Mayfair Organ Concert - Evan Lawrence

This week's Mayfair organ concert is given by Evan Lawrence (London Oratory), who will be performing a programme of:

Liszt - Prelude and Fugue on BACH S. 260
JS Bach - Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV 541
Couperin - Offertoire from Messe pour les Paroisses
Duruflé - Prelude et Fugue sur le nom d’Alain Op. 7

Admission is free with a retiring collection

Evan grew up in Dublin, where he began playing the violin and the piano from an early age. He sang with Irelands national broadcast children's choir, Cór na nÓg, where he was encouraged to take organ lessons by accompanist Dr. Carole O'Connor, and became her student over the next few years. He became more involved in church music when he was appointed Junior Organ Scholar of Christ Church Cathedral in 2018. During this time, he was awarded the Sr. Catherine McCauley Perpetual Cup for the most outstanding organist in Ireland's national music competition, the Feis Ceoil, givinghis debut recital in 2021 as part of Dublins Pipeworks Organ Festival. He continued piano and violin lessons alongside this as a scholar of the Royal Irish Academy of Music with Professors Hugh Tinney and Maeve Broderick respectively.

Evan moved to London in 2021 to pursue a Bachelors Degree in Violin Performance with the leader of the renowned Brodsky Quartet, Krysia Osotowicz, at the Guildhall School of Music, supported by scholarships from the Harrison Frank Family Foundation and the school. He concurrently took up the Organ Scholarship at St Mary's Church, Battersea. With the church's support, he began organ lessons with Anne Marsden Thomas, and completed his LTCL piano diploma and ARCO organ diploma. He was awarded bursaries by the RCO and the Dunleath Organ Scholarship Trust, which allowed him to take part in masterclasses with esteemed professors such as Katelyn Emerson, Henry Fairs, Eric Lebrun and Gerard Brooks.

Last year, Evan held the Champniss Organ Scholarship at the Grosvenor Chapel, and began organ studies with Daniel Moult supported by the Champniss Foundation. In January he was awarded his FRCO, winning the Limpus prize and the Dixon prize for his performance and improvisation. He continues his role as KCL Guys Chapel Organist this year, and is in demand as a freelance organist and violinist. He has given recitals at venues such as Westminster Abbey, the Grosvenor Chapel and Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, and has accompanied choral services at cathedrals including Southwark, Christ Church Dublin, St Edmundsbury and St Davids. This month he begins his post as Pettman Organ Scholar of the London Oratory, in conjunction with the final year of his degree.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

St George's Hanover Square, St George Street, W1, St George's Hanover Square, London, United Kingdom