We extend our warmest thanks to The Reverend Canon David Parrott, Guild Vicar of
St Lawrence, and Catherine Ennis the Director of Music, for allowing us to hold the
recitals in this lovely Wren church with its superb Klais organ (pictured below)


c/o The Royal Philharmonic Society
10 Stratford Place
London
W1C 1BA
www.etorgantrust.co.uk

Registered Charity No 1026344 /
Lunchtime Organ Recitals
October 2013

The Guild Church
of
St Lawrence Jewry next Guildhall
The Eric Thompson Charitable Trust for Organists and Organ Music
The Eric Thompson Trust was founded in 1993 to commemorate the life and work of Eric Thompson OBE. Although trained as an oboist, Eric quickly realised that his greater talent lay in musical administration and after a period with Boosey & Hawkes he joined the Arts Council and quickly established himself as a most effective and highly regarded senior manager of the Council’s various musical programmes.

Eric was always interested in the organ and took care to ensure that the instrument, its players and its repertoire were properly represented in the work of the Arts Council and in concerts arranged by the British Council. After retiring he became Honorary Secretary of the Royal Philharmonic Society, where he continued to promote all matters connected with the organ and its music and especially the encouragement and support of young organists.
The Trust’s objectives mirror Eric’s interests. It aims to provide grants to help aspiring professional organists who need financial assistance for special projects such as attending master classes in the UK and elsewhere, summer schools, or special lessons from a distinguished teacher outside of normal ongoing tuition. Through the generosity of Flentrop Orgelbouw, an annual scholarship is also available for a young organist to spend two weeks in their Zaandam workshops, learning the rudiments of organ building and having lessons from two distinguished Dutch organists on some of that country’s most famous instruments.
The Trustees, who meet twice a year to review applications and ensure the Trust’s charitable objectives are achieved, are:
David Wakefield (Chairman), Clive Driskill-Smith, Dame Glynne Evans, Richard Fisher, Colin Hamling (Clerk), Robin Jéquier, Dinah Molloy Thompson and David Titterington.
This series of recitals at St Lawrence Jewry marks the start of the Trust’s 21st anniversary campaign to double the amount of grants we can make each year from £3,000 to £6,000. The series features four organists who previously benefitted from the Trust’s support, and we are most grateful to them for taking part. / Donation Form
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1.00pm TUESDAY 22 OCTOBER
Tom Winpenny
Assistant Master of the Music, St Albans Cathedral
Praeludium in F sharp minor BuxWV 146 Dietrich Buxtehude
La Bergamasca (from Fiori Musicali) Giorlamo Fresocbaldi
Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr BWV 662 Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude & Fugue in G (Op 109, No 2) Camille Saint-Saëns
St Bride, assisted by angels (2000) Judith Bingham
Toccata Op 104 Joseph Jongen
Tom Winpenny is Assistant Master of the Music at St Albans Cathedral, where he accompanies the daily choral services and directs the Abbey Girls’ Choir.
Previously, as Sub-Organist at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, he performed with the Cathedral Choir at the American Guild of Organists National Convention, with the London Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’sSymphony No 8, and he has played for great state occasions.
He has broadcast on BBC Radio and featured on American Public Media’s Pipedreams.
Tom was Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, graduating with a music degree, and twice accompanying theFestival of NineLessons and Carols, broadcast worldwide.
He has also studied with Thomas Trotter and Johannes Geffert, winning first prize and the Audience Prize at the Miami International Organ Competition.
Tom has made solo recordings for Naxos, JAV and Resonus Classics, including music by Judith Bingham, Stanford, and Lennox & Michael Berkeley. He also directed St Albans Abbey Girls’ Choir in a recording of choral works by Mendelssohn (Naxos). / 1.00pm TUESDAY 1 OCTOBER
Tom Bell
Organist and Choirmaster, St Michael’s, Chester Square, London
Symphony for Organ, 4th Movement (Toccata) Malcolm Williamson
Berceuse sur deux notes qui cornent Jehan Alain
Five visions from the book of enoch (2009): Matthew Sergeant
i. enoch the scribe (1 enoch 12:3)
ii.  Sêmîazaz, Arâkîba, Râmêêl, Kôkabîêl, Tâmîêl, Râmîêl, Dânêl, Êzêqêêl, Barâqîjâl, Asâêl, Armârôs, Batârêl, Anânêl, Zaqîêl, Samsâpêêl, Satarêl, Tûrêl, Jômjâêl, Sariêl,(1 enoch 6:7)
iii.  summoned by mist and flown up to heaven (1 enoch8:25)
