We're delighted to present the first in a new series of music festivals at St Stephen's to be held each year at the May Day bank holiday weekend, building on the 24-year legacy of the May Festivals we hosted each year until 2019.

No tickets needed – all welcome.

All services sung by the professional St Stephen's Festival Choir

Saturday 2 May

12.30 Recital 
Keziah Thomas (harp)

16.00 Choral Evensong
Leighton Responses
Magnificat in G (Jackson)
Nunc Dimittis (Holst)
Blessed City, heavenly Salem (Bairstow)

18.00 Organ Recital
Peter Stevens
Assistant Master of the Music, Westminster Cathedral

Sunday 3 May

10.45 Solemn Mass
Preacher: The Very Reverend Nicholas Frayling (Dean Emeritus of Chichester).
Coronation Mass (Mozart)
Faire is the heaven (Harris)

16.00 Surrexit Alleluia!
A sequence of words and music for Eastertide
Music by Stanford, Finzi and Tallis

Bank Holiday Monday 4 May

11.00 Choral Mattins
Smith Responses
Stanford in B flat
Justorum animae (Stanford)

12.30 Talk
The Reverend Canon Angela Tilby
(Canon Emeritus of Christ Church Cathedral Oxford)

16.00 Choral Evensong
Groome Responses
Caesar in E minor
O Thou who camest from above (Festival commission composed by David Halls)