Concerts 2024

Wednesday 10 January 2024,

12.45pm

Hull, City Hall


Organ


Widor: Symphonie V (complete)

Bach: Das alte Jahr; In dir ist Freude

Josephine Boulay: Andante

Johnson: Elfentanz

Coates: Westminster; Knightsbridge March





Monday 17 January, 1.15pm

Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral


Organ


Leeds Town Hall recital series


J S Bach recital


Fantasia & Fugue in G minor

Das alte Jahr vergangen ist

In dir ist Freude

Violin Concerto in D minor (Vivaldi)

Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam

Fugue in E flat "St Anne"

Monday 5 February, 1.15pm

Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral


Organ

Request programme


Leeds Town Hall recital series


Alain: Litanies

Bonnet: Romance

Dvorak: Slavonic Dance op 46 no 6

Philip Glass: Mad Rush

Gray: Thunderbirds

Paul Mackin: Fantasia on Queen

Torres: Saetas no 4

Widor: Toccata from Symphonie V

Monday 26 February, 1.15pm

Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral


Organ


Leeds Town Hall recital series


Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

Heathcote Statham: Rhapsody on a Ground

Dupré: Prelude and Fugue in G minor

Mathias: Canzonetta

Reger: Fantasia & Fugue on BACH

Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 March,

7.30pm

Rochdale Town Hall


Organ


Reopening concert with

Black Dyke Band, including a new

commission from Iain Farrington



Saturday 9 March

London, Southwark Cathedral


Royal College of Organists

Conferment Ceremony


Bach: Prelude in E minor BWV548

Mathias: Canzonetta

Whitlock: Scherzetto

Boulay: Andante

Dupré: Prelude & Fugue in G minor

Coates: Westminster; Knightsbridge March


[not open to the public]

Saturday, 16 March, 7,30pm

Sheffield, St Mark's Broomhill


Conducting

Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus

James Mitchell, organ

National Festival Orchestra



Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb

Imogen Holst: Three Psalms

Grace Williams: Ave Maris Stella

Gustav Holst: St Paul's Suite; Two Psalms

Friday, 22 March and

Saturday 23 March, 7pm

Heptonstall Church




Silent Film Improvisation - Organ



Comedy shorts by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin

Monday 8 April, 1.30pm

Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral


Organ


Leeds Town Hall recital series


Fela Sowande: Jubilate

Franck: Pièce Héroïque

Karg-Elert: Drei Stücke op 142

Messiaen: Two movements from l'Ascension

Bach: "Jig" Fugue

Bizet: Farandole from "L'Arlesienne"

Saturday 27 April, 6pm

Bridlington Priory


Organ



J Strauss arr Scott: Die Fledermaus overture

Heathcote Statham: Rhapsody on a Ground

Bach: Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam

Demessieux: Variations on "O Filii et Filiae"

Boulay: Andante

Widor: Symphonie V (complete)


Monday 6 May, 11am

Blackburn Cathedral


Organ



Strauss arr J Scott: Overture Die Fledermaus

Vivaldi/Bach: Concerto in D minor

Demessieux: Rorate Coeli; Variations on O

Filii et Filiae

Coates arr DB: Westminster (London Suite)

Bernard Johnson: Elfentanz

Vierne: Clair de Lune; Naiades; Carillon de

Westminster

Saturday 15 June

Huddersfield Town Hall

and

Saturday 22 June

Manchester Cathedral


Organ solo


St George's Singers

Slaithwaite Philharmonic


Janacek: Glagolitic Mass




Thursday 4 July,  1pm

Halifax Minster


Organ



Bach/Busoni arr D Battiwalla: Chaconne

Marianne Martinez: Allegro brillante

Franck: Prelude, Fugue & Variation

Fela Sowande; Go Down, Moses

Philip Glass: Mad Rush

Amy Beach: Prelude on an old folk tune

Charles Ives; Variations on America

Thursday 1 August

Blackburn Cathedral


Organ

James Wood:

Tempestas in Memoriam World premiere


Composed to commemorate the Great Storm of August 1, 1674, for four organs played simultaneously across Europe.

With Karolina Juodelyte (Epiphanien-Kirche Berlin), Dominik Susteck (Antonius Kirche Düsseldorf), and Jan Hage (Domkerk Utrecht)

[open to the public in Utrecht only]

Monday 16 September, 1.15pm

Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral


Organ


Leeds Town Hall recital series


Duruflé: Suite op 5

Bach: Prelude & Fugue in D minor BWV539

Marianne Martinez: Allegro Brillante

Bliss: Things to Come - The Rout Trot

Whitlock: Carol (Four Extemporisations)

James Mitchell: Festival Toccata

Monday 14 October, 1.15pm

Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral


Organ

with Sarah Brandwood-Spencer, violin


Leeds Town Hall recital series


Florence Price: Toccato (Suite no 1)

Bach: Violin & Keyboard sonata no 4

Olsen: Romance

Coleridge-Taylor: Two Pieces

Franck: Prelude, Fugue & Variation

Franck: Final from Violin Sonata

Thursday 24 October, 7.30pm

Manchester, RNCM




Silent Film Improvisation - Organ



The General (Buster Keaton 1926)

Sunday 27 October, 7.30pm

Hebden Bridge, Wainsgate Chapel




Silent Film Improvisation - Organ



Film TBC

Thursday 31 October, 7.30pm

Leeds, Howard Assembly Rooms




Silent Film Improvisation - Organ



The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Friday, 1 November and

Saturday 2 November, 7pm

Heptonstall Church




Silent Film Improvisation - Organ



Helen of Four Gates (UK 1922)

Monday 11 November, 1.15pm

Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral


Organ


Leeds Town Hall recital series


Wagner: Die Meistersinger Overture

Maria Walpurgis: Overture to Talestri

Humperdinck: Angels' scene (Hansel & Gretel

Mendelssohn: Scherzo (Midsummer Nights' Dream)

Saint-Saëns: My heart at thy sweet voice

Strauss: The Blue Danube

Guy Bovet: Hamburger Totentanz

Monday 9 December, 1.15pm

Leeds, St Anne’s Cathedral


Organ


Leeds Town Hall recital series


To include

Denis Bédard: Variations on In Dulci Jubilo

Elizabeth Mounsey: An Old Christmas Carol

Reger: Choralfantasie Wachet auf


plus Christmas requests

Saturday, 14 December, 2.30pm

Sheffield, City Hall


Conducting

Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus

Black Dyke Band


Christmas concert

Saturday 18 January 2025, 7.30pm

Macclesfield, Kings School


Harpsichord solo

Northern Chamber Orchestra



To include:

Bach: Harpsichord concerto in D minor

Saturday 25 January, 7.30pm

London, St Mary-at-Finchley


Silent Film Improvisation - Organ



Blackmail (Hitchcock 1929)