Canterbury Music Club

Programme for 84^th Season 2025/26

All concerts will be held at

Colyer-Fergusson Hall,

University of Kent

Sundays at 3.00pm

Sunday September 28th 2025 

“Vienna and the New World”

Music for four hands at one piano. Piano duetists Marianne Kelly and Heather Sargeson present a programme of classic music for four hands at one piano by Mozart and Schubert and new classics by Barber and Gershwin. Fresh from Buxton Festival the players have enjoyed a distinguished career of performing music for four hands at one piano.

Sunday October 19th 2025

“A journey to the Edge of Reason”  takes the audience through an exciting musical narrative, tracing the shift between the end of the Baroque era and the dawn of Enlightenment, where worlds collide and a new musical genre starts to emerge. Music by J.S. Bach, Kirnberger, Quantz, Frederic the Great and C.P.E. Bach.

Lisete da Silva Bull - Baroque flute

Robin Walker - Harpsichord

Sunday November 16th 2025

Haydn “Creation”  Parts 1&2

The Amici Chorus and Orchestra join international artists in a performance of this glorious oratorio, directed by Grenville Hancox.

Tamar File - soprano

Greg Tassell - tenor

Matthew Rose - bass.

Sunday December 14th 2025

“Old Christmas Returned: Music, Words and Song for Christmas”

A selection of carols, ballads, consort music, lute songs, dance melodies and readings. A seasonal programme following the calendar from Advent to Candlemas and showing how Christmas was celebrated, banned and restored in 17th Century England. Includes music by Attey, Bull, Dowland, Gibbons, Locke and Purcell; and readings by Breton, Herrick, Shakespeare and Winstanley.

Performed in Elizabethan costume by Passamezzo

Eleanor Cramer - Soprano, Bass Viol

Alison Kinder - Viols, Recorders

Tamsin Lewis - Renaissance Violin, Viols, Alto

Richard Mackenzie / Robin Jeffrey - Lute, Guitar

Michael Palmer - Actor, Baritone

Sunday 18th January  2026

Tamesis String Quartet

A very exciting young international string quartet formed when the artists were postgraduate students at The Guildhall School of Music. With music by Haydn, Beethoven and Caroline Shaw

Phoebe Rousochatzaki - violin

Matteo Climati - violin

Emily Clark - viola

Theo Bently - cello

Sunday 22nd February 2026

Matthew Rose - bass

Gary Matthewman - piano 

Matthew Rose continues to develop his wonderful relationship with Canterbury in a recital of Schubert including the posthumously published collection of songs known as "Schwangesang".

Sunday 22nd March 2026

The Kentish Piano Trio

We are so fortunate to have the trio of such distinguished players on our doorstep. A programme of music by Suk, Smetana and Dvorak

Kathy Shave - violin

Julia Vohralick - cello

Helen Crayford - piano

Sunday 19th April 2026

Kosmos Ensemble 

Described by Richard Morrison (The Times) as having “telepathic rapport, dazzling virtuosity, serious scholarship, intellectual curiosity and impeccable musicianship, I defy you not to be mesmerised", Kosmos return to Canterbury Music Club to bring an eclectic programme of music from around the world.

Harriet Mackenzie - violin

Meg Hamilton - viola

Milos Milivojevic - accordion

Detailed programmes will be available in due course

Membership for

84th Season 2025/26