• Helen Charlston

    The Cares of Love
    Fri 4 Oct 2024 8.00pm

    Commemorating the 300th anniversary of Handel's Giulio Cesare, the celebrated mezzo-soprano, Helen Charlston, presents arias by Handel together with music by Purcell, Monteverdi and Charpentier.

  • Art for the Nation

    The National Gallery
    Sat 5 Oct 2024 3.00pm

    Dr Susanna Avery-Quash, Lead Curator at the National Gallery, recounts the story of its development from its origins in a Pall Mall townhouse two hundred years ago to a national collection of more than 2400 works.

  • Nikki Yeoh’s Café Oran

    Jazz by Maurice El Médioni and Nikki Yeoh
    Sat 5 Oct 2024 8.00pm

    Alongside some of her own music, Nikki Yeoh and her new Café Oran Trio celebrate the music of French-Algerian-Jewish composer Maurice El Médioni – interpreter of Andalusian, Rai, Sephardic and Arabic music.

  • Fidelio Trio

    French Impressions
    Sun 6 Oct 2024 3.00pm

    The Fidelio Trio play a delightful programme of music by Satie and Fauré - his late, autumnal piano trio Op 120 - plus an astonishing arrangement by Sally Beamish of Debussy's orchestral 'La Mer' and a Festival Commission from Oscar Bettison.

  • Aidan Mikdad

    Romantic Virtuosity
    Tue 8 Oct 2024 8.00pm

    Aidan Mikdad is an exciting young pianist who combines formidable technique with sheer musicality. Tonight's programme of music by Beethoven, Scriabin and Liszt will allow him to display his considerable skills to the full.

  • Octandre Ensemble

    Quartet for the End of Time
    Wed 9 Oct 2024 8.00pm

    The outstanding new music group, Octandre Ensemble, feature Messiaen's deeply moving wartime Quartet for the End of Time alongside more recent works by Kaija Saariaho, Richard Causton and Christian Mason.

  • Cara Dillon

    Folk with Cara Dillon
    Thurs 10 Oct 2024 8.00pm

    One of the finest exponents of traditional Irish song, Cara Dillon introduces material from her latest album, Coming Home, which embodies her strong sense of heritage, together with songs from her traditional repertoire.

  • Blues from Bristol

    Kirris Riviere and the Delta du Bruit
    Fri 11 Oct 2024 8.00pm

    Firmly grounded in the Bristol blues scene, Kirris Riviere and the Delta du Bruit defy easy categorization, fusing genres and breathing urgent life into their own songs and classics from the likes of Muddy Waters, Percy Mayfield, Willie Dixon, Billy Ward.

  • Kerry Andrew

    In conversation with Ed McKeon
    Sat 12 Oct 2024 3.00pm

    Kerry Andrew is an acclaimed author, composer and performer. The conversation will focus on their most recent novel, We Are Together Because, published earlier this year.

  • Ensemble Pro Victoria

    In Memoriam
    Sat 12 Oct 2024 8.00pm

    Ensemble Pro Victoria, one of Britain’s finest young vocal ensembles, sing a programme of unaccompanied music for Remembrance culminating in the sublime Requiem by Tomás Luis de Victoria.

  • Barbican Quartet

    Contrasts
    Sun 13 Oct 2024 3.00pm

    In a change of artists and programme, the Barbican Quartet, a truly original voice on the international chamber music scene, showcase their expertise in Haydn and Ligeti, together with a major landmark of Beethoven's late period.

  • Christmas Brass

    Marcus Bates and Friends
    Fri 13 Dec 2024 8.00pm

    An ensemble of some of our finest brass players will make the church resound with carols and music to celebrate the festive season, ranging from Palestrina and Gabrieli to Holst and John Williams.