Chorale-Fantasia on Darwell’s 148th (Harold Darke, 1888-1976)

Andante from A Little Organ Book (Charles Wood, 1866-1926)

Introduction and Allegro (Arthur Wills, 1926-2020)

St Bride, assisted by angels (Judith Bingham, born 1952)

Voices of the World (Iain Farrington, born 1977)

Simon Hogan is the Cathedral Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Southwark Cathedral.

Simon was a chorister at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, and it was during this time that he started learning the piano and organ, developing a passion for cathedral music which has stayed with him to this day. Following organ scholarships at Bristol and Salisbury Cathedrals, he moved to London in 2008 to study organ performance at the Royal College of Music, where he subsequently graduated with first class honours. During his final year at the RCM Simon was Organ Scholar at St Paul’s Cathedral, where he regularly accompanied and directed the world-famous choir, and gave recitals on the renowned Willis organ. In 2012 Simon moved to Southwell, Nottinghamshire, where he spent seven years as Assistant Director of Music at Southwell Minster. Here he directed the Minster’s girls’ choir and the Minster Chorale, and played the organ for all services, recordings, tours and broadcasts. Following a period of freelance work during the pandemic, Simon became Organist of St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, in 2021, and moved to his role at Southwark Cathedral in December 2022. Until the end of 2025 Simon was also Organist to the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. As a soloist Simon has given recitals in venues across the UK, including the cathedrals of Canterbury, Durham, Hereford and Westminster, The Albert Hall, Nottingham, and Rochdale Town Hall. Recent notable performances include the complete organ symphonies of Louis Vierne in a single day, the première of a new work for eight organs and electronics by Wolfgang Mitterer for Karlsruhe’s 300th anniversary, and a performance of the Poulenc Organ Concerto with the Orchestra of the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre, Moscow.

Simon has studied organ performance with Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, Daniel Cook, David Graham, Robert Quinney and Colin Walsh. He has studied conducting with Paul Brough, Patrick Russill and Peter Stark, improvisation with David Briggs, and harpsichord with Terrance Charlston. Simon is the principal organist for JAM – an organisation which commissions and performs new music for brass, organ and choir by leading contemporary composers – and as such he has enjoyed working with some of the country’s finest ensembles, including the BBC Singers, Gesualdo Six and Onyx Brass, and has premiered works by many of the country’s leading composers. Simon features on a wide range of commercial recordings, both as accompanist, conductor, and soloist, most recently on a disc of contemporary choral music performed by Siglo de Oro (Delphian), and a disc of choral and organ commissions from the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church, Oxford (Convivium), which includes a Toccata for organ, written for Simon by Cheryl Frances-Hoad.