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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
24th November 2014
Dear Friends
24th November 2014
Dear Friends
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church features two accordion (or bayan) players.
Bartosz Glowacki is from Poland and had a very well-received concert in Christ Church Esher last April.
Iosif Purits comes from Russia, where his father was also a famous bayan player.
Bartosz and Iosif are post-graduate students of the Royal Academy of Music's Accordion Department. Their programme for Leatherhead illustrates the wide range of music available for the instrument including works by Scarlatti, Mussorgsky, Liszt, Piazolla, and several living composers. Full details of their programme are on this concert webpage.
MoT's lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout, and is within a 5-minute walk of most of the town's central car parks - the one further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall, being the closest. As this is our nearest concert to Christmas there will be a cuppa and a slice of Christmas cake for everyone afterwards.
Copies of Peter Horsfield's anthology inspired by these concerts will be on sale after the concert (and are also available from Barton's Bookshop, price £3).
We are also raising funds to bring a more modern piano into LMC - which we plan to do in January 2015. Even if you are not a lunchtime concert regular, we hope you will help us to achieve this upgrade. It will enable the Church to host more music events, with a piano which is a delight both to play and to listen to. Lower down the page you will find a leaflet describing the task in hand.
As MoT goes into hibernation and begins to plan for the 2015 season, plenty of other local music-making continues. There is a diary on www.musicinsurrey.co.uk from which we draw these events for the coming fortnight:
Tuesday 25th November 7.45pm, Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Recital, Dinara Klinton, piano, Tickets: FREE - book on 0800 652 6717, London: Purcell Room, South Bank - webpage here
Saturday 29th November, 8pm, Holy Trinity Church, Claygate, Cavaleri String Quartet play Mozart, Shostakovich & Smetana - webpage here
Tuesday 2nd December, **7pm**, Rainbow Trust Carol Concert takes place in St Nicolas Church, Bookham.
Tickets £5 (u5s free)
Saturday 6th December 2014, 7:30pm, St Martin of Tours, Epsom, Saxology Quartet, an entertaining evening of exciting, diverse, fun and imaginative music from a saxophone quartet. Admission free
Monday 8th December, 7.45pm, Purcell Room, free concert by pianist Salih Gevrek
pre-booking on 0800 652 6717 - no fees - webpage here
Emily Andrews, flute, and Graham Davies organ, have a concert at St Peter’s Church, Vauxhall
at 7.30pm on Tuesday December 9th
Saturday 13th December, 7.30pm, Epsom Chamber Choir have their Christmas Concert in St Martin’s Church, Central Epsom - webpage here
There are many people to thank for our successful 2014 season. Our hosts - the members of Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church (United Reformed) who open their buildings to us, the many performers who have come to play for us, and most of all the audience who give them such a warm welcome week after week. There are others working away behind the scenes to make the series the success it has been, and who will start work on next year's programme in the New Year.
We will return on Wednesday 15th April for the first of six monthly Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concerts, and on Thursday 23rd April for the almost weekly Music on Thursdays at LMC, running through to the end of October 2015.
Very best wishes for your music-making and listening, this Christmas and in the New Year
Bartosz Glowacki is from Poland and had a very well-received concert in Christ Church Esher last April.
Iosif Purits comes from Russia, where his father was also a famous bayan player.
Bartosz and Iosif are post-graduate students of the Royal Academy of Music's Accordion Department. Their programme for Leatherhead illustrates the wide range of music available for the instrument including works by Scarlatti, Mussorgsky, Liszt, Piazolla, and several living composers. Full details of their programme are on this concert webpage.
MoT's lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout, and is within a 5-minute walk of most of the town's central car parks - the one further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall, being the closest. As this is our nearest concert to Christmas there will be a cuppa and a slice of Christmas cake for everyone afterwards.
Copies of Peter Horsfield's anthology inspired by these concerts will be on sale after the concert (and are also available from Barton's Bookshop, price £3).
We are also raising funds to bring a more modern piano into LMC - which we plan to do in January 2015. Even if you are not a lunchtime concert regular, we hope you will help us to achieve this upgrade. It will enable the Church to host more music events, with a piano which is a delight both to play and to listen to. Lower down the page you will find a leaflet describing the task in hand.
As MoT goes into hibernation and begins to plan for the 2015 season, plenty of other local music-making continues. There is a diary on www.musicinsurrey.co.uk from which we draw these events for the coming fortnight:
Tuesday 25th November 7.45pm, Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Recital, Dinara Klinton, piano, Tickets: FREE - book on 0800 652 6717, London: Purcell Room, South Bank - webpage here
Saturday 29th November, 8pm, Holy Trinity Church, Claygate, Cavaleri String Quartet play Mozart, Shostakovich & Smetana - webpage here
Tuesday 2nd December, **7pm**, Rainbow Trust Carol Concert takes place in St Nicolas Church, Bookham.
Tickets £5 (u5s free)
Saturday 6th December 2014, 7:30pm, St Martin of Tours, Epsom, Saxology Quartet, an entertaining evening of exciting, diverse, fun and imaginative music from a saxophone quartet. Admission free
Monday 8th December, 7.45pm, Purcell Room, free concert by pianist Salih Gevrek
pre-booking on 0800 652 6717 - no fees - webpage here
Emily Andrews, flute, and Graham Davies organ, have a concert at St Peter’s Church, Vauxhall
at 7.30pm on Tuesday December 9th
Saturday 13th December, 7.30pm, Epsom Chamber Choir have their Christmas Concert in St Martin’s Church, Central Epsom - webpage here
There are many people to thank for our successful 2014 season. Our hosts - the members of Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church (United Reformed) who open their buildings to us, the many performers who have come to play for us, and most of all the audience who give them such a warm welcome week after week. There are others working away behind the scenes to make the series the success it has been, and who will start work on next year's programme in the New Year.
We will return on Wednesday 15th April for the first of six monthly Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concerts, and on Thursday 23rd April for the almost weekly Music on Thursdays at LMC, running through to the end of October 2015.
Very best wishes for your music-making and listening, this Christmas and in the New Year
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Update !
We are delighted to report that our fund-raising was a great success. We raised £982.50 which meant that the piano could be properly installed and serviced at the beginning of February 2015. Following the AGM for Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society, Lynda Chang gave the piano its first public performance for the thirty or so people present. Lynda returns to LMC on April 23rd when she accompanies soprano Lesley Gladigau in that day's 12.30 lunchtime concert, appropriately titled: A Thoroughly English Concert for St George's Day. |
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
9th November 2014
Dear Friends
9th November 2014
Dear Friends
For this Thursday's 12.30 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church we welcome two recent graduates of the Royal Academy of Music. Sara Cubarsi is a Catalan violinist, and pianist Seungwon Lee comes from South Korea. They have chosen to play one major work by Bartók, and a shorter piece by Saint-Saëns. You will find information about the musicians and their programme on this webpage.
Next week we will be in Christ Church, Epsom Road, for Wednesdays at Christ Church, our monthly organ concert. Cellist Anna Tam will be playing, accompanied by organist Graham Davies. Their programme will feature both solos and duets. More information about the concert will appear on this concert webpage as it comes in.
Our final concert of the year is on Thursday 27th November at LMC, when our guests are Russian accordion player Iosif Purits, and Polish accordion player Bartosz Glowacki. They are both studying in the accordion department of the Royal Academy of Music this year so we are very fortunate that they are coming to play for our season finale. As this is the closest we get to Christmas, we shall give ourselves a slice of cake afterwards. You will find their programme on this concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both churches have level access throughout, and Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking too. LMC is a short walk from most of the town's central car parks.
There is a great deal more music-making in the area, including next Saturday's visit by the Bridgend Male Choir to Leatherhead Parish Church. Tickets for their 3.30pm Nov 15th concert can be purchased in advance from Barton's Bookshop, or on the door (if space permits).
And if you are in or near Barton's Bookshop, why not get yourself a copy of Peter Horsfield's Bassoonatic and Other Poems - poems inspired by the lunchtime (and other) concerts. Illustrated by Art Club member Diana King, the anthology is great value at just £3 a copy. We also have copies for sale at the lunchtime concerts.
