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NEW DATES FOR 2026
FREE Informal Organ Recitals
Featuring the Cathedral’s resident organists and guests.
Free and un-ticketed, with a retiring collection.
All recitals start at 18:15 in the Cathedral Quire, after 17:30 Evensong.
Friday 23 January 2026
Miriam Reveley, KCOA (Kent County Organists’ Association) Competition Winner
Friday 13 February 2026
Robin Walker, The King’s School, Canterbury
Friday 23 January 2026, 18:15
Miriam Reveley
KCOA (Kent County Organists’ Association) Competition Winner
Miriam Reveley is the Senior Organ Scholar at Jesus College Cambridge, where she is studying Music.
Miriam began her musical career as a Chorister at Ely Cathedral in 2016, and she began learning the organ in 2017 with Sarah MacDonald. She was appointed Sixth Form Organ Scholar at Ely in 2019 and Assisting Organist in 2022. Miriam passed her FRCO diploma in July 2022, winning the Limpus prize for her playing exam, while studying with Daniel Moult.
Before University, Miriam spent her gap year as Organ Scholar at St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, where she played for the Committal Service of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. In 2024, she won the Kent County Organ Competition, the RCO Competition’s Susi Jean Prize, and she was highly commended in the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition.
In her spare time, she is also a composer: her ‘St George’s Fanfare’ and ‘Prelude on Stille Nacht’ have been published by Encore, and her ‘Trio in C Minor’ has been published by the AGO. She is currently taught by Ann Elise Smoot and Stephen Farr.
Programme
Bruhns, Praeludium in e ‘Great’
Jacquet de la Guerre, Gigue
J.S. Bach, Fantasia in c, BWV 562i
Mendelssohn, Sonata no. 3 in A, op. 65
Alain, Deuxième Fantaisie, JA 117
Peeters, Toccata, Fugue and Hymn on ‘Ave Maris Stella’
Friday 13 February 2026, 18:15
Robin Walker
The King’s School, Canterbury
Robin Walker studied organ at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and now enjoys a freelance career as soloist, accompanist, conductor and teacher. He has given solo recitals and masterclasses in cathedrals and concert halls across the UK, Europe and the USA, and given more than fifty world-premiere performances.
Robin has released critically acclaimed recordings, tracks from which have been broadcast on Dutch radio and recently on BBC Radio 3’s Composer of the Week. He has held a number of church music roles, including as Organist of La Badia Fiorentina, Florence’s 10th century Abbey church; Assistant Organist of St George’s Hanover Square in London; and Director of Music of Corpus Christi College Cambridge.
Robin moved to Canterbury in 2023 and took up the one-year appointment as Assistant Organist at Canterbury Cathedral.
For over twenty years Robin has conducted the prize-winning Sevenoaks based Cantate chamber choir and its sister period instrument chamber orchestra Vivace! In the summer of 2024 Robin stepped down from his conductor role with Ipswich Choral Society, on completion of their 200th anniversary season, during which he directed the choir with the Britten Sinfonia in Haydn’s Creation at Snape Maltings.
Robin is an Accredited Teacher for the Royal College of Organists, and organ teacher at The King’s School Canterbury.
Programme
To be confirmed