Lunchtime Organ RecitalL Charles Andrews
- Occurring
- for 30 mins
- Venue
- The Temple Church, London
- Address The Temple Church, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB, EC4Y 1BB, United Kingdom
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Prelude & fugue in G BWV541
Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)
- Interlude in C
George Thalben-Ball (1896-1987)
- Elegy in F
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) transcribed Christopher Dearnley (1930-2000)
- Trumpet tune & Air
Judith Weir (b.1954)
- Ettrick Banks
Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918)
- Chorale Fantasia On ‘The Old Hundredth’
Charles Andrews is Organist of the Temple Church, London and professor of organ and Organ co-ordinator at the Royal College of Music. Charles studied at the RCM with David Graham, Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, John Barstow and John Blakely with the aid of a Douglas & Kyra Downie Award, achieving the Harold Darke Memorial Prize for organ.
Before joining the Temple Church, Charles was Associate Director of Music at All Saints, Margaret Street in the West End of London from 2011-16. Recently, four live performances with the Temple Church Choir have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, including the first performance of Carmina tempore viri by Kenneth Hesketh (nominated for an Ivor Novello Award) in 2021. Other recent performances include Judith Weir’s Ettrick Banks in the 2025 St Albans International Organ Festival. A solo recital of British organ music, recorded at the Temple Church, will be released in October 2025.