The best young organists in Europe?
For eight years now Catherine Ennis has been promoting an annual series of recitals featuring young artists at the organ. “It’s the only series, as far as I know” she says, “which gives a platform to such organists away from a competition context. Each year the scheme has produced playing of extraordinary quality and excitement.”
The 2001 Klais organ at St Lawrence Jewry in the City of London – venue for the John Hill Concert Series
Catherine is Organist at St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall, in the City of London, and the recitals are held there, on Tuesday lunchtimes in May and early June. The series is named in memory of a generous sponsor of young organists, John Hill, who felt they were the orphans of the musical world, and whose family and friends have whole-heartedly supported the project after his untimely death.
You can download this year’s programme below. (It’s worth reading just for an account by Philipp Klais, builder of the current organ at St Lawrence Jewry, of how the mechanical action single manual Commonwealth Chapel instrument was combined with the main organ in the Nave in 2001.)
The first recital takes place next Tuesday, 6 May, with Karol Mossakowski from Poland playing Vidor, Vierne and Durufle.
John Hill Concert Brochure 2014
