APRA award-winning British Australian organist Joseph Nolan is hailed as “one of the great organists of our time” (ABC Radio National) and “indisputably one of the world’s finest organists” (Limelight, Australia). Renowned for his artistry—distinguished by “miraculous playing” (BBC Radio 3 Record Review), “towering technique, vivid virtuosity, and inspired interpretive insight” (Gramophone, UK)—Nolan has garnered widespread acclaim, with Fanfare (USA) lauding him as “the Australian counterpart of Cameron Carpenter... an organist with absolutely phenomenal keyboard technique”.
Joseph Nolan’s recording of Widor’s Symphony No. 5, captured at La Madeleine in Paris and released on Signum Classics, was awarded Apple Classical’s Editor’s Choice, surpassing 169 other recordings on the platform.
In a remarkable feat, Joseph recorded the complete organ works of Charles-Valentin Alkan, the enigmatic Parisian virtuoso, over just four nights in January 2025. Volume One of the Alkan cycle, recorded on the famous Stahlhuth/Jann organ at Eglise St Martin in Dudelange, Luxembourg, was released by Signum Classics in March 2026.
The critical reaction to the first volume of Joseph’s new cycle of Alkan’s complete organ works for Signum Classics has won universal critical acclaim. Volume one was awarded a review score of 100 per cent and as Album of the Week in Slipped Disc. Norman Lebrecht, reviewing Alkan volume one for Myscena magazine (Canada) commented “Nolan is an organist with a mind of his own and there is nothing like it anywhere on record”.
Limelight Magazine (Australia) awarded the album its Editor’s Choice award stating, “One can only be awestruck by Nolan’s heroism in tackling this fiendishly difficult extravaganza”. The Guardian Newspaper (UK) awarded the album five stars praising Nolan for his “death-defying virtuosity”. Upon release, the album went straight into the top twenty of the BBC Radio Specialist Charts.
Widely acclaimed for his interpretations of Widor’s complete organ works, Nolan’s Widor cycle has received two Gramophone Critics’ Choice awards, innumerable five-star reviews in leading publications, and is recognised as the current benchmark by Gramophone, The Criterion (New York), MusicWeb International, and ClassicalSource. His performances have been broadcast by BBC Radio 3, Pipedreams USA, Radio France, Radio Sweden, ABC Classic, and more.
An exclusive artist with Signum Classics, Gramophone’s Label of the Year, Nolan’s discography is a testament to his musical reputation featuring performances on some of the world’s finest organs in venues including St Sulpice, La Madeleine, St Etienne du Mont, St Sernin, St François de Sales, St Bavo, Haarlem, St Ouen, Rouen, Buckingham Palace, Eglise St Martin Dudelange, Luxembourg, and Berliner Dom, Germany.
In demand as a soloist with leading orchestras, Nolan made his Sydney Opera House debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, sharing the stage with renowned US mezzo-soprano Susan Graham under the direction of David Robertson. The concerts received glowing reviews, with Limelight and The Sydney Morning Herald praising Nolan’s refined ear and sensitivity to French repertoire, remarking, “I have never heard the Sydney Opera House organ sound better.” His debut as organ soloist in the world premiere of Mary Finsterer’s Stabat Mater with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Melbourne, won both Performance of the Year and Work of the Year at the 2024 Arts (APRA) awards, under the baton of Principal Conductor Ben Northey.
Joseph has also performed as a concerto soloist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra at St Peter’s Cathedral, Canberra Symphony Orchestra at Llewellyn Hall, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra at Petronas Towers, Queensland Symphony Orchestra at QPAC, West Australian Symphony Orchestra at Perth Concert Hall, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, where he performed alongside celebrated Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero and conductor Alexander Shelley on a national tour of New Zealand.
Nolan made his debut in the 2025/2026 Singapore Symphony Season, performing a sold-out concert at Victoria Hall.
Joseph’s formative years were shaped at The Royal College of Music, London, where he studied under Professor Richard Popplewell, won the Canon Bark prize for most promising organ student, graduated with First Class Honours for his BMus recital at Temple Church, and pursued postgraduate studies with Marie Claire Alain in Paris, supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust and the Hattori Foundation.
Returning to London, he was appointed to Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace in 2004, regularly performing at Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace, including the inaugural concert on the refurbished Grand Ballroom organ for an esteemed audience. Nolan is notably the first solo artist featured on a commercial recording of the Grand Ballroom organ at Buckingham Palace.
In 2008, Nolan was appointed Master of Music at St George’s Cathedral, Perth, Western Australia, by invitation of the Dean Emeritus, Dr John Shepherd AM. Nolan founded the Cathedral Consort and Cathedral Concert Series in 2009, and they are widely regarded as cultural jewels of Western Australia. The Australian and The West Australian newspapers have lauded the Cathedral Consort as “elite and world class”.
Under Nolan’s guidance, the Cathedral Consort have performed at the Perth Festival, for Musica Viva, and collaborated with The Hilliard Ensemble, The Academy of Ancient Music, and The King’s Singers. “Gloria”, a collaboration between WASO, St George’s Cathedral Consort, and contemporary dance group Co3, conducted by Nolan, was awarded an Australian Performing Arts Mainstage award.
Nolan conducted WASO and St George’s Cathedral Consort at Perth Concert Hall in April 2024 in “Gloria”, featuring Vivaldi’s Gloria and Handel’s Dixit Dominus. This concert was voted one of Australia’s best by Limelight magazine.
In April 2025, Nolan led WASO and St George’s Cathedral Consort in “Devotion and Glory” at Winthrop Hall, earning five stars from Limelight Magazine, with William Yeoman describing it as “an extraordinary performance of an extraordinary work (Finsterer Stabat Mater)”. Joseph Nolan recently made his debut conducting the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and New Zealand Voices at the 2026 New Zealand International Festival.
In recognition of his contribution to French music, the Government of France have awarded Joseph Nolan the medal of Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Western Australia and was conferred its prestigious higher doctorate, Doctor of Letters, in 2018. Nolan’s distinguished career has been the subject of major interviews on Radio National (Australia) and has featured in Gramophone, Choir and Organ, The Organ, The Age (Sydney), Classical Music, and The Australian.
Joseph recorded a commercial album for Signum Classics at the iconic Berliner Dom, home of the legendary 1905 Sauer Organ, in January 2026. This October, Joseph returns as featured soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performing four concerts at Melbourne Town Hall.

