Jersey's Organ Festival takes place through the month of September. Four evening concerts, three lunchtime concert and a Sunday afternoon concert aim to provide a wide range of exciting music.
Starting with the Celebrity Recital with Daniel Moult, we are very fortunate to have been able to engage this stunning player: Dan is one of the world's leading organists.
Our second recital features music from the Interstellar film by Hans Zimmer, performed by Christopher Too, one of the leading young organists in the UK.
Our third visiting organist, Stephen Le Prevost, was for ten years the organist at Westminster Abbey, he now lives and works in Guernsey
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Tickets for the concerts are available on the door, but to guarantee a seat, please click on the links below to go to our ticket box office.
Celebrity Recital
Daniel Moult
Professor of Organ, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
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Wednesday 11
September 7.30pm
Tickets: £20
under 18s free
Mozart
Fantasie in F minor
Bach
Trio in G BWV 1027a
Prelude and Fugue in D BWV 532
Widor
Fifth Symphonie - First movement
Thalben Ball
Variations for pedals on a theme of Paganini
Fletcher
Festival Toccata
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“One of the finest organists of our time” (The Organ), Dan is an internationally acclaimed concert organist, film presenter, and recording artist. His musicianship has been praised as “exhilarating” (Gramophone) and “formidable” (Organists’ Review).
Dan directs the highly acclaimed organ department at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Born in Manchester, Daniel studied at Oxford University and the Amsterdam Conservatorium.
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Organ Concert
Christopher Too
Organ Scholar, St Pauls Cathedral, London
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Wednesday 18 September 7.30pm
Tickets: £15
under 18s free
Zimmer arr. McVeigh
Interstellar Suite
Vierne
Deuxième symphonie Allegro, Final
Boulanger
Trois Improvisations
Bach
Toccata in D, BWV 538
Rheinberger
Introduction and Passacaglia,
Brought up in Bridlington, Chris was educated at Ampleforth College.
From 2019, Chris was the Junior Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge under Daniel Hyde, accompanying the world-famous choir, and subsequently took up the Organ Scholarship at Jesus College. A year at Salisbury Cathedral was followed by a year at Westminster Cathedral.
Organ Concert
Stephen le Prevost
Town Church, Guernsey
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Wednesday 25 September 7.30pm
Tickets: £15
under 18s free
Henry Purcell
Rondeau from Abdelazer
John Stanley
Voluntary in A minor
José Lidon
Sonata de primo tono
Maria Theresia von Paradis
Sicilienne
D Buxtehude
Prelude and Fugue in G minor
Peter Maxwell Davies
Farewell to Stromness
JS Bach
Prelude and Fugue in C
Richard Popplewell
Elegy
J Brahms
Two chorale preludes
Cesar Franck
Choral No.3 in A minor
Herbert Howells
Psalm Prelude Set 1 No1
Arthur Wills
Fanfare and Alla Marcia
​Stephen Le Prevost is a Guernseyman who has been assistant organist at both Ely Cathedral (thirteen years) and Westminster Abbey (ten years), before returning to the island to become Director of Music at Guernsey’s Town Church where he has currently served for sixteen years.
Battle of the Organs
Friday 27 September
7.30pm
St Thomas' Church
Tickets: £15
under 18s free​​​
BBC's Warren Muggleton will present an evening of music to enthuse, excite and amaze. With Jersey musicians, Francis Murton, Michael Wynne and the brass quintet, WONDERBRASS
Lunchtime Concert
Thursday 12 September
1.05pm
Michael Wynne
St Luke's Church
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Michael is Director of Music at St Luke’s Church, as well as founder and Artistic Director of Jersey Chamber Choir. In 2003 he made his conducting debut with the D’Oyly Carte opera company, and from 2005-2013 worked with Scottish Opera and Swansea City Opera, where he conducted over 150 performances of opera and ballet. Michael studied organ and voice at the Royal Academy of Music, in London, and Church Music at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, in Rome. In addition, he holds Fellowships from the Royal College of Organists, Trinity College of Music, and in 2021 was awarded an honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts.
Free admission - retiring collection
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Programme:
Ceremonial March - Herbert Sumsion
Suite from Henry V - William Walton
Sonata 6 - Felix Mendelssohn
Andantino in D flat - Edwin Lemare
Allegretto - William Wolstenholme
Berceuse and Carillon Louis Vierne
Lunchtime Concert
Thursday 19 September
1.05pm
Francis Murton
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Victoria College Musicians
Town Church
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Lunchtime Concert
Thursday 26 September
1.05pm
Nic Turner
St Saviour's Church
We are sorry to announce that due to unforseen circumstances, this concert has been cancelled.
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Francis Murton, is the Artistic Director for the Organ Festival and Chair of the Jersey Music Association. He returned to Jersey six years ago to be the Director of Music at Victoria College. He studied music at Sheffield University and the Royal Academy of Music.
His London recital debut was at St Bride’s Fleet Street aged 16, three weeks after finishing his O-levels and his recitals over the years have included many of the cathedrals in the UK, Leeds Town Hall and Westminster Cathedral.
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Free admission - retiring collection
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Programme:
Bach
Prelude in G Major
Meyerbeer
Coronation March
Gigout
Toccata
Nic was born in Bolton and began his organ studies at Bolton School. He continued his studies at Leeds University with Professor Graham Barber and at Leeds Parish Church with Dr Simon Lindley.
Nic moved to Jersey in March 2020 and has been part of the St Saviour’s music team since then.
Nic has performed at many UK venues, including St Pauls, Southwark, Wells and Chichester Cathedrals, as well as St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh and at the Edinburgh International Festival. He has broadcast for the BBC and recorded for the Royal Academy of Music.
​Free admission - retiring collection
Programme:
Leon Boellmann
Introduction-Choral and
Prière à Notre Dame
from Suite Gothique
Herbert Howells
Piece No.6 from an unpublished manuscript
Olivier Messiaen
Le Banquet Celeste
Frank Bridge
Andante con moto in C minor
Gerald Finzi
Intrada from “Dies Natalis”
Denis Bedard
Variations sur “Sine Nomine”
A Celebration of Music for Organ And Voice
Sunday 15 September
St Saviour's Parish Church
3pm
Music from Tudor times to the present day
with
Annette Blanchet and Nic Turner