BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//achurchnearyou.com//eventfeed//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lunchtime Organ Recital: Alexander Trigg DTSTART:20260318T131500Z DTEND:20260318T134500Z DTSTAMP:20260416T112613Z UID:13095032026-03-18 13:15:00+00:00achurchnearyou CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Alexander Trigg\nThe Keyboard Charitable Trust \n\nEdward Elga r (1957-1934)\n- Sonata no. 1 in G. i. Allegro Maestoso\n\nHerbert Howell s (1892-1983)\n- Rhapsody no. 1 in D flat\n\nCésar Franck (1822-1890)\n- Chorale no. 1 in E\n\nAlex enjoys a diverse freelance career as an organis t\, director and educator\, with forthcoming recitals including at St Geor ge’s Hanover Square and St Paul’s Cathedral in London\, as well as ven ues in Amsterdam\, Berlin and Cologne. \n\nAs Assistant Director of Cambri dge Schola\, Alex was instrumental in the foundation of the university’s most exciting new choir. He has conducted a wide range of repertoire in S chola’s candlelit evening services\, including a number of world premier es and a recent broadcast on BBC Radio 3.\n\nLast year\, Alex founded St A ndrew’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 al so runs Festival of Choirs\, a company which brings together choirs from a round the world to perform large-scale concerts in magnificent venues.\n\n Alex is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists\, and a former Organ Sc holar of both St John’s College\, Cambridge\, and St George’s Chapel\, Windsor. He is continuing his professional development as an advanced pos tgraduate student at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.\n\nThe Temple Chu rch organ\nThe organ in the Temple church was built in 1924 for the Castle of Glen Tanar\, Aberdeenshire\, and installed in 1954 in the rebuilt chur ch (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 drawin gs of the Temple’s Father Smith organ of 1688\, showing the crests of In ner and Middle Temple. The organ was rebuilt in 2013 by Harrison and Harri son of Durham and has 66 stops over four manuals. \n\nFinal recital of ter m \n25 March at 1.15 pm - Elliot Randall\, Jake Scicinski & Barney Silvers tone (students of the Royal College of Music).\n\nRecitals resume on Wedne sday 15 April\n\n\n \nTHE KEYBOARD CHARITABLE TRUST \nfor Young Professio nal Performers \n \nPatron: SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO \n \nFounded in 1991\, th e Keyboard Charitable Trust’s mission is to help young keyboard players reduce the element of chance in building a professional musical career. Th e Trust identifies the most talented young performers (aged 18-30) and ass ists their development by offering them opportunities to perform throughou t the world. For the most gifted\, this means débuts in London\, New York \, Rome and other music capitals. \n \nIn collaboration with its partners worldwide\, the Keyboard Trust has developed a circuit of some fifty venu es in seven principal countries\, from the most prestigious concert halls to locations where classical music is rarely heard. Over the past thirty-f our years\, the Trust has presented over 300 young international pianists\ , historic keyboard players and organists in over 900 concerts worldwide. \n \nWith such notable musicians as the late Claudio Abbado\, Alfred Brend el and Evgeny Kissin among its Trustees\, this formula has proved its wort h: many Trust artists receive an offer of a new engagement\, a broadcast\, a recording or management. Nearly half of the artists have subsequently m ade serious professional musical careers. \n \nRecent years have seen a fu rther expansion of the Trust’s work in Germany\, Italy and France as wel l as in the USA where the late Lorin Maazel invited the Trust to present i ts artists at his Festival Theatre in Virginia. \n \nRecent highlights i nclude George X. Fu winning BBC Music Magazine’s Newcomer Award for his album ‘Mirrors’ in 2024\; Giovanni Bertolazzi being awarded the 43rd L iszt Ferenc International Grand Prix du Disque\, Budapest in 2024\; Magdal ene Ho winning the 2023 Clara Haskil International Piano Competition and t he 2024 International German Piano Award\; Mikhail Kambarov winning the Tr apani 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 f irst Sulamita Aronovsky Laureate at the RAM in 2025.\n \nThe Keyboard Char itable Trust is funded entirely by voluntary donations. Detailed informati on about the Trust\, how to become a Friend\, join the One Thousand Club o r to provide corporate support\, may be found on our website. \n \nTRUSTEE S \nNicola Bulgari (Hon. President) Geoffrey Shindler OBE (Chairman) \nNoretta Conci-Leech MBE (Co-Founder & Artistic Director 1991-2013) \nChr istopher Axworthy Moritz von Bredow Sasha Grynyuk \nLeslie Howard Ev geny Kissin Sir Geoffrey Nice KC Dr Elena Vorotko \n \nJohn Leech MBE † (Co-Founder) (1991-2024) \nClaudio Abbado† (1991-2014) Alfred Bren del † KBE (1991-2025) Nicholas Snowman OBE† (1991-2023) \n \nARTIST IC DIRECTORS \nDr Leslie Howard Dr Elena Vorotko Christopher Axworthy \n \nCOUNTRY REPRESENTATIVES \nMoritz von Bredow (Germany) Christopher A xworthy (Italy) Caroline von Reitzenstein (USA) \n \nADMINISTRATION \nSa rah Biggs (CEO): Email: sarahbiggs01@btinternet.com \nRichard Thomas (Sen ior Executive): Email: richard@keyboardtrust.org \n \nwww.keyboardtrust.o rg \nRegistered Charity No. 1017036 GEO:-0.1102647000000001;51.513280392280855 LOCATION:The Temple Church\, London URL:https://www.templechurch.com/music/lunchtime-organ-recitals END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR