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MAY

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Patron HRH The Duchess of Cornwall

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE Mon 2 May 6.00pm

Sat 7 May 7.00pm

ALLEYN'S SCHOOL

ORCHESTRA FESTIVAL TALK: OF THE AGE OF ONLY WORDS ENLIGHTENMENT London Festival of

Symphony Orchestra Chamber Orchestra Chamber Choir Jazz Band Chris Dearmer conductor Jo Doley conductor Ned Bennett conductor Barry Graham conductor Alleyn’s School is one of the leading co-educational schools in London, with a huge programme of musical activity throughout the year. This annual concert has become a highlight of the school’s year. £9, £7, £5.50 (£5.50)

Wed 4 May 1.00pm

EUCHARIST: THE FEAST OF ST JOHN BEFORE THE LATIN GATE

MAY, JUNE JULY, & AUGUST 2016 ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE

Rev Graham Buckle celebrant Cantandum Gilly French director

Southbank Centre at St John’s Smith Square

Fri 13 May 6.00pm

Baroque Music 2016

Mozart Symphony No. 33 in Bb K319 Michael Gordon New work for bassoon and orchestra (world premiere) Mozart Symphony No. 1 in Eb K16 • Clarinet Concerto in A K622 £50, £39, £24, £10 (Child £2.50)

Tue 10 May 7.30pm

LIGETI QUARTET Young Artists' Series © Mike Massaro

Dr Ruth Smith speaker Dr Ruth Smith, author of Handel’s Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought, explores the literary, political and religious background to Handel’s Biblical oratorios Messiah and Israel in Egypt.

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Parties of ten or more qualify for a 10% discount.

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Schnittke Suite in Old Style Franck Violin Sonata in A De Falla Spanish Folk Song Suite for Violin and Piano £10, YF

Fri 6 May 7.30pm

ENSEMBLE DIDEROT Il giardino del piacere Johannes Pramsohler violin Roldán Bernabé violin Gulrim Choi cello Philippe Grisvard harpsichord Meister Il Giardino del piacere: La Musica Nona Pachelbel Musicalische Ergötzung for two piccolo violins & basso continuo Partie II in C minor Keller Trio Sonata – Chaconne Pachelbel Partie V in C Meister Il Giardino del piacere: La Musica Duodecima Meister Il Giardino del piacere: La Musica Terza Biber Harmonia artificiosoariosa Partia VI £25, £20, £15, £10

ROBERTA INVERNIZZI

FUTURE BAROQUE I

MAHAN ESFAHANI GLEN ART

London Festival of Baroque Music 2016

London Festival of Baroque Music 2016

Roberta Invernizzi

Ceruleo

London Festival of Baroque Music 2016 Bruce Dickey © Vojtěch Havlík

Songs Without Words Bruce Dickey cornett Alberto Rasi viola da gamba Maria Christina Cleary harp Liuwe Tamminga organ

DUNEDIN CONSORT London Festival of Baroque Music 2016

This event takes place at St Peter's Eaton Square.

© David Barbour

£15

Free, ticketed event

Fri 13 May 7.30pm

Sat 14 May 7.30pm

MONTEVERDI STRING BAND Mandhira de Saram violin Patrick Dawkins violin Richard Jones viola Val Welbanks cello

£12 (£8), YF Joo Yeon Sir violin Irina Andrievsky piano

BRUCE DICKEY

Servant of the Words Roberta Invernizzi soprano Craig Marchitelli theorbo One of the finest Baroque sopranos of our age performs songs and monologues from the early days of the Italian Baroque, when composers first looked to find new, urgent and immediately responsive means of expression by making music (as Monteverdi put it) "the servant of the words".

This event takes place at St Peter's Eaton Square. £20

Strozzi Mercé di voi • Amor dormiglione • Sospira, respira • Begli occhi • L’Eraclito amoroso Vizzana Amo Christum Leonarda O flammae, O beatae • O Anima mea Frescobaldi Canzona quinta detta La Tromboncina £10, YF

Mon 16 May 7.30pm

HALELUYÁH! London Festival of Baroque Music 2016 Profeti della Quinta, a Galilean prize-winning young ensemble, presents madrigals, trio sonatas, and psalm settings in Hebrew by an Italian-Jewish contemporary of Monteverdi. £30, £25, £20, £15

Thu 12 May 1.05pm

ARTEA QUARTET Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Thomas Gould violin Rhys Watkins violin Benjamin Roskams viola Ashok Klouda cello

God Spake the Word I Dunedin Consort Joanne Lunn soprano Meg Bragle alto i Esther Brazil alto ii Joshua Ellicott tenor Matthew Brook bass i Robert Davies bass ii John Butt harpsichord & director

John Butt

Schubert String Quartet No. 15 in G D887 £10, YF

The Viennese Salon 176 Keys Antoine Françoise piano Robin Green piano Schubert Fugue in E minor D952 • Andante varié in B minor D823 Schoenberg Chamber Symphony No. 2 Op. 38 Christian Mason ISOLARION III Mozart Fugue in C minor K426 • Sonata in D K448 £14 (£10), YF

The Monteverdi String Band presents a unique staged version of Monteverdi’s Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda amid a colourful programme of complementary and contrasting instrumental pieces and madrigals, both sung and arranged for strings. £40, £32, £23, £15

Thu 12 May 7.30pm

FRANCOISEGREEN PIANO DUO

Monteverdi String Band Oliver Webber violin & music director Karolina Sofulak stage director Nicholas Mulroy testo Faye Newton clorinda Simon Wall tancredi

John Butt speaker John Butt discusses the significance of original texts and assesses what Handel’s manuscripts tells us about his oratorios. Audience members will have the chance to view the British Library's collection of scores and performance materials.

Sun 15 May 10.30am

SING BAROQUE London Festival of Baroque Music 2016 Robert Howarth conductor Handel Messiah (choruses) Handel Israel in Egypt (choruses)

This event takes place at The Foyle Suite of the British Library.

This 'Come & Sing' event takes place at the Manoukian Music Centre of Westminster School.

£15

£15

Iestyn Davies countertenor with Jonathan Manson bass viol Alex McCartney lute Jonathan Cohen harpsichord No composer has ever responded to English words with more sensitivity, expressive detail and beauty than Henry Purcell (the 'English Orpheus'), and there can be few singers better qualified to prove it than Iestyn Davies. £40, £32, £23, £15

Sun 15 May 9.30pm

OLIVIA CHANEY London Festival of Baroque Music 2016 Words with Purcell II Late o'Clock Baroque Olivia Chaney voice, piano, guitars, & harmonium Olivia Chaney, the classically trained singer-songwriter with a fast-growing reputation and a special love of Purcell, is joined by special guests for a new programme of freshly interpreted and arranged Purcell, folk-ballads and her own Baroque-inspired songs. £15, YF

Sir Nicholas Winton – A Celebration

Mahan Esfahani © Bernhard Musil / DG

Rupert Graves reader Jason Isaacs reader CELLOSOUNDBIRMINGHAM Alexander Baillie director

Key Words Mahan Esfahani harpsichord with Thomas Hobbs tenor Star harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani explores how 16th and 17th-century composers applied the expressiveness and rhetoric of words to the keyboard. £35, £20

Thu 19 May 1.05pm

TABEA DEBUS Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Young Artists' Series London Festival of Baroque Music 2016

FUTURE BAROQUE II London Festival of Baroque Music 2016

Bach Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D BWV1068 • Trio Sonata in G BWV1038 Vivaldi Trio Sonata in D minor Op. 1 No. 12 Rv.63 ‘La Folia’ Duphly Chaconne Bach Cantata ‘Ich habe genug’ BWV82a £10, YF

Tue 17 May 7.00pm

THE CHOIR OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY London Festival of Baroque Music 2016 God Spake the Word II St James's Baroque James O'Donnell conductor Handel Israel in Egypt This concert takes place at Westminster Abbey. £45, £35, £25, £20, £16, £12

Future Baroque III: Points of Contact Tabea Debus recorder Oliver Pooley percussion Bassano Ricercata Quarta Taeggio Vestiva I colli • Diminutions on a Madrigal by Giovanni • Pierluigi da Palestrina Monteverdi Zefiro torna, oh di soavi accenti Straesser Points of Contact I Machaut Amours me fait desirer Eckhard Kopetzki Kaskada Philip Cashian The Language of Birds Bull Fantasia Ole Buck Gymel Anon. Lamento di Tristano • Tre Fontane • Wilson’s Love £10, YF

Thu 19 May 7.30pm

EUROPEAN UNION BAROQUE ORCHESTRA London Festival of Baroque Music 2016 Final Word

Tue 17 May 7.30pm

KENSINGTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Donna Lennard soprano Russell Keable conductor Janáček Suite from The House of the Dead Judith Weir Natural History Martinů Symphony No. 5 H310 £17.50 (£12.50), £12.50

Thu 26 May 7.30pm

LONDON MOZART PLAYERS Mozart Explored: 1783 © Jennifer Brady

£18 (Child £5)

Tue 17 May 1.05pm

Future Baroque II

Words with Purcell I

War of Words

London Festival of Baroque Music 2016

Iestyn Davies © Marco Borggreve

London Festival of Baroque Music 2016

© Andreea Tufescu

IGNIS ensemble Rowan Pierce soprano

£45, £35, £25, £15

TALK: WORDS ON THE PAGE

London Festival of Baroque Music 2016

London Festival of Baroque Music 2016

Handel Messiah (original version, Dublin 1742)

Sat 14 May 11.00am

IESTYN DAVIES

Fri 20 May 7.30pm

Sat 21 May 7.30pm

PUBLIC PASSIONS Orchestra of St John's Dame Jenni Murray guest John Lubbock conductor Dame Jenni Murray from Radio 4's Woman's Hour presents her choice of programme. £26, £20, £15, £10

Profeti della Quinta

Sun 15 May 7.00pm

Nancarrow String Quartet No. 3 Christian Mason Tuvan Songbook (world premiere commissioned by Ligeti Quartet and St John's Smith Square) Bartók String Quartet No. 3 Sz.85 Xenakis Tetras Ligeti String Quartet No. 1

Members are entitled to purchase tickets to selected events at a significantly reduced price of £5. These events are marked ‘YF’.

Please Note We may need to substitute artists and to vary our concert programmes from the published information without warning.

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE

© Diana Roberts

Wed 18 May 7.30pm

Bruce Dickey, widely acknowledged as the world’s greatest exponent of the instrument thought to have the closest resemblance to the human voice, demonstrates how the cool sounds of the Renaissance were transformed into a rich new species of instrumental eloquence, in works by Gabrieli, Palestrina, Luzzaschi, Bassano and others.

Thu 5 May 1.05pm

Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Young Artists' Series

Mon 16 May 1.05pm

Matthew Truscott director & violin Peter Whelan bassoon Antony Pay clarinet

Free Admission

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Sun 15 May 3.30pm

Winds of Change

Mozart Missa brevis in C K259 ‘Organ Solo’ Marenzio Iste est Joannes

JOO YEON SIR

Sat 14 May 4.00pm

Rachel Podger violin & director Lully Selections from Phaëton Albinoni Concerto in C for 3 violins, strings and basso continuo Op. 10 No. 3 Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E Op. 3 No. 12 Rv.265 Handel Concerto grosso in Bb Op. 3 No. 1 HWV312 • Concerto Grosso in C HWV318 ‘Alexander’s Feast’ Wassenaer Concerto armonico No. 3 in A for 4 violins, strings and basso continuo Hellendaal Grand Concerto in G minor Op. 3 No. 1 £35, £20

Sun 22 May 3.00pm

JOO YEON SIR

An Academy in Vienna Janina Fialkowska piano Gérard Korsten conductor Salieri Overture to La Scuola de’ gelosi Mozart Piano Concerto No. 13 in C K415 Kozeluch Symphony in C P1:6 Haydn Overture to Il Ritorno di Tobia Mozart Symphony No. 35 in D K385 ‘Haffner’ £32, £26, £21, £15

Sunday at St John's Young Artists' Series Joo Yeon Sir violin Irina Andrievsky piano Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 arr.

Mendelssohn Grieg Sonata No. 2 in G Op. 13 Poulenc Sonata Op. 119 Sir Karl Jenkins Chatterbox! (world premiere, commissioned

by St John's Smith Square) Igor Frolov Concert Fantasie on Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess

Fri 27 May 7.30pm

WARREN MAILLEY-SMITH Complete Chopin Cycle © Ben Ealovega

£14 (£10), YF The Four Scherzi Mon 23 May 7.30pm

Warren Mailley-Smith piano

THE HALL MUSIC SCHOOL

Chopin Waltz No. 1 in E flat Op. 18 • Marche Funèbre in C minor Op. 72 No. 2 • Scherzos No. 1–3 in B flat minor • Nocturne No. 13 in C minor Op. 48 No. 1 • Waltz No. 13 in D flat Op. 70 No. 3 • Polonaise in B flat Op. posth. • Mazurka No. 41 in C sharp minor Op. 63 No. 3 • Mazurkas No. 42–45 in A minor • Waltz No. 18 in E flat Op. posth. • Feuille d’album in E Op. posth. • Scherzo No. 4 in E Op. 54

