CITY MUSIC SOCIETY
Lunchtime Concerts
Thursdays at 1.05 pm at St Bartholomew the
Great,
West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE
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| 22nd January 2026 | |
| Trio Havisham Magdalena Riedl violin Seth Collin cello Zany Denyer piano |
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Dvořák |
Trio No.3 in F minor Op.86 |
Winners of the Sutton Chamber Music Prize at the Guildhall School in 2025, Trio Havisham return to City Music Society only a year after their first appearance for us. They are looking forward to a Wigmore debut on 9th June, reward for another distinction, The Musicians’ Company Maisie Lewis Concerts Award. Dvořák’s monumental third piano trio was described by the critic Eduard Hanslick as ‘a most valuable gem’, demonstrating ‘that the composer finds himself at the pinnacle of his career’. |
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| 29th January 2026 | |
Harmony of Time |
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links to: |
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Sara Matovic - www.instagram.com/sara_matovicc/| |
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Pablo Tejedor Gutiérrez - www.continuoconnect.com/artists |
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| Sandro Rossi - https://www.stretta-artists.com/artists/singers/countertenor/rossi-sandro.html | |
Bojan Čičić - https://www.rcm.ac.uk/hp/professors/details/?id=04061 |
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Predrag Gosta - www.predraggosta.com |
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Nicholas Porpora |
Sinfonia da camera in G minor Op.2 No.3 |
Giovanni Bononcini |
Siedi, Amarilli |
Sammartini |
Trio Sonata in G minor Op.3 No.5 |
Alessandro Scarlatti |
Dormi, o fulmine di guerra |
Tartini |
Sonata à 3 in D minor, B. d2 |
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| 5th February 2026 | |
Sofia Sacco piano |
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Couperin |
Le Rossignol en amour |
J.S.Bach |
Toccata in E minor |
| Satie | Gnossienne No.5 |
| J.S.Bach arr. Siloti | Prelude in B minor |
| Shostakovich | Sonata No.2 in B minor Op.61 |
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| 12th February 2026 | |
Danushka Edirisinghe cello |
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| Link to Danushka Edirisinghe's website | Link to George Herbert's website | |
Beethoven |
Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5 |
Poulenc |
Sonata for Cello and Piano FP143 |
Studying at the Royal Academy of Music with support from a Musicians’ Company scholarship, Danushka Edirisinghe has achieved success in several competitions, including first prize in the 2022 Haslemere International String Competition, leading to a performance of the Haydn Concerto with the London Mozart Players. He enjoys membership of the Isla Quartet and has appeared with several orchestras including the BBCSO and the LSO. Having studied German and Music at Cambridge University, and acted as Organ Scholar at St John’s College, George Herbert has now embarked on a career embracing accompanying, organ-playing, singing and conducting.composer. |
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19th February 2026 |
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Flutes and Frets |
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White |
Christe Qui Lux Es Et Dies III |
Dowland |
Lachrimae Pavane (Flow My Tears) & Sir John Souch His Galiard |
de Visée |
Chaconne from Suite in G Major for solo theorbo |
Hotteterre |
Suite III Op.2 Livre 1 |
Daquin |
Le Coucou |
Rossini |
The Thieving Magpie Overture |
Villa-Lobos |
Distribuição de Flores & Schottish Choro |
Kapustin |
Sonatina Op.100 |
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Poulenc |
Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano FP43 |
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Oscar Navarro |
Una Historia de la Alhambra | ||||
Alyssa Morris |
Up & Away | ||||
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5th March 2026 |
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Regency Quartet |
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Webern |
Langsamer Satz |
Shostakovich |
String Quartet No.3 in F Op.73 |
Britten |
Waltz (from Three Divertimenti) |
Formed at the Royal Academy of Music in 2021, the Regency Quartet were winners of the 2025 Royal Over-Seas League Strings and Keyboard Ensembles prize. They have been selected as 2025/26 Kirkman Concert Society Artists and are part of the Philip and Dorothy Green Young Artists Scheme. Awarded a number of prizes at the RAM, in 2023 they were selected to visit Hong Kong through the Sir Elton John Global Exchange Programme. In their programme Webern’s glorious late Romantic ‘slow movement’ precedes Shostakovich’s Third Quartet, his only composition of 1946 and dedicated to the Beethoven String Quartet. |
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| 12th March 2026 | |
RCM Wind Ensemble |
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Mendelssohn arr Andreas N Tarkmann |
Fugue in D Major |
Eleanor Alberga |
Nightscape |
Mendelssohn’s magical incidental music for Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is reimagined in a remarkable arrangement for wind ensemble by Andreas N Tarkmann. The welcome annual visit by the Royal College of Music Wind Ensemble as always brings unusual and invigorating music, including a work by the Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga. Nightscape is a four-movement serenade evoking ‘the sounds, atmosphere, memories and folklore of a Jamaican evening and night’. |
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| 19th March 2026 | |||
Sejin Yoon piano |
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Mendelssohn |
Variation Sérieuses Op.54 |
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Dutilleux |
Au Gré Des Ondes (6 petit pieces) | ||
Schumann |
Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op.26 | ||
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PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CONCERT WILL TAKE PLACE IN ST GILES CRIPPLEGATE, FORE STREET, BARBICAN EC2Y 8DA |
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26th March 2026 |
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Fitzroy Quartet |
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Jessie Montgomery |
Strum |
Philip Glass |
String Quartet No.2 ('Company') |
Dvořák |
String Quartet No 12 in F major (‘The American’) |
Grainger |
Molly on the Shore |
Following their formation at the Royal Academy of Music in 2015, the Fitzroy Quartet were appointed Chamber Music Fellows at the RAM and an Associate Ensemble at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Since then they have enjoyed numerous performances in the UK, Europe and other parts of the world. Prizes in several competitions include the Beethoven Prize at the Beethoven International Chamber Music Competition in Poland. Advocates of neglected music as well as the great masterpieces, the Fitzroys present an intriguing trio of companion pieces to Dvořák’s familiar final quartet, |
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City Music Society concerts resume on Thursday 17th September 2026 at 1.05pm at St Bartholomew the Great, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE. |
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| 17th September 2026 | |
THE MUSICIANS’ COMPANY CONSORT |
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J.S.Bach |
A programme of cantatas by J.S.Bach |
For further information
about these concerts please contact
Leslie.East1@btopenworld.com
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Latest
update: 06 December 2025
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