Events

Paul Jackson conducts a special charity concert performance of Handel's Messiah, in aid of Help2Ukraine (Suffolk) Ambulances for Ukraine. In 2024 and 2025, Help2Ukraine (Suffolk) sent four ambulances fully equipped with life-saving supplies to Lviv, as part of a convoy of eight. In 2026, we will do the same. There is an urgent need to …

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 on-line 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 …

Haslingfield Choir, conducted by Paul Jackson, present a programme of settings of Shakespeare, including George Shearing's Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare, choral music by Felix Mendelssohn, Charles Wood, and Bob Chilcott, and music for voice and piano by Gerald Finzi and Michael Tippett. The evening also features readings given by members of the Cambridge Shakespeare …

The 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 …

A private recital featuring Percy Grainger's Blithe Bells, Beautiful Fresh Flower and Bridal Lullaby.

New Palace Opera, conducted by Michael Thorne, present a concert performance of Leoš Janáček's opera, Káťa Kabanová. This story of one woman’s bid for escape from her suffocating community reflects the composer’s unrequited love for a woman resembling Katya herself. Janáček once wrote, “Katya’s suffering is my own,” bringing forth from the Czech composer a …

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

Paul Jackson discusses Percy Grainger's work as an educator, with reference to his lecture series for the Australian Broadcasting Commission between 1934 and 1935, “Music: A Commonsense View of all Types."

The St Augustine's Singers, conducted by Paul Jackson, present their autumn concert, featuring Charles Gounod's lyrical Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte-Cécile, the 'St Cecilia Mass', in the version for chorus, soloists and organ.

Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra, conducted by Paul Jackson, perform Charles Gounod's lyrical Messe solennelle en l’honneur de Sainte-Cécile, the 'St Cecilia Mass'. The concert also includes Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose Suite, and the first set of Joseph Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne.

Christmas music, carols and solos by the St Augustine’s Singers, conducted by Paul Jackson, at Cambridge's Michaelhouse Centre.