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Upcoming concerts

Thursday 26th June, 2025

St Brides, Fleet St

Orff, Carmina Burana (Killmayer piano edition)

Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Holst, St Paul’s Suite

Tickets will be on sale in May. 

Concert archive

27 June 2024

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

Conductor - Tim Crosley

Leader - Claire Ashby

Faure, Requiem

Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb

Vaughan Williams, Five Mystical Songs

Esenvalds - Only in sleep

                  - There will come soft rains

                  - Stars

Claire Seaton, Soprano

Eleanor Kemp, Alto

Jack Harberd, Tenor

Morgan Pearse, Baritone

6 December 2023

Stars Shine for Autism

St Clement Danes Church, The Strand. 

7 December 2022

Stars Shine for Autism

St Clement Danes Church, The Strand. 

23 June 2022

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

Conductor - Tim Crosley

Leader - Claire Ashby

Durufle, Requiem

Handel, Zakok the Priest

Grieg, Piano Concert in A Minor

Albinoni, Adagio in G Minor

Claire Seaton, Soprano

Philip Tebb, Baritone

Olga Stezhko, Piano

 

1 December 2021

Stars Shine for Autism

St Clement Danes, Strand

4 December 2019

Stars Shine for Autism

St Clement Danes, Strand

26 & 27 June 2019

An Evening of Mozart

St Bride's Church, Fleet St.

 

5 December 2018,

Stars Shine for Autism

St Clement Danes, Strand

11 December 2018, Carols for Coram

St Pancras Church, Euston Road.

6 December, 2017

St Clement Danes' Church, Strand

Stars Shine for Autism - an evening of carols and celebrity readings, raising money for the National Autistic Society. 

14 December, 2017

St Sepulchre's without Newgate Church, Holborn Viaduct

 

Carols for Coram - an evening of carols, raising money for the wonderful children's charity, Coram.

21 and 22 June 2017

St Bride's Church, Fleet St.

Conductors - Tim Crosley and Piers Maxim

Beethoven, Mass in C major Opus 86.

Verdi, Pater Noster

Prokofiev, Symphony No. 1 in D major 'Classical Symphony '

Stravinsky, Pulcinella Suite

Claire Seaton, soprano

Lucy Goddard, soprano

Ruairi Bowen, tenor

Philip Tebb, bass

19 and 20 October 2016

St Bride's Church, Fleet St.

Conductors - Tim Crosley and Piers Maxim

 

Mozart, Great Mass in C minor K.427

Beethoven, Symphony No.7 in A major, Op. 92

Sibelius, Valse Triste Op.44 No.1

Claire Seaton, soprano

Lucy Goddard, soprano

Ruairi Bowen, tenor

Philip Tebb, bass

7 December 2016

St Clement Danes Church, The Strand. 

Conductor - Tim Crosley 

Stars Shine for Autism - in aid of the National Autistic Society

14  December 2016

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate

Conductor - Tim Crosley 

Carols for Coram

11 June 2016

Music on a Summer's Evening

New Hall, Winchester College, SO23 9NA

Profits going to the Wessex Chalk River and Stream Trust. 

Britten - Hymn to St Cecilia

Vaughan Williams - Three Shakespeare Songs

Purcell - Come, ye Sons of Art

Bach - Magnificat in D, BWV 243

12 March 2016

Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich 

Maxim, The Musket Ball world premiere. 

 

2 December 2015, 7.00pm.

St Clement Danes.

Stars Shine for Autism. Carols and celebrity readings in aid of the National Autistic Society.

 

 

16 December 2015, 7.00pm

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate.

Carols in aid of Coram. 

 

 

9 June 2015, 7.30pm

The Barbican. EC4 Music in aid of The Prince's Trust

The choir and orchestra of London-based EC4 Music return for their seventh fundraising concert in aid of The Prince's Trust with a stirring selection of music from both sides of the Atlantic. 

Bernstein, Candide Overture 

Copland, Appalachian Spring 

Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue

Vaughan Williams, Serenade to Music 

Bernstein, Chichester Psalms 

Whitacre, Water Night 

Parry, Blest Pair of Sirens 

​Olga Stezhko piano, Claire Seaton soprano, Roderick Morris countertenor, Thomas Herford tenor, Adam Green baritone 

 

 

14 October 2014 7pm

St Bride's church, Fleet St. In aid of the St Brides Appeal

Mozart, Clarinet Concerto, K.622 Michael Whight clarinet

Mozart, Ch'io me scordi di te? Claire Seaton soprano Olga Stezhko piano

Bach, 'Jesus Bleibet Meine Freude' from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147 

Bach, Magnificat in D major, BVW 243 Claire Seaton soprano, Nina Bennet soprano, Benjamin Clark tenor, Philip Tebb bass

Programme

 

14 April 2014, 7.30pm

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre. In aid of CoramMendelssohn, Hebrides Overture 'Fingal's Cave'

Whitacre, Cloudburst

Khachaturian, Spartacus 'Adagio'

Vaughan Williams, A Sea Symphony 

Programme

 

18 December 2013, 7.00pm

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate church, Holborn Viaduct. Carols in aid of Save the Rhino

4 December 2013, 7.00pm

St Clement Danes church, The Strand. Carols in aid of the National Autistic Society

 

1 May 2013, 7.30pm

The Barbican. In aid of The Prince's Trust

Claire Seaton soprano, Sam Evans bass 

Wagner, Overture, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg 

Strauss, Four Last Songs 

Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem

 

26 and 27 June 2013, 7.00pm

St Brides's Church Fleet St in aid of The St Bride's Inspire Appeal

Claire Seaton soprano, Sam Evans bass, Nili Newman flute, Rivka Gottlieb harp 

Schubert Symphony No. 8 'Unfinished'

Mozart Concerto for Flute and Harp 

Lloyd A Litany 

 

12 December 2012, 7.00pm

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate church, Holborn. Carols in aid of Coram.

 

20 and 21 June 2012, 7.00pm

St Brides Church, Fleet St in aid of the Inspire Appeal

Olga Stezhko piano, Claire Seaton soprano, Nina Benet soprano

Beethoven Concerto for piano & orchestra no. 5

Beethoven Romance in F Major

Vivaldi Gloria

 

9 July 2012, 7.30pm

The Guildhall, Gresham St. London. In aid of the Lord Mayor's Appeal

Claire Seaton soprano, Kate Symonds-Joy mezzo, Ben Thapa tenor, Vaughan Williams The Old Hundredth Psalm Tune

Verdi Requiem

 

Wednesday 14 December 2011, 7.00pm

St Sepulchre-without Newgate, Holborn Viaduct. Carols in aid of Coram. 

 

Monday 17 October 2011, 7.30pm

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre EC4 Music In aid of the Lord Mayor's Appeal

Neal Davies baritone

Handel, Zadok the Priest 

Britten, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Parry, I Was Glad

Walton, Belshazzar's Feast

 

Thursday 16 June 2011, 7.00pm

St Brides Church, Fleet St

EC4 Music and the City Consort of Voices

Claire Seaton soprano, Nili Newman flute

Elgar, Serenade for Strings, Op. 20

Arnold, Concerto No. 1 for flute and strings, Op. 45 

Martin, Mass for Double Choir 

Whitacre, i thank You God for most this amazing day.

Copland, In the Beginning

 

Friday 11 March 2011 7.30pm

Barbican Centre. In aid of The Prince's Trust

Olga Stezhko piano, Claire Seaton soprano, Koji Terada baritone

Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26 

Durufle Requiem 

 

Wednesday 8 December 2010, 7.00pm

St Sepulchre-without Newgate, Holborn Viaduct. Carols in aid of Coram

 

Wednesday 16 & Thursday 17 June 2010, 7.00pm

St Brides Church, Fleet St

Clare Seaton soprano, Philip Tebb bass

Koetsier, Symphony for Ten Brass

Villa Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 for voice and orchestra of cellos

Barber, Agnus Dei

Whitacre, When David Heard

Faure, Requiem

 

Sunday 25 April 2010, 7.00pm

Dukes Hall, Royal Academy of Music

Olga Stezhko piano

Mussorgsky, A night on the bare mountain

Shostakovich, Symphony no.5, op.47

Rachmaninov, Concerto for piano & orchestra no.3 in D minor, op.30

 

Tuesday 8 December 2009, 7.30pm

St John's, Smith Square. In aid of The National Autistic Society

Faryl Smith mezzo-soprano

Stars Shine for Autism Christmas Concert

 

17 & 18 June 2009, 7pm

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

Claire Seaton soprano, Tom Herford tenor, Philip Tebb bass. 

Svendsen, Romance for violin and orchestra

Ravel, Pavane pour une infante défunte

Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez for guitar and orchestra

Mozart, Requiem 

 

7 April 2009, 7.30pm

Barbican. In aid of The Prince's Trust

Aaron Copland, Fanfare for the Common Man

Camille Saint-Saëns, Dance Macabre, op. 40, Claire Ashby, violin

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, Pipe Major Jim Banks, bagpipes

Carl Orff, Carmina Burana

Claire Seaton, soprano, Daniel Joy, tenor, Koji Terada, baritone, The Boys of St Albans Cathedral Choir

 

15 December 2008, 7pm

Church of St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1

EC4 Music - Evening of seasonal choral music

 

6 December 2008, 3pm and 7.30pm

Barbican

EC4 Orchestra with Laurence Cummings and Ian Bostridge

Saint Nicolas, Britten

 

Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 June 2008

St Brides Church, Fleet Street, EC4

Handel, "Messiah"

 

Saturday 10 May 2008

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, High Holborn

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde : Prelude and Liebestod

Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis for double stringed orchestra

Edmund Knollys, Where There Is Darkness

Brahms, Symphony no. 4, op. 98, E minor 

 

12 December 2007

St Sepulchre-without-Newgate, High Holborn. Carols. 

