The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival is back for its 11th year, bringing together world-class musicians for a thoroughly varied programme of chamber music performed in the intimate, candle-lit setting of St Anne’s Church.
Join us for chamber music favourites by Beethoven and Brahms amongst others, set alongside lesser-known gems by Enescu and Richard Strauss. Rowan Atkinson CBE returns to the festival for an evening of Mozart to raise funds for Food Bank Aid, and The Julian Bliss Quintet makes it first appearance at HICMF for an afternoon of jazz focusing on the music of George Gershwin. It promises to be an exciting, thought-provoking and festive week of music topped off with mince pies and mulled wine.
We look forward to welcoming you there!
Concert 1
Joseph Haydn Piano Trio in Bb Hob XV:20
Richard Strauss Variations on a Bavarian Folk Song for string trio TrV109
Johannes Brahms Sextet No 2 Op.36
Sophia Jaffé, Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Natalie Klouda – violin
Meghan Cassidy, Ruth Gibson – viola
Robert Cohen, Ashok Klouda – cello
Irina Botan – piano
Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters
Stage Adaptation by Stephen Briggs
Pratchett takes Macbeth and turns it up ’till the knob comes off. A kingdom with a wicked duke and duchess, a ghostly king, dim soldiers and indifferent players. Who can save the kingdom from destruction?
Running Time: TBC
The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival is back for its 11th year, bringing together world-class musicians for a thoroughly varied programme of chamber music performed in the intimate, candle-lit setting of St Anne’s Church.
Join us for chamber music favourites by Beethoven and Brahms amongst others, set alongside lesser-known gems by Enescu and Richard Strauss. Rowan Atkinson CBE returns to the festival for an evening of Mozart to raise funds for Food Bank Aid, and The Julian Bliss Quintet makes it first appearance at HICMF for an afternoon of jazz focusing on the music of George Gershwin. It promises to be an exciting, thought-provoking and festive week of music topped off with mince pies and mulled wine.
We look forward to welcoming you there!
Concert 2
Gustav Mahler Piano Quartet in A minor
Vaughan Williams Nocturne & Scherzo
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart String Quintet No 4 in G minor K.516
Sophia Jaffé, Braimah Kanneh-Mason – violin
Meghan Cassidy, Ruth Gibson – viola
Robert Cohen – cello
Irina Botan – piano
The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival is back for its 11th year, bringing together world-class musicians for a thoroughly varied programme of chamber music performed in the intimate, candle-lit setting of St Anne’s Church.
Join us for chamber music favourites by Beethoven and Brahms amongst others, set alongside lesser-known gems by Enescu and Richard Strauss. Rowan Atkinson CBE returns to the festival for an evening of Mozart to raise funds for Food Bank Aid, and The Julian Bliss Quintet makes it first appearance at HICMF for an afternoon of jazz focusing on the music of George Gershwin. It promises to be an exciting, thought-provoking and festive week of music topped off with mince pies and mulled wine.
We look forward to welcoming you there!
Concert 3
Maurice Ravel String Quartet in F
Felix Mendelssohn String Quartet No 6 in F minor, Op. 80
Natalie Klouda, Benjamin Nabarro – violin
Meghan Cassidy – viola
Ashok Klouda – cello
Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters
Stage Adaptation by Stephen Briggs
Pratchett takes Macbeth and turns it up ’till the knob comes off. A kingdom with a wicked duke and duchess, a ghostly king, dim soldiers and indifferent players. Who can save the kingdom from destruction?
Running Time: TBC
The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival is back for its 11th year, bringing together world-class musicians for a thoroughly varied programme of chamber music performed in the intimate, candle-lit setting of St Anne’s Church.
Join us for chamber music favourites by Beethoven and Brahms amongst others, set alongside lesser-known gems by Enescu and Richard Strauss. Rowan Atkinson CBE returns to the festival for an evening of Mozart to raise funds for Food Bank Aid, and The Julian Bliss Quintet makes it first appearance at HICMF for an afternoon of jazz focusing on the music of George Gershwin. It promises to be an exciting, thought-provoking and festive week of music topped off with mince pies and mulled wine.
We look forward to welcoming you there!
Concert 4
George Enescu Piano Quintet No 1
Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor Op.115
Braimah Kanneh-Mason, Benjamin Nabarro – violin
Meghan Cassidy – viola
Robert Cohen – cello
Julian Bliss – clarinet
Irina Botan – piano
The first Christmas Bazaar at St Joseph’s since lockdown. Stalls include Crafts, Kids’ Stuff, Bottle Tombola, Cakes, Gifts, Plants, Books, Pre-loved Toys, knitted wear, discounted items from the Church Shop, bric-a-brac. Visit from Santa Claus, Raffle drawn at 3pm with great prizes (vouchers from local restaurants & hairdressers, hampers, guitar, bottles of fizz), Green Dome Cafe serving curry, shepherd’s pie, hot dogs, turkey sandwiches, tea & coffee, mulled wine and Irish coffee, bar open. Carols with St Joseph’s Choir. Come and join in the fun.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival is back for its 11th year, bringing together world-class musicians for a thoroughly varied programme of chamber music performed in the intimate, candle-lit setting of St Anne’s Church.
