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Approaching the beginning of December seems a good moment for another of these occasional newsletters. Although, we'll admit to ulterior motives as four of the prime movers behind the lunchtime concert series are involved in concerts this coming weekend.
This Saturday evening, 30th November, at 7.30pm in Christ Church URC (on Epsom Road), AntifoniA Chamber Choir, under the baton of Anthony Cairns, and with Gina Eason at the organ, will be giving their concert. Full details of their varied programme of choral and other works will be found on this linked webpage. The further MoT connection is that Peter Steadman and Peter Horsfield are taking part. Admission is by programme at the door, price £10 (supporting Happy Child International and Age Concern Mole Valley North). Students: £3.
Meanwhile, over in Hayes Middlesex, at the same time, followers of The Andrews Massey Duo have the opportunity to hear them in a concert at St Mary the Virgin Church. "Christmas is Coming!" also features Graham Davies at the organ. Full programme details are on this linked webpage. If you have friends near Heathrow, or along the M40, do forward the concert link to them.
Emily Andrews and David Massey have just launched their new CD "make merry" featuring their take on many of the traditional Christmas carols and songs. You will find more, including some sample tracks (behind the advent calendar windows) on this webpage.
Looking forward to next year - and you need to book early for this one - the Friends of Leatherhead Parish Church have an outing to St Clement Dane's Church (the restored RAF church in London's Strand) on Sunday 2nd March. Coaches leave Leatherhead around 1.30pm for an afternoon concert by City of Oxford Choir. Please take a look at this webpage for more details.
Returning to the more local...
Thursday lunchtime recitals in St Martin's Dorking continue with organ recitals at 1pm on the next two Thursdays, and the Town Carol Service on Thursday 19th December - also at 1pm.
On Saturday 7th December Leatherhead Choral Society will be performing Britten's A Ceremony of Carols at St Andrew's School, Grange Road, Leatherhead. Details on their website: www.leatherhead-choral.net.
The next series of MAIASTRA concerts are on the following weekend. Arisa Fujita leads a quartet playing Britten, Beethoven, Glass, and Dvoràk on Friday 13th December in St Mary's Church (by the river) at Twickenham, repeated on Sunday 15th in the Chapel of St John's School Leatherhead. Both starting at 7.30pm, these concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs.
If you have friends nearby, they might like to hear the same concert at Ilminster Arts Centre on Saturday 14th December. (Tickets from the Arts Centre at the Meeting House).
Meanwhile, at 7.30pm on December 14th Carols by Candlelight is a concert given by 4 Girls 4 Harps, in St Lawrence Church, Guildford High Street. Details here.
And finally, if you favour organ music rather than the string quartet you might prefer to head over to Worth Abbey on Sunday 15th December for an evening of music with D'Arcy Trinkwon, entitled Contemplating Advent & Christmas. Details on his website.
As ever, this newsletter can only offer a flavour of the musical delights our area has to offer in the coming weeks. Local churches will be having their special services for Christmas, with lots of choral music and plenty for you to join in with too.
This Saturday evening, 30th November, at 7.30pm in Christ Church URC (on Epsom Road), AntifoniA Chamber Choir, under the baton of Anthony Cairns, and with Gina Eason at the organ, will be giving their concert. Full details of their varied programme of choral and other works will be found on this linked webpage. The further MoT connection is that Peter Steadman and Peter Horsfield are taking part. Admission is by programme at the door, price £10 (supporting Happy Child International and Age Concern Mole Valley North). Students: £3.
Meanwhile, over in Hayes Middlesex, at the same time, followers of The Andrews Massey Duo have the opportunity to hear them in a concert at St Mary the Virgin Church. "Christmas is Coming!" also features Graham Davies at the organ. Full programme details are on this linked webpage. If you have friends near Heathrow, or along the M40, do forward the concert link to them.
Emily Andrews and David Massey have just launched their new CD "make merry" featuring their take on many of the traditional Christmas carols and songs. You will find more, including some sample tracks (behind the advent calendar windows) on this webpage.
Looking forward to next year - and you need to book early for this one - the Friends of Leatherhead Parish Church have an outing to St Clement Dane's Church (the restored RAF church in London's Strand) on Sunday 2nd March. Coaches leave Leatherhead around 1.30pm for an afternoon concert by City of Oxford Choir. Please take a look at this webpage for more details.
Returning to the more local...
Thursday lunchtime recitals in St Martin's Dorking continue with organ recitals at 1pm on the next two Thursdays, and the Town Carol Service on Thursday 19th December - also at 1pm.
On Saturday 7th December Leatherhead Choral Society will be performing Britten's A Ceremony of Carols at St Andrew's School, Grange Road, Leatherhead. Details on their website: www.leatherhead-choral.net.
The next series of MAIASTRA concerts are on the following weekend. Arisa Fujita leads a quartet playing Britten, Beethoven, Glass, and Dvoràk on Friday 13th December in St Mary's Church (by the river) at Twickenham, repeated on Sunday 15th in the Chapel of St John's School Leatherhead. Both starting at 7.30pm, these concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs.
If you have friends nearby, they might like to hear the same concert at Ilminster Arts Centre on Saturday 14th December. (Tickets from the Arts Centre at the Meeting House).
Meanwhile, at 7.30pm on December 14th Carols by Candlelight is a concert given by 4 Girls 4 Harps, in St Lawrence Church, Guildford High Street. Details here.
And finally, if you favour organ music rather than the string quartet you might prefer to head over to Worth Abbey on Sunday 15th December for an evening of music with D'Arcy Trinkwon, entitled Contemplating Advent & Christmas. Details on his website.
As ever, this newsletter can only offer a flavour of the musical delights our area has to offer in the coming weeks. Local churches will be having their special services for Christmas, with lots of choral music and plenty for you to join in with too.
We hope you will enjoy your music-making and your listening in the run-up to Christmas.
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Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday 4th November 2013
Dear Friends,
We had a superb concert last Thursday lunchtime. It rounded off the 2013 season excellently. The Iris Trio played the Brahms Piano Trio No 1, a work which makes three players sound like a far bigger ensemble. Jordanian pianist Karim Said is a protegé of Bareboim and featured in a documentary about his life, shown on BBC. Certainly a demanding leader of the trio, he spoke to us about the work and the complicated goings on in Brahms' - and the Schumanns' - lives at the time it was composed. The players were delighted with the warmth of the reception the Leatherhead audience gave them.
We hit the front page of the Surrey Advertiser last Friday - yes, the FRONT PAGE !!! So do go out and buy one while stocks last. If you follow this link, and put in the date - 24 Oct 2013 - you will see the pictures taken after that day's concert. They show the artists surrounding Alex Rolton and his Baroque cello: http://sandbmedia.newsprints.co.uk/ You will also find a photograph of a sketch of Alex by Diana King, a member of Leatherhead Art Club.
Book early ! The Friends of Leatherhead Parish Church are organising a coach outing to hear the City of Oxford Choir singing in St Clement Danes, the superbly restored RAF Church in The Strand. Full details of the outing, which takes place on a Sunday afternoon next March, and includes works by Vaughan Williams, Ravel, and Elgar, are on this linked page. You will also find a booking form and contact details there. The Friends is a charity that supports the Parish Church as an historic building. It is of course the oldest building in the town, but you don't have to be a Friends member to join this outing.
While MoT pauses for a few months to clear up the admin and plan for next year's concerts, the hum of musical performance continues around us. Next weekend is particularly rich with choices:
Monday 4th November 2013
Dear Friends,
We had a superb concert last Thursday lunchtime. It rounded off the 2013 season excellently. The Iris Trio played the Brahms Piano Trio No 1, a work which makes three players sound like a far bigger ensemble. Jordanian pianist Karim Said is a protegé of Bareboim and featured in a documentary about his life, shown on BBC. Certainly a demanding leader of the trio, he spoke to us about the work and the complicated goings on in Brahms' - and the Schumanns' - lives at the time it was composed. The players were delighted with the warmth of the reception the Leatherhead audience gave them.
We hit the front page of the Surrey Advertiser last Friday - yes, the FRONT PAGE !!! So do go out and buy one while stocks last. If you follow this link, and put in the date - 24 Oct 2013 - you will see the pictures taken after that day's concert. They show the artists surrounding Alex Rolton and his Baroque cello: http://sandbmedia.newsprints.co.uk/ You will also find a photograph of a sketch of Alex by Diana King, a member of Leatherhead Art Club.
Book early ! The Friends of Leatherhead Parish Church are organising a coach outing to hear the City of Oxford Choir singing in St Clement Danes, the superbly restored RAF Church in The Strand. Full details of the outing, which takes place on a Sunday afternoon next March, and includes works by Vaughan Williams, Ravel, and Elgar, are on this linked page. You will also find a booking form and contact details there. The Friends is a charity that supports the Parish Church as an historic building. It is of course the oldest building in the town, but you don't have to be a Friends member to join this outing.
While MoT pauses for a few months to clear up the admin and plan for next year's concerts, the hum of musical performance continues around us. Next weekend is particularly rich with choices:
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Saturday 9th November, 7.30pm, in Christ Church URC, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, Anthony Cairns is the soloist in a performance of Handel's Organ Concerto No 10, with the Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra, under conductor Nicholas Smith, Director of Music at St John's School. The orchestra will also play Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture and his 7th Symphony. More information on this link.
The same evening, in Banstead's Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ the Wihan Quartet from the Czech Republic, who are currently "in residence" at London's Trinity Laban College, will play quartets by Schubert, Janacek and Dvorak. Details on www.bansteadarts.co.uk |
Anthony Cairns, organist of Christ Church, Leatherhead
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Meanwhile, in St Martin's Church, Dorking, Dorking Chamber Orchestra and Bookham Choral Society come together for a concert that includes Mozart 40, Ave Verum Corpus, Haydn's Nelson Mass & Insanae et vanae curae. Full details on this webpage.
Also this Saturday evening, in the Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, Riverside Opera's concert is called Anniversaries: Verdi to Britten. You can find out more about this concert on this link.
And finally for this Saturday, Epsom Chamber Choir have a concert entitled "A Warning to the Rich", which they will be giving in St Martin of Tours Church, Central Epsom. Their website has full information: on this link.
The following Saturday, 16th November, brings two more delights with Ashtead Choral Society perfoming the Brahms Requiem at Dorking Halls (details on this link) and in Claygate's Holy Trinity Church you will find the Heath String Quartet playing Haydn, Bartok and Mendelssohn for Oxshott & Cobham Music Society. Details of OCMS' 2013/14 season on this link.
Also this Saturday evening, in the Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, Riverside Opera's concert is called Anniversaries: Verdi to Britten. You can find out more about this concert on this link.
And finally for this Saturday, Epsom Chamber Choir have a concert entitled "A Warning to the Rich", which they will be giving in St Martin of Tours Church, Central Epsom. Their website has full information: on this link.
The following Saturday, 16th November, brings two more delights with Ashtead Choral Society perfoming the Brahms Requiem at Dorking Halls (details on this link) and in Claygate's Holy Trinity Church you will find the Heath String Quartet playing Haydn, Bartok and Mendelssohn for Oxshott & Cobham Music Society. Details of OCMS' 2013/14 season on this link.
St Martin's Church (Anglican & Methodist), Dorking
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Each Thursday lunchtime through these winter months there is a 1pm lunchtime recital in St Martin's Church, Dorking. You will find more information about their programme on this webpage. The church has excellent acoustics, so do take a look and see if they have a concert you would enjoy.
We hope you enjoy your choice of concerts this winter. If you'd like to look further ahead you will find a diary page of local events on musicinsurrey.co.uk if you follow this link. Very best wishes. Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
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PS: How's your French ? If you've wondered what Peter gets up to when there are no concerts, take a look at this map of the London Underground & Overground. You'd think he'd have better things to do with his free time!
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
28th October 2013
Dear Friends,
Last week's coming together of MoT and Leatherhead Art Club proved highly successful. There is already a queue of artists eager to draw more of our musicians. We plan to organise an exhibition day at Leatherhead Methodist Church next summer so that more people can see the art that comes from the concerts.
This Thursday, 31st October, we come to the last in this year's series of concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Three players from the Royal Academy of Music have formed the Iris Trio - violin, cello & piano. They are going to play a lively Brahms work for us in our 12.30 lunchtime concert. More information about the players and the programme are on this concert webpage.
Players and audience alike have enjoyed the Methodist Church. It is comfortable, the view is unobstructed, and the proportions of the room make for a pleasing acoustic for this scale of music. We are very pleased to be able to continue arranging concerts in LMC, and at Christ Church too.
The odd missing Thursday in the MoT schedule is explained by the fact that LMC is home to Messy Church on the third Thursday of most months. On the same afternoon, Christ Church hosts a U3A meeting. So with Wednesday organ recitals well-established at Christ Church we have continued that tradition, just bringing the time in line for both events - 12.30 lunchtime.
This is an appropriate moment to thank our two sponsors. Vecchia Trattoria have come along each week, selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks, and have given financial support as well. And, although Patricia Morgan Optician can't leave her practice at lunchtimes, we have valued her support this season too.
We would also like to thank the anonymous benefactor who loaned us a substantial sum and so ensured this year's concerts would happen, and the members of LCAS who have put in a good deal more than their "fiver a week".
This newsletter becomes "occasional" through the winter, bringing you news of other local events. We will be back in the early Spring as we prepare for our third season of lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead. Meanwhile, here are two very important dates for your diary:
28th October 2013
Dear Friends,
Last week's coming together of MoT and Leatherhead Art Club proved highly successful. There is already a queue of artists eager to draw more of our musicians. We plan to organise an exhibition day at Leatherhead Methodist Church next summer so that more people can see the art that comes from the concerts.
