Events

New Palace Opera performs Béla Bartók's one-act opera, Bluebeard's Castle, in a new concert arrangement by Jonathan Finney. In his interpretation of the pan-European folk-tale, Belá Bartók reveals the emotional abyss in this gloomy psychological thriller by presenting the seven chambers within Bluebeard’s castle/mind, symbolising his obsessions, with powerfully expressive pictorial and psychological music. While …

This meeting continues the Percy Grainger Society’s 2025–26 members’ meeting series, Grainger the Educator, a celebration of Percy Grainger’s often overlooked yet enduring influence as a teacher and educator. This talk, given by Percy Grainger Society President, Paul Jackson, considers Grainger's lecture series for New York University, and for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, given in the …

Haslingfield Choir, conducted by Paul Jackson, present a programme of settings of Shakespeare, including George Shearing's Songs and Sonnets. The evening also includes readings given by members of the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival.

St. Augustine's Singers, conducted by Paul Jackson, present a programme of choral music from and for the movies. The concert includes Michel Legrand's How Do You Keep the Music Playing, and The Windmills of Your Mind, JS Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Samuel Barber's Agnus Dei, and music by Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten.

New Palace Opera, conducted by Michael Thorne, present a concert performance of Leoš Janáček's opera, Káťa Kabanová.

Saffron Opera Group, conducted by Michael Thorne, perform a concert version of Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites.

St Augustine's Singers, conducted by Paul Jackson, present their autumn concert, featuring the first performance of Ken Flanagan's Flows From the River's Edge.

Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Paul Jackson, present their Christmas concert.