Nottingham, Platt, Edenbridge, and schools such as Solihull School and Glenalmond College. New organs are planned for Merton College Oxford, Exeter University, Manchester Cathedral and Wolverhampton St Peter. Historically informed restorations include St Margaret's Priory King's Lynn, De Montfort Hall Leicester, Leicester Cathedral and Our Lady & the English Martyrs (Cambridge).

No project is too large or too small, and advice is also offered on digital organs. Paul offers advice anywhere in the UK.

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