This Thursday, 31st October, we come to the last in this year's series of concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Three players from the Royal Academy of Music have formed the Iris Trio - violin, cello & piano. They are going to play a lively Brahms work for us in our 12.30 lunchtime concert. More information about the players and the programme are on this concert webpage.
Players and audience alike have enjoyed the Methodist Church. It is comfortable, the view is unobstructed, and the proportions of the room make for a pleasing acoustic for this scale of music. We are very pleased to be able to continue arranging concerts in LMC, and at Christ Church too.
The odd missing Thursday in the MoT schedule is explained by the fact that LMC is home to Messy Church on the third Thursday of most months. On the same afternoon, Christ Church hosts a U3A meeting. So with Wednesday organ recitals well-established at Christ Church we have continued that tradition, just bringing the time in line for both events - 12.30 lunchtime.
This is an appropriate moment to thank our two sponsors. Vecchia Trattoria have come along each week, selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks, and have given financial support as well. And, although Patricia Morgan Optician can't leave her practice at lunchtimes, we have valued her support this season too.
We would also like to thank the anonymous benefactor who loaned us a substantial sum and so ensured this year's concerts would happen, and the members of LCAS who have put in a good deal more than their "fiver a week".
This newsletter becomes "occasional" through the winter, bringing you news of other local events. We will be back in the early Spring as we prepare for our third season of lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead. Meanwhile, here are two very important dates for your diary:
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Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concerts return on Thursday 3rd April 2014 |
Wednesdays at Christ Church
12.30 organ recitals continue on the third Wednesday of each month from 16th April to 19th November (but not August) |
We look forward to seeing everyone at next year's lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead. Meanwhile, you can find out about more music-making in our area by checking the diary page at: www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
Thank you everyone - musicians, trustees, stewards, members of the churches, sponsors, and of course our audiences - for your contributions to this season of truly memorable concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays & Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Thank you everyone - musicians, trustees, stewards, members of the churches, sponsors, and of course our audiences - for your contributions to this season of truly memorable concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays & Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
21st October 2013
Dear Friends,
It can be pretty scary coming up with a new idea - will it work, will everyone think you're mad! So we were relieved to discover that the idea of inviting artists to sketch musicians in action was not an original one. It turns out to be quite an appealing one though. So this Thursday lunchtime, with the kind agreement of cellist Alex Rolton, we will be welcoming a handful of members of Leatherhead Art Club. They will work away on the front row as Alex plays two Bach Suites for unaccompanied cello.
Our concert starts at the usual time - 12.30 - in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Alex last played in Leatherhead at Easter 2012 and we promised ourselves we would invite him back one day. You will find more about Alex Rolton and this concert on the linked webpage.
We will display the works that result from this overlapping of the arts at a future concert. There may be some pieces to show next week, but some works may take more time to come together. We plan to have an exhibition alongside a concert early in next year's series.
And then we come to next week's final 12.30 lunchtime concert of the year. The Iris Trio met at the Royal Academy of Music where they are finishing their postgraduate studies. They will be playing one work, Brahms' Piano Trio No 1, which is scored for piano, violin and cello. There is more about the players on this concert webpage.
The concerts are free to enter, but we do rely on your contribution to a retiring collection to cover costs.
The team from Vecchia Trattoria will be on hand after these concerts, selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks.
We have history when it comes to mixing the Arts! Following an audience member's remak about watching Graham Davies "tap dancing on the pipes" at last week's organ recital, Peter Horsfield has penned another poem. At the moment it is sitting on the concert webpage here.
We are delighted to annouce that Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church will continue with a further season of concerts in 2014. The first lunchtime concert of the new series in Leatherhead Methodist Church will be on Thursday 3rd April, and the first organ recital at Christ Church will be on Wednesday April 16th.
This Saturday, 26th October, 7.30pm, Dorking Camerata will be singing works by Finzi, Britten and Corigliano in St Martin's Church, Dorking. More information on this link.
You will find information on several November concerts on the diary page at: www.musicinsurrey.co.uk.
We do hope you can join us for these final two concerts of the year.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
21st October 2013
Dear Friends,
It can be pretty scary coming up with a new idea - will it work, will everyone think you're mad! So we were relieved to discover that the idea of inviting artists to sketch musicians in action was not an original one. It turns out to be quite an appealing one though. So this Thursday lunchtime, with the kind agreement of cellist Alex Rolton, we will be welcoming a handful of members of Leatherhead Art Club. They will work away on the front row as Alex plays two Bach Suites for unaccompanied cello.
Our concert starts at the usual time - 12.30 - in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Alex last played in Leatherhead at Easter 2012 and we promised ourselves we would invite him back one day. You will find more about Alex Rolton and this concert on the linked webpage.
We will display the works that result from this overlapping of the arts at a future concert. There may be some pieces to show next week, but some works may take more time to come together. We plan to have an exhibition alongside a concert early in next year's series.
And then we come to next week's final 12.30 lunchtime concert of the year. The Iris Trio met at the Royal Academy of Music where they are finishing their postgraduate studies. They will be playing one work, Brahms' Piano Trio No 1, which is scored for piano, violin and cello. There is more about the players on this concert webpage.
The concerts are free to enter, but we do rely on your contribution to a retiring collection to cover costs.
The team from Vecchia Trattoria will be on hand after these concerts, selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks.
We have history when it comes to mixing the Arts! Following an audience member's remak about watching Graham Davies "tap dancing on the pipes" at last week's organ recital, Peter Horsfield has penned another poem. At the moment it is sitting on the concert webpage here.
We are delighted to annouce that Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church will continue with a further season of concerts in 2014. The first lunchtime concert of the new series in Leatherhead Methodist Church will be on Thursday 3rd April, and the first organ recital at Christ Church will be on Wednesday April 16th.
This Saturday, 26th October, 7.30pm, Dorking Camerata will be singing works by Finzi, Britten and Corigliano in St Martin's Church, Dorking. More information on this link.
You will find information on several November concerts on the diary page at: www.musicinsurrey.co.uk.
We do hope you can join us for these final two concerts of the year.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays
14th October 2013
Dear Friends,
As the temperature drops outside we are grateful to be holding these concerts in a church that is fairly easy to heat. Another positive attribute we can enjoy alongside the warm welcome, the comfy chairs, and the pleasing acoustic. It's also a pleasure to see how many people stay on afterwards for sandwiches and a warming tea or coffee. The new Vecchia Trattoria team have done us proud, attending every concert, in both churches. They certainly deserve our support in the High Street.
This Wednesday, 16th October, our 12.30 lunchtime concert is in Christ Church, where Graham Davies will be the organist for a recital of works by British and German composers. I was with Anthony Cairns last week when the organ's tuner came along to make a few small adjustments, bringing improved balance in the pedal pipes. Graham's selection of pieces can be seen on this concert webpage.
On Thursday of next week, 24th October, we welcome back to Leatherhead the very talented cellist, Alex Rolton. Alex last played for us at Easter 2012. For next week's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church Alex will be playing two Bach Suites for Cello. Full details and a link to his own website are on this concert webpage.
All too soon, we reach our final concert of the 2013 season on Thursday 31st October. For our farewell to the year we will be joined by the Iris Trio (violin, cello, piano) all current students of the Royal Academy of Music. They will be playing the four movements of a Brahms Piano Trio, again full details on this concert webpage.
As ever, we are not the only ones making music in the area. Here are a few more events:
- Thursday, 17th October, 1pm to 1.50pm, St Martin's Church, Dorking, organ recital by Peter Wright, organist of Southwark Cathedral (Free with reitiring collection)
- Saturday, 19th October, 7.30pm, St Andrew's Church, Cobham, Perks Ensemble (including Ursual, Elliott and Oscar) play works by Bach, Mozart, Debussy & Dvorak
- Saturday, 19th October, 7.30pm,, Holy Trinity Church, Claygate, soprano Lucy Hall, winner of the Oxford Lieder Competition 2012, gives a concert with accompanist Gavin Hall, of music by Schubert, Brahms, Strauss and Britten. More details, including ticketing, on this link.
- On Sunday 20th, Opera South are running a workshop day on opera choruses in Haslemere, with a perfomance by those taking part at 4.30pm. Details of the workshop day and the afternoon concert on this link.
- Saturday 26th October, Dorking Camerata, St Martin's Church, Dorking, have a concert of Finzi, Britten and Corigliano. More on this link.
We look forward to seeing you at Wednesday's organ concert in Christ Church, Epsom Road.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
14th October 2013
Dear Friends,
As the temperature drops outside we are grateful to be holding these concerts in a church that is fairly easy to heat. Another positive attribute we can enjoy alongside the warm welcome, the comfy chairs, and the pleasing acoustic. It's also a pleasure to see how many people stay on afterwards for sandwiches and a warming tea or coffee. The new Vecchia Trattoria team have done us proud, attending every concert, in both churches. They certainly deserve our support in the High Street.
This Wednesday, 16th October, our 12.30 lunchtime concert is in Christ Church, where Graham Davies will be the organist for a recital of works by British and German composers. I was with Anthony Cairns last week when the organ's tuner came along to make a few small adjustments, bringing improved balance in the pedal pipes. Graham's selection of pieces can be seen on this concert webpage.
On Thursday of next week, 24th October, we welcome back to Leatherhead the very talented cellist, Alex Rolton. Alex last played for us at Easter 2012. For next week's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church Alex will be playing two Bach Suites for Cello. Full details and a link to his own website are on this concert webpage.
All too soon, we reach our final concert of the 2013 season on Thursday 31st October. For our farewell to the year we will be joined by the Iris Trio (violin, cello, piano) all current students of the Royal Academy of Music. They will be playing the four movements of a Brahms Piano Trio, again full details on this concert webpage.
As ever, we are not the only ones making music in the area. Here are a few more events:
- Thursday, 17th October, 1pm to 1.50pm, St Martin's Church, Dorking, organ recital by Peter Wright, organist of Southwark Cathedral (Free with reitiring collection)
- Saturday, 19th October, 7.30pm, St Andrew's Church, Cobham, Perks Ensemble (including Ursual, Elliott and Oscar) play works by Bach, Mozart, Debussy & Dvorak
- Saturday, 19th October, 7.30pm,, Holy Trinity Church, Claygate, soprano Lucy Hall, winner of the Oxford Lieder Competition 2012, gives a concert with accompanist Gavin Hall, of music by Schubert, Brahms, Strauss and Britten. More details, including ticketing, on this link.
- On Sunday 20th, Opera South are running a workshop day on opera choruses in Haslemere, with a perfomance by those taking part at 4.30pm. Details of the workshop day and the afternoon concert on this link.
- Saturday 26th October, Dorking Camerata, St Martin's Church, Dorking, have a concert of Finzi, Britten and Corigliano. More on this link.
We look forward to seeing you at Wednesday's organ concert in Christ Church, Epsom Road.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
8th October 2013
Dear Friends,
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church will be given by two Japanese students of the Royal Academy of Music. Violinist Yuka Nagai already has two degrees from Tokyo's Musashino Academia Musicae, and her accompanist Kei Takumi has perfomed in many concert halls in Asia and in Europe and has won several competition prizes too. Their choice of Mozart and Brahms will make for a lively concert and more detail will be found on this link.
Next week we move to Christ Church, Epsom Road for a Wednesday organ recital, also at 12.30 luncthime (16th October). Our organist is Graham Davies, of St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes Middlesex. Graham is also a Trustee of the charity that supports these concerts, and he has the responsibility for setting out the season's programme of players, ensuring we enjoy the quality and variety of musical performance we have become used to. For this recital Graham is concentrating on British and German composers. Full programme details are on this link.
We are back in the Methodist Church for the final two concerts of this year's series. On Thursday October 24th we welcome back the superb young cellist Alex Rolton in a programme of Bach Suites - more information on this link - and we finish the season on October 31st with the Iris Trio, a truly international group of players from the Royal Academy of Music. Details of their programme and their biographies will be found on this link.
Entry to MoT and WaCC 12.30 lunchtime concerts is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. If you can tick the box on the Gift Aid envelope please do. It makes a significant difference to our funds, and therefore to the concerts we can afford to put on.
After each concert the team from Vecchia Trattoria will be in the church selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks. Catching up with friends, chatting with the musicians, it's all part of the Music on Thursdays experience.
Have you ever sung Bach's St John Passion ? Never had the chance ? This Saturday 12th October you can put that right, AND support charity while you do it. There is a workshop on the St John Passion, at St Martin of Tours Church in Central Epsom, starting at 10am (register from 9.30). Costs is £15 per person to cover the workshop, hire of music, and a lunchtime drink (please bring sandwiches). Under 25s free. All parts and all abilities definitely welcome. The charity you will be supporting is the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability. There will be a performance at 4.30pm so, if you are not a singer, come and enjoy the free performance, and please make a donation to the RNHD in the retiring collection. More info on this link.
This Saturday also sees a Britten celebration concert in Cranleigh, a violin recital by Diana Galvydyte in Banstead, and Alan Brown's piano concert for Dorking Concertgoers in Dorking Halls. Please check out the diary section of musicinsurrey for more information about these and other Surrey concerts.
Next Sunday, 13th October, 7pm: Closer to home, Graham Thorp, President of the Surrey Association of Organists and former Director of Music at Guildford High School, will be playing Sweelinck, Bach, and Hindemith on the Frobenius organ in Stoke d'Abernon church. Full information on this link.
We look forward to welcoming you to one of these concerts very soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
PS: And I didn't even mention the 868 pairs of specs you all harvested. A tremendous effort from all concerned and very welcome at Vision Aid Overseas. Thank you.
