September 2020

Saturday 26 September
VIVALDI'S FOUR SEASON BY CANDLELIGHT
The Piccadilly Sinfonietta
Warren Mailley-Smith, piano
The Piccadilly Sinfonietta present a spectacular programme of Vivaldi's stunning Four Seasons and Mozart's virtuosic Piano Concerto in A minor. Choose from 2 performance times - early or late evening - allowing you to co-ordinate seamlessly with your dinner plans!
Tickets: £25, £38
Click on your chosen time below to book tickets
Early evening: 5-6pm
Late evening: 7.45-8.45pm
As part of our Covid-secure measures, pews will be cleaned between performances

Wednesday 30 September
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Ben Tarlton, cello
George Crumb - Cello Sonata 
Kaija Saariaho - Sept Papillons 
Britten - Cello Suite No.3
Registration required
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Park Lane Group series

October 2020

Friday 2 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT 
Bela Hartmann (piano)
Beethoven/Liszt - An die ferne Geliebte
JS Bach - Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue BWV903
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No.28, Op.101
Registration required
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Opus Musica series
 
Saturday 3 October
7pm: THE MAGIC FLUTE
Musical Director - Derek Carden
Director - Randy Nichol
Flute - Jane Fisher
Cast includes Catrin Lewis, Randy Nichol, Anthony Scales, David Banbury, Shirley Vaughan, Stefanie Kemball-Read, Sarah Tyler, Kathleen Linton Ford, Annette Dumville, Stephen Roe and Leon Berger.
Porcupine Productions return to St James's with an imaginative – and socially distanced – performance of Mozart's popular opera, The Magic Flute. Suitable for all ages, this colourful opera features heroes, heroines, villains and magicians, humans who dress like birds, genies and witches. A treat for all the family who want to get back to live music!
Tickets: £15
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Monday 5 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Mathilde Milwidsky (violin)
​John Reid (piano)
Janáček - Sonata for violin and piano
Beethoven - Romance in F major, Op.50
Szymanowski - Mythes, Op.30
Registration required 
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Royal Over-Seas League series

Wednesday 7 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Fábio Fernandes (guitar)
Francisco Amorim - Study for guitar
Carlos Seixas - Sonatas 23 & 24
António Victorino d’Almeida - Fantasia Op.70
Albéniz - Sevilla (from Suite Española No.1)
Rodrigo – Fandango (from Tres piezas españolas)
de Falla - Homenaje pour le Tombeau de Claude Debussy
Miguel Llobet - Variaciones sobre un tema de Sor Op.15
Registration required 
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Guildhall School of Music & Drama series
 
Friday 9 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Jean Bernard Marie (piano)
Ravel - MIroirs
Chopin - Scherzo No.4 in E major, Op.54
​Chopin - Scherzo No.3 in C sharp minor, Op.39
Registration required 
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Monday 12 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Lauren Joyanne Morris (mezzo-soprano)
Joseph Ramadan (piano)
Schumann - Frauenliebe und -Leben
Horowitz - Lady Macbeth: A Scena
Howells - King David
Registration required 
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Concordia Foundation series
 
Wednesday 14 October 
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Eleftheria Kotzia (guitar)
Maximo Pujol - Three Preludes
Villa Lobos - Andantino, Andante, Cadenza
Ed McGuire - Zalongos Dance Elegy 
Barbara - Gottingen
Angel Cabral/E.Dizeo - La Foule
Roland Dyens – Fuoco
Registration required 
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Friday 16 October
1.10pm: Julie Park (viola)
Michel Xie (piano)
Bridge - Two pieces for viola and piano
Schumann - Adagio and Allegro Op 70 
Schumann - Fantasiestücke Op.73 
Bowen - Phantasy for viola and piano Op.54
Registration required 
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Royal Academy of Music series
 
Monday 19 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Ludovico Colombo (cello)
Mario Miralles (piano) 
Beethoven - 7 Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen', WoO 46.
Fauré - Élégie for cello and piano Op.24
Prokofiev - Sonata for cello and piano in C major, Op.119​
Click here to register (registrations open 12 noon on 14 October)
Trinity Laban series
 
Wednesday 21 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Juan Pablo Hinojosa (piano)
Alan Mills - Narcissus
Debussy - Images Book I
Medtner - 3 Fairy Tales Op. 42; 2 Fairy Tales Op. 48
Registration required 
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Jaques Samuel Pianos recital
 
Friday 23 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Sabine Sergejeva (violin)
Antonina Suhanova (piano)
Robert Schumann - Violin Sonata No.2 in D minor, Op.121 
Clara Schumann - 3 Romances, Op.22
Registration required 
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Monday 26 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Ariel Lanyi (piano)
Mark Viner (piano)
Konstatin Lapshin (piano)
Beethoven - Piano Sonata in F, Op.10 No.2
Beethoven - Piano Sonata in E minor, Op.90
Beethoven - Piano Sonata in A flat, Op.110
Registration required 
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Beethoven Piano Society of Europe series
 
Wednesday 28 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Brompton String Quartet
Fanny Mendelssohn - Quartet in D minor, Op. 11
Beethoven - Quartet in F minor, Op. 96
Registration required 
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Park Lane Group Music Trust series
 
Friday 30 October
1.10pm: FREE LUNCHTIME CONCERT
Preston Yeo (violin)
Leona Crasi (piano)
Beethoven - Violin Sonata No.4 in A minor Op.23
Enescu - Impressions d’enfance
Registration required 
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Romanian Cultural Institute series

COVID-19 INFORMATION:

** Seating ** We are operating a socially-distanced seating plan, with reduced overall capacity for all our concerts. Pews are cleaned between each event.

** Rule of Six ** You are welcome to attend our concerts in individual groups of up to six people; please maintain social distancing with people you do not live with.

** Lunchtime concerts ** You now need to register in advance for our lunchtime concerts. Registrations open five days before each concert; if you arrive without having registered, you will be able to come in if there is still capacity.

** Face coverings ** It is mandatory to wear face coverings in entertainment venues and places of worship, unless you have a valid exemption.

** Contact details ** Audience members must provide a contact phone number either when they book or when they arrive, as this is now a legal requirement. 

Ticketing
Booking details are listed below each concert

Unless otherwise stated on the booking page, any concessionary prices listed apply to over 60s, under 18s, full-time NUS, and unwaged

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Programmes may be subject to change
Access information for people with disabilities

Concerts & Events Manager David McCleery
020 7381 0441 | email

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St James's offers a flexible space for many kinds of events and concerts (pictures from past events)

Bernard Haitink with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Chaps Choir (photo © Matt Veal)

Neil Finn

Sharon Corr (photo © Noel Buckley)

The Oxford Spezzati