{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Blackheath Halls", "address": "23 Lee Road, SE3 9RQ London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611041930", "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": "John Dowland: Another Retrospective", "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": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611041930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/renaissance"], "description": "A concert titled 'John Dowland: Another Retrospective' performed at Wigmore Hall. It features the Jupiter Ensemble under artistic director and lutenist Thomas Dunford, joined by soprano Melissa Petit, four singers and five viola da gamba players. Marking the 400th anniversary of John Dowland's death in 2026, the programme presents excerpts from his songbooks and Lachrimae, spanning music that is joyful, playful, mysterious, introspective, meditative and amorous. The concert runs approximately two hours including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/john-dowland-another-retrospective-81027/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611041930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9fbd1d0d408f2b27017df11c1365315162a8bb25d9785cba3a657dac938622ae-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/book/?bookevent=5192", "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": "185.00", "price_to": "185.00", "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": "Arthur Keegan, Bach and Dowland", "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": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611031300", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/guitar"], "description": "A lunchtime guitar recital lasting about an hour without an interval, given by Samrat Majumder. The programme celebrates the lute legacy of John Dowland and Johann Sebastian Bach that the guitar has inherited, with works including Dowland's The Earl of Essex Galliard, Lachrimae Pavan and The Frog Galliard, Bach's Suite in E minor BWV996, a YCAT Composer Fellow commission by Arthur Keegan, and a selection of Scottish lute manuscripts. The concert is promoted by the Young Classical Artists Trust as part of its YCAT Lunchtime Series.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arthur-keegan-bach-and-dowland-81025/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611031300", "image": "https://noky.io/images/155af1b30a7594e3860e1870b4c27ec5c9fd6176b96f008a366664aa140f5c3a-600.webp"}, {"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"}, {"title": "Discord to Harmony: Renaissance music of war and peace", "start": "2026-11-11T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Wigmore Hall", "address": "Wigmore Street 36, W1G 9RG London", "price": "£18–£40", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611111930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/early-music"], "description": "This is a choral concert of Renaissance music titled \"Discord to Harmony: Renaissance music of war and peace\". It is performed by the vocal ensemble Stile Antico, a group of twelve singers led by sopranos, altos, tenors and basses. The programme explores how composers from Du Fay to Schütz responded to the wars, religious conflicts and diplomatic peacemaking of the Renaissance, spanning nearly two centuries of music. It features works such as Clément Janequin's chanson \"La guerre\" and Tomás Luis de Victoria's \"Missa pro victoria\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/discord-to-harmony-renaissance-music-of-war-and-peace-81030/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611111930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d1fa56e0d4927d3c5d54d507797ae00e7c3619b00fede09731acbeb761d76135-600.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": "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: 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/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": "The Fourth Choir The Gloaming Between Worlds", "start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Heaven", "address": "Villiers Street 10A, WC2N 6NG London", "price": "", "price_from": "12.50", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/9047671/chk/3fa096185ab51e32805195cc755da291/?modal_widget=true&widget=true", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/choral", "occasion/halloween", "religion"], "description": "A Halloween concert of atmospheric music for choir and cello, performed a cappella and with cello, at Heaven. The Fourth Choir, London's critically-acclaimed LGBTQ+ classical chamber choir, and leading cellist Katherine Jenkinson perform under conductor Jamie Powe. The Gloaming: Between Worlds moves from eerie, elemental and folk-influenced works, including Katerina Gimon's Air and Fire and pieces by Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Coleridge-Taylor, to sacred music for All Hallow's Eve. It features the UK première of Paweł Łukaszewski's Seven Last Words of Christ, John Taverner's Svyati, Alexander Campkin's The Ghost of Shadwell Stair and the Dies Irae woven throughout the evening.