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Events
Forthcoming recitals and events featuring Members of the Society of Women Organists
18-24 April 2021
RCO Organ Week
Online
Beginning with RCO Choral Day on Sunday 18 April and culminating in interNational Organ Day on Saturday 24 April, this is a week-long celebration of the organ. Highlights include an exploration of the work of local organ associations, a celebrity recital by Stephen Farr, and a day centred on cinema and theatre organ music. Many SWO members will be featured in RCO Organ Week, including:
-A discussion between SWO Co-Chair Anne Marsden Thomas and her female pupils about what attracted them to the organ, what it means for them to learn as girls, and what their aspirations are as musicians;
-A performance of Karl Jenkins' Celebratio by SWO Co-Chair, Ghislaine Reece-Trapp, which will be played as the 'theme tune' before and after the events throughout RCO Organ Week;
-A collage of videos highlighting the diversity of SWO's members;
-An exploration of historic female organists organised by SWO.
28 April 2021, 15:30pm
On the radio
SWO Co-Chair Ghislaine Reece-Trapp's psalms will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 by the BBC Singers as part of Choral Evensong. You can listen to the broadcast online via this link: .
29 April 2021
Publication date of Cecilia McDowall's latest composition for organ, First Flight, published by Oxford University Press.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/first-flight-9780193551497
Stephen Farr will give the live online premiere of Cecilia McDowall's First Flight on 22 April 2021 at 8pm, as part of the Royal College of Organists' interNational Organ Day celebrations. View on the RCO's website.
Sunday 25 April 2021 15:00pm
St Giles, Cripplegate Church, London
Emma van Setten gives her first solo organ recital with music ranging from the Early Baroque to the Twentieth Century. Composers include Bach, Van Noordt, McDowall, Franck and Messiaen. Free entry.
10-12 May 2021
the Oxford Opera Society’s production of Cesar Cui’s Feast in the Time of Plague
conducted by Lucia Svecova
more information when available https://luciasvecovaorg.wordpress.com/concerts/
20 May 2021, 7.30pm
Royal Albert Hall, London
Anna Lapwood, Olivier Latry, Isabelle Demers, Wayne Marshall and David Briggs celebrate the Royal Albert Hall's world-famous 9,999-pipe Henry Willis organ.
Tickets from £25-45.01. Book them here: https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2021/grand-organ-celebration/
Saturday 22 May 2021 at 11.00am
St John’s East Dulwich, London SE22 9AT
Organ Recital by Irene Wolstenholme
Admission Free, retiring collection.
Nearest Station: East Dulwich. Buses 37 and 484 pass the church.
Saturday 5 June 7.30pm
St Alphage, Burnt Oak, HA8 0DN
Rosemary Evans
Admission: £10 on the door
Wednesday 9 June 2021, 12.30pm
Weybridge United Reformed Church, Surrey, KT13 9UX
Marion Bettsworth gives the lunchtime organ recital.
Free entry with a retiring collection for Help Musicians UK.
Tuesday 6 July 2021 7.30pm
Holy Trinity Church, Frome, a Somerset BA11 3ED
Alison Howells MA FRCO LGSM
‘New Horizons’ - a concert of inspirational and reflective organ music, including works by Cecilia McDowall, Bach, Guilmant, and Rebecca Groom Te Velde.
Thursday 8 July 1.10pm
St Nicolas Newbury RG14 5HG
Rosemary Evans
Admission free, retiring collection
Saturday 10 July 2021 at 11.00am
St John’s East Dulwich, London SE22 9AT
Organ Recital by Bridget West
Admission Free, retiring collection
Nearest station: East Dulwich
Monday 29 August 2022 11.00am
All Saints Parish Church, Priory Terrace, Leamington Spa CV 31 1AA
Bank Holiday Organ Recital by Marion Bettsworth
Programme TBC
Free entry with retiring collection
8 September 2021 12.30pm
St Modwen’s Church, Burton on Trent DE14 1HA
Organ Recital by Cathy Lamb
Admission Free
15 September 2021 12.30pm
St Modwen’s Church, Burton on Trent DE14 1HA
Organ Recital by Mary Cobbold
Admission Free
Saturday 18 September 2021 7pm
Union Chapel, 19b Compton Terrace, London N1 2UN
Claire M Singer and Chris Watson
Organ Reframed- premiere of Voce del Vento
Tickets from unionchapel.org.uk
Wednesday 15 December 2021 at 1.05pm.
The Welsh Church of Central London W1W 8DJ
Organ Recital by Rosemary Evans
Admission Free, retiring collection
Nearest stations: Oxford Circus and Tottenham Court Road