Jonathan Scott – Organ Fireworks

Associate Artist Jonathan Scott celebrates 30 years of The Bridgewater Hall’s Marcussen Concert Organ with a thrilling lunchtime programme of virtuoso “organ fireworks” and orchestral favourites transcribed for organ.

Date: Monday 16 November 2026
Time: 1.10pm (auditorium doors/start/finish: TBC)
Venue: The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester

Associate Artist Jonathan Scott returns to present a special anniversary season of popular lunchtime organ concerts celebrating 30 years of The Bridgewater Hall’s magnificent Marcussen Concert Organ.

Organ Fireworks brings a sparkling programme of showpieces, including Handel’s overture to Music for the Royal Fireworks and Scott’s virtuosic transcription of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture.

Programme includes:

• Handel – Overture (Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV 351)
• J.S. Bach – Allegro (Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major BWV 1048)
• Rimsky-Korsakov – Festival at Baghdad, The Sea & Shipwreck (Scheherazade Op. 35)
• Chaminade – Automne (Op. 35 No. 2)
• Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture Op. 49

Note: Event timings will be updated closer to the concert date; all timings are approximate and subject to change.