BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//achurchnearyou.com//eventfeed//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchtime Recital: Trish Clowes (saxophone) & Ross Stanley (organ) DTSTART:20251015T121500Z DTEND:20251015T124500Z DTSTAMP:20260416T210130Z UID:12333762025-10-15 12:15:00+00:00achurchnearyou CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Trish Clowes (b. 1984) \n- Do You Play?\n\nLili Boulanger (189 3 – 1918)\n- Pie Jesu\n\nMarcel Dupré (1886 – 1971)\n- Trois Preludes et Fugues\, Op. 7 No. 3\, Prelude in G minor\n\nThe programme will also i nclude one or two of Clowes and Stanley's favourite songs from the worlds of jazz and Americana.\n\nSaxophonist Trish Clowes and pianist Ross Stanle y have been carefully crafting their unique sound world over a number of y ears\, performing their own material\, arrangements of music from jazz\, f olk and church organ traditions\, and free improvisations. The duo’s app earances 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 Festiv al\, and St George’s Bristol. In March 2024\, Clowes and Stanley release d their album ‘Journey to Where’ to wide critical acclaim\, out on Sto ney Lane Records. The duo enjoy working with material from anywhere.\n\nTr ish Clowes\nSaxophonist 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 appeare d as a guest soloist with the NDR Big Band in November 2024 (NDR Concert H all\, Hanover\, and Rolf Liebermann Studio\, Hamburg)\, performing a new s et of her own music entitled ‘Radiant Resistance’. Clowes has also app eared as a featured soloist with BBC Concert Orchestra premiering Joe Cutl er’s saxophone concerto ‘Hawaii Hawaii Hawaii’ (released on NMC Reco rdings)\, with the London Symphony Orchestra on Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian ’s debut album (NMC Recordings)\, and two albums with Orchestra of the S wan (Signum Classics). Other notable career performances include Barbican\ , Toronto Jazz Festival\, Rochester International Jazz Festival (US)\, Roy al Festival Hall\, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club\, Celtic Connections (with B BC Scottish Symphony Orchestra)\, Galway Jazz Festival\, Karlsruhe Jazz Fe stival\, 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 musi c for dance-film ‘Architecture of Autonomy’ (2020). From 2012-14 Clowe s was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist\, and during that time she was c ommissioned by BBC Radio 3 to write for the BBC Concert Orchestra\, a piec e that won her a British Composer Award in 2015\, entitled ‘The Fox\, th e Parakeet and the Chestnut’. This was followed by another BBC Radio 3 c ommission in 2017\, also for the BBC Concert Orchestra\, entitled ‘Louje an and Lucy’.\n\nRoss Stanley\nb. 2nd May 1982\, Frimley\, England. Ross began piano lessons aged 4. At 13\, he was awarded an organ scholarship t o Marlborough College. Upon leaving Marlborough\, he accepted a place on t he BMUS course in classical and jazz piano at The Guildhall School of Musi c 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 Dankw orth band and performing in many small and large ensembles – Royal Philh armonic Orchestra\, Metropole Orkest\, BBC Concert Orchestra\, Nostalgia 7 7 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 h as recorded for Michael Buble\, Goldie\, US3\, Ghost Poet\, Trevor Horn an d Simply Red among others\, including film / tv work. Ross is a Yamaha art ist\, Hammond endorsee and two times winner of a British Jazz Award in the organ category. Philip Watson of The Irish Times remarked “there are ec hoes in [Stanley’s] singular playing of the quiet virtuosity of John Tay lor\, the harmonic sophistication of Bill Evans and the lyrical fluency of Wynton Kelly.”\n\nThe Temple Church organ\nThe organ in the Temple chur ch was built in 1924 for the Castle of Glen Tanar\, Aberdeenshire\, and in stalled in 1954 in the rebuilt church (following war damage)\, the gift of Lord Glentanar. The organ case was designed by W. E. Godfrey and installe d 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 re built in 2013 by Harrison and Harrison of Durham and has 66 stops over fou r manuals. \n\nFuture recitals – Wednesdays at 1.15 pm\n22 October Char les Andrews\n29 October Michael Philips\n5 November James Welch\n12 Nove mber Conor McGlone\n19 November Thomas Allery\n26 November Hannah Parry\n\ nOn 5 December at the earlier time of 1pm\, Temple Music Foundation presen ts a recital by Matilda Lloyd (trumpet) and Richard Gowers (organ).For fur ther information and to book tickets\, please visit www.templemusic.org GEO:-0.1102647000000001;51.513280392280855 LOCATION:The Temple Church\, London URL:https://www.templechurch.com/music/lunchtime-organ-recitals END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR