Concerts and Recitals
at St Alban the Martyr
There are normally a number of concerts and recitals at St Alban the Martyr throughout the year.
Our programme is gradually resetablishing after the disruption caused by Covid-19.
Forthcoming Concerts:
7:30 p.m. Friday 4th April 2025
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir
Director:
Julian Wilkins
Programme:
Duruflé: 4 Motets on Gregorian Themes
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine
Messiaen: O sacrum convivium
Poulenc: 4 Motets for a time of penitence
Villette: Hymne à la Vierge
Martin: Mass for unaccompanied double choir
Free Admission with a retiring collection for the Church Organ Fund
Coffee, Tea and Biscuits available during the interval.
7:30 p.m. Saturday 26th July 2025
Gala Organ Concert by David Briggs followed by Reception
The first in an exciting new series of Organ Recitals to raise money for our Organ Appeal.
Internationally renowned organist and composer David Briggs, a former organist at our church, now Artist in Residence at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, returns to St Alban's to open an exciting new series of Organ Recitals by organists from churches designed by John Loughborough Pearson, to raise money for our Organ Appeal.
Our organ, which was originally built in 1881, rebuilt by Rushworth & Dreaper in 1940, and last restored in 1997, now again needs extensive refurbishment to replace worn out leatherwork and update the electronics to preserve it for future generations. We need to raise £100,000.
Big screens at the front of the church will show the organ console for an excellent view of the performer.
Tickets, price £20, include a Reception afterwards with David Briggs.
Please click or tap here to book your tickets online.
Unsold tickets will be available for purchase at the door on the night and, if there is spare capacity, students will be admitted free on production of valid student ID.
Further Organ Recitals in this Series:
Saturday 23rd August 2025
Lunchtime Organ Concert - Andrew Scott ( St Michael & All Angels, Croydon)
Saturday 27th September 2025
Lunchtime Organ Concert - Angela Sones ( St Alban the Martyr, Highgate, Birmingham)
Saturday 25th October 2025
Lunchtime Organ Concert - Andrew Wyatt (Truro Cathedral)
Please come back later for further details of these recitals and others in Spring 2026.
We hope to add more concerts, so do check back here regularly, or if you would like to be added to a list to be notified of musical events at the church, send an e-mail to info@saintalban.co.uk.
Past Concerts
Here is a recording of a short classical song recital by Salwan Cartwright-Shamoon accompanied on the piano by Xizi Zhang at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday 18th September 2021.
More details and the programme are here: http://www.saintalban.co.uk/news/2021/09/09/classical-song-recital/.
We hope to add more concerts, so do check back here regularly, or if you would like to be added to a list to be notified of musical events at the church, send an e-mail to info@saintalban.co.uk.
And here is a link to a recording by the BBC of a concert in the church back in 1987: