Music on Thursdays

Welcome to the Music on Thursdays home page. Music on Thursdays brings 12.30 lunchtime concerts to Leatherhead for the Summer and Autumn months each year. 

Our performers are mostly current students of the Royal Academy of Music or recent graduates of London's internationally renowned music colleges.

In 2012, our first year, alongside the traditional repertoire we had the good fortune to host a number of world premières of works and arrangements written by our players and by other young composers.

We look forward to another year of excellent performances of the familiar, the contemporary, and a few rare finds.

The Venues - LMC & Christ Church

Leatherhead Methodist Church - LMC

Music on Thursdays' 2013 season will take place in the comfortable recital room surroundings of Leatherhead Methodist Church. LMC is close to the town centre, in the one-way section of Church Road. The nearest car park is the "pay & display" behind the Parish Church Hall - just a minute's stroll from LMC.

The church is an easy five-minute walk from the bus stops in North Street, the Sainsbury multi-storey car park and the coach stops outside it, via the High Street and the passages beside Vecchia Trattoria and the Edmund Tilney public house.

The aerial view and map below show exactly where LMC is:

Christ Church (United Reformed)

Christ Church houses a modern Hill Norman and Beard pipe organ on which we present the Wednesdays at Christ Church series of recitals. More details of the recitals will appear on this linked webpage.  Christ Church (URC) has its own website on this link where you will find details of the Church's services and other activities.

The entrance to Christ Church is on Epsom Road, beside Downsend School's Leatherhead Lodge. There is ample parking on site at Christ Church. Sat Nav: KT22 8ST

Please see the map and aerial view below.

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2013 MoT Season start dates...

The Music on Thursdays 2013 season starts with an organ recital played by Anthony cairns at 12.30 lunchtime on Wednesday 19th June at Leatherhead's Christ Church (United Reformed) on Epsom Road. Details of Wednesdays at Christ Church on this link.

Music on Thursdays lunchtime concerts at Leatherhead Methodist Church begin at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 27th June and continue to October 31st - with occasional  Wednesdays with the pipe organ at Christ Church. Full programme on our calendar page

Jubilate
Music & Flower Festival
June 10th to 16th
Leatherhead Parish Church


Please visit the Jubilate 2013 page on this website for details of the range of lunchtime and evening events in the Parish Church to suit a variety of musical tastes.

Tianyun Jia plays Purcell Room
Free Tickets available

Violinist Tianyun Jia, from Shanghai China, played the final concert of Music on Thursdays'  2012 season. Tianyun started her music education aged 4. She was offered a full scholarship to study at Meadowmount School of Music, USA (2004-2009). She has also won awards and competitions including the London Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, and 2nd prize in the 3rd China International Competition in Qingdao, China. In 2008 she won a full scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music and studies with world-renowned Hungarian violinist György Pauk.

As part of her Martin Musical Scholarship Tianyun will give a recital in London's South Bank Purcell Room. The recital takes place at 7.45pm on Tuesday 25th June, 2013. 

Admission is FREE but ticketed - please call FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717 to reserve your free tickets. Further details on this link. (They don't even charge postage on the tickets!)

The Andrews Massey Duo

Emily Andrews and David Massey are familiar to our audience - they performed in Leatherhead several times last year. They have just released a new CD of their own arrangements of British and Irish folk tunes, titled "...from the roots". They have always included this type of music in their concert repertoire, but as Emily commented:
". . . it's a CD of entirely folk music which is all our own original arrangements. It came just from knowing the tunes, and improvising, rather than any written music (very much in the aural folk tradition). You can read more about it on our website (and listen to a track) http://www.andrewsmasseyduo.com/fromtheroots.html. It's also on itunes, amazon, and spotify, if you're interested to hear more..."

So head over to their website to listen to a sample track and to order Emily and David's new CD: Link to the Andrews Massey Website