Artistic Director's Message

Dear LCMS Friends and Supporters,

After such a difficult time for concerts in London over the last 18 months, we are all very much looking forward to resuming our LCMS programme at Kings Place and seeing you again at our concerts. We are still finalising the details for our coming 2021/22 season but you will find most of the headline information on this website, to be updated again soon.

Please also see details of our LCMS Friends scheme on this site. At only £30 a year, our Friends scheme continues to provide excellent value, providing a discount of 25% on tickets to all our concerts through the season. We hope you will support our concerts by renewing your membership, which also enables us, crucially, to support musicians with work after such a challenging period in which so few have had employment.

With best wishes from the LCMS directors,

Peter Fribbins, Artistic Director

London Chamber Music at Kings Place

The superb new concert hall at Kings Place – the first in London for 25 years – has opened an exciting new chapter for the London Chamber Music Society, which can trace its origins to Victorian music making in London in the 1870s, and the regular Sunday Concerts that developed at South Place and then the Conway Hall from 1929.

The inheritance of the Sunday Concerts is special, and our Concert Series aims to continue that rich legacy – which has long been part of the musical life-blood of the capital – by bringing the very best classical chamber music to London audiences at affordable prices.

The list of famous artists and ensembles appearing through the years reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of music history, and includes Henry Wood, Frank Bridge, Albert Sammons, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, Goossens, Ysaye, Percy Grainger, Primrose, Harriet Cohen, Myra Hess, John Ireland and many more. Britain’s most celebrated string quartets have regularly appeared in the Series, from the Brosa and Amadeus to the Allegri, Lindsay and Chilingirian Quartets. In 2008 we moved to a beautiful new location, the Kings Place, and continue our theme of celebrating some of the best British chamber music for strings and also in commissioning new chamber works.

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