Mill Hill Music Club
Purcell Suite from Abdelazar
Handel Concerto Grosso in B Flat
Bach Concerto for two violins in D minor
Vivaldi The Four Seasons
London Mozart Players (LMP)
Simon Blendis violin/director
Aki Blendis violin
An English Evening at Grayshott
Elgar Serenade for Strings
Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves
Finzi Let Us Garlands Bring
Britten Simple Symphony
Butterworth (arr. Jonathan Rathbone) Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad
Roderick Williams baritone
Chloe Rooke conductor
Simon Blendis leader
Matilda Lloyd at Grayshott
Mozart Overture from Le Nozze di Figaro
Saverio Mercadante rev. Foster “Liete voci” and “Ah si, questo di mia vita” from Zaira
Rossini Overture from L’italiana in Algeri
Pauline Viardot arr. Foster Havanaise
Mozart Overture from Così fan tutte
Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E Flat
Mozart Symphony No. 40
Matilda Lloyd trumpet
Jonathan Bloxham conductor
Simon Blendis leader
Green Room Concerts
Telemann Quartet in A minor
Bach Violin Concerto No. 2 in E Major
Leonarda Sonata Duodecima
Albinoni Oboe Concerto No. 2 in D Minor
Bach Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor
Bach Concerto for Violin & Oboe
Bach ‘Sinfonia’ from Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis
London Mozart Players (LMP)
Jack Gonzalez-Harding harpsichord/director
Jack Gonzalez-Harding harpsichord/director
Nicholas Daniel oboe
Fenella Humphreys violin
Sijie Chen leader
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Green Room is a brand new concert festival launching 1-3 September, taking world-class artists, usually found on the big stage, into intimate and beautiful performance spaces.
The first series (Balfour Winery are drinks partners), débuts at the stunning medieval Tithe Barn, in the picturesque village of Lenham, Kent.
From this historic location, The London Mozart Players will perform Bach, Albinoni and Telemann, alongside esteemed oboist, Nicholas Daniel OBE, BBC Music Magazine Award Winner Fenella Humphreys (violin) and rising star Jack Gonzalez-Harding (harpsichord/director).
The schedule also includes the sizzling Pasadena Roof Orchestra, a Bach to Baby Flute Fantasia concert, a classic car meet and award winning jazz vocalist and Radio 2 & Jazz FM broadcaster, Clare Teal and her band.
Tickets & further information: greenroomconcerts.com
Exclusive discount for LMP members use LMP20 at checkout.
Music Through the Ages
Purcell Movements from ‘Abdelezar’
Mozart Divertimento in F K 138, movement 2
Mendelssohn String Symphony No.10 in B minor, movements 1 and 2
Coleridge-Taylor Novellette No. 2
Jacob Suite for Recorder and Strings
Ryan Morgan Phantom Pyres
Kate Bush (arr. Will Newell) And Dream of Sheep
Simon Blendis director
Hassan Marzban recorder
Joined by the winner of Croydon Performing Arts Festival and our newly created Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Prize, we’re tracing the evolution of music from baroque to rock.
At the heart of our residency at St John’s is a mission to inspire the younger generation and allow as many people as possible to hear our music. By purchasing one of our £26 tickets, you are enabling a young person, or someone who is not normally able to attend, the chance to come to our concert and enjoy the night free of charge. You’ll also receive a glass of Prosecco and reserved seating free of charge.
Our Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Prize has been created to support young composers from underrepresented backgrounds. The winner, Ryan Morgan, has had the opportunity to develop their work with LMP’s musicians and industry experts. This concert will premiere his piece ‘Phantom Pyres’.
Musical Adventures of Stan the Dog & Mabel the Cat
Psssst parents – are you looking for an affordable day out for the whole family? Join our dog and cat friends, Stan and Mabel, on a musical adventure as they discover the orchestra! This fun-packed concert is suitable for children aged 3+
Music-loving dog and cat, Stan and Mabel, are off to find their neighbour who’s gone to judge the Greatest Orchestra in the World competition – leading them on a musical adventure featuring a host of animal instrumentalists and a very unusual debut performance.
This fun-packed interactive concert for children aged 3+, features highly engaging music by composer Paul Rissmann, storytelling by Polly Ives, projected illustrations from Jason Chapman’s original book.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Musical Revolting Rhyme
Eleanor Alberga Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Matthew Lynch conductor
Snow White; you think you know the story?
You don’t, the real one’s much more gory.
It’s full of grim and spite and malice,
And now it’s here in Crystal Palace.
This concert with its rotten twists,
Has quite the instrumental list.
There’s crashing sounds and xylophones
and drums and chimes and vibraphones.
Our musical tale will sure provide
A treat for your more fiendish side.
So come and see us, LMP,
It might well put you off your tea…
Eleanor Alberga’s musical retelling of Roald Dahl’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs from his Revolting Rhymes is suitable for the whole family (and especially for those who love subversive and wicked humour). Complete with narrator and orchestra, this concert tells the tale of Snow White and her merry band of retired jockeys who can’t seem to cash out on their horse-racing wagers.
