Big Screen Organ Recitals

The Cathedral promotes organ recitals throughout the year.

There is a recital each Bank Holiday at 11am lasting about forty-five minutes and admission is free.

In addition, between June and October there are monthly Wednesday evening recitals which last about ninety minutes and a modest charge (with concessions) is made for admission.  For these recitals the organ recitalist can be seen by the audience in the Nave by means a of a big screen relay.

 

The full programme for 2009 is as follows.

Bank Holiday Monday Recitals at 11am - Free admission

May 4           Simon Hogan (London)

May 25         William Saunders (Ipswich)

August 31     Andrew Parnell (Formerly St Albans Abbey)
 

Wednesday Big Screen Organ Recitals at 7.30pm - £6 with concessions

June 17        Thomas Primrose (Organ Scholar, Norwich Cathedral)

July 22          Jean-Baptiste Dupont (Basilica of St Sernin, Toulouse)

August 12     Dr. Peter King (Bath Abbey)

September 16   David Dunnett (Norwich Cathedral)

October 14    Thomas Leech (Leeds Cathedral)

 

Special Events

March '10

'Mother & Child - exhibition of work by Vanessa Pooley
Friends Lecture 'At the Top of the Steps' - the life and times of a Wimbledon umpire
Lectio divina
Romero Week - 30th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Romero
Lectio divina
St Brendan's Voyage Exhibition by Maz Jackson

April '10

Whales and Wonders - children's print workshop
Norwich Cathedral - institution or laboratory
The Voyage of Brendan: one-day conference
Is there a Mind behind the Universe?