Wednesdays at
Christ Church

Leatherhead
Lunchtime
Organ Concert
Diary

Free organ concerts,
funded by a retiring collection

Programme Director: Anthony Cairns
Director of Music, Christ Church (United Reformed), Leatherhead
Monthly organ concerts
12.30 lunchtime to 1.10pm
Please click on date and time line
for full details of each concert (where available)
and for samples of the music to be performed


Specification of the Christ Church Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ:
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For details of more
local and national
organ concerts
please click on this logo :
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Wednesday 20th November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC 
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Hannah Parry, organ recitalist
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 16th October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Polina Sosnina, Organ Scholar at Temple Church and St Martin-in-the-Fields
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Road
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Wednesday 18th September 12.30 lunchtime
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest Organist: Paul Ayres, organist, choral director, & composer
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 14th August 12.30 lunchtime
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest Organist: Anthony Gritten, Royal Academy of Music
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 17th July 12.30 lunchtime  ♦  Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest Organist: Timothy Guntrip
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 19th June 12.30 lunchtime  ♦  Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest Organist: Marion Bettsworth, St Michael's Highgate
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 15th May 12.30 lunchtime  ♦  Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Katherine Dienes-Williams, Organist & Master of the Choristers, Guildford Cathedral
Bairstow • Ireland • Franck • Mendelssohn • Boëllmann • Vierne
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 17th April 12.30 lunchtime  ♦  Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest Organist: Mark Brafield, recitalist
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 14th November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC 
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Ed Sutton
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 17th October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Gillian Lloyd, Organist of Guildford United Reformed Church
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Road
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Wednesday 19th September 12.30 lunchtime
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest Organist: Hannah Parry, concert organist, formerly Asst Director of Music, St Michael's, Highgate
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 15th August ♦ 12.20 (for 12.30) lunchtime - FRC
♦  Wednesday at St John's School Chapel  ♦  2015 3-manual Tickell pipe organ  ♦
Guest organist: Anthony Gritten, Head of Undergraduate Performance, Royal Academy of Music
Leatherhead: New Chapel on Main Quad, St John's School, Epsom Road (car park in Garlands Road) Map available on 2017 concert webpage
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Wednesday 18th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest Organist: David Oldfield, GRNCM, ARCO (CHM), LRAM, FVCM (Hons), FGMS
Organist & Director of Music, St Luke's Whyteleafe, Director, Stag Montem Chorem
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 20th June 12.30 lunchtime  ♦  Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest Organist: Timothy Guntrip, organist, Stag Montem Chorem
Asst Director of Music, Holy Cross Parish Church, Uckfield
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 16th May 12.30 lunchtime  ♦  Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Anthony Cairns, Director of Music, Christ Church (United Reformed), Leatherhead
music by Grayston Ives ♦ JS Bach ♦ Louis Vierne ♦ CV Stanford
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 18th April 12.30 lunchtime  ♦  Wednesdays at Christ Church
John Sharples, Director of Music, St Nicolas, Charlwood
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 14th March 12.30 lunchtime  ♦  Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest Organist: Graham Thorpe,
Organ Scholar, Brompton Oratory; formerly Organ Scholar, Guildford Cathedral, Kings College London, St Peter's Cornhill,
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 15th November 2017 12.30 lunchtime
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Ed Sutton, Church Organist & Recitalist
plays work by 18th century English composers
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 18th October 2017 12.30 lunchtime
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Mark Brafield, ARCM, FTCL, FRCO
Recitalist & Church Organist, Trustee, Royal College of Organists
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 20th September 2017 12.30 lunchtime
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest Organist: Graham Thorpe, Pettman Organ Scholar at Brompton
former Organ Scholar of Guildford Cathedral
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 16th August 2017 12.20 (for 12.30) lunchtime - FRC - (Please note change of venue and timing)
Wednesday at St John's School Chapel
Guest organist: Carl Jackson MVO
Director of Music, HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
playing the School's magnificent 2015 Tickell organ
Leatherhead: New Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road (car park in Garlands Road)
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Wednesday 19th July 2017 12.30 lunchtime
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Gary Sieling, Director of Music, St Mary the Virgin Church, Henley-on-Thames
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 14th June 2017 12.30 lunchtime
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Gwyn Owen, trumpet  •  Rebecca Baker, organ  ♦  graduates of the Royal Academy of Music
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 17th May 2017 12.30 lunchtime
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Gillian Lloyd, Recitalist & Organist of Guildford United Reformed Church
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Road
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Wednesday 19 April 2017 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: David Oldfield
Organist & Director of Music, St Luke's Whyteleafe, Director, Stag Montem Chorem
works by Dubois, Mendelssohn, Hindemith, Clérambault,  Stanford, Bossi, JS Bach
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
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Wednesday 15th March 2017 12.30 lunchtime
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Jonathan Melling, Director of Music, All Hallows by the Tower, City of London
music by Gordon Phillips, Johann Walther, JS Bach, Mendelssohn, Percy Fletcher, Stanford
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Rd
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For details of more
local and national
organ concerts
please click on this logo :
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Wednesday 16th November 2016 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Ed Sutton, Organ Recitalist & Teacher
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 19th October 12.30 2016 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
John Sharples, Organist, St Nicholas Church, Charlwood
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Road
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Wednesday 14th September 2016 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Anthony Cairns, Director of Music, Christ Church (United Reformed), Leatherhead
music by JL Krebs/Bach, Karg-Elert, William Mathias
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Road
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Wednesday 17th August 2016 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesday at St John's New Chapel
Florence Rosseau, organiste titulaire, Rennes Cathedral, Brittany
Loïc Georgeault, organiste titulaire, Rennes & St Malo Cathedrals, Brittany
play the School's 2015 Tickell organ
Leatherhead: New Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 20th July 2016 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Jonathan Melling, Director of Music, All Hallows by the Tower, London EC
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 15th June 2016 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
John Eagles, Organist Recitalist & Teacher
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Road
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Wednesday 18th May 2016 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Mark Brafield, ARCM, FTCL, FRCO, Concert Organist
Trustee, Royal College of Organists
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Road
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Wednesday 20th April 2016 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
David Oldfield, Organist & Director of Music, All Saints Church, Banstead
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Rd
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Wednesday 16th March 2016 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
J S Bach - Through the Church Year
Anthony Cairns, Director of Music, Christ Church (UR), Leatherhead
Leatherhead: Christ Church URC, Epsom Rd
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Organists performing at Christ Church in previous years have included:

