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

Lunch Box: Concert by students from Malvern St James

Thursday 6th March 2025
12.30 pm for 1pm start
Bring your own lunch to enjoy before the concert. Lunch Box is organised by The Friends, working together with the Priory.
Free entry with retiring collection

Lunchtime Concert by musicians from Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Friday 14th March 2025
1pm
Songs and Sonatas by French Baroque Women Composers, directed by Elizabeth Pallett and Martin Perkins. Pioneering women composers of 17th and 18th century France are celebrated in this concert alongside the numerous anonymous composers who contributed songs and instrumental music. RBC musicians perform works by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Julie Pinel, Françoise-Charlotte de Senneterre Ménétou and 'Mademoiselle Sicard'.
Free entry with retiring collection

Lunch Box: An insight into Asperger’s/autism

Thursday 20th March 2025
12.30 pm for 1pm start
A talk by Julia Micklewright. Bring your own lunch to enjoy before the talk. Lunch Box is organised by The Friends, working together with the Priory.
Free entry with retiring collection

Organ Recital: Andrew Caskie

Saturday 22nd March 2025
12 noon
Programme highlights include two works by Alexandre Guilmant: his Organ Sonata No. 5 in C minor, and his Morceau Symphonique for organ and trombone Part of the 2025 Organ Recital series
Free entry with retiring collection

Lunch Box: Laura Knight (1877-1970) the famous artist and her time in Malvern

Thursday 3rd April 2025
12.30 pm for 1pm start
A talk by Heather Whatley. Bring your own lunch to enjoy before the talk. Lunch Box is organised by The Friends, working together with the Priory.
Free entry with retiring collection

Priory Welcome Day

Saturday 5th April 2025
10am - 4pm
Everyone welcome for refreshments, children’s craft activities, music, tour guides available.
Tower Tours hourly 11am - 3pm weather permitting.
Arts and Crafts Market in the churchyard.
Free entry except Tower Tours - £5 for adults, £2.50 for children 8-16. Sorry, not suitable for children under 8.

Haydn’s Creation

Saturday 12th April 2025
7:30pm
Haydn's joyous oratorio tells the Biblical story of the creation with soprano Sophie Edwards, tenor James Atherton, bass Paul Mocroft, organist Piers Maxim, and the combined forces of Bromyard Choral Society, Cradley Singers and a chamber orchestra. It contains such well-loved musical highlights as 'A new created world' and 'The heavens are telling'.
Tickets £16.00 (Under 16's free) available online or from patsymarson@gmail.com or 07812743485

Puccini Messa Di Gloria and Faure Requiem

Saturday 10th May 2025
7pm
A concert by Malvern Festival Chorus conducted by Jonathan Brown. More details to follow.
Ticket details to follow

Elgar Festival Relaxed Concert

Friday 30th May 2025
11am
An hour-long concert full of beautiful music. 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 tickets must be booked: Available from the Elgar Festival Website or call Worcester Theatres on 01905 611427 

Elgar’s Strings in Malvern

Friday 30th May 2025
7pm
Perhaps no other orchestra has done so much to champion the incredible tradition of British music for strings as the legendary English String Orchestra, whose recordings carry the music of England from Elgar to today to listeners worldwide. The programme opens with a set of short pieces which showcase Elgar's genius for the miniature and continues with works showcasing two of today's most engaging and exciting composers, Peter Fribbins and Ian Venables.
Tickets £20; Under 18s free; Available from the Elgar Festival Website or call Worcester Theatres on 01905 611427

Elgar Festival Organ Recital and Q&A with David Briggs

Saturday 31st May 2025
2pm Q&A 3pm Recital
David Briggs talks about his life in music and how he’s brought the symphonies of Elgar, Vaughan Williams and even Gustav Mahler into the organ repertoire through his toweringly virtuosic transcriptions. Briggs performs his stunning transcription of Elgar’s First Symphony alongside the master’s Organ Sonata and the evocative and beautiful Rhapsody by featured festival composer Ian Venables
Tickets £15; Under 18s free; Available from the Elgar Festival Website or call Worcester Theatres on 01905 611427

Organ Recital: Andrew Lumsden

Saturday 26th July 2025
12 noon
Programme to follow. Part of the 2025 Organ Recital series
Free entry with retiring collection

Organ Recital: Carolyn Craig

Monday 25th August 2025
12 noon
Programme to follow. Part of the 2025 Organ Recital series
Free entry with retiring collection

Tales in Oak: The Medieval Misericords of Malvern Priory

Saturday 27th September 2025
6.30p,
The 2025 Friends’ Heritage and Faith lecture is a talk by Katherine Little on the medieval misericords of Malvern Priory
Ticket details to follow

Organ Recital: Piers Maxim

Saturday 11th October 2025
12 noon
Programme to follow. Part of the 2025 Organ Recital series
Free entry with retiring collection

La Nativité Du Seigneur

Tuesday 9th December 2025
6:30pm
Michael Bacon (Great Malvern Priory) plays Messiaen’s meditations on the birth of the Saviour. Part of the 2025 Organ Recital series.
Free entry with retiring collection