Lunchtime Live | Organ Recital: Paul Greally

Paul Greally is playing the organ at St Albans Cathedral on Monday 23 November, as part of the Lunchtime Live series. It's a half-hour recital, running from 12:30pm to 1:00pm, so it's the kind of thing you can slip into over a long lunch break and still be back at your desk by one.

Greally comes to us from Westminster Abbey, where he's Assistant Organist. That's a role that keeps him busy with the day-to-day of the Abbey: playing for services, helping to conduct the Abbey Choir, and training the choristers. He's been around the organ since he was a teenager, when he became a prize-winning Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and spent four years as the sole Organ Scholar at King's College, Cambridge. He left there with a starred double first and an MPhil with Distinction before continuing on at the Royal Academy of Music.

He's played on television and live radio for Carols from King's and A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, and his live work takes him well beyond the cathedral circuit. He's performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican Centre, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Sydney Opera House, working with the BBC Singers, The Tallis Scholars, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Academy of Ancient Music. Outside of the organ, he also works as a freelance composer, arranger, and pianist.

This is one of the Lunchtime Live concerts, a series the cathedral puts on select Mondays featuring their own musicians alongside visiting artists and emerging performers. Admission is free, though donations are welcome. It's at St Albans Cathedral, Sumpter Yard, AL1 1BY, on Monday 23 November from 12:30pm to 1:00pm.