Lunchtime Organ Recital: Alexander Trigg

for 30 mins
The Temple Church, London
The Temple Church, Temple, London, EC4Y 1BB, United Kingdom

Alexander Trigg
The Keyboard Charitable Trust

Edward Elgar (1957-1934)
- Sonata no. 1 in G. i. Allegro Maestoso

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
- Rhapsody no. 1 in D flat

César Franck (1822-1890)
- Chorale no. 1 in E

Alex enjoys a diverse freelance career as an organist, director and educator, with forthcoming recitals including at St George’s Hanover Square and St Paul’s Cathedral in London, as well as venues in Amsterdam, Berlin and Cologne.

As Assistant Director of Cambridge Schola, Alex was instrumental in the foundation of the university’s most exciting new choir. He has conducted a wide range of repertoire in Schola’s candlelit evening services, including a number of world premieres and a recent broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Last year, Alex founded St Andrew’s Music School, a charity based in south Cambridge which delivers music outreach to local schools and offers free instrumental tuition and performing opportunities to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. He also runs Festival of Choirs, a company which brings together choirs from around the world to perform large-scale concerts in magnificent venues.

Alex is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and a former Organ Scholar of both St John’s College, Cambridge, and St George’s Chapel, Windsor. He is continuing his professional development as an advanced postgraduate student at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

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.

Final recital of term
25 March at 1.15 pm - Elliot Randall, Jake Scicinski & Barney Silverstone (students of the Royal College of Music).

Recitals resume on Wednesday 15 April


THE KEYBOARD CHARITABLE TRUST
for Young Professional Performers

Patron: SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO

Founded in 1991, the Keyboard Charitable Trust’s mission is to help young keyboard players reduce the element of chance in building a professional musical career. The Trust identifies the most talented young performers (aged 18-30) and assists their development by offering them opportunities to perform throughout the world. For the most gifted, this means débuts in London, New York, Rome and other music capitals.

In collaboration with its partners worldwide, the Keyboard Trust has developed a circuit of some fifty venues in seven principal countries, from the most prestigious concert halls to locations where classical music is rarely heard. Over the past thirty-four years, the Trust has presented over 300 young international pianists, historic keyboard players and organists in over 900 concerts worldwide.

With such notable musicians as the late Claudio Abbado, Alfred Brendel and Evgeny Kissin among its Trustees, this formula has proved its worth: many Trust artists receive an offer of a new engagement, a broadcast, a recording or management. Nearly half of the artists have subsequently made serious professional musical careers.

Recent years have seen a further expansion of the Trust’s work in Germany, Italy and France as well as in the USA where the late Lorin Maazel invited the Trust to present its artists at his Festival Theatre in Virginia.

Recent highlights include George X. Fu winning BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer Award for his album ‘Mirrors’ in 2024; Giovanni Bertolazzi being awarded the 43rd Liszt Ferenc International Grand Prix du Disque, Budapest in 2024; Magdalene Ho winning the 2023 Clara Haskil International Piano Competition and the 2024 International German Piano Award; Mikhail Kambarov winning the Trapani International Piano Competition in 2024; Sasha Doronin winning the Hong Kong International Piano Competition in 2025; Vitaly Pisarenko being made a Professor at the RCM in 2025; and Emanuil Ivanov being made the first Sulamita Aronovsky Laureate at the RAM in 2025.

The Keyboard Charitable Trust is funded entirely by voluntary donations. Detailed information about the Trust, how to become a Friend, join the One Thousand Club or to provide corporate support, may be found on our website.

TRUSTEES
Nicola Bulgari (Hon. President) Geoffrey Shindler OBE (Chairman)
Noretta Conci-Leech MBE (Co-Founder & Artistic Director 1991-2013)
Christopher Axworthy Moritz von Bredow Sasha Grynyuk
Leslie Howard Evgeny Kissin Sir Geoffrey Nice KC Dr Elena Vorotko

John Leech MBE† (Co-Founder) (1991-2024)
Claudio Abbado† (1991-2014) Alfred Brendel † KBE (1991-2025) Nicholas Snowman OBE† (1991-2023)

ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
Dr Leslie Howard Dr Elena Vorotko Christopher Axworthy

COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES
Moritz von Bredow (Germany) Christopher Axworthy (Italy) Caroline von Reitzenstein (USA)

ADMINISTRATION
Sarah Biggs (CEO): Email: [email protected]
Richard Thomas (Senior Executive): Email: [email protected]

www.keyboardtrust.org
Registered Charity No. 1017036

More info Join online

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Alexander Trigg

for 30 mins
The Temple Church, London
The Temple Church, Temple, London, EC4Y 1BB, United Kingdom

Alexander Trigg
The Keyboard Charitable Trust

Edward Elgar (1957-1934)
- Sonata no. 1 in G. i. Allegro Maestoso

Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
- Rhapsody no. 1 in D flat

César Franck (1822-1890)
- Chorale no. 1 in E

Alex enjoys a diverse freelance career as an organist, director and educator, with forthcoming recitals including at St George’s Hanover Square and St Paul’s Cathedral in London, as well as venues in Amsterdam, Berlin and Cologne.

