Gordon Stewart worked in cathedral music; first at Manchester, then at Blackburn. For 30 years he was organist at Huddersfield Town Hall playing regular concerts on the 1860 Father Willis organ.  He is now Organist Emeritus.

He has recorded on organs in the UK and in South Africa and has played concertos with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the Northern Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of Opera North and Orchestra Victoria. He broadcast regularly for 20 years as organist and conductor on BBC radio and television, chiefly as a musical director on Daily Service, Sunday Half Hour and Songs of Praise. He has also taught for several years at the Royal Northern College of Music and Cambridge University.  

Gordon’s repertoire is all-embracing. He has played concerts throughout the UK, including Celebrity Concerts at St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Cathedral and throughout Europe, the United States, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

He is a former president of the Incorporated Association of Organists. He has been awarded honorary fellowships by the Royal College of Organists, the Royal School of Church Music and the Guild of Church Musicians, and an honorary doctorate by the University of Huddersfield. In 2023 he was awarded the British Empire Medal in the King’s first Birthday Honours.

(Tea and cakes will be served at the end of the recital).