David Goode is one of the UK’s leading organists. He was organ scholar at King’s College, Cambridge and Sub-Organist at Christ Church, Oxford, and was for 17 years Organist at Eton College. He is now a busy freelance recitalist, accompanist, continuo player and teacher.

He has performed frequently as a soloist at the Proms (including a solo recital in 2006 and being a featured artist in 2011), the Royal Festival Hall (including the re-opening concert in 2014) and Symphony Hall Birmingham, and has toured extensively abroad with concerts throughout Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. Notable partnerships over the years include the BBCNOW, the BBC Singers and the trumpeter Alison Balsom. His most recent live solo recital for BBC Radio 3 was in 2019.

Amongst many recordings across 30 years, he recently released a much-admired set of the complete organ works of Bach for Signum Records (“This series is notable for the flair, clarity and

spontaneity that Goode brings to this timeless music” Gramophone; ***** 5 Stars BBC Music Magazine). His various Reger recordings have also been warmly received, and more recent projects have included music by John Pickard for BIS (‘magnificently assured and enviably concentrated’, Gramophone) and works by Locklair with the choir of Royal Holloway for Convivium Records.

A distinguished teacher over many years, he was on the jury for the 2017 St Alban’s International Competition. He has composed extensively, with recordings including those by the choir of King’s College, Cambridge; his Blitz Requiem was premiered at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 2013.

Dr Naji Hakim studied with J. Langlais and at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris where he was awarded seven first prizes. He is a licentiate teacher in organ from the Trinity College of Music in London and won ten first prizes at international organ and composition competitions. In 1991 he was awarded the Prix André Caplet from the Académie des Beaux-Arts. At first organist of the Basilique du Sacré- Coeur, Paris from 1985 until 1993, he then became organist of l’église de la Trinité, in succession to Olivier Messiaen, from 1993 until 2008. He is professor of musical analysis at the Conservatoire National de Région de Boulogne-Billancourt, and visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music, London.

Robert Quinney is Organist of New College, Oxford. In addition to the daily direction of New College’s world-famous choir, his work comprises teaching, lecturing, and examining, as a Tutorial Fellow of the college and an Associate Professor at the University Faculty of Music. He has conducted New College Choir in concert at home and abroad – notably in the Sistine Chapel in Rome, and with The English Concert in New York City and at Wigmore and Cadogan Halls in London. Under his direction the choir continues to make recordings for its own label, Novum; the first, a disc of Symphony Anthems by John Blow, was shortlisted for a 2017 Gramophone Award: ‘an assured synthesis of elegant musicality, judicious ear for contrapuntal detail and informed scholarship’.
He maintains a parallel career as a solo organist, and is a prolific recording artist: his discs of organ music by J.S. Bach, Elgar, Dupré, Wagner and Brahms (and several CDs with Westminster Abbey Choir and The Sixteen) have been widely acclaimed. In February 2017 he made his debut at the Royal Festival Hall with an all-Bach recital, and later in the same year appeared for the first time at the BBC Proms, playing organ music by Bach and Mendelssohn.
Robert Quinney read music at King’s College, Cambridge, where he was Organ Scholar. After four years as Assistant Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, he became Sub-Organist of Westminster Abbey in 2004. While at the Abbey he performed on concert tours to the United States, Australia and Russia, at several televised services including the Marriage of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. In April 2013 he moved to Peterborough Cathedral, where he was Director of Music for 16 months. Between 2009 and 2014 he was Director of Oundle for Organists, whose residential courses continue to attract young organists from all over the world.

