DR JOHN WELLS, organ
John wells is a graduate of Cambridge University
where he was organ scholar at King’s College
Chapel.
He received his doctorate with high distinction
from Indiana University after studies with Dr
Oswald Ragatz.
Dr Wells is Organist to the University of Auckland,
Visiting Artist-Tutor at the School of Music
and Patron of the New Zealand Association of
Organists; as Auckland City Organist from 1998
to 2012 he played a key role in the campaign to
rebuild the Town Hall organ. He is a past-President
of the New Zealand Association of Organists,
which elected him an honorary Fellow in 2002 for his services to organ music
in New Zealand.
He was invited to be National Director of the New Zealand branch of the
Australian & New Zealand College of Organists in 2012.
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