COMMUTER ALERT: if your commute brings you through Vauxhall there is a £10 concert at 7.30pm on November 19th you might enjoy. Concert and cathedral organist Daniel Moult will be playing the TC Lewis organ in St Peter's Church, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, just 250 metres from the station. This is a rare chance to hear Daniel for such a modest ticket price. We're told nobody will mind if you pay more! Full details on this link.
For details of more concerts around the area please visit www.musicinsurrey.co.uk.
We hope you enjoy your listening !
Next week we will be in Christ Church, Epsom Road, for Wednesdays at Christ Church, our monthly organ concert. Cellist Anna Tam will be playing, accompanied by organist Graham Davies. Their programme will feature both solos and duets. More information about the concert will appear on this concert webpage as it comes in.
Our final concert of the year is on Thursday 27th November at LMC, when our guests are Russian accordion player Iosif Purits, and Polish accordion player Bartosz Glowacki. They are both studying in the accordion department of the Royal Academy of Music this year so we are very fortunate that they are coming to play for our season finale. As this is the closest we get to Christmas, we shall give ourselves a slice of cake afterwards. You will find their programme on this concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both churches have level access throughout, and Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking too. LMC is a short walk from most of the town's central car parks.
There is a great deal more music-making in the area, including next Saturday's visit by the Bridgend Male Choir to Leatherhead Parish Church. Tickets for their 3.30pm Nov 15th concert can be purchased in advance from Barton's Bookshop, or on the door (if space permits).
And if you are in or near Barton's Bookshop, why not get yourself a copy of Peter Horsfield's Bassoonatic and Other Poems - poems inspired by the lunchtime (and other) concerts. Illustrated by Art Club member Diana King, the anthology is great value at just £3 a copy. We also have copies for sale at the lunchtime concerts.
COMMUTER ALERT: if your commute brings you through Vauxhall there is a £10 concert at 7.30pm on November 19th you might enjoy. Concert and cathedral organist Daniel Moult will be playing the TC Lewis organ in St Peter's Church, Kennington Lane, Vauxhall, just 250 metres from the station. This is a rare chance to hear Daniel for such a modest ticket price. We're told nobody will mind if you pay more! Full details on this link.
For details of more concerts around the area please visit www.musicinsurrey.co.uk.
We hope you enjoy your listening !
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
20th October 2014
Dear Friends
20th October 2014
Dear Friends
All this week, in the Old Chapel of St John's School, Leatherhead Art Club have their Autumn Exhibition. It is an excellent venue, allowing them to display their work really well - and there are some fine pieces to be seen. The Art Exhibition is open each day this week from 10am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.
For this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church, on the 23rd October, we welcome once more clarinettist Anna Hashimoto with piano accompaniment from Daniel King Smith. Daniel was accompanist in a trio here earlier this year and it is a delight to see him returning with one of our most popular musicians - Anna Hashimoto. Their programme includes two arrangements Anna has made of Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, and of Bellini's Casta Diva, from the opera Norma. They round off the concert with Alexander Rosenblatt's Fantasia on Themes from Carmen. You will find full details on this webpage.
Next week's Thursday lunchtime concert on the 30th will be played by the Aurora Trio - three students of the Royal Academy of Music who play flute, viola and harp. There is plenty about them and their programme on this webpage.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout. The nearest parking is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall, although most of the town's central car parks are within a 5-minute walk of Church Road.
And elsewhere:
At 6pm on Thursday evening, 23rd October, there is a FREE concert in the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank. This evening the performer is violinist Mathilde Mildwidsky. Mathilde gives this concert as holder of a Martin Musical Scholarship. The scholarships are given to some of the finest young musicians studying in London each year. So if you are near Waterloo a little break in your homeward journey could prove very worthwhile. Take a look at this webpage for information.
There are several events on Saturday 25th October:
From 2pm in St Michael's Church Betchworth there is an RSCM All Voices Event, rehearsing music commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 1914-18 War. As it says, all voice welcome, and if you aren't feeling too confident about that offer, you could come along to a run-through in the Church on Friday evening, from 7.30pm.
At 5pm in St Michael's Betchworth there will be a short service of readings and music, sung by those attending the afternoon session. All are most welcome to come along for the service.
At 7.30pm Dorking Camerata will be performing works by Purcell, Whitacre and local composer Ian Assersohn in St Martin's Church, Dorking. More on this concert, entitled For The Fallen, will be found on this webpage.
