Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts


Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians!

Discover the UK’s next big talent with concerts featuring remarkable Chetham’s School of Music performers, aged 8-18, from the UK’s leading music school.

We’ll update this page with the upcoming programmes for each Chetham’s concert. Simply choose your favourite and book your free ticket for the concert of your choice via the event listings at the bottom of this page.

Watch out for occasional special guest lunchtime concerts by professional artists, in a carefully curated series showcasing early career musicians.

*Chetham’s School of Music’s remarkable performers are still developing their craft, so we hope you’ll understand if very occasionally we change the programme at short notice. Please check this page for updates. Thank you for supporting young musicians.


The weekly programme will be uploaded in advance of each concert below…

Please note that our Box Office no longer prints tickets for
Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts.

Just simply arrive and take your seat!


Tuesday 21.03.23
Carole Nash Hall
1.30pm

WALLACE Music and Magic are One

Mabel Dalgleish-King recorder
Effie clarinet
Pablo Luengo, Jimin Park violins
Ivan Babichev piano
 Isaac Chan conductor

KESIAK Nocturne in B minor: Echoes from the Polish Mountains

Laura piano

*****

BIRKETT Trumpet Sonata in Eb
i. Poco Allegro

Florence Wilson-Toy trumpet
Luke piano

*****

PRIESTLY A Widow Bird “Solitary Highland Lass”`

Issac Chan baritone
Harry Priestley piano

*****

SAVAGE Turn of the Tide

Phoebe Mallinson flugelhorn
William Savage piano

*****

ZHU Prelude

Julian piano

*****

FOSTER Allegro in F Major

Tilly Crutchley trumpet
Anastasia Foster piano

*****

HARRIS-BROWN A Short Story

Edward Harris-Brown piano
William Priest bass
Tom Warrilow drums


Wednesday 22.03.23
Carole Nash Hall
1.30pm

 

BEETHOVEN Sonata Op. 10 No. 3
i. Presto

SCRIABIN Sonata No. 4 in F# Major Op. 30

Julie piano

*****

CHOPIN Etude Op. 25 No. 7 ‘Cello’

Anastasia Foster piano

*****

JACOB Suite for Treble Recorder and Strings

i. Prelude
ii. English Dance
iii. Lament
iv. Bulesca alla Rumba
v. Pavane
vi. Introduction & Cadenza vii. Tarantella

Mabel Dalgleish-King recorder
Gemma Webster piano

*****

 


Thursday 23.03.23
Carole Nash Hall
1.30pm

Today’s performance will be a relaxed performance

SCHUBERT Sonata in a-minor
i. Allegro ma non troppo

RACHMANINOFF
Etude Tableu Op. 33 No 8. Moderato

 Marijus piano

*****
MOZART Sull’aria taken from the opera Marriage of Figaro

Mallory Neal voice
Hannah Weakley voice

*****

CONTI Il Mio bel Foco

SCHUBERT Wohin?

FAURE Après un rêve

QUILTER Come Away Death
Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind

Oscar Fairclough voice
Elena Nalimova piano

*****

Friday 24.03.23
Carole Nash Hall
1.30pm

BEETHOVEN Sonata in C Major Op. 2 No. 3
iii. Scherzo
iv. Allegro assai

Leo piano

*****

BEETHOVEN Sonata in E flat Op. 27 No. 2

Marc piano

*****

PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 10 (fragment)

Jasmin Javaherian piano

*****

PROKOFIEV Sonata No. 4 in C minor

Ivan Babichev piano

*****

 

 

Events

  1. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Thu 16 March 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  2. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Tue 21 March 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  3. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Wed 22 March 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  4. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts – Relaxed Concert

    Thu 23 March 2023, 1:30pm

    This concert will be the first of our relaxed events of 2023. These events are designed to be welcoming to...

  5. Carole Nash Hall

    Beethoven and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: A Special Lunchtime Concert Series

    Fri 24 March 2023, 1:30pm

    Chetham's acclaimed Keyboard Department presents a special cycle of Friday Lunchtime Concerts - featuring of all 32 of Beethoven's Piano...

  6. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Tue 28 March 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  7. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Wed 29 March 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  8. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Thu 30 March 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  9. Carole Nash Hall

    Beethoven and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: A Special Lunchtime Concert Series

    Fri 31 March 2023, 1:30pm

    Chetham's acclaimed Keyboard Department presents a special cycle of Friday Lunchtime Concerts - featuring of all 32 of Beethoven's Piano...

  10. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Tue 18 April 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  11. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Wed 19 April 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  12. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Thu 20 April 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  13. Carole Nash Hall

    Beethoven and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: A Special Lunchtime Concert Series

    Fri 21 April 2023, 1:30pm

    Chetham's acclaimed Keyboard Department presents a special cycle of Friday Lunchtime Concerts - featuring of all 32 of Beethoven's Piano...

  14. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Tue 25 April 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  15. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Wed 26 April 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  16. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Thu 27 April 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  17. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Tue 2 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  18. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Wed 3 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  19. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Thu 4 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  20. Carole Nash Hall

    Beethoven and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: A Special Lunchtime Concert Series

    Fri 5 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Chetham's acclaimed Keyboard Department presents a special cycle of Friday Lunchtime Concerts - featuring of all 32 of Beethoven's Piano...

  21. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Tue 9 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  22. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Wed 10 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  23. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Thu 11 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  24. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Tue 16 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  25. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Wed 17 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  26. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Thu 18 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  27. Carole Nash Hall

    Beethoven and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: A Special Lunchtime Concert Series

    Fri 19 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Chetham's acclaimed Keyboard Department presents a special cycle of Friday Lunchtime Concerts - featuring of all 32 of Beethoven's Piano...

  28. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Tue 23 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  29. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Wed 24 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  30. Carole Nash Hall

    Chetham’s Lunchtime Concerts

    Thu 25 May 2023, 1:30pm

    Take a lunch break and enjoy free weekday afternoon recitals by some of the UK’s most exciting young musicians.  Discover...

  31. Carole Nash Hall

    Beethoven and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: A Special Lunchtime Concert Series

    Fri 16 June 2023, 1:30pm

    Chetham's acclaimed Keyboard Department presents a special cycle of Friday Lunchtime Concerts - featuring of all 32 of Beethoven's Piano...