Events

On the first Saturday of each month at 6pm, please join us for an evening of music, played on our historic Organ.

Ben Bloor is the Organist of the London Oratory Church where he accompanies the professional adult choir for weekly Mass and Vespers and oversees the famous Downes/Walker organ. He combines this with a busy freelance recital career and the post of School Organist at Westminster School, where he teaches organ and plays for services in Westminster Abbey. Previously, he held organ scholarships at Derby Cathedral, St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle, New College Oxford and Westminster Cathedral, and was the Assistant Sub-Organist at Rochester Cathedral. Ben was the winner of the 2012 Northern Ireland International Organ Competition, and a semi-finalist in the inaugural Wadden Sea International Organ Competition held in Denmark in January 2017. He was awarded second prizes in the Boston Bach International Organ Competition 2018 and also the Canadian International Organ Competition in 2021. In 2023, he won the Douglas May Award at the St Albans International Organ Competition. Ben holds a First-Class Honours degree in Music from the University of Oxford and the Limpus prize for highest marks in the 2013 FRCO examinations. He is a recipient of the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Silver Medal for his contribution to organ-playing and held the Junior Fellowship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Ben’s debut solo organ CD, L’Orgue Grégorien, was released in October..

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Eighteenth-century Moravian missionaries deeply influenced John Wesley and played a major role in his spiritual formation. Fluent in German, likely learned at Oxford, Wesley first met Moravians (whom he called "the Germans") in 1735 aboard The Simmonds on his way to America. His Journal (1736–1738) records their pietist faith: during a storm, the Moravians calmly prayed and sang while others panicked, showing an inner strength that became an important aspect of  Methodism. These ties continued in America and later in London.

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On the first Saturday of each month at 6pm, please join us for an evening of music, played on our historic Organ.

As a concert organist, Richard Brasier has performed extensively across the UK, Europe, and Asia in recital series and at major international festivals on both period and modern instruments. Recent projects have included surveys of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Robert Schumann (performed on a nineteenth-century pedalflügel), and César Franck. His work has also been broadcast widely on numerous television and radio stations.

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On the first Saturday of each month at 6pm, please join us for an evening of music, played on our historic Organ.

James Gough is Assistant Organist at Southwark Cathedral and a renowned recitalist. He began organ studies with Huw Tregelles Williams OBE, later reading Music at Bristol and studying with Dr David Ponsford. In 2009 he earned a Master’s in Organ Performance at the Royal Academy of Music under Nicolas Kynaston, completing the FRCO and RAM Licentiate diplomas and winning several prizes, including the Eric Thiman Organ Prize. He was chosen to perform for Sir Elton John’s visit.

James has played the complete works of J. S. Bach and César Franck and performed at leading UK venues such as St Paul’s and Westminster Cathedrals, Westminster Abbey, and Bath Abbey, as well as festivals in Switzerland and Germany. Upcoming recitals include Bern and Osnabrück Cathedral. His recording of Bach’s Trio Sonatas, made at Clifton Cathedral, will be released on Naxos in 2024 following a collaboration with Dame Gillian Weir.

Passionate about contemporary music, James has premiered works by Piet Kee, Diana Burrell, and David Bednall. He previously held posts at St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Bride’s, Fleet Street and Wells Cathedral, and currently teaches at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and Westminster School.

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