J. Michael Kidd, organist and composer


 

Musical Career



Michael Kidd
J. Michael Kidd : Musical C.V.
P.R.S., M.C.P.S., B.A.C.S



My musical career covered almost every aspect of music

1970s/1980s	Regular broadcasts, all of my own music:
			BBC Radio 2 (The Organist Entertains)
			BBC TV 
			HTV
			Border TV
			BBC Radio Bristol (26 programmes on Points West)
			BBC Radio Carlisle			

Publishers
			Boosey and Hawkes
			Cavendish
			Hawkes
			Weinberger
			Paget Publications
			animus

Recordings
			Just Kiddin'			DER BS1	Album
			Somerset			DM 1028	Album
			The Washingtons of England	LER 38B	Album
			Brass tracks (Meridian)		A22001
			(Harry Mortimer)
			Recorded music for film/TV 	SBN 3071
			(Boosey and Hawkes) 

Film Score	'Tracks'				Arena Productions
(My music is currently being used by an American film company)

Advertising jingles.

Religious music, including anthems and settings have been widely used.

Some other noteworthy works are:

Away Lifeboat, written for the 150th anniversary of the R.N.L.I. 
	and performed in St Paul's Cathedral by Dr. Harry Gabb 
	at the Royal Anniversary Service.
Full Ahead, commissioned by the Royal Navy to commemorate the centenary 
	of the Royal Naval College of Engineering.
H.M.S. Formidable, commissioned by the H.M.S. Formidable Society.
Fanfare for Freedom, written to celebrate the victory in the Falklands
Desert Shield, to celebrate the victory in Iraq
Patriarch, to celebrate the centenary of Sir Winston Churchill

Orchestral and Band music played by about a dozen different orchestras 
and bands including:
			Central Band of the R.A.F.
			Band of the Royal Marines
			B.B.C. Northern Ireland Light Orchestra