8th October 2013
Dear Friends,
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church will be given by two Japanese students of the Royal Academy of Music. Violinist Yuka Nagai already has two degrees from Tokyo's Musashino Academia Musicae, and her accompanist Kei Takumi has perfomed in many concert halls in Asia and in Europe and has won several competition prizes too. Their choice of Mozart and Brahms will make for a lively concert and more detail will be found on this link.
Next week we move to Christ Church, Epsom Road for a Wednesday organ recital, also at 12.30 luncthime (16th October). Our organist is Graham Davies, of St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes Middlesex. Graham is also a Trustee of the charity that supports these concerts, and he has the responsibility for setting out the season's programme of players, ensuring we enjoy the quality and variety of musical performance we have become used to. For this recital Graham is concentrating on British and German composers. Full programme details are on this link.
We are back in the Methodist Church for the final two concerts of this year's series. On Thursday October 24th we welcome back the superb young cellist Alex Rolton in a programme of Bach Suites - more information on this link - and we finish the season on October 31st with the Iris Trio, a truly international group of players from the Royal Academy of Music. Details of their programme and their biographies will be found on this link.
Entry to MoT and WaCC 12.30 lunchtime concerts is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. If you can tick the box on the Gift Aid envelope please do. It makes a significant difference to our funds, and therefore to the concerts we can afford to put on.
After each concert the team from Vecchia Trattoria will be in the church selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks. Catching up with friends, chatting with the musicians, it's all part of the Music on Thursdays experience.
Have you ever sung Bach's St John Passion ? Never had the chance ? This Saturday 12th October you can put that right, AND support charity while you do it. There is a workshop on the St John Passion, at St Martin of Tours Church in Central Epsom, starting at 10am (register from 9.30). Costs is £15 per person to cover the workshop, hire of music, and a lunchtime drink (please bring sandwiches). Under 25s free. All parts and all abilities definitely welcome. The charity you will be supporting is the Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability. There will be a performance at 4.30pm so, if you are not a singer, come and enjoy the free performance, and please make a donation to the RNHD in the retiring collection. More info on this link.
This Saturday also sees a Britten celebration concert in Cranleigh, a violin recital by Diana Galvydyte in Banstead, and Alan Brown's piano concert for Dorking Concertgoers in Dorking Halls. Please check out the diary section of musicinsurrey for more information about these and other Surrey concerts.
Next Sunday, 13th October, 7pm: Closer to home, Graham Thorp, President of the Surrey Association of Organists and former Director of Music at Guildford High School, will be playing Sweelinck, Bach, and Hindemith on the Frobenius organ in Stoke d'Abernon church. Full information on this link.
We look forward to welcoming you to one of these concerts very soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
PS: And I didn't even mention the 868 pairs of specs you all harvested. A tremendous effort from all concerned and very welcome at Vision Aid Overseas. Thank you.
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday 1st October 2013
Dear Friends,
This Thursday 3rd October 12.30: Our luncthime concert sees the return of Bookham mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant in a recital of classical and popular song, accompanied by pianist Peter Bailey. Full details of their concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church will be found on this linked webpage.
Next Thursday 10th October 12.30: we are joined by two students of the Royal Academy of Music. Violinist Yuka Nagai and pianist Kei Takumi will play sonatas by Mozart and Brahms. Details will be added to this webpage as they come in.
Wednesday 16th October 12.30 lunchtime - Wednesdays at Christ Church: Graham Davies, organist of St Mary the Virgin, Hayes Middlesex, will be giving a recital on the Hill Norman & Beard pipe organ in Christ Church. Graham will be adding his programme to this webpage in the coming days.
Thursday 24th October 12.30: We haven't heard many string players in this year's concert series, so for the last two weeks of October we'll redress the balance somewhat, We welcome back Alex Rolton. Alex gave a memorable MoT concert around Easter 2012. On this visit he will be playing two Bach Cello Sonatas. More details of this concert are on this linked webpage.
Thursday 31st October 12.30: Our final Music on Thursdays concert of 2013 will be given by the renamed Iris Trio (formerly the Karim Said Trio). They will be playing a trio for violin, cello and piano by Brahms. More details on their concert webpage.
These lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church and in Christ Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Vecchia Trattoria will be in the churches at the end of each concert selling sandwiches, cakes, and drinks, giving us a pause to chat among oursleves and with the musicians.
There is plenty of music-making in the area throughout October. Here are a couple of highlights for next weekend:
This Saturday 5th October, Dorking Chamber Orchestra, St Martin's Church, Dorking, 7.30pm with soloist Grace Ko, piano, an evening of Mendelssohn, Delibes, Verdi and Beethoven. A webpage with more information including ticket prices is on this link.
Also this Saturday, at 8pm, Oxshott & Cobham Music Society welcome cellist Laura van der Heijden, who you may remember as the winner of the 2012 BBC Young Musician of the Year. More details of this Claygate concert on this link.
You will find more information about October events in Dorking, Leatherhead, Banstead, Claygate, Stoke d'Abernon, Cranfield and Haslemere on the musicinsurrey diary page.
And finally, if you haven't handed in your unwanted spectacles yet, please bring them along to Thursday's concert at LMC. A big Thank You to everyone who has rooted around in their cupboards and drawers to contribute to Leatherhead's unique Spectacle Harvest.
We look forward to seeing you at a concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Tuesday 1st October 2013
Dear Friends,
This Thursday 3rd October 12.30: Our luncthime concert sees the return of Bookham mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant in a recital of classical and popular song, accompanied by pianist Peter Bailey. Full details of their concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church will be found on this linked webpage.
Next Thursday 10th October 12.30: we are joined by two students of the Royal Academy of Music. Violinist Yuka Nagai and pianist Kei Takumi will play sonatas by Mozart and Brahms. Details will be added to this webpage as they come in.
Wednesday 16th October 12.30 lunchtime - Wednesdays at Christ Church: Graham Davies, organist of St Mary the Virgin, Hayes Middlesex, will be giving a recital on the Hill Norman & Beard pipe organ in Christ Church. Graham will be adding his programme to this webpage in the coming days.
Thursday 24th October 12.30: We haven't heard many string players in this year's concert series, so for the last two weeks of October we'll redress the balance somewhat, We welcome back Alex Rolton. Alex gave a memorable MoT concert around Easter 2012. On this visit he will be playing two Bach Cello Sonatas. More details of this concert are on this linked webpage.
Thursday 31st October 12.30: Our final Music on Thursdays concert of 2013 will be given by the renamed Iris Trio (formerly the Karim Said Trio). They will be playing a trio for violin, cello and piano by Brahms. More details on their concert webpage.
These lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church and in Christ Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Vecchia Trattoria will be in the churches at the end of each concert selling sandwiches, cakes, and drinks, giving us a pause to chat among oursleves and with the musicians.
There is plenty of music-making in the area throughout October. Here are a couple of highlights for next weekend:
This Saturday 5th October, Dorking Chamber Orchestra, St Martin's Church, Dorking, 7.30pm with soloist Grace Ko, piano, an evening of Mendelssohn, Delibes, Verdi and Beethoven. A webpage with more information including ticket prices is on this link.
Also this Saturday, at 8pm, Oxshott & Cobham Music Society welcome cellist Laura van der Heijden, who you may remember as the winner of the 2012 BBC Young Musician of the Year. More details of this Claygate concert on this link.
You will find more information about October events in Dorking, Leatherhead, Banstead, Claygate, Stoke d'Abernon, Cranfield and Haslemere on the musicinsurrey diary page.
And finally, if you haven't handed in your unwanted spectacles yet, please bring them along to Thursday's concert at LMC. A big Thank You to everyone who has rooted around in their cupboards and drawers to contribute to Leatherhead's unique Spectacle Harvest.
We look forward to seeing you at a concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
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Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church Monday 23rd September 2013 Dear Friends, |
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Working in London ? There is good news for some who rarely get the chance to enjoy our lunchtime concerts. This Thursday's flute and piano concert will be repeated in Covent Garden the following day. More details below.
We are coming to the final days of Leatherhead Harvests Spectacles in Leatherhead, Fetcham, and Bookham. If you haven't handed in your old spectcales, sunglasses, frames, cases - even broken ones - please bring them to one of Leatherhead's participating churches (Anglican, Catholic, Methodist or United Reformed), to Donner Optometrist (Bookham & Leatherhead), Patricia Morgan Optician, Letherhead Institute, B@titude, BFree, the Royal Oak on Kingston Road, or Symphony World Travel in Fetcham.
Vision Aid Overseas will re-use what they can or recover the valuable metals from the rest. VAO raise funds to operate Vision Centres in eight African countries, re-issuing spectacles or making up new prescriptions, so local people develop the skills involved in each place.
And so to the music . . .
Music on Thursdays, 26th September, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
This Thursday''s lunchtime concert in the Methodist Church is a recital called New Beginnings: Australian and American Duos for Flute and Piano. American flautist Hannah Porter Occeña will be accompanied by Taiwanese-Australian pianist Belle Chen. Their concert page will be found by clicking on the dateline above.
Friday 27th September, 1pm lunchtime, St Paul's Covent Garden, London
The Occeña-Chen Duo's flute and piano concert will be reprised in the lunchtime series at St Paul's Covent Garden, so do tell friends who work in the Covent Garden and Charing Cross area that they too have this opportunity to enjoy the recital. Clicking on the dateline will bring you to the church's calendar where up to three lunchtime concerts each week are advertised. Something to bear in mind if you are spending time in the National Gallery or the Transport Museum.
Thursday 3rd October, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
As we enter our final month of concerts for 2013 we welcome again the mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, and piano accompanist Peter Bailey. Full details of their concert are on the webpage (click the dateline above for info). Edita's eclectic selection from the classical and popular repertoire always delights audiences and in Peter Bailey she has a professional accompanist of considerable talent and experience.
October's concerts continue with:
Thursday 10th, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Yuka Nagel, violin & Kei Takumi, piano (from the Royal Academy of Music)
Wednesday 16th, 12.30 - Wednesdays at Christ Church: Graham Davies, organist of St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes Middlesex
Thursday 24th, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Alex Rolton, cello, plays two Bach Suites - No 2 in D minor and No 6 in D major. Alex last played for us at Easter 2012 and is currently completing his MMus (Performance) at the Royal Academy of Music.
Thursday 31st, 12.30, the last of this year's MoT at LMC concerts: Karim Said Piano Trio - piano, violin and cello, all courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
And elsewhere:
This Wednesday 25th September, 7.30pm in Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare, beside the Thames at Hampton. The evening is entitled A Wool Merchant's Songs and Writings, with harp. Garrick's Temple couldn't be much closer to the River, and its intimate surroundings, on an Autumn evening, should make for a most memorable musical and artistic experience. Tickets £10 at the door. Website for details.
Saturday week - 5th October - there is a choice of local concerts. Oxshott & Cobham Music Society have the cellist Laura van der Heijden in Holy Trinity Church Claygate, while at St Martin's Church in the heart of Dorking, the Dorking Chamber Orchestra have a concert of Mendelssohn, Delibes, Verdi and Beethoven with pianist Grace Ko. Click the underlined text for more information about each of these concerts.
For details of more concerts in our area do keep an eye on the diary page at: www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
There is always a welcome for friends old and new at our concerts. We look forward to seeing you.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
We are coming to the final days of Leatherhead Harvests Spectacles in Leatherhead, Fetcham, and Bookham. If you haven't handed in your old spectcales, sunglasses, frames, cases - even broken ones - please bring them to one of Leatherhead's participating churches (Anglican, Catholic, Methodist or United Reformed), to Donner Optometrist (Bookham & Leatherhead), Patricia Morgan Optician, Letherhead Institute, B@titude, BFree, the Royal Oak on Kingston Road, or Symphony World Travel in Fetcham.
Vision Aid Overseas will re-use what they can or recover the valuable metals from the rest. VAO raise funds to operate Vision Centres in eight African countries, re-issuing spectacles or making up new prescriptions, so local people develop the skills involved in each place.
And so to the music . . .
Music on Thursdays, 26th September, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
This Thursday''s lunchtime concert in the Methodist Church is a recital called New Beginnings: Australian and American Duos for Flute and Piano. American flautist Hannah Porter Occeña will be accompanied by Taiwanese-Australian pianist Belle Chen. Their concert page will be found by clicking on the dateline above.
Friday 27th September, 1pm lunchtime, St Paul's Covent Garden, London
The Occeña-Chen Duo's flute and piano concert will be reprised in the lunchtime series at St Paul's Covent Garden, so do tell friends who work in the Covent Garden and Charing Cross area that they too have this opportunity to enjoy the recital. Clicking on the dateline will bring you to the church's calendar where up to three lunchtime concerts each week are advertised. Something to bear in mind if you are spending time in the National Gallery or the Transport Museum.
Thursday 3rd October, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
As we enter our final month of concerts for 2013 we welcome again the mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, and piano accompanist Peter Bailey. Full details of their concert are on the webpage (click the dateline above for info). Edita's eclectic selection from the classical and popular repertoire always delights audiences and in Peter Bailey she has a professional accompanist of considerable talent and experience.
October's concerts continue with:
Thursday 10th, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Yuka Nagel, violin & Kei Takumi, piano (from the Royal Academy of Music)
Wednesday 16th, 12.30 - Wednesdays at Christ Church: Graham Davies, organist of St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes Middlesex
Thursday 24th, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Alex Rolton, cello, plays two Bach Suites - No 2 in D minor and No 6 in D major. Alex last played for us at Easter 2012 and is currently completing his MMus (Performance) at the Royal Academy of Music.
Thursday 31st, 12.30, the last of this year's MoT at LMC concerts: Karim Said Piano Trio - piano, violin and cello, all courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
And elsewhere:
This Wednesday 25th September, 7.30pm in Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare, beside the Thames at Hampton. The evening is entitled A Wool Merchant's Songs and Writings, with harp. Garrick's Temple couldn't be much closer to the River, and its intimate surroundings, on an Autumn evening, should make for a most memorable musical and artistic experience. Tickets £10 at the door. Website for details.