Gala Concert 2016 Willem Steyn conductor £20, £15, £10

Wed 25 May 7.30pm

SALOMON ORCHESTRA Chantage choir Graham Ross conductor Sir Timothy Ackroyd narrator Tchaikovsky ‘Hamlet’ Overture Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs Delius Walk to the Paradise Garden Walton Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario arr. Christopher Palmer £17 (£14), £14

There will be a pre-concert event at 6.30pm. £20, £15

Sat 28 May 7.30pm

HANDEL SOLOMON © Keith Saunders

Thu 26 May 1.05pm

DAVID GRAHAM Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Organ Series Bruhns Præludium in E minor Bach Partita 'Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig' Guy Weitz Sicilienne • Prière on 'Salve Regina' in fifth mode • Paraphrase on Regina Coeli laetare Honegger Choral Karg-Elert Harmonies du soir Op. 72 No. 1 Reger Dankpsalm £10, YF

Holst Singers Music for Awhile Alex Potter solomon Anna Dennis soprano Sophie Junker soprano Gwilym Bowen tenor Matthew Brook bass-baritone Stephen Layton conductor Handel Solomon £45, £35, £25, £15

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TUBE Westminster, St James’s Park & Victoria

CAR PARKING St John’s Smith Square is within the congestion charging zone. Parking meters are in operation during the day Monday–Friday until 6.00pm. In the evenings and at weekends there are usually ample spaces locally. There is Westminster City Council car parking on Great College Street and Arneway Street.

BUS 3 and 87 to Horseferry Road C10 and 507 (limited hours) to Millbank 88 to Horseferry Road 11, 211, 148 and 24 to Westminster Abbey SANTANDER CYCLES A docking station is located in Smith Square and there are also stations on Horseferry Road, Page Street and Great College Street.

RAIL Victoria, Waterloo, Vauxhall & Charing Cross

ST JOHN’S SMITH SQUARE Wed 1 June 7.30pm

Wed 8 June 7.30pm

LONDON SINFONIETTA

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Southbank Centre at St John's Smith Square Duets in a Frame London Sinfonietta Martyn Brabbins conductor

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Schumann Theme and variations in Eb WoO.24 ‘Ghost Variations' • Davidsbündlertänze Op. 6 Wagner Elegy in Ab Liszt Spozalizio, Il Penseroso, Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa, and Sonetto 104 del Petrarca from Deuxième Année de Pèlerinage: Italie S161 Wagner Prelude from Tristan und Isolde (transc. Kocsis) Liszt La lugubre gondola S200 Wagner Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde (trans. Liszt)

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Francisco Coll Liquid Symmetries (UK premiere) Tom Coult New Work (world premiere of a London Sinfonietta commission) Tansy Davies Falling Angel (London premiere) Sir Harrison Birtwistle Five Lessons in a Frame (world premiere of a London Sinfonietta commission)

International Piano Series

Mon 13 June 7.30pm

SCHUMANN & FRANCK Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Jens Lynen violin Kaija Lukas violin Michael Trauer viola Yuki Ito cello Kumi Matsuo piano Schumann Piano Quartet in Eb Op. 47 Franck Piano Quintet in F minor

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Tue 14 June 7.30pm

GOLDSMITHS CHORAL UNION Brian Wright conductor William Cole conductor Edward Batting organ Fauré Requiem Dvořák Mass in D Op. 86 £24, £20, £16, £12

Fri 17 June 7.30pm

Wed 22 June 7.30pm

WARREN MAILLEY-SMITH

MARTINO TIRIMO KENSINGTON & ROSAMUNDE SYMPHONY TRIO ORCHESTRA

Complete Chopin Cycle Chopin Polonaise Op. 44 No. 5 in F# minor • Nocturne Op. 15 No. 2 in F# • Mazurkas No. 46–50 Op. 67 No. 3–4 & Op. 68 No. 1–3 • Études in F minor, Ab and Db Op. posth. • Variations Brillantes on Je vends des Scapulaires Op. 12 • Berceuse in Db Op. 57 • Polonaise No. 1–2 Op. 26 • Bourrees B160b No. 1–2 • Nocturne No. 14 in F# minor Op. 48 No. 2 • Barcarolle in F# Op. 60 £20, £15

