Press release

A wide variety of events will take place at Handel Hendrix House - the Mayfair museum once home to composer G.F. Handel and rock legend Jimi Hendrix at 25 Brook Street throughout May and June from collaborations with London Handel Festival and Classic Art London to Georgian food session with the emphasis on Italian food through to classical music performances, Jimi Sessions in the Hendrix’s flat and not to forget ‘Wigs & Wiggles’ for the under 5s!

EVENTS IN MAY & JUNE

The exhibition, Handel through Mozart’s eyes will run until Sunday, September 13, 2026 Tuesday 19 May, 6.30pm

Handel Through Mozart’s Eyes

Nathaniel Mander (harpsichord) presents a programme exploring the depth of Mozart’s engagement with Handel’s music and the influence these masterpieces had on his own celebrated works. This concert accompaniesan exhibition on display at Handel Hendrix House until 13 September.

Tickets: £25

https://handelhendrix.org/events/handels-salon-with-nathaniel-mander-handel-through-mozarts-eyes-2-2

Handel’s Italian Feast | Saturday 23 May, 6pm

Join food historians, Marc Meltonville and Robert Hoare as they take you on a journey through 18th-century Italy, exploring the dishes Handel would have encountered during his time there. Pizza? Pasta? Biscotti? Find out which of our seemingly modern Italian staples Handel might have enjoyed.

Ticket price includes a tasting and a glass of Italian wine.Tickets: £25 https://handelhendrix.org/events/georgian-cookery-handels-italian-feast

Georgian Cooking in Residence | Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 May, 10-4pm 

Included in General Admission to the museum, come and see our food historians, Marc Meltonville and Robert Hoare demonstrating various dishes from Handel’s life in London and influences from his travels to Italy, bringing Handel’s kitchen to life with the sights, sounds and smells of an 18th-century townhouse kitchen.

(Please note that food cannot be tasted during the daytime residency) https://handelhendrix.org/events/georgian-cookery

Baroque & Roll Weekends – Live Music | Saturday & Sunday, 23 & 24 May

Twice a month and included in general price1-3pm – Baroque2-4pm – RollEnjoy live music in both the Handel and Hendrix spaces on the same day. Hear baroque music performed on historic instruments in Handel’s dining room, then step into the 1960s with blues and guitar music in Jimi Hendrix’s bedroom. A unique chance to experience music where it was once written, rehearsed, and played. https://handelhendrix.org/events/live-music

Musical Bouquets | Tuesday 26 May, 7pm

Teresa Wrann and Thomas Pickering (TnT Recorders) present a programme of music by Handel and Telemann, highlighting the composers’ friendship, correspondence and shared love for horticulture. Inspired by their botanical exchanges, Musical Bouquets incorporates French composer Philibert Delavigne’s Les Fleurs as floral companions to Handel and Telemann’s pieces.

Tickets: £25

https://handelhendrix.org/events/handels-salon-with-teresa-wrann-thomas-pickering

The Star Soprano | Tuesday 2 June, 6.30pm

Soprano Katie Marshall is joined by Nathaniel Mander at the harpsichord todeliver a programme dedicated to some of Handel’s most celebrated creations for the soprano voice, all written here in London. Starting with Handel’s first London opera, Rinaldo (1711) and ending with an aria from the oratorio, Solomon (1743), this programme takes you on a journey of Handel’s evolving mastery of the soprano range that went on to influence generations to come.

Tickets: £25

https://handelhendrix.org/events/handels-salon-with-katie-marshall

Guitar Saturday | Saturday 6 June

£20 including general admission

https://handelhendrix.org/events/saturday-guitar-days

Volunteer Tours | Sunday 7 June

The tour will take place between 2-3pm and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no need to book in advance - simply sign up on arrival at no extra cost (maximum 10 people per tour).

The Ear of the Beholder | Tuesday 9 June, 6.30pm (doors open at 5.30pm)

In partnership with Classic Art London, Claire Davies, our lead curator, discusses newly published book, The Ear of the Beholder, with the author, Huon Mallalieu. Huon’s book explores how artists have represented sound in paintings throughout time, from the literal depiction of musical instruments to the sights and sounds of landscapes. Claire and Huon will together look at Handel’s own art collection and how his favoured artistsrepresented the sounds of the scenes they were painting.

Tickets: £25 (includes a look around the House)

https://handelhendrix.org/events/handels-salon-the-ear-of-the-beholder

Baroque & Roll Weekends – Live Music | Saturday & Sunday, 13 & 14 June

Twice a month and included in general price 1-3pm – Baroque 2-4pm – Roll

Enjoy live music in both the Handel and Hendrix spaces on the same day. Hear baroque music performed on historic instruments in Handel’s dining room, then step into the 1960s with blues and guitar music in Jimi Hendrix’s bedroom. A unique chance to experience music where it was once written, rehearsed, and played.

https://handelhendrix.org/events/live-music

Wigs and Wiggles “King of Kings” | Sunday 14 June 10.15am and 11.30pm

Join us at Handel Hendrix House for an exciting new concert series for under 5s and their families, that brings the magic of Baroque music to life! Wigs and Wiggles invites children to sing, dance, and move while exploring the vibrant world of Handel’s music. Put on your favourite wig and get ready to wiggle to the sounds of the Baroque era!

