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Foundling Sundays

On the first Sunday of every month you can enjoy a gallery talk followed by a concert in the Picture Gallery.  Free with Museum admission (£5 adults, £4 concessions, children under 16 and Foundling Pass holders free of charge).

Talk 2 - 2.30pm, concert 3 - 4pm concert.

Sunday 5 July

Paul Holmes, Researcher at the Foundling Museum, will give a talk about the Foundling Hospital Chapel Silver.  Following the talk soprano Kyoko Murai will perform a recital in the Picture Gallery.

Free afternoon concerts

Free with museum admission (£5, concessions £4).

Buy the Foundling Pass and gain FREE entrance to the Museum for a year which includes all performances in the Thursday Lunchtime Concert Series as well as Foundling Sundays: £15, £12 concessions.

Each month the Foundling Museum hosts a variety of free afternoon concerts in the Picture Gallery. On the first Thursday of each month the New London Orchestra present a range of Thursday lunchtime concerts as part of their Young Performers Concert Series sponsored by the Musicians Benevolent Fund. Later in the month The Beethoven Piano Society of Europe presents a piano recital as part of their series Beethoven and Youth. The Museum presents one Sunday performance in the middle of the month and musicians from Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square start their series of monthly recitals at the Foundling Museum on the last Friday of every month.

Thursday 2 July, 1pm - 2pm

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: New London Orchestra

Laura Lucas (flute): Laura was the youngest winner of the Shell/LSO Scholarship in 2001 and is currently studying at the Royal College of Music.

Thursday 16 July, 1pm – 2pm

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: Beethoven and Youth concert

The Beethoven Piano Society of Europe presents a piano recital as part of their monthly performance series.

Sunday 19 July, 3pm – 4pm

AFTERNOON CONCERT

"Songs of Love and Dreaming", Joanna Weeks (soprano) with Peter Foggitt (piano): a mixture of songs and arias to including works by Puccini, Mozart, Schubert and Liszt.

Thursday 6 August, 1pm - 2pm

LUNCHTIME CONCERT: New London Orchestra

Charlotte Stephenson (Mezzo soprano): Charlotte is currently on the Royal Academy of Music’s Opera Course and recently sang with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera.

Sunday 23 August, 3pm – 4pm

AFTERNOON CONCERT

Fiona Jessica Wilson (soprano), Richard Gullan (violin), Elizabeth Werry (piano) will perform arias and sonatas by Handel.

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