Organist Roger Sayer plays music from Hans Zimmer's Interstellar soundtrack and shares stories about the film's score, with an audience Q&A.
Roger Sayer brings the music of Interstellar to St Peter's Church on Thursday 18 February 2027, at 8:30pm. It's a single hour without an interval, and the night closes with a Q&A where the audience can ask him questions.
Sayer isn't just performing the score; he's the man who played the organ part on Hans Zimmer's soundtrack for Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. He's taken that music on the road since, playing it live in concert halls and cathedrals around the world. This time, he's stepping away from those vast spaces for something a bit closer. The music is the main event, but the second half is where he opens up about the process: what it was like to work with Zimmer, how the soundtrack was put together and recorded, and the secrets behind that particular sound.
He's one of Britain's leading concert organists, and his connection to St Albans goes back a while — he was a prizewinner at the St Albans International Organ Competition. Before that, he was an organ student at St Paul's Cathedral, and he later served as Director of Music at Rochester Cathedral and Temple Church in London. He's played sell-out shows at St Paul's and York Minster, so this is a smaller, more intimate setting than he's usually in.
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Tickets start from £27.00, and the whole thing runs for about an hour, with the Q&A at the end. It's at St Peter's Church on Saint Peter's Street, AL1 3HG.
