Festival 2011
The 26th International Organ Festival at St Albans will take place from 7th to 16th July 2011.
The 2011 Competitions Program will be published in March 2010. If you have an enquiry about the Competition please contact the IOF office.
Media Partner
Our Media Partner is Choir & Organ magazine
We are devoted to promoting "the King of Instruments" as a solo instrument in its own right as well as an instrument capable of performing in a variety of musical contexts.
The Festival is staged every two years - predominantly in the magnificent historic Norman St Albans Cathedral - attracts artists, musicians and performers of the highest calibre from all around the world.
St Albans, England is 30 kilometres north of London.
Saturday Organ Concert Series
Download the brochure here
Saturday 26 September 2009, St Albans Cathedral at 5.30pm
Nicolas Kynaston UK Meet the artist
Saturday 17 October 2009, St Saviour’s Church at 5.30pm
Lionel Rogg Switzerland Meet the artist
10.00am: (Note earlier time!) Masterclass on French Classical Organ Music With students from Birmingham Conservatoire, Royal Academy of Music, and Royal College of Music Admission £10 Members £5 Tickets at the door - 5.30pm: Concert
Saturday 7 November 2009, St Albans Cathedral at 5.30pm
Helmut Deutsch Germany Meet the artist
Saturday 23 January 2010, St Albans Cathedral at 5.30pm
Andrew Lucas UK Meet the artist
Saturday 13 February 2010, St Albans Cathedral at 5.30pm
Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin France Meet the artist
Saturday 24 April 2010, St Albans Cathedral at 5.30pm
Saki Aoki Japan
Meet the artist
(1st Prize Chartres International Organ Competition 2008)
Saturday 15 May 2010, St Peter’s Church at 5.30pm
Clive Driskill-Smith UK Meet the artist
Festival Archives
If you have any documents, photographs etc from our past Festivals, we would like to acquire copies for the Archives. We have a complete set of Festival brochures of course, but very little else on some of the early Festivals, 1963 onwards. Please contact our Archivist: Jill Bennett
The names of the Prize-winners in the 2009 Competition are on the competitions page
Pictures from the 2009 Festival can be seen in the gallery
Speech by Piet Kee
By popular request, Piet Kee's speech at the 2009 AGM of the InternationalOrgan Festival Society is now available to read on the website.
A video of Piet Kee playing the St Albans Waltz is available here
Meet the Artist Archive
You can read interviews with artists from our concert series in our Meet the Artist archives
2005-6, 2006-7, 2007-8 and 2008-9
Contacts
Click on these links to contact the Artistic Director
or the Chairman.
How you can help the IOF
Find out here how you can help the Organ Festival financially
