Lunchtime Organ Music: James Perkins

From 12.30pm to 1.15 on the first Friday of every month, we present Friday Lunchtime Organ Music.
On Friday December 5th the organist is James Perkins, Organist, King Edward’s School Witley.

All welcome, free entry, collection at the end for music at St Michael’s.
The 2025 season of Organ Recitals is kindly sponsored by Home Instead and Ballet4Life.
See this year’s Recitals programme.

Programme

Offetoire dur Deux Noels – Guilmant

Biography

James Perkins trained at the Royal College of Music as an organist and harpsichordist, winning the Walford Davies Prize for organ performance and graduating with a first-class honours degree. He is Organist & Head of Keyboard at King Edward’s School Witley and has previously worked at Bradfield College, Haileybury and Berkhamsted School as Organist. He also served in the British Army as a musician, training at RMSM Kneller Hall as a pianist and horn player before being posted to the Royal Artillery Band (Woolwich). Later he served with the Band of the Grenadier Guards during the period from the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee to the Coronation of HM King Charles and Queen Camilla. Perkins currently serves with the Band of the Honourable Artillery Company in the City of London and regularly plays at events for the Corporation and Mayor of London at Guildhall and Mansion House on the piano and horn. He holds diplomas on each of his instruments. He is interested in learning German, drinking real ale and reading short books.