HEREFORD Cathedral is delighted to be presenting another great series of summer organ concerts. This year there will be no fewer than 20 lunchtime recitals, which take place at 1.15 pm on Tuesdays between May and September, featuring organists from all over the country.

The series starts on Tuesday with the cathedral’s current organ scholar, Charles Maxtone-Smith, who will be taking up the organ scholarship at New College, Oxford in the autumn and three former Hereford organ scholars are also playing this year: Jonny Allsopp (July 12), Tim Parsons (August 23) and Joseph Wicks (September 13).

Among the many other highlights this year, we welcome for his first visit to Hereford the assistant director of music at Gloucester Cathedral, Jonathan Hope, on May 24, and the director of music at Portsmouth Cathedral, David Price, on June 7.

Later that month, the recital on June 28 is shared between the two organ scholars of Trinity College, Cambridge, Owain Park and Alexander Hamilton. The season ends on September 27 with the traditional Audience Requests concert given by Peter Dyke, Hereford Cathedral’s assistant director of music.

There are also two gala evening concerts this year, both starting at 7.15 pm. The first, given by Peter Dyke on Tuesday, June 14, will include music by Mendelssohn, Bach, Reger and Tchaikovsky.

On Tuesday, September 6 the cathedral hosts the famous virtuoso organist from Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Olivier Latry, who will play Bach’s Passacaglia as well as spectacular examples from the French repertoire.