Strawberry Hill Community Choir will be setting sail on a musical journey for our summer concert Songs Of The Sea on Tuesday 7 July 2026, 7.45pm.

Join us for what promises to be a voyage to remember!

Wild waves, still lagoons

The composers on our nautical set list range from Eric Whitacre, Gilbert & Sullivan and Herbert Sumsion to Charles Trenet, Frank Loesser among others.

Our captain (otherwise known as our musical director) is James Speakman, and he’ll be joined by our first mate (our pianist) Jon Booth. Also on board are our special guests (our professional soloists). There will also be a call for all hands on deck (a.k.a audience participation).

Once more we are performing at the beautiful St Mary’s Church in Twickenham TW1 3DT. Doors open at 7.15.

Click here to find St Mary’s Twickenham on Googlemaps.

Tickets

Tickets are £15 (under-10s go free).

• Use the QR code here to get your tickets
• Or go to our page on Trybooking.com

Music Director James Speakman

James Speakman is Strawberry Hill Community Choir’s musical director. He is Assistant Director of Music at the London Oratory School.

Before that James was Assistant Director of Music and Chapel Organist at Stowe School. He is a prize-winning Associate of the Royal College of Organists.

James started out as a pianist, then began organ lessons at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music with Simon Mercer. He won an Organ Scholarship at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, and studied with Ian Tracey. He read music at Cambridge University, where he studied the organ with Stephen Farr, and was Organ Scholar at Corpus Christi College. He was the recipient of the John Sanders Memorial Competition for Young Composers award in 2019.