Suitable for children under 5.Tickets: £8 per adult and £4 per child

https://handelhendrix.org/events/wigs-and-wiggles-an-interactive-childrens-concert-series

Music for the Heart | Tuesday 16 June, 6.30pm

Celebrated international harpsichordist, Jochewed Schwarz, presents a programme of music by Handel and Scarlatti that was widely admired across Europe in the 18th century and continues to inspire and engage audiences today, pulling on the heart strings of everyone who hears it.

Tickets: £25

https://handelhendrix.org/events/handels-salon-with-jochewed-schwarz-2

Jimi Sessions - Eddy Smith | Wednesday 17 June, 6.30pm and 7.30pm

Join us for a truly unique live music experience in Hendrix’s flat. Our musicians will be playing original music, creating unforgettable moments in this historic and intimate space. There will be two of the same sets, so you can pick your preferred time! Captivating audiences with his unique, husky voice and tasteful piano accompaniment, Eddy Smith has been making his mark on the UK’s growing Americana scene. Widely recognised as one of the major male vocalists on the Country Soul and Blues circuit.

Tickets: £25

https://handelhendrix.org/events/the-jimi-sessions-eddy-smith

On the Road with Handel (London Handel Festival) | Tuesday 23 June, 5pm and 7pm

Ensemble Augeletti explore Handel’s life on the road travelling across Europe, across Great Britain and over the Irish Sea. This programme features music Handel travelled with, travelled for, and travelled to. Ensemble Augeletti are, Olwen Foulkes (recorders), Ellen Bundy (violin), Carina Drury (cello) and Benedict Williams (harpsichord).

Tickets: £45

https://handelhendrix.org/events/on-the-road-with-handel-ensumble-augeletti

Baroque & Roll Weekends – Live Music | Saturday & Sunday, 27th & 28th June

Twice a month and included in general price 1-3pm – Baroque 2-4pm – Roll

Enjoy live music in both the Handel and Hendrix spaces on the same day. Hear baroque music performed on historic instruments in Handel’s dining room, then step into the 1960s with blues and guitar music in Jimi Hendrix’s bedroom. A unique chance to experience music where it was once written, rehearsed, and played.

https://handelhendrix.org/events/live-music

Plus every Thursday at 2pm – Seasonal talks with Deputy Curator

NOTES TO EDITORS:

The house is open Wednesday – Sunday 10.00 – 17.00 (last entry at 16:00). Tickets are £14.50 for adults, £10.50 for students and free for the under 12s. Tickets can be purchased in advance on the website www.handelhendrix.org but it is possible to buy

a ticket on the day at the museum. Nearest Tube: Bond Street

PRESS INFORMATION

Please contact Rachel Aked

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 07790 732448

The live music at Handel Hendrix House is generously supported by The Thistle Trust, The Garrick Charitable Trust, and Chapman Charitable Trust.

Handel Hendrix House cares for and presents to the public the homes of two of the greatest musicians ever to have lived in London. George Frideric Handel lived at 25 Brook Street from 1723 until his death in 1759. It was here that Handel wrote and rehearsed his greatest works, including Messiah and its ever popular ‘Hallelujah chorus’ – perhaps the most famous piece of classical music ever written. His stirring anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’, was also written in Brook Street and has accompanied the coronation of every British monarch since George II (for whom it was written in 1727), including HM King Charles III.

In 1968, Jimi Hendrix moved into an adjoining flat at number 23. Here, in the only place he said he felt truly at home, Hendrix entertained, inspired, and collaborated with other icons of British 60s rock music.

Handel Hendrix House has completed a £3million project to open all of Handel’s house to the public for the first time by restoring the basement and ground floor by faithfully recreated Handel’s basement kitchen with all its fixtures and fittings, carefully detailed on research and an inventory made shortly after the composer’s death.

Also

· Restored the ground floor parlours in which Handel would receive his guests and aristocratic patrons and in which his assistant, J.C. Smith, would sell tickets and subscriptions to new works.

· Restored the front façade of 25 Brook Street so that visitors can finally enter Handel’s home through his front door.

New things to see in Handel’s house include:

• Historic rooms presented as they might have been in the 1740s, when the composer was in a new burst of creative energy and commercial success writing dramatic oratorios.

• Recently acquired works of art, creating a collection representative of the more than 100 works of art Handel owned in Brook Street.

• New exhibitions about Handel’s music and the musicians he worked with and a mixed reality audio-visual display about the writing of Messiah in the very room in which it was composed.

In 2016, Jimi Hendrix’s flat in 23 Brook Street was brilliantly restored and opened to the public. To be enjoyed as a contrasting and complementary part to a visit to Handel’s home,

the Hendrix experience at Handel Hendrix House has been expanded as part of the Hallelujah Project:

• For the first time, visitors can walk up and down the stairs to his flat, where George Harrison famously had to step over one of Jimi’s other visitors who had passed out en route to the exit.

• A new exhibition features a film showing visitors exploring Hendrix’s legendary guitar technique and his influence on musicians and creatives, with high quality sound supported by Bang & Olufsen

• The film includes material uncovered by Handel Hendrix House through their national ‘Your Experience’ appeal for memories, images and stories of people’s encounters with Jimi Hendrix across the country.

A guide to Handel Hendrix House is now available on Bloomberg Connects, which can be translated into 12 different languages including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Russian, Korean, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese. Details of the house can be found https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/handelHendrixHouse