TO celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of William Butterfield a concert is being held at St Augustine’s Church, Penarth – which itself was designed by the famed architect.

The concert, which will take place on Sunday, September 28 at 7.30pm will

include choral and organ music by CHH Parry, Mendelssohn, Stanford and Elgar, will be performed by the St. Augustine’s Singers (directed by Robert Court) with organ virtuoso Thomas Trotter.

St Augustine’s Church, acknowledged as one of Butterfield’s masterpieces, is the perfect venue for this concert. It was built in 1866 and the church houses an equally famous organ built by William Hill in 1895.

The music chosen is by composers who were all contemporaries of Butterfield.

Thomas Trotter is a world-renowned concert organist and one of Britain’s most widely admired musicians.

He is Birmingham City Organist, and Resident Organist at Symphony Hall. He is also organist at St Margaret’s Church, Westminster, and holds the prestigious Instrumentalist Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society as “one of the foremost exponents of the organist’s art”.

Tickets are available at the door price of £10, concessions £8.