Sat 18 June 7.30pm

PARADISAL PLAYERS Celebrating 25 Years of the Otakar Kraus Music Trust Samuel Burstin conductor Ana Šinkovec Burstin piano Mozart Overture from The Marriage of Figaro K492 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Op. 30 Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor 'From the New World' Op. 95 Free, ticketed event

£10, YF Wed 15 June 7.30pm

YOUNG MUSICIANS FIAMMETTA TARLI SYMPHONY & IVO VARBANOV ORCHESTRA Fri 10 June 7.30pm

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Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor David Edwards stage director Hélène Hébrard mezzosoprano Allan Clayton tenor David Edwards director Philharmonia Voices Stravinsky Requiem Canticles • Introitus: TS Eliot in memoriam • In memoriam Dylan Thomas • Mass • Elegy for J.F.K. • Cantata for soprano, tenor, female chorus & ensemble

Fiammetta Tarli piano Ivo Varbanov piano

Silvina Milstein New work (world premiere) Debussy En blanc et noir Brahms Variations on a Theme

by Haydn 'St. Anthony Op. 56b Robert Keeley Fiestas for two pianos Stravinsky Pétrouchka (arr. for piano duet) £25, £20, £15, £10

£25, £18, £10 Sat 11 June 7.00pm Fri 3 June 7.30pm

MODERN MĀORI QUARTET Four Māori musicians present an eclectic programme of contemporary and traditional songs in Te Reo Māori and English. £30, £25, £20, £15

Sun 5 June 3.00pm

TAFELMUSIK OF LONDON

ROYAL ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY English Classics Benjamin Nabarro violin Orlando Jopling conductor Elgar Violin Concerto Op. 61 Holst The Planets Op. 32 £20, £15, £10

Oscar Alabau cello James Blair conductor

© Hannah King

Thu 16 June 1.05pm

DAVID TITTERINGTON Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Organ Series Buxtehude Chorale fantasia 'Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g’mein' BuxWV210 Franck Prière Ritter Sonata No. 3 in A minor £10, YF

Thu 16 June 7.30pm

GABRIELI CONSORT & PLAYERS Paul McCreesh © Ben Wright

Dunstable Veni Sancte Spiritus Cornysh Ave maria Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah Sheppard Libera nos I & II Byrd Vigilate Ockeghem Kyrie Eleison – Intermerata dei mater Desprez Gloria from Missa da pacem – O Virgo prudentissima/ Beata mater Clemens non Papa Sanctus & Benedictus from Missa Pastores Quidnam Vidistis • O Maria vernans rosa de Monte Agnus Dei from Missa Emitte Domine • Miserere mei, Deus from Motets Book V Winner of The Gesualdo Six's Composition Competition New Work £14 (£10), YF

Tue 21 June 7.30pm

TRINITY LABAN PIANO SHOWCASE Guilio Potenza piano Gen Li piano Jenna Sung piano Paul McCreesh conductor Carolyn Sampson soprano Jeremy Ovenden tenor Andrew Foster-Williams bass Haydn The Seasons £45, £35, £25, £15

Walton Scapino Overture Britten Violin Concerto Op. 15 Elgar Symphonic Study in C minor Op. 68 ‘Falstaff’ £17.50 (£12.50), £12.50

Martino Tirimo piano Lucy Russell violin Paul Silverthorne viola Daniel Veis cello Peter Buckoke double bass Franck Piano Quintet in F minor Op. 45 Schubert Piano Quintet in A D667 ‘Trout’ £22, £17, £14, £10, YF

Fri 24 June 7.30pm

DEEP∞MINIMALISM Southbank Centre's Deep∞Minimalism festival London Contemporary Orchestra Oram Still point (world premiere) Cage Twenty-three Pauline Oliveros Rock piece £20 Sat 25 June 3.00pm

DEEP∞MINIMALISM Southbank Centre's Deep∞Minimalism festival Eliza McCarthy piano Emmanuel Holterbach sound diffusion Patricia Kopatchinskaja violin Markus Hinterhäuser piano Quiet Music Ensemble

£20 (£16), £15 (£12), £10 (£8)

Lana Trotovšek violin Peter Cigleris director

£14 (£10), YF

Sunday at St John's Young Artists' Series

Verdi Joan of Arc Overture Schumann Cello Concerto Op. 129 Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78 ‘Organ Symphony’

Sunday at St John's

Beethoven Egmont Overture Op. 84 (arr. P Cigleris) Weill Violin Concerto Op. 12 Mendelssohn Nocturne Op. 24 Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Op. 21 (arr. W Hutschenruijter)

THE GESUALDO SIX

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Janáček Sonata 1.X.1905 Beethoven Sonata No. 18 in Eb Op. 31 No. 3 Lowell Liebermann Gargoyles Op. 29 Haydn Sonata in C Hob XVI:48 Stephen Montague Nun-mul Rachmaninoff Sonata No.2 Op. 36 £12 (£8)

Fenella Humphreys violin Russell Keable conductor

Ustvolskaya Sonata for violin & piano • Duet for violin & piano Bach Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor BWV1004 Éliane Radigue Jetsun Mila Andrew Hamilton O.A.I.R Pauline Oliveros The Mystery beyond matter Jennifer Walshe Dordán £20 Day Pass

Sun 26 June 3.00pm

DEEP∞MINIMALISM Southbank Centre's Deep∞Minimalism festival Rhodri Davies harp London Contemporary Orchestra Vocal Constructivists Programme includes: Éliane Radigue Occam 1 for harp Edmund Finnis Veneer for solo viola & reverb • Across white air for cello & reverb • Elsewhere for violin • Point blank light for electronics Catherine Lamb String Quartet Meredith Monk Dawn from The Book of Days and other works by Laurie Spiegel, Aura Satz, Alvin Lucier, and Pauline Oliveros. £20 Day Pass

Tue 28 June 7.30pm

MUSICIANS' COMPANY CONCERT Concordia Foundation Artists Fund Joanna Skillett soprano David Eaton piano The Kowalczyk-Kin Duo: Marta Kowalczyk violin Somi Kin piano Programme includes works by Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Hahn, Poulenc, Bridge, Peter Dickinson, Britten, Schubert, and Lutosławski. £18, £16, £14, £10

Wed 29 June 7.30pm

YOUNG PEOPLE'S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA A London Celebration David Ramadanoff conductor £10 (£6)

Thu 30 June 1.05pm

LAURA MITCHELL & MORGAN SZYMANSKI Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Canciones: Spanish and Latin American Songs Laura Mitchell soprano Morgan Szymanski guitar Ponce Estrellita Rodrigo Three Spanish Songs Tarrega Recuerdos de la Alhambra Albéniz Suite Espaňola: Asturias De Falla 7 Popular Spanish Songs Lauro Four Waltzes Leo Brouwer Cancion De Cuna (Berceuse) from Dos Temas populares cubanos Villa-Lobos Two Brazilian Songs

Fri 1 July 7.30pm

Sun 10 July 3.00pm & 7.30pm

Tymur Melnik violin Vesselin Stanev piano

3.00pm Academy Strings Junior Band Steel Camerata Senior Band Junior Soul

TYMUR MELNIK & HARROW YOUNG WARREN MAILLEY-SMITH VESSELIN STANEV MUSICIANS

Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Op. 100 Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor Op. 75 Liszt Grand Duo concertant sur la Romance de M. Lafont 'Le Marin' S128 for Violin and Piano Wieniawski Theme original varie Op. 15 for Violin and Piano £30, £25, £17

Sun 3 July 7.30pm

STONELEIGH YOUTH ORCHESTRA Summer Concert Robert Hodge conductor Joo Yeon Sir violin Tchaikovsky Waltz from Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Op. 35 Sibelius Symphony No. 5 £10 (£5)

Mon 4 July 7.30pm

CHURCHER'S COLLEGE Summer Concert 2016

7.30pm Concert Band Symphonic Winds Soul Philharmonic Orchestra Ten groups of Harrow Young Musicians present highlights of their 2015/16 repertoire. £20, £15 (Book both and receive a £5 discount)

Mon 11 July 7.30pm

ST ALBANS HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Music for a Summer's Evening Chamber Orchestra Senior Chamber Choir Senior Choir Nigel Springthorpe conductor Cathy Heller-Jones conductor Vivaldi Magnificat Rv.610 Mendelssohn Octet in Eb Op. 20 Vaughan Williams Rhosymedre

Tue 12 July 7.30pm

The musicians from Churcher’s College will join together for a fabulous evening of great music, featuring rousing choruses performed by their 130-strong choir.

