Please see the Grosvenor Chapel newsletter for Michaelmas 2019

Sunday 20th October

11.00 am Sung Eucharist on theEighteenth Sunday after Trinity

Tuesday 22nd October

12.30 pm Said Eucharist

1.10 pm Organ Recital:

Joao Santos (Leiria

Cathedral, Portugal)

Wednesday 23rd October

12.30 pm Daily Prayer

6.30 pm Public Meeting:

Chuka Umunna MP, Main Hall, Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral,

Binney Street

Thursday 24th October

8.00 am Said Eucharist

Friday 25th October

8.30 am Said Eucharist

Saturday 26th October

10.00 am - 2.00 pm

Marriage Preparation

Sunday 27th October

11.00 am Sung Eucharist,

Last Sunday after Trinity

Monday 28th October

12.30 pm Said Eucharist,

Ss Simon and Jude, Apostles

Tuesday 29th October

12.30 pm Said Eucharist

3.00 pm Hymns and Pimms:

for those living with dementia

and for their carers

Wednesday 30th October

12.30 pm Daily Prayer

Thursday 31st October

8.00 am Said Eucharist,

All Souls

7.00 pm Lucenarium:

Evensong for All Souls

Friday 1st November

8.30 am Said Eucharist,

All Saints

Sunday 3rd November

11.00 am Sung Eucharist,

All Saints Sunday

Advance notice

Sunday 10th November

10.55 am Remembrance SundaySung Eucharist with choir and

orchestra (Faure Requiem)

Tuesday 10th December

7.00 pm Grosvenor Chapel's

Community Carol Service

followed by refreshments

"A Safer Church": Safeguarding

Oscar Lyle Perez started to learn the organ at the age of ten with his first piano teacher, Ben Saul, Director of Music at St Thomas’ Church in Canterbury, and continued his classes on the Father Willis organ in the Chapel at the Faversham Almshouses. He later studied with Keith Moxon, organist at St Catherine’s Church in Faversham, and passed the ABRSM Grade 8 in both organ and piano with Distinction. After meeting Tom Bell, now Director of the Northern Region of the Royal College of Organists, at an RCO “The Organ Scholar Experience” course, he began to have occasional classes with him under the RCO Young Organists programme in 2016.

Since January 2014, Oscar has combined his studies at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Faversham with church music every weekend, as he has played for Sunday services, weddings, baptisms, and Christmas services in various different churches in Faversham, Davington, Ospringe, Herne Bay, and Canterbury. In September 2016 he was appointed Organ Scholar at St Mary-the-Virgin in Dover, as well as continuing to act as assistant organist at St Catherine’s and the Faversham Almshouses Chapel.  Oscar has attended the Oundle for Organists course, and also several organ and conducting courses organised by the Royal College of Organists in London, Oxford, and Cambridge. In August 2017, he attended the Eton Choral Course in Cambridge as organist.

He has been extending his repertoire by giving recitals since 2014, at the Almshouses Chapel and St Catherine’s in Faversham, at St Mary’s in Dover and this year, for the first time, at Holy Trinity Church in Folkestone. He has taken an active part in the musical scene in Faversham, whether playing the piano for recitals in the Assembly Rooms, singing as a member of the Faversham Voices, or accompanying the Faversham Choral Society on the organ at their Christmas Concert in 2016 at St Mary´s.

From September 2018 Oscar will be reading Economics at UCL, including a year abroad studying in Nancy, France. He is keen on languages, and apart from speaking both English and Spanish, he is building up his French and German. He enjoys reading and windsurfing and, yes, watching TV series on the internet.

Oscar is looking forward to developing as an organist while he is part of the Grosvenor Chapel community, and is preparing for the Associate of the Royal College of Organists diploma.