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01/07/2025 in Notice

Tewkesbury Musica Deo Sacra 2025

Tewkesbury Abbey is delighted to welcome visitors once again to Musica Deo Sacra. Now in its 56th year, this renowned week-long festival brings together professional and semi-professional singers to perform…
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16/06/2025 in Notice

Lunchtimes at Christ Church City

The lunchtime concerts at Christ Church Broad Street take place on Wednesdays in June, August and September. Individual concerts are shown under Public Recitals in the Events Calendar, and you…
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All Saints Clifton - Peter Barley
The Wednesday lunchtime recital series at All Saints continues on 30 July 2025 with a recital by Peter Barley, Organist at St Mary's Cathedral, Limerick....
St Mary Redcliffe: JUDITH PENDROUS
Thu 31 Jul 2025    
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Judith Pendrous is organist at St Mary's Priory, Abergavenny, and is giving a recital of English Romantic music on our fabulous Harrison and Harrison organ. Programme to include Whitlock, Elgar and Francis Jackson.
Christ Church City: HUGH DAVIES
HUGH DAVIES, organ (Age 19), who is studying at the Royal Academy of Music, plays Works by J S Bach, Rheinberger and Alain
St Mary Redcliffe: CLAIRE ALSOP
Thu 7 Aug 2025    
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Claire Alsop hosts another of our fabulous outreach concerts for young musicians as part of our Pipe Up! Series. The recital will also give opportunities for young people to play our famous Redcliffe organ, and to have a go at building and playing our new pop up organ.
St Mary's, Wotton-under-Edge: HENRY FAIRS
Henry Fairs | organ Henry Fairs, Professor of Organ at the Universität der Künste Berlin, will be playing at St Mary's Wotton-under-Edge on Saturday 9th...
Christ Church City: ERIC TYSON
ERIC TYSON, Assistant organist at All Saints Church, Clifton, plays works by John Stanley, and the Suite for Eric by Paul Ayres
St Mary Redcliffe: JOS MATERS
Thu 14 Aug 2025    
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
JOS MATERS - "The Orchestral Organ" From Amsterdam, Jos is giving an organ recital featuring Whitlock’s Sonata in C-minor and Dyson’s Fantasia and Ground Bass
Christ Church City: GEORGE ROBEY
GEORGE ROBEY from Cheshire, plays music by Whitlock, Alain, Mendelssohn, and Prélude sur le Thème du Carillon de Soissons (Duruflé).
St Mary Redcliffe: RUTH VAN RYNEVELD
Thu 21 Aug 2025    
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
RUTH VAN RYNEVELD | Soprano. After singing in the SMR girls’ choir, and then having a Gap Year Scholarship supported by The Ousley Church Music Trust, Ruth gives a farewell recital to SMR this summer before she heads to university.
Christ Church City: CAROLYN CRAIG
CAROLYN CRAIG, Assistant organist at Wells Cathedral, plays works by J S Bach, Florence Price and Cortège et Litanie (Dupré)
Events on Wed 30 Jul 2025
Events on Thu 31 Jul 2025
Events on Wed 6 Aug 2025
Events on Thu 7 Aug 2025
Events on Sat 9 Aug 2025
St Mary's, Wotton-under-Edge: HENRY FAIRS
9 Aug 25
Wotton-under-Edge
Events on Wed 13 Aug 2025
Christ Church City: ERIC TYSON
13 Aug 25
Bristol
Events on Thu 14 Aug 2025
St Mary Redcliffe: JOS MATERS
14 Aug 25
Bristol
Events on Wed 20 Aug 2025
Events on Thu 21 Aug 2025
Events on Wed 27 Aug 2025

About Us

We are a group of about 150 people from the Bristol area who like to share our enjoyment of the organ and its music.

There are no restrictions on membership: it is not necessary to be an organist, as we welcome all who are interested in the organ and its music, whether as players (all levels) or as listeners.

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Affiliated to the Incorporated Association of Organists, We aim to promote the organ as an instrument of practical and versatile music making in church, chapel or concert hall.

Featured Video

A recital given by Eric Tyson on the organ at St James’s Cathedral, Toronto on 20 Feb 2024. Here is his programme:

  • England’s Glory -​ Nigel Ogden (b1954
  • Spring Song – ​Alfred Hollins (1865 – 1942)
  • Romanza and Allegretto​ – William Wolstenholme(1865 – 1931)
  • Claire de Lune – Louis Vierne (1870 – 1931)
  • Suite for Eric – ​Paul Ayres (b1970) Duo – Tierce en Taille – Aria – Intermezzo
  • Fanfare ​- Percy Whitlock (1903 – 1946)