Lunchtime Organ Recital - Jonathon Nicholls

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 Jonathon Nicholls, Belmont Abbey.

Programme

Prelude & Fugue in A minor BWV 543	J.S. Bach 1685–1750
Prelude on ‘Llef’                  Prelude on ‘Aberystwyth’	Dom. Alan Rees O.S.B. 1941–2005
Thunderbirds Theme	Barry Gray 1908–84, arr. Anon
Elegy in B flat	G.T. Thalben-Ball 1896–1987
Processional	Dom. Sebastian Wolff O.S.B. 1929–2022
Antienne	Naji Hakim b. 1955
Fête	Jean Langlais 1907–91

Jonathon is from Herefordshire and began studying the organ with Peter Dyke, supported by Marden Church, under the auspices of the Diocese of Hereford Organists’ Training Scheme. After a year as organ scholar at St. Laurence’s Parish Church in Ludlow, he then studied Music at the University of Huddersfield, graduating in 2012. Whilst in Yorkshire Jonathon also held the organ scholarship at Leeds Cathedral for three successive years. 

In 2014 he took up his current position as abbey organist at Belmont Abbey, just outside Hereford, where he accompanies the monastic offices and masses.

Jonathon also works as a freelance organist, piano and organ teacher, and as organist at Moor Park School.