St Martin in the Fields

Relax and Unwind in Late Night London

Fri, Feb 04, 2011 13:40 CET

During the cold months of February and March one of the busiest concert venues in the country will stage a programme of late night concerts.There is no better way to wind down and forget your worries than to come along to a late evening candlelit performance at St Martin-in-the-Fields, enjoy a glass of wine and some wonderful music. As always, St Martin’s will invite some of the finest musicians in London to perform an hour of music in the beautiful and tranquil surroundings of this eighteenth century church. Concerts will last one hour with no interval and are designed to offer relaxation,

Tuesday 28 September, 7.30pm In the Beginning Was the Word: A Concert in Celebration of the Saint John’s Bible.

Tue, Aug 31, 2010 10:53 CET

St Martin-in-the-Fields will host an evening of music, words and images and music celebrating the Saint John’s Bible, the first handwritten illuminated Bible commissioned since the advent of the printing press. Described by Smithsonian Magazine as ‘one of the most extraordinary undertakings of our time’ the Bible is being created by a team of artists and scribes under the artistic direction of Donald Jackson. St Martin-in-the-Fields has on display the only Heritage Edition of the Saint John’s Bible in UK.The Saint John’s Bible is a union of an ancient Benedictine tradition with the

American Encounters at St Martin-in-the-Fields: 1 and 2 July 2010

Mon, Jun 14, 2010 17:45 CET

St Martin-in-the-Fields goes American in the lead up to Independence Day with a two day American Encounters festival featuring the best of the classical music from the United States.On Thursday 1 July 'Canticum', one of the country’s leading chamber choirs, opens the festival with Aaron Copland’s In The Beginning. Works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steven Stucky, Samuel Barber’s famous Agnus Dei and popular classics by Jerome Kern, Gershwin and Billy Joel.. “Prodigiously gifted” (The Classical Source) pianist Maria Marchant performs on Friday 2 July in a free lunchtime concert at 1.

Thank you Iceland: Finalists Defy 'Act of God' and progress to St Martin's Chamber Music Competition Final

Fri, Apr 23, 2010 18:59 CET

The Piatti String Quartet, Greenwich Trio and Elixir Trio will perform in their bid to become the first ever winners of St Martin's Chamber Music Competition in partnership with Making Music. After making it through the preliminary and semi-final rounds, the three groups will compete for the coveted prize. Piatti String Quartet, stranded in France by the cloud of volcanic ash which wreaked havoc for travellers across Europe last week, drove through the night to a ferry from Dunkirk in order to make their scheduled semi-final last Tuesday 20 April. While those stranded were cursing Iceland's