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March 2025
The Phoenix Concert Band & London Youth Concert Band Joint Concert
We present a joint concert with 80 musicians combining forces to perform a spectacular evening of concert band music.
Find out more »May 2025
Birds, Beasts and Bugs : A Musical Menagerie
All creatures great and small have frequently been a source of inspiration for composers of choral and vocal music. In this concert, you can enjoy pieces in the widest variety of styles, from the renaissance to the present day, all with an animal theme. You’ll hear how different composers view the same creature - Thomas Vautor’s Suffolk Owl contrasting with Elgar’s eerie setting, and the bee as envisaged by John Wilbye, Frank Bridge right up to a recently premiered work by Cecila McDowall. The Nightingale is heard in the Vienna of Alban Berg but also in Berkeley Square. Orlando Gibbons’…
Find out more »Finchley Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert
Finchley Symphony Orchestra has a fabulous spring concert coming up for you on Saturday May 17th at 7.30pm at Trinity Church, Nether Street, Finchley, London N12 7NN. The programme includes Prokofiev's wonderful dance-like Overture on Hebrew Themes, Stravinsky's inspirational Pulcinella Suite and Haydn's majestic Symphony No. 99 in E flat. Do come along if you possibly can. Reduced price tickets can be purchased online. Hope to see you there!
Find out more »The 10th Barnet Classic Car Show
Starts with a parade of approximately 80 classic vehicles along Barnet High Street at 10.30am. Followed by a static display of about 150 classic vehicles at 11am on the top floor of The Spires car park. The Deputy Mayor, Councillor Danny Rich and party including Councillor David Longstaff will be riding in the last car, a 1930s open top Bentley. The Deputy Mayor will declare the show open on his arrival. This year we have a special display of Jaguar Cars. We are raising funds for the Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice in Barnet.
Find out more »June 2025
Alice Through the Looking Glass – Outdoor Theatre
Theatre in the Park returns to Oak Hill Park with Alice Through the Looking Glass. With live music and the full array of Lewis Carroll’s fantastical characters this delightful new adaptation by Michael Whitmore delivers all the quirky Britishness and humour of the book in a fun and pacy show for all the family. Bring a rug or folding chairs. Book in advance online or pay on the door.
Find out more »High Barnet Chamber Music Festival: Mad Song & Jonathan Eyers
Mad Song, described in the Observer as "expert young players", bring a programme of music from the last sixty years. They are joined by Jonathan Eyers for Peter Maxwell Davies's theatrical Eight Songs for a Mad King.
Find out more »High Barnet Chamber Music Festival: Hugo Herman-Wilson & Richard Gowers
Baritone Hugo Herman-Wilson and pianist Richard Gowers present a recital of Twentieth Century songs in English.
Find out more »July 2025
High Barnet Chamber Music Festival: Ensemble Pro Victoria
The UK’s best young early-music group present a programme centred on the music of Claudio Monteverdi.
Find out more »Finchley Symphony Orchestra and Finchley Chamber Choir’s Summer Concert
We will be performing a concert of Classical Music on Saturday July 12th at Trinity Church in Nether St, London N12 7NN with a programne comprising Beethoven's Magnificent 7th symphony and Haydn's great Mass in B flat 'Harmoniemesse'. Reduced price tickets are available on the website www.finchleysymphony.org. Hope you can make it! It's going to be a cracking concert!
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