Music-at-Hill

24/07/2026

Our 30th St Anne's Bach Festival continues this lunchtime with a concert focusing on the trio sonata repertoire. We welcome Anna Williams (recorder), Sophia Mücke (violin) and Tammas Slater (harpsichord) to give us trio sonatas by J S Bach and C P E Bach, as well as JSB's Violin Sonata BWV 1021 and two shorter works (one of them by Dowland!).

10/07/2026

St Anne's Bach Festival was launched in 1996 at our original home, the Wren church of St Anne & Agnes in Gresham Street, and has become an annual July tradition ever since, reaching its 30th edition this year.

Last Friday our current Festival kicked off with an all-Bach programme on the piano given by Stavros Dritsas, including the 2nd Keyboard Partita and the arresting Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue in D minor.

Today we welcome the guitarist Luke Bartlett, whose programme features J S Bach's Lute Suite in C minor as its major work, along with items by Bach's contemporaries Domenico Scarlatti and Silvius Leopold Weiss.

Do check out our Society website for details of the remaining concerts of the Festival on all three remaining Fridays of this month - the 17th, 24th and 31st!

19/06/2026

Today we reach the final concert of our relatively short post-Easter season. This lunchtime we welcome Conor Gricmanis on baroque violin and Pablo Devigo on harpsichord to give us an exciting programme entitled "Stylus Fantasticus", with music focusing on two lesser known Baroque composers, Dario Castello and Giovanni Fontana, as well as a virtuoso piece for solo harpsichord by Frescobaldi. .

In the wake of today's fixture, we'll take a short break, before returning to the charge in July for the thirtieth edition of our annual Bach Festival. This will consist of five lunchtime concerts spread across the Fridays of next month, plus a ticketed closing concert on the evening of Friday 31st July. Full Festival details to follow!

12/06/2026

Following two wonderful concerts on recent Fridays - the RAM Harp Collective two weeks ago and the Concerto Competition prizewinners from Wi******er College last week - today we shall lie fallow at lunchtime, as Holy Sepulchre is not available for our use due to an unrelated booking. Next Friday (19 June) will be the last regular recital of our current season - keep an eye on our website www.musicathill.org.uk for details. We will then take a short break before our annual Bach Festival kicks off on 3 July.

Founded as St Anne’s Music Society, and renowned for its annual Bach Festival each July, Music-at-Hill hosts free Friday lunchtime concerts in central London throughout the year.

15/05/2026

Today we welcome back an old friend of our concert society, Harry Buckoke, for a solo recital on his viola da gamba. He's devised a fascinating programme called "The Emigré Musician", exploring the works of composers who left their homeland for political, religious or career reasons. The featured composers range from Dowland (born 1563) to Weinberg (born 1919) - we look forward to this journey through the centuries :-)

08/05/2026

This lunchtime we welcome back the violinist Krassimira Jeliazkova, accompanied by Elizabeth Mucha on piano, to give us an imaginative programme entitled "The Virtuoso Stage". This will showcase four pieces inspired by or intrinsically linked to the dramatic visual arts (opera/theatre/dance/film), by composers ranging from Spohr to Stravinsky.

Their concluding item will be Milhaud's Cinema-Fantaisie after 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' (The Ox on the Roof), an animal-themed piece which is perhaps an appropriate nod to Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday today!

01/05/2026

After a fascinating concert last Friday at which we heard the Guildhall 'Women in Brass' Ensemble - an all-female posse of brass players from the Guildhall School of Music - performing a programme ranging from Hildegard of Bingen through Bach and Britten to contemporary composers, today we welcome back the superlative young guitarist Nathaniel Rosales-Merkies to bewitch us with the soothing sounds of his instrument. After his memorable rendition of Bach's Chaconne from the D minor Partita last year, we will again be treated to some Bach, as well as a variety of later music, including the first public performance of Nathaniel's own composition 'Wove'.