Ceremonial music is also featured in this wonderful programme, including Walton's stirring Coronation Te Deum and Purcell's poignant Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary. Choral classics by Biebl, Gabrieli, and Rachmaninov are topped-off with a good dollop of gospel pizzazz brass-style from Hazell's The Gospel Hall.

James McVinnie Assistant Organist, Westminster Abbey
Acting Sub Organist, St Paul's Cathedral

Programme includes Reubke's Sonata on the 94th Psalm

Messiaen
Alléluias sereins & Transports de joie

Rogg
Partita on Bach's ‘Nun freut euch'

Thalben-Ball
Variations on a theme of Paganini for pedals

Gounod
Funeral March of a Marionette

When Thomas Trotter received the Royal Philharmonic Society's prestigious Instrumental Award in 2002 he was described as ‘one of the foremost exponents of the organists' art'. The excellence of his musicianship has long been recognized internationally in musical partnerships with such conductors as Sir Simon Rattle, Bernard Haitink and Sir Charles Mackerras and in performances in great concert halls worldwide.

His career is firmly founded on his relationship with the City of Birmingham, where he was appointed City Organist in 1983 in succession to Sir George Thalben-Ball. He is resident organist in Symphony Hall where he inaugurated the magnificent Klais organ. Among his recordings works by Mozart, Liszt and Messiaen have received particular praise.