Coffee-time Organ Recital at Wymondham Abbey

Gabriel Chiu will give an organ recital on Saturday, August 20, on Wymondham Abbey’s 1793 James Davies organ.

The recital starts at 11am and will last for around an hour. Coffee will be served from 10.30am. No tickets are required; there will be a retiring collection in aid of Abbey funds.

Gabriel’s recital programme will include pieces by Louis Vierne, J S Bach, Alexandre Guilmant and Pietro Yon. His musical education began with the piano at the age of five. He studied the organ at Wymondham College under the tutelage of Andrew Day for three years. During his last year at the college, Gabriel also sang with Wymondham Abbey choir.

After leaving school, Gabriel spent one year in Dorset working as the organ scholar of Sherborne School and Sherborne Abbey. In October 2014, he took up an Organ Scholarship at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, with an academic place to read for the Law Tripos. He now studies the organ with Anne Page.

Wymondham Abbey operates a video screen so that the audience can watch the amazing progress of the organist’s hands and feet.

There are two further coffee-time recitals in the 2016 series:

Saturday 17 September: Mike Webb will feature the works of three French blind organists.

Saturday 15 October: Peter O’Connor, the Abbey’s assistant organist.

Further details of all these events from Barbara Randall on 01953 601939 or www.wymondhamabbey.org.uk/events. It’s also well worth visiting www.organrecitals.com, a website devoted to all things organ.