Dazzling neoclassical from three local virtuosos - contemplative, jazz-tinged miniatures from Pete Judge; stirring original compositions by Sandie Middleton; and rich experimental ambient from organist Huw Morgan - all raising vital funds for the British Red Cross Gaza Crisis Appeal. A rare treat; from uniquely personal, genre-straddling original works - distinctive and mesmerising - to transfixing and unconventional covers.

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Trumpeter, pianist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Pete Judge is a 'Bristol music phenomenon' (BBC Radio 3 Late Junction), playing trumpet with Get The Blessing, Eyebrow, and JOW, among other projects, and trumpet, cornet, dulcitone, harmonium, lyre, glockenspiel and tenor horn with Three Cane Whale.

He has performed live with Sam Lee's Singing With Nightingales, This Is The Kit, Super Furry Animals, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Kneehigh Theatre, Keith Tippett's Seedbed/Celebration Orchestra, Sidmouth Folk Festival's The Transports (with Martin and Eliza Carthy), and Vivian Stanshall's Stinkfoot. He has recorded for Marc Gauvin, Chrysta Bell, Jesca Hoop, John Parish, Massive Attack, This Is The Kit, Ian Anderson's Jethro Tull, Emily Portman, Adrian Utley & Will Gregory, Aardman Animations (on the Oscar-nominated soundtrack for Robin Robin), and many, many others.

In 2019, Pete released an album of beautiful, intimate, honest, expressive, poignant piano miniatures, Piano, recorded in a single evening in the majestic setting of Bristol's St George's. Music from this album features in Adam Laity's A Short Film About Ice, and the trailer for the feature film Long Way Back (2022, directed by Brett Harvey). Piano 2 was released in Spring 2020, and chosen by The Guardian as one of the best albums of the year. A track from the album was used as the theme music for the BBC Radio 4 Extra series New Creatives Dramas. Piano 3 was recorded in February 2022, garnering a four-star review in BBC Music Magazine.

'Will appeal to anyone who loves Satie, Michael Nyman, Cornelius Cardew, any intimate, contemplative piano music.'
Sarah Walker, BBC Radio 3 Sunday Morning

Pianist-composer-teacher Sandie Middleton is the accompanist for City Voices Bristol, Bristol Youth Choir, and Bath Good Afternoon Choirs, and performs as a duo with double bass player Ben Groenevelt. She received an international placement at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatorio Di Musica in Florence, Italy, in 2015, and has performed in venues such as St George's Bristol, Bristol Beacon, Bath Forum, Clifton Cathedral, and Bristol Cathedral, and toured regularly with City Voices Bristol to Croatia, taking part in the FAKS Sings Festival 2017, 2018, and 2019.

Sandie released her debut solo piano album A Murmuration Of Starlings in 2022, recorded in St George's Bristol, weaving together influences of contemporary classical, atmospheric, folk and pop music. With sparkling harmonies, swirling textures, and sweeping melodies, the music is evocative of birds, water, and natural and emotional landscapes.

Huw Morgan studied music at the University Of Oxford, was organ scholar at St Edmund Hall, and choral conductor at the Royal Academy Of Music, London. He is founding Co-Director of Firehead Organ Works, director of the Redland Green Choir and Clifton Singers in Bristol, guest director of Weston Choral Society, and co-founder of the Automatronic Collective, performing new music for organ+electronics. Huw's compositions have featured at the South Bank Centre, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, the Canterbury Festival, the Bergen International Organ Festival, at Canterbury Cathedral, and on BBC Radio 3.

In 2013 he recorded his wonderfully atmospheric debut solo album Breaking Light. In 2017, David Pipe surveyed Huw's organ music on an album titled Invocations for the Meridian Records label, recorded at Bridlington Priory, Yorkshire.

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All proceeds to: British Red Cross Gaza Crisis Appeal.

After years of conflict, the humanitarian situation in Gaza remains catastrophic; people are hungry, displaced and without access to healthcare. There has been some improvement following the ceasefire agreement of October 2025, but it falls short of the scale of humanitarian need, with the entire population of Gaza still facing acute food insecurity.

Despite risks to their lives and a lack of food, the Palestine Red Crescent Society and the International Committee Of The Red Cross (ICRC) have been working tirelessly with the resources they have, day in and day out, to help the people of Gaza.

If you are in the UK, the best and quickest way to help support people in Gaza and affected areas like the West Bank is to donate to the Gaza Crisis appeal. Your donation helps get food, medicine and other essentials to families in desperate need, as winter approaches.

DONATE TO THE GAZA CRISIS APPEAL