In this role he will be playing during services and concerts, co-ordinating performances by visiting musicians and conducting the cathedral choir.

Mr Tipping currently lives in Mudgee where he teaches music at St Mathew’s Catholic School. 

He has a wife Dianne, three grown children, Oliver, Nicholas and Ashley, and a nine-year-old daughter, Gabrielle, who goes to the same school as her dad.

While Mr Tipping has composed music, given solo performances and taken part in musical theatre, he says he grew up with church music and it is what he does best. 

When an opportunity arose to play a magnificent organ in a cathedral once again, he jumped at it. 

Mr Tipping said he was really looking forward to conducting the choir and would love to get an organ scholarship or two going to ensure there are organists in the future. 

He will also be offering lessons in Bathurst for anyone who would like to learn.

“I love teaching and playing,” he said. 

Mr Tipping was born in Sydney, attended Trinity Grammar School and later studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Trinity College of Music London and Durham University. 

He entered the conservatorium as a pianist, but in his second year switched to playing the organ.

“I also play the trumpet ... badly,” he admitted.

Mr Tipping was principal organist at St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney for 10 years and served as a lecturer at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

He has toured internationally with St Mary’s Cathedral Choir, given solo recitals in Europe, the USA and South East Asia, and played at many churches and cathedrals in Australia and around the world.

Mr Tipping was the in-house musician at Jenolan Caves House and the Fairmont Resort, a senior project officer with the Music Board Australia Council and a member of the City of Sydney Cultural Committee.

He was the founding director of the Blue Mountains Conservatorium and musical director of the Blue Mountains Grammar School. 

In 1999 he moved to the Philippines, where he worked for a number of years in Manilla as vice president of Outbound Travel and as president of D & G Productions.

Over the years he has been the musical director of more than 30 musicals, including Oklahoma, Oliver, The Mikado, My Fair Lady, Pirates of Penzance, Fiddler on the Roof and The Sound of Music.

Mr Tipping has also regularly broadcast on ABC-FM and and played a cameo role in Poor Man’s Orange, as well as being the regular organist for Catholic Communications programs on Channel 10 and the St Mary’s Cathedral segment of Cathedrals of Australia. 

He will be giving the first of a new series of lunchtime concerts in All Saints’ Cathedral on Monday, featuring the beautiful sounds of the historic 1886 Brindley and Foster pipe organ. The program will include works by Bach, Stanley, Festing, Thalben-Ball and Zipoli.

The 30-minute concert will begin at 1pm and a $5 donation is requested.

This is the beginning of regular lunchtime concerts which will be held on the first Monday of each month, featuring local and visiting musicians.

A Choral Eucharist featuring Est Ist Ein Ros by Brahms and Fanfare in D by Lemmens will take place at 8.30am on Sunday, February 7.

Another will follow on Sunday, February 14 with Rhosymedre by Vaughan Williams and the Dam Busters by Eric Coates.

Sunday, February 21 will see the performance of Ebarme Dich BWV 721 by Bach and Prelude and Fugue in A, BVW 536, also by Bach.

The final Sunday in February will mark the third Sunday in Lent and will feature Freu dich sehr by Karl Elert and Voluntary V by Stanley.

A series of 5th Sunday concerts will also take place in May, July and October from 4.30pm.

If anyone would like to receive music lessons from Mr Tipping they can contact him on 0428 842 846.