Saturday week - 5th October - there is a choice of local concerts. Oxshott & Cobham Music Society have the cellist Laura van der Heijden in Holy Trinity Church Claygate, while at St Martin's Church in the heart of Dorking, the Dorking Chamber Orchestra have a concert of Mendelssohn, Delibes, Verdi and Beethoven with pianist Grace Ko. Click the underlined text for more information about each of these concerts.
For details of more concerts in our area do keep an eye on the diary page at: www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
There is always a welcome for friends old and new at our concerts. We look forward to seeing you.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays
Monday 16th September 2013
Dear Friends,
There is good news for some of you who work in London and thus rarely get the chance to attend our lunchtime concerts. Next week's flute and piano concert will be repeated in Covent Garden the following day. More details below.
As you see, the Harvest Spectacles campaign is continuing across Leatherhead, Fetcham, and Bookham. If you haven't handed in your old spectcales, sunglasses, frames, cases, even broken ones - please bring them to one of Leatherhead's participating churches (Anglican, Catholic, Methodist or United Reformed), to Donner Optometrist, Patricia Morgan Optician, B@titude, BFree, the Royal Oak on Kingston Road, or Symphony World Travel in Fetcham.
Vision Aid Overseas will re-use those they can, or recover the recyclable metals from those that are beyond further use. VAO raise funds to operate Vision Centres in eight African countries, re-issuing spectacles, or making up new prescriptions, so that the skills involved are developed in each place.
Our main business is of course concerts. While voice isn't everyone's favourite instrument, those who came to last week's concert with baritone Thomas Humphreys thoroughly enjoyed his superb performance, and the excellent playing of his wife Raya Kostova Humphreys. We were all agreed that we will be hearing more of these talents in the years to come. That is one of the delights of Music on Thursdays - the chance we get to experience young performers as they take those early steps in their perfoming careers.
Wednesdays at Christ Church, 18th September, 12.30 lunchtime
This Wednesday we hear one of our very experienced performers, Anthony Cairns, playing organ music from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, from Bach and his cousin Walther, to Flor Peeters and William Mathias. Full details and programme notes will be found by clicking on the paragraph heading above.
Music on Thursdays, 26th September, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
Next week's lunchtime concert sees us return to the Methodist Church for a recital called New Beginnings: Australian and American Duos for Flute and Piano. American flautist Hannah Porter Occeña will be accompanied by Taiwanese-Australian pianist Belle Chen. Their concert page is now ready and will be found by clicking on the dateline above.
Friday 27th September, 1pm lunchtime, St Paul's Covent Garden, London
The Occeña-Chen Duo's flute and piano concert will be reprised in the lunchtime series at St Paul's Covent Garden, so do tell friends who work in the Covent Garden and Charing Cross area that they too have this opportunity to enjoy the recital. Clicking on the dateline will bring you to the church's calendar where up to three lunchtime concerts each week are advertised. Something to bear in mind if you are spending time in the National Gallery or the Transport Museum.
Music on Thursdays, 3rd October, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
As we enter our final month of concerts for 2013 we welcome again the mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, and piano accompanist Peter Bailey. More details of their concert will be added to this website in the coming days.
And elsewhere:
As we have no concert in Leatherhead this Thursday you might be tempted by Dorking's offering. Paul Morgan, who was organist of Exeter Cathedral for 41 years, will be playing the organ in St Martin's Church in a free concert, from 1pm on Thursday 19th September. There is a lovely BBC item about Paul Morgan on this link.
Next Wednesday 25th September, 7.30pm in Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare, beside the Thames at Hampton. The evening is entitled A Wool Merchant's Songs and Writings, with harp. Garrick's Temple couldn't be much closer to the River, and its intimate surroundings, on an Autumn evening, should make for a most memorable musical and artistic experience. Tickets £10 at the door. Website for details.
For details of more concerts in our area do keep an eye on the diary page at: www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
There is always a welcome for friends old and new at our concerts. We look forward to seeing you.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Monday 16th September 2013
Dear Friends,
There is good news for some of you who work in London and thus rarely get the chance to attend our lunchtime concerts. Next week's flute and piano concert will be repeated in Covent Garden the following day. More details below.
As you see, the Harvest Spectacles campaign is continuing across Leatherhead, Fetcham, and Bookham. If you haven't handed in your old spectcales, sunglasses, frames, cases, even broken ones - please bring them to one of Leatherhead's participating churches (Anglican, Catholic, Methodist or United Reformed), to Donner Optometrist, Patricia Morgan Optician, B@titude, BFree, the Royal Oak on Kingston Road, or Symphony World Travel in Fetcham.
Vision Aid Overseas will re-use those they can, or recover the recyclable metals from those that are beyond further use. VAO raise funds to operate Vision Centres in eight African countries, re-issuing spectacles, or making up new prescriptions, so that the skills involved are developed in each place.
Our main business is of course concerts. While voice isn't everyone's favourite instrument, those who came to last week's concert with baritone Thomas Humphreys thoroughly enjoyed his superb performance, and the excellent playing of his wife Raya Kostova Humphreys. We were all agreed that we will be hearing more of these talents in the years to come. That is one of the delights of Music on Thursdays - the chance we get to experience young performers as they take those early steps in their perfoming careers.
Wednesdays at Christ Church, 18th September, 12.30 lunchtime
This Wednesday we hear one of our very experienced performers, Anthony Cairns, playing organ music from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, from Bach and his cousin Walther, to Flor Peeters and William Mathias. Full details and programme notes will be found by clicking on the paragraph heading above.
Music on Thursdays, 26th September, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
Next week's lunchtime concert sees us return to the Methodist Church for a recital called New Beginnings: Australian and American Duos for Flute and Piano. American flautist Hannah Porter Occeña will be accompanied by Taiwanese-Australian pianist Belle Chen. Their concert page is now ready and will be found by clicking on the dateline above.
Friday 27th September, 1pm lunchtime, St Paul's Covent Garden, London
The Occeña-Chen Duo's flute and piano concert will be reprised in the lunchtime series at St Paul's Covent Garden, so do tell friends who work in the Covent Garden and Charing Cross area that they too have this opportunity to enjoy the recital. Clicking on the dateline will bring you to the church's calendar where up to three lunchtime concerts each week are advertised. Something to bear in mind if you are spending time in the National Gallery or the Transport Museum.
Music on Thursdays, 3rd October, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
As we enter our final month of concerts for 2013 we welcome again the mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, and piano accompanist Peter Bailey. More details of their concert will be added to this website in the coming days.
And elsewhere:
As we have no concert in Leatherhead this Thursday you might be tempted by Dorking's offering. Paul Morgan, who was organist of Exeter Cathedral for 41 years, will be playing the organ in St Martin's Church in a free concert, from 1pm on Thursday 19th September. There is a lovely BBC item about Paul Morgan on this link.
Next Wednesday 25th September, 7.30pm in Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare, beside the Thames at Hampton. The evening is entitled A Wool Merchant's Songs and Writings, with harp. Garrick's Temple couldn't be much closer to the River, and its intimate surroundings, on an Autumn evening, should make for a most memorable musical and artistic experience. Tickets £10 at the door. Website for details.
For details of more concerts in our area do keep an eye on the diary page at: www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
There is always a welcome for friends old and new at our concerts. We look forward to seeing you.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays
Monday 9th September 2013
Dear Friends,
This Thursday, 12th September, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Schubert - Schumann - Brahms. Thomas Humphreys, baritone will sing works by Shubert, Schumann and Brahms, accompanied by his wife, the pianist Raya Kostova Humphreys. (Courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music.) You will find their full programme on this link.
Next Wednesday, 18th September, 12.30: Wednesdays at Christ Church - the first of our two Autumn visits to Christ Church on Epsom Road, Leatherhead, where organist Anthony Cairns will be playing works by Dubois, Mathias, Fletcher, JS Bach, and Lefébure-Wély on the Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ. There is plenty of parking at Christ Church, and the Trattoria will be on hand with sandwiches and drinks after the concert too - even though this is a Wednesday lunchtime event.
Thursday, 26th September, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Occeña-Chen Duo Hanna Porter-Occeña, flute, & Belle Chen, piano (Courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music)
Thursday, 3rd October, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, mezzo-soprano and Peter Bailey, piano
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church, Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians.
You'll find full details of all this year's concerts at LMC and at Christ Church on our calendar page.
Also nearby:
This Thursday evening, 12th September, 7.30pm MAIASTRA will be performing string quartets by Haydn, Verdi and Schubert, under leader Akiko Ono, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. The quartet will be playing the same repertoire in Kew on Tuesday 10th, so if you have friends around Richmond and West London they too might like to explore the webpage on this link - where you will find full details of the players and repertoire for both the Kew and Cobham concerts. MAIASTRA concerts are also free with a retiring collection.
This Wednesday, 11th September, 7.30pm: Dowland: Lute Recital given by Stephen Carpenter, lute in the truly intimate surroundings of Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare, beside the Thames at Hampton (over Hampton Court Bridge turn left on the Middlesex side, continue for just over a mile). Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions) at the door. Hampton: Garrick's Temple, TW12 3AA
Thursday 19th September 1.00 to 1.50pm, Lunchtime Recitals: Paul Morgan, organ (Exeter) in St Martin's Church, Dorking (bus 465 from Leatherhead) - Free with a retiring collection.
POETRY PAGE - Peter Horsfield has added poems inspired by concerts in the Menuhin Hall to sit alongside those he has written after Music on Thursdays and MAIASTRA concerts. Click here for our Poetry Page. Inspired by one of the season's undoubted highlights, Peter Horsfield and Peter Steadman have each added a poem to the webpage for our recent Bach & Jazz clarinet and piano concert - here.
The Music on Thursdays concert series is dependent on your contributions given at the door after each concert. Please show your appreciation of the very talented artistes who come to Leatherhead to play for our pleasure. If you are able to tick the Gift Aid box on the envelope then your £5 donation grows to a very welcome £6.25 with the tax recovered.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday 2nd September 2013
Dear Friends,
Friday 6th September, 1pm, Holborn Viaduct: Do you work in the City? Near the Old Bailey, St Paul's, Farringdon ? Soprano Alice Bishop, a very popular singer with Music on Thursdays audiences, is giving this Friday's lunchtime concert in the "Musicians' Church" of St Selpulchre, Holborn Viaduct. Full details of this concert for the Anglo-Japanese Society of Wessex will be found on this link.
Now back to local delights:
This Thursday, 5th September, 12.30 lunchtime, MoT at Leatherhead Methodist Church: ACACIA Flute and Harp Duo. Samantha Pearce and Heather Wrighton bring MoT our first harp performances. Bach, Fauré, Donizetti, Chopin, Jongen and Ibert are on the programme. Full details on this link.
Next Thursday, 12th September, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Schubert - Schumann - Brahms. Thomas Humphreys, baritone accompanied by his wife, the pianist Raya Kostova Humphreys. You will find their full programme on this link.
Wednesday, 18th September, 12.30: Wednesdays at Christ Church - the first of our two Autumn visits to Christ Church on Epsom Road, Leatherhead, where organist Anthony Cairns will be playing works by Dubois, Mathias, Fletcher, JS Bach, and Lefébure-Wély on the Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ. There is plenty of parking at Christ Church, and the Trattoria will be on hand with sandwiches and drinks after the concert too - even though this is a Wednesday lunchtime event.
Also nearby:
- Friday 6th September, 7.15pm, St John's School Chapel, Epsom Road, Leatherhead - The Škampa Quartet is among the very finest of an outstanding group of current Czech string quartets who have represented their country in major Concert Halls around the world for twenty years. We have an opportunity to hear them locally as they play string quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Tickets are £10 each (under 18s free), with advance booking available on 01372 385450. More information on this linked webpage.
Meanwhile, our friends at MAIASTRA have announced their next concerts. They will be performing string quartets by Haydn, Verdi and Schubert, under leader Akiko Ono, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham, at 7.30pm on Thursday evening 12th September. The quartet will be playing the same repertoire in Kew on Tuesday 10th, so if you have friends around Richmond and West London they too might like to explore the webpage on this link - where you will find full details of the players and repertoire for both the Kew and Cobham concerts. These concerts are also free with a retiring collection.
POETRY PAGE - Peter Horsfield has added poems inspired by concerts in the Menuhin Hall to sit alongside those he has written after Music on Thursdays and MAIASTRA concerts. Click here for our Poetry Page.
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church, Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians.
You'll find full details of all this year's concerts at LMC and at Christ Church on our calendar page.
Please remember that the Music on Thursdays concert series is dependent on your contributions given at the door after each concert. Please show your appreciation of the very talented artistes who come to Leatherhead to play for our pleasure. If you are able to tick the Gift Aid box on the envelope then your £5 donation grows to a very welcome £6.25 with the tax recovered.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Monday 2nd September 2013
Dear Friends,
Friday 6th September, 1pm, Holborn Viaduct: Do you work in the City? Near the Old Bailey, St Paul's, Farringdon ? Soprano Alice Bishop, a very popular singer with Music on Thursdays audiences, is giving this Friday's lunchtime concert in the "Musicians' Church" of St Selpulchre, Holborn Viaduct. Full details of this concert for the Anglo-Japanese Society of Wessex will be found on this link.
Now back to local delights:
This Thursday, 5th September, 12.30 lunchtime, MoT at Leatherhead Methodist Church: ACACIA Flute and Harp Duo. Samantha Pearce and Heather Wrighton bring MoT our first harp performances. Bach, Fauré, Donizetti, Chopin, Jongen and Ibert are on the programme. Full details on this link.
