Events

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

Ophelia Amar is a French-British musician based in London. She is an active performer both in France and in the UK. Some recent appearances include solo performances at King’s College Cambridge, St George’s Hanover Square, the Temple Church and Grosvenor Chapel in London, Reading Town Hall, and St Albans Cathedral for the 2023 St Albans International Organ Festival. She has a particular interest in music from lesser-known French composers from the 1920s-1930s, contemporary music and chamber repertoire with organ. Since January 2024, Ophelia has been the Administrator of the St Albans International Organ Festival. An Associate of the Royal College of Organists, she plays regularly for services in London. She also has extensive experience teaching the piano and the organ to students of all ages and backgrounds.

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St George’s Church had a long tradition of welfare care. This solidarity with others repeatedly brought the Church into the centre of  amazing national and international cooperation between 1764 and 1940. Hear more about the links to William Wilberforce, the Napoleonic Wars, the rescue of people left stranded by unscrupulous agents and the aid given to Protestants who had to flee Nazi Germany.

Anette Jäger is on the Committee of the Friends of St George’s German Church. She is undertaking post-graduate research into the help that St George’s gave to Protestants of Jewish descent between 1933 and 1940.

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.

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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We think of Christmas as a timeless tradition, perhaps going back to mediaeval days. But many familiar elements go back little further than the Victorian period, and that applies to many of the most popular Christmas carols. This evening we take you back to earlier times, to hear again Christmas hymns, carols and settings that were sung on the village green, around the hearth, and, sometimes, in church, in a different, more rural England. The familiar characters are there – angels, shepherds, the baby in the manger. But the music is different, ranging from exuberant and boisterous to reflective and poignant, all full of the wonder and intense excitement of this special season. On the way we shall all sing together two well-known Christmas carols which do go back to the old times. Finally, as is our tradition at this concert, we will finish with a German piece which this year is a short Bach Chorale from his Christmas Oratorio of 1734.

Most of the music in this evening’s concert comes from manuscript and book sources from well before the Victorian period, and much of it has been little sung for 200 years. We hope you enjoy rediscovering it.

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).

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).