Summer Sounds - Glasgow Cathedral
Organ Recitals at Glasgow Cathedral (St Mungo’s), 7 pm:
6th July - Jennifer Chou (Australia)
23rd July – Andrew Unsworth (Salt Lake Tabernacle, USA)
8th August – Eben Eyres (NIIOC Prizewinner, UK)
Doors open 6:30pm and the performance will last around 1 hour. We suggest a £10 donation; all proceeds go to the cathedral's organ fund, helping us promote and protect this huge instrument which is one of the largest in Scotland. More info here
Jennifer Chou is the Associate Organist at the Scots Church Melbourne, Australia. She has given organ concerts across Australia's most iconic town halls, and venues including Notre-Dame Cathedral (Paris), Westminster Abbey, Singapore Esplanade Concert Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, and the International Bamboo Organ Festival in the Philippines.
We are delighted to welcome her to play a concert on our famous organ, built in 1879 by Henry 'Father' Willis. Her programme features pieces from her homeland, along with repertoire reflecting her time studying in France, and extracts from Tchaikovsky's much-loved ballet The Nutcracker!
Andrew Unsworth is one of three full-time organists at the Salt Lake Tabernacle, where he performs daily recitals on the 206-rank Æolian-Skinner organ and accompanies the Tabernacle Choir’s weekly broadcast, Music and the Spoken Word.
With a programme featuring favourites by Bach, Vierne, Whitlock, and Stanford, Dr Unsworth will show off our famous 1879 organ by Henry ‘Father’ Willis in the repertoire it was designed to play best. He will also showcase music written by current and former Tabernacle organists, including his own arrangements of beloved tunes.
Eben Eyres is the Peter Walker Organ Scholar at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, regularly accompanying the choir in services and concerts. He was awarded 3rd prize at NIIOC 2024, and in the same year he also won Cambridge University's Brian Runnett Organ Prize.
Exploiting the full symphonic palette of the cathedral's famous organ, Eben will perform the epic, virtuosic Fantasia and Fugue on Ad Nos, Ad Salutarem Undam by Franz Liszt—one of the most ferocious and engaging pieces in the repertoire. And you can hear a different side of the organ, built in 1879 by Henry 'Father' Willis, during two more lyrical pieces from Vierne's 24 Pieces in Free Style: the Berceuse and Pastorale.
This recital is presented in partnership with the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition.
