The Sussex Musicians Club is an informal performer's club based in central Brighton. Originally devised as a women's club in 1923, it has continued to provide a platform for local musicians for over a century. Our members are drawn from widely varying backgrounds, including professional musicians. The concert meetings offer the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of music played at a high standard. We hold around ten concert meetings in a season, between September and June.
Concert meetings are held at Chapel Royal, 164 North Street Brighton BN1 1EA, starting at 7.00 pm.
Here is a message from Sue Mileham, our President. She and Angela kindly organised the change of venue on 13th June:
Dear Friends,
As most of you know, we were unable to hold our concert on 13th June in our usual venue at the Chapel Royal because of concerns about clashes between the right-wing demonstrators and the good folk of Brighton. We therefore had to find an alternative venue and were very grateful to St Laurence Church, Falmer (aka St Laurence-by-the-pond) for allowing us to use the church and its Yamaha piano. Despite anxieties about public transport most people found their way there with little problem (and of course there is free parking round the pond) and our performers had a good audience of around 30 people. Our performers, Angela Goodall, Rod Edmunds, Zhanna Kemp, Sarah Luong and Caroline Goodwin, all performed beautifully and particular thanks go to Caroline, who arriving at Brighton on the London train, found herself corralled with protesters on the station platform and had to persuade the police to let her out! And she then went on to sing quite calmly - what a pro!
We now have a pause for the summer and will resume in September. Details will be circulated well in advance but in the meantime I would like to invite you, on behalf of our Treasurer, Hugh, to please remember to pay your membership fees online if possible, if not please pay at the desk and ask Jonathan for a receipt. This will enable Hugh to keep an accurate record. Many thanks.
Have a good summer!
Sue Mileham (President)
The current season ends with the next concert on June 13th. We will resume in September, dates yet to be determined.
Audio recordings are now available, including the Guitar group. The low volume presented some difficulty but they are at least audible.
Dr Simon Jenner has published his regular review.
Audio recordings are now available for this event, which was a great success with exceptional performances.
We would like to thank John Bruzon for nominating Josh Slater
and Cosmo Sperring, Polina Loubnina for nominating Richie
Sherbourne, Edward Sherbourne and Ivan Hladushevskyi, and
Zhanna Kemp for nominating Grigory Zubkov.
 The following three pictures are from the concert on 18 March |
 Zhanna, Evelyn and Vitalia at the opening concert |
 Listen to Sherie in March 2022 |
 The Fringe logo from 2019 |
 Leslie Head was a former Club member. He was a much respected conductor; in the 1970s he pioneered many large scale works some of which were at the time relatively obscure. In February 2014 our Club held a memorial concert for Leslie, featuring some extracts of his recordings, the most recent from St John's Smith Square in 1983. Tributes were made by David Smith and Muriel Hart. |