As Assistant Director of Cambridge Schola, Alex was instrumental in the foundation of the university’s most exciting new choir. He has conducted a wide range of repertoire in Schola’s candlelit evening services, including a number of world premieres and a recent broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

Last year, Alex founded St Andrew’s Music School, a charity based in south Cambridge which delivers music outreach to local schools and offers free instrumental tuition and performing opportunities to children from disadvantaged backgrounds. He also runs Festival of Choirs, a company which brings together choirs from around the world to perform large-scale concerts in magnificent venues.

Alex is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and a former Organ Scholar of both St John’s College, Cambridge, and St George’s Chapel, Windsor. He is continuing his professional development as an advanced postgraduate student at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

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.

Final recital of term
25 March at 1.15 pm - Elliot Randall, Jake Scicinski & Barney Silverstone (students of the Royal College of Music).

Recitals resume on Wednesday 15 April


THE KEYBOARD CHARITABLE TRUST
for Young Professional Performers

Patron: SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO

Founded in 1991, the Keyboard Charitable Trust’s mission is to help young keyboard players reduce the element of chance in building a professional musical career. The Trust identifies the most talented young performers (aged 18-30) and assists their development by offering them opportunities to perform throughout the world. For the most gifted, this means débuts in London, New York, Rome and other music capitals.

In collaboration with its partners worldwide, the Keyboard Trust has developed a circuit of some fifty venues in seven principal countries, from the most prestigious concert halls to locations where classical music is rarely heard. Over the past thirty-four years, the Trust has presented over 300 young international pianists, historic keyboard players and organists in over 900 concerts worldwide.

With such notable musicians as the late Claudio Abbado, Alfred Brendel and Evgeny Kissin among its Trustees, this formula has proved its worth: many Trust artists receive an offer of a new engagement, a broadcast, a recording or management. Nearly half of the artists have subsequently made serious professional musical careers.

Recent years have seen a further expansion of the Trust’s work in Germany, Italy and France as well as in the USA where the late Lorin Maazel invited the Trust to present its artists at his Festival Theatre in Virginia.

Recent highlights include George X. Fu winning BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer Award for his album ‘Mirrors’ in 2024; Giovanni Bertolazzi being awarded the 43rd Liszt Ferenc International Grand Prix du Disque, Budapest in 2024; Magdalene Ho winning the 2023 Clara Haskil International Piano Competition and the 2024 International German Piano Award; Mikhail Kambarov winning the Trapani International Piano Competition in 2024; Sasha Doronin winning the Hong Kong International Piano Competition in 2025; Vitaly Pisarenko being made a Professor at the RCM in 2025; and Emanuil Ivanov being made the first Sulamita Aronovsky Laureate at the RAM in 2025.

The Keyboard Charitable Trust is funded entirely by voluntary donations. Detailed information about the Trust, how to become a Friend, join the One Thousand Club or to provide corporate support, may be found on our website.

TRUSTEES
Nicola Bulgari (Hon. President) Geoffrey Shindler OBE (Chairman)
Noretta Conci-Leech MBE (Co-Founder & Artistic Director 1991-2013)
Christopher Axworthy Moritz von Bredow Sasha Grynyuk
Leslie Howard Evgeny Kissin Sir Geoffrey Nice KC Dr Elena Vorotko

John Leech MBE† (Co-Founder) (1991-2024)
Claudio Abbado† (1991-2014) Alfred Brendel † KBE (1991-2025) Nicholas Snowman OBE† (1991-2023)

ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
Dr Leslie Howard Dr Elena Vorotko Christopher Axworthy

COUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES
Moritz von Bredow (Germany) Christopher Axworthy (Italy) Caroline von Reitzenstein (USA)

ADMINISTRATION
Sarah Biggs (CEO): Email: [email protected]
Richard Thomas (Senior Executive): Email: [email protected]

www.keyboardtrust.org
Registered Charity No. 1017036

More info Join online

Safeguarding

The care and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults who are involved in Church activities is the responsibility of the whole Church. Everyone who participates in the life of the Church has a role to play in promoting a Safer Church for all.This Safeguarding Policy is based on the Safeguarding Policy Statement of the Church of England that was agreed and published by the House of Bishops in 2017. It sets out the Safeguarding Policy of the Diocese of London and in particular a summary of the roles and responsibilities of all church bodies and office holders as we work together to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults who are involved in church activities.

This policy makes six overarching policy commitments:

To promote a safer environment and culture
To enable and ensure safe recruitment practice and to support all those within the Church with any responsibility related to children, young people, and vulnerable adults
To respond promptly to every safeguarding concern or allegation
To offer pastoral care to victims/survivors of abuse and other affected persons
To offer pastoral care to those who are the subject of concerns or allegations of abuse and other affected persons
To respond to those who may pose a present risk to others.

https://www.templechurch.com/application/files/7216/2074/0149/Temple_Church_Safeguarding_Policy_revi

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