Events

 

 

Royal Festival Hall Organ at 70

Start date: March 23, 2024
End date: June 28, 2024
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: Royal Festival Hall, London
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A special series of events in 2024 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Royal Festival Hall’s 7,866-pipe organ.  James McVinnie gives a Bach, Buxtehude and Pachelbel concert, and a performance with Tristan Perich of his Infinity Gradient.  Iveta Apkalna performs the big beasts of the organ repertoire, and there’s a special Organ at 70 event to follow.

Read my chronicle of the controversial RFH organ and its 2014 restoration here on LADY ORGANIST:  Royal Festival Hall organ

International Organ Day 2024

Date: April 20, 2024
All-day event
Location: online
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The fifth International Organ Day will take place on 20 April 2024.  More info below when available.

In the meantime, catch up on International Organ Day 2023, including The Organ Show on YouTube, via the Royal College of Organists’ dedicated page.

picture: recording The Organ Show in 2023

St Alphage, Burnt Oak, Saturday Organ Recitals 2024

Start date: June 1, 2024
End date: August 3, 2024
Time: 7:30 pm
Location: St Alphage, Montrose Avenue, Burnt Oak, Edgware HA8 0DN
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1 June   Rosemary Evans (St Alphage)
(this concert at 3pm)

6 July   Daniel Moult (Concert Organist & Head of Organ, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire)

3 August   Adrian Gunning (St John the Evangelist, Islington)

Admission £10 followed by refreshgments £2
Recitals at 7.30pm except where marked

Organ built 2002 by B C Shepherd & Sons incorporating Father Willis pipes from 1857

AGO National Convention 2024

Start date: June 30, 2024
End date: July 4, 2024
All-day event
Location: San Francisco, California
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The American Guild of Organists’ biennial National Convention, with concerts, worship events, and workshops over five days.

photo by Amogh Manjunath on Unsplash

IAO Festival 2024

Start date: July 25, 2024
End date: July 29, 2024
All-day event
Location: York, England
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The Incorporated Association of Organists’ Festival 2024 will take place in York from Thursday 25 until Monday 29 July.  It will include two recitals on the recently rebuilt Minster organ in addition to hearing many other local instruments. The final stages of the IAO/RCO organ playing competition for young people will be an important feature of the festival.

More details will be available before the end of 2023.

photo of York Minster from Stonegate by David Dixon

 

IAO-RCO Organ Playing Competition 2024

Start date: July 26, 2024
End date: July 28, 2024
All-day event
Location: York, England
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A competition for organists aged from 18 to 26 years, which will be held during the 2024 IAO Music Festival in York. As well as a first prize of £1,000, and second and third prizes of £500 and £200 respectively, it will also offer prize winners recital opportunities, including St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham and Bridlington Priory.

photo of York Minster from Stonegate by David Dixon

 


Send me your organ-related events and I’ll publish them here.  Sorry, I can’t promote individual recitals, as that would quickly overwhelm both the page and my editing capacity, but send me details of courses, workshops, visits, commemorations…..include a picture if you can:    morwenna@theladyorganist.com

Note: Individual organ recitals can be listed on the new organrecitals.uk website