Looking forward to playing in Cardiff again later this week…

A reminder that during August a recital will take place every Thursday - Thursday Live Plus! - and once again we are excited to be welcoming international performers. See below and thursdaylive.org for more details.

A warm welcome to @stchadsbirm.bsky.social this week for July's @thursdaylive.org Organ Recital as we welcome guest recitalist David Pipe, Organist of Huddersfield Town Hall. We look forward to seeing you. This month marks the 10th anniversary of thursdaylive.org recitals at St Chad's Cathedral.

Thanks to all the members of @sellyparksingers.co.uk for another great term of singing, and special thanks to Richard Price our accompanist. Looking forward to September when rehearsals resume leading towards our Saturday 5 December concert at 3pm in Christ Church Selly Park. Details to follow soon.

A new release on the @thursdaylive.org YouTube channel: @organistpaul.bsky.social Paul Carr plays his own transcription of Saint-Saëns’ Marche Algérienne on the JW Walker organ in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, UK. @rcbirmingham.bsky.social youtu.be/z3HjxMJ6yg4?...

Enjoyed an afternoon rehearsing for tomorrow’s organ recital at Wesley Church Centre Chester. The JJ Binns organ is very fine with a wealth of warm colours to choose from. Music by Berlioz, Bach, Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninoff, and more! 12:45pm Saturday 20 June 2026

Thank you very much. It was a pleasure to listen to and I really explored some new pieces which I haven‘t heard before.

Now available on streaming and download sites, 'French Flavours' - my 2012 debut CD - a program of virtuoso French and French-inspired works, chosen to match the distinctively-Gallic character of the organ of St Chad’s @stchadsbirm.bsky.social @rcbirmingham.bsky.social found.ee/E3yzjm?fbcli...

What a fascinating programme, brilliantly played👏👏. The colours you brought out of that modest organ, housed in what feels like a venerable wooden barn (courtesy of George Cadbury), were amazing. Bravo!

Bournville Lunchtime Concerts at Bournville Friends Meeting House. Tomorrow, 5 June 2026 at 1:00pm. Music by Handel, Bach, Meyerbeer, Gárdonyi, Ad Wammes, Jongen and Saint-Saëns. A programme with variety and many beautiful melodies on the exquisitely-voiced Harrison & Harrison organ. Admission free.

Looking forward to welcoming Chris Totney to @stchadsbirm.bsky.social @rcbirmingham.bsky.social this Thursday for June’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital.

And beautiful playing it was too! Many thanks for helping to make graduation for our students so special #OUFamily

Enjoying a day playing the Marcussen organ at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester for the @openuniversity.bsky.social degree ceremonies. #oufamily Music by Handel, Bach, Smart, Vierne, Gigout, Spicer and Powell/Lapwood…

This will be a really interesting and fun concert by @birminghambach.bsky.social - quite different to the repertoire the choir usually performs. Having played for their rehearsal on Wednesday evening this week, I know you’ll be in for a treat if you go and hear them!

This Saturday, 23 May 2026 at 3:00pm I shall be playing an organ recital in the historic Holdich organ in Hinckley United Reformed Church, Leicestershire. Admission £5 Programme details below:

Thursday’s recital, performed by @organistpaul.bsky.social, included Paul Spicer‘s ‘Suite for Organ’ - full of rhythmic energy, colour, and rich harmonies. We were delighted to welcome Paul Spicer to @stchadsbirm.bsky.social pictured here with Paul Carr and David Saint. @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

Ready for today’s lunchtime @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham. Music by Paul Spicer, David Briggs, Paul Ayres, Naji Hakim and Zsolt Gárdonyi. @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

May’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital is next Thursday, 7 May 2026 at 1:15pm, and features a programme of music by living composers. @organistpaul.bsky.social plays the organ in St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham. Programme ⬇️ and full details at thursdaylive.org Admission free with retiring collection.

Our choir has been invited to sing the morning and evensong services today in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral; the morning is being live-streamed if you’ve not been able to hear us elsewhere and would like to youtube.com/watch?v=htag...

