Christmas is the most important time for concerts at St Martin-in-the-Fields and this season features a packed programme of festive favourites.

25 November 2025, 19.30, £9.00-£32.00
Handel Messiah by Candlelight
Join St Martin’s Voices and St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble for a Christmas performance of Handel’s Messiah. This masterful oratorio was first performed in Dublin in 1742 and is a tour-de-force of iconic choruses and arias reflecting on Christ’s life, death and resurrection – including the inimitable Hallelujah chorus and the sublime soprano aria I know that my redeemer liveth.

2, 28 December 2025, 19.00, £9.00-£32.00
A Baroque Christmas by Candlelight
Join St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble for a selection of Baroque festive favourites, including works for soprano and strings alongside Corelli’s magical Christmas Concerto.

3 December 2025, 19.30, £10.00-£55.00
Christmas with Tenebrae: In Winter’s House
Tenebrae’s gorgeous Christmas concert features a wide range of festive music old and new, including Britten’s iconic Ceremony of Carols for upper voices and harp. The concert takes its name from a wonderfully atmospheric piece by Joanna Marsh, commissioned by Tenebrae in 2019.

4 December 2025, 19.30, £10.00-£35.00
Stile Antico: A Spanish Nativity
An irresistible mix of sumptuous Christmas polyphony and joyful folk influences from the sensual world of Renaissance Spain.

5 December 2025, 13.00, £10.00
St Martin’s Emerging Artists: A Christmas Collection
Join St Martin’s Emerging Artists for a festive lunchtime concert filled with Christmas music for unaccompanied voices spanning several centuries.

5 December 2025, 19.00, £10.00-£38.00
Christmas with the London Gay Men’s Chorus
The London Gay Men’s Chorus return to St Martin’s with a fun and festive performance of Christmas classics old and new!

6-7, 13, 17-18 December 2025, 16.00, £10.00-£26.00
The Joys of Christmas by Candlelight
The Joys of Christmas offers a short one-hour programme of music, carol singing and festive readings. Interspersing traditional favourites with contemporary classics, the captivating performances of St Martin’s Voices will give something for everyone as you prepare for the season’s celebrations.

6, 20-23 December 2025, 11.00, 14.00, £10.00-£26.00
Festive Family Carols
Our Festive Family Carols concerts offer the chance for children and adults of all ages to come together in a short one hour programme of popular carols and music, including a few favourites for you to sing along with.

6 December 2025, 19.30, £10.00-£39.50
Joy to the World: A Christmas Concert
Join the Choir of St Martin-in-the-Fields and St Martin’s Brass for a beautiful evening of carols and seasonal readings. Carols for all to sing include Hark! The Herald Angels’ Sing, Once in Royal David’s City and In the Bleak Midwinter, alongside favourites performed by our choir including Away in a Manger, Jingle Bells, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

7 December 2025, 17.00, free
Blessing of the Crib
All are welcome to join us as we come together in Trafalgar Square and bless the Crib, and welcome the Christ child into the world. We do not issue tickets for services and all are welcome.

8 December 2025, 13.00, £10.00-£38.00
A Classic FM Christmas with Zeb Soanes
Join Zeb Soanes, St Martin’s Voices and St Martin’s Chamber Ensemble for this special lunchtime concert, in the beautiful surroundings of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

8 December 2025, 19.30, £10.00-£39.50
Christmas with St Martin’s Voices
Mark the beginning of the Christmas season with an evening of carols sung by St Martin’s Voices. Carols for choir include See amid the winter’s snow, Infant Holy and In dulci jubilo, alongside a selection of audience carols including O come, all ye faithful and Hark! The herald-angels sing. The concert also features the world premiere of Jazz carols by Bob Chilcott.

9 December 2025, 19.00, £10.00-£65.00
The Sixteen: Handel’s Messiah
Handel’s Messiah meets Harry Christophers and The Sixteen: a seasonal tradition from this world-famous chamber choir.

11 December 2025, 18.30, £9.00-£32.00
The Sixteen: Handel’s Messiah
Celebrate the season with a captivating programme of choral music for upper voices and harp, centred on Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols – a luminous and uplifting work that has become a cornerstone of the Christmas repertoire.

12, 15 December 2025, 19.00, £10.00-£55.00
Ex Cathedra: Christmas Music by Candlelight
Chamber choir Ex Cathedra presents a candlelit sequence of Christmas music: a quietly beautiful celebration of mystery, wonder and the deep, still heart of this magical season.

13 December 2025, 14.00, £10.00-£26.00
Festive Family Carols with St Martin’s Junior Choir
Celebrate the season in style with our Festive Family Carols concert, featuring our very own Junior Choir. Join us as we offer the chance for children and adults of all ages to come together in a short one-hour programme of popular carols and music, including a few favourites for you to sing along with.

13 December 2025, 19.30, £10.00-£39.50
The Spirit of Christmas by Candlelight
Join St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Choir and St Martin’s Brass for a beautiful evening of carols and seasonal readings. Carols for all to sing include Hark! The Herald Angels’ Sing, Once in Royal David’s City and In the Bleak Midwinter, alongside favourites performed by our choir including Away in a Manger, Jingle Bells, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.

20, 22-23 December 2025, 19.30, £10.00-£26.00
Festive Favourites
Our Festive Favourites concerts offer a short one-hour programme of music, carol singing and festive readings. Interspersing traditional favourites with contemporary classics, the captivating performances of St Martin’s Voices will give something for everyone as you prepare for the season’s celebrations.

20-23 December 2025, 16.00, £10.00-£26.00
Carols for Christmas by Candlelight
Carols for Christmas offers a short one-hour programme of music, carol singing and festive readings. Interspersing traditional favourites with contemporary classics, the captivating performances of St Martin’s Voices will give something for everyone as you prepare for the season’s celebrations.

31 December 2025, 14.00, £10.00-£39.50
New Year’s Eve Rhapsody in Blue by Candlelight
Viktor Erik Emanuel performs piano favourites this New Year’s Eve including Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, alongside pieces by Mozart and Ravel.

1 January 2026, 19.00, £10.00-£36.00
New Year’s Eve Rhapsody in Blue by Candlelight
Join the Festive Orchestra of London and violin virtuoso Catherine Manson for their traditional celebration of the new year at St Martin’s church. The programme features many of music’s most popular masterpieces and finishes with Vivaldi’s spectacular Four Seasons.

2 January 2026, 19.00, £9.00-£32.00
A Viennese New Year by Candlelight
Join St Martin’s Chamber Orchestra and conductor Olivia Tait for a traditional New Year feast of waltzes composed by the Strauss family and their contemporaries, including the Blue Danube and Emperor Waltz, alongside works by Mozart and Tchaikovsky.