 

3rd/4th August 2007

Barbican Freestage

Music of Mozart and his contemporaries

 

20th/21st June 2007

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro, overture

Wagner, Siegfried Idyll

Brahms, Hungarian dances 5, 6 & 7

Elgar, Nimrod from Enigma Variations

Sibelius, Finlandia

Parry, I Was Glad

Mozart, Laudate Dominum from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, Claire Seaton Soprano

Britten, Rejoice in the Lamb, Claire Seaton, Soprano; Leonora Dawson-Bowling, Alto; David Knight, Tenor; James Arthur, Baritone

Whitacre, Cloudburst

Harris, Faire is the Heaven

Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1

 

3 February 2007

Barbican In aid of The Prince's Trust

La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving magpie) Overture Gioacchino Rossini

Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini for piano & orchestra, op. 43 Sergei RachmaninovAngelina Kopyrina piano

Stabat Mater, op. 53 Karol SzymanowskiClaire Seaton, soprano, Deborah Miles-Johnson, alto, Christopher Tonkin, baritone 

Sleep Eric Whitacre

Three Shakespeare Songs Ralph Vaughan Williams

Five Mystical Songs for baritone solo, chorus & orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams, Christopher Tonkin baritone

 

20/21/22 July 2006

Mostly Mozart, Barbican Freestage

Music of Mozart and his contemporaries

 

21/22 June 2006

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

The Land of the Mountain and the Flood, Op. 3, Hamish MacCunn

Elegy for Strings, Op. 14a, Edmund Knollys

Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, Antonin DvorákAskar Bigashev Cello

Mass in C Minor, K. 427, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Claire Seaton, Helen Neeves Soprano, David Knight Tenor, Jonathan Saunders Bass

 

27 November 2005

Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music

The Hebrides Overture "Fingal's Cave", op. 26, Felix Mendelssohn

Concerto for piano & orchestra no. 1 in B flat minor, op. 23, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Angelina Kopyrina, piano

Chichester Psalms, Leonard Bernstein, David Sheringham, countertenor

Dance, Clarion Air, Michael Tippett

Gloria, John Rutter

 

22/23/24 July 2005

Mostly Mozart, Barbican Freestage

Music of Mozart and his contemporaries

 

22/23 June 2005

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Jimmy Banks, bagpipes

Scheherazade: Symphonic Suite Op. 35, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Claire Ashby, violin

Requiem Op. 9, Maurice Duruflé, Claire Seaton Soprano, Jonathan Saunders, baritone

 

5 February 2005

Barbican In aid of The Prince's Trust

Romeo and Juliet: fantasy overture, Piotr Tchaikovsky

Concerto for Piano & Orchestra No. 2, Op. 18 in C minor Sergei Rachmaninov, Angelina Kopyrina piano

Symphony no. 1 (Sea Symphony), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Claire Seaton soprano, William Clements baritone

 

22/23 June 2004

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

William Tell Overture, Gioacchino Rossini

Symphony No.6 "Pastoral", Ludwig Van Beethoven

A Litany, George Lloyd, Claire Seaton soprano, William Clements baritone. 

 

Tuesday 30 March 2004

Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music

EC4 Music and the Cream of the ConservatoiresGenius of the Violin

Finlandia Op.26, Jean Sibelius

The Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams

Carmen Fantasy Op. 25, Pablo Sarasate

Violin Concerto in D major Op. 35, Peter Tchaikovsky

 

Saturday 13 December 2003

Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music

Fundraising for the Genius of the Violin

Finlandia, Op.26, Jean Sibelius

Wesendonck Lieder, Richard Wagner, Claire Seaton soprano

Ein Deutches Requiem, Op. 45, Johannes Brahms, Claire Seaton soprano, William Clements baritone. 

18/19 June 2003

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

Adagio for Strings, Samuel Barber

Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, Ralph Vaughan Williams Solo quartet: Claire Ashby, Claire Turner, Edmund Knollys and Dominique Pecheur

Zadok the Priest: Coronation Anthem, George Frederic Handel

Give unto the Lord (Psalm 29), Edward Elgar

Serenade to Music, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Claire Seaton soprano, David Knight tenor, William Clements baritone, Claire Ashby violin. Coronation Te Deum, William Walton

 

20 Feb 2003

Barbican In aid of the Prince's Trust

Overture: Béatrice et Bénédict, Hector Berlioz

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor Op. 47, Jean Sibelius, Nathaniel Vallois violin

Vier Letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs), Richard Strauss, Claire Seaton sopranoRequiem Op. 48, Gabriel Fauré, Claire Seaton soprano, William Clements baritone.  

 

19/20 June 2002

St Bride's Church, Fleet Street

Overture: Béatrice et Bénédict, Hector Berlioz

Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D Minor Op. 47, Jean Sibelius, Nathaniel Vallois violin Ein Deutches Requiem, Op. 45, Johannes Brahms, Claire Seaton soprano, William Clements baritone.   

 

 

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