Founded in 2003, St Luke's Music Society promotes an annual concert series in St Luke's Church, South Battersea between October and May each year. The Society's reputation is based on attracting an array of international artists and on the church's superb acoustics. Performers in recent series have included Mitsuko Uchida, Mark Padmore, The Sixteen, Emma Johnson, Nicola Benedetti, the Doric String Quartet, Jess Gillam, Anna Lapwood, Peter Donohoe and Carolyn Sampson. The Society is known especially well for its outstanding series of annual piano recitals, which make full use for St Luke's astonishing acoustic.
The Society depends entirely on volunteers, and is always grateful to hear from anyone who might be able to help, both on concert days and with administration behind the scenes between concerts.
St Luke’s Music Society is very grateful to the vicar, the Reverend Lorenzo Fernandez-Vicente, to St Luke’s Parochial Church Council, to the local business community, which supports us through sponsorship and programme advertising, and of course to all the Society's members and volunteers for their support.
The Society is managed by:
Oliver Ogg - Chair
Emma Sweetland - Artistic Director
Katy Hill / Anna Tilbrook / Samuel Staples - Programming Committee
Michael Percy - Hon Treasurer
Elena Carlton Jones - Special Projects
Catherine Infield - Catering
Elizabeth Barton - Bar
