{"title": "LIFEM26: Nigel North", "start": "2026-11-12T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "£25 / £15 u21s/full-time students", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/book/?bookevent=5197", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/renaissance"], "description": "A 60-minute lute recital, part of the London International Festival of Early Music, given in a church. The performer is Nigel North, a London-born lutenist of over 50 years who taught at Indiana University until 2024 and now lives in Belgium. His programme, The Beginning of the World: Dances, Dumps and Divisions, offers short Tudor-era pieces on an 8-course lute, including works by William Byrd, John Johnson and Peter Philips alongside anonymous dances.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lifem26-nigel-north-78548/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lifem26-nigel-north/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2546d93ff571d751378a9c4070f4c7c959f590328911c850bd37fef70fff739d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "LIFEM26: Ensemble Inventio", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "£30 / £20", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/book/?bookevent=5179", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/renaissance"], "description": "A 75-minute concert of motets, chansons, dances and improvisations from the court of Marguerite of Austria, one of the most powerful women of her age, who kept her own court in Mechelen with a chapel choir of leading composers. It is performed by Ensemble Inventio, an improvising renaissance wind ensemble directed by Ian Harrison, a virtuoso player of the shawm, cornett and bagpipes. The programme draws on Marguerite's library, including manuscripts of polyphonic music and one of the first surviving collections of dance music with choreographies. The concert is included in the LIFEM Festival Pass.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lifem26-ensemble-inventio-69565/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lifem26-ensemble-inventio/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7332aedc54dac4e93db9cc223828232d07ec64df81f488a9c7fb832a5aa2d82e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Samrat Majumder guitar", "start": "2026-11-03T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£18 (concessions £16)", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical"], "description": "A lunchtime guitar recital by Samrat Majumder. Promoted by the Young Classical Artists Trust, the programme celebrates the lute legacy of John Dowland and Johann Sebastian Bach inherited by the guitar, with works by Dowland, Bach's Suite in E minor, a commission from YCAT Composer Fellow Arthur Keegan, and a selection of Scottish lute manuscripts. The concert lasts approximately one hour without an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/samrat-majumder-guitar-65989/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611031300", "image": "https://noky.io/images/af63879accf3b475ad4ea55a6fb02a29ef4e4d191ff16021c71cdbfdea75d3d8-600.webp"}, {"title": "LIFEM26: Festival Day Pass", "start": "2026-11-12T09:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/book/?bookevent=5179", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["music/classical/early-music"], "description": "LIFEM26: Festival Day Pass is a day ticket for the London International Festival of Early Music that gives access to all festival events on the chosen day. It includes the lunchtime and evening concerts in St Michael & All Angels Church, the exhibition, and the full programme of workshops, talks, and recitals. For this day the pass covers performances by Phantasm with Elizabeth Kenny and Nigel North, a Performers' Platform Concert, Fringe Performances, and talks, demos and workshops. It is presented by Blackheath Halls.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lifem26-festival-day-pass-69567/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lifem26-festival-day-pass/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/dd393c9ac721a1810c5a099a2507ee74fb6fdee7579e2a4f8dc14c3bf21e8a5b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "LIFEM26: Festival Pass Wed 11th–Sat 14th Nov", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "£185 / £95 Students & U21s", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/book/?bookevent=5150", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["music/classical/early-music"], "description": "A festival pass giving access to all events of LIFEM26, the four-day London International Festival of Early Music at Blackheath Halls and St Michael & All Angels Church, Blackheath. The pass covers the lunchtime and evening concerts, the exhibition, and the full programme of workshops, talks and recitals. It offers a discount of up to £25 on events across the festival and supports LIFEM's world-leading programme of early music in 2026 and beyond. Included acts range from Phantasm with Elizabeth Kenny and Erik Bosgraaf & Baltic Baroque Orchestra to Nigel North, Ensemble Inventio, L'Artefice and Eun Sol Lee.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lifem26-festival-pass-wed-11thsat-14th-nov-69566/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lifem26-festival-pass-wed-11th-sat-14th-nov/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/996210157896a97ca90e547193f0b30b0cadedefef3639c44aedeb18b0af2f03-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Thomas Dunford artistic director, lute; Jupiter Ensemble", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£50, £43, £33, £27, £18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "50.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/renaissance"], "description": "A concert of music by the Elizabethan composer John Dowland, given as 'John Dowland: Another Retrospective' by Jupiter Ensemble. Lutenist Thomas Dunford directs an ensemble of four singers — soprano Melissa Petit, mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, countertenor Hugh Cutting, tenor Thomas Hobbs and bass Florian Störtz — plus five viola da gamba players. The programme, lasting about two hours with an interval, draws on Dowland's songbooks and his Lachrimae pieces for viol consort, marking the 400th anniversary of the composer's death. Dunford, whose ensemble recorded Songs of Passion for Warner Classics in 2025, calls Dowland 'the John Lennon of the 16th Century.'", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thomas-dunford-artistic-director-lute-jupiter-ensemble-65991/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611041930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/74be64c7119b1599a4b85b32fd98883babff13e92690f6cb661f63128f2e6dfb-600.webp"}, {"title": "LIFEM26: Phantasm & Elizabeth Kenny", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "£35 / £25 Students & U21s", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "35.