Next Thursday, 12th September, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Schubert - Schumann - Brahms. Thomas Humphreys, baritone accompanied by his wife, the pianist Raya Kostova Humphreys. You will find their full programme on this link.
Wednesday, 18th September, 12.30: Wednesdays at Christ Church - the first of our two Autumn visits to Christ Church on Epsom Road, Leatherhead, where organist Anthony Cairns will be playing works by Dubois, Mathias, Fletcher, JS Bach, and Lefébure-Wély on the Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ. There is plenty of parking at Christ Church, and the Trattoria will be on hand with sandwiches and drinks after the concert too - even though this is a Wednesday lunchtime event.
Also nearby:
- Friday 6th September, 7.15pm, St John's School Chapel, Epsom Road, Leatherhead - The Škampa Quartet is among the very finest of an outstanding group of current Czech string quartets who have represented their country in major Concert Halls around the world for twenty years. We have an opportunity to hear them locally as they play string quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Tickets are £10 each (under 18s free), with advance booking available on 01372 385450. More information on this linked webpage.
Meanwhile, our friends at MAIASTRA have announced their next concerts. They will be performing string quartets by Haydn, Verdi and Schubert, under leader Akiko Ono, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham, at 7.30pm on Thursday evening 12th September. The quartet will be playing the same repertoire in Kew on Tuesday 10th, so if you have friends around Richmond and West London they too might like to explore the webpage on this link - where you will find full details of the players and repertoire for both the Kew and Cobham concerts. These concerts are also free with a retiring collection.
POETRY PAGE - Peter Horsfield has added poems inspired by concerts in the Menuhin Hall to sit alongside those he has written after Music on Thursdays and MAIASTRA concerts. Click here for our Poetry Page.
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church, Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians.
You'll find full details of all this year's concerts at LMC and at Christ Church on our calendar page.
Please remember that the Music on Thursdays concert series is dependent on your contributions given at the door after each concert. Please show your appreciation of the very talented artistes who come to Leatherhead to play for our pleasure. If you are able to tick the Gift Aid box on the envelope then your £5 donation grows to a very welcome £6.25 with the tax recovered.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday 26th August 2013
Dear Friends,
On Thursday this week we welcome back to Leatherhead Methodist Church another of our regular players, clarinettist Anna Hashimoto. For this 12.30 lunchtime concert Anna will be accompanied by pianist Andrew Saunders. Their programme, entitled BACH & JAZZ, includes works by JS Bach, Alec Templeton, Béla Kovács, Zequinha de Abreu and George Gershwin. Full details of the musicians and their programme will be found on this link: Thursday 29th August - BACH & JAZZ
Looking further ahead, here are the next few weeks' concert headlines:
- Thursday 5th September 12.30 lunchtime at LMC - ACACIA Flute and Harp Duo - Samantha Pearce & Heather Wrighton
- Thursday 12th September 12.30 lunchtime at LMC- Thomas Humphreys, voice and Raya Humphreys, piano (students of the Royal Academy of Music) - more details of their programme should appear on the weblage later this week.
- Wednesday 18th September 12.30 lunchtime - Wednesdays at Christ Church - the first of our two Autumn visits to Christ Church on Epsom Road, Leatherhead, where organist Anthony Cairns will be playing works by Dubois, Mathias, Fletcher, JS Bach, and Lefébure-Wély on the Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ. There is plenty of parking at Christ Church, and the Trattoria will be on hand with sandwiches and drinks after the concert too - even though this is a Wednesday lunchtime event.
And elsewhere . . .
- Friday 6th September, 7.15pm, St John's School Chapel, Epsom Road, Leatherhead - The Škampa Quartet is among the very finest of an outstanding group of current Czech string quartets who have represented their country in major Concert Halls around the world for twenty years. We have an opportunity to hear them locally as they play string quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Tickets are £10 each (under 18s free), with advance booking available on 01372 385450. More information on this linked webpage.
Meanwhile, our friends at MAIASTRA have announced their next concerts. They will be performing string quartets by Haydn, Verdi and Schubert, under leader Akiko Ono, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham, at 7.30pm on Thursday evening 12th September. The quartet will be playing the same repertoire in Kew on Tuesday 10th, so if you have friends around Richmond and West London they too might like to explore the webpage on this link - where you will find full details of the players and repertoire for both the Kew and Cobham concerts. These concerts are also free with a retiring collection.
POETRY PAGE - Peter Horsfield has been adding to his poetry page on this website and now includes poems inspired by MAIASTRA concerts as well as those he has written after Music on Thursdays concerts. Click here for our Poetry Page.
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church, Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians. You'll find full details of all this year's concerts at LMC and at Christ Church on our calendar page.
Please remember that the Music on Thursdays concert series is dependent on your contributions given at the door after each concert. Please show your appreciation of the very talented artistes who come to Leatherhead to play for our pleasure. If you are able to tick the Gift Aid box on the envelope then your £5 donation grows to a very welcome £6.25 with the tax recovered.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Monday 26th August 2013
Dear Friends,
On Thursday this week we welcome back to Leatherhead Methodist Church another of our regular players, clarinettist Anna Hashimoto. For this 12.30 lunchtime concert Anna will be accompanied by pianist Andrew Saunders. Their programme, entitled BACH & JAZZ, includes works by JS Bach, Alec Templeton, Béla Kovács, Zequinha de Abreu and George Gershwin. Full details of the musicians and their programme will be found on this link: Thursday 29th August - BACH & JAZZ
Looking further ahead, here are the next few weeks' concert headlines:
- Thursday 5th September 12.30 lunchtime at LMC - ACACIA Flute and Harp Duo - Samantha Pearce & Heather Wrighton
- Thursday 12th September 12.30 lunchtime at LMC- Thomas Humphreys, voice and Raya Humphreys, piano (students of the Royal Academy of Music) - more details of their programme should appear on the weblage later this week.
- Wednesday 18th September 12.30 lunchtime - Wednesdays at Christ Church - the first of our two Autumn visits to Christ Church on Epsom Road, Leatherhead, where organist Anthony Cairns will be playing works by Dubois, Mathias, Fletcher, JS Bach, and Lefébure-Wély on the Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ. There is plenty of parking at Christ Church, and the Trattoria will be on hand with sandwiches and drinks after the concert too - even though this is a Wednesday lunchtime event.
And elsewhere . . .
- Friday 6th September, 7.15pm, St John's School Chapel, Epsom Road, Leatherhead - The Škampa Quartet is among the very finest of an outstanding group of current Czech string quartets who have represented their country in major Concert Halls around the world for twenty years. We have an opportunity to hear them locally as they play string quartets by Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Tickets are £10 each (under 18s free), with advance booking available on 01372 385450. More information on this linked webpage.
Meanwhile, our friends at MAIASTRA have announced their next concerts. They will be performing string quartets by Haydn, Verdi and Schubert, under leader Akiko Ono, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham, at 7.30pm on Thursday evening 12th September. The quartet will be playing the same repertoire in Kew on Tuesday 10th, so if you have friends around Richmond and West London they too might like to explore the webpage on this link - where you will find full details of the players and repertoire for both the Kew and Cobham concerts. These concerts are also free with a retiring collection.
POETRY PAGE - Peter Horsfield has been adding to his poetry page on this website and now includes poems inspired by MAIASTRA concerts as well as those he has written after Music on Thursdays concerts. Click here for our Poetry Page.
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church, Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians. You'll find full details of all this year's concerts at LMC and at Christ Church on our calendar page.
Please remember that the Music on Thursdays concert series is dependent on your contributions given at the door after each concert. Please show your appreciation of the very talented artistes who come to Leatherhead to play for our pleasure. If you are able to tick the Gift Aid box on the envelope then your £5 donation grows to a very welcome £6.25 with the tax recovered.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday 19th August 2013
Dear Friends,
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert (22nd August) harks back to earlier times, with the emphasis this week on the Renaissance. Anna Tam and Jennifer Bennett have both played for Music on Thursdays before, Anna as solo cellist, and Jennifer playing bass viol with Yair Avidor playing the theorbo. On Thursday the duo will be performing on the viola da gamba and the Renaissance lute, in works by Gibbons, Tobias Hume, and Kapsberger, together with excerpts from Anna's setting of James Joyce's poems - Chamber Music. More details on this link: Thursday 22nd August .
If you'd like to look at the programmes for the coming weeks' 12.30 lunchtime concerts at LMC, here is a clickable list of dates:
- Thursday 29th August - BACH & JAZZ - Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, returns to LMC, with Andrew Saunders, piano - Bach, Gershwin, Alec Templeton
- Thursday 5th September - ACACIA Flute and Harp Duo - Samantha Pearce & Heather Wrighton
- Thursday 12th September - Thomas Humphreys, voice and Reya Humphreys, piano (students of the Royal Academy of Music) - more details next week
Meanwhile, our friends at MAIASTRA have announced their next concerts. They will be performing string quartets by Haydn, Verdi and Schubert in St Andrew's Church, Cobham at 7.30pm on Thursday evening 12th September. More on this concert next week.
POETRY PAGE - Several of last season's concert inspired local poet Peter Horsfield to pen poems in various styles. We printed a few of these last year as our Christmas Card to regular concert-goers. Peter was inspired again by the recent Andrews-Massey Duo's flute and guitar concert. So we thought we'd treat him as our poet-in-residence and give him a webpage on this site. Do take a look at our new poetry page where you will find these examples of Peter's work. Click here for our Poetry Page
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving us a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians. You'll find full details of all this year's concerts at LMC and at Christ Church on our calendar page.
Please remember that the Music on Thursdays concert series is dependent on your contributions given at the door after each concert. Please show your appreciation of the very talented artistes who come to Leatherhead to play for our pleasure. If you are able to tick the Gift Aid box on the envelope then your £5 donation grows to a very welcome £6.25 with the tax recovered.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Monday 19th August 2013
Dear Friends,
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert (22nd August) harks back to earlier times, with the emphasis this week on the Renaissance. Anna Tam and Jennifer Bennett have both played for Music on Thursdays before, Anna as solo cellist, and Jennifer playing bass viol with Yair Avidor playing the theorbo. On Thursday the duo will be performing on the viola da gamba and the Renaissance lute, in works by Gibbons, Tobias Hume, and Kapsberger, together with excerpts from Anna's setting of James Joyce's poems - Chamber Music. More details on this link: Thursday 22nd August .
If you'd like to look at the programmes for the coming weeks' 12.30 lunchtime concerts at LMC, here is a clickable list of dates:
- Thursday 29th August - BACH & JAZZ - Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, returns to LMC, with Andrew Saunders, piano - Bach, Gershwin, Alec Templeton
- Thursday 5th September - ACACIA Flute and Harp Duo - Samantha Pearce & Heather Wrighton
- Thursday 12th September - Thomas Humphreys, voice and Reya Humphreys, piano (students of the Royal Academy of Music) - more details next week
Meanwhile, our friends at MAIASTRA have announced their next concerts. They will be performing string quartets by Haydn, Verdi and Schubert in St Andrew's Church, Cobham at 7.30pm on Thursday evening 12th September. More on this concert next week.
POETRY PAGE - Several of last season's concert inspired local poet Peter Horsfield to pen poems in various styles. We printed a few of these last year as our Christmas Card to regular concert-goers. Peter was inspired again by the recent Andrews-Massey Duo's flute and guitar concert. So we thought we'd treat him as our poet-in-residence and give him a webpage on this site. Do take a look at our new poetry page where you will find these examples of Peter's work. Click here for our Poetry Page
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving us a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians. You'll find full details of all this year's concerts at LMC and at Christ Church on our calendar page.
Please remember that the Music on Thursdays concert series is dependent on your contributions given at the door after each concert. Please show your appreciation of the very talented artistes who come to Leatherhead to play for our pleasure. If you are able to tick the Gift Aid box on the envelope then your £5 donation grows to a very welcome £6.25 with the tax recovered.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday 12th August 2013
Dear Friends,
Monday 12th August 2013
Dear Friends,
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert (15th August) features Eva Caballero and Merlin Harrison who will be playing Baroque instruments, with harpsichord continuo played by Graham Davies (we are grateful to Anthony Cairns for the loan of the harpsichord). Works from the Baroque era will include pieces by Bach, Lully, Philidor and others. Full details on the concert webpage.
Next Thursday's concert (22nd August) also harks back to earlier times, with the emphasis this time on the Renaissance, together with a suite from Anna Tam's setting of James Joyce's Chamber Music.
- Thursday 22nd August - Anna Tam, viola da gamba and soprano, & Jennifer Bennett, viola da gamba, lute, and Renaissance flute
If you'd like to look at the programmes for the coming weeks' lunchtime concerts, here is a clickable list of dates:
- Thursday 29th August - BACH & JAZZ - Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, with Andrew Saunders, piano
- Thursday 5th September - ACACIA Flute and Harp Duo - Samantha Pearce & Heather Wrighton
NEW - POETRY PAGE - Several of last season's concert inspired local poet Peter Horsfield to pen poems in various styles. We printed a few of these last year as our Christmas Card to regular concert-goers. Peter was inspired again by the recent Andrews-Massey Duo's flute and guitar concert. So we thought we'd treat him as our poet-in-residence and give him a webpage on this site. Do take a look at our new poetry page where you will find these examples of Peter's work. Click here for our Poetry Page
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving us a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians. You'll find full details of all this year's concerts at LMC and at Christ Church on our calendar page.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Next Thursday's concert (22nd August) also harks back to earlier times, with the emphasis this time on the Renaissance, together with a suite from Anna Tam's setting of James Joyce's Chamber Music.
