Thursday 4 June 2026

Harald Bunt is a Netherlands-based Gambist, Organist and Harpsichordist, who has been studying organ at the Codarts Conservatory since September 2024 with Bas de Vroome, Aart Bergwerff and Christian Schmitt, whilst also teaching organ and harpsichord at the Barneveld Music School. A prize winner at the 2025 Duyschot competition in the Westerkerk in Amsterdam, his programme includes works by Marcel Dupré, Herbert Howells and David Briggs.

Thursday 11 June 2026

Will Walshe-Grey is the current organ scholar at St Mary Redcliffe Church. Having completed his undergraduate degree at Bristol University, he is currently studying piano performance at postgraduate level at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He will be performing music including Duruflé, Howells and Thalben-Ball.

Thursday 18 June 2026

Lucie Tenet and Anna Harris are an established Bristol-based duo, performing music using piano, voice and clarinet. Anna, a recent music graduate from Bristol University, is a keen orchestral and chamber musician and is pursuing research into neglected female composers, creating editions of previously unpublished works. Lucie a French singer and pianist, completed her BA in Oxford, singing for The Queen's College Chapel Choir. She subsequently moved to Bristol for postgraduate study, and is a current Lay Clerk at Bristol Cathedral. Music by Augusta Holmés, Gabriel Fauré and Margot Wright will be included in their recital.

Thursday 25 June 2026

Oxford-based bass-baritone David Crown won many competitions as a young singer before his career took him to conducting, and a highly regarded career with many choirs including the Cheltenham Bach Choir. Returning to singing, he is delighted to be sharing with you some of his favourite music including works by Wolf, Brahms and Finzi. He will be accompanied by pianist Claire Alsop, from St Mary Redcliffe Church.

Thursday 2 July 2026

Luke Bond held organ scholarships at Gloucester and Bristol Cathedrals before moving to Truro Cathedral as assistant organist. Currently the Assistant Director of Music at St George's Chapel, Windsor, Luke has accompanied some of the highest-profile services in the country's recent history, including Royal Weddings, and The Committal service of HM Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor in September 2022.

Thursday 9 July 2026

Timothy Selman is Organ Scholar at Lincoln Cathedral and an active recitalist, accompanist, conductor and musical director. Alongside previous posts at Southwell Minster and Nottingham Cathedral, he has performed widely in cathedrals and churches across the country. His programme will include a selection of well-known favourites together with his own arrangement of In the Church from Slovak Suite by Vítězslav Novák.

Thursday 16 July 2026

Andrew Kirk is a Musical Director of four choirs, a freelance organist, accompanist and composer, based mainly in the Bristol and North Somerset area. From 2003–2023 he held the position of Director of Music and Organist at St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol where he had responsibility for directing several choirs, as well as being custodian of the magnificent Harrison and Harrison pipe organ. Born and educated in Leicester, he won an organ scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford where he studied organ with David Sanger. Composers included in this programme are Jehan Alain, Ghislaine Reece-Trapp, Andrew Kirk himself, and Henri Mulet.

Thursday 23 July 2026

Harry van Wijk studied with Kees van Houten and Theo Jellema at the Conservatorium, before continuing his studies in Belgium and Germany. He is a prize winner in the International Organ competition in Nijmegen, and has played concerts in several countries in Europe, and the USA. Working as a concert organist, church musician and choir director, he likes characteristic concert programmes, with the best music from the organ repertoire, but also film music with organ, synthesizer and percussion, or music with organ and narrator. His programme will include both organ music by Whitlock and Mendelssohn, and orchestral transcriptions of the Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg.

Thursday 30 July 2026

IAO Open Console Day

Thursday 6 August 2026 – Family Organ Recital

Claire Alsop is the Organist and Assistant Director of Music at St Mary Redcliffe Church. She is a versatile musician, equally at home in the organ loft or the theatre pit, and is deeply involved in music education in Bristol and beyond, leading large scale outreach projects in partnership with Bristol Beacon, Bristol Diocese and the Growing Faith Foundation, and creating resources for Oak National Academy. This recital will be a narrated recital, suitable for all ages, especially the younger listener, and there will be an opportunity following the recital for young people to try the organ – no prior experience is necessary.

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