Aims of the Festival
The Festival’s principal aim is to showcase performances of recent and contemporary liturgical music and organ music at the very highest levels, in the context of both services and concerts. The Festival is a week-long event around Easter and St Pancrastide.
Our subsidiary aims are:
- To encourage and enthuse people to experience such music in live performances, rather than through recorded media;
- To add to the living musical tradition through newly commissioned works;
- To provide a platform for composers to present and to discuss their work.
As composer and founder-patron of The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, I have keenly watched it grow from its beginnings more than a decade ago. The Festival quickly became an established and much valued event in London’s musical calendar, bringing proper attention to the vital place of new music in the church’s repertoire. Indeed, it would now be hard to envisage the month of May without the enjoyment of this exciting enterprise.
