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Address: SW1

Tube: Westminster, St James's Park

Tel: 020 7654 4854

Website: www.westminster-abbey.org

Organ: Harrison & Harrison 1937 (105 stops), rebuilt 1982 and 1987

WESTMINSTER ABBEY SUMMER ORGAN FESTIVAL 2008

Tuesdays at 7.00pm

bullet15 Jul Dame Gillian Weir*
bullet22 Jul James O’Donnell*
bullet29 Jul Robert Quinney
bullet05 Aug David Briggs
bullet12 Aug Nicolas Kynaston

Tickets £10 (concessions £7)
Season Ticket £40 (concessions £28)

*These concerts also form part of THE MUSIC OF OLIVIER MESSIAEN: FROM THE CANYONS TO THE STARS, a year-long Southbank Centre festival celebrating the composer’s centenary. For further information see www.southbankcentre.co.uk/messiaen

Sunday recitals 5.45pm

Recitals are held every Sunday unless otherwise stated and last approximately 30 minutes. Recitalists include the Abbey organists James O’Donnell, Robert Quinney, James McVinnie, Ben Chewter and guests

bullet04 May Andrew Scott (Assistant Director of Music, Croydon Parish Church)
bullet11 May James O’Donnell (Organist and Master of the Choristers) Messiaen - Messe de la Pentecôte
bullet18 May Stephen Bullamore (Director of Music, Waltham Abbey Church)
bullet25 May Robert Sholl (London)
bullet01 Jun Anthony Halliday (Melbourne, Australia)
bullet08 Jun Colin Andrews (USA)
bullet15 Jun James Davey (Assistant Director of Music, Blackburn Cathedral)
bullet22 Jun James McVinnie (Assistant Organist)
bullet29 Jun Benjamin Chewter (Organ Scholar)
bullet06 Jul Robert Quinney (Sub-Organist)
bullet13 Jul Duet recital by Max Kenworthy & Nicholas Grigsby (New Zealand)
bullet20 Jul Kees Nottrot (Martinikerk, Bolsward, The Netherlands)
bullet27 Jul Simon Bell (Assistant Organist, Southwell Minster)
bullet03 Aug Thomas Leech (Assistant Director of Music, Ripon Cathedral)
bullet10 Aug Kevin Kwan (Organ Scholar, Gloucester Cathedral)
bullet17 Aug David Williams (Tonbridge School)
bullet24 Aug Hartwig Barte-Hanssen (Wilster, Germany)
bullet31 Aug Francesca Massey (Assistant Director of Music, Peterborough Cathedral)
bullet07 Sep Gavin Roberts (St Marylebone Parish Church)
bullet14 Sep Léon Charles (Organ Scholar)
bullet21 Sep Florian Pagitsch (Vienna)
bullet28 Sep Ian Keatley (Director of Music, St John’s Beaumont School)
bullet05 - 26 Oct Vaughan Williams and his contemporaries

Admission free

Further information on all of the above can be obtained from the Music Office on 020 7654 4854 and via the Abbey website www.westminster-abbey.org

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Last updated: 05 May, 2008