Social media sensation to launch Cathedral's Organ Series

19-year-old social media sensation Jan Liebermann will open the 2025 Organ Series at Salisbury Cathedral.

The Organ Series will also include the popular Summer Organ Prom, a silent movie night with organ accompaniment and the organist from the iconic movie Interstellar.

In a real coup for Salisbury, 19-year-old social media sensation Jan Liebermann will open this year’s Organ Series with a recital on Saturday 24th May.

As one of the most promising artists in the organ world, German Liebermann has already attracted significant attention for the way he is bringing organ music to a whole new generation, particularly through regular posts on TikTok and Instagram, where he has over 50,000 followers and posts attract over a million views. 

Jan’s recital at Salisbury Cathedral on Saturday 24 May is entitled 'Virtuoso Organ Works' and will showcase the famous ‘Father’ Willis organ. Via a giant screen, audiences will be able view a livestream of Jan playing in the organ loft.

In another coup for Salisbury, the original organist from the 2014 movie ‘Interstellar’ will be performing the score on Salisbury Cathedral’s organ. Roger Sayer was chosen by composer Hans Zimmer to create the prominent organ role for Christopher Nolan’s gripping film starring Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway. On Saturday 4 October he will perform his own version of Zimmer’s iconic score as part of an evening of epic organ classics that will include excerpts from Holst’s The Planets and Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra, familiar as the theme from Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey.

The 2025 Organ Series will also include recitals by Tom Bell with The World of Messiaen on 14 June, Francesca Massey performing Twentieth-century Organ Works on 13 September and Salisbury Cathedral’s Organ Scholar Jacob Costard performing on 29 June.

The popular Summer Organ Prom will return on Saturday 16 August, offering an opportunity to hear popular classics, film music and songs while enjoying a drink and wandering around the beautiful cathedral on a summer’s evening. The event attracted over a thousand people last year. The Cathedral’s Director of Music David Halls and Assistant Director of Music John Challenger will once again perform, while the compere for the Prom will be Revd Canon Tim Daykin, who has been a parish priest and broadcaster with the BBC for more than twenty years.

Last year organist Jonathan Hope wowed Salisbury audiences with his improvisational accompaniment to the silent movie The Phantom of the Opera. He returns on Saturday 15 November with another silent movie classic, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. What better setting is there than medieval Salisbury Cathedral to watch Lon Chaney’s groundbreaking 1923 movie, while listening to Jonathan’s improvised soundtrack?

Tickets for each event in the Organ Series are £12.50 for adults and £5 for under 18s and students. Discounts are available if the full series of seven events is booked at the same time.

Full details and tickets for the 2025 Organ Series are available now from Salisbury Cathedral’s website: www.salisburycathedral.org.uk