During Hilary Term 2026, organ recitals will take place on Thursdays at 13:15 GMT (term-time only) and last for about 35 minutes.

Entry is free via Holywell Street and the recitals are livestreamed on YouTube: please click here to view.

The Hilary Term season features distinguished visiting organists as well as New College's organists and organ scholars.

The next of this term’s Organ Recitals is on Thursday 12 February at 1.15pm and will be given by:

Andreana Chan                                     St Mary Magdalene, Richmond

Programme

Vers l’espérance                                                                 Thierry Escaich (b1965)

Light in Darkness                                                               Kerensa Briggs (b1991)

Psalm-Preludes Set 1 Op 32                                         Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
No 1: Psalm 34 ‘Lo, the poor crieth’

Fugue sur le nom d’Alain Op 7 No 1                                   Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986)

Prelude and Fugue in E-flat major ‘St Anne’                       J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

Diversion for Mixtures                                                Francis Jackson (1917-1922)

Biography

Andreana Chan is currently Assistant Organist at St Mary Magdalene, Richmond, and a recent graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge, where she read Law as Organ Scholar. A prize-winner at ARCO, she is also a violinist and pianist who achieved her LRSM diploma aged 17, performing regularly as a collaborative pianist and chamber musician. She currently holds positions as Assistant Accompanist of the English Chamber Choir, Assistant Conductor at Farnham & Bourne Choral Society, and is regularly engaged at St-Martin-in-the-Fields as accompanist to St Martin’s Voices and as a continuo player.

She has performed as a soloist in venues such as the Royal Albert Hall, Reading Town Hall, St Bartholomew’s, New York; St John’s Smith Square, Salisbury Cathedral, Llandaff Cathedral and Leeds Cathedral. She recently played for a BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong broadcast on Christmas Eve 2025 with St Martin’s Voices, and was the organist on the first ever BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong broadcast from Pembroke College, Cambridge. She has also featured on Scala Radio, BBC One and ITV. Her recording credits include Heaven to Earth with London Voices (Signum Records) and several albums with Pembroke College Chapel Choir.