Busy afternoon preparing registrations on the iconic Walker organ in Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral ready for the weekend here with City of Birmingham Choir.

Great first rehearsal of the summer term last night, with infectious enthusiasm for the new repertoire. 🔸Come and join us, now is the ideal time… sellyparksingers.co.uk for further details…

The Walker organ in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham after yesterday evening’s rehearsal for today’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital. Come and hear this wonderful instrument at 1:15pm today - Thursday 9 April 2026. Admission free, thursdaylive.org

This Thursday I shall be playing the @thursdaylive.org organ recital on the wonderful Walker organ in St Chad’s Cathedral Birmingham @rcbirmingham.bsky.social in place of Stephen Disley who is sadly indisposed at the moment. Music for Easter by Tournemire, Howell, Hakim, Handel, Guilmant and Vierne.

1/5 After a very busy few weeks, it’s good to have today off to reflect - particularly on the last few days where along with David Saint and the choir it has been a joy to serve the liturgy through music at @stchadsbirm.bsky.social, with many hundreds of people attending. @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

After a couple of days sitting in silence, with the little chamber organ being used for giving notes and any gentle congregational singing support during a period of unaccompanied music, the Walker organ will burst into life at the Gloria during this evening’s Easter Vigil. @stchadsbirm.bsky.social

Playing for The Chrism Mass this morning in St Chad’s Cathedral @stchadsbirm.bsky.social with the wonderful choir (directed by David Saint) in the organ loft with me as the Cathedral will be so full downstairs! @rcbirmingham.bsky.social

Two concerts this weekend: ‘To the Moon…and Bach!’ @sellyparksingers.co.uk on Saturday 28/3/26 at 3pm in Christ Church Selly Park, and the final ‘Bach@Bart’s’ Organ Recital on Sunday 29/3/26 at 6:30pm in St Bart's Church Penn. @classicalevents.bsky.social, paulcarr.co.uk or sellyparksingers.co.uk.

@organistpaul.bsky.social Lovely rendition of "Venus", Paul. 🎶🎹🎹🎹😂

Venus, the Bringer of Peace - from Holst’s The Planets is the latest video released on the Thursday Live YouTube channel played on @stchadsbirm.bsky.social St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham’s Walker Organ by @organistpaul.bsky.social Paul Carr. @rcbirmingham.bsky.social youtu.be/VSDgUKx83eY?...

Two concerts: Cantoras Upper Voices Chamber Choir of Kim André Arnesen’s Stabat Mater at St Peter's Church Wolverhampton on Sat 21 March at 7:30pm. Bach@Bart’s Organ Recital at St Bart's Church Penn, on Sunday 22 March at 6:30pm; Trio Sonata 5 and the ‘Wedge’ Prelude and Fugue in E minor. Details ⬇️

March Newsletter: mailchi.mp/classicaleve... *** Interview *** with Lowell Liebermann His flute concerto no.2 is being performed at the @barbicancentre.bsky.social with the LSO ( @londonsymphony.bsky.social) on Thu 26th March. A selection of forthcoming concerts.

🔸Saturday 28 March 3:00pm🔸 🎵To the Moon … and Bach!🎵 @sellyparksingers.co.uk in concert with Musical Director @organistpaul.bsky.social Full details: www.classicalevents.co.uk/concerts/chr... @classicalevents.bsky.social

We’re half way through Bach@Bart’s 2026. This coming Sunday’s programme (15 March 2026) begins with the ‘Dorian’ Toccata and Fugue and finishes with the ‘Great’ Prelude and Fugue in G. Between these Trio Sonata no 4 in E minor. Admission free with a collection towards St Bart’s Choir Tour funds.

Great rehearsal with Cantoras Upper Voices Chamber Choir last night under the inspirational direction of Mariana Rosas. Two chances to hear this concert: Fri 13 March - St Paul’s in the Jewellery Quarter Birmingham and Sat 21 March - St Peter’s Collegiate Church Wolverhampton both at 7:30pm.