Purchasing a Priority Ticket means you will have a reserved seat at the front of the hall, as well as a free drink.
Tasting Notes: Heart Strings
Simon Blendis leader
A unique event which combines wine tasting with live music.
Do something different for Valentines (or Pal-entines!) day this year and treat your loved ones to a special evening of wine tastings paired with romantic strings music, set in the luscious and intimate surroundings of St John’s Smith Square.
With each tasting, a wine expert and LMP’s leader will explain how the music and wine were paired. As the music plays, you’ll be able to sit back, listen and enjoy the accompanying wine.
To make the night even sweeter, we’ll seat you cabaret-style and deliver your wines and canapés by table service. Throughout the night, you can impress your date by purchasing extra bottles of wine if one (or more) have taken your fancy.
After the wine tasting, head down to the crypt for an afterparty complete with live jazz music, a bar and fun vibes until late.
Tasting Notes: Wine with Music
Simon Blendis leader
It’s a story often told that many of the great composers enjoyed the occasional tipple. And who are we to not honour this legacy?
In a twist on a classic concert, our musicians are grabbing their instruments and a bottle for this musical wine tasting evening. Directed by LMP Leader Simon Blendis, we’ll be sharing the stories behind the music as well as pairing each piece with a specially curated wine, accompanied by a tasting note.
With cabaret-style seating, nibbles and table service, St John’s Smith Square will be transformed into a ‘wine cave’ for this informal evening of music and drinks.
After the wine tasting, head on down to the Crypt for an afterparty complete with live jazz music, full bar and fun vibes until late.
Get ready to make the most of every sip with Wine-kleine-nacht-musik. Cheers!
Mozart Explored: Piano Concerto No.27 in B Flat
In the mid-1780s, Mozart’s Piano Concertos were the talk of the town. For two glorious years, concerts advertising his brand-new piano works would sell out, with the great and good of Vienna flocking to the doors. But by the third year, audience numbers dwindled as popular opinion hesitated over Mozart’s ever more daring works. Our 2024 series covers Mozart’s final five Piano Concertos, composed during the increasingly tumultuous period of his life. Many of these works are now regarded as his greatest masterpieces.
Anyone studying or working at a school or university can get our ‘Education’ tickets for £10. Please bring suitable ID with you on the day to show at the door. All tickets can be bought on the door, as well as over the phone and online.
Mozart Explored: Piano Concerto No.24 in C minor
In the mid-1780s, Mozart’s Piano Concertos were the talk of the town. For two glorious years, concerts advertising his brand-new piano works would sell out, with the great and good of Vienna flocking to the doors. But by the third year, audience numbers dwindled as popular opinion hesitated over Mozart’s ever more daring works. Our 2024 series covers Mozart’s final five Piano Concertos, composed during the increasingly tumultuous period of his life. Many of these works are now regarded as his greatest masterpieces.
Anyone studying or working at a school or university can get our ‘Education’ tickets for £10. Please bring suitable ID with you on the day to show at the door. All tickets can be bought on the door, as well as over the phone and online.
Mozart Explored: Piano Concerto No.26 in D
In the mid-1780s, Mozart’s Piano Concertos were the talk of the town. For two glorious years, concerts advertising his brand-new piano works would sell out, with the great and good of Vienna flocking to the doors. But by the third year, audience numbers dwindled as popular opinion hesitated over Mozart’s ever more daring works. Our 2024 series covers Mozart’s final five Piano Concertos, composed during the increasingly tumultuous period of his life. Many of these works are now regarded as his greatest masterpieces.
Anyone studying or working at a school or university can get our ‘Education’ tickets for £10. Please bring suitable ID with you on the day to show at the door. All tickets can be bought on the door, as well as over the phone and online.
Mozart Explored: Piano Concerto No.23 in A
In the mid-1780s, Mozart’s Piano Concertos were the talk of the town. For two glorious years, concerts advertising his brand-new piano works would sell out, with the great and good of Vienna flocking to the doors. But by the third year, audience numbers dwindled as popular opinion hesitated over Mozart’s ever more daring works. Our 2024 series covers Mozart’s final five Piano Concertos, composed during an increasingly tumultuous period of his life. Many of these works are now regarded as his greatest masterpieces.
Anyone studying or working at a school or university can get our ‘Education’ tickets for £10. Please bring suitable ID with you on the day to show at the door. All tickets can be bought on the door, as well as over the phone and online.
Mozart Explored: Piano Concerto No.25 in C
In the mid-1780s, Mozart’s Piano Concertos were the talk of the town. For two glorious years, concerts advertising his brand-new piano works would sell out, with the great and good of Vienna flocking to the doors. But by the third year, audience numbers dwindled as popular opinion hesitated over Mozart’s ever more daring works. Our 2024 series covers Mozart’s final five Piano Concertos, composed during the increasingly tumultuous period of his life. Many of these works are now regarded as his greatest masterpieces.
Anyone studying or working at a school or university can get our ‘Education’ tickets for £10. Please bring suitable ID with you on the day to show at the door. All tickets can be bought on the door, as well as over the phone and online.