As ever, we hope you enjoy your listening and we particularly hope to welcome you to a lunchtime concert soon.
For this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church, on the 23rd October, we welcome once more clarinettist Anna Hashimoto with piano accompaniment from Daniel King Smith. Daniel was accompanist in a trio here earlier this year and it is a delight to see him returning with one of our most popular musicians - Anna Hashimoto. Their programme includes two arrangements Anna has made of Tartini's Devil's Trill Sonata, and of Bellini's Casta Diva, from the opera Norma. They round off the concert with Alexander Rosenblatt's Fantasia on Themes from Carmen. You will find full details on this webpage.
Next week's Thursday lunchtime concert on the 30th will be played by the Aurora Trio - three students of the Royal Academy of Music who play flute, viola and harp. There is plenty about them and their programme on this webpage.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout. The nearest parking is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall, although most of the town's central car parks are within a 5-minute walk of Church Road.
And elsewhere:
At 6pm on Thursday evening, 23rd October, there is a FREE concert in the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank. This evening the performer is violinist Mathilde Mildwidsky. Mathilde gives this concert as holder of a Martin Musical Scholarship. The scholarships are given to some of the finest young musicians studying in London each year. So if you are near Waterloo a little break in your homeward journey could prove very worthwhile. Take a look at this webpage for information.
There are several events on Saturday 25th October:
From 2pm in St Michael's Church Betchworth there is an RSCM All Voices Event, rehearsing music commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the 1914-18 War. As it says, all voice welcome, and if you aren't feeling too confident about that offer, you could come along to a run-through in the Church on Friday evening, from 7.30pm.
At 5pm in St Michael's Betchworth there will be a short service of readings and music, sung by those attending the afternoon session. All are most welcome to come along for the service.
At 7.30pm Dorking Camerata will be performing works by Purcell, Whitacre and local composer Ian Assersohn in St Martin's Church, Dorking. More on this concert, entitled For The Fallen, will be found on this webpage.
As ever, we hope you enjoy your listening and we particularly hope to welcome you to a lunchtime concert soon.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
6th October 2014
Dear Friends
6th October 2014
Dear Friends
We had a really lively concert last week, with pianist Viv McLean adding Rhapsody in Blue to the proceedings, and we were given an encore from the trio at the end of the session.
Thursday 9th October, 12.30, MoT at LMC: This week we welcome American soprano Christine Buras, with Lithuanian accompanist Gabija Butkute - they are both studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Contrary to what the local paper said, we are expecting just the two performers. Judith Weir will be there only in spirit as Christine Buras sings her three songs - A Spanish Liederbooklet. Schumann's Frauenliebe und -Leben, Mozart's Abendempfindung an Laura and Koechlin's delightful Sept Chansons pour Gladys (Seven songs for Gladys) complete the programme. Full details on this concert webpage.
Wednesday 15th October, 12.30, Wednesdays at Christ Church: Our organist this month is the already very experienced Alexander Binns, newly-appointed Organ Scholar at Southwark Cathedral. He has held similar posts at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, St Marylebone Church, and the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Alexander is studying at the Royal Academy of Music, as is violinist Dora Chatzigeorgiou. When we asked him to play this concert he said they working on some repertoire together and asked if we would like them both to come. We will be adding more info to their concert webpage as it comes in.
Thursday 23rd October, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Back in the Methodist Church we welcome two returning players, the popular Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, with Daniel King Smith, piano accompanist. We'll be adding their programme to the concert webpage as soon as it is available.
Thursday 30th October, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Two events on the 30th. Firstly a trio concert from the Aurora Trio - flute, viola, harp - and afterwards we will be launching an anthology booklet of poems by Peter Horsfield with illustrations by Diana King. More information to follow on both, although the concert webpage is ready now.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout, and Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking too. The nearest parking for Leatherhead Methodist Church is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall - although most of the town's central car parks are within a 5-minute walk of the Church.
There is plenty more going on this Arts Alive October. So let's look at art first:
This week at Denbies Wine Estate, Diana King has an exhibition of over 100 works. The exhibition runs Monday 6th to Sunday 12th, from 9.30am (10am Sunday) to 5pm.
