2024 Festival
Pleasures of Youth
Wednesday, 19 June, 7.30pm
Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Bouverie Rd, N16 [venue]
Trio Notturno
Jamie Akers (guitar) Eva Caballero (flute) and Rachel Stott (viola) present chamber music from the salons of Vienna in the early 19th century. Music by Beethoven, Matiegka and Diabelli, with operatic highlights of Mozart and Meyerbeer, and concertante solo, duo and trio works by Guiliani, Hoffmeister and Molino.
£18 Adult
£25 Child accompanied by an Adult
or buy as part of the Bundle of Five
O Sweet Woods!
Thursday, 20 June, 7.30pm
Abney Park Chapel, Abney Park N16 [venue]
Pellingmans' Saraband with Faye Newton, soprano
Pellingmans' Saraband and Faye Newton present a programme of songs and instrumental music inspired by the flora and fauna of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Composers include Ravenscroft, Dowland, Byrd, and Morley.
£18/£16 Adult
£25/£23 Child accompanied by an Adult
(Lower price seats have more challenging access and may have restricted view)
£18 Adult
£25 Child accompanied by an Adult
or buy as part of the Bundle of Five
Innocence and Devotion
Monday, 24 June, 7.30pm
Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, Bouverie Rd, N16 [venue]
Kinga Gáborjáni, cello
Kinga Gáborjáni continues her series of Bach cello suites, begun at SNEMF 2019, with Suite No. 3 in C major and No. 4 in Eb major, keys associated with the concepts of innocence and devotion.
Trumpets, Horns, and Sackbuts
Thursday, 27 June, 3.00pm*
St Mary's Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
Students from the Guildhall School of Music Historical Brass Department present music composed for royal courts, chapels and battlefields, performed on trumpets, horns and sackbuts.
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No entry fee; no need to book
£18 Adult
£25 Child accompanied by an Adult
or buy as part of the Bundle of Five
Love's Fire, Love's Ashes
Friday, 28 June, 7.30pm
The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
Rachel Ambrose Evans
Zoë Brookshaw
Nicholas Mulroy
Thomas Herford
Edward Grint
Toby Carr
Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) returns to SNEMF with some of the leading singers in UK early music - Rachel Ambrose Evans (soprano), Zoë Brookshaw (sorano), Thomas Herford (tenor) and Edward Grint (bass baritone), accompanied by lutenist Toby Carr. Programme includes exquisitely beautiful madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi and Barbara Strozzi.
£18 Adult
£25 Child accompanied by an Adult
or buy as part of the Bundle of Five
Tafelmusik: Telemann's Music for Feasting
Wednesday, 3 July , 1.00pm*
The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
Istante Collective
The Istante Collective – Nicola Barbaglia (oboe) Gabriella Jones and Beatrice Scaldini (violins) Elitsa Bogdanova (viola) Carina Drury (cello) and Matthew Brown (harpsichord) present a lunchtime concert of concertos, solo sonatas and trio sonatas from Telemann’s Tafelmusik.
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£12 Child accompanied by an Adult
£20 Child accompanied by two Adults
£8 unaccompanied Adult
Medieval and Traditional Lullabies
Friday, 5 July , 11.00am*
The Old Church, Stoke Newington Church St, N16 [venue]
Clare Norburn, soprano
Jean Kelly, medieval harp
For our pre-school audience and their parents, grandparents and carers, a concert of Medieval and Traditional Lullabies, with Clare Norburn, and Jean Kelly, who gave the first ever of our Early Music for Early Years concerts at SNEMF 2022.
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