St Michael & All Angels Church in Bedford Park, Chiswick has announced the full line-up of organists for its 2024 season of lunchtime recitals – as well as a new co-sponsor to help fund its increasingly international programme. The concerts take place from 12.30 to 1.15pm on the first Friday of the month in the beautiful Arts & Crafts church close to Turnham Green tube station.
The care provider Home Instead, Chiswick & Hammersmith, is to co-sponsor the organ recitals alongside Ballet4Life, which has sponsored the concerts for several years. Admission is free with a collection to help pay for the music provision at St Michael & All Angels. See
On Friday March 1st, we enjoyed a wonderful concert by Angela Sones of Lichfield, who has performed in cathedrals in Bradford, Newcastle, Hereford, Derby and Birmingham, as well as at Leeds Minster and Tewkesbury Abbey. Photo shows: Angela Sones with, left to right: Jonathan Dods, St Michaels’ director of music; Maddie Alemayehu, Home Instead; Fr Kevin Morris; Donna Schoenherr, Ballet4Life.
Angela succeeded organists from Poland, Italy and Austria in recent months. See the full list of organists for 2024 and below.
Fr Kevin Morris, vicar of St Michael & All Angels, said: “Ten years after our Inaugural Recital by Jeremy Filsell of Washington National Cathedral, our organ is establishing an international reputation. Visiting organists from Europe and Asia – as well as those in Britain – are full of praise for the instrument and we’ve had some amazing performances. Our director of music, Jonathan Dods, has brought us a wonderfully diverse repertoire of organists, as well as being a highly accomplished organist himself, as we hear each week in our services.”
The 2024 organists and recital dates are:
January 6: Dr Giorgio Revelli (Imperia Cathedral, Italy)
February 2: Dr Michal Szostak (Warsaw Academy)
March 1: Angela Sones (Lichfield)
April 5th: Ben Markovic (St Martin in the Fields)
May 3rd: James Perkins – 2022 details (London)
June 7th (Bedford Park Festival): David Bendix Nielsen (Copenhagen)
July 5th: Richard Brasier (German Lutheran Church, London)
September 6th: Jake Scicinski (Royal College of Music)
October 4th: Andrew Wells (St George’s Campden Hill)
November 1st: Jack Redman (St Peter’s Acton Green)
December 6th: Timara Easter – 2022 details (Concert organist)
The organ was built in Switzerland by the specialist firm La Manufacture d’Orgues St Martin and installed in the church in 2013. It has 1,667 pipes, many of which were sponsored by individuals and groups under the church’s Pipe Up! appeal. Other funds were raised from the Bedford Park Festival, fund-raising Balls and a Hymnathon.
