Birmingham Organists

Bluesky seems to be the new Twitter and seems happy, like here used to feel. Not easy to build up a new following, I’ve been here since 2011 with 2k+ followers now, whereas I’ve been on Bluesky since December 2023 and have 157 followers. Worth it though! bsky.app/profile/organi…

We're delighted to share details of @BirmCons' Organ Festival, 4th - 10th November 2024. Please book to avoid disappointment! bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire/…

This Saturday 2 November @TewkesAbbey 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Calling all organists and organ venues! Come and be part of the Play the Organ Year campaign, a year-long initiative to help inspire new people to learn to play the organ. For resources and information on how you can get involved next year, visit: rco.org.uk/play

Looking forward to sharing the inauguration of @BirmCons’ new Juliet organ next week with brilliant Dan Moult. A week-long festival of great players and teachers follows!

Join us for a free lunchtime recital performed by our Assistant Head of Music Ashley Wagner at 1310 on Friday 25 October. It will be an organ recital of works by JS Bach, Duruflé, Fournier and local composer Christopher Churcher. Entry is free. Just turn up.

You can watch the latest YouTube release from @StChadsBirm any time now: Jean Langlais’ Fête is a great outburst of joy, jazzy, noisy, fun! It was also the first piece I heard David Saint play on the just-completed organ back in 1992. youtu.be/IelKloo1K8M?si…

US organist Katelyn Emerson talks about her concert career and musical style in the latest edition of the Organ Podcast. Listen here: buzzsprout.com/2278771/156301…

David Saint playing #Bach’s Von Gott will ich nicht lassen: extract from a @ThursdayLive recital broadcast during lockdown. Tomorrow, Thurs 5 Sep 2024, hear him play this piece live in @StChadsBirm part of his recital, starting at 1:15pm. Admission free. youtu.be/9by_M0TvXEM?si…

The next Thursday Live Plus! organ recital @StChadsBirm will be given by Ashley Wagner, Assistant Head of Music at @bhamcathedral St Philip’s Cathedral, and follows the 12:15pm Mass for the Feast of the #Assumption. 🔸Thursday 15 August 2024 1:15pm 🆓 All Welcome Programme👇🏻

Enjoyed getting to know the iconic organ of Bridlington Priory this afternoon, preparing for two recitals on Saturday. The first for @the_iao as part of their festival, the second - Saturday 27 July at 6:00pm - part of the Priory’s regular summer series. paulcarr.co.uk/diary/bridling…

Congratulations to Tim Stewart & Tom Howell, who progress to the final of the IAO-RCO organ playing competition on Sunday in York! We are very proud of all 3 of our students who made it to the semi final: Tim, Tom, and Piotr Maziarz. Photo by DAVID ILIFF. License: CC BY-SA 3.0

➡️ Throughout August there will be an organ recital every Thursday at 1:15pm in @StChadsBirm 🎵 Thursday Live Plus! begins on Thursday 1st August 2024 with Paul Carr playing music by Bach (Wedge Prelude & Fugue) Gárdonyi, Felton, Massey, Dupré and Langlais.

This month’s release on the @ThursdayLive YouTube channel is @OrganistPaul playing Flor Peeters’ Lied to the Mountains (Lied Symphony) showing off the beautiful foundation stops of the JW Walker organ in @StChadsBirm. Premieres at 1:15pm on YouTube: 🎥 youtu.be/cxtHBPMAhC4?si…

Memorable study tour to The Netherlands. Tutors: Ton van Eck, Frank van Wijk, Anton Pauw, Gerben Gritter, Matthias Havinga, Daniel Moult & Nicholas Wearne. Historic organs: Haarlem (Bavo RC, Philharmonie, Grote Kerk), Alkmaar (Laurenskerk), & Amsterdam (Waalse, Nicolaas, Oude).

Playing the lunchtime recital at St Philip’s Cathedral @bhamcathedral on Friday July 5th 2024 at 1:10pm. Music by Gigout, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Felton and Dr Roy Massey a former Organist of St Philip’s Cathedral. Full details: paulcarr.co.uk/diary/st-phili…

Tomorrow, Thursday 4 July 2024, we welcome Richard McVeigh @BEAUTYinSOUND to play July’s @ThursdayLive Organ Recital in @StChadsBirm St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham. Includes music by Whitlock, Mendelssohn, Vierne… 1:15pm-1:55pm Admission free, retiring collection All welcome

🔸This time next week, Thursday 4 July 2024, at 1:15pm we welcome @BEAUTYinSOUND’s Richard McVeigh to play July’s @ThursdayLive organ recital in @StChadsBirm. 🆓 Admission free, retiring collection. 🎵All welcome🎵 👇🏻 Programme 👇🏻

So, this Saturday I give the inaugural recital on the new digital organ in Wombourne… It’s arguably the best solution for this church, given that space and finance don’t give the option of a pipe organ, even a rehomed one.

Tune in tomorrow at 3pm to hear my wonderful choir in Wolverhampton, including a beautiful plainchant office hymn! bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…