Concert Programmes — City Music Society

Lunchtime concert · Thursday 29 October 2026 · 1.05 pm

Strahinja Mitrović double bass, Salome Jordania piano

St Bartholomew the Great · West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE

Serbian-born double bass player Strahinja Mitrović won the Guildhall School Gold Medal in 2024, the first bassist to win this award since its inception in 1915. Then in 2025 he was the joint winner of The Musicians' Company Prince's Prize. Both awards are tribute to his remarkable playing style, exuding an extraordinary ability to make the bass sing. His choice of two sonatas originally for violin will show off this musicianship and his phenomenal technique.

Programme

MozartSonata in E minor K304
BottesiniElegy No.1
Robert SchumannSonata No.1 in A minor Op.105

Strahinja Mitrović website ↗Salome Jordania website ↗

Photo: Yannis Gutmann

Lunchtime concert · Thursday 5 November 2026 · 1.05 pm

Alexia Daphne Eleftheriadou piano

St Bartholomew the Great · West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE

Awarded The Musicians' Company Harriet Cohen Bach Prize at the Royal Academy of Music in 2023, Alexia is a graduate of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland where she also won the RCS Bach Prize. She has featured extensively in venues in Scotland and her homeland of Greece. To demonstrate her strong empathy with Bach's music she will play the composer's three-movement Italian Concerto, a virtuoso exercise in light and shade.

Programme

J S BachItalian Concerto BWV 971
CrumbMakrokosmos Vol.1, No.11 - Dream Images
ChopinSonata No.3 in B minor Op.58

Alexia Daphne Eleftheriadou website ↗

Lunchtime concert · Thursday 12 November 2026 · 1.05 pm

Nico Widdowson Quartet

Nico Widdowson piano

St Bartholomew the Great · West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE

Winner of the 2024 Musicians' Company Tina May Young Jazz Artist Award, pianist Nico Widdowson graduated from Leeds Conservatoire in 2018. Since then he has made a huge impression on the jazz scene with his skills in the Harlem stride style of the 1920s and the free improvised music of today. He makes frequent appearances on radio and at jazz festivals throughout the UK.

A programme of jazz standards and new compositions

Nico Widdowson (Musicians' Company) ↗

Lunchtime concert · Thursday 19 November 2026 · 1.05 pm

Trinity Laban String Ensemble

Leon Bosch conductor, Maximilian Lamprecht double bass

St Bartholomew the Great · West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE

Internationally renowned performer, conductor and teacher, Leon Bosch, leads Trinity Laban String Ensemble in a programme of music by two South African composers, marking 50 years since the Soweto Uprising. Leon, awarded The Musicians' Company Cobbett Medal in 2025, will share his experiences of living in South Africa during the apartheid era and talk about the two composers whose works will be heard in the concert.

Leon Bosch website ↗

Photo: Juno Snowdon

Programme

Mokale KoapengSuite for Strings
Shane WoodborneRed Ink: Concerto for Double Bass and String Orchestra

Lunchtime concert · Thursday 14 January 2027 · 1.05 pm

Purcell School Chamber Ensemble

St Bartholomew the Great · West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE

City Music Society concerts resume on Thursday 14th January 2027 at 1.05pm at St Bartholomew the Great.

A programme of mixed chamber ensembles from one of the UK's specialist music schools.

More details on this concert will be released when we announce the 2027 spring season.