FRIDAY 12 JUNE

LUNCHTIME RECITAL: NATHAN WHITLEY

Venue: Sandford Church, Sandford Rd, Ranelagh, Dublin 6, D06 A9P8

Time: 1:10pm

Fresh from his success at Feis Ceoil 2026, including wins in both the Sr. Catherine McCauley Perpetual Cup and Fitzgerald Trophy competitions, Nathan Whitley performs a lunchtime recital as part of Pipeworks Festival 2026.
 

TICKETS: Donations welcome

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CELEBRITY RECITAL: STEPHEN FARR
Venue: St Patrick’s Cathedral, Saint Patrick's Close, Dublin D08 H6X3
Time: 8pm

After appearing as soloist in Pipeworks Festival 2026’s opening concert with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Stephen Farr returns to St Patrick’s Cathedral for the festival’s Celebrity Recital. Widely regarded as one of the finest organists of his generation, Farr brings a richly varied programme spanning Bach, Franck and Alain alongside striking twentieth- and twenty-first-century voices including James MacMillan and Judith Weir.

PROGRAMME: 
Kenga e Krushqve (MacMillan, b. 1959)

Le jardin suspendu (Alain, 1911–1940)

Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 537 (Bach, 1685–1750)

Passacaille (Martin, 1890–1944)

The Trees Unfold (Weir, b. 1954)

Choral No. 3 in A minor (Franck, 1822–1890)
 

TICKETS: €15 / €10 concession

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SATURDAY 13 JUNE

​LUNCHTIME TALK - Martin Schmeding in conversation with Andrew Johnstone

Venue: Public Theatre (Examination Hall), Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2,

D02 PN40

Time: 2pm
Join Martin Schmeding and Andrew Johnstone for a conversation exploring organ music, performance and interpretation. Bringing together two distinguished organists, performers and scholars, the discussion offers insight into the traditions, history and continuing life of the organ repertoire.
 

​​Admission free, booking required.

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TUESDAY 16 JUNE 

BLOOMSDAY LUNCHTIME RECITAL: Rónán Murray in partnership with Church of the Immaculate Conception
Venue: Church of the Immaculate Conception (Adam and Eve’s), 4 Merchant's Quay, Dublin, D08 XY19

Time: 1:10pm

Dublin organist Rónán Murray, known for his flair for improvisation, presents a Bloomsday lunchtime recital at Adam and Eve’s Church on Merchant’s Quay, a church referenced in the writings of James Joyce, including Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. The programme combines works by Bach, Boëllmann and John Ireland with improvisations on well-known melodies including Funiculi, Funicula, The Last Rose of Summer and Love’s Old Sweet Song.
 

PROGRAMME:  

Improvisation on Funiculi, Funicula by Luigi Denza (Rónán Murray)

Erbarme dich mein, o Herre Gott, BWV 721 (Bach, 1685–1750)

Improvisation on The Last Rose of Summer, poem by Thomas Moore set to a traditional Irish air (Rónán Murray)

Suite Gothique, Op. 25 (Boëllmann, 1862–1897)

The Holy Boy (Ireland, 1879–1962)

Improvisation on Love’s Old Sweet Song by Molloy/Bingham (Rónán Murray)
 

TICKETS: Donations welcome

DAVID BREMNER with CHRISTOPHER FOX 

Venue: Church of the Immaculate Conception (Adam and Eve’s), 4 Merchant's Quay, Dublin, D08 XY19

Time: 8pm

Organist and composer David Bremner presents an immersive programme, timed with sunset in the beautiful Adam and Eve's church. First is the world premiere of renowned UK composer Christopher Fox's The River. Christopher writes: "I am fascinated by streams and rivers – they seem to have such strong identities yet are always changing, always on the move". The three-movement work is inspired by three rivers, and the movements are inscribed with texts by Dorothy Wordsworth, Heinrich Heine, and Mark Twain. A further riverine aspect of this occasion is that it takes place on Bloomsday in the church by the Liffey to which James Joyce refers in the first words of Finnegans Wake: “riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s”. 

This will be followed by the Irish premiere of Morton Feldman's Principal Sound. Feldman's only work for solo organ, it was composed for the 1981 Contemporary Organ Music Festival in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, and explores timbral sensitivity by exchanging same or similar musical material between a number of eight-foot stops, creating a spindly and elusive soundworld.
 

TICKETS: €15 / €10 concession

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