St Martin in the Fields

RONALD CORP conducts his new composition, DHAMMAPADA by Candlelight at St Martin-in-the-Fields on 14th June at 7.30pm.

The ever popular Afternoon Tea Concerts series returns to St Martin’s this summer. Making the most of the season, the series invites audiences to indulge in a traditional afternoon tea of freshly baked scone, jam and clotted cream with tea, Fairtrade filter coffee or orange juice from the Café in the Crypt and to enjoy an hour of music with performances by outstanding chamber musicians discovered during the course of the year in St Martin’s prestigious Lunchtime Concert Series. On Monday 2 August, 3.30pm experience the saxophone as you’ve never heard it before. Park Lane Group and Concordia

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.

The Man with the Golden Flute Plays St Martin's

Tue, May 18, 2010 16:58 CET

Legendary flautist Sir James Galway performs for the first time at St Martin-in-the-Fields this month.The vaulted splendour of St Martin-in-the-Fields at the heart of London hosts a concert by ‘The Man with the Golden Flute’ Sir James Galway on Bank Holiday Monday 31 May, 7.30pm. Appearing for the first time at a venue famed for performances of the highest standard of Baroque and Early Classical repertoire, the legendary flautist will present a concert of flute concerti by Vivaldi with the Brandenburg Sinfonia. Galway has delighted audiences for over 35 years with his virtuosity and vision.

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

Not Vivaldi's Four Seasons Again: St Martin-in-the-Fields' Inaugural Chamber Music Competition

Wed, Mar 31, 2010 15:24 CET

Press Release April 2010 For immediate release ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION 2010 in partnership with MAKING MUSIC This is not Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. In fact, the Baroque and Early Classical repertoire for which the church has established an international reputation may not make an appearance at all at the inaugural St Martin’s Chamber Music Competition (SMCC) this April. The central London 18th century church has a long musical history reaching back to performances by Handel and Mozart and the establishment of the famed Academy of St Martin in the Fields by Sir Neville