A CRANBOURNE church is this month hosting a musical tribute to the Anzac Centenary.
Organist Tom Healey and his son Philip will perform the Gallipoli Sonata at St John’s Anglican Church at 2.30pm on Sunday 30 August.
It will be the first in a three-event Springtime Concert Series, following three organ recitals St John’s held last year as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations.
Mr Healey, previously the St Andrew’s Brighton organist and music director, will perform English, European and American organ works.
Philip will join Mr Healey on violin for the major work in the program, the Gallipoli Sonata by Frederick Septimus Kelly.
Frederick Kelly was born in Australia in 1881 and went to England when he was 12, where he finished his schooling and went to Oxford University.
He then studied music in Germany before joining the British Army and serving at Gallipoli, where he wrote this sonata.
He was killed at the Somme in 1916.
The Cranbourne Combined Quilters’ Anzac Centenary Triptych Banner will provide a backdrop for the sonata and later be given to the Cranbourne RSL.
Subsequent concerts will feature The Victoria Welsh Male Choir (25 October) and the Frankston Ladies Choir (29 November).
The Victoria Welsh Male Choir sings in the traditional four-part harmony a range of Welsh and Celtic tunes and songs from other genres.
The Frankston Ladies Choir will in three-part harmony perform jazz, musical theatre, rock, disco and more.
St John’s Anglican Church is on the corner of Childers and Russell streets in Cranbourne.
Tickets will be available at the door or from the St John’s office on 5995 9364.
