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.

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

Summer Season 

1 May - Song Recital
Alice Bishop (soprano), Marion Lea (piano)

     Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947) – Tyndaris, Néère
     Claude Debussy (1862-1918) - Beau Soir, Nuit d’étoiles
     Henri Duparc (1848-1933) - L’invitation au voyage, Chanson Triste, Au pays où se fait la guerre
     John Field (1782-1837) - Nocturne in Bb
     Cecil Armstrong Gibbs (1889-1960) – Nightfall, The Flooded Stream, Take Heed,
          To One Who Passed Whistling through the Night
     Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) - Shy One
     Edward Elgar (1857-1934) - The Shepherds Song

8 May - The Kelleth Piano Trio

Rachel Ellis (violin), Siriol Hugh-Jones ('cello), Stephen-Carroll-Turner (piano)

     Joaquín Turina (1882-1949) - ‘Circulo…Fantasia’.  for violin cello and piano, Op 91
     Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) - Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor Op. 90 “Dumky”

15 May - Harp Recital
Margaret Watson

22 May - Song Recital
Helen Hardwick (soprano), Philip Robinson (tenor), Wayne Shattles (piano) 

29 May - Piano Recital
Emilia De Geer

5 June - Violin and Piano Recital
Ioana Voicu-Arnăuţoiu (violin), Giosa Manuela (piano)

12 June - Flute and Piano Recital
Anna Kondrashina (flute), Pavel Timofeyesky (piano)

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

26 June - The River City Saxes
Chris Hooker, Graham Pinder, Christopher Frost, Debbie King

3 July - Piano Recital
Raymond Wui Man Yiu

10 July - "LIPS" Wind Quintet
Caroline Welsh (flute), Dan Elson (oboe), Charlotte Wooley (clarinet), Matthew Sackman (horn), Rick Yoder (bassoon)

17 July - Piano Recital
Cristiana Achim

24 July - Flute and Piano Recital
Nadine André (piano)

31 July - Piano Recital
Ophelia Gordon

This concert will be followed by the end-of-season party

The Autumn Season of Lunchtime Concerts will begin on 4th September