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/book/?bookevent=5198", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/renaissance"], "description": "A concert at the London International Festival of Early Music in which the viol consort Phantasm and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny reunite to perform their award-winning interpretation of John Dowland's Lachrimae or Seven Tears in the composer's anniversary year. Phantasm, founded in 1994 by Laurence Dreyfus, is an acclaimed viol consort whose recording of this programme won the 2017 Gramophone Award and the 2017 Diapason d'or de l'année. The programme of dance music for viols and lute centres on the seven variants of the Lachrimae theme and sums up the Renaissance preoccupation with melancholy, including Dowland's signature piece Semper Dowland Semper Dolens.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lifem26-phantasm-elizabeth-kenny-78549/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lifem26-phantasm-elizabeth-kenny/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/666bdee6b543f02ef1389cba9aaaa13daeabda867444ad6b440d0bea5cd068d9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Samling Showcase", "start": "2026-11-06T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£40 £37 £33 £27 £18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/vocal"], "description": "A recital evening at Wigmore Hall celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Samling Institute, which trains young voices and pianists. The programme of Schubert, Purcell, Monteverdi, Schumann, Dvořák, Granados and Vaughan Williams, including 'Serenade to Music', is performed by Samling alumni such as Nardus Williams, Cláudia Ribas, Euan McDonald, Felix Gygli with pianists Jonathan Ware and Alfred Fardell, clarinettist Eliott Berdugo, the Samling Academy Quartet and speaker Adrian Lester. It lasts about two hours including an interval. Under-35 discounted and free tickets for young people are available.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/samling-showcase-65994/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611061930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1b079f3a7800cf9a53cbb2b4fb4d3abb72b33fc540ef821e9b79103bb2dbd927-1200.webp"}, {"title": "LIFEM26: Exhibition Only", "start": "2026-11-12T09:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "price": "Free, Booking Required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/book/?bookevent=5179", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["music/classical/early-music"], "description": "An exhibition of early music held in the Great Hall of Blackheath Halls, bringing together makers, publishers, and early music organisations in a marketplace for professionals, students, and enthusiasts. It is the annual exhibition of the festival, continuing a tradition of early music exhibitions in London spanning over half a century. Established brands appear alongside highly respected individual makers in a vibrant atmosphere. Entry is free to all this year for the first time, with booking required.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lifem26-exhibition-only-69568/", "official_url": "https://www.blackheathhalls.com/whats-on/lifem26-exhibition-only/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ac9d664dc0a37ac0f2db2bf38f1c3f134de66a296568d030d785ed3b866f752-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Classical Guitar by Candlelight", "start": "2026-11-12T20:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-12T21:00:00Z", "place": "St Mary le Strand", "address": "Strand, WC2R 1ES London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.eventim-light.com/uk/a/63c82ca274fb184f4eebf902/e/6a8e794c7ebd53f4117f568c?lang=en", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/guitar"], "description": "An evening recital of classical guitar music performed by candlelight inside the baroque church St Mary Le Strand in the heart of London. The concert is played by the acclaimed guitarist Amanda Cook. Her programme spans works by Weiss, Tárrega, Dowland, Broca and Schubert, alongside Spanish masterpieces and Scottish and Peruvian traditional music, ending with The Parting Glass. Each piece is chosen to show a different facet of the guitar's colour, character and emotional depth.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/classical-guitar-by-candlelight-47732/", "official_url": "https://stmarylestrand.com/event/classical-guitar-by-candlelight-6/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5b5b618f946052f291902a7d57298f20f772e4d7308e6a75738187389e307796-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Stile Antico", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£40 £37 £33 £27 £18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/early-music"], "description": "Stile Antico brings 'Discord to Harmony: Renaissance music of war and peace' to Wigmore Hall, a choral concert lasting about two hours with an interval. The vocal ensemble Stile Antico performs works by composers from Dufay to Schütz exploring how music responded to Renaissance Europe's wars, alliances and peace treaties. The programme ranges from Janequin's battle chanson La guerre to laments for fallen cities and serene motets welcoming longed-for peace.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/stile-antico-66004/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611111930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1fa56e0d4927d3c5d54d507797ae00e7c3619b00fede09731acbeb761d76135-600.webp"}, {"title": "Rímur", "start": "2026-10-30T20:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Smith Square Hall", "address": "Smith Square, SW1P 3HA London", "price": "£20-£35", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "35.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/book-online/101801", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/medieval"], "description": "A concert titled Rímur, part of the London Festival of Baroque Music, lasting one hour and forty minutes including an interval. It is a collaboration between the Norwegian vocal trio Trio Mediæval and celebrated jazz trumpeter Arve Henriksen. The programme reimagines ancient Nordic songs through a blend of medieval chant, folk traditions and contemporary improvisation, inspired by the connection between Rivedal in Norway and Reykjavík. It weaves together sacred hymns, 17th-century Icelandic music, the storytelling rhythms of Icelandic rímur and the wordless vocal art of Scandinavian tralling.