Lunchtime Music

Lunchtime Concerts are held every Thursday at 1.10pm and last 40-50 minutes. Everyone is welcome.  Entry is free, but a minimum donation of £5 per person is suggested to cover expenses.

St Matthew’s concerts have been a weekly feature of this church since 1975. There are some 45 concerts a year with short breaks at Christmas, Easter and in August. The programme ranges from early music, instrumental and chamber music, choirs and soloists to jazz. The music is performed to a high standard by professionals from home and abroad, students from the London conservatoires, schools and talented amateurs.

This page is updated regularly as details of forthcoming concerts become available.  For further information, please contact Chris Roulston at chrisr@stmatthews-redhill.org.uk.

1975-2025 - Fifty Years of Lunchtime Concerts at St Matthew's

Autumn Season

6 November - Piano Recital
Mitra Alice Tham

JS Bach - Partita no. 1 in B flat Major BWV825

WA Mozart - Sonata in E flat Major K282

Modest Mussorgsky arr. Sergei Rachmaninoff - Hopak

Robert Schumann arr. Franz Liszt - Widmung
George Gershwin arr. MA Tham - I Got Rhythm
Paul Harvey arr. MA Tham - Rumba Toccata

13 November - The Elegia Consort
Sasha Salinasova (soprano), Kathleen Holloway (soprano)
Paul Houston (tenor), Andrew Storey (piano)

     Songs from The East

arr Houston - Sakura - Japanese folksong

Sahi Ram - bhajan

arr. Houston - Mo Li Hua - Chinese Song

Arirang - Korean Folk Song

Yamada arr Houston - Akatonbo - Japanese children's song (duet)

Sai Narayan - bhajan

Charles Griffes - A Feast of Lanterns (Chinese poem)

Gustav Holst - Nine Vedic Hymns  Op.24

Pierre de Bréville - Eyoub (piano piece)

Cyril Scott - Waiting (Chinese poem)

Amy Woodforde-Finden - Less than the dust

Amy Woodforde-Finden - Kashmiri Song

Arthur Sullivan - The sun whose rays (Mikado)

Nicolai Rimsky Korsakov - Song of the Indian Guest (Sadko)

Léo Delibes - Flower Duet - (Lakme) 

20 November - Violin Recital
Karolina Csathy

JS Bach - "Ciaccona" from Partita No. 2
Fritz Kreisler - Recitativo and Scherzo Caprice
Niccolò Paganini - Caprices Op. 1, Nos 18 and 21

27 November - Piano Recital
Ben Norris

James Francis Brown - Ingworth

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Appassionata

Felix Mendelssohn - Song Without Words, Op. 38 No. 2 C minor, Lost Happiness
Frederick Chopin - Ballade No.4 in F minor

4 December - Alionor Trio
Ioana Voicu-Arnăuţoiu (violin), Alan Thomas ('cello), Norman MacSween (piano)

11 December - Piano Recital
Kyle Nash-Baker

18 December - Reigate Winds
Daniel Emson-Jukes (bassoon), Gemma Emson-Jukes (flute), Hara Kostogianni (piano)

The Spring Season of Lunchtime Concerts will begin on Thursday, 8th January 2026