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Upcoming Concerts
Past Concerts
Some past concerts are available on YouTube – scroll down to see
Step into a world of midsummer beauty for an evening of reflection, warmth and enchantment. Soprano Miranda Heldt, mezzo-soprano Georgia Ginsberg, and pianist Olly Lallemant weave together classical and lighter musical gems exploring the timeless interplay of moonlight and sunlight, darkness and illumination
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After drawing over 500,000 visitors in New York and Los Angeles, Pete M. Wyer’s groundbreaking immersive sound installation The Forest Within comes to the UK. Since 2016, Wyer’s visionary work has mesmerised audiences with its unique blend of choral and natural sounds, creating a truly immersive auditory experience.
The Forest Within features a 72-voice choir, spatially mapped through multiple audio-speakers to completely surround the listener, with harmonies and textures shifting through the space. Accompanying the choir are nature field recordings, including the dawn chorus, captured at 18 simultaneous points, enveloping the listener in a rich, layered soundscape.
For the first time, the installation will be hosted indoors, inviting audiences to engage their most immersive sense—hearing—to step away from screens and journey inward, where the true experience unfolds.
A few clips of people in the church talking about their experience
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Free concert – just come along!
‘Desirable Women’ – Choralis Australis
A programme of choral music honouring the love and beauty of women, including music by Debussy, Britten and excerpts from ‘West Side Story’.
Sunday, May 5· 7:30 – 9pm
A luscious programme of romantic & sacred music including: Brahms’ Love Song Waltzes, Britten’s Hymn to St Cecilia, Debussy’s Salut Printemps, two Newfoundland Folk Songs arr. Harry Somers, and excerpts from West Side Story and My Fair Lady.
Have a Merry Christmas with Dulwich Choral Society on the 14th December. Expect a mix of traditional carols, instrumental works and even some barbershop songs. Sing along and be merry with our free post-show refreshments. Drinks on sale and we will be raising money for a local charity. Free to attend and we’d love to see you there.
“Join us for a transcendent evening of classical music as we commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of the legendary composer, Sergei Rachmaninoff. Experience the timeless beauty of his compositions performed by accomplished musicians. An event not to be missed!”
Concordia Chamber Choir
Summer Concert: Folksongs
Friday 16th June 2023, 7.30pm
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Concordia Chamber Choir
Spring Concert:
Saturday 1st April 2023, 7.30pm
Myriad Chamber Choir
Sentinels of the Starry Skies Friday 10 March 2023, 7:30pm
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Choral concert Saturday 17th September 7.30pm, given by the St Stephen’s Consort, organised by Nick, Kate and Lizi Vineall, conducted by Nicholas Ansdell-Evans. A wide range of lovely and unusual choral music both sacred and secular, from Josquin, Ockeghem and Byrd to Bruckner, Ivor Gurney and Ansdell-Evans. Free admission, donations in aid of St Stephen’s.
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Sunday June 19th 6pm – “Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo”
The Choristers are performing this fun cantata telling the story of Noah in music and in 30 minutes!! They would really like to have an audience and are inviting you to enjoy the journey from flood to rainbow with them.
Friday 22 April 7pm
A concert including ‘The Trout Quintet’. This is a free concert given by the Chamber Soloists of Europe. Other works included in this concert are Schumann’s 3 Canonic Studies op.56 for pedal piano, set for Piano Quintet and Brett Dean’s “Voices of Angels” 1996 also for String Quintet. After this performance the artists are taking the programme on tour across Europe. Donations for the life of St Stephen’s.
On Sunday 27 March 2022, St Stephen’s Dulwich is hosting an afternoon of concerts featuring the renowned British cellist Raphael Wallfisch who will play the Cello Suites, BWV 1007–1012, by J S Bach. The sixth suite will be played on a specially-constructed cello with five strings. Raphael Wallfisch will be giving us this marathon performance of all six suites for unaccompanied cello in two concerts lasting around an hour each; the first at 4pm and the second at 6.30. Light refreshments will be available between the two sessions. All proceeds from this special event will go to the new Choral Scholars’ Fund at St Stephen’s. To attend both concerts, please book through Eventbrite (click the picture.) Tickets: adults £20; children/students £10.
In celebration of our long-awaited return to performance, Myriad pairs well-known Christmas anthems with contemporary settings of the same texts. We hope you will share our delight in this varied programme which acknowledges tradition and innovation, multiculturalism and diversity, with music from Britain, Russia, Norway, Nigeria, Kenya, USA, Spain and Italy.
Tailleferre Ensemble: Postcards from Europe, 28th November 2021 4pm and 6pm
Join the Tailleferre Ensemble as they travel through Europe exploring the work of Arrieu, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Cecilia McDowall, and Rhian Samuel. Many of these works are written for reed trio but one of Beethoven’s Duos for clarinet and bassoon will also feature, as well as Vivaldi’s Sonata for two oboes and bassoon. Rhapsody and Fugue: Masterworks for Cello and Piano, 26th November 2021 at 7.30pm – Alison Holford and Ben Woodward
Light in the Night, Friday 19th November 2021 at 7.30pm – Madeleine Holmes and Oliver Lallemant
The Levanto Ensemble Fragments, 10th October 2021, 7pm The Levanto Ensemble presented a varied programme of wind chamber music ahead of their Royal Overseas League Competition. Join them for a performance of vivid minitures written in various styles.
Ionian Singers: Music from England and France, 25th September 7.30pm
The Ionian Singers with Timothy Salter (conductor and piano) were joined by Olivia Fraser (oboe) and Jocelyn Coates (soprano) in a programme of French and English music reflecting the passion combined with elegance typical of its period. Ionian Singers – Website
Champagne Night at The Opera, 17th September 7.30pm
Vocalists Miranda Heidt and Susan Parkes presented a varied recital of arias alongside virtuosic accompaniment of our music director Oliver Lallemant.
St Stephen’s Consort: A Summer Concert of English and French Choral Music, 31st July 2021
An evening of English and French choral music was given by a consort of choral scholars directed by Nicholas Ansdell-Evans. All receipts were split equally between St Stephens and the Eglise de Notre-Dame de Morsalines on the Normandy coast, where this concert was originally planned to take place.
An American in Paris: Summer Chamber Music Festival, 25th July 2021
St Stephen’s Chamber Players presented their summer festival American in Paris, featuring two concerts with a fantastic selection of American and French masterpieces of twentieth century.
Opera Asteria: The Rape of Lucretia, 18th and 20th June 2021
Lammas Green Music Studio returned to St Stephen’s for their second studio recital in 2021 and first one with live audiences allowed. Lammas Green Music Studio is a teaching collective paying particular importance to performance opportunities for their students.
Eusebius Quartet, 23rd May 2021
The Eusebius Quartet presented two live-audience concerts on Sunday 23rd May, 2021 at St Stephen’s Church. Over two concerts, at 3pm & 6pm, they performed the Complete String Quartets of their namesake, Robert Schumann, alongside Huw Watkins: In My Craft or Sullen Art, a piece for Tenor and String Quartet. They were joined by young British opera singer, Alex Aldren.
