Name: NEW MUSIC for ORGAN
Start: 2025-11-14T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-14T21:00:00+00:00
Location: St George's Church, Jesmond

Current-Edition presents: New Music for Organ!
Experience eight world premieres for organ in the stunning setting of St George’s, Jesmond. Organist Drew Cantrill-Fenwick performs brand new works by North East composers Jorge Boehringer, Peter Bourne, Eleanor Cully Boehringer, Matthijs Heblij, Sally Pilkington, Kevin Sargent, Kerrin Tatwood and Paul Taylor, written especially for the church and chamber organs at St George's.
Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start. See you there!
DREW CANTRILL-FENWICK
Drew is one of the UK’s most experienced and versatile church musicians. His career has taken him to three continents, working in schools, churches and cathedrals, and he has appeared in some of the world’s most prestigious venues as conductor and organist. He is a Fellow, prize winner, and former councillor of the Royal College of Organists, tutor for the RCO Academy, and examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. He is currently Director of Music at St George’s Church, Jesmond, Newcastle, where he is responsible for the historic 4-manual Lewis/Binns organ.
JORGE BOEHRINGER
PETER BOURNE
ELEANOR CULLY BOEHRINGER
Eleanor is an artist and award-winning composer with a diverse artistic practice encompassing composition, performance, sound art, curation and installation. She has composed for ensembles across the UK including BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chorus of Royal Northern Sinfonia, An Assembly and Musarc experimental choir. Originally from Norwich, she currently resides in Newcastle upon Tyne where she composes, teaches and collaborates with artists and community groups.
MATTHIJS HEBLIJ
SALLY PILKINGTON
Sally Pilkington is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer. She has made two highly-eclectic albums as a member of wonky-pop band Hen Ogledd, released over 80 'albums' as part of pandemic-era project Bulbils, and now performs with questing synth-and-drums duo Yotuns. Sally's most recent work draws on many hours of improvisations at The Church of Saint Matthew in Elswick and Holy Cross Church Ryton and explores, calmly and in careful detail, the rich textures and vast harmonic possibilities of the pipe organ.
KEVIN SARGENT
KERRIN TATWOOD
Kerrin Tatwood (previously Tatman) is an award-winning, Newcastle-based composer, who writes genre-bending music spanning classical, folk, musical theatre and everything in between, "existing on a plain of its own" (NARC Magazine). Kerrin writes for stage, screen and concert hall, with previous commissioners and clients including The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Hull Philharmonic Orchestra, Fenham Ensemble and McNicol Ballet Collective.
PAUL TAYLOR