Church events & concerts london
Lunchtime Recital - Jeremiah Stephenson
11 August 2026 at 01:10 PM
Jeremiah Stephenson (St Thomas Fifth Avenue)
Buxtehude - Praeludium in C BuxWV 137
Böhm - Partita on ‘Ach, wie nichtig, ach, wie flüchtig’
Eben - Hommage à Buxtehude
JS Bach - Ach, wie nichtig, ach, wie flüchtig
JS Bach - Prelude and Fugue in D major BWV 532
Admission free - retiring collection
Lunchtime Recital - Makoto James
25 August 2026 at 01:10 PM
Makoto James (Holy Trinity, Sloane Square)
JS Bach arr. Guilmant - Sinfonia from Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir BWV 29
Messiaen - L’Ascension
Wagner arr. Brewer - Walther’s Preislied from
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg WWV 96
Admission free - retiring collection
Lunchtime Recital - Andrew Benson-Wilson
08 September 2026 at 01:10 PM
Andrew Benson-Wilson (Basingstoke)
Music of the Spanish Golden Age (1492-c.1680) including works by Antonio de Cabezón, Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Sebastián Aguilera de Heredia, Pablo Bruna Pedro de Araújo, Sebastián Durón and Juan Cabanilles
Admission free - retiring collection
Piano Recital
09 September 2026 at 01:10 PM
Ulrich Lehensteiner (piano)
Mozart - Piano Sonata in C minor KV 457
Lehensteiner - Piano Sonata in B minor
Admission free - retiring collection
Piano Recital
16 September 2026 at 01:10 PM
Peter de Souza (piano)
Mozart - Piano Sonata in D major K 311
Handel - Suite in D minor HWV 428: v. Air and 5 Doubles
Admission free - retiring collection
Lunchtime Recital - James Gough
22 September 2026 at 01:10 PM
James Gough (St John's, Upper Norwood)
JS Bach arr. Herbert Collum - Ricerar à 6 from Musikalische Opfer BWV 1079
Franck - Pastorale
Henri Busser - Marche de fête
Zsolt Gardonyi - Mozart Changes
David Bednall - Fanfare-Fantasia on B.A.C.H (UK premiere)
Admission free - retiring collection
Piano Recital
23 September 2026 at 01:10 PM
Razmik Melkonian (piano)
Liszt - Vallée d'Obermann from Années de pèlerinage S. 160
Debussy - Estampes L. 100
Edvard Baghdasaryan - Prelude No. 24 in D minor
Ghazaros Saryan arr. Melkonian - Aria from Aria and Toccata for Violin and Piano
Scriabin - Two Poems Op. 32
Edvard Baghdasaryan - Prelude No. 6 in B minor
Admission free - retiring collection
Dinner with Handel
24 September 2026 at 07:00 PM
Julian Perkins (director/keyboard)
James Laing (countertenor)
Diana Moore (mezzo-soprano)
William Wallace (tenor)
Jonathan Brown (baritone)
Ellie Neate (soprano)
Cambridge Handel Opera with Sounds Baroque
This semi-staged work, conceived by librettist Stephen Pettitt, weaves together Julian Perkins’s arrangements of re-texted music from across Handel’s output with his newly composed recitatives. Drama, comedy and sentiment combine to create a dinner party not to be missed.
Tickets £15-£55
Guitar Recital
25 September 2026 at 07:00 PM
Xuefei Yang (guitar)
A homage to Manuel de Falla on the 150th anniversary of his birth, including works by Manuel de Falla, Lou Harrison, Hurian Wang, Carlo Domeniconi, Isaac Albéniz and Joaquín Rodrigo
Tickets £28
Piano Recital
30 September 2026 at 01:10 PM
Kyle Nash-Baker (piano)
Enrique Granados - Quejas, o la Maja y el Ruiseñor
Liszt - Sonata in B minor S. 178
Admission free - retiring collection
Mendelssohn and Beethoven
06 October 2026 at 07:30 PM
Paul Salard (piano)
Thomas Carroll (conductor)
Orpheus Sinfonia
Judith Weir - Heroic Strokes of the Bow
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor Op. 37
Malcolm Singer - London Landscape
Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 4 in A major
Op. 90 ‘Italian’
Tickets £10-£28
Lunchtime Recital - Richard Gowers
06 October 2026 at 01:10 PM
Richard Gowers (St George's, Hanover Square)
Programme tbc
Admission free - retiring collection
String Quartet Recital
07 October 2026 at 01:10 PM
Florens Quartet
Britten - String Quartet No. 2 in C major Op. 36
Beethoven - String Quartet No. 16 in F major Op. 135
Admission free - retiring collection
Chamber Recital
14 October 2026 at 01:10 PM
Elera Trio
Khachaturian - Trio for violin, clarinet and piano
Shostakovich - Five Pieces for violin, clarinet and piano
Bartók - Contrasts for violin, clarinet and piano Sz. 111 BB 116
Admission free - retiring collection