You’re invited to come and see a brand new line of performances in our Fall Noon Hour Concert Series! Admission to the building is free, and a sandwich lunch is available for purchase prior to each recital between 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., with the concerts beginning at 12:15 p.m.
About Ian Sadler
Following 3 years as Organist of St. James Cathedral in Toronto, in 2019 Ian Sadler was appointed Organist and Director of Music at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, Ontario. Ian is also Artistic Director of The Cathedral Singers, a choir which tours to Britain each year to act as choir in residence at a cathedral.
This past July, Ian was Organist-in-Residence at St. Patrick’s Cathedral Dublin. In August he directed his Cathedral Singers in performances at Bath Abbey and Bristol Cathedral in the UK. Highlights this season include a recital to help inaugurate the new organ console at St. James Cathedral, Toronto and a week as Organist-in-Residence at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England in January, 2024.
Ian was a chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England, Music Scholar at The King’s School, Canterbury and then Organ Scholar at Bristol University. Following a Musicology degree Ian was appointed Organ Scholar for 3 years at St. Paul’s Cathedral. His final engagement in the UK before moving to Canada was to play the organ in the movie, ‘Chariots of Fire’. In 1980 Ian moved to Canada following appointments in Toronto as Organist at Grace Church on-the-Hill and Choral Director at Upper Canada College. In 1986 he won 1st prize at the Syracuse International Organ Competition, USA. Recitals have since taken him to Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany, France (Notre Dame, Paris), Austria (St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna), Australia, Jamaica, the USA and the UK (St. Paul’s, Westminster Abbey, King’s College Chapel, Cambridge). Highlights of Ian’s career include recitals at the launching of the organs in Singer Hall, Calgary, Toronto’s Thomson Hall and Edmonton’s Winspeare Centre, a Juno award for a CD by his Burlington Chamber choir, the award of a Fellowship from The Royal Canadian College of Organists, and election to Britain’s oldest music charity, The Royal Society of Musicians.