St Mary-le-Tower Concerts - Member Organisations

The Civic Church of St Mary-le-Tower, Ipswich, is the venue for 30 or more concerts a year promoted by the church. These include the Summer Series of some 24 to 25 Tuesday Lunchtime Concerts running from May to October and the Winter Series of 5 Lunchtime Concerts in the weeks before Christmas. Artists of national and international stature include organists and also a wide variety of other instrumentalists and singers. Some concerts are occasionally given by groups from Suffolk schools.

Further concerts are given by the Tower Chamber Choir, a group of 36 experienced Suffolk based singers. These include a concert for the evening of Good Friday and a concert for early autumn. These concerts include orchestra, as appropriate to the programme.

The concert programme runs alongside the regular three choral services sung every
Sunday by the two church choirs, the Choir of Boys and men and the Tower Singers.
There are also weekday services as follows:

Monday Evensong – with the Girl Choristers
Tuesday Evensong – with the Boy Choristers
Friday evening Compline – with the adult singers and choral scholars.