Events

Music Events

Thursday lunchtime 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 two free Thursday lunchtime concerts performed in the Picture Gallery. On the first Thursday of each month The Beethoven Piano Society of Europe presents a piano recital as part of their series Beethoven and Youth. Later in the month the New London Orchestra present a range of concerts as part of their Young Performers Concert Series sponsored by the Musicians Benevolent Fund.

Thursday 20 November

1.10 - 1.50pm  

Young Performers Concert Series: Winner of the Purcell School Piano Prize: In proud association with the world-renowned Purcell School, this concert features a recital by an award winner of the Purcell School Piano Prize.

Thursday 4 December

1pm – 2pm        

Beethoven and Youth: Malcolm Miller and friends play Early Piano and Chamber Works from the Bonn years.

Thursday 11 December

1.10 - 1.50pm

Young Performers Concert Series: Daniela Lehner & Jose Luis Gayo: Mezzo soprano Daniela was born in Austria and studied in Vienna, Salzburg and at the GSMD in London. Prizes include a Georg Solti Scholarship, Prize of the Acadamie Musicale de Villecroze, First Prize in the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition 2004 and a Barletti-Buitoni Award 2008.

Concerts

Friday 28 November

7.30pm – 9.30pm (doors open 6.30pm)

£10 (£6 concessions and 18th Century Music Study Day attendees)             

Handel at the Playhouse                            

George Frideric Handel was undeniably the most popular composer of Italian opera in 18th century England, and he had the patronage of kings and aristocrats to prove it. Few people realise today that the middle and lower classes also frequently heard and enjoyed Handel’s Italian tunes, as they were regularly appropriated and recontextualised in a native English style for musical comedies in the lowly fairs and playhouses.  Many of these charming and lively musical adaptations survive, but have not yet been heard by modern audiences. Dr Zak Ozmo leads Earl’s Court Baroque in a performance of these fascinating 18th century English versions of Handel’s most popular Italian pieces, including arias and instrumental works from ‘Poro’, ‘Scipione’, and ‘Floridante’, among others.

Foundling Sundays

On the first Sunday of every month you can enjoy a free 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 7 December

Janette Bright and Gill Clark will give a talk on the tokens of the Foundling Hospital where they will present their initial findings from their research into why the tokens exist, how they came to be on show and what they tell us about the lives of those who left them.  The talk will be followed by a performance by Catherine Fox (violin) and Merel van der Knoop (piano).

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