Sommerliche Orgelkonzerte 2026 - James Orford

James Orford is organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Before coming to St. Paul's, he was Organist and Assistant Director of Music at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, and Acting College Organist and at Eton College, as well as Organist in Residence at Westminster Cathedral. A busy soloist, he has performed in many of the UK's major concert halls and at a number of major festivals, including St. Paul's, Westminster and Liverpool Cathedrals, Westminster Abbey, the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal Albert Hall. Concert venues abroad include Roskilde Cathedral, Denmark, the Sint Niklaaskerk, Ghent, and the Chiesa dell'Annunziata, Todi, Italy. In 2021, his first solo album - his own complete organ transcription of Vivaldi's L'estro Armonico (as well as J.S. Bach's transcriptions BWV 593 and 596) - was released on the Linn Record label. It was recorded at the Dutch Church, London, and Duke's Hall at the Royal Academy of Music and was featured on Apple Music's Classical A-list. In 2022 he recorded an organ concerto by Richard Pantcheff, written for him and Michael Waldron. As an accompanist he has worked with a variety of ensembles including The Sixteen, the Monteverdi Choir, Tenebrae, the London Choral Sinfonia, Sansara, the Thames Philharmonic Choir. He has worked with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the London Mozart Players and the City of London Sinfonia. Highlights of his orchestral work include Mahler's 2nd Symphony with Semyon Bychkov and the 8th Symphony with Ronald Corp, both at the Royal Festival Hall. James Orford is also an accomplished pianist, working mainly as an accompanist and chamber musician. In 2020 he was the pianist for the Vierne 150 concert series at St. Paul's Cathedral. His latest recording is a recording of Five Mystical Songs, Songs of Travel and shorter cycles by Amy Beach and Jonathan Dove with baritone Alex Bower-Brown.