City Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledge

Get ready to 'hear' the City and 'see' the City.

This autumn, the City Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledge celebrates the City’s unique environment, beauty and creativity through a two week programme of live music and performance.

As the birthplace of London, the City is a place with an ever-changing skyline – modern creations set against Christopher Wren’s baroque churches. They invite you to experience iconic City spaces in new ways.

Highlights include

• The opening concert in Mansion House, featuring the great British jazz pianist Julian Joseph, with state-of-the-art surround sound.
• The innovative performers Eklectric Duo (of Genoa) in Milton Court.
• Virtuosic playing by Benjamin Marquise Gilmore (Leader, LSO) and singing by Tenebrae in St Lawrence Jewry.
• The programme also includes a variety of free lunchtime concerts in beautiful Wren churches, a singing workshop open to all City workers and residents on Vivaldi‘s ‘Gloria’ (led by Tenebrae’s Nigel Short), and evening events with tickets available from £20.

The Festival of Music, Invention & Knowledge is supported by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, Michael Mainelli, as part of his mayoral theme Connect to Prosper, the City of London Corporation’s Destination City programme, and the Comune of Genoa. Curated by artistic director Ian Ritchie, and produced by Tessa Marchington, Music in Offices.