Alana Brook

Name: Alana Brook — Alana's International Women’s Day programme includes music by Fanny Mendelssohn and Jeanne Demessieux
Start: 2027-03-08T13:15:00+00:00
Location: Leeds Cathedral

Alana's International Women’s Day programme includes music by Fanny Mendelssohn and Jeanne Demessieux

Leeds Lunchtime Organ Music

Mon 8 Mar 1.15PM

Leeds Cathedral

Free admission

Mon 8 Mar

1.15PM

Free admission

Programme

Fanny Mendelssohn Prelude in F
Ghislaine Reece-Trapp In Paradisum
Johann Sebastian Bach Fantasia on Valet will ich dir geben, BWV 735
Jeanne Demessieux 12 Chorale Preludes: iii Attende Domine; vi Hosanna Filio David; vii O filii et filiae (variations)
Hans Zimmer Interstellar Suite: Stay
Kerensa Briggs Prelude on Pange lingua
William Walton Crown Imperial

Having held posts at Ripon and Lincoln Cathedrals, Alana Brook is now based at Wakefield Cathedral. Her varied programme on International Women’s Day includes pieces by Fanny Mendelssohn and Jeanne Demessieux as well as Anna Lapwood’s arrangement of part of Hans Zimmer’s Interstellar Suite.

Alana Brook is organist at Wakefield Cathedral.

About the series

Our recital series in 2026/27 will be the final full season to take place at St Anne’s Cathedral before our return to Leeds Town Hall, and we are immensely grateful to the Dean and all the staff here for their hospitality and support over the last five years.

This season we welcome organists from the cathedrals of St Paul, Winchester, Wakefield, Ripon, and Lincoln as well as many eminent concert organists. For the first time in the series, we celebrate the link with one of Leeds’ twin cities, Dortmund, and we also have the Leeds Lunchtime Organ series premiere of one of the organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach newly discovered (or rather newly attributed) last year.

We’re very grateful to you, our audience, for your support and enthusiasm – please continue to give as generously as you can to enable the series to continue and grow as we return to Leeds Town Hall.

Darius Battiwalla
Leeds City Organist

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