Welcome to the Southwark Cathedral Summer Organ Festival 2026. A collection of five recitals throughout August.

Join us for a summer of organ music as we host five organ recitals on the renowned T.C Lewis organ of Southwark Cathedral

Recitals

3 August | Zuzana Ferjenčíkova (Paris)

10 August | Colin Walsh (Lincoln)

17 August | Simon Hogan (Southwark)

24 August | Martin Schmeding (Germany)

31 August | Jean-Baptiste Monnot (France)

Schedule

Doors open: 6pm

Pre-concert conversation and Q&A: 6.30pm

Concert begins: 7pm

Event end: 8pm

Refreshments will be available to purchase from 6pm.

Accessibility

Please note, currently there are certain areas of the Cathedral that are not accessible to wheelchair users, but we are working to improve our facilities. There is a platform lift to access the Cathedral. The Nave is accessible for wheelchairs from the Millennium Courtyard entrance via a platform lift. There are ramps into the South Transept. Access to the Retrochoir, High Altar and Choir is via the doors from the South Transept, into the Churchyard and back into the Cathedral via the Parish Door.

Visitors who require assistance due to disability are able to book a carer/companion ticket free of charge. Accessible toilet facilities are located on the Ground Floor at the end of Lancelot’s Link, other is in the basement near to the Cathedral Café and can be accessed by the passenger lift. Both toilets need a radar key which can be obtained from a Cathedral team member.

Service animals are permitted.

Monday 3 August | Zuzana Ferjencikova (Q&A with Marilyn Harper)

Programme:

Adagio and Fugue in C minor KV 546 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (trans. Jean Guillou)

Grande Sonate Pathétique op. 13 I - Ludwig van Beethoven (trans. Zuzana Ferjencikova)

from Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) op. 15 - Robert Schumann (trans.

Zuzana Ferjencikova)

XII. Kind im Einschlummern (Child Falling Asleep)

XIII. Der Dichter spricht (The Poet Speaks)

St Francis of Paola walking on the waves – Franz Liszt (trans. Zuzana Ferjencikova)

Suite for Thomas Becket, the Saint Archbishop of Canterbury, op. 27 - Zuzana Ferjencikova

Biography:

ZUZANA FERJENČÍKOVÁ is a Slovakian organist, pianist and composer. She was educated from early childhood in alignment with the Russian piano tradition (Oľga Ormisová, Jewgenij Irshai) and pursued organ studies at the conservatory in Banská Bystrica (Milan Hric) and at the universities in Bratislava and Vienna. She has been influenced especially by the teaching of and collaboration with her Maître Jean Guillou (Paris). Holder of numerous prizes in international competitions, 2004 she was the first woman to be awarded the First Prize at the International Organ Improvisation Competition in Haarlem in the Netherlands. From September 2021 she is appointed professor for organ at Codarts University in Rotterdam. She gives master-classes in improvisation, interpretation and transcription, takes part in international organ competition juries and follows an intense concert and recording career. She celebrated her debuts with great success in the most famous concert halls such as the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Wiener Konzerthaus, Berliner Philharmonie, as well as in cathedrals such as Notre Dame de Paris and Cologne Cathedral. As a performer, her focus lie in the Romantic period and the music of 20th century, in particular the œuvre by Franz Liszt, César Franck, Marcel Dupré and Jean Guillou. As a composer, she writes concert pieces for organ, piano and various instrumental formations, and also for the Roman Catholic liturgy. She is author of numerous transcriptions of piano and orchestral works for organ. Since 2022 she is recording artist of the German label AEOLUS. New releases: Jean Guillou Vol. 1: « Symphonic poems ». Jean Guillou and Franz Liszt, Van den Heuvel organ at St. Eustache (Paris). Jean Guillou Vol. 2: « Colours and Shadows ». Jean Guillou and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jean Guillou/Detlev Kleuker organ in Chant d'Oiseau, Brussels (Belgium); Gonzales/Klais/Guillou organ at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de la Treille, Lille (France). « Passions ». Organ transcriptions by Zuzana Ferjencikova (Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt), Seiffert/Sinua organ at St. Peter und Paul, Ratingen (Germany).

Monday 10 August | Colin Walsh (Q&A with Peter Wright)

Programme:

Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV 546 – J.S. Bach

Fantaisie in A - César Franck

Introduction and Passacaglia – Walter Alcock

Communion from Suite Medievale – Jean Langlais

Pasticcio – Jean Langlais

Le Fils from Trois Meditations sur le sainte Trinite – Jean Langlais

Final from Symphony no 1 – Louis Vierne

Biography:

Colin Walsh’s association with cathedral music goes back nearly fifty years. He has served, in various capacities, St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, Christ Church, Oxford ( where he studied with Simon Preston and Nicholas Danby), Salisbury Cathedral( as assistant to Richard Seal) and St Albans Cathedral. He went to Lincoln Cathedral in 1988 as Organ

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