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-fourth-choir-the-gloaming-between-worlds-36456/", "official_url": "https://g-a-yandheaven.co.uk/event/the-fourth-choir/", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Morley Consort: A musical experience at Ham House", "start": "2026-11-01T12:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Ham House", "address": "", "price": "This event is free, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/baroque"], "description": "A historical musical experience with live 17th-century music performed in the Long Gallery of Ham House. The Morley Consort, a 4-piece group, plays 17th-century repertoire on historical instruments as visitors explore Ham's rare cabinet collection on the last day of Cabinets Unlocked. The programme includes pieces by composers on the Royalist side of the English Civil War, as well as music from Playford's English Dancing Master paying tribute to Ham House and its Cherry Garden. The performers take breaks and there is time to chat with audience members; the free event needs no booking, but normal admission charges apply for the venue.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-morley-consort-a-musical-experience-at-ham-house-36377/", "official_url": "https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london/ham-house-and-garden/events/9693b995-307a-4a32-b382-f0f4fb50fbd1", "image": ""}, {"title": "Brodsky Quartet: Bach, Britten and Bridge", "start": "2026-11-04T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal College of Music Museum", "address": "", "price": "£11.50 (incl ticket fee)", "price_from": "11.50", "price_to": "11.50", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A chamber concert by the Brodsky Quartet, joined by RCM string players, in the Performance Hall. The programme features arrangements of Bach solo sonatas for string quartet, Beethoven's String Quartet in C minor Op. 18 No. 4, Bridge's Second Idyll from Three Idylls H67, and Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge. Bridge dedicated his Three Idylls to Ethel Elmore Sinclair, whom he met while performing in the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, and Britten, his most notable pupil and fellow RCM alumnus, wrote his Variations inspired by the second Idyll. The performance hints at the personality of Britten's mentor.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/brodsky-quartet-bach-britten-and-bridge-38292/", "official_url": "https://www.rcm.ac.uk/events/details/?id=3823063", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9bf70f8e58d816fd0b1e37f238d98076386df4dbad82cc05ddbcbfd133430a3e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Catherina Lee, violin and Miles Walter, piano", "start": "2026-11-06T13:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "St Martin-in-the-Fields", "address": "St Martin's Place 5, WC2N 4JH London", "price": "£10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/booking?event-id=53360&instances-id=464003", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A lunchtime recital of French Romantic music for violin and piano at St Martin-in-the-Fields. Violinist Catherina Lee and pianist Miles Walter perform Chausson's Poème, Ysaÿe's Sonata for solo violin No 5, and Franck's Sonata in A major, with Eugène Ysaÿe at the heart of the programme. The concert, titled Dreams and Devotion, runs one hour with no interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/catherina-lee-violin-and-miles-walter-piano-80858/", "official_url": "https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whats-on/catherina-lee-violin-and-miles-walter-piano/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0f6e9b4a8510c5632a540722bfedce86f912d8b3b2e1a3af1f5564a56ec2c2e8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Donald Grant, R Schumann and Sally Beamish", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00Z", "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/202611051930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "The Elias String Quartet gives a concert of string quartets and folk songs. The programme marks Sally Beamish's 70th birthday year with two of the three quartets she wrote for the group, each taking a Robert Schumann string quartet as its point of creative departure, alongside a Schumann quartet and a selection of folk songs arranged by the quartet's violinist Donald Grant, a master of the Scottish fiddle tradition. The concert lasts about two hours including an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/donald-grant-r-schumann-and-sally-beamish-81029/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611051930", "image": "https://noky.io/images/96e0be34b9cfe6b4cd1211c30196df474807068ba3e4f3dd637c5f46ef347dfa-600.webp"}, {"title": "Nils Mönkemeyer viola; William Youn piano", "start": "2026-11-01T11:30:00Z", "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": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611011130", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music"], "description": "A Sunday morning chamber recital of about one hour without interval, with coffee, sherry or juice included. Viola player Nils Mönkemeyer, praised for his artistry and innovative programming, returns with his regular duo partner, pianist William Youn. The programme pairs Brahms's mellow viola version of his Second Clarinet Sonata with works by Rebecca Clarke, who studied composition with Charles Villiers Stanford and viola with Lionel Tertis, including her Morpheus for viola and piano and her Viola Sonata.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/nils-monkemeyer-viola-william-youn-piano-65985/", "official_url": "https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202611011130", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b17ce48ef3e909df5c421231af228067e584a66361d1945ca446b3aa385e50ca-600.webp"}]}