- Thursday 22nd August - Anna Tam, viola da gamba and soprano, & Jennifer Bennett, viola da gamba, lute, and Renaissance flute
If you'd like to look at the programmes for the coming weeks' lunchtime concerts, here is a clickable list of dates:
- Thursday 29th August - BACH & JAZZ - Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, with Andrew Saunders, piano
- Thursday 5th September - ACACIA Flute and Harp Duo - Samantha Pearce & Heather Wrighton
NEW - POETRY PAGE - Several of last season's concert inspired local poet Peter Horsfield to pen poems in various styles. We printed a few of these last year as our Christmas Card to regular concert-goers. Peter was inspired again by the recent Andrews-Massey Duo's flute and guitar concert. So we thought we'd treat him as our poet-in-residence and give him a webpage on this site. Do take a look at our new poetry page where you will find these examples of Peter's work. Click here for our Poetry Page
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving us a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians. You'll find full details of all this year's concerts at LMC and at Christ Church on our calendar page.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday 5th August 2013
Dear Friends,
SONGS OF SUMMER
This Thursday, 8th August, we welcome back to our 12.30 lunchtime concert another MoT favourite, the soprano Alice Bishop. Alice has put together a concert programme on the theme: Songs of Summer. Schubert, Schumann, Britten and Gershwin are featured along with several other composers, in sections Alice is calling The Sea, The Sun, and The Holiday. Full details of Alice Bishop's concert, with pianist Simon Marlow, will be found on this linked webpage. (The concert programme on the day includes the texts Alice is singing.)
Monday 5th August 2013
Dear Friends,
SONGS OF SUMMER
This Thursday, 8th August, we welcome back to our 12.30 lunchtime concert another MoT favourite, the soprano Alice Bishop. Alice has put together a concert programme on the theme: Songs of Summer. Schubert, Schumann, Britten and Gershwin are featured along with several other composers, in sections Alice is calling The Sea, The Sun, and The Holiday. Full details of Alice Bishop's concert, with pianist Simon Marlow, will be found on this linked webpage. (The concert programme on the day includes the texts Alice is singing.)
It may be the holiday season but MoT continues week in week out. Next week, on Thursday 15th August, Eva Caballero and Merlin Harrison will be giving their concert on Baroque instruments, with harpsichord continuo played by Graham Davies (we are grateful to Anthony Cairns for the loan of the harpsichord). Music of the Baroque era will include works by Bach, Lully, Philidor and others. Full details on the concert webpage.
If you'd like to look at the programmes for the coming weeks' lunchtime concerts, here is a clickable list of dates:
- Thursday 22nd August - Anna Tam, viola da gamba and soprano, & Jennifer Bennett, viola da gamba, lute, and Renaissance flute
- Thursday 29th August - BACH & JAZZ - Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, with Andrew Saunders, piano
- Thursday 5th September - ACACIA Flute and Harp Duo - Samantha Pearce & Heather Wrighton
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving us a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians. You'll find full details of all this year's concerts on our calendar page.
PLANT SALE - Saturday 10th August - 10am to 4pm - 2a Church Walk
Somewhat off topic, but there was an excellent Plant Sale in Central Leatherhead last Saturday, and it continues next Saturday too. If you have even slightly green fingers you will appreciate the great variety of mature plants and seedlings that Roy Vincent is selling. This really is a case of everything must go as an era of wonderful gardening at 2a comes to a close.
2a Church Walk is the gate behind the dental surgery, on The Crescent, facing Nuffield Fitness Centre.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
If you'd like to look at the programmes for the coming weeks' lunchtime concerts, here is a clickable list of dates:
- Thursday 22nd August - Anna Tam, viola da gamba and soprano, & Jennifer Bennett, viola da gamba, lute, and Renaissance flute
- Thursday 29th August - BACH & JAZZ - Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, with Andrew Saunders, piano
- Thursday 5th September - ACACIA Flute and Harp Duo - Samantha Pearce & Heather Wrighton
Lunchtime concerts continue at Leatherhead Methodist Church until the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches and drinks, giving us a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians. You'll find full details of all this year's concerts on our calendar page.
PLANT SALE - Saturday 10th August - 10am to 4pm - 2a Church Walk
Somewhat off topic, but there was an excellent Plant Sale in Central Leatherhead last Saturday, and it continues next Saturday too. If you have even slightly green fingers you will appreciate the great variety of mature plants and seedlings that Roy Vincent is selling. This really is a case of everything must go as an era of wonderful gardening at 2a comes to a close.
2a Church Walk is the gate behind the dental surgery, on The Crescent, facing Nuffield Fitness Centre.
We look forward to seeing you and your friends at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday 29th July 2013
Dear Friends,
Our first ever MoT piano recital last Thursday was a tremendous success. We must definitely plan one or two piano solo and duet concerts for next year.
This Thursday (1st August) sees the return of The Andrews-Massey Duo - the flute of Emily Andrews and the guitar of David Massey. These two star RAM musicians have been playing together at the Academy, and now professionally, for several years. Their 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church has a folk music theme to it. Emily and David will be playing some of their own arrangements from their recently released CD ". . . from the roots", together with arrangements by Ibert, Villa-Lobos, Bartók and the young Scottish composer, Scott Lygate.
The CD has just been given a very nice write-up by one of the mainstream British folk music scene websites: http://www.brightyoungfolk.com/gigs/from-the-roots-andrews-massey-duo/record-detail.aspx - If you're tempted, there will be a chance to purchase the CD after Thursday's concert, price £8.
Full details of this Thursday's Andrews-Massey Duo concert are on this link.
Then next Thursday, 8th August, we welcome back another of our favourites, the soprano Alice Bishop. Alice has put together a concert of songs on the theme: Songs of Summer. Schubert, Schumann, Britten and Gershwin are featured along with several other composers, in sections Alice is calling The Sea, The Sun, and The Holiday. Full details of Alice Bishop's concert, with pianist Simon Marlow, will be found on this linked webpage.
Lunchtime concerts continue at the Methodist Church throughout August and continuing to the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks, giving us a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians. You'll find full details of all this year's concerts on the calendar page.
One of our regular concert-goers is Ann Cardew who has an Open Garden and Plant Sale this Saturday - 3rd August from 10am to 4pm. Ann's house is centrally located, close to the Library and the car park behind the Parish Church Hall. (Hopefully that doesn't sound too much like an estate agent.) You'll find more details of this event in aid of the Teazle Wood fund on our front page. One of Ann's neighbours also has an plant sale this weekend, and Ann will be serving teas and cakes from 2pm.
We hope you will come and enjoy the concerts, and support Ann's work on her cottage garden too.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
We are grateful for the support of :
Monday 29th July 2013
Dear Friends,
Our first ever MoT piano recital last Thursday was a tremendous success. We must definitely plan one or two piano solo and duet concerts for next year.
This Thursday (1st August) sees the return of The Andrews-Massey Duo - the flute of Emily Andrews and the guitar of David Massey. These two star RAM musicians have been playing together at the Academy, and now professionally, for several years. Their 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church has a folk music theme to it. Emily and David will be playing some of their own arrangements from their recently released CD ". . . from the roots", together with arrangements by Ibert, Villa-Lobos, Bartók and the young Scottish composer, Scott Lygate.
The CD has just been given a very nice write-up by one of the mainstream British folk music scene websites: http://www.brightyoungfolk.com/gigs/from-the-roots-andrews-massey-duo/record-detail.aspx - If you're tempted, there will be a chance to purchase the CD after Thursday's concert, price £8.
Full details of this Thursday's Andrews-Massey Duo concert are on this link.
Then next Thursday, 8th August, we welcome back another of our favourites, the soprano Alice Bishop. Alice has put together a concert of songs on the theme: Songs of Summer. Schubert, Schumann, Britten and Gershwin are featured along with several other composers, in sections Alice is calling The Sea, The Sun, and The Holiday. Full details of Alice Bishop's concert, with pianist Simon Marlow, will be found on this linked webpage.
Lunchtime concerts continue at the Methodist Church throughout August and continuing to the end of October. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert at LMC or at Christ Church Vecchia Trattoria will be with us selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks, giving us a chance to sit and chat with friends - and often with the musicians. You'll find full details of all this year's concerts on the calendar page.
One of our regular concert-goers is Ann Cardew who has an Open Garden and Plant Sale this Saturday - 3rd August from 10am to 4pm. Ann's house is centrally located, close to the Library and the car park behind the Parish Church Hall. (Hopefully that doesn't sound too much like an estate agent.) You'll find more details of this event in aid of the Teazle Wood fund on our front page. One of Ann's neighbours also has an plant sale this weekend, and Ann will be serving teas and cakes from 2pm.
We hope you will come and enjoy the concerts, and support Ann's work on her cottage garden too.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
We are grateful for the support of :
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday 23rd July 2013
Dear Friends,
Occasionally the concert schedule changes for reasons totally out of our control. Sometimes it's bad news - like a singer or a wind player with the flu - but this week it's good news, well for Jackie Tu it's good news, anyway. She is still at a competition in Taiwan, which suggests she is doing better than she expected. We wish Jackie every success there.
Meanwhile, her Royal Academy of Music friend and colleague Hyun-Jeong Hwang has agreed to come and play for us. Hyun-Jeong is finalising her choices for this Thursday lunchtime (12.30, on July 25th) in Leatherhead Methodist Church when she will be playing works by Liszt, Mozart and Schumann. This is the first time we have had a piano concert in either series of MoT. It is something we have been asked for, so we do hope you will come and hear this very talented young musician. The concert web-page is on this link where we will add more information as it comes in.
On Sunday evening, 28th July, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham, there is the next in the series of MAIASTRA concerts. Recent graduates of London's music colleges work on pieces for a week, under the guidance on an established professor and performer. On Sunday evening you will hear a Haydn Quartet, a Shostakovich Quartet, and a piano Quintet by Elgar. The concert starts at 7.30pm, but habitués know to arrive before 7pm for a good pew (and they bring a cushion too). This outstanding concert is given free of charge, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Wine will be available from 6.45pm. More details of the concert, the players, the parking and the church are on this link.
Music on Thursdays continues each week throughout August. Next Thursday 1st August we have a further opportunity to hear music from flautist Emily Andrews and guitar-player David Massey - both Masters graduates of the Royal Academy of Music now working professionally as the Andrews Massey Duo. They are to play a number of folk song arrangements by Bartók, Ibert, and Villa-Lobos, together with their own arrangements (which are available on their recently released CD "... from the roots". Concert details on this web-page.
At 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 8th August we welcome back the soprano Alice Bishop, with her accompanist Simon Marlow. Alice has themed her concert Songs of Summer, with sections for The Sea, The Sun, and the Holiday. Alice's concerts are always popular so do take a look at her programme on the concert web-page.
August rolls on with baroque instruments, a harpsichord, clarinet and piano, violas da gamba (or viola da gambas??), a lute, leading on to a flute and harp concert at the beginning of September.
Our catering sponsors, the new management of Vecchia Trattoria, are in the church at the end of each MoT concert selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks, and giving us a pause to chat together and with our young performers.
We look forward to welcoming you to these concerts!
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Tuesday 23rd July 2013
Dear Friends,
Occasionally the concert schedule changes for reasons totally out of our control. Sometimes it's bad news - like a singer or a wind player with the flu - but this week it's good news, well for Jackie Tu it's good news, anyway. She is still at a competition in Taiwan, which suggests she is doing better than she expected. We wish Jackie every success there.
Meanwhile, her Royal Academy of Music friend and colleague Hyun-Jeong Hwang has agreed to come and play for us. Hyun-Jeong is finalising her choices for this Thursday lunchtime (12.30, on July 25th) in Leatherhead Methodist Church when she will be playing works by Liszt, Mozart and Schumann. This is the first time we have had a piano concert in either series of MoT. It is something we have been asked for, so we do hope you will come and hear this very talented young musician. The concert web-page is on this link where we will add more information as it comes in.
On Sunday evening, 28th July, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham, there is the next in the series of MAIASTRA concerts. Recent graduates of London's music colleges work on pieces for a week, under the guidance on an established professor and performer. On Sunday evening you will hear a Haydn Quartet, a Shostakovich Quartet, and a piano Quintet by Elgar. The concert starts at 7.30pm, but habitués know to arrive before 7pm for a good pew (and they bring a cushion too). This outstanding concert is given free of charge, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Wine will be available from 6.45pm. More details of the concert, the players, the parking and the church are on this link.
Music on Thursdays continues each week throughout August. Next Thursday 1st August we have a further opportunity to hear music from flautist Emily Andrews and guitar-player David Massey - both Masters graduates of the Royal Academy of Music now working professionally as the Andrews Massey Duo. They are to play a number of folk song arrangements by Bartók, Ibert, and Villa-Lobos, together with their own arrangements (which are available on their recently released CD "... from the roots". Concert details on this web-page.
At 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 8th August we welcome back the soprano Alice Bishop, with her accompanist Simon Marlow. Alice has themed her concert Songs of Summer, with sections for The Sea, The Sun, and the Holiday. Alice's concerts are always popular so do take a look at her programme on the concert web-page.
August rolls on with baroque instruments, a harpsichord, clarinet and piano, violas da gamba (or viola da gambas??), a lute, leading on to a flute and harp concert at the beginning of September.
Our catering sponsors, the new management of Vecchia Trattoria, are in the church at the end of each MoT concert selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks, and giving us a pause to chat together and with our young performers.
We look forward to welcoming you to these concerts!
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church with Music on Thursdays
Monday 15th July 2013
Dear Friends,
This week our 12.30 lunchtime concert is on Wednesday (17th July) when we are off to Christ Church URC, on Epsom Road, Leatherhead. Robert Woolley is organist of St Mary's Church, Stoke d'Abernon and Professor of Harpsichord and Clavichord at the Royal College of Music. His programme on the pipe organ at Christ Church includes works by Sweelinck, Scheidt, Handel, and Bach. You can expect superb musicianship and a well-researched programme from this much recorded organ and keyboard player.