Join us for chamber music favourites by Beethoven and Brahms amongst others, set alongside lesser-known gems by Enescu and Richard Strauss. Rowan Atkinson CBE returns to the festival for an evening of Mozart to raise funds for Food Bank Aid, and The Julian Bliss Quintet makes it first appearance at HICMF for an afternoon of jazz focusing on the music of George Gershwin. It promises to be an exciting, thought-provoking and festive week of music topped off with mince pies and mulled wine.
We look forward to welcoming you there!
Concert 5
HICMF will be helping to raise vital funds for the charity Food Bank Aid through this evening’s concert which explores Mozart’s music and life with readings by Rowan Atkinson CBE
Rowan Atkinson – narrator
Ailish Tynan – soprano
Sophia Jaffé, Natalie Klouda – violin
Meghan Cassidy – viola
Ashok Klouda – cello
Irina Botan – piano
Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters
Stage Adaptation by Stephen Briggs
Pratchett takes Macbeth and turns it up ’till the knob comes off. A kingdom with a wicked duke and duchess, a ghostly king, dim soldiers and indifferent players. Who can save the kingdom from destruction?
Running Time: TBC
The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival is back for its 11th year, bringing together world-class musicians for a thoroughly varied programme of chamber music performed in the intimate, candle-lit setting of St Anne’s Church.
Join us for chamber music favourites by Beethoven and Brahms amongst others, set alongside lesser-known gems by Enescu and Richard Strauss. Rowan Atkinson CBE returns to the festival for an evening of Mozart to raise funds for Food Bank Aid, and The Julian Bliss Quintet makes it first appearance at HICMF for an afternoon of jazz focusing on the music of George Gershwin. It promises to be an exciting, thought-provoking and festive week of music topped off with mince pies and mulled wine.
We look forward to welcoming you there!
Concert 6 - Jazz concert
The Genius of Gershwin
George Gershwin was a musician who bridged the worlds of jazz and classical music. Enamoured with both genres and convinced that each could bring something to the table, he mastered the art of combining jazz and classical to create his famous signature sound. In this programme The Julian Bliss Quintet presents their unique take on some of Gershwin’s most famous compositions with original arrangements and adaptations.
The Julian Bliss Quintet
Julian Bliss – clarinet
Martin Shaw – trumpet
Jason Rebello – piano
Ferg Ireland – bass
Ed Richardson – drums
Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Terry Pratchett’s Wyrd Sisters
Stage Adaptation by Stephen Briggs
Pratchett takes Macbeth and turns it up ’till the knob comes off. A kingdom with a wicked duke and duchess, a ghostly king, dim soldiers and indifferent players. Who can save the kingdom from destruction?
Running Time: TBC
The Highgate International Chamber Music Festival is back for its 11th year, bringing together world-class musicians for a thoroughly varied programme of chamber music performed in the intimate, candle-lit setting of St Anne’s Church.
Join us for chamber music favourites by Beethoven and Brahms amongst others, set alongside lesser-known gems by Enescu and Richard Strauss. Rowan Atkinson CBE returns to the festival for an evening of Mozart to raise funds for Food Bank Aid, and The Julian Bliss Quintet makes it first appearance at HICMF for an afternoon of jazz focusing on the music of George Gershwin. It promises to be an exciting, thought-provoking and festive week of music topped off with mince pies and mulled wine.
We look forward to welcoming you!
GALA CONCERT
Natalie Klouda Five Rings for String Quartet (2012)
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio in E flat Op.1 No 1
Antonín Dvořák Piano Quintet No 2 in A Op. 81
Sophia Jaffé, Natalie Klouda
Meghan Cassidy – viola
Ashok Klouda – cello
Irina Botan – piano
LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI
from Three-Time International Gold Medallist
DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA
at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
Children: Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
Adults: Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th
COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
Churches Together in Highgate is putting on its first “Beer & Hymns” night in the Winchester Pub. We have a private room upstairs (lift available) with a pianist and a list of some of the most popular hymns, though requests can be included. Beer is of course optional – other drinks also available. We are starting at 6pm, and will carry on until around 8.30pm.
Weds 29 Nov waterways: details to book to follow
Handmade in Highgate is back for its winter/Christmas designer/maker fair. Featuring a line-up of up to 30 of the UK’s finest contemporary makers. Entrance is free to the wonderful (normally closed to the public) Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution. Added extras include a knockdown book sale in the historic library.
Handmade In Highgate opens:
Friday 1 December: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 2 December: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 3 December: 11am – 5pm
Musicians from the “Icons of Greek music” project come together once again to perform a concert of music by three of Greece’s most loved and iconic composers: Mikis Theodorakis, Manos Hadjidakis and Stavros Xarhakos.
There is not a household in Greece that does not have their beautiful melodies colouring their lives. The folk songs have become classics, almost like anthems. They can be heard being played by a small duo in the smallest taverna to the biggest orchestra in the greatest concert halls around the world and they touch everybody in their own personal way…they are songs and lyrics which wherever we are in life we can relate to.
