Alvorada are the UK’s leading performers of choro, a rich and uplifting style of instrumental music from Rio de Janeiro. Alvorada explore influences from all over Brazil, playing choros with the irresistible swing of samba and maxixe from the South to baião from the Northeast, all with an immediacy and vibrancy that delights audiences everywhere.

Alvorada’s debut album First Light contains choro classics and original works, revisiting the genre with influences from the UK. 

Darius Battiwalla – Leeds City Organist

Jeanne Demessieux Te Deum
Nadia Boulanger Pièce sur des airs populaires flamands
Marcel Dupré Suite Bretonne
Johann Sebastian Bach Trio on Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend, BWV 655
Kristina Arakelyan Perpetuum mobile
Blanche Rozan Petite Prière
Rachel Laurin Symphony No 1: Toccata

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes

Dr Thomas Trotter – Birmingham City Organist

George Frideric Handel Organ Concerto No 16 in F
Rachel Laurin Twelve Short Pieces, Op 43: Cantilène; Toccatina; Invocation; Rondo
Gustav Holst arr Thomas Trotter Brook Green Suite: Air
Gustav Holst arr Thomas Trotter The Planets: Jupiter
Sigfrid Karg-Elert Homage to Handel

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

Tom Winpenny – Assistant Master of Music, St Albans Cathedral

Emma Lou Diemer Fantasie (1958)
Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude, Trio & Fugue in B flat, BWV 545b
John Gardner Intermezzo (1934)
Gerald Hendrie Concert studies Nos 2 & 3
Judith Bingham Vol de Nuit
William Walton Spitfire Prelude & Fugue

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

St Peters Singers

Alex Woodrow – conductor
Darius Battiwalla – organ

Jonathan Dove Vast Ocean of Light
Simon Lindley A Taylor Trilogy (world premiere)
James MacMillan Miserere
Jean Langlais Messe Solenelle

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

Philip Rushforth – Organist and Master of the Choristers, Chester Cathedral

Oskar Lindberg Sonata in G (1920)
Florence Price Two Short Pieces
Johann Sebastian Bach Fantasia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 537
Sigfrid Karg-Elert Three Impressions for Organ: Valse Mignonne
Edwin Lemare Concertstück No 1 – In the form of a Polonaise

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

Tom Daggett – Director of Music, Sheffield Cathedral

César Franck Choral No 1 in E major
Charles-Marie Widor Symphonie V: Allegro Cantabile
Alfred Hollins Spring Song
Kerensa Briggs Light in darkness
Cecilia McDowall Celebration

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

Darius Battiwalla – Leeds City Organist

Holocaust Memorial Day

Felix Mendelssohn Sonata No 1 in F minor
Fela Sowande Go Down, Moses
Gerald Finzi arr Robert Gower Eclogue
Ethel Smyth Chorale Prelude & Fugue O Traurigkeit, O Herzeleid
Percy Whitlock Sonata in C minor: Grave – Allegro

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.

Hannah Parry – London/Steinfurt (Germany) Organist

Johann Sebastian Bach Fantasia & Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
Elsa Barraine Prelude & Fugue No 1
Paul Hindemith Sonata No 2
George Frideric Handel Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Charles Villiers Stanford Sonata Celtica: St Patrick’s Breastplate

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes.