Concerts

Forthcoming Concerts

For Past Concerts in the Fifty for Fifty Project Click HERE

Season 2025/26

 

  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)

 

  The Great Hall, University of Reading

Sunday 28 June 2026 at 4.30 pm
Programme includes Bliss Checkmate Suite
West Forest Sinfonia, Philip Ellis (conductor)
Click HERE for more details.

 

   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)
Click HERE for more details.

 

  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
Click HERE for more details.

 

  Music at Paxton, Berwick-on-Tweed

Friday 24 July 2026 at 7.30 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)
Click HERE for more details.

 

  Three Choirs Festival, Gloucester Cathedral

Saturday 25 July 2026 at 10 am
Opening service to include the Fanfare for the Mayor of London

 

  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)
Click HERE for more details.

 

  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)
Click HERE for more details.

 

  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.

 

  Kendal Town Hall

Sunday 2 August 2026 at 2pm
Programme to include Bliss String Quartet No. 1
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

 

TONHALLE, DUSSELDORF

Friday 06 November 2026 at 8pm
Dusseldorfer Symphoniker
Adrien Perruchon (conductor)
Programme to include the Bliss Hymn to Apollo
Concert also repeated on Sunday 8th and Monday 9th November at 8pm
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The 2026 Rio Winds Festival

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

 

THE WESLEY CENTRE, HARROGATE, HG1 1PP

Saturday 12 December 2026 at 7.30pm
Programme to include Bliss Rout, Madam Noy and Rhapsody.

 

HUNTINGDON HALL, WORCESTER

Sunday 31 January 2027 at 3pm
An all-English violin and piano recital by Chu-Yu Yang (violin) and Eric McElroy (piano) to include the Bliss Violin Sonata
Click HERE for more details.

 

St BARNABUS, PITSHANGER LANE, LONDON W5 1QG

Saturday 15 May 2027 at 7pm
Bliss Meditations on a Theme of John Blow
Ealing Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Gibbons

 

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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