Concerts

Forthcoming Concerts

For Past Concerts in the Fifty for Fifty Project Click HERE

Season 2025/26

 

 

    Checkmate in Sarasota

Friday/Saturday 1/2 May 2026 at 7.30 pm (Fri&Sat) and 2pm (Sat)
Sarasota Opera House, 61 N Pineapple Ave, Sarasota, Florida 34236, USA
Sarasota Ballet
Programme includes Checkmate
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   A Colour Symphony in Dresden

Sunday 23 May 2026 at 7 pm
Kulturpalast Dresden, Schloßstraße 2, Dresden, Saxony, 01067, Germany
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Andrew Manze
Programme includes A Colour Symphony
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  The English Music Festival

Sunday 24 May 2026 at 10.45 am
Great Hall, Dartington, Totnes, TQ9 6EL
‘Idylls of an Era’
Programme includes Bliss Sonata for Violin and Piano
Rupert Marshall-Luck (violin) and Peter Cartwright (piano)
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  National Trust – ‘The Firs’: Elgar’s Birthplace, Worcester

Tuesday 26 May 2026 at 2 pm
Recital – ‘This Fragile Beauty’ to include songs by Bliss
An Elgar Festival 2026 event
April Fredrick, soprano; Eric McElroy, piano and Grace Shepherd, violin
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  St ANNE’S CHURCH, LEWES LUNCHTIME CONCERT

Thursday 28 May 2026 at 1:10 pm

Vocal recital including songs by Bliss.
Performers: Jodie Anne Bailey, Matt Secombe, Charles Secombe, Julian Broughton and Caroline Secombe

 

  PEMBROKE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE – EVENSONG

Sunday 7 June 2026 at 6 pm

To include the following Bliss items
Introit – Put thou thy trust in the Lord
Anthem – Stand up and Bless the Lord your God
Closing hymn – Sweet day, so cool

 

  St John the Baptist Church, Knaresborough

Sunday 14 June 2026 at 10.30 am
Bliss arr. organ Felton Rapley
March of Homage in Honour of a Great Man (1965) B130
David Salter (organ)

 

   Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Saturday 18 July 2026
Scene from Checkmate
Royal Ballet School Summer Performance

 

  King’s Lynn Festival, The Minster

Thursday 23 July 2026 at 7.30 pm
Roderick Williams Song Recital ‘The Forest of Dean to the Appalachians’
Programme includes Bliss Gone, Gone Again is Summer; Little Elergy; Seige from Seven American Poems
Roderick Williams (baritone) and Ian Burnside (piano)
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  The Rheingau Music Festival

Friday 24 July 2026 at 7.30 pm
“Britische Filmmusiknacht” (British Film Music Night)
Hessen-Bühne im Kurpark, Kurhausplatz 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany
Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Joseph R. Olefirowicz (conductor)
Programme includes Things to come: March
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  Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral

Sunday 26 July 2026 at 2 pm
Roderick Williams Song Recital
Programme includes Bliss Gone, Gone Again is Summer; Little Elergy; Seige from Seven American Poems
Roderick Williams (baritone) and Ian Burnside (piano)
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  Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral

Wednesday 29 July 2026 at 3 pm
Choral Evensong, broadcast live on BBC Radio 3
Includes Bliss Praeludium
Jonathan Hope (organ) and Adrian Partington (conductor)
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  Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral

Saturday 1 August 2026 at 11 am
Sydney Philharmonic Choirs
‘Faire is the Heaven’
Programme includes Bliss Sing, Mortals!
Jonathan Hope (organ) and Brett Weymark (conductor)
Click HERE for more details.

 

 St. Marys Church, Ambleside

Sunday 2 August 2026
String Quartet No. 2
Agogo String Quartet
Lake District Summer Festival

 

SOCIETY AGM and CELEBRATION of 50 FOR 50 PROJECT
Saturday 5 September 2026
To include a Lecture by Dr Eric McElroy: Arthur Bliss: A Reconsideration
Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London NW1 6XT

 

The 2026 Rio Winds Festival

Sunday 28 November 2026 at 6pm
Bliss Oboe Quintet, Harold Emery (oboe)
Portugese Consulate, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 

CHURCH of St ANDREW HOLBORN, LONDON, EC4A 3AF
Sunday 20 June 2027
Bliss Violin Concerto
Elgar Sinfonia of London, Chu-Yu Yang (violin), Adrian Brown (conductor)

 

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