James McVinnie

Over the last decade James McVinnie has carved out a stellar career as an organist and keyboard player, championing both classical composers and contemporary artists like Gabriella Smith and performing all over the world. His album Counterpoint paired pieces by Bach with Philip Glass.

11 years on from his sold-out organ concert The Art of Fugue at KAF15, McVinnie returns to St Canice’s with a new programme of works for both piano and organ by JS Bach, whose Clavierübung III he recently recorded to great acclaim.

The programme features a wide range of pieces from Bach’s astonishing body of work, including the Italian Concerto, which McVinnie describes as a ‘riot for the fingers’, pieces from the Well Tempered Clavier, one of the great monuments of Western culture, and the Prelude and Fugue in E flat, which contains some of Bach’s most glorious writing.