2015
Anthony Cairns, Director of Music, Christ Church (United Reformed), Leatherhead
Graham Davies, Assistant Director of Music, Pinner Parish Church; Programme Director of Wednesdays at Christ Church
Jonathan Melling, Director Music, All Hallows by the Tower, London EC
John Sharples, Director of Music, Charlwood Parish Church
Gary Sieling, Director of Music, St Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Henley-on-Thames

2014
Anthony Cairns, Director of Music, Christ Church (United Reformed), Leatherhead
Graham Davies, Director of Music, St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes Middx; Programme Director of Wednesdays at Christ Church
John Sharples, Director of Music, Charlwood Parish Church
Gary Sieling, Director of Music, All Saints Church, Blackheath, London SE

2013
Anthony Cairns, Director of Music, Christ Church (United Reformed), Leatherhead; Programme Director of Wednesdays at Christ Church
Graham Davies, Director of Music, St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes Middx
Robert Woolley, Organist of St Mary's Stoke d'Abernon; Professor of Harpsichord & Clavichord, Royal College of Music

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Finding Christ Church:

The entrance to Christ Church is on Epsom Road, beside Downsend School's Leatherhead Lodge. There is plenty of on-site parking too and Christ Church has level access throughout.

Christ Church (United Reformed) has its own website on this link where you will find details of the Church's services, concerts, and other activities.

Please see the map on the left. [ Satnav: KT22 8SW ]

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