Summer Music in City Churches: Capturing the Castle | Mark Bebbington (piano)

Acclaimed pianist Mark Bebbington (".... a master interpreter’’ Classical Source, St. John’s Smith Square, April 2019) plays Bach, Debussy and Ireland in a lunchtime programme of works with literary associations from Shakespeare to Victor Hugo to Dodie Smith. Includes the contemporary composer Robert Matthew-Walker’s Piano Sonata ‘Hamlet’.

Summer Music in City Churches is a fledgling festival, founded in 2018, presenting beautiful music to inspire, divert and engage, in ancient and architecturally stunning churches in London's Square Mile. Standing cheek by jowl with City offices, these churches are glorious settings in which to listen and reflect: oases of history, beauty and peace amidst the 24-7 hurly-burly of City life.

The theme for the second festival in June 2019 is Words and Music. During a week and a half of events, you will find sumptuous settings of poetry, lyrical music inspired by poetry, plays and literature, words that illuminate music with biographical insight and context, music of significance to literary heroes and heroines, and more: a lyrical celebration.