Lunchtime Organ Recital: Tom Winpenny

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

Judith Bingham (b 1952)
- Mr. Tallis, his Fanfare

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Trio super ‘Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’ BWV 655

Percy Whitlock (1903-46)
- Scherzetto (Sonata in C minor)

Errollyn Wallen (b 1958)
- Triptych
i. Pensive
ii. Explosive
iii. Rhythmic and muscular

Gerald Hendrie (b 1935)
- Bella’s Rag

Robert Schumann (1810-56)
- Lebhaft (Fugues on the name of BACH op. 60)

Tom Winpenny took up the position of Assistant Director of Music at All Saints’ Church, Margaret Street, London in October 2026. From 2008-2024 Assistant Master of the Music and Director of the Cathedral Girls Choir at St Albans Cathedral, he has since developed a portfolio career as freelance organist, choral director and organ teacher. He studied as Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he played twice for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast internationally. He was subsequently Sub-Organist at St Paul's Cathedral, London, where he played for many great state occasions. He has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio and has been featured on American Public Media's Pipedreams. In recent years he has performed throughout Europe, the United States and the UK at venues including St Stephen’s Cathedral (Vienna), Hallgrímskirkja (Reykjavík), Cathedral of the Madeleine (Salt Lake City), Hamburg Mariendom, and Bodø Cathedral (Norway). His many solo organ recordings include surveys of composers including Judith Bingham, Malcolm Williamson, John Joubert, Elisabeth Lutyens, and Francis Pott’s monumental organ symphony Christus. For Naxos he has recorded five critically-acclaimed volumes of music by Olivier Messiaen. Other recent releases for the same label include the complete organ works of Robert Schumann, Edward Elgar (selected as a Critic’s Choice in Gramophone magazine) and music by Florence Price (selected as Album of the Week on BBC Radio 3’s Essential Classics in October 2025). His recordings as choral director include discs for Naxos of sacred music by Elizabeth Poston, Felix Mendelssohn, Michael Haydn and William Mathias. He is a trustee of the Royal College of Organists. www.tomwinpenny.org

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Welcome to the prayerful and beautiful Temple Church, steeped in the history of Christendom, this country and the whole Common Law World. 1162: the Round Church was built to be London’s Jerusalem. 1214–19: Magna Carta was negotiated in the Temple, and its greatest hero was buried in the Church. 1584, 1776, 1787: from Raleigh’s expeditions through the colonial constitutions to the American Declaration of Independence and Constitution, the Temple was the birthplace of American Law. And to this day the Church serves the legal colleges Inner and Middle Temple, London’s residents, visiting jurists and travellers from all over the world with some of the most uplifting services, music and discussions in London.

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Lunchtime Organ Recital: Tom Winpenny

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

Judith Bingham (b 1952)
- Mr. Tallis, his Fanfare

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
- Trio super ‘Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend’ BWV 655

Percy Whitlock (1903-46)
- Scherzetto (Sonata in C minor)

Errollyn Wallen (b 1958)
- Triptych
i. Pensive
ii. Explosive
iii. Rhythmic and muscular

Gerald Hendrie (b 1935)
- Bella’s Rag

Robert Schumann (1810-56)
- Lebhaft (Fugues on the name of BACH op. 60)

Tom Winpenny took up the position of Assistant Director of Music at All Saints’ Church, Margaret Street, London in October 2026. From 2008-2024 Assistant Master of the Music and Director of the Cathedral Girls Choir at St Albans Cathedral, he has since developed a portfolio career as freelance organist, choral director and organ teacher. He studied as Organ Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he played twice for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, broadcast internationally. He was subsequently Sub-Organist at St Paul's Cathedral, London, where he played for many great state occasions. He has broadcast regularly on BBC Radio and has been featured on American Public Media's Pipedreams. In recent years he has performed throughout Europe, the United States and the UK at venues including St Stephen’s Cathedral (Vienna), Hallgrímskirkja (Reykjavík), Cathedral of the Madeleine (Salt Lake City), Hamburg Mariendom, and Bodø Cathedral (Norway). His many solo organ recordings include surveys of composers including Judith Bingham, Malcolm Williamson, John Joubert, Elisabeth Lutyens, and Francis Pott’s monumental organ symphony Christus. For Naxos he has recorded five critically-acclaimed volumes of music by Olivier Messiaen. Other recent releases for the same label include the complete organ works of Robert Schumann, Edward Elgar (selected as a Critic’s Choice in Gramophone magazine) and music by Florence Price (selected as Album of the Week on BBC Radio 3’s Essential Classics in October 2025). His recordings as choral director include discs for Naxos of sacred music by Elizabeth Poston, Felix Mendelssohn, Michael Haydn and William Mathias. He is a trustee of the Royal College of Organists. www.tomwinpenny.org

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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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