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Join us throughout 2024 to hear our newly-restored organ put through its paces.
Concert
27th April - 17th November 2024
Organ Festival 2024
DATE & TIME
27th April - 17th November 2024Location
Winchester CathedralOn selected Sundays, Evensong will be preceded by a short, informal recital given by organists with a close connection to the Cathedral. All are welcome to join from 3.00pm – 3.20pm in the Quire. There is no entry cost for these informal recitals. Browse the programme below.
Sunday 6th October, 3.00pm
Katherine Dienes-Williams, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral
Katherine Dienes-Williams, MA, BMus, LTCL, FRCO, Hon ARSCM, Hon GCM was appointed Organist and Master of the Choristers at Guildford Cathedral in January 2008 following six years as Director of Music at the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick. She was the first-ever female member to be elected to the Cathedral Organists’ Association, and on her appointment to Guildford, became the first ever woman to hold such a post in the Church of England. Born and educated in Wellington, New Zealand, she came to England in 1991 to take up the post of Organ Scholar at Winchester Cathedral and Assistant Organist at Winchester College. She is Chair elect of the Royal College of Organists and a trustee of both the Organists Charitable trust and YOST (Young Organ Scholars Trust).
Sunday 17th November, 3.00pm
Ben Cunningham, Assistant Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College
Before joining Winchester, Ben was Organ Scholar at Westminster Abbey for two years where he accompanied and conducted the world famous choir. Previously, he was Organ Scholar of Worcester College, Oxford whilst reading for a degree in music. He is also the Co-Artistic Director of the chamber choir SANSARA, with whom he has performed in many concerts across the UK, most recently conducting a performance of Bach’s St John Passion with James Gilchrist as the Evangelist.