Wednesdays at Christ Church 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free, with a retiring collection to help cover costs. After the concert Vecchia Trattoria will be selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks in the church. More details of Robert and of his selection for Wednesday lunchtime are on this linked page.
Next Saturday, 20th July, in St Andrew's Church Cobham, international concert pianist Alberto Portugheis is giving a concert in aid of the Cobham-Uganda Partnership. Mr Portugheis' programme has works by Beethoven, Ginastera and Chopin. Tickets are £10 at the door. The Cobham-Uganda Partnership has already supported a primary school and a teacher training centre. They have now been asked to help fund a further teacher training centre. Putting together a worthy cause and an excellent musician should make for a very worthwhile evening. (The cool of a stone church might be very welcome too in the current weather!) More details on this linked page.
Music on Thursdays returns to Leatherhead Methodist Church on 25th July for a concert by the Nannerl Piano Duo - two more students of the Royal Academy of Music. We will have more on this concert by next Monday.
On Sunday July 28th violinist Arisa Fujita, a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, leads a piano quintet in the MAIASTRA series of concerts in St Andrew's Church Cobham. Their programme includes works by Haydn, Shostakovich and Elgar. MAIASTRA concerts are given after an intense week of study and rehearsal on the works. They are free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. More details on this linked webpage.
Looking just a little further ahead, on Thursday 1st August we will be welcoming flautist Emily Andrews and guitar-player David Massey to Leatherhead Methodist Church where they will give the lunchtime concert. This is a return appearance for the popular Andrews Massey Duo who have recently released a cd of folk song arrangements - details of which appear on this website.
We look forward to welcoming you to our concerts!
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
We are grateful for the support of :
Monday 15th July 2013
Dear Friends,
This week our 12.30 lunchtime concert is on Wednesday (17th July) when we are off to Christ Church URC, on Epsom Road, Leatherhead. Robert Woolley is organist of St Mary's Church, Stoke d'Abernon and Professor of Harpsichord and Clavichord at the Royal College of Music. His programme on the pipe organ at Christ Church includes works by Sweelinck, Scheidt, Handel, and Bach. You can expect superb musicianship and a well-researched programme from this much recorded organ and keyboard player.
Wednesdays at Christ Church 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free, with a retiring collection to help cover costs. After the concert Vecchia Trattoria will be selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks in the church. More details of Robert and of his selection for Wednesday lunchtime are on this linked page.
Next Saturday, 20th July, in St Andrew's Church Cobham, international concert pianist Alberto Portugheis is giving a concert in aid of the Cobham-Uganda Partnership. Mr Portugheis' programme has works by Beethoven, Ginastera and Chopin. Tickets are £10 at the door. The Cobham-Uganda Partnership has already supported a primary school and a teacher training centre. They have now been asked to help fund a further teacher training centre. Putting together a worthy cause and an excellent musician should make for a very worthwhile evening. (The cool of a stone church might be very welcome too in the current weather!) More details on this linked page.
Music on Thursdays returns to Leatherhead Methodist Church on 25th July for a concert by the Nannerl Piano Duo - two more students of the Royal Academy of Music. We will have more on this concert by next Monday.
On Sunday July 28th violinist Arisa Fujita, a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, leads a piano quintet in the MAIASTRA series of concerts in St Andrew's Church Cobham. Their programme includes works by Haydn, Shostakovich and Elgar. MAIASTRA concerts are given after an intense week of study and rehearsal on the works. They are free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. More details on this linked webpage.
Looking just a little further ahead, on Thursday 1st August we will be welcoming flautist Emily Andrews and guitar-player David Massey to Leatherhead Methodist Church where they will give the lunchtime concert. This is a return appearance for the popular Andrews Massey Duo who have recently released a cd of folk song arrangements - details of which appear on this website.
We look forward to welcoming you to our concerts!
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
We are grateful for the support of :
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday 8th July 2013
Dear Friend,
Our steadily growing audience are appreciating the comfortable chairs and the intimate recital room style of Leatherhead Methodist Church. Christ Church, with its greater proportions, is certainly more suited to the organ concerts in the series - indeed, we have a superb organ concert lined up for next week. But let's start our newsletter with this Thursday:
Thursday 11th July 12.30 lunchtime: On Thursday this week we welcome to MoT at LMC violinist Marisol Lee with piano accompanist Jooyeon Chang, who will be playing a Richard Strauss Sonata and Ravel's Tzigane. More about these two Royal Academy of Music MMus Performance students on this linked concert page.
Catering Sponsors, Vecchia Trattoria, will be in the church selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks at the end of each concert. Please feel free to stay a while and chat. Watch out too for their main course offer voucher on the back of MoT and WaCC concert programmes.
Wednesdays at Christ Church, 17th July, 12.30 lunchtime: Our next organ recital in the Wednesdays at Christ Church series features Robert Woolley, keyboards professor at the Royal College of Music and organist of St Mary's Stoke d'Abernon. Please note these organ concerts are on Wednesday lunchtimes. The concert webpage will be found on this link.
There is plenty of parking behind Christ Church, and if you have travelled a distance you will probably appreciate our catering sponsor, Vecchia Trattoria, who will be in the church selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks after the concert. Details of Robert Woolley's programme will be added to this concert page as they come in.
Thursday 25th July 12.30 lunchtime: the Nannerl PIano Duo will be playing for our lunchtime concert at Leatherhead Methodist Church in two week's from now. We will add more information to this webpage as it comes in.
These lunchtime concerts are offered free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. If you would like to join the Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society, or find out more about the Society, please follow this link to their own page on this site.
A couple more local events in July:
Saturday 20th July, 7pm: International concert pianist Alberto Portugheis will be giving a concert of works by Beethoven, Ginastera and Chopin, at St Andrew's Church, Cobham. Tickets will be available at the door, price £10, in aid of the Cobham-Uganda Partnership. Concert details here. - More about the work of the Cobham-Uganda Partnership on this link.
Sunday 28th July, 7.30pm: MAIASTRA piano quintet, led by Arisa Fujita, will be playing works by Haydn, Shostakovich and Elgar in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. Those in the know get there for 7pm and bring a cushion. These superb MAIASTRA concerts are very popular. If you have friends near Kew or Ilminster they will be able to enjoy the same concert at St Anne's Kew Green on the Friday (26th) and at Ilminster Arts Centre on Saturday 27th - all at 7.30pm, and all offered with free entry and a retiring collection.
These concert organisers and performers all look forward to seeing you at our concerts very soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
www.musiconthursdays.org
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Monday 8th July 2013
Dear Friend,
Our steadily growing audience are appreciating the comfortable chairs and the intimate recital room style of Leatherhead Methodist Church. Christ Church, with its greater proportions, is certainly more suited to the organ concerts in the series - indeed, we have a superb organ concert lined up for next week. But let's start our newsletter with this Thursday:
Thursday 11th July 12.30 lunchtime: On Thursday this week we welcome to MoT at LMC violinist Marisol Lee with piano accompanist Jooyeon Chang, who will be playing a Richard Strauss Sonata and Ravel's Tzigane. More about these two Royal Academy of Music MMus Performance students on this linked concert page.
Catering Sponsors, Vecchia Trattoria, will be in the church selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks at the end of each concert. Please feel free to stay a while and chat. Watch out too for their main course offer voucher on the back of MoT and WaCC concert programmes.
Wednesdays at Christ Church, 17th July, 12.30 lunchtime: Our next organ recital in the Wednesdays at Christ Church series features Robert Woolley, keyboards professor at the Royal College of Music and organist of St Mary's Stoke d'Abernon. Please note these organ concerts are on Wednesday lunchtimes. The concert webpage will be found on this link.
There is plenty of parking behind Christ Church, and if you have travelled a distance you will probably appreciate our catering sponsor, Vecchia Trattoria, who will be in the church selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks after the concert. Details of Robert Woolley's programme will be added to this concert page as they come in.
Thursday 25th July 12.30 lunchtime: the Nannerl PIano Duo will be playing for our lunchtime concert at Leatherhead Methodist Church in two week's from now. We will add more information to this webpage as it comes in.
These lunchtime concerts are offered free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. If you would like to join the Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society, or find out more about the Society, please follow this link to their own page on this site.
A couple more local events in July:
Saturday 20th July, 7pm: International concert pianist Alberto Portugheis will be giving a concert of works by Beethoven, Ginastera and Chopin, at St Andrew's Church, Cobham. Tickets will be available at the door, price £10, in aid of the Cobham-Uganda Partnership. Concert details here. - More about the work of the Cobham-Uganda Partnership on this link.
Sunday 28th July, 7.30pm: MAIASTRA piano quintet, led by Arisa Fujita, will be playing works by Haydn, Shostakovich and Elgar in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. Those in the know get there for 7pm and bring a cushion. These superb MAIASTRA concerts are very popular. If you have friends near Kew or Ilminster they will be able to enjoy the same concert at St Anne's Kew Green on the Friday (26th) and at Ilminster Arts Centre on Saturday 27th - all at 7.30pm, and all offered with free entry and a retiring collection.
These concert organisers and performers all look forward to seeing you at our concerts very soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
www.musiconthursdays.org
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday 1st July
Dear Friend,
Thursday 4th July: This week's Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concert in LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church, sees the return of three members of the Atéa Quintet - Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, Philip Haworth, oboe, and Ashley Myall, bassoon. They have put together a programme of works by Corelli, D'Rivera, Mozart, and Schubert. Full details of these talented young musicians and of their programme are on this linked concert page.
Thursday 11th July: Next Thursday we welcome to MoT at LMC violinist Marisol Lee with piano accompanist Jooyeon Chang, who will be playing a Richard Strauss Sonata and Ravel's Tzigane. More about these two Royal Academy of Music MMus Performance students on this linked concert page.
Catering Sponsors, Vecchia Trattoria, will be in the church selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks at the end of each concert. Please feel free to stay a while and chat.
Wednesday 17th July: Our next organ recital in the Wednesdays at Christ Church features Robert Woolley, keyboards professor at the Royal College of Music and organist of St Mary's Stoke d'Abernon. Ths concert is on Wednesday 17th July, at 12.30 lunchtime in Christ Church URC, on Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
There is plenty of parking behind Christ Church, and if you have travelled a distance you will probably appreciate our catering sponsor, Vecchia Trattoria, who will be in the church selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks after the concert. Details of Robert Woolley's programme will be added to this concert page as they come in.
These lunchtime concerts are offered free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. If you would like to join the Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society, or find out more about the Society, please follow this link to their own page on this site.
Friday 5th July: On the first Friday of the month LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church hosts "Time for Tea" from 2.30pm to 4.30pm, when all are welcome to come in for tea, chat and company - whether or not you've fitted in a concert!
We look forward to seeing you at a Music on Thursdays concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
www.musiconthursdays.org
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Monday 1st July
Dear Friend,
Thursday 4th July: This week's Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concert in LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church, sees the return of three members of the Atéa Quintet - Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, Philip Haworth, oboe, and Ashley Myall, bassoon. They have put together a programme of works by Corelli, D'Rivera, Mozart, and Schubert. Full details of these talented young musicians and of their programme are on this linked concert page.
Thursday 11th July: Next Thursday we welcome to MoT at LMC violinist Marisol Lee with piano accompanist Jooyeon Chang, who will be playing a Richard Strauss Sonata and Ravel's Tzigane. More about these two Royal Academy of Music MMus Performance students on this linked concert page.
Catering Sponsors, Vecchia Trattoria, will be in the church selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks at the end of each concert. Please feel free to stay a while and chat.
Wednesday 17th July: Our next organ recital in the Wednesdays at Christ Church features Robert Woolley, keyboards professor at the Royal College of Music and organist of St Mary's Stoke d'Abernon. Ths concert is on Wednesday 17th July, at 12.30 lunchtime in Christ Church URC, on Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
There is plenty of parking behind Christ Church, and if you have travelled a distance you will probably appreciate our catering sponsor, Vecchia Trattoria, who will be in the church selling sandwiches, cakes and drinks after the concert. Details of Robert Woolley's programme will be added to this concert page as they come in.
These lunchtime concerts are offered free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. If you would like to join the Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society, or find out more about the Society, please follow this link to their own page on this site.
Friday 5th July: On the first Friday of the month LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church hosts "Time for Tea" from 2.30pm to 4.30pm, when all are welcome to come in for tea, chat and company - whether or not you've fitted in a concert!
We look forward to seeing you at a Music on Thursdays concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
www.musiconthursdays.org
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday 24th June 2013
Dear Friend,
After a very successful first Wednesday at Christ Church last week, we now come to the first true Music on Thursdays concert of 2013.
This Thursday, 27th June, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
Soprano Georgia Knower, with Brazilian guitarist Fabrício Mattos, perform songs from Purcell and traditional repertoire to Britten and the 20th century. Arrangements include O Waly waly, and Burke and Webster's 1948 classic Black Coffee. These Royal Academy of Music students have a great programme for the first event of this year's lunchtime series.
Next Thursday, 4th July, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
We welcome three players from the Atéa Wind Quintet - who played for us last season. Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, Philip Haworth, oboe, and Ashley Myall, bassoon will be playing works by Corelli, D'Rivera, Mozart and Schubert.
Vecchia Trattoria will be on hand as usual selling sandwiches, cake, and drinks at the end of each concert. So there will be plenty of time to linger and chat.