Jeremy Filsell enjoys a concert career as one of only a few virtuoso performers on both the Piano and the Organ. He has performed as a solo pianist in Russia, the USA and throughout the UK and has appeared regularly at St John’s Smith Square and the Conway and Wigmore Halls in London. His Concerto repertoire encompasses Mozart and Beethoven through to Rachmaninov (2nd and 3rd Concertos), Shostakovich and John Ireland and in recent years, he has recorded the solo piano music of Carl Johann Eschmann, Eugene Goossens and the two Sonatas of Liszt’s pupil Julius Reubke. In the piano music of Herbert Howells and Bernard Stevens, Classic CD magazine commented that “he does not attract for his virtuosity but for his ability to make the music unfold with irresistible logic and clarity: music-making of the highest calibre.” He is pianist with the London-based Burghersh Piano Trio and performs regularly with Oliver Lewis (Violin), with whom he has recorded discs of Elgar, Ireland, Ferguson and Goossens for Guild. With Michael Bundy (Baritone), two discs of Mélodies by Widor, Vierne and Dupré are due for release by Naxos.
Jeremy Filsell has recorded for BBC Radio 3, USA and Scandinavian radio networks in solo and concerto roles as both a pianist and organist and, as an organist specifically, has a discography comprising over 20 solo recordings for labels Signum, Guild, Gamut, Herald and ASV. Gramophone magazine, writing on the series of 12 CDs comprising the premiere recordings of Marcel Dupré’s complete organ works for Guild in 2000, praised his performance as “one of the greatest achievements in organ recording…Filsell’s astonishing interpretative and technical skills make for compulsive listening … truly distinguished, compelling and unquestionably authoritative performances; Filsell has phenomenal technique.” In 2005, Signum released a 3-disc set on the famous 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in St. Ouen Rouen of the complete organ symphonies of Louis Vierne. These were BBC Radio 3’s Disc of the Week in September of that year.
Jeremy studied as a music scholar at Oxford University, then as a post-graduate pianist under David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music before completing a PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire researching aesthetic and interpretative issues in the organ music of Marcel Dupré. Over the course of his career, he has taught piano, organ and academic studies at Cranleigh, Eton and the London Oratory School, given masterclasses at universities and summer schools in both the UK and USA, served twice on international competition juries and, until recently, held lectureships at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and London’s Royal Academy of Music. He lives currently in the USA and is Principal Organist at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C., one of the largest churches in the world and the flagship Catholic Church in North America.

James Vivian has been part of the music department at the Temple Church since 1997 and was appointed Director of Music & Organist of the Temple Church in 2006. Previously, he worked closely with the then Director of Music, Stephen Layton, as Sub-Organist and subsequently as Organist. At the Temple Church, James presides over the famous four-manual Harrison & Harrison organ and directs the professional choir of men and boys about whom the Daily Telegraph commented, ‘The Temple Church Choir is a formidable force, finely honed and blended’. The choir’s latest CD was released on the Signum label in 2010. As an organist, he is known as much for his outstanding interpretation of the solo repertoire as for his colourful and inventive accompanying; he is one of England’s most sought-after young organists. James Vivian was educated at King’s College, Cambridge where, for four years, he worked closely with its world-famous choir as organ scholar. Before Cambridge, he was acting-Assistant Organist. of Lincoln Cathedral. He was a prize-winner in the Fellowship examination of the Royal College of Organists, and was awarded a scholarship to study the French organ repertoire with Marie-Louise Langlais in Paris. James has appeared in many Festivals (including the BBC Proms, Aldeburgh, The Three Choirs Festival, the Lincoln Festival in New York City, and Festivals in Bermuda, Germany and Italy), and has played recitals and concerts throughout the world (including Japan, Brazil, South Africa, USA, and Europe). He has broadcast on many national radio stations as a soloist, and has recorded with labels such as Decca, Priory, Signum, Sony BMG, EMI and Hyperion. James has also been an examiner for the The Royal College of Organists.
James was Artistic Adviser to the hugely successful year-long 2008 Temple Festival; highlights included conducting a new and fully-staged production of Dido & Aeneas in London which was highly praised: ‘…an uncommonly satisfying, very beautiful account of Dido and Aeneas’ (Opera). He is co-founder of two professional instrumental ensembles, The Temple Players and Temple Brass, as well as the Temple Singers, with whom he presents concerts at the Temple Church.