Lunchtime Music

Lunchtime Concerts are held every Thursday at 1.10pm and last 40-50 minutes. Everyone is welcome.  Entry is free, but a minimum donation of £5 per person is suggested to cover expenses.

St Matthew’s concerts have been a weekly feature of this church since 1975. There are some 45 concerts a year with short breaks at Christmas, Easter and in August. The programme ranges from early music, instrumental and chamber music, choirs and soloists to jazz. The music is performed to a high standard by professionals from home and abroad, students from the London conservatoires, schools and talented amateurs.

This page is updated regularly as details of forthcoming concerts become available.  For further information, please contact Chris Roulston at chrisr@stmatthews-redhill.org.uk.

21 November - The Alionor Piano Trio
Ioana Voicu-Arnăuţoiu (violin), Alan Thomas ('cello), Norman MacSween (piano)  

     Frank Bridge - Phantasie for Piano Trio, Op. 79
     Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio in E flat major, Op. 1 No. 1

28 November - The Galliard Trio
Andrew Morris (flute), Martin White (oboe), Alec Forshaw (piano/bassoon)

     Edvard Grieg - Symphonic Dance No. 2, Op. 64
     Jacques Ibert - Cinq pièces en trio
     Richard Wagner - Three songs from "Wesendonck Lieder"
     Madeleine Dring - Trio
     Antonín Dvořák - Slavonic Dance in A flat major, Op. 46 no. 3

5 December - The Elegia Consort
Daria Robertson (soprano), Paul Houston (tenor), Andrew Storey (piano)

     Arnold Bax - Winter Waters
     Samuel Barber - Must the winter come so soon (Vanessa)
     Benjamin Britten - Songs from Winter Words
     Stephen Flaherty - Once upon a December (Anastasia)
     Carlisle Floyd - The trees on the mountain (Susannah)
     Mark and Helen Johnson - Midnight (carol)
     Heino Kaski - Mökit Nukuu Lumiset (Finnish carol)
     Otto Kotilainen - Varpunen jouluanaamuna (Finnish carol)
     Roger Quilter - Blow, blow thou winter wind
     Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov - Excerpts from the Snow Maiden
     Franz Schubert - Excerpts from Winterreise
     Georgy Sviridov - Winter Road
     Peter Cornelius - Extracts from Six Christmas Songs

12 December - Violin and Piano Recital
Litsa Tunnah (violin), James F Brown (piano)

19 December - Harp Recital
Margaret Watson

2025 - Fifty Years of Lunchtime Concerts at St Matthew's

Spring Season

9 January - Dunottar School
Director of Music - Emily Pettet

16 January - Violin and Piano Recital
Emmanuel Bach (violin), Jenny Stern (piano)

     Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata No.9 in A for Piano and Violin, Op.47 'Kreutzer'
     Eugène Ysaÿe - Caprice d'après L'Etude en Forme de Valse de Saint-Saëns

23 January - Clarinet and Piano Recital
Matthew Wilsher (clarinet), Joseph Cummings (piano)

30 January - City of London Freemen's School
Director of Music - Anthony Merryweather

This concert will include solos and also chamber music, including a string trio who reached the final of the national Pro Corda chamber music competition this year.

6 February - Song Recital
Zhanna Kemp (soprano)

13 February - Viola Recital
Yohei Nakajima

20 February - Piano Recital
Yoko Ono

27 February - Violin Recital
Karolina Csathy

6 March - Piano Recital
Kyle Nash-Baker

13 March - Violin and Piano Recital
Emilia de Geer (violin), Timothy Chua (piano)

20 March - 'Classical Folk'
Peter Golden and Friends

27 March - 'Cello and Piano Recital
Siriol Hugh-Jones ('cello), Anna Kolesnik-Neal (piano)

3 April - The Alionor Piano Trio
Ioana Voicu-Arnăuţoiu (violin), Alan Thomas ('cello), Norman MacSween (piano)

10 April - Saxophone Ensemble
Debbie King and Friends  

The Summer Season of Lunchtime Concerts will begin on 1st May