Organ recital by Tingshuo Yang, first prize winner of the IAO-RCO Competition 2026, within the International Saturday Organ Recitals of the St Albans International Organ Festival.
Tingshuo Yang plays the organ at St Peter's Church on Saturday 23 January 2027, part of the International Saturday Organ Recitals of the St Albans International Organ Festival. It's a late afternoon concert, starting at 5:30 pm.
The programme runs from the Baroque to the contemporary. It opens with Theodore Dubois' Fiat Lux and Herbert Howells' Psalm Prelude No. 3 (from Set 1), followed by Gaston Litaize's Epiphanie and Dietrich Buxtehude's Magnificat Primi Toni. The second half brings Philip Glass' Mad Rush, J.S. Bach's Wie Schoen Leuchtet den Morgenstern, Howells' Psalm Prelude No. 2 (from Set 2), and Olivier Messiaen's Dieu Parmi Nous from La Nativite. It's a wide-ranging set, with the 17th-century Buxtehude and Bach sitting alongside the 20th-century Howells and Messiaen, and Glass' minimalist Mad Rush in the middle.
Yang is a prize-winning organist who took first prize at the IAO-RCO Competition 2026 and the Northern Ireland International Organ Competition 2026. He's associated with the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, whose concerts he often leads and which record for BBC Radio 3. His recitals frequently interweave organ music with readings and prayers, and he's presented works by Olivier Messiaen, such as L'Ascension and La Nativite du Seigneur, alongside choral evensong on BBC Radio 3. The Messiaen piece on the programme here, Dieu Parmi Nous, comes from that same La Nativite.
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Admission and the programme are free of charge, with donations invited to support Organ Festival events. The recital is at St Peter's Church, St Peter's Street, St Albans AL1 3HG, on Saturday 23 January 2027 at 5:30 pm.