From the end of next week, Saturday 18th October, to Friday 24th, Leatherhead Art Club have their Autumn Exhbition in a new venue - the Old Chapel of St John's School, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, KT22 8SY. The exhibition is open daily from 10am to 4pm.
Now back to the music:
The big event of this week is bass-baritone Sir Willard White, coming to give a concert in the Chapel of St John's School, at 7.30pm this Thursday 9th October. Booking on 01372 231 529 or via the School's website. (Note: Chapel NOT OLD Chapel)
Saturday 11th October, 10am to 12.30pm, Friends Life, Pixham, RH5 1QA, there's a "come and sing" workshop session on Mozart's Requiem, led by Ian Assersohn. Price £15 at the door, including refreshments and score.
Saturday 11th October, 7.30pm, St Martin's Church Dorking: Dorking Symphony Orchestra have a concert with Ursula Perks, piano. Mozart, Dvorak and Haydn works are on the programme and you'll find more information here.
Monday 13th October, 7.45pm: Working on London ? Fancy a free concert (well, for the cost of your rail fare) ? Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Recitals in the Purcell Room are given free by the students who benefit from these scholarships. We've had some of them play at the lunchtime concerts and they are superb musicians. Monday's concert is by pianist Yoshio Hamano. It is best to pre-book your FREE ticket on 0800 652 6717 - they don't even charge postage! There's a little more detail on this page.
Saturday 18th October, 2pm to 5.30pm: An Organ Taster Day - bring along your young pianists, or any reluctant organists who feel lumbered with accompanying at school or in church just because they can play the piano. Here's a chance to try out the organ with a bit of expert guidance from some of the county's finest. Or just come along and support the day. It all takes place in St Thomas-on-the-Bourne Church, Farnham. More details on this website. You could transform a teenager's life with this event!
Saturday 18th October, 7.30pm, Mickleham Village Hall: An American Dream - an evening by the Martineau Singers, blending jazz, close harmony and American gospel. Tickets £12 (u25 £6).
There is always a lot going on each October so we hope you will find time to fit in the lunchtime concerts. We look forward to seeing you soon.
Thursday 9th October, 12.30, MoT at LMC: This week we welcome American soprano Christine Buras, with Lithuanian accompanist Gabija Butkute - they are both studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Contrary to what the local paper said, we are expecting just the two performers. Judith Weir will be there only in spirit as Christine Buras sings her three songs - A Spanish Liederbooklet. Schumann's Frauenliebe und -Leben, Mozart's Abendempfindung an Laura and Koechlin's delightful Sept Chansons pour Gladys (Seven songs for Gladys) complete the programme. Full details on this concert webpage.
Wednesday 15th October, 12.30, Wednesdays at Christ Church: Our organist this month is the already very experienced Alexander Binns, newly-appointed Organ Scholar at Southwark Cathedral. He has held similar posts at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, St Marylebone Church, and the Royal Hospital Chelsea. Alexander is studying at the Royal Academy of Music, as is violinist Dora Chatzigeorgiou. When we asked him to play this concert he said they working on some repertoire together and asked if we would like them both to come. We will be adding more info to their concert webpage as it comes in.
Thursday 23rd October, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Back in the Methodist Church we welcome two returning players, the popular Anna Hashimoto, clarinet, with Daniel King Smith, piano accompanist. We'll be adding their programme to the concert webpage as soon as it is available.
Thursday 30th October, 12.30, MoT at LMC: Two events on the 30th. Firstly a trio concert from the Aurora Trio - flute, viola, harp - and afterwards we will be launching an anthology booklet of poems by Peter Horsfield with illustrations by Diana King. More information to follow on both, although the concert webpage is ready now.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout, and Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking too. The nearest parking for Leatherhead Methodist Church is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall - although most of the town's central car parks are within a 5-minute walk of the Church.
There is plenty more going on this Arts Alive October. So let's look at art first:
This week at Denbies Wine Estate, Diana King has an exhibition of over 100 works. The exhibition runs Monday 6th to Sunday 12th, from 9.30am (10am Sunday) to 5pm.
From the end of next week, Saturday 18th October, to Friday 24th, Leatherhead Art Club have their Autumn Exhbition in a new venue - the Old