Noon Hour Concerts are back with an incredible Autumn lineup of preformers. Join us every Wednesday from now until December 20th between 12:15 p.m. and 12:45 p.m.
Plus, come a little earlier and enjoy a sandwich lunch available for purchase beginning at 11:30 a.m. Admission to the building is free, and all are welcome and encouraged to come out.
Can’t join us in person? No worries! Each concert is available for viewing on our YouTube page following the live performance.
This Week:
Ian Sadler - organ
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, a week as Organist-in-Residence at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England in January, 2024 and on this coming Saturday a concert at Thomson Hall with The Salvation Army Staff Band.
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.
Autumn Concert Series Lineup
NOVEMBER 29
Ian Sadler organ
DECEMBER 6
Waterloo County Carollers
DECEMBER 13
Renaissance School of the Arts Flute Choir
Director Wendy Wagler
DECEMBER 20
Cambridge Girls' Choir
Director Jessica Strub