mainly slow organ music

Friday 15 November (7pm)

ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE, LONDON

performed by The Grapes Trio - Eva-Maria Houben (organ & piano),

Artur Vidal (Saxophone), Huw Morgan (piano & organ)

 

Saturday 9 November (11am)

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Arturas Bumsteinas: bottlenecks

Vytautas Oškinis (flute), Diemantė Merkevičiūtė (violin), Benas Jonušas (organ)

 

Thursday 7 November (1.10pm)

SELWYN COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

Arturas Bumsteinas: bottlenecks

Vytautas Oškinis (flute), Diemantė Merkevičiūtė (violin), Benas Jonušas (organ)

 

5 October 2024 (11am) (with electronics)

ST JOHN ON THE WALL

Elisabet Dijkstra: Shy but connected ~ Michael Bonaventure: Celestial Objects II

Madame Ceski: Green Green Green Green Green ~ Lauren Redhead: curse tablets

 

7 September 2024 (11am)

JOHN WESLEY'S NEW ROOM

Oliver Ginger: Organ ~ Philip Glass: Music in Fifths

Emily Doolittle: Varia (21) ~ Adrián Demoč: Gebrechlichkeit

 

10 August 2024 (11am)

SAINT STEPHEN'S BRISTOL

mainly slow piano music

Eva-Maria Houben: l'ange et l'enfant IV ~ Huw Morgan: The Human

Dante Boon: years, numbers ~ Philip Glass: Mad Rush

 

13 July 2024 (*1pm*)

ST PAUL'S CHURCH (St Paul's Road, Clifton, Bristol)

Guest concert given by Richard P John and Kory Reeder

 

 

29 June 2024 (11am)

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Adrián Demoč: Ma fin est mon commencement

Denis Sorokin: Nowruz ~ Patrick Ellis: new piece

Richard P John: Follow (first performance) 

Paul Beaudoin: bright shining light (first performance)

 

8 June 2024 (11am)

ST JOHN ON THE WALL

Mia Windsor: Malum Opus ~ Joseph Kudirka: Draft

Adrián Demoč: A Luca Marenzio ~ Huw Morgan: embrace

Aušra Motūzaitė-Pinkevičienė: Organ Zen: Moonlight

 

16 May 2024 (7pm)

ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE, LONDON

performed by The Grapes Trio - Eva-Maria Houben (organ & piano),

Artur Vidal (Saxophone), Huw Morgan (piano & organ)

 

13 April 2024 (11am)

JOHN WESLEY'S NEW ROOM

Eva-Maria Houben: abhanden - méditations sur l'orgue 13 (1st performance)

Kat Farn: Lento ~ Andrea Andric: Choral IX

Michael Pisaro: Perception 1 ~ Huw Morgan: Dufay Traces 2 (1st performance)

 

14 March 2024 (1pm)

ST MARY REDCLIFFE

Michael Bonaventure: Dissenters

Samuel Clay Birmaher: Two Scenes

Eva-Maria Houben: some questions

 

9 March 2024

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Michael Bonaventure: Dissenters (first performance)

James MacMillan: White Note Paraphrase ~ Sarah Rimkus: Glenmuick

Philip Cooke: In Modo Elegiaco

 

10 February 2024

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Tom Johnson: Organ and Silence (extracts)

Jaime Diaz: An eternity in one second (first performance)

Howard Skempton: Affirmation ~ Richard Glover: Organ Harmonies

 

25 November 2023 (7.30pm)

SAINT STEPHEN'S BRISTOL

performed by The Grapes Trio - Eva-Maria Houben (organ & piano),

Artur Vidal (Saxophone), Huw Morgan (piano & organ)

 

Huw Morgan: Prelude (2020)

Artur Vidal: Stones in the bow

Eva-Maria Houben: skywritings

Huw Morgan: the kestrel stood haloed by the sun

Eva-Maria Houben: chant IX

Eva-Maria Houben: echo fantasy IV

 

 

11 November 2023 (11.05am)

SAINT STEPHEN'S BRISTOL

performed by Lauren Redhead (organ) and Alistair Zaldua (violin)

Sophie Stone - syntheses ~ Jonathan Cole - Templum 

Christopher Fox - The Missouri Harmony

 

 

8 October 2023 (6pm)

Lazarus-Haus, Berlin Friedrichshain

Laurence Crane - Favourite Chord ~ Lauren Redhead - curse tablet

Joseph Kudirka - 21st Century Music ~ Sarah Davachi - Harmonies in Green

Rishin Singh - fata morgana ~ Eva-Maria Houben - Abhanden 6.2

 

 

23 September 2023 (11am)

SAINT STEPHEN'S BRISTOL

Dante Boon - Nov.(3) ~ Joseph Kudirka - Dulcimer

Lauren Redhead - curse tablet ~ Huw Morgan - three; embrace

Joe Hamlen - new work ~ Glyn Perrin - Sigma Lambda

 

** and at the same venue 6pm **

THE MAINLY SLOW ENSEMBLE

Music by Richard P John ~ Joe Hamlen ~ Eva-Maria Houben

Joseph Kudirka ~ Ben Jameson

 

PAST SEASONS:

17 June 2023 (11am)

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Laurence Crane - the swim ~ James M Creed - organ study 1

Huw Morgan - embrace (1st performance) ~ Lauren Redhead - curse tablets

Eva-Maria Houben - by a departing light V (first performance)

 

15 April 2023 (11am)

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

James Saunders - amongst it all, some occasional moments of respite

Dante Boon - (Huw)

(first performances)

 

11 March 2023 (11am)

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Michael Pisaro-Liu - Secular Reason; Frederick Frahm - Tesserae 2

Sarah Davachi - Harmonies in Green; Philip Glass - Two Pages

 

9 March 2023 (1.15pm)

ST PAUL'S HALL, HUDDERSFIELD

Sophie Stone - syntheses; Huw Morgan - four; David Mahler - Early Winter

performed by David Pipe and Huw Morgan, organ duo

 

24 February 2023 (7pm)

ST JAMES GARLICKHYTHE, LONDON

A concert of music by Eva-Maria Houben

performed by Eva-Maria (piano), Artur Vidal (saxophone) and Huw Morgan (organ)

 

11 February 2023 (11am)

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Ben Jameson - mainly slow descending chords

Huw Morgan - three; Carson Cooman - Vanishing Point; Mary Offer - Ad Astra

Kory Reeder - This Life. How to put it down.

