Music and Spirituality

We have short talks that form part of Choral Evensong every last Wednesday of the month. The service will be accompanied with the professional Choir of Holy Sepulchre.

January 28th 2026 - “Tune Your Heart”

Rebecca White, Communications Director, Trustee VOCES8 Foundation.

February 25th 2026 - “Enter His Courts with Praise.” The Posture of the Heart

Silas Sanders, HTB Academy

March 25th 2026 - “Creativity, Music and Worship”

Luke Hamlyn, Worship Leader

April 29th 2026 - “Representation an Embodiment: The spirituality of Olivier Messiaen”

Tom Bell, Concert Organist

May 27th 2026 - “How does Music Help?”

Ralph Allwood, Rodolfus Foundation, Royal Naval Chapel, Greenwich

June 24th 2026

Will Harmer, Composer

July 29th

Dr Paula Gooder, Canon Chancellor, St Paul’s Cathedral

September 30th 2026

Rev. Dr James Hawkey, Westminster Abbey

October 28th 2026

Rachel Staunton, Founder and CEO, London Youth Choirs

November 25th 2026

Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, Composer/Singer

December 16th 2026 - “Listening to God and Neighbour in the Liturgy.”

Fr. Matthew Jarvis OCD

Please be in touch (peter@hsl.church) if you would like access to any of the following talks from our 2025 conference:

Musical Style, Liturgy, Culture, Mission and Evangelism, Rev. Dr Matthew Salisbury, Director of the Institute of Sacred Music

A Prayerful Dynamic: Contemplation, Music and the Mystics, Peter Asprey, Director of Music, Holy Sepulchre

Lift Up Your Hearts: Encountering the Mystery of the Incarnation in the Music of Worship, Dr. Joel Clarkson, Theologian, poet, composer, author