Luton Music Club

07/10/2026

TONIGHT. You could have heard the Edinburgh Quartet last night by travelling to London St Pancras then finding your way to Conway Hall in Red Lion Square. However, a simpler, quicker and less expensive way is to come to St Mary's in Luton where you can hear them perform the same programme. No need to book ahead.

MUSIC ON MONDAYS. 12th October. St Mary's Church, Luton. 7.30pm. Doors open from 7pm.

The Edinburgh String Quartet will visit Luton for the first time and will play music by Hayd, Puccini, Rebecca Clarke and Schubert. See our website for full details.

St Mary's is a spacious and comfortable Church so just turn up and pay at the door. Adult £18. Under 18s free admission.

Edinburgh Quartet Date: 12th October 2026 Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Location: St Mary's Church Luton LU1 3JF Edinburgh Quartet We welcome the Edinburgh Quartet to Luton for the first time in a programme crowned by Schubert’s final glorious work for string quartet. Celebrating our anniversary theme o...

22/09/2026

TOMORROW NIGHT. Do come! St Mary's is a spacious and comfortable church. There is no need to book - just turn up between 7pm and 7.30pm.

MUSIC ON MONDAYS
The popular Norwegian/British Kaleidoscope Band makes a return visit to Luton on Monday 28th September. The members of this early music ensemble play an interesting range of instruments including a viol, theorbo, viola da gamba and recorder. The concert will take place at St Mary's Church, Luton and will start at 7.30pm with doors open from 7pm. Refreshments will be available during the interval

Tickets at £18 per adult may be purchased on the door. Under 18s in full-time education - free admittance. Further details from www.lutonmusic.org.uk

Music on Mondays Excellence in the heart of Luton Music on Mondays is an annual series of 20 professional chamber music concerts presented at St Mary’s Church in Luton. Our programmes include music from Bach to Britten, Dowland to Duke Ellington and Rameau to Rautavaara. Details of our 2026 season...

13/09/2026

MONDAY ON MONDAYS. 14TH SEPTEMBER. WIND QUINTET. ST MARY'S CHURCH, LUTON.

Our concert on 14th September will feature the New London Chamber Ensemble, a wind quintet which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. In honour of this the players of the Ensemble commissioned composer Julian Philips to write a new piece for them. Different Times explores the resonance of a single place – the Wittenham Clumps in Oxfordshire – at five different times of day; it is concerned with transience, the passing of time, and the preciousness of single moments of experience. Julian Philips will be attending on Monday evening and will introduce his work just before the interval. https://www.lutonmusic.org.uk/events/new-london-chamber-ensemble/

New London Chamber Ensemble
Ian Mullin (flute)
Chris Vettraino (oboe)
Neyire Ashworth (clarinet)
Meyrick Alexander (bassoon)
Stephen Stirling (French horn)

Programme
Claude Debussy (arr. Gordon Davies) – Petite Suite
Samuel Barber – Summer Music
Moondog – Bird of Paradise

Interval

Julian Philips – Different Times
Gustav Holst – Wind Quintet in A flat Op 14

As usual, the concert will be held in St Mary's Church in Luton. Doors will open at 7pm and the concert will begin at 7.30pm. There will be an interval and refreshments.

Tickets
Single Adult Tickets – £18
Concessions* – £10
Under 18s in full-time education – Free
Tickets are available at the ticket desk on the night of a concert – cash, major credit cards or cheques with a bank card are accepted.

* Concessions apply to students, disabled and unwaged but are otherwise not age-related

New London Chamber Ensemble Date: 14th September 2026 Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Location: St Mary's Church Luton LU1 3JF New London Chamber Ensemble We are proud to welcome this distinguished wind quintet to Luton for the first time. If the theme of our anniversary season is to celebrate the many frie...

27/08/2026

MUSIC ON MONDAYS. 31st Aug 2026. 7.30pm. St Mary's Church, Luton. Doors open from 7pm.

Our next concert will feature piano duets performed by Clíodna Shanahan and Simon Callaghan, and also by Ruiqi Fang and Markus Sadler. The eight pieces to be played are taken from those submitted for the 2025 Clements prize, a competition organised by London's Conway Hall for composers under the age of 35. These pieces are the ones that received the most votes from the audience. Our audience will be invited to cast their own votes on these compositions to see how they compare with the judging last year. In addition there will be music by Schubert, Rachmaninov and Saint-Saëns. https://www.lutonmusic.org.uk/events/cliodna-shanahan-simon-callaghan-piano-duet/

Clíodna Shanahan & Simon Callaghan (piano duet) Date: 31st August 2026 Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Location: St Mary's Church Luton LU1 3JF Simon Callaghan Clíodna Shanahan PROGRAMME The programme will feature entrants for the 2025 Clements Prize, a biennial composition competition organised by London...

10/08/2026

TWO DAYS TIME. Free entry with a retiring collection. You have to be there to witness the singing and performance skills of these young people.

MONDAY 17th August. St Mary's Church, Luton. 7.30pm.

It's time once again for the annual Bedfordshire Youth Opera Gala. Young singers from Bedfordshire offer a wide-ranging concert programme of operatic highlights. This programme will include music by Mozart, Mascagni, Sullivan and Sondheim. The Gala offers a showcase for the finest emerging musical talent in our area –FREE ENTRY WITH A RETIRING COLLECTION to raise money for Bedfordshire Youth Opera. Guest stars Rachel Nicholls (soprano) and Daniel Norman (tenor). The evening will be presented by Ellen Roff. More details at https://www.lutonmusic.org.uk/events/bedfordshire-youth-opera-gala-3/

31/07/2026

TONIGHT! It will be cooler in this beautiful ancient church than outside. And the seating is very comfortable.

MONDAY 3rd August. St Mary's Church, Luton. 7.30pm. Doors open from 7pm. Tickets at £18 per adult are available on the door. Under 18s - free admission. No need to book as St Mary's is a spacious church with plenty of comfortable seats.

Actress Joanna David will return to read a short story by Katherine Mansfield, entitled 'Her First Ball'. Before this there will be music by Chopin, Scarlatti, Röntgen, Cockcroft and Moszkowski. After the interval there will be a welcome performance of Richard Sisson's score illustrating 'Her First Ball'.

Musicians performing throughout this event are Jonathan Radford (saxophone), Shirley Turner (violin), Peter Mallinson (viola), Michael Atkinson (cello), Beverley Jones (double bass), Leo Little & Richard Sisson (piano duet).

16/07/2026

TONIGHT. We would love to see you at this concert.

MUSIC ON MONDAYS. 20th JULY. ST MARY'S CHURCH, LUTON.
The unusual combination of saxophone, harp and piano will play music by Bach, Morricone, Gershwin and Piazzolla. Tickets on the door. No need to book as there is plenty of comfortable seating in the church. £18 per adult. Under 18s in F/T education - free admission. Doors open from 7pm, concert starts at 7.30pm. Interval with refreshments. https://www.lutonmusic.org.uk/events/huw-wiggin-saxophone-oliver-wass-harp-simon-callaghan-piano/

02/07/2026

TONIGHT. ST MARY'S CHURCH, LUTON.

It's going to be another sweltering day and evening so why not cool down in Luton's beautiful church of St Mary. As it is an ancient church it will be COOL. It's also very comfortable - no hard pews here! Details of tonight's concert below. No need to book - just pay on the door.

Music on Mondays' next concert on Monday 6th July will be another under the title ‘Stars of the Future’, in which we showcase exceptional young musicians who are at the beginning of their careers as performing artists. Reynold Yang (clarinet), Zhijing Wu (cello) and Ruiqi Fang (piano) are all outstanding students at the Royal College of Music and the concert will also include lutenist Toby Carr who will present a new programme called Softest Thunder. This will be performed by candlelight. For more details please follow this link. https://www.lutonmusic.org.uk/events/stars-of-the-future-2/

The concert will take place at our usual venue of St Mary's Church, Luton and will start at 7.30pm with doors open from 7pm. Tickets at £18 per adult may be purchased on the door. Under 18s in full-time education - free admittance.

Stars of the Future Date: 6th July 2026 Time: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Location: St Mary's Church Luton LU1 3JF Ruiqi Fang, Zhijing Wu & Reynold Yang This concert is another in our series ‘Stars of the Future’, in which we showcase younger musicians who are at the beginning of what will surely be consi...

20/06/2026

TONIGHT
If you need somewhere very cool and comfortable this evening come to our concert this evening in St Mary's Church, Luton.

MUSIC ON MONDAYS. 22nd June. St Mary's Church, Luton. Doors open from 7pm. Concert starts at 7.30pm. Tickets on the door.
The Karolos String Trio will be joined by their good friend the guitarist Morgan Szymanski.

PROGRAMME

Antonio Vivaldi – Violin Concerto No.9 in D major RV230
Manuel M Ponce – Estrellita
Antonio Vivaldi – Guitar concerto in D major RV93
Astor Piazzolla – Histoire de Tango: Cafe 1930, Nightclub 1960 (arranged Szymanski)

INTERVAL

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Divertimento for string trio in E flat K563.

https://www.lutonmusic.org.uk/events/karolos-string-trio-morgan-szymanski-guitar/

04/06/2026

TONIGHT! We would love to see you there.

Music on Mondays. Our next concert is on 8th June and takes place in beautiful St Mary's Church, Luton. 7.30pm. Doors open from 7pm. £18 with under 18s in full-time education - free admittance.

Sarajevo-born pianist Ivana Gavrić makes a welcome return to Luton with a fascinating programme. On her last visit she offered us perfect miniatures from the Bedford-based composer Cheryl Frances-Hoad, and now she features two other remarkable female composers. Dora Pejačević is an increasingly admired Croatian composer, writing in a late Romantic idiom in the early years of the 20th Century; Cécile Chaminade was an internationally feted pianist and composer from the second half of the 19th Century – she was a particular favourite at the court of England’s Queen Victoria and her Prélude for Organ was played at that great monarch’s funeral in 1901. This will perhaps be a chance to hear less well known repertoire alongside the more familiar masterpieces by Grieg and Ravel that complete this dazzling programme.