 

10 December 2022

ST SWITHUN'S WORCESTER

Music by Luiz Henrique Yudo, Sarah Davachi

Huw Morgan, Jürg Frey, Howard Skempton

 

12 November 2022

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

John Cage - ASLSP / Souvenir (performed by Anthony Gritten)

 

15 October 2022

ST THOMAS THE MARTYR

Johnny Chang ~ Harmoniumwörth; Huw Morgan ~ Terms & Conditions

Mia Windsor ~ this is a place where i can sit comfortably

 

10 September 2022 - POSTPONED

ST THOMAS THE MARTYR

Arvo Pärt ~ Pari Intervallo; Emily Doolittle ~ Becoming

Huw Morgan ~ Prelude (2022); Eva-Maria Houben ~ abhanden (méditations sur l'orgue 6.2) Rishin Singh ~ earth diver; Howard Skempton ~ Lament

 

 

9 July 2022

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Joe Hamlen ~ foxglove; Ludo Geloen ~ The Swamp at Thiggebusch

David Sutton-Anderson ~ Fiori;

Carlotta Ferrari ~ Arquitectura vegetal

Carson Cooman ~ Helium

 

25 June 2022

SAINT STEPHEN'S

Mainly slow piano music

Stuart MacRae ~ Synapse; Dark Liquid

Kate Moore ~ Spin Bird; Zomer

Lauren Redhead ~ Curse Tablets

Huw Morgan ~ Terms and Conditions

Peter Garland ~ The Days Run Away

 

14 May 2022

ST THOMAS THE MARTYR

Mia Windsor - Malum Opus ~ Rishin Singh - fata morgana 

Kyle Gann - Summer Serenade ~ Huw Morgan - Roger Bacon's Brazen Head

 

12 May 2022

NEW COLLEGE OXFORD (Thursday 1.15pm)

Joseph Kudirka - Grey ~ Laurence Crane - Sparling

Lauren Redhead ~ post-praeludium - Howard Skempton – Feuille d’Album

Michael Pisaro-Liu - Secular Reason

 

9 April 2022

ST JOHN IN THE WALL

A collection of longer-form works, from 11am until 2pm

Jürg Frey - one instrument (series) 3

Eva-Maria Houben - erwartung 2 ~ Michael Pisaro-Liu - appearance 1

 

12 March 2022

SAINT STEPHEN'S

Mainly slow piano music

Linda Catlin Smith - Music for John Cage 

David Mahler - only music can save me now ~ Lauren Redhead - ore

Peter Garland - Nostalgia of the Southern Cross

Gabriel Jackson - September Chorale ~ Huw Morgan - Suite for Piano

 

12 February 2022:

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Richard P John - between ~ Huw Morgan - Haven ~ Frederick Frahm - Tesserae

Michael Bonaventure - Interlude XI ~ Laurence Crane - Favourite Chord

Eva-Maria Houben - abhanden (méditations sur l'orgue 6.1)

 

10 February 2022:

ST MARY REDCLIFFE

Michael Bonaventure - Interlude XI ~ Bethan Morgan-Williams - In Sleep Braces 

Joseph Kudirka - 21st Century Music ~ Howard Skempton - Nature's Fire

Huw Morgan - the kestrel stood haloed by the sun

Frederick Frahm - Tesserae ~ Philip Glass - Mad Rush

 

8 January 2022:

NB earlier start time of 10.30am

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Luiz Henrique Yudo - TRIP

Huw Morgan - Triad

 

11 December 2021:

ALL SAINTS CLIFTON (PEMBROKE ROAD)

Cecilia MacDowall - O Emmanuel ~ Andreja Andric - Chorale V

Huw Morgan - Prelude (2021) ~ Ludo Geloen - Aves in Aëre

Eva-Maria Houben - Erwartung ~ Carlotta Ferrari - Profumo 

Frederick Frahm - The Plain of the Sea

 

13 November 2021:

Huw Morgan - The kestrel stood haloed by the sun

Jürg Frey - extended circular music V & one instrument, series (3)​

Lauren Redhead - post-praeludium

Arvo Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel

 

9 October (with Richard Johnson *) 2021:

Howard Skempton – Feuille d’Album ~ David Mahler – Early Winters(*)

Bethan Morgan-Williams – In Sleep Braces

Huw Morgan – Prelude (2019) ~ Joseph Kudirka – Grey

Philip Glass – Music in Contrary Motion

 

11 September 2021:

Sophie Stone - Amalgamations ~ Neil Thornock ~ Igneous Hymn

Stuart MacRae - Random Acts of Kindness V

Michael Bonaventure - Interlude XI ~ Huw Morgan - Space

 

17 July 2021:

Howard Skempton - Nature’s Fire ~ Huw Morgan - Hedge-bones

Laurence Crane - Favourite Chord ~ Eva-Maria Houben - Allein

Joseph Kudirka - 21^st Century Music ~ Philip Glass - Mad Rush