Trish Clowes (b. 1984)
- Do You Play?

Lili Boulanger (1893 – 1918)
- Pie Jesu

Marcel Dupré (1886 – 1971)
- Trois Preludes et Fugues, Op. 7 No. 3, Prelude in G minor

The programme will also include one or two of Clowes and Stanley's favourite songs from the worlds of jazz and Americana.

Saxophonist Trish Clowes and pianist Ross Stanley have been carefully crafting their unique sound world over a number of years, performing their own material, arrangements of music from jazz, folk and church organ traditions, and free improvisations. The duo’s appearances include Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall (with Stanley making use of the organ), Galway Jazz Festival, Symphony Hall (Birmingham), Buxton International Festival, Manchester Jazz Festival, and St George’s Bristol. In March 2024, Clowes and Stanley released their album ‘Journey to Where’ to wide critical acclaim, out on Stoney Lane Records. The duo enjoy working with material from anywhere.

Trish Clowes
Saxophonist and composer Trish Clowes has been described as “an improviser to be reckoned with” (Downbeat Magazine) and “one of the brightest stars to have emerged during the so-called British jazz boom” (The Irish Times). Clowes is currently an Associate Artist at Wigmore Hall (London). Having been previously commissioned to write for ensembles such as the BBC Concert Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta, she appeared as a guest soloist with the NDR Big Band in November 2024 (NDR Concert Hall, Hanover, and Rolf Liebermann Studio, Hamburg), performing a new set of her own music entitled ‘Radiant Resistance’. Clowes has also appeared as a featured soloist with BBC Concert Orchestra premiering Joe Cutler’s saxophone concerto ‘Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii’ (released on NMC Recordings), with the London Symphony Orchestra on Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian’s debut album (NMC Recordings), and two albums with Orchestra of the Swan (Signum Classics). Other notable career performances include Barbican, Toronto Jazz Festival, Rochester International Jazz Festival (US), Royal Festival Hall, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, Celtic Connections (with BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra), Galway Jazz Festival, Karlsruhe Jazz Festival, and Bray Jazz Festival (with US trumpeter-composer Dave Douglas), and broadcasts for BBC 2 Proms Extra (TV), BBC Radio 3, NDR (Germany), and Radio Bremen. A regularly commissioned composer, Clowes’s writing projects range from a recent duo piece for double bass and cello for Riot Ensemble (supported by the Vaughan Williams Foundation) to producing music for dance-film ‘Architecture of Autonomy’ (2020). From 2012-14 Clowes was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, and during that time she was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to write for the BBC Concert Orchestra, a piece that won her a British Composer Award in 2015, entitled ‘The Fox, the Parakeet and the Chestnut’. This was followed by another BBC Radio 3 commission in 2017, also for the BBC Concert Orchestra, entitled ‘Loujean and Lucy’.

Ross Stanley
b. 2nd May 1982, Frimley, England. Ross began piano lessons aged 4. At 13, he was awarded an organ scholarship to Marlborough College. Upon leaving Marlborough, he accepted a place on the BMUS course in classical and jazz piano at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2000. Since then, Ross’s musical skills have kept him in high demand, seeing him play with jazz names such as Eddie Gomez, Dick Oatts, Gary Smulyan, Seamus Blake, Will Vinson, Nigel Hitchcock, Phil Robson, Gareth Lockrane, Dennis Rollins, Guy Barker, Ian Shaw, Jamie Cullum, Liane Carroll, Norma Winstone, Stan Sulzman, Steve Arguelles, John Paracelli, as well as being a regular member of the Hamish Stuart Band, Nigel Price Organ Trio, Jim Mullen Organ Trio and the Jacqui Dankworth band and performing in many small and large ensembles – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Metropole Orkest, BBC Concert Orchestra, Nostalgia 77 Octet, Heritage Orchestra. Ross has also toured with Tom Jones, Alfie Boe, Maceo Parker, Zigaboo Modeliste, Robben Ford, James Torme, Steve Howe, Rebecca Ferguson and has worked with Steve Winwood, Steve Ferrone, Pino Palladino, Omar, Paloma Faith, Antonio Forcione, Deodato and has recorded for Michael Buble, Goldie, US3, Ghost Poet, Trevor Horn and Simply Red among others, including film / tv work. Ross is a Yamaha artist, Hammond endorsee and two times winner of a British Jazz Award in the organ category. Philip Watson of The Irish Times remarked “there are echoes in [Stanley’s] singular playing of the quiet virtuosity of John Taylor, the harmonic sophistication of Bill Evans and the lyrical fluency of Wynton Kelly.”

The Temple Church organ
The organ in the Temple church was built in 1924 for the Castle of Glen Tanar, Aberdeenshire, and installed in 1954 in the rebuilt church (following war damage), the gift of Lord Glentanar. The organ case was designed by W. E. Godfrey and installed in 1966 and is modelled on drawings of the Temple’s Father Smith organ of 1688, showing the crests of Inner and Middle Temple. The organ was rebuilt in 2013 by Harrison and Harrison of Durham and has 66 stops over four manuals.

Future recitals – Wednesdays at 1.15 pm
22 October Charles Andrews
29 October Michael Philips
5 November James Welch
12 November Conor McGlone
19 November Thomas Allery
26 November Hannah Parry

On 5 December at the earlier time of 1pm, Temple Music Foundation presents a recital by Matilda Lloyd (trumpet) and Richard Gowers (organ).For further information and to book tickets, please visit www.templemusic.org