Music at St Mary's

St Mary's Choir

St Mary's choirSt Mary's choir is a friendly group of singers of mixed ages, which leads the worship at St Mary's.

We are keen to recruit further members. No auditions are necessary.

For further information please come to a practice any Friday in church at 8pm or contact any of the following:

Julian Zerfahs - Director of Music
Dave Miller - Organist
Oliver Mateley - Assistant Organist
Keith Wiseman - Assistant Organist

View information on the organs of St Mary's.

St Mary's recital programme

St Mary's is a popular venue for concerts in Potters Bar and a full programme is performed using local musicians. Our free Lunchtime Concerts have been running for more than 30 years and offer a popular programme of varied music and a light lunch on the first Tuesday of each month (lunches from noon, recital starts at 12:30, with lunches resuming afterwards).

Ashley Wagner Rarescale Quintessimo

The programme for 2026 is as follows:

3 February Thomas Jesty & Lucy Cox - piano & soprano
3 March Ivan Linford - organ
Saturday 7 March 7:30pm Hertfordshire Philharmonia - Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole; Bizet: Carmen Suite; Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet; Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol
Saturday 21 March 7:30pm Potters Bar Choral Society - Mozart: Requiem in D minor K626; Haydn: Te Deum in C major (Maria Therese) Hob. XXIIIc: 2; Haydn: Insanae et vanae curae Hob. XXI: 3c
7 April Catherine Wilmers & Jill Morton - Cello & Piano
Saturday 18 April 2pm Children's piano recital
Saturday 25 April 7:30pm Hertfordshire Philharmonia - Dvorak: Symphony no 8; Mendelssohn: Fair Melusine (overture); Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite 1; Dvorak: Slavonic Dances Opus 46, nos 5-8
5 May Fumi Otsuki & Natalie Bleicher - violin & piano
2 June Francis Eastwood & Peter Almond - organ
Saturday 20 June 7:30pm Hertfordshire Philharmonia - Rachmaninov: Symphony No 1; Borodin: Steppes of Central Asia; Dvorak: Cello Concerto
7 July Joanna Lam - piano
4 August Aleksandra Lipke - piano
1 September rarescale - flute ensemble
6 October Bushey Winds
3 November Quintessimo
1 December Anthony Gritten - organ

Recitals are at 12:30pm unless otherwise stated.

Please contact Dave Miller for more information.

For future local and national organ concerts, see www.organrecitals.uk.