Lunchtime at Redcliffe Programme - Will Walshe-Grey

St Mary Redcliffe
Will Walshe-Grey
(St Mary Redcliffe)
Thursday 8 June 2023
1.00-1.50 pm

Will Walshe-Grey is an organist and accompanist in his first year reading Music
at the University of Bristol, where he studies organ with Paul Walton. As Junior
Organ Scholar at St Mary Redcliffe Church, Bristol, he sings regularly in the choir
and has duties accompanying the choir and managing the music library. At the
university, Will has accompanied several 1 st year recitalists and is accompanist
to the Bristol University Music Society’s Minerva Choir. In addition, Will enjoys
singing with the University Chorus and Music Society Chamber Choir as a bass.
Born in Eastbourne and educated in Lewes, he won the first Organ Scholarship
at Priory School, Lewes where he studied organ with Anthony Wilson and piano
with Sarah Jarvis. During sixth form, he worked as freelance organist in the
Lewes and Brighton area, working on occasion at St Peter’s Offham and
Hamsey, The Church of the Good Shepherd, Preston and St Mary’s, Willingdon.
In his gap year, Will worked as organist at St Laurence, Stanmer-with-Falmer
and gave his first organ recitals there and at St Michael’s, Lewes.
Will Walshe-Grey

Thursday 8 June at 1pm
Fantasy No.1 on ‘Helmsley’ – Kenneth Leighton
O Antiphon Sequence – Cecilia McDowall
O Sapientia – O Adonai – O Radix Jesse – O Clavis David – O Oriens –
O Rex Gentium – O Emmanuel
Prelude and Fugue in G Major (BWV 541) – J S Bach
Archangel Suite – Craig Phillips
Michael – Gabriel – Raphael – Uriel
Applause is encouraged at the end of the concert please,
rather than between each item.
We ask that no recordings are made of the concert,
unless authorised by the performer and church authorities. Thank you.
The church undercroft café is closed until further notice.
Toilet facilities are still available there, as before.
Visit the new Organ Listing website for details of organ concerts:
www.organrecitals.uk

Thursday Organ Concerts 2023 Summer Term:
1.00-1.50pm
18 May – Hans Hielscher (Wiesbaden, Germany)
25 May – Martyn Rawles (Lichfield Cathedral)
1 June – Harry van Wijk (Netherlands)
8 June -Will Walshe-Grey (SMR Organ Scholar)
15 June – Elin Davies (SMR Organ Scholar)
22 June – Marc Murray (Bury/Bolton)
29 June – Calum Alger (Wolverhampton)
6 July – George Castle (Winchester)
DONATIONS BY CONTACTLESS DONATION POINTS
Please make your donations by card on the terminals at the back of church:
❖ Press the ‘Organ Concerts’ tab on the screen
❖ choose the amount you wish to donate
❖ tap your card to make the transaction.
In order to meet the rising costs of putting on these concerts,
we ask for a minimum donation of £5 where possible.
You can also make your donation through the church website.
www.stmaryredcliffe.co.uk