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rimur-74814/", "official_url": "https://www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/rimur/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9399e0839b9a9d4e36095c67137077e02ad29ab97154b42958716853ec8c445-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Julian Faultless / Martin Hackett / Julian Woods", "start": "2026-10-31T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "A music event at Hundred Years Gallery bringing together three performers: Julian Faultless, Martin Hackett and Julian Woods. Martin Hackett, a member of Oxford Improvisers and the Muzzix collective in Lille, has spent the past thirty years exploring the Korg MS10 synthesiser. Julian Woods is a guitarist, bassist, arranger and composer whose recent work includes microtonality, free improvisation and polystylism. Julian Faultless, a horn player trained at the Royal Academy of Music who has played with London orchestras, is also active in Oxford Improvisers.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/julian-faultless-martin-hackett-julian-woods-36568/", "official_url": "http://hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/music-martin-hackett-julian-faultless-julian-woods/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/47fefa1a10eb11a63df94fde8dc34e3ba3bb01fac4bdf123457daae325b7c982-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Fleur Barron mezzo-soprano; Mauro Peter tenor; Joseph Middleton piano", "start": "2026-10-31T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£40 £37 £33 £27 £18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202610311930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/lieder", "nature"], "description": "A song recital titled 'Songs of the Beloved Earth' at Wigmore Hall, given by mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, tenor Mauro Peter and pianist Joseph Middleton. The Grammy Award-winning Barron and Swiss tenor Peter join Middleton in a programme of songs by Bach, Mahler, Schubert, Britten and George Crumb reflecting humankind's relationship with the natural world, spiced with surprises such as a Britten boogie-woogie and Crumb's Primeval Sounds for solo piano. The concert runs approximately two hours including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/fleur-barron-mezzo-soprano-mauro-peter-tenor-joseph-middleto-70797/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202610311930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eb0cf32e5772c8031b17a34add42aef9b47e91c43fff13982fba49020022b73f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Music and Poetry from the Burlingtons’ Chiswick", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Chiswick House", "address": "", "price": "£25 (Concession £15)", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://chiswickhouseandgardens.org.uk/community-schools/growing-green-school-visits/", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["history/local-history", "music/classical"], "description": "An evening of words and music inspired by the history and people of Chiswick House & Gardens. Violinist Peter Sheppard Skærved is joined by speaker Malene Sheppard Skærved, flautist Anna Wolstenholme and the Kreutzer Quartet in a programme moving between the 18th century and today. It includes music written for the Burlingtons by Geminiani, Rousseau's Consolations, Haydn's \"Lark\" Quartet, new works including a world premiere by David Hackbridge Johnson and Sadie Harrison's A House of Countless Rooms, and poetry by Pope and Malene Sheppard Skærved. The evening also features an 18th century violin made for this very space and carved by John Boson, who was responsible for much of the decoration of Chiswick House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/music-and-poetry-from-the-burlingtons-chiswick-35306/", "official_url": "https://chiswickhouseandgardens.org.uk/event/music-and-poetry-from-the-burlingtons-chiswick/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8f0a9cd5e7384348547688f2b731f80b954d42dc2e1a11df7429a7920c6b7abd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Young Artists’ Platform: José Teixeira", "start": "2026-11-05T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Foundling Museum", "address": "Brunswick Square 40, WC1N 1AZ London", "price": "free with the price of admission or an annual pass", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.foundlingmuseum.org.uk/products/general-admission", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical"], "description": "A lunchtime recital lasting an hour, given as part of the museum's Young Artists' Platform. It features bass trombonist José Teixeira, a Portuguese-born musician studying for a Master's degree at the Royal College of Music in London. The programme showcases exceptional musicians at the start of their careers, in partnership with the Philharmonia Orchestra and its Instrumental Fellows. The concert is free with the price of admission or an annual pass.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/young-artists-platform-jose-teixeira-78689/", "official_url": "https://foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/yap-jose-teixeira/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/97389cab1387e6a110a706c165c7860720a394e0720d50f93c72e2abff89aebe-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Lunchtime Concert: Chamber Music Recital", "start": "2026-11-10T13:05:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Morley College London", "address": "Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7HT London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A lunchtime chamber music recital performed by students of the Advanced Chamber Music & Piano Accompaniment course. The students are coached by Kate Rider's colleague Kate Ryder, and the concert takes place in the Holst Room at Morley College London.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lunchtime-concert-chamber-music-recital-46168/", "official_url": "https://morleycollege.ac.uk/event/lunchtime-concert-chamber-music-recital-7/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6e7a9fc0949ff6f17f557f2f86dcbeafc1d909922a6b0bb7bf6f99a924812b69-2000.webp"}]}