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.
| 13 June 2026 - Chapel Royal Brighton |
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| W Hurlstone: Bassoon sonata 1st mvt Diego Monsalve (bassoon), Sarah Luong (piano) 'Speak Music: Memories from the Parlour' Songs by Elgar, Coates, Bridge, Woodforde-Finden, Del Riego, MF Phillips, Novello Rod Edmunds (tenor), Angela Goodall (mezzo-soprano), Zhanna Kemp (piano) Beethoven: Piano Sonata in G Op.79 No.25 Sarah Luong Caroline Goodwin (soprano), Zhanna Kemp (piano): Songs & Arias Tba |
| Final concert |
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. |