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    Portsmouth Menuhin Room concert series: Danny Driver, piano

    Menuhin Room, Portsmouth Central Library Central Library, Guildhall Walk, Portsmouth PO1 2DX

    This is the latest in a music series at the Menuhin Room.The Menuhin Room Centenary Recital will be staging a classical music lunchtime variety recital on 9 May 2026. Featuring some of Portsmouth’s best-known classical musicians plus some exciting new talent. Also, listen to stories of times past.This will be a 50-60 minute recital (no ... Read more

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    Chichester Singers with Southern Pro Musica: “My Spirit Sang All Day”

    Chichester Cathedral West St, Chichester, PO19 1PX

    The Chichester Singers with Southern Pro MusicaJonathan Wilcocks - conductorHoward Goodall –  Unconditional LoveSacred & Secular partsongs Howard Goodall, a composer who has become a household name through his TV scores for The Vicar of Dibley, Blackadder and Mr Bean, is at heart a choral composer. Unconditional Love was written at the height of the Covid pandemic ... Read more

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    Chichester Cathedral Lunchtime Concerts series: Emily Han, piano

    Chichester Cathedral West St, Chichester, PO19 1PX

    Brahms Six Pieces for Piano, op. 118Debussy “The sounds and fragrances swirl through the evening air”Debussy MinstrelsRachmaninoff Selection from Six Moments musicaux Chichester Cathedral’s Lunchtime Concert series is self-supporting, and thrives through the generosity of its audiences. While there is no charge for admission, we suggest a minimum donation of £7 per person, with Gift Aid ... Read more

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    Mark Dancer Organ Recital Series, no. 3

    St Peter’s Church, Petersfield The Square, GU32 3HS

    This year is the twenty-fifth season of lunchtime organ recitals by Mark Dancer at St Peter’s, Petersfield. Alongside original works of the organ, he will be performing various transcriptions by the great 19th Century organist William Thomas Best, whose bicentenary of birth falls this year. Wednesdays 27th May, 10th June, 24th June, 8th July at ... Read more

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    Lunchtime Live! at Portsmouth Cathedral: Angela Sones (organ)

    Portsmouth Anglican Cathedral High Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom

    By Portsmouth Cathedral music events.Visit the series web page.Today we welcome Angela Sones, Director of Music at St Alban's Highgate in Birmingham, to give a lunchtime recital on our splendid Nicholson organ.Free entry – post recital donation greatly appreciated; no booking required.  

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    Chichester Chorale: Magnificent Mozart

    Boxgrove Priory Church The Street, Boxgrove, PO18 0ED

    Join Chichester Chorale and soprano Catherine Hamilton for an evening of Mozart. Programme to include Exsultate, Jubilate (K165), Laudate Dominum (from K339), Missa Brevis in C Major (Spatzenmesse K220) and Litaniae Lauretanae (K109).Accompanied by The Chichester Chamber Ensemble and conducted by Tom Robson. Tickets £18 from www.chichesterchorale.com

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    South Downs Soloists: There is sweet music

    Boxgrove Priory Church The Street, Boxgrove, PO18 0ED

    South Downs Soloists return to beautiful Boxgrove Priory for their annual professional choral concert in aid of Stonepillow. Expect settings of famous poetry and poets associated with West Sussex (Shelley and Tennyson), with music as wide ranging as Elgar, Walton and Lukaszewski, plus exciting new music for the occasion. Adult/student £25/10.

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    Chichester Cathedral Lunchtime Concerts series: Speyer Cathedral Choir

    Chichester Cathedral West St, Chichester, PO19 1PX

    Christopher Tambling Laudate DominumPalestrina Sicut cervusMendelssohn Wie der Hirsch schreitDouglas Coombes O clap your handsMendelssohn Laudate pueri DominumStanford Beati quorum via integra estAmy Beach Peace I leave with youOla Gjeilo Ubi caritas et amorDenis R. Cocks Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seenJester Hairston Poor Man LazrusRichard Shephard Song of MaryColin Mawby Jubilate Deo Chichester Cathedral's ... Read more

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    Portsmouth Baroque Choir: A Celebration of American Choral Music

    Portchester Methodist Church Castle Street, Portchester, Fareham, PO16 9PS

    Conductor: Malcolm Keeler, Portsmouth Baroque ChoirA programme of American choral music to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Independence Day.See web page.Ticketing link.  

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    Portsmouth Choral Union with The Consort of Twelve – Handel: Samson

    St Paul’s Church, Chichester Churchside, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    Conductor: David GostickWith Portsmouth Choral Union and The Consort of Twelve. Portsmouth Choral Union with The Consort of Twelve presents Handel's Samson, first performed in Covent Garden, London in 1743. Renowned for its dramatic power, magnificent choruses, expressive solos and intricate orchestration. Come and enjoy this compelling oratorio. Handel composed Samson immediately after Messiah in ... Read more

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    Chichester Cathedral Lunchtime Concerts series: Benedict Tanner, organ

    Chichester Cathedral West St, Chichester, PO19 1PX

    Bach “St Anne” Prelude and FugueByrd Clarifica me, PaterHowells PaeanVierne Andantino from Pièces de fantaisieMarcel Dupré Final from Sept Pièces Chichester Cathedral's Lunchtime Concert series is self-supporting, and thrives through the generosity of its audiences. While there is no charge for admission, we suggest a minimum donation of £7 per person, with Gift Aid applied if ... Read more