Albert Hall Organ - Lunchtime Concert with Peter Shepherd

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Monday 16 June 2025 I 1.10pm - 2pm

Albert Hall, Nottingham

Tickets: £5pp

The concert runs from 1.10pm to 1.55pm. Admission £5. Feel free to bring your own lunch.

Programme: J.S. Bach Fugue on the Magnificat BWV 733
Edward Elgar Sonata in G, Op. 28, Allegro Maestoso, Allegretto, Andante espressivo, Presto comodo
Joseph Bonnet Elves Op. 7 No. 12
Théodore Dubois Verset de Procession
Edvard Grieg (arr. Shepherd) From Holberg's Time, Op. 40, Air, Gavotte, Rigaudon

Peter Shepherd is an organist and pianist, currently working at Chesterfield Parish Church as Organist and Choirmaster. He has experience in playing classical, jazz and pop music and has been playing keyboard instruments for over 20 years.

Previous to moving to Derbyshire, he was Assistant Organist at Paisley Abbey, where he was also regularly in demand both as an accompanist and recitalist. From 2016-17 Peter was the organist-in-residence at St Mark's English Church in Florence. As a student he was organ scholar at Merton College Oxford. He became an FRCO in 2014, as well as also gaining the LRSM with distinction on the piano in the same year.

He has performed extensively as an accompanist and recital organist. He has played continuo for the London Mozart Players, Oxford Baroque and Opera Dei Lumi. He has studied organ with William Whitehead, James Parsons and Christopher Allsop, and has had piano instruction from Leslie Howard and Malcolm Martineau. Peter also composes, and has written music for choir, solo piano and organ and chamber ensembles, as well as a stage musical.