Events & Concerts


General Information

Welcome to our Events and Concerts area. Here, you can find out about what’s happening at St. John’s.

If you are looking for information on our worship, please visit our Worship Services area, where you can find our service times, styles, and locations. Any variations from the regular pattern appear on this page.

Other activities include our Welcome Centre on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 12 noon to 3 pm (run jointly with Our Lady & St Thomas RC Church), and on Fridays from 12 noon to 2 pm the church is open for private prayer.

Concerts

St John’s Church has held fortnightly lunch-time concerts since 1975. Concerts are held on alternate Thursdays throughout most of the year with breaks at Christmas, Easter and the summer. Please check this calendar for the next few dates (and programmes, when available).

Light refreshments are available from 11.45am and the concert begins at 12.30pm. There is usually an interval and the concert finishes at around 1.45pm.

Admission is free but there is a collection on the way out to cover expenses. Please come and join us!

August – October 2021

Aug
19
Thu
Summer lunch-time concert
Aug 19 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Steve Law and friends present a series of concerts at St John’s as the Harrow Summer Music Festival. Details are on the attached flier and they are at 12.30 pm and 3 pm.
For full details see http://harrowsummermusic.co.uk/.

Please note that under the current arrangements social distancing will be required and facemasks should be worn (unless you have a legal exemption).

Summer lunch-time concert
Aug 19 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Steve Law and friends present a series of concerts at St John’s as the Harrow Summer Music Festival. Details are on the attached flier and they are at 12.30 pm and 3 pm.
For full details see http://harrowsummermusic.co.uk/.
Please note that under the current arrangements social distancing will be required and facemasks should be worn (unless you have a legal exemption).

Aug
26
Thu
Summer lunch-time concert
Aug 26 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Steve Law and friends present a series of concerts at St John’s as the Harrow Summer Music Festival. Details are on the attached flier and they are at 12.30 pm and 3 pm.
For full details see http://harrowsummermusic.co.uk/.

Please note that under the current arrangements social distancing will be required and facemasks should be worn (unless you have a legal exemption).

Summer lunch-time concert
Aug 26 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Steve Law and friends present a series of concerts at St John’s as the Harrow Summer Music Festival. Details are on the attached flier and they are at 12.30 pm and 3 pm.
For full details see http://harrowsummermusic.co.uk/.
Please note that under the current arrangements social distancing will be required and facemasks should be worn (unless you have a legal exemption).

Sep
2
Thu
Summer lunch-time concert
Sep 2 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Steve Law and friends present a series of concerts at St John’s as the Harrow Summer Music Festival. Details are on the attached flier and they are at 12.30 pm and 3 pm.
For full details see http://harrowsummermusic.co.uk/.

Please note that under the current arrangements social distancing will be required and facemasks should be worn (unless you have a legal exemption).

Summer lunch-time concert
Sep 2 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Steve Law and friends present a series of concerts at St John’s as the Harrow Summer Music Festival. Details are on the attached flier and they are at 12.30 pm and 3 pm.
For full details see http://harrowsummermusic.co.uk/.
Please note that under the current arrangements social distancing will be required and facemasks should be worn (unless you have a legal exemption).

Sep
9
Thu
Concert: Ivan Hovorun (piano)
Sep 9 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

We are planning to resume our lunch time concerts (cancelled since March 2020) with a recital by Ivan Hovorun (piano).

Programme of pieces by Franz Liszt:
Vallée d’Obermann, S. 160
Funérailles, S. 173
Zwei Episoden aus Lenaus Faust:
Der nächtliche Zug, S. 513a
Mephisto-Walzer, S. 514

Please note that we are planning to serve tea and coffee but not sandwiches or cakes – you are welcome to bring your own.

Sep
23
Thu
Concert: Jelena Makarova (piano)
Sep 23 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Concert: Jelena Makarova (piano)

Lunch time music with Jelena Makarova (piano).
Beethoven: Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 (“Pastoral”)
Chopin: Polonaise in C sharp minor, Op. 26, No. 1
Egidija Medekšaitė: Textile_6*
Colin Riley: Light Touch; At Sixes and Sevens (World Premieres)*
Britten: Night Piece (Notturno)
Schubert: Impromptu in A flat major, Op. 90, No. 4

*The performance of these three pieces is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture/Lietuvos Kultūros Taryba.

Oct
7
Thu
Concert: John MacDomnic (trumpet) and Adrian Boynton (piano/organ)
Oct 7 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch time music with John MacDomnic (trumpet) and Adrian Boynton (piano/organ)
Albinoni: Sonata in C for Trumpet and Strings
Francis Thomé: Fantaisie for Trumpet and Piano
Bach: Fugue in E flat (St Anne)
Haydn: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E flat
Thorvold Hansen: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 18
Boellmann: Prière à Notre-Dame and Toccata (Suite Gothique)
Leonard Bernstein: Four Miniatures
Percy Code: Zelda (Caprice)

Oct
21
Thu
Concert: Niel du Preez (piano)
Oct 21 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch time music with Niel du Preez (piano).
Busoni: Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr
Beethoven: Sonata No. 17, Op. 31 No. 2 in D minor (“Tempest”)
Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60
Scriabin: Six Études
Liszt: Vallée d’Obermann