David Squire music director

Thu 7 July 1.05pm

BROMLEY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Thursday Lunchtime Concerts Jonathan Josephs conductor Elizabeth Kearney leader Jan Schmolck violin

NEW ZEALAND YOUTH CHOIR Programme includes works by Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Peter Philips and Matthew Harris with New Zealand works by David Hamilton and Tuirina Wehi. £20, £15, £10

Fri 15 July 1.00pm

LUNCHTIME DIALOGUE © Matthew Andrews

Tristan Arnold conductor Programme includes: Britten Five Courtly Dances from Gloriana £5

Elgar Dream of Gerontius £22, £18, £10

Sat 16 July 7.30pm

PUBLIC PASSIONS Orchestra of St John's Sir David Tang guest John Lubbock conductor As part of a series in which celebrities discuss their choices of programme, we welcome Sir David Tang who founded companies such as fashion label Shanghai Tang, and lifestyle concept store Tang Tang Tang Tang – the name of which was conceived to echoe the opening of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. £26, £20, £15, £10

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 MINUTES The Learners Chorus Apollo Wong conductor & soloist Peggie Chan pianist Leonard Rose cantonese opera Programme includes: Monteverdi Cantate Dominum Lasso Echo Song Rachmaninoff Bogoroditse Devo Brahms Lieder und Romanzen, Op. 93a No. 5 'Der Falke' Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine Gould So you want to write a fugue Arvo Pärt Solfeggio Eric Whitacre Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine Finzi Lo the full final sacrifice

BRITISH FLUTE SOCIETY

£10, YF

Brandenburg Sinfonia Christopher Herrick conductor Miranda Westcott mezzosoprano Peter Auty tenor David Soar bass

£20, £15

Fri 19–Sun 21 August

BFS London Flute Festival 2016

Sat 9 July 7.30pm

NAPA VALLEY YOUTH SYMPHONY

Chopin Introduction & Variations on a German Air Der Schweizerbub in E • Mazurka No. 51 in F minor Op. 68 No. 4 (revised version) • Mazurka No. 52 in Bb • Mazurka No. 53 in G • Mazurkas in Bb and D • Cantabile in Bb • Nocturne No. 11–12 in G minor Op. 37 No. 1–2 • Polonaise in G minor, Bb minor, and Ab Op. posth. Mazurka No. 57 in C • Mazurka No. 58 in Ab • Sonata No.3 in B minor Op. 58 •

£20, £15, £12, £10

Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV1048 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis Piazzolla Four Seasons

TWICKENHAM CHORAL SOCIETY

Sonata No. 3 Op. 58

Sun 24 July 6.00pm

Churcher's College Choir Churcher's College Orchestra Churcher's College Wind Band Churcher's College Jazz Band

£10 (£8), £5

Complete Chopin Cycle

£16, £13, £10

£10, YF

Thu 30 June 7.30pm

Fri 15 July 7.30pm

Rev Graham Buckle Clare Moriarty guest As part of Reverend Graham Buckle's monthly conversations with significant local figures, we welcome Clare Moriarty, Permanent Secretary for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).

Free Admission

The British Flute Society celebrates the innovation, excellence and industry of the flute trade, both past and present, and many well-known companies will showcase their goods, services and skills at the event. The event opens at 10.00am on each day. Concerts take place at 7.30pm on Friday and Saturday, and 2.30pm on Sunday.

Concert £20 (£16) Fri & Sat Day Pass £60 (£48) Sun Day Pass £40 (£32) 3-Day Pass £150 (£120)

Design: Phillip Southgate

GOLD FRIENDS (£125/£115 direct debit) receive: • Two tickets for every concert in our Thursday Lunchtime Concerts series • Priority booking 7 days ahead of the general public • Invitations to exclusive members’ events such as ‘Meet the Artists’ receptions • No booking fee • Best seat in the house/priority waiting list • Credit of your generosity on our website and in our brochure

THANK YOU St John’s Smith Square is deeply grateful for the support shown by our Gold Friends and 300 Club Members. Thank you to:

Stravinsky Series: Myths and Rituals

Sun 19 June 3.00pm

Great Piano Quintets

Mon 27 June 7.30pm