Returning to St Benedict Parish Church Wombourne on Saturday (7 March) at 7:30pm to play an organ concert on their new digital organ. Music by Handel, Bach, Clarke, Gowers, Spicer, Holst, Strauss II, Saint-Saëns, Gárdonyi, Rachmaninov, Vierne. Enjoyed rehearsal yesterday. See below for ticket info.

Feast of St Chad today, so the perfect moment to play Paul Spicer’s Fanfares for Chad at the end of the 12:15pm sung Mass in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social The fanfare element is a dark-hued dance mirroring the dark uncivilised part of the country to which 7th-century bishop Chad came as a missionary.

Bach@Bart’s Lent Organ Recital Series continues today at 6:30pm and every Sunday during Lent 2026 Details: www.paulcarr.co.uk/bach-barts-2...

Something a little different from last Saturday morning! Here's Ghislaine Morgan leading us in a semi-occluded vocal tract exercise, which involved the choir 'singing' through a straw into a cup with a few centimetres of water. Definitely one for the rehearsal room, as opposed to the concert hall...

A very interesting day: Firstly accompanying @birminghambach.bsky.social’s vocal workshop with Paul Spicer and Ghislaine Morgan, then on to St Bart’s Penn for BACH @ BART’S rehearsal and play for the Saturday Communion Service.

🔸BACH @ BART’S 🔸 starts this Sunday. Every Sunday in Lent at 6:30pm in St Bartholomew’s Church Penn, Wolverhampton. Organ works by J.S. Bach including all six Trio Sonatas. Admission free with a retiring collection towards the St Bart’s Choir Summer Tour. Details ⬇️

We're excited to be making our debut Bluesky post, and it's a good one! Join us for a stunning programme of sacred choral music on 14 March at St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham...

Very satisfying to receive the usual warm welcome at Christchurch Priory yesterday. It was a lovely large audience, some of whom were very near the console sitting behind me in the north transept; the ongoing work on the nave floor meant a different seating configuration and console position.

Thank you for coming! Always enjoyable to play at the Priory.

Early evening rehearsal yesterday in Christchurch Priory preparing for today’s recital (12:30 Thur 12 Feb ‘26). The console, and the audience, in a completely different position due to some extensive work to the nave floor. A new aural perspective on this familiar instrument has been fascinating…

Heading to Dorset this week to reacquaint myself with the organ in #Christchurch Priory. I’ll be playing the lunchtime concert at 12:30pm on Thurs 12 Feb 2026. Music by Paul Spicer - this year’s recipient of the @rcorganists.bsky.social medal - Gárdonyi, Elgar, Meyerbeer, Ireland, Harris & Lemare.

1/4 Yesterday’s @thursdaylive.org organ recital in @stchadsbirm.bsky.social was a variation on the usual format: the slightly extended programme of requests submitted by the audience was performed by all four Cathedral Organists and used all three Cathedral organs 🎹.

This Thur 5 Feb 2026 1:15pm @stchadsbirm.bsky.social: a programme of pieces requested by the audience. Come and hear Cathedral Organists David Saint, Paul Carr, Nigel Morris and John Pryer in this hour-long programme. Featuring all 3 of the Cathedral’s organs. Admission free - retiring collection.

Looking forward to playing the first of 2026’s @thursdaylive.org recitals @stchadsbirm.bsky.social, Birmingham tomorrow, Thurs 8 Jan 1:15 pm. Bach Trio Sonata, Mendelssohn Prelude & Fugue, works by Paul Spicer, Philip Glass & transcriptions by Meyerbeer, Berlioz, and Holst too. thursdaylive.org 

Happy New Year!

Starting on Thu 8 Jan 2026 1:15 PM, and throughout the year. Thursday LIVE - Organ Recital Paul Carr – organ (@organistpaul.bsky.social) #Berlioz #Mendelssohn #JSBach #PaulSpicer + more St Chad's Cathedral, #Birmingham www.classicalevents.co.uk/concerts/st-...