A Very Croydon Christmas
Willcocks Once in Royal David’s City
Darke In the Bleak Midwinter
Anon (arr. Roger Harvey) Past Three O’Clock
Willcocks While Shepherds Watched
Traditional (arr. Ryan Linham) Good King Wenceslas
Willcocks The First Nowell
Gruber Stille Nacht
Willcocks Hark! The Herald Angels Sing: 1. Fanfare
Roger Harvey A Festive Cheer
Willcocks God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Torme (arr. Christopher Mowat) The Christmas Song
Willcocks It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
Traditional (arr. Ryan Linham) Christmas Hits Medley
Willcocks O Come All Ye Faithful
London Mozart Players
Matt Walters organ
Croydon Voices choir
Croydon Bach Choir
Croydon Philharmonic Choir
Old Palace of John Whitgift School Choir
Come one, come all (ye faithful) to Fairfield Halls, for a concert to inspire Christmas cheer. With sing-a-long carols and accompanying sleigh bells, and performance by local choirs, this Christmas concert will feature the great Fairfield organ and brass ensemble.
Mulled wine and mince pies will be available. Christmas jumpers are encouraged!
Mozart: The Mixtape
Imogen Cooper piano
Martin James Bartlett piano
Anna Prohaska soprano
Jonathan Bloxham conductor
Imagine this. The year is 1783 and you’re a fashionable Viennese aristocrat, so of course you’ve heard of Mozart, the 27-year-old genius lighting up music halls across the continent. He might even be your piano teacher. Someone tells you that he’s got something new planned, so you show up to the palace theatre in your newest ‘fit. As the concert starts, you note that the Emperor is in attendance – a good sign. If you could, you’d livetweet the whole thing.
Two hundred years later, you can! It’s LMP’s 75th birthday this year, so we’re recreating this iconic 1783 concert. It features many of Mozart’s greatest hits including the “Haffner” Symphony and Piano Concertos No.13 and No.5. Joined by soprano Anna Prohaska and pianists Imogen Cooper and Martin James Bartlett, we’ll transport you back to Vienna, 1783, for one night and one night only.
100 Faces of Croydon
Tied to this concert is 100 Faces of Croydon – a community-led photography and music project from London Mozart Players (LMP) which showcases the local people that make our borough special.
Over the last few weeks, 30 local photographers have taken portraits of 100 people in various locations around Croydon. Two photos of each ‘face’ have been taken; one black and white headshot and one coloured photo taken in an environment which symbolises what Croydon means to them.
The headshots will be revealed during this concert and then released in an online gallery. During this reveal, the 100 ‘faces’ will participate in a special musical performance.
100 Faces of Croydon is funded and supported by This is Croydon: The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan’s, London Borough of Culture.
Beethoven and Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1
Anna Clyne Stride
Arvo Pärt Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten
Beethoven Symphony No.5
Isata Kanneh-Mason piano
Jonathan Bloxham conductor
Ruth Rogers leader
If you’re the superstitious type, you might feel some ghosts, spirits and mysterious forces moving around in this concert…
Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No.1 was performed so often on the same instrument that the keys started to move by themselves, as if played by a dedicated, though invisible, pianist. Holy water wasn’t enough to deter the ghostly musician, so the instrument was packed up and sent to the landfill (ghost included). Isata Kanneh-Mason performs this concerto with LMP, but reduces the chances of witchcraft by playing on a modern piano.
Anna Clyne’s Stride is haunted by a more obvious predecessor, Beethoven’s Sonata Pathétique. Listen out for the echoes of influence, reworked into a striking piece with Psycho-esque strings that warn of danger. And it’s an old cliché, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the opening notes of Beethoven’s Symphony No.5. The composer supposedly said they represent the ghostly hand of fate knocking at the door.
We’ll leave it to you to hear the pieces and decide whether these are just ghost stories, or if there’s something more than meets the eye…
Story of the Fair Field
Arnold The Fair Field
Coleridge-Taylor Four Novelletten for Strings
Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E Flat
Mozart Symphony No.40
Matilda Lloyd trumpet
Jonathan Bloxham conductor
Simon Blendis leader
In medieval times, Croydon was famous for its funfair. People would come from far and wide to browse the stalls and enjoy the entertainment, and the area came to be known as the Fair Field. When Fairfield Halls opened on this site in 1962, this formalised its centuries-old status as the entertainment centre of south London. In 1988, LMP became the Resident Orchestra at Fairfield Halls and Croydon. Our arrival built on the area’s strong tradition of classical music, found also in the form of composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor who lived here over a hundred years ago.
We’re tracing through the development of this historic site, from its early days as a bustling medieval fair to an acoustically outstanding concert hall that has attracted musicians from all over the world. We’re combining it with our history as an orchestra set up to play Mozart and Haydn, before later choosing to make Croydon our home. It’ll also be linked by narration that will connect the four pieces and celebrate the music-making on the site today.
Please note there will be a pre-concert talk from 6.30pm to 7pm on the sun terrace of Fairfield Halls. This talk is free and welcome to all concert attendees.