Simon Hogan | Summer Organ Festival

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  • Venue

    Southwark Cathedral

  • Time

    6:30 PM

  • Price

    From £5

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Join us for a summer of organ music as we host five organ recitals on the renowned T.C Lewis organ of Southwark Cathedral

This recital forms part of the Southwark Cathedral Summer Organ Festival 2026, a month-long celebration of organ music featuring distinguished performers from across the UK and Europe. Each concert also includes a Q&A hosted by a guest interviewer.
 
Alongside this concert, the festival welcomes Zuzana Ferjenčíková (3 August), Colin Walsh (10 August), Simon Hogan (17 August), Martin Schmeding (24 August) and Jean-Baptiste Monnot (31 August). Browse the other recitals to discover a range of programmes, styles and musical traditions.
 
Monday 17 August | Simon Hogan (Q&A with Helen Smee and Cheryl Frances-Hoad)
 
Programme:
  • Étude Héroïque - Rachel Laurin
  • Prelude and Fugue in B - Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Organ Sonata in G - Edward Elgar
  • Two Voluntaries - Cheryl Frances-Hoad
  • Voices of the World - Iain Farrington
 
Biography:
Simon Hogan is the Cathedral Organist and Assistant Director of Music at Southwark Cathedral.
 
Simon was a chorister at St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, and it was during this time that he started learning the piano and organ, developing a passion for cathedral music which has stayed with him to this day. Following organ scholarships at Bristol and Salisbury Cathedrals, he moved to London in 2008 to study organ performance at the Royal College of Music, where he subsequently graduated with first class honours. During his final year at the RCM Simon was Organ Scholar at St Paul’s Cathedral, where he regularly accompanied and directed the world-famous choir, and gave recitals on the renowned Willis organ. In 2012 Simon moved to Southwell, Nottinghamshire, where he spent seven years as Assistant Director of Music at Southwell Minster. Here he directed the Minster’s girls’ choir and the Minster Chorale, and played the organ for all services, recordings, tours and broadcasts. Following a period of freelance work during the pandemic, Simon became Organist of St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, in 2021, and moved to his role at Southwark Cathedral in December 2022. Until the end of 2025 Simon was also Organist to the Cathedral Singers of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
 
Simon has studied organ performance with Sophie-Véronique Cauchefer-Choplin, Daniel Cook, David Graham, Robert Quinney and Colin Walsh. Simon is the principal organist for JAM - an organisation which commissions and performs new music for brass, organ and choir by leading contemporary composers - and as such he has enjoyed working with some of the country’s finest ensembles, including the BBC Singers, Gesualdo Six and Onyx Brass, and has premiered works by many of the country’s leading composers.