Join us at Coventry Cathedral for our popular Monday Lunchtime Organ Recitals, running from May to September 2026. These free, half‑hour concerts (12.30–1.00pm) offer a perfect midday pause, showcasing the magnificent cathedral organ played by distinguished guest organists from across the UK and beyond. Each week brings a fresh and varied programme, from much‑loved classics to contemporary and newly composed works, performed in the inspiring surroundings of this iconic building. All are warmly welcome.
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Jonathan Clinch - Free Monday Lunchtime Organ Recitals 2026
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Organist and academic, Dr Jonathan Clinch, is a Lecturer at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He previously held posts at Cambridge University and the Royal College of Music. He read music at Keble College, Oxford, where he held the organ scholarship and studied with Nicolas Kynaston. He was Assistant Organist of Perth Cathedral, Western Australia, and broadcast nationally on the ABC. He completed a Master’s degree in organ performance under Dame Gillian Weir and a PhD on the music of Herbert Howells at Durham University. Recent editions include a completion of Herbert Howells’ unfinished Cello Concerto and a volume of his piano works for Novello. He has published widely on twentieth-century British music and is currently recording the complete organ works of Robert Saxton (Emeritus Professor of Composition at Oxford University).
Programme of Music:
Awakening*, Toccata of Light*, Meditation on the Autumn Equinox, Winter Solstice*, Spring Equinox*, Summer Solstice*
from The Reckoning of Time - Saxton (*World Premiere Performance)
Drummers of Provence in the Place Des Vieux Salins , Sunlit Clouds on Cap Nègre
from Wanderings in Provence - Reuchsel
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