CONCERT VISITS — CLASSICAL & JAZZ

Visits to classical concerts, with the occasional foray into jazz and world, in various London venues. Group Coordinator: Celia Ballantyne (click to contact)

When Our visits are on an ad hoc basis, depending on what's on.

Where London concert halls and churches.

We go to a wide variety of concerts including orchestral, choral, chamber, vocal, recital and big band. Suggestions are always welcome. Concerts might be late morning, lunchtime or evening and are in a variety of venues. Wherever possible ticket prices are very reasonable and chosen with the acoustics and sightlines of the venue in mind. Some concerts are free.

The way it works is that the Group Coordinator identifies a concert to visit, and notifies members on her mailing list. Those expressing interest then receive all relevant information, including guidance on which row to buy tickets in, and then they buy their own tickets.

All iU3A members are entitled to be on the mailing list to receive information and to join visits if they wish. To join the mailing list, click here
 

Friday 16 May, Barbican Centre, 7.30pm
The principal work in this evening’s concert will be excerpts from Prokofiev’s wonderful score to Romeo and Juliet conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk, whom we heard last year in Debussy’s La Mer — very fine it was, too: Slobodeniouk conducts Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet | Barbican
How to get there: Map & Directions | Barbican
 




Friday 20 June, St Giles Cripplegate, 7.30pm
Summer Music in City Churches features a series of concerts in some of the Square Mile’s most beautiful venues. This choral concert of Requiems by Duruflé and Morten Lauridsen (gorgeous stuff!) should sound terrific in the intimate surroundings of St Giles Cripplegate: Lux Aeterna: Requiems by Duruflé and Morten Lauridsen | Summer Music
How to get there: Summer Music in City Churches | Our Venues


Thursday 10 July, King’s Place, 7.30pm
Ruby Hughes and James Newby are two singers who have been forging their careers steadily over the last fifteen years or so and have now been given this showcase at King’s Place in a delightful programme of British song (although a few Schubert lieder have crept in): Platoon Presents... James Newby, Ruby Hughes & Friends • Classical • Kings Place
How to get there: Your Visit • Kings Place

For a record of what we've been to earlier have a look in our archive.
For 2023 to 2024 look here.
For 2019 to 2022 look here.
For 2018 to 2019 look here
For 2016 to 2017 look here.