What’s on in Malvern Priory

Welcome
to the Priory’s Events listing


For more info please follow the links or take a look on our Calendar

You’ll find info about regular services and Messy Church by clicking the links.

All events listed below take place in the
Priory Church,
Church Street,
Great Malvern,
WR14 2AY
unless otherwise stated

Male Voice Choir Spectacular

Saturday 18th April 2026
7pm
Malvern Male Voice Choir in concert with Vauxhall Luton Male Voice Choir and Bois Goetre-Hen Male Choir.  Enjoy a couple of hours of song with the considerable sound of three well-established choirs, offering a wonderfully varied mix of music to guarantee a thoroughly entertaining evening with something for everyone. 
Ticket info: Adults £15, Under 18’s £5 available via this link

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 2nd May 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Tower Tours hourly 11am - 3pm, weather permitting. £5 for adults, £2.50 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower
Arts and Crafts Market in the churchyard.

Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor (K,427)

Saturday 9th May 2026
4pm
Hanley Voices & the Tan House Singers join together to sing Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor, considered to be one of his greatest works, with orchestra and soloists and a supporting programme of music by Biebl, Hagenberg, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff and folk songs.
Tickets - Adults £18, Under 16's £10. Available from TicketSource, Malvern Tourist information Centre, choir members and on the door.

Mozart Requiem

Saturday 16th May 2026
7pm
Malvern Festival Chorus and conductor Jonathan Brown invite you to a concert featuring the ever-popular Mozart Requiem and Purcell's Funeral Sentences, Te Deum laudamus & Jubilate Deo. With Malvern Sinfonia and professional soloists. The concert is dedicated to Mary Wetherall. 
Tickets £18 / £12 for 17-21s / 16 and under free with paying adult; available from https://www.trybooking.com/uk/FZCA , choir members and on the door

Elgar Festival Relaxed Concert with DownsideUp

Tuesday 19th May 2026
11am
An hour-long concert full of beautiful music as part of Dementia Action Week performed by DownsideUp (cello and bass) These relaxed performances are particularly suited to those living with dementia and other similar health conditions, adults and children with additional learning needs, their carers and anybody who wishes to experience classical music in a relaxed and informal environment.
Free entry but booking advisable: Relaxed Concert - elgarfestival.org

Organ Recital

Saturday 23rd May 2026
12 noon
Richard Gowers, Hanover Square, London. Programme to include Mozart Fantasia in F minor & Bach/Reger Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue. Part of the 2026 Organ Recital Series.
Free entry with retiring collection

Elgar Festival ESO String Orchestra concert

Thursday 28th May 2026
7pm; Pre-concert talk with Kenneth Woods and Nicholas Daniel at 6.15pm
Join the internationally renowned English Symphony Orchestra for their annual festival strings concert. Featuring Elgar’s Serenade for Strings, In Moonlight and Chanson de Nuit alongside Schoenberg’s 1899 lush and lyrical masterpiece Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Sibelius’s Rakastava and Thea Musgrave’s Night Windows with star oboe soloist Nicholas Daniel.
Tickets £22, unreserved seating: ESO String Orchestra - Elgar’s Strings in Malvern - elgarfestival.org

Monteverdi Vespers

Saturday 30th May 2026
7.30pm
Cambridge Renaissance Voices join forces with The Musical and Amicable Society on period instruments to bring to life the golden age of Venetian music, when St Mark’s Basilica echoed to the sound of Monteverdi’s Vespers and music by his forerunner Giovanni Gabrieli.  
Ticket £25 booked in advance online / £30 on the door; £10 for under 18s and fulltime students; available from Ticketsource

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 6th June 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Tower Tours hourly 11am - 3pm, weather permitting. £5 for adults, £2.50 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower

A Night at the Opera

Saturday 20th June 2026
7pm
A wonderful array of well loved operatic pieces with sensational soloists Harriet Burns, soprano; Marta Fontanals-Simmons; mezzo soprano, and brilliant accompanist Waiyan Lee. They join the highly acclaimed Cheltenham Bach choir under the exceptional musical direction of David Crown.  A concert not to be missed.
Tickets:  Adults £20, Students and children 18 years and under £5. Tickets can be purchased online through Ticketsource on Cheltenham Bach Choir website or by email to tickets@cheltbachchoir.com    

Tower Tours

Saturday 4th July 2026
11am-3pm hourly
Visits to the ringing chamber and top of the Priory tower (weather permitting) hourly from 11am to 3pm. See how the bells are rung (and try them yourself) and get the best view of Great Malvern.
Tickets £5 for adults, £2.50 for 8 – 16s (sorry, not suitable for children under 8).

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 18th July 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Farmers Market in the churchyard

Organ Recital

Saturday 25th July 2026
12 noon
Hilary Norris, Leominster Priory. Programme to include Buxtehude Prelude, Fugue & Ciacona & Rheinberger Passacaglia. Part of the 2026 Organ Recital Series.
Free entry with retiring collection

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 1st August 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Tower Tours hourly 11am - 3pm, weather permitting. £5 for adults, £2.50 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower
Arts and Crafts Market in the churchyard.

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 15th August 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Farmers Market in the churchyard

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 29th August 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am

Organ Recital

Monday 31st August 2026
12 noon
Michael Bacon, Great Malvern Priory. Programme to include Whitlock Plymouth Suite & Naji Hakim Variation on Two Themes. Part of the 2026 Organ Recital Series.
Free entry with retiring collection

The Gents of St John's Cambridge, a Concert in Aid of the charity, Mandalay School for the Deaf

Saturday 19th September 2026
7pm
The Gents of St John's present a celebration of choral masterpieces from across the centuries with a second half of a capella, close-harmony arrangements of classic popular songs.
Adults £20; Students £10; Children Free; Tickets from www.thehaileyburysociety.org/society-events 

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 3rd October 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Tower Tours hourly 11am - 3pm, weather permitting. £5 for adults, £2.50 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower
Arts and Crafts Market in the churchyard.

Organ Recital

Saturday 10th October 2026
12 noon
Iain Simcock, Concert Organist. Programme to include Vierne Symphony No.5. Part of the 2026 Organ Recital Series.
Free entry with retiring collection

Priory Super Saturday

Saturday 7th November 2026
10am - 4pm
Free children’s craft activities and free refreshments for everyone
Free Guided Tour at 11am
Tower Tours hourly 11am - 3pm, weather permitting. £5 for adults, £2.50 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower
Arts and Crafts Market in the churchyard.

Priory Christmas Super Saturday

Saturday 28th November 2026
10am - 4pm
Free craft activities for all, free refreshments, music
Tower Tours to the ringing chamber hourly 11am - 3pm. £4 for adults, £2 for children 8-16. Sorry, children aged under 8 may not climb the tower
Tour Guides available
Arts and Crafts Market in the churchyard.

La Nativité Du Seigneur

Tuesday 8th December 2026
6:30pm
Andrew Caskie (Great Malvern Priory) plays Messiaen’s meditations on the birth of the Saviour. Part of the 2026 Organ Recital series.
Free entry with retiring collection