Live Events
Upcoming Music Events across London and the Home Counties
If you have a live event and would like Classics Count to promote it on this website and radio show, we now promote live events across London and the Home Counties.
We would love to hear from you, so get in touch drop us your details via the contact page
or email contact@martinclarke.org
This is a free service, we do it because we love live music!
Saturday 14th March 2026 at 7.30pm
St Albans High School for Girls, Townsend Avenue, St Albans AL1 3SJ
De Falla: Three-Cornered Hat Suite No 2, Damase: Flute Concerto with soloist Hattie Jolly
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2
Sunday 19th April 2026 at 2.00pm and 3.30pm
St Saviour’s Church, Sandpit Lane, St Albans AL1 4DF
Family Concert – Space
An introduction to the orchestra featuring space-themed pieces and popular Science Fiction film music – extracts from ET, Star Wars, 2001 and from other space and planetary themed classical music including Gustav Holst’s The Planets.
Saturday 27th June 2026 at 7.30pm
St Paul’s Church, Blandford Road, St Albans AL1 4JP
A Night at the Opera with soloists Erin Rossington and Robert Forrest
Verdi: Les Vêpres Siciliennes – Overture, Verdi: La Traviata - Prelude Act 1, Brindisi, E Strano!, Ah fors' e lu, Sempre Libera, Verdi: Aida - Act II Grand March, Puccini: La Boheme - from Che gelida,
Weber: Oberon – Overture, Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore - Una Furtiva Lagrime, Donizetti: L'elisir d'Amore - Chiedi all'aura Lusinghiera, Dvořák: Rusalka - Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém, Gounod: Roméo et Juliette - Nuit d'hyménée, Rossini: Guillaume Tell - Overture
www.saso.org.uk
Hemel Symphony Orchestra Info
Saturday 9th May 2026 - 7:30pm
St John’s Church, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead HP1 1JY
Schubert: Rosamunde Overture, Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer,
Mahler: Symphony No 4
Conducted by Claudio Di Meo
Leader Clive Hobday
Saturday 11th July 2026
St John’s Church, Boxmoor, Hemel Hempstead HP1 1JY
Weber: Der Freischutz Overture, Beethoven: Violin Concerto soloist Gonzalo Acosta, Brahms: Symphony No 3
Wycombe Sinfonia Info
High Wycombe Parish Church HP13 6RF
Sunday 8th March 2026 at 3pm (doors open at 2:30pm)
A train journey through light-hearted music - A one hour musical trains concert
Saturday 6th June 2026 at 7.30pm
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila, Bruch: Violin Concerto with soloist Eva Thorarinsdottir, Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5
Saturday 10th October 2026 at 7.30pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 3 with soloist Sofia Sacco
Audentior Symphony Orchestra Info
audentiorsymphonyorchestra.co.uk
Saturday 14th March 2026
St Michael’s and All Angels’ Church, WD18 7DY
Symphonies of Spring
Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Mozart: Clarinet Concerto with soloist Sarah Williamson, Schubert: Symphony No 8
Saturday 27th June 2026
St Luke’s Church, Langley Way, Watford WD17 3EG
Summer Spectacular
Vaughan Williams: The Wasps Overture, Britten: Four sea Interludes, Holst: The Planets
Abbots Langley Orchestra Info
Sunday 8th March 2026
Abbots Langley Community Centre. High Street, Abbots Langley WD5 0AP
Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Britten: Sentimental Sarabande, Mozart: Symphony No. 32, Schubert: Symphony No.4
Sunday 28th June 2026
Abbots Langley Community Centre. High Street, Abbots Langley WD5 0AP
Weber: Oberon Overture, Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite,
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6
Chorleywood Orchestra Info
St Andrew’s Church, Quickly Lane, Chorleywood WD3 5AE
Saturday 4th July 2026 at 7pm
Tchaikovsky: Overture Romeo and Juliet, Korngold: Violin Concerto with soloist Katie Mazur, Elgar: Enigma Variations
Bushey Symphony Orchestra Info
Conducted by George Vass
Tickets via busheysymphony.org.uk
Clarendon Muse, Rickmansworth Road, Watford WD18 7JA
Sunday 29th March 2026 at 3pm
Clarendon Muse, Rickmansworth Road, Watford WD18 7JA
Sunday 17th May 2026 at 3pm
Hertfordshire Philharmonia Info
St Mary’s Church, The Walk, Potters Bar EN6 1QQ
Saturday 25th April at 7.30pm
Dvorak Symphony No. 8, Grieg Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 and Mendelssohn The Fair Melusine Overture
Conducted by Martin Smith
Saturday 20th June at 7.45pm
Slavic Masters
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1, Borodin: Steppes of Central Asia,
Dvorak: Cello Concerto with soloist Michael Wigram
Conducted by Sam Scheer
Trinity Orchestra Info
Saturday 16th May at 7.30pm with pre concert talk at 7pm
St Edmund’s Church, Pinner Road, Northwood HA6 1QS
BRITTEN Four Sea Interludes
HAYDN Trumpet Concerto
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)
Trinity Orchestra
Conductor: Michael Murray
Trumpet Soloist: Imogen Whitehead
Leader: Arwen Newband
We are thrilled to welcome celebrated trumpeter Imogen Whitehead as soloist in this evocative
concert, which journeys from the sea to the gallery and paints vivid pictures in sound.
Saturday 27th June at 7.30pm with pre concert talk at 7pm
St Edmund’s Church, Pinner Road, Northwood HA6 1QS
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1
Imogen Whitehead
Octagon Music Society
Clarendon Muse, Rickmansworth Road, Watford WD18 7JA
Sunday 8th March at 4pm
Warwick Piano Trio
Bridge: Miniatures, Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 1 in D, Schubert: Piano Trio No 2 in E flat
Sunday 19th April at 4pm
Indira Grier CELLO
Daniel Lebhardt PIANO
Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No. 1 in Bb, Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Rachmaninov: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G minor
Watford Symphony Orchestra Info
www.watfordsymphonyorchestra.co.uk
St Luke’s Church, Langley Way, Watford WD17 3EG
Saturday 25th April 2026 at 7.30pm
Mozart: Overture to the Marriage of Figaro,
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor with soloist Phoebe Papandrea
Haydn: Symphony No 104 ‘London’
Saturday 4th July 2026 at 7.30pm
Richard Strauss: Festmarsch, Oboe Concerto with soloist Henrietta Cooke, Tone Poem 'Aus Italien'
