| Saturday 21 February 2026 | 19:30 |
| Choir of Hampstead Parish Church | |
| Geoffrey Webber | Conductor |
| Orchestra of period instruments |
The Friends of the Music in Hampstead are organising a concert to be held in Hampstead Parish Church on Saturday 21st February 2026, at 7.30 pm, to mark the 80th anniversary of the appointment of the colourful and brilliant Martindale Sidwell as Organist and Choir Master in Hampstead. Martindale was instrumental in reviving the standard of musical excellence at St. John-at-Hampstead and St Clement Danes that continues to this day.
Entrance is free, courtesy of the Hampstead Church Music Trust.
We hope that the event will be both a beautiful concert to lighten up dark February days for everyone, and a kind of informal reunion for musicians and friends from Martindale’s time. The Friends of the Music will be hosting a reception afterwards, to which everyone is warmly invited.
The concert will be briefly introduced by the Very Revd. Dr Philip Buckler, who was vicar in Hampstead at the time of Martindale’s tenure. The programme for the concert includes music that Martindale directed and recorded (and composed), and that his wife Prof. Barbara Hill played as an eminent professor of harpsichord music. We look forward to welcoming you!
