Percy Grainger Society Talk: Grainger the Educator
2026-05-14 21:00 - 22:00 UTC | Online via Zoom
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 1930s.

St Augusine's Singers: Music from the Movies
2026-06-21 18:00 - 19:00
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 Britten.

Haslingfield Choir: Songs and Sonnets
2026-07-04 18:00 - 20:00 | All Saints’ Church, Church Way, Haslingfield, CB23 1JF
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 Festival.

St Augustine's Singers: Music from the Movies
2026-07-05 18:00 - 19:00 | St Augustine’s Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge

New Palace Opera: Káťa Kabanová
2026-07-19 18:30 - 21:00 | St John’s Church, Waterloo, London, SE1 8TY
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 work of lacerating intensity, compelling tension and wondrous lyricism.

This concert performance will be sung in English, with translation by Norman Tucker.

www.newpalaceopera.com/katya-kabanova

Saffron Opera Group: Dialogues des Carmélites
2026-09-13 14:30 - 17:00 | Saffron Hall, Audley End Road, Saffron Walden, CB11 4UH
Saffron Opera Group, conducted by Michael Thorne, perform a concert version of Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites.

St Augustine's Singers
2026-11-07 18:00 - 19:00 | St Augustine’s Church, Richmond Road, Cambridge
St Augustine’s Singers, conducted by Paul Jackson, present their autumn concert, featuring the first performance of Kevin Flanagan’s Flows From the River’s Edge.

Haslingfield Choir and Orchestra: St Cecilia Mass
2026-12-05 19:30 - 21:30 | All Saints’ Church, Church Way, Haslingfield, CB23 1JF
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 movements from Joseph Canteloube’s Songs of the Auvergne.
