Events

Our lunchtime concerts take place on the first Friday of the month, from 12.30 to 1.15pm

They are kindly sponsored by Ballet4Life and Home Instead, Hammersmith and Chiswick and promoted on organrecitals.uk and in The New London Organ Concerts Guide. Admission is free with a retiring collection (please add Gift Aid where possible) for the church’s music fund. All welcome.
See this year’s dates and organists.

This month’s organist will be Angela Sones (Lichfield).

Programme
Campane a Sete – Andrew Fletcher
Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV543 – J.S. Bach
Cloches – Marcel Fournier
Fantaisie pour orgue – Camille Saint-Saëns
Prélude,  Fugue et Variation- César Franck
Finale from 6th Symphonie – Charles Marie Widor

Biography

Angela is a professional freelance organist and recitalist and is delighted to be invited to play her first recital here at St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park today. Previous recital venues have included St Philip’s and St Chad’s Cathedrals, Birmingham, Derby Cathedral, Howden Minster, Leeds Minster, Tewkesbury Abbey, Bradford Cathedral, Newcastle Cathedral, Hereford Cathedral, Worksop Priory and at two Oxford Colleges, Keble and Exeter.

Angela has also recently played Organ Duet recitals at Howden Minster and Birmingham Cathedral, with her duet partner Richard Hartshorn. Forthcoming recitals include Worcester Cathedral, Shrewsbury Abbey, St Mary’s,  Melton Mowbray, Truro Cathedral and Kings Lynn Minster. See Organrecitals.uk

Angela Sones was born in Sutton Coldfield and educated at Highclare School and The Coventry Centre for the Performing Arts. She began learning the organ at the age of thirteen with Barry Draycott and went on to study with Andrew Fletcher and David Saint at The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating Bachelor of Music with Honours in 1997. She has performed in masterclasses in Paris with Jean Guillou, Daniel Roth, Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin, Aude Hertematte, Frederic Blanc and Baptiste-Florian Marle-Ouverard.

Angela held the position of Director of Music at All Saints’ Parish Church, Four Oaks for 27 years and has also held Acting Director of Music positions at St Alphege, Solihull and  Knowle Parish Church. She has a private teaching practice in Piano, Organ and Theory of Music and is also a peripatetic piano teacher at both Queen Mary’s High School, Walsall and Aldridge School. Angela is much in demand as a recitalist and choral accompanist. She is also organ accompanist for The Half Circle Singers and Viva La Musica.