Lunchtime Organ Recital - Jacob Costard

Join us on Tuesdays at 1.15 pm throughout the summer for our Lunchtime Organ Recitals. Admission is free with a retiring collection and large-screen video projection is available at all concerts.

This week's recital is given by Jacob Costard, Hereford Cathedral.

Praeludium in E minor “The Great”	Nicolaus Bruhns 1665–1697
Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 654	Johann Sebastian Bach 1685–1750
Rhapsody No.1 in D flat major	Herbert Howells 1892–1983
Sonata No 3 in A      Con moto maestoso     Andante tranquillo	Felix Mendelssohn 1809–1847
Final from Symphonie No.1, Op.14	Louis Vierne 1870–1937

Jacob Costard is currently organ scholar at Hereford Cathedral, having previously studied at St John’s School in Leatherhead. Whilst at school, he also studied the organ at the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music with Anne Marsden Thomas and Dr Frederick Stocken, and received the ARCO diploma with four prizes at the age of 17. In September 2024 he will take up the organ scholarship at Salisbury Cathedral before matriculating the following year as organ scholar at Clare College, Cambridge, where he will read for a degree in divinity.