Coram's Annual Handel Birthday Concert

Coram's annual Handel Birthday Concert will celebrate the tremendous contribution Handel made to the fortunes of the Foundling Hospital in its earliest days. With his first concert for the Hospital in May 1749 he initiated what was to become a national tradition of fundraising concerts for charity - thus leaving his mark on the British cultural scene in perpetuity.

James Bowman, the acclaimed Handelian counter-tenor will be joined by Rosie Lomas (soprano), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ) and Adrian Butterfield (Baroque violin) with Belsize Baroque. This year’s concert will draw on the programme Handel performed on that first occasion and will tell the story of his initial involvement with the Hospital which at that time was seeking to raise funds to complete construction of the windowless Hospital Chapel.

The concert will be preceded by a wine reception with a prize draw and followed by a buffet.