What’s on in Malvern Priory

Welcome to our Events listing
For more info please follow the links or take a look on our Calendar

All events listed below take place in the
Priory Church, Church Street, Great Malvern, WR14 2AY
unless otherwise stated

Organ Recital: Peter King, Organ Emeritus, Bath Abbey

Saturday 11 May 2024
Noon
Peter King, Organist Emeritus, Bath Abbey
Programme to include Suite from Holberg's Time by Grieg and Sonata No. 1 by Guilmant
Free entry with retiring collection

Malvern Festival Chorus: Spirituals and Psalms

Saturday 18 May 2024
7pm
Malvern Festival Chorus and conductor Jonathan Brown, invite you to join them for a concert featuring John Rutter's "Feel the Spirit" and Leonard Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms". The choir will beaccompanied by instrumentalists and soloists. Drinks will be served in the interval.
For more information visit: www.malvernfestivalchorus.co.uk
Tickets available at https://www.trybooking.com/uk/DGDY

Elgar Festival: Relaxed Concert

Thursday 30 May 2024
3pm
Elgar for Everyone really does mean Elgar for EVERYONE. Join us for a very Relaxed Concert given by members of the ESO wind section for people living with disabilities, dementia and other challenges. Free admission. Advance booking advised.
http://www.elgarfestival.org/ 
or Call
Worcester Theatres on  01905 611427

Worcester Organists' Association: talk on C V Stanford
Followed by a recital. Andrew McCrea (Worcester)

Saturday 1 June 2024
Talks from 11am; recital from12pm
A talk on CV Stanford followed by a recital by Andrew McCrea (Worcester).
Free entry, retiring collection

Free Lunchtime talk: Dr Matthew Tromans: Priory Churchyard Trees

Thursday, 6 June
1.00 pm
Dr Matthew Tromans Manging Director Creative Gardening Solutions Ltd and Malvern Hills District Council's tree surgeon will be talking about the life and times of some of trees to be found in Great Malvern Priory Churchyard.
Free entry with retiring collection for enhancement of the wildflower garden area of the churchyard

Malvern Festival Chorus, Come and Sing: Haydn's Creation Workshop

Saturday 29 June 2024
12.30 pm - 5pm
Come & Sing “The Creation” by Joseph Haydn with Malvern Festival Chorus and their conductor Jonathan Brown. Join Malvern Festival Chorus for an afternoon singing this great work, followed by an evening concert. Afternoon tea between the workshop and concert will be provided – the chorus have a reputation for putting on a good spread!
Full details about the event, including how to reserve a workshop place and book concert tickets will be found on the Malvern Festival Chorus website www.malvernfestivalchorus.co.uk

Malvern Festival Chorus, Come and Sing: Haydn's Creation Concert

Saturday 29 June 2024
7pm
Come & Sing “The Creation” by Joseph Haydn with Malvern Festival Chorus and their conductor Jonathan Brown.
For tickets visit the Malvern Festival Chorus website at www.malvernfestivalchorus.co.uk

Free lunchtime concert given by Cheltenham Choral Society

Saturday 6 July 2024
1pm
Cheltenham Choral Society, directed by Thomas Mottershead,  present a free lunchtime concert, with a mixed repertoire including selected parts from:Faure’s Requiem, Mozart’s Requiem;  Schubert’s Mass No. 2 in G;  Stainer’s The Crucifixion; and Haydn’s Little Organ Mass; along with organ pieces played by Alison Howell.  The soloist will be Cara-Jade Nichols.
Free entry with retiring collection

Free lunchtime concert given by students of Wycombe High School

Monday, 15 July 2024
1.00 pm
Details to follow
Free entry with retiring collection

Three Choirs Festival: Another Road

Tuesday 30 July 2024
11am
Hereford Chamber Choir presents an innovative programme focusing on contemporary composers and their choral settings of texts by the Dymock Poets. This ambitious project brings the poems of Abercrombie, Brooke, Drinkwater, Frost, Gibson and Thomas to life through deeply personal musical responses to their words.
Tickets: £28, £20 & £12.00 through Festival website Click here

Three Choirs Festival: Sophia Membery Organ Recital

Tuesday 30 July 2024
2pm
Our second talented young performer from the Royal College of Organists, recitalist Sophia Membery, presents an exciting programme of works including a Howells Rhapsody written during a Zeppelin raid on York and an arrangement of ‘Jupiter’ from Holst’s well-loved suite, The Planets.
Supported by Fr. Michael Thomas
Tickets £15 under 25s free, through Festival website Click here

 

Free afternoon cello and piano recital

Thursday, 1 August 2024
2.00 pm
A free cello and piano recital by young artists from the Royal College of Music attending a week of masterclasses in Great Malvern with internationally-renowned cellist Hannah Roberts, Senior Professor at the Royal Academy of Music
Free entry, retiring collection in aid of the mission and vision of Great Malvern Priory.

Organ Recital: Carleton Etherington of Tewkesbury Abbey

Monday 26 August (Bank Holiday Monday)
12,00 pm
Programme details to follow in due course
Free entry with retiring collection

Free lunchtime concert given by Carmini (members of the City of London Choir and the Londinium Chamber Choir)

Thursday 29 August 2024
1.30 pm
Please note later start time than usual for a lunchtime concert.  More details to follow
Free entry with retiring collection

Evensong sung by Carmini (members of the City of London Choir and the Londinium Chamber Choir)

Saturday 31 August 2024
3pm
Service - all welcome

Exhibition: Rain, Wind and Change

Tuesday, 1 October 2024 to Sunday 27 October 2024
Available to view during Priory Opening Hours
Part of the Autumn in Malvern Festival  2024
A series of works with their source in SOIL, a book of poems about the history of the landscape around the Malvern Hills by Catherine Swire.  The installation includes large charcoal landscape drawings, figures and small still life paintings with a particular emphasis on the story of Prince Arthur, eldest son of Henry VII, who appears in the Magnificat Window at Malvern Priory. 


There will be three lunchtime events in the Priory during the exhibition:
Tuesday, 8 October at 1.00 pm: Bridget MacDonald will give an introduction to the exhibition
Tuesday, 15 October at 1.00 pm: Discussion with Catherine Swire
Tuesday, 22 October at 1.00 pm: Discussion with Bridget MacDonald and Catherine Swire
Free entry

Organ Recital: Keith Hearnshaw, Concert Organist

Saturday, 26 October
12.00 pm
Programme details to follow in due course
Free entry with retiring collection