New Year's Day concert by the St Albans Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Hogan with pianist Michael McHale.
The St Albans Symphony Orchestra are taking over St Albans Abbey on Friday 1 January 2027 for their New Year's Day Celebratory Concert. It's a proper way to kick off the year — a full orchestra in the Abbey, right in the heart of the city, on the very first evening of the calendar.
Daniel Hogan is conducting, and pianist Michael McHale joins them on stage. The two are a regular pairing for the orchestra, and they're the same team behind the other concerts in the SSO's 2026-27 series. If you've followed the orchestra's season, you'll recognise the names: Hogan on the podium and McHale on the keys.
This isn't a one-off, either. The New Year's concert is part of a wider run of performances that takes the orchestra across a few different venues in the city. Earlier in the season, they played a Fairy Tales concert at St Saviour's Church on 15 November 2026, and later they'll be at St Paul's Church on 6 March 2027 for an English concert. Both of those also featured Hogan conducting and McHale on piano, so this New Year's date sits right in the middle of that sequence.
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It starts at 7:00pm at St Albans Abbey, Sumpter Yard, AL1 1BY. Tickets are £30, £24, £18, £10 for the sides, and £5 for students and children.