iv.  sheol with Raphael (one of the holy angels that was with me) (1 enoch 22:1-12)
v.  the seven metal mountains and the tree of life (1 enoch 24:1-7; 52: 2-5)
Prelude and Fugue in E flat BWV 552 Johann Sebastian Bach
Tom Bell was a student of Kevin Bowyer in Manchester, and Jacques van Oortmerssen in Amsterdam. His studies were supported by prestigious scholarships awarded by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, the Royal College of Organists, the Countess of Muster Musical Trust and the Michael James Music Trust.
Last year Tom gave concerts in Denmark and the USA (New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia). Previous trips abroad include Norway and Southern Europe. In 2009 he broadcast a live recital of contemporary music from The Temple Church in London for Dutch radio, and he is active as a recording artist.
As a teacher Tom is also very much in demand. He is organ tutor at Sevenoaks School, and teaches for the RCO Academy Organ School. He regularly gives master classes, most recently for the Curtis Institute, Philadelphia and the Birmingham Conservatoire. He tutors on residential courses for the RCO, Royal School of Church Music, Oundle for Organists and on the London Organ Improvisation Course.
Tom is Organist and Choirmaster at St Michael’s Chester Square (London), and is organist to the exciting EtonOrganworks project at Eton College. He is a trustee of the On Organ Fund, and is Artistic Director for the IAO London Organ Day.
When not playing the organ or chasing steam locomotives, he enjoys exercise...so long as it involves tramping across hills and fells in the general direction of a pub.
1.00pm TUESDAY 8 OCTOBER
Charles Andrews
Associate Director of Music, All Saints Margaret Street, London
Prelude & Fugue in E minor BWV548 Johann Sebastian Bach Dies’ sind die heil’gen zehn Gebot BWV678 Johann Sebastian Bach
Choral No 2 in B minor (1890) César Franck Magnificat anima mea Dominum (Op 18) Marcel Dupré
Tanz Toccata (1970) Anton Heiller
Charles Andrews is Associate Director of Music at All Saints, Margaret Street.
He studied piano and organ at the Royal College of Music with John Barstow, John Blakely, David Graham and Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, with the support of a Douglas & Kyra Downie Award. He was awarded the Harold Darke Memorial Prize for organ.
He is Accompanist of Hertfordshire Chorus and Eltham Choral Society. Prior to his appointment at All Saints, Margaret Street he was Organist of St John's, Hyde Park, and held the Michael James organ scholarship at Rochester Cathedral.
Recent concerts include Bridgewater Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields and Christopher Summer Festival 'Sacred Music Hours', Vilnius. Charles Andrews and Roger Sayer premiered David Briggs Mosaïque for organ duo in November 2012. / 1.00pm TUESDAY 15 OCTOBER
Greg Morris
Associate Organist, The Temple Church, London
Pièce d’orgue Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata No 1 in E flat Johann Sebastian Bach
Tierce en Taille Nicolas de Grigny
Prélude (24 pièces en style libre) Louis Vierne
Chorale No 3 in A minor César Franck
Greg Morris is Associate Organist of the Temple Church in London, and Musical Director of Collegium Musicum of London. He was previously Assistant Director of Music at Blackburn Cathedral.
Born in Manchester, he studied organ with Andrew Dean at Manchester Grammar School. He held scholarships at St George’s Chapel, Windsor and Jesus College, Cambridge, and studied with Paul Stubbings, John Kitchen and Thomas Trotter. He won the top performance prize for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists and the Silver Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
He has performed at Notre Dame de Paris, Neubrandenburg International Organ Festival, Westminster Abbey, St Paul’s Cathedral, King’s College, Cambridge and many other venues. His repertoire ranges from Buxtehude and Bach to the music of twentieth-century and contemporary composers, and his recent CD of organ music by Kenneth Leighton was highly acclaimed.Greg gave the world première of David Briggs’ Organ Concerto, and his CD recording is also available. For the 2008 Temple Festival, Greg commissioned and premiered David Bednall’s, Iubilium, and he has broadcast the piece on BBC Radio 3. He makes his BBC Proms début in 2013 with the BBC Singers.
Greg regularly accompanies the Temple Church Choir, appearing on BBC Radio 3 and in recordings. He takes a major role in training the choristers, and recently completed a term as Acting Director of Music. He also directs the chamber choir Collegium Musicum of London, collaborating with leading soloists and instrumentalists in music ranging from Gabrieli and Monteverdi to Vaughan Williams and Taverner.