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
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
The American Guild of Organists’ biennial National Convention, with concerts, worship events, and workshops over five days.
photo by Amogh Manjunath on Unsplash
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
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