Music on Thursdays concert are free, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Local concerts next weekend include:
Saturday, 29th June, 8pm, St Martin of Tours Church, Epsom
Epsom Chamber Choir have their Summer Serenade concert in St Martin's. the evening includes works by Richard Rodney Bennett, Britten and Rutter, and includes the piano duet Stephen Ridge and Simon Phillips, all under the baton of conductor Piers Maxim. Tickets: £12 (concessions £10, under 15s £3)
Sunday, 30th June, 7pm, St Mary's Church, Stoke d'Abernon
Oliver Macfarlane, 1st Assistant Organist of St Mary's and series editor performance output in BBC Television's Classical Music Department, plays the 1975 2-manual Frobenius organ. Oliver's choices include JS and CPE Bach, Pachelbel, and Max Reger. Please click on the headline for full details. Tickets: £10 at the door.
We look forward to seeing you at a Music on Thursdays concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
www.musiconthursdays.org
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Monday 24th June 2013
Dear Friend,
After a very successful first Wednesday at Christ Church last week, we now come to the first true Music on Thursdays concert of 2013.
This Thursday, 27th June, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
Soprano Georgia Knower, with Brazilian guitarist Fabrício Mattos, perform songs from Purcell and traditional repertoire to Britten and the 20th century. Arrangements include O Waly waly, and Burke and Webster's 1948 classic Black Coffee. These Royal Academy of Music students have a great programme for the first event of this year's lunchtime series.
Next Thursday, 4th July, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
We welcome three players from the Atéa Wind Quintet - who played for us last season. Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, Philip Haworth, oboe, and Ashley Myall, bassoon will be playing works by Corelli, D'Rivera, Mozart and Schubert.
Vecchia Trattoria will be on hand as usual selling sandwiches, cake, and drinks at the end of each concert. So there will be plenty of time to linger and chat.
Music on Thursdays concert are free, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Local concerts next weekend include:
Saturday, 29th June, 8pm, St Martin of Tours Church, Epsom
Epsom Chamber Choir have their Summer Serenade concert in St Martin's. the evening includes works by Richard Rodney Bennett, Britten and Rutter, and includes the piano duet Stephen Ridge and Simon Phillips, all under the baton of conductor Piers Maxim. Tickets: £12 (concessions £10, under 15s £3)
Sunday, 30th June, 7pm, St Mary's Church, Stoke d'Abernon
Oliver Macfarlane, 1st Assistant Organist of St Mary's and series editor performance output in BBC Television's Classical Music Department, plays the 1975 2-manual Frobenius organ. Oliver's choices include JS and CPE Bach, Pachelbel, and Max Reger. Please click on the headline for full details. Tickets: £10 at the door.
We look forward to seeing you at a Music on Thursdays concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
www.musiconthursdays.org
Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
14th June 2013
Dear Friend,
Our new concert season gets under way next Wednesday, 19th June, at 12.30 lunchtime, when Anthony Cairns will be playingOrgan Music from Canada on the modern pipe organ at Christ Church (URC), Epsom Road, Leatherhead. (Canada Day is July 1st.) Admission is free, with a retiring collection. Full details of Anthony's programme will be found on this link.
We are pleased to announce that the new management of Vecchia Trattoria are keen to continue the tradition of selling sandwiches, cakes, and teas after each of our concerts, and that includes Wednesdays at Christ Church.
On Thursday of the following week, June 27th, also at 12.30 lunchtime, you will find us in our new home, Leatherhead Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road, Leatherhead. This first Music on Thursdays lunchtime concert of 2013 will feature two students from the Royal Academy of Music - Fabrício Mattos, guitar and Georgia Knower, soprano. You can expect a high standard of performance from them - and a very warm welcome at LMC. Sandwiches, cakes and teas on sale after the concert. Concert details will be added to this webpage as they come in. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
14th June 2013
Dear Friend,
Our new concert season gets under way next Wednesday, 19th June, at 12.30 lunchtime, when Anthony Cairns will be playingOrgan Music from Canada on the modern pipe organ at Christ Church (URC), Epsom Road, Leatherhead. (Canada Day is July 1st.) Admission is free, with a retiring collection. Full details of Anthony's programme will be found on this link.
We are pleased to announce that the new management of Vecchia Trattoria are keen to continue the tradition of selling sandwiches, cakes, and teas after each of our concerts, and that includes Wednesdays at Christ Church.
On Thursday of the following week, June 27th, also at 12.30 lunchtime, you will find us in our new home, Leatherhead Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road, Leatherhead. This first Music on Thursdays lunchtime concert of 2013 will feature two students from the Royal Academy of Music - Fabrício Mattos, guitar and Georgia Knower, soprano. You can expect a high standard of performance from them - and a very warm welcome at LMC. Sandwiches, cakes and teas on sale after the concert. Concert details will be added to this webpage as they come in. Admission is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Let's take a look at some of the other music-making in the area:
Tomorrow, Saturday 15th June, from 2pm, ORGANFEST, at Leatherhead Parish Church, when four organists play the restored 1766 Thomas Parker Pipe Organ. There aren't many places that arrange for four organists to play the same instrument in one afternoon but this is something the Parish Church does every couple of years to really show off this wonderful instrument. The contrasting and complementing repertoires should make for an interesting afternoon, or perhaps you only have time to pop in for a while. Free, with optional retiring collection.
Next Friday, 21st June, St Mary's Church, Twickenham, 7.30pm and Next Saturday, 22nd June, St Andrews Church, Cobham, 7.30pm, MAIASTRA, string quintet -
2 violins, 2 violas, and cello, playing quintets by Mozart and Mendelssohn, under the leadership of Akiko Ono. Full details of players and both venues on this link. Free with retiring collection.
Next Saturday, 22nd June, 7pm, Leatherhead Methodist Church - HEART'S DELIGHT - an evening of song and operatic items sung by mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant and baritone Ian Howarth, with Richard Price, piano and Anne Cairns, cello. A selection of solos and duets from the classical and lighter repertoires of both singers, inspired by Franz Lehár's song title "You are my heart's delight".Poster and information on this link.
Tuesday, 25th June, 7.45pm, Purcell Room - Tianyun Jia, violin, accompanied by Alexis White, piano, plays a recital for her London Philharmonic Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship. Tianyun played the final concert of the Music on Thursdays 2012 season. Tickets are free and bookable by calling: 0800 652 6717.
Sunday 30th June, 7pm, St Mary's Church, Stoke d'Abernon - Oliver Macfarlane, First Assistant Organist at Stoke, and series editor, BBC TV Classical Music Dept, will be playing the 2-manual Frobenius. Full programme details on this link. Tickets: £10 at the door.
Please support all those who organise music events in the area but we, of course, particularly look forward to welcoming you toWednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays.
Here's to a summer of fine music!
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
www.musiconthursdays.org & Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Tomorrow, Saturday 15th June, from 2pm, ORGANFEST, at Leatherhead Parish Church, when four organists play the restored 1766 Thomas Parker Pipe Organ. There aren't many places that arrange for four organists to play the same instrument in one afternoon but this is something the Parish Church does every couple of years to really show off this wonderful instrument. The contrasting and complementing repertoires should make for an interesting afternoon, or perhaps you only have time to pop in for a while. Free, with optional retiring collection.
Next Friday, 21st June, St Mary's Church, Twickenham, 7.30pm and Next Saturday, 22nd June, St Andrews Church, Cobham, 7.30pm, MAIASTRA, string quintet -
2 violins, 2 violas, and cello, playing quintets by Mozart and Mendelssohn, under the leadership of Akiko Ono. Full details of players and both venues on this link. Free with retiring collection.
Next Saturday, 22nd June, 7pm, Leatherhead Methodist Church - HEART'S DELIGHT - an evening of song and operatic items sung by mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant and baritone Ian Howarth, with Richard Price, piano and Anne Cairns, cello. A selection of solos and duets from the classical and lighter repertoires of both singers, inspired by Franz Lehár's song title "You are my heart's delight".Poster and information on this link.
Tuesday, 25th June, 7.45pm, Purcell Room - Tianyun Jia, violin, accompanied by Alexis White, piano, plays a recital for her London Philharmonic Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship. Tianyun played the final concert of the Music on Thursdays 2012 season. Tickets are free and bookable by calling: 0800 652 6717.
Sunday 30th June, 7pm, St Mary's Church, Stoke d'Abernon - Oliver Macfarlane, First Assistant Organist at Stoke, and series editor, BBC TV Classical Music Dept, will be playing the 2-manual Frobenius. Full programme details on this link. Tickets: £10 at the door.
Please support all those who organise music events in the area but we, of course, particularly look forward to welcoming you toWednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays.
Here's to a summer of fine music!
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
www.musiconthursdays.org & Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
12.30 lunchtime concerts
3rd June 2013
Dear Friend,
In these June weeks before we start the new series of lunchtime concerts there are plenty of other musical events in the area. They are also offered free, with a retiring collection (unless ticket details are shown).
Sunday 9th June, 7pm, Mickleham Parish Church
Sundays at Seven - Mardi Brass Quintet - 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba - I can't help enthusing about brass in harmony, and in the lovely surroundings of Mickleham Parish Church too. An evening not to be missed. The concert lasts just an hour, which should suit young and old and all ages in between. Details here.
June 10th to 16th - various times each day - Leatherhead Parish Church
Jubilate Music & Flower Festival - cello recital, piano duets, school choirs, The Downsmen, Atlantis, Four Organists play the church's historic Parker Organ, - there really is something to suit every musical taste in this festival, plus, of course, the themed flower arrangements which will be displayed in the church throughout the week. More info here.
Wednesday June 19th, 12.30 lunchtime, Christ Church URC
Wednesdays at Christ Church - Anthony Cairns has prepared a selection of Organ Music from Canada for this first concert in the new lunchtime slot. He will play works by Healey Willan, John Cook, Violet Archer and Denis Bédard on the church's modern Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ. Christ Church URC is on Epsom Road Leatherhead and has the luxury of on-site parking. Details here.
Friday 21st June, 7.30pm Twickenham
Saturday 22nd June, 7.30pm, Cobham
MAIASTRA - String quintets by Mozart & Mendelssohn, led by Akiko Ono. For full details please see the webpage.
Tuesday 25th June, 7.45pm, Purcell Room, South Bank London
Violinist Tianyun Jia, from Shanghai, played the final concert of Music on Thursdays' 2012 season. Tianyun was offered a full scholarship to study at Meadowmount School of Music, USA (2004-2009). She has also won awards and competitions including the London Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, and 2nd prize in the 3rd China International Competition in Qingdao. In 2008 she won a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music and now studies with world-renowned Hungarian violinist György Pauk. Admission is FREE but ticketed - please call FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717 to reserve your free tickets. Further details on this link.
Thursday 27th June, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
Music on Thursdays - first concert of the new season
Fabricio Mattos, guitar, and Georgia Knower, soprano, are both students of the Royal Academy of Music. Please keep an eye on the website for details of their programme, although there will be an e-newsletter the week before.
The programme for the entire Music on Thursdays season, including Wednesdays at Christ Church, is now complete. You will find more details on this web page. We look forward to welcoming friends old and new to this year's concerts, and so do the organisers of the other events mentioned in this newsletter.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
www.musiconthursdays.org
Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
12.30 lunchtime concerts
3rd June 2013
Dear Friend,
In these June weeks before we start the new series of lunchtime concerts there are plenty of other musical events in the area. They are also offered free, with a retiring collection (unless ticket details are shown).
Sunday 9th June, 7pm, Mickleham Parish Church
Sundays at Seven - Mardi Brass Quintet - 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba - I can't help enthusing about brass in harmony, and in the lovely surroundings of Mickleham Parish Church too. An evening not to be missed. The concert lasts just an hour, which should suit young and old and all ages in between. Details here.
June 10th to 16th - various times each day - Leatherhead Parish Church
Jubilate Music & Flower Festival - cello recital, piano duets, school choirs, The Downsmen, Atlantis, Four Organists play the church's historic Parker Organ, - there really is something to suit every musical taste in this festival, plus, of course, the themed flower arrangements which will be displayed in the church throughout the week. More info here.
Wednesday June 19th, 12.30 lunchtime, Christ Church URC
Wednesdays at Christ Church - Anthony Cairns has prepared a selection of Organ Music from Canada for this first concert in the new lunchtime slot. He will play works by Healey Willan, John Cook, Violet Archer and Denis Bédard on the church's modern Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ. Christ Church URC is on Epsom Road Leatherhead and has the luxury of on-site parking. Details here.
Friday 21st June, 7.30pm Twickenham
Saturday 22nd June, 7.30pm, Cobham
MAIASTRA - String quintets by Mozart & Mendelssohn, led by Akiko Ono. For full details please see the webpage.
Tuesday 25th June, 7.45pm, Purcell Room, South Bank London
Violinist Tianyun Jia, from Shanghai, played the final concert of Music on Thursdays' 2012 season. Tianyun was offered a full scholarship to study at Meadowmount School of Music, USA (2004-2009). She has also won awards and competitions including the London Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, and 2nd prize in the 3rd China International Competition in Qingdao. In 2008 she won a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music and now studies with world-renowned Hungarian violinist György Pauk. Admission is FREE but ticketed - please call FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717 to reserve your free tickets. Further details on this link.
Thursday 27th June, 12.30 lunchtime, Leatherhead Methodist Church
Music on Thursdays - first concert of the new season
Fabricio Mattos, guitar, and Georgia Knower, soprano, are both students of the Royal Academy of Music. Please keep an eye on the website for details of their programme, although there will be an e-newsletter the week before.
The programme for the entire Music on Thursdays season, including Wednesdays at Christ Church, is now complete. You will find more details on this web page. We look forward to welcoming friends old and new to this year's concerts, and so do the organisers of the other events mentioned in this newsletter.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
www.musiconthursdays.org
Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
