ALTON ORGAN SOCIETY (Founded 1967) ♬♪𝄞 Updated Wednesday 26 November 2025

Alton Organ Society's 2025/2026 Season of Organ Concerts
Organ Recitals Nationwide

Next month we look forward a return visit of Peter Wright (Formerly, Southwark Cathedral) in the Society's 59th Season on Tuesday 2 December 2025 starting at 8.00 pm (refreshments from 7.30 pm). Click here to see Peter's programme.

To start the New Year, we welcome, for his first visit to the Society, Joshua Simǒes (HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court) who will give his concert on Tuesday 6 January 2026. His programme can be viewed here.

Full details of the wonderful line up of guest organists can be seen here. Keep in touch and visit this website and see details of individual organists as their respective programmes and biographies are added. Admission to each concert is £12. However, you can take out Season Membership for £72 which is equivalent to £9 for each of the 8 organ concerts between October 25 and May 26. Click here to download a copy of the Season Membership application form. Peter Wright's biog and programme has now been added to the website and can be viewed here.

Alton Organ Society Committee - New Members Welcome

The organ society committee is keen to attract new members to maintain the future success of Alton Organ Society now starting its 59th year. There are tasks that do not require organ playing skills but the ability to administer the running of the society. For instance, if you are interested and able to be a graphic designer - creating posters, designing programme formats etc - we would like to hear from you. Maybe you are good at running a website including updating on a regular basis to keep it fresh and interesting. Again, we would like to hear from you. If you plan to attend any of the future organ concerts and would like to discuss these roles with committee members, please do approach one of us. If you wish to contact us by email, please click here.

David Hill MBE organist and International Choral Director, Patron of the Alton Organ Society and currently President of the Royal College of Organists very kindly recorded a CD on the St Lawrence Church, Alton, organ to celebrate 55 years of the Organ Society and to raise funds for the restoration of the Speechly organ. The music was recorded by Herald AV Publications, a specialist recording company, in October 2022. The CD was launched at St Lawrence Church, Alton on Tuesday 4 October 2022. The CD costs £15 of which £3.00 of the purchase price will go towards the organ restoration fund. David's CD was reviewed by Choir & Organ Magazine and copies of that review and Graeme Kay's article on the Society can be seen here. The CD can be purchased from members of the Society Committee, from Resurrection Furniture in Alton and at the Society's Organ Concerts. For further details and purchase of a CD do use the contact page here.

There is an excellent website that lists national organ concerts (including those held in Alton) and can be viewed here. Please list altonorgansociety.co.uk & Organ Recitals Nationwide among your favourites.