Join us for an afternoon of lyrical melodies, pulsating rhythms and poetic lyrics that reach into the soul of Greece.
Performers:
Maria Tsirodimitri – voice, guitar
Pavlos Carvalho – cello, bouzouki, vocals
Manolis Taouxis – double bass, bouzouki, vocals
George Tsolakis – voice, guitar
George Angelopoulos – bouzouki, mandolin, baglama
See Friday 1/12/23 for details.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Maria Cabrera ceramics
Crouch End Candles
Kokoa (the chocolate shop)
Shelter
Leaping Lizard – children’s clothes/toys & Xmas decorations
The Dukes Head – food only
The Crown tbc – mulled drinks
The Gatehouse tbc – mulled drinks
Handmade in Highgate is back for its winter/Christmas designer/maker fair. Featuring a line-up of up to 30 of the UK’s finest contemporary makers. Entrance is free to the wonderful (normally closed to the public) Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution. Added extras include a knockdown book sale in the historic library.
Handmade In Highgate opens:
Friday 1 December: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 2 December: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 3 December: 11am – 5pm
Monday 6 Nov coffee computers 10 30
LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI
from Three-Time International Gold Medallist
DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA
at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
Children: Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
Adults: Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th
COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
Get into the Christmas spirit with carols and other choral music in a candlelit church, at Voxcetera’s popular annual Christmas concert.
You’ll hear thrilling new arrangements of traditional tunes such as I Saw Three Ships, It Came Upon The Midnight Clear and The Coventry Carol; festive choral music ancient and modern; popular songs; and have the opportunity to raise the roof by joining in with favourite carols including Hark The Herald Angels Sing and O Little Town of Bethlehem.
Jane Hopkins conducts Voxcetera chamber choir, with Martyn Noble on organ and piano.
A bar will be open from 7pm selling wine and mince pies.
Voxcetera is a chamber choir celebrating sacred and secular music from medieval times to the present day under the direction of its founding conductor Jane Hopkins. The choir’s achievements include its popular Christmas concerts; performances with chamber ensembles of Vivaldi’s Gloria, and the Fauré, Saint-Saëns and Brahms Requiems at St Michael’s Highgate; tours to Germany and Ireland; performances at St Martin-in-the-Fields, St John Smith Square, St Stephen Walbrook and East Finchley Arts Festival; appearances at the Science Museum, British Library and the Southbank Centre; and a variety of recording work.
Benjamin Britten’s much-loved work for voices and harp is the centrepiece of this year’s Christmas concert, which will also feature atmospheric sacred music from across the centuries and popular secular Christmas songs. You’ll also have the opportunity to raise the roof by joining in with a couple of well-known carols!
With Voxcetera chamber choir, Olivia Jageurs (harp), Paul Ayres (organ and piano), conducted by Jane Hopkins.
BAR: open from 7pm selling wine and mince pies.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
A one-woman interactive puppet show for the whole family. A fun and interactive adaptation of Dicken’s famous story suitable for the whole family. Ebenezer Scrooge doesn’t like to share will he be able to change his ways after three ghosts come to visit him late at night? Join us for this much-loved Christmas adventure with song and puppetry.
Suitable for ages 3+
Performances at 11am & 2:30pm
Our Living Crib Procession, with Mary and Joseph and a live donkey called Bayleaf, will depart from Pond Square, Highgate N6 at around 3pm. We walk, with stops for singing Carols, down the hill to St Joseph’s Church, where we enjoy a candlelight Children’s Christmas Tableau while singing more carols, then mulled wine and mince pies are served in the church. We usually wind up at around 4.30pm.
LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI
from Three-Time International Gold Medallist
DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA
at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
Children: Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
Adults: Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th
COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!
A ‘Night at the Museum’ Event
‘Cells and the City: cultivated meat at Hoxton Farms’
by
Max Jamilly
Monday 11 December in the Highgate School Museum at 7 pm
In this talk Max will tell the story of Hoxton Farms and present a general introduction to the cultivated meat industry. https://hoxtonfarms.com/
Max Jamilly (WG 2010) is the co-founder of Hoxton Farms. Based in London, Hoxton Farms are cultivating a deliciously fatty future. They grow real animal fat – without the animals – as an ingredient for irresistible meat alternatives. Max and his cofounder, Ed Steele, met at Highgate School in 1995. Max has a PhD in synthetic biology from Oxford and two degrees in biotech and business from Cambridge. He has spent the past decade in the UK and US using biotechnology to solve problems in healthcare, climate and food.
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
Three very hungry goats must cross the bridge to reach the lush grass on the other side. Only problem is, there’s a troll lurking underneath. Kaveh Rahnama returns with his brand-new adaptation, following last year’s brilliant Jack and the Beanstalk. Hold on to your horns!
Suitable for ages 3+
Thursday 14 December – Saturday 6 January at various times – check the website.
In a mesmerising spectacle, violin virtuoso Sonja Schebeck performs the brand-new sonata by Australian composer Chloé Charody alongside acrobat Josh Frazer. Circus and classical music combine in this captivating world premiere.