Events

A Christmas concert that's different — the village carols of the pre-Victorian era accompanied by a church gallery band. Hear are some well-known and not-so-well-known vibrant carols in their original form, with some for all to sing.

Philip J Price, Musical Director London Gallery Quire

See more about the London Gallery Quire at https://www.lgq.org.uk/ .

The admission price of £8 includes Stollen and a measure of Glühwein or a soft drink if you prefer.
This concert will not be live streamed. Please purchase your ticket online in advance or at the door (cash or contactless).

On the first Saturday of each month at 6pm, please join us for an evening of music, played on our historic Organ.

David Graham has been involved with the music at Farm Street for over thirty years. In 1982 he became Assistant to Nicholas Danby (Director of Music 1967 – 1997) and after Danby’s death in 1997 was appointed Joint Director Music with Martyn Parry. From 2004, following Martyn Parry’s death, he has been Organist and Director of Music.

David Graham is recognised internationally as one of the UK’s leading organ teachers. As Professor-in-charge of Organ at the Royal College of Music he has taught some of the most talented young organists, many of whom have gone on to win prizes in international competitions and hold important positions in cathedrals and churches in this country and abroad. As a performer he has played widely throughout Europe, the USA and the Far East. His repertoire is wide but Graham has commissioned organ works by the contemporary British composer, Huw Watkins, and given premieres of his music in Notre Dame and St Sulpice in Paris.

Graham has recorded extensively as a solo artist in music by Guy Weitz, his predecessor as organist at Farm Street and music by Dupré, Franck and d’Indy, among others. He also features as an accompanist in a wide range of choral music and as a conductor in works by Nino Rota and other 19th and 20th century composers.

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Now the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, Berlin rose from insignificant origins on swampy soil, becoming a city of immigrants over the ages. Mary Fulbrook introduces her book, which discusses the periods and regimes that shaped its character – whether Prussian militarism; courtly culture and enlightenment; rapid industrialisation and expansion; ambitious imperialism; experiments with democracy; or repressive dictatorships of both right and left, dramatically evidenced in the violence of World War and genocide, and then in the Wall dividing Cold War Berlin.

This book also presents Berlin's distinctive history as firmly rooted in specific places and sites. Statues and memorials have been erected and demolished, plaques displayed and displaced, and streets named and renamed in recurrent cycles of suppression or resurrection of heroes and remembrance of victims. This vivid and engaging introduction thus reveals Berlin's startling transformations and contested legacies through ten moments from critical points in its multi-layered history.

Since 1995, Mary Fulbrook FBA has been Professor of German History at University College, London. She has around a dozen publications to her name.

This event will be online via Zoom and in person at St George's. If you wish to watch online, please register here to get the Zoom link. The same link can be used to pre-purchase your ticket if you plan to attend the talk at St George's in person. You can also pay at the door (cash or card).

On the first Saturday of each month at 6pm, please join us for an evening of music, played on our historic Organ.

Ben Bloor is the Organist of the London Oratory Church where he accompanies the professional adult choir for weekly Mass and Vespers and oversees the famous Downes/Walker organ. He combines this with a busy freelance recital career and the post of School Organist at Westminster School, where he teaches organ and plays for services in Westminster Abbey. Previously, he held organ scholarships at Derby Cathedral, St George’s Chapel Windsor Castle, New College Oxford and Westminster Cathedral, and was the Assistant Sub-Organist at Rochester Cathedral. Ben was the winner of the 2012 Northern Ireland International Organ Competition, and a semi-finalist in the inaugural Wadden Sea International Organ Competition held in Denmark in January 2017. He was awarded second prizes in the Boston Bach International Organ Competition 2018 and also the Canadian International Organ Competition in 2021. In 2023, he won the Douglas May Award at the St Albans International Organ Competition. Ben holds a First-Class Honours degree in Music from the University of Oxford and the Limpus prize for highest marks in the 2013 FRCO examinations. He is a recipient of the Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Silver Medal for his contribution to organ-playing and held the Junior Fellowship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Ben’s debut solo organ CD, L’Orgue Grégorien, was released in October..

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On the first Saturday of each month at 6pm, please join us for an evening of music, played on our historic Organ.

As a concert organist, Richard Brasier has performed extensively across the UK, Europe, and Asia in recital series and at major international festivals on both period and modern instruments. Recent projects have included surveys of the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Robert Schumann (performed on a nineteenth-century pedalflügel), and César Franck. His work has also been broadcast widely on numerous television and radio stations.

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On the first Saturday of each month at 6pm, please join us for an evening of music, played on our historic Organ.

James Gough is Assistant Organist at Southwark Cathedral and a renowned recitalist. He began organ studies with Huw Tregelles Williams OBE, later reading Music at Bristol and studying with Dr David Ponsford. In 2009 he earned a Master’s in Organ Performance at the Royal Academy of Music under Nicolas Kynaston, completing the FRCO and RAM Licentiate diplomas and winning several prizes, including the Eric Thiman Organ Prize. He was chosen to perform for Sir Elton John’s visit.

James has played the complete works of J. S. Bach and César Franck and performed at leading UK venues such as St Paul’s and Westminster Cathedrals, Westminster Abbey, and Bath Abbey, as well as festivals in Switzerland and Germany. Upcoming recitals include Bern and Osnabrück Cathedral. His recording of Bach’s Trio Sonatas, made at Clifton Cathedral, will be released on Naxos in 2024 following a collaboration with Dame Gillian Weir.

Passionate about contemporary music, James has premiered works by Piet Kee, Diana Burrell, and David Bednall. He previously held posts at St Martin-in-the-Fields, St Bride’s, Fleet Street and Wells Cathedral, and currently teaches at the Royal College of Music Junior Department and Westminster School.

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