Organ recital

Come and enjoy an organ recital by Samuel Giddy.

Samuel Giddy returns to St Luke’s to perform on the heritage listed 1883 Wordsworth & Maskell Pipe Organ.

Samuel will follow his 2023 performance with another pedal solo, a celestial adagio by J S Bach and other works. The programme also includes the transporting Arabesque by Louis Vierne (organist at Notre Dame de Paris from 1900 until his death in 1937).

This recital is part of a new series by local young and emerging organ scholars and organists.

Samuel Giddy enjoys a varied and successful career as a recitalist, composer, educator and Church musician.

Samuel studied organ performance with Philip Swanton at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music graduating in 2019 with First-Class Honours and the Frank Hutchens Student of the Year Award. He has given recitals at the Sydney Town Hall, Brisbane City Hall, Chester, Guildford and Blackburn Cathedrals (UK), and at St George’s, Hanover Square, London. He has subsequently also studied organ with David Drury in Sydney.

A two-time winner of the Sydney Organ Competition (2018 and 2022), in 2019 Samuel was a finalist in the Gottfried Silbermann Organ Competition in Freiberg, Germany, and in 2023 a semi-finalist in the International Organ Competition of Korea in Seoul. In 2024, he was awarded third prize in the International Martini Organ Competition in Groningen, Netherlands, resulting in recital engagements in the Netherlands this year.

After serving as Organ Scholar at St Mark’s Church, Darling Point, and as Assistant Organist at St Andrew’s Cathedral Sydney, in 2023 Samuel was appointed Music Minister at St John’s Church, Darlinghurst, where he founded and directs the choir. In April 2025, he was also appointed Music Director at St Mark’s. Samuel holds a Graduate Diploma of Divinity from the Australian College of Theology.

Entry, programme and refreshments: note donation at door (to fund the recitalist's fee).