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Free concerts

Lunchtime Recitals

Experience inspiring performances by top emerging artists in our historic venue, renowned for its superb acoustics. Our recitals are programmed in collaboration with leading music colleges and charities, providing a platform for the stars of tomorrow.

Free admission | Donations welcome

Join us and discover exceptional talent in an unforgettable setting.

Saturday Live

A new programme bringing exciting live music to your Saturday afternoons. We’re building out from our classical roots to bring you jazz and other music genres that promise to be the sound of a good weekend.

We give a stage to emerging artists, young composers and underrepresented genres—shining a light on new voices and fresh sounds.

Expect everything from classical and jazz to experimental music, all performed live by some of the most talented up-and-coming musicians.

Join us every Saturday at 1.10pm. Discover something unexpected.

What’s on – free concerts

Emre Şener, composer  

Saturday 26 July 1.10pm

Emre Şener is a composer from Istanbul, Turkey. He now studies composition and contemporary music at the Royal Academy of Music, London with a scholarship, under Rubens Askenar.

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The musicians of the Royal Academy Juniors  

Wednesday 30 July 1.10pm

To include works by Rebecca Clarke, Frank Bridge, Parry and Handel.

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Julia Blachuta (violin) & Svitlana Kosenko (piano)

Friday 1 August 1.10pm

Julia has received numerous awards and honors, including the Julius Isserlis Scholarship from the Royal Philharmonic Society and the prestigious Minister of Culture Scholarship for her exceptional contributions to representing Polish culture internationally.

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FREE – London Conducting Workshop Showcase Concert

Friday 1 August 7.30pm

Join us as we celebrate two decades of music-making, mentorship, and international collaboration. This performance is the culmination of our summer conducting workshop, showcasing the incredible talent and dedication of this year’s participants. 

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William Jack, cello  

Saturday 2 August 1.10pm

William Jack is an Australian multi-style cellist and songwriter, based in London. He is best known for incorporating his jazz guitar background into an unconventional style of cello playing, with a passion for breaking boundaries between genres and cultures.

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Soul at Saint James: Fruits of the Spirit

Sun 3 August 2-4pm

Join us for exuberant gospel music with Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir in the courtyard.

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Nick Venner, piano  

Wednesday 6 August 1.10pm

Nick Venner is a Greek – Austrian pianist living in Athens, Greece. His musical talent was evident from a very young age where he began his piano studies at the Greek National Conservatoire in Athens. 

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Gonçalo Maia Caetano, guitar

Friday 8 August 1.10pm

Gonçalo Maia Caetano is a classical guitarist from Portugal currently doing his Advanced Diploma course at the Royal Academy of Music with professor Michael Lewin.

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Tyler Hay, piano 

Wednesday 13 August 1.10pm

Tyler Hay was born in 1994 and first showed a prodigious talent for the piano when he won the Dennis Loveland award in Kent for his performance of Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz no 1 at the age of 11.

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Yu-Chieh Lin, piano 

Friday 15 August 1.10pm

Taiwanese pianist Yu-Chieh Lin has won top prizes in International competitions, including the 9th International Competition of Slavic Music in Moscow.

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Vladyslav Kuznetsov, piano  

Saturday 16 August 1.10pm

Ukrainian composer and pianist Vladyslav Kuznetsov delivers a series of “colour” pieces – this is an album of improvisations, which have never been transcribed. 

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Yang Yang Cai, piano  

Wednesday 20 August 1.10pm

Yang Yang (b. 1998) began her piano studies at the age of five with Noor Relijk and later continued her education under the tutelage of renowned professor Jan Wijn.

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Elissavet Duo

Friday 22 August 1.10pm

Lisa Archontidi-Tsaldaraki is a Greek violinist and Vitas Kai Yuen Li is a pianist, organist, and composer from Hong Kong.

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Yeva Volkava, violin  

Saturday 23 August 1.10pm

Yeva was born in Minsk, Belarus, in 2001. She started playing violin when she was 5 and entered the Republican Music College at the age of 9.

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Richard Cheung, piano

Wednesday 27 August 1.10pm

BPSE 2025 Junior Intercollegiate Piano Competition First Prizewinner

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Richard Zhang, piano

Friday 29 August 1.10pm

Richard Zhang was born in Jiashan, China in 2005 and showed a great interest in music at a very early age. He began playing the piano when he was six, studying with William Zhou.

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Cynthia Elisa Garduño Meneses, double bassist 

Saturday 30 August 1.10pm

Cynthia Elisa Garduño Meneses (Mexico City, 1993) is a double bassist and interdisciplinary artist whose work is rooted in the exploration of the double bass as a contemporary sonic medium. 

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Rebekah Yinuo Tan, piano   

Friday 5 September 1.10pm

Rebekah Yinuo Tan was born in August 2006 in Shanghai. Inspired to become a concert pianist after hearing Chopin’s music in a live concert when she was 7 years old.

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Misha Kaploukhii, piano  

Wednesday 10 September 1.10pm

Born in 2002, Misha Kaploukhii is an alumnus of the Moscow Gnessin College of Music where he studied with Mikhail Egiazaryan. 

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Trio Musae

Saturday 13 September 1.10pm

Formed in 2024, Trio Musae consists of young musicians from the Royal College of Music in London.

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Josh Harris, piano  

Monday 15 September 1.10pm

Joshua Harris is currently pursuing a Masters in Performance at the Guildhall School of Music of Drama as a Guildhall Scholar, under the tutelage of Noriko Ogawa and Martin Roscoe.

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Nuno Lucas, piano

Wednesday 17 September 1.10pm

Born in Lisbon, Portugal, Nuno started taking piano lessons at the age of eight in Academia de Música de Lagos in Portugal with João Rosa.

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Anson Tang, piano 

Friday 19 September 1.10pm

Pianist Anson Tang has captivated audiences with his deeply emotional performances. Overcoming challenges related to his physical condition, he became a scholar under the Lee Hysan Foundation and graduated from the prestigious Royal College of Music in London in 2024.

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