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Lunchtime organ concert in Huddersfield

About the event

Part of Kirklees Concert Season 2024/25

David Pipe, Organist at Huddersfield Town Hall, has assembled some of the country's finest organists to perform on the Hall's famed Father Willis organ this season. Familiar faces include Organist Emeritus, Gordon Stewart, and Thomas Trotter, Birmingham City Organist. In addition, we're delighted to welcome Scott Brothers Duo, in the form of Jonathan Scott at the organ and Tom Scott at the piano! In October, David will be joined by Opera North's Principal Trombone, Blair Sinclair, to explore the wealth of music for trombone and organ. As ever, the University of Huddersfield return with their annual Christmas Brass Band Concert.

As well as his role at the Town Hall, David Pipe is Head of Organ Studies at the University of Huddersfield. Acknowledging the loyalty and sense of community inspired by the Organ Concert Season, David and the Council will work with audiences to allow everyone to enjoy the world-class organ in the Town Hall, which dates back to 1860.

Please click on the link under Further Information for more details and online booking.

Contacts

Huddersfield Tourist Information

High Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2TG

01484 223200
Dewsbury Box Office and Town Hall Reception

Wakefield Old Road, Dewsbury, WF12 8DG

01924 324501
Town Halls Box Office

01484 225755

Dates and venues

  • Monday 9 September 2024 - 1:00pm, David Pipe with an all-English programme, including the rousing first movement from Elgar’s Sonata. Avril Anderson’s Repetitive Strain, Huw Morgan’s Perotin-inspired Beata Viscera, and Stanford’s Fantasia & Toccata.
  • Monday 23 September 2024 - 1:00pm, Scott Brothers Duo perform a programme of duos for piano and organ, demonstrating the full range of sounds and colours available from this brilliant combination.
  • Monday 7 October 2024 - 1:00pm, Gordon Stewart, Kirklees Borough Organist Emeritus, gives his much-awaited recital including Hollins’ Concert Overture, Wolstenholme’s joyous Celebration, Liszt’s brooding Funérailles and Whitlock’s Toccata from the Plymouth Suite.
  • Monday 21 October 2024 - 1:00pm, Blair Sinclair, Principal Trombone of Opera North, joins David Pipe to explore the amazing sound-world of trombone and organ.
  • Monday 11 November 2024 - 1:00pm, The Polish organist Michal Szostak makes his first visit to Huddersfield Town Hall. A famed improviser, his programme will intersperse three improvisations in varied styles among works by Buxtehude, Bach and Beethoven,
  • Monday 25 November 2024 - 1:00pm, Thomas Trotter returns to Huddersfield with a programme centred on his transcriptions of works by Holst
  • Tuesday 17 December 2024 - 1:00pm, The Huddersfield Youth Choirs present a selection of Christmas music from round the world, with David Pipe at the organ. The organ solos include works by Leroy Anderson and Iain Farrington.
  • Monday 13 January 2025 - 1:00pm, David Pipe performs Messiaen’s evocative nine-movement cycle telling the story of the birth of Christ. This iconic work depicts the shepherds, angels and wise men, before concluding with the dramatic ‘Dieu parmi nous’ toccata.
  • Monday 27 January 2025 - 1:00pm, Ukrainian concert organist Ewa Belmas brings her transcription of John Williams’ ever-popular music from the Harry Potter saga to life with movements including ‘Fawkes the Phoenix’ and ‘The Flying Car’, a concert not to miss!
  • Monday 10 February 2025 - 1:00pm, Prize-winning Austrian organist and harpsichordist Stefan Donner visits from Vienna. He includes Healey Willan’s lesser-known Passacaglia & Fugue in E minor, and Widor’s famous Symphony No. 5 with its glorious Toccata.
  • Monday 24 February 2025 - 1:00pm, York Minster’s Director of Music, Robert Sharpe, opens with a piece by Francis Jackson, and includes Whitlock’s wonderful Fantasie Choral No. 2. We move to France finally, with Vierne’s celebratory Carillon de Westminster.
  • Monday 10 March 2025 - 1:00pm, Hailing from Adelaide, Alana Brook is Assistant Director of Music at Wakefield Cathedral. Her recital includes a selection of chorale preludes by women composers. Mendelssohn’s stately Sonata No. 2 and Vierne’s joyous Final at the close.
  • Monday 24 March 2025 - 1:00pm, David Pipe concludes the season with York Bowen’s dramatic Fantasia, Rhian Samuel’s meditative The Tender Branch. Bach’s monumental Fantasia & Fugue in G minor and Reubke’s Sonata on the 94th Psalm.

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