Concerts during 2024
Future concerts planned by the Friends of St Leonard’s Church are listed below. Click here to view the published leaflet with a detailed listing of all concerts through until the end of 2024. (Posters for previous concerts are displayed on the Archive page.)
Tickets usually available from:
- Brandon’s Music Shop, 55 High Street, Hythe CT21 5AD | 01303 264429
- Open Door Project, 101 High Street, Hythe CT21 5DP | 01303 262370
- Online from this website
- Church door prior to each concert
- Free admission to those under 18
Car parking and access to the church
If using satnav to reach the church or car park, use postcode: CT21 5DN. A church car park with limited space is located to the east of the building.
Access to the building for those with limited mobility (and unable to climb steps through main (south) door porch) can be arranged through the tower (west) door of the church.
| Date & time Ticket prices [Friends] | Performers | Programme |
| Saturday 27 January, 12 noon £12 [£10] | Tom Klidzia violin ✦ Mary Hill piano | Grieg G major sonata No 2, Op 13 Schubert A minor sonata Op 137, No 2 (followed by light lunches in the church) |
| Saturday 17 February 6.00pm £10 | Caritas Chamber Choir | “Masterpieces from the English Choral Tradition” |
| Friday 1 March, 7.00pm £12 [£10] | Orsay Quartet ✦ Nathan Winters clarinet ✦ Kokila Gillett-Khan violin | Mahler Piano quartet in A minor Brahms Clarinet quintet in B minor, Op 115 |
| Saturday 2 March, 10.30am free admission – donations welcome | Tom Klidzia violin ✦ Philip Wicker cello ✦ Janet Hughes piano | Haydn Piano trios, Hob.XV:26 & 27 (followed by coffee and refreshments) |
| Friday 15 March, 6.00pm £15 [£12] | Jamie Rogers organ | Widor ‘Allegro’ from Symphony No 6 Bach Prelude and Fugue in E minor BWV 548 Bairstow ‘Allegro giocoso’ Bossi Scherzo in G minor Franck Pièce Héroïque; Chorale in A minor Buxtehude Passacaglia in D minor BuxWV 161 |
| Friday 22 March, 6.30pm free admission by tickets only (see poster for details) | BBC Radio 4 – Any Questions? | |
| Friday 29 March (Good Friday), 6.00pm retiring collection | Shepway Singers Molly Oldland cello | Duruflé Requiem Bach Cello Suite No 1 in G major, BWV1007 Bach Jesu, priceless treasure |
| Saturday 4 May, 6.00pm Collection | Friends and Family of John Wright | Spring Concert |
| Thursday 9 May, 6.00pm £15 [£12] | Ivan Hovorun Piano | Liszt Venezia e Napoli, S162; Consolation No 3, S172; Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 Chopin Polonaise Fantasy Op 61; Barcarolle Op 60; Berceuse Op 57 Silvestrov Bagatelle No 3 |
| Saturday 8 June, 6.00pm £15 [£12] | Adrian Bawtree Organ | (programme to be advised) |
| Saturday 29 June, 7.30pm £15 | Folkestone Choral Society | ‘Summer Serenade’ Samuel Coleridge-Taylor The Song of Hiawatha & ‘Songs from the Shows’ |
| Monday 8 July, 7.00pm £12 [£10] | Ashford Youth Jazz Orchestra |
JAM on the Marsh. (Visit www.jamconcert.org to purchase tickets for JAM events)
| Date & time | Performers | Programme |
| Saturday 6 July, 7.00pm | Holst Singers, Onyx Brass, Jeremy Cole Organ Stephen Layton Conductor | Britten Hymn to St Cecilia Howells Hymn to St Cecilia Walton The Twelve Joe Phibbs (new commission) |
| Sunday 7 July, 2.00pm | Nicholas Cleobury | Pre-concert talk on 2nd Viennese School |
| Sunday 7 July, 3.00pm | JAM Sinfonia | Viennese Symphony & Waltzes Haydn Symphony No 104 (Salomon) J Strauss Wein, Weib und Gesang, arr. Berg Schatz–Walzer, arr. Webern Rosen aus dem Süden, arr. Schoenberg Pizzicato Polka E Strauss Bahn Frei! |
| Saturday 13 July, 11.00am | The Blendis Trio | Including works by Mozart, Britten, Gershwin |
| Saturday 13 July, 7.00pm | Canterbury Cathedral Choir, London Mozart Players, David Newsholme, Conductor | Fauré Requiem & Grahame Davies poems |
| Date & time Ticket prices [Friends] | Performers | Programme |
| Saturday 20 July, 7.00pm | Shepway Voices Community Choir | Summer Concert ‘A choral performance of songs that celebrate the sea, a shared sky and our sense of belonging’ |
| Friday 23 August, 6.00pm £12 [£10] | Branco Stoysin Guitar | ‘Sunny side of guitar’ |
| Saturday 7 September, 6.00pm £15 [£12] | Philippa Mo Violin | Telemann Fantasia No 2 in G major Bach Sonata for Violin Solo No 1 in G minor, BWV1001 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber Passacaglia Astor Piazzolla Tango Etude Coleridge Taylor Perkinson Blue/s Forms Bach Cello Suite No 6 in D major BWV1012 (arr. for violin by Ferdinand David) Marcus Paus Wounded Angel Bjarne Brustad Fairytale Suite |
| Saturday 12 October, 7.00pm £15 [£12] | Lees Court Music | Monteverdi Vespers |
| Friday 25 October, 7.00pm £15 [£12] | Lewis Kingsley Peart Piano | Niels Gade Piano Sonata in E Minor, Op 28 (2nd movement) Grieg Piano Sonata, Op 7; Lyric Pieces Percy Grainger Irish Tune from County Derry; Country Gardens Paderewski Minuet in G, Op 14 No 1; Nocturne in B flat major, Op 16 No 4 Dohnányi Aria, Op 23 No 1; Rhapsody in C, Op 11 No 3 Billy Mayerl Song of the Fir Tree; Railroad Rhythm; Marigold Alfred Grünfeld Soirée de Vienne, Op 56 |
| Saturday 16 November, 7.00pm £12 [£10] | Just Men Singing | ‘An evening of musical treasures’ |
| Saturday 25 November, 7.00pm [Collection] | Band of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment & Military Wives Choir Shorncliffe | Christmas concert |
| Saturday 7 December, 7.00pm | Shepway Voices | Christmas concert |
| Saturday 21 December, 7.00pm [Collection] | Shepway Singers St Leonard’s Church Choirs & Hythe Girls Choir | ‘Carols for All’ (followed by mulled wine and mince pies) |
