“Evening Inspirations” – Organ Concert with Alan Saggerson
Sunday, August 12, 2018 at 5:00pm

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On Sunday, August 12 at 5:00, please join us for “Evening Inspirations,” a program of organ music performed by Alan Saggerson of St. Mary with All Souls Church, West Hampstead (Kilburn), London, England.

Mr. Saggerson contacted St. John’s last March about playing our “Mighty McManis Organ” during a tour he is taking this summer in the United States.  At St. Mary with All Souls, Mr. Saggerson plays the 2 pipe organs, directs the voluntary choir and the St. Mary’s Singers, and presides over the annual St. Mary’s concert programs organized in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Music.

The concert is free and open to the public.  Free-will donations will be accepted to support the St. John’s Organ Fund.

The program will include:

    1. Toccata: Creator of the Stars of Night (Pietro Yon)
    2. Vesper Voluntaries (Edward Elgar)
    3. Komm Heiliger Geist (BWV 651) (J.S. Bach)                    
    4. “Eventide” & “Croft’s 136th (Hubert Parry)
    5. Dancing in the Twilight (Eric Coates)
    6. Quick March: “Calling all workers” (Eric Coates)

More about Alan Saggerson
Alan was educated at Hertford College, Oxford. His organ tutors include Ann Elise Smoot (USA) and Paul Bryan (RNCM, now Ely Cathedral). After 20 years as an organist at St. James’s Parish Church in Islington, north London he moved in 2008 to St. Mary with All Souls, West Hampstead (Kilburn) where as well as playing the 2 pipe organs he directs the voluntary choir and the St. Mary’s Singers and presides over the annual St. Mary’s concert programs organized in conjunction with the Royal Academy of Music. He is a trustee of the Royal College of Organists St. Giles Academy organ project at St. Giles Cripplegate at London’s Barbican Centre and has participated in the rebuilding and refubishment of several pipe organs in and around London (including St. Mary’s 1880 Bishop organ and the installation of the 1966 Walker gallery organ at St. Mary’s in 2014 – a gift from Downing College Cambridge with which St. Mary’s has an historic connection). He is the founder and Director of the Islington Improvisation Workshops focusing on improvisation within the liturgy. He has toured annually in the Netherlands and France in each of the last 20 years as well as being a regular recitalist in and around London & throughout the UK. In 2014 he featured as an anniversary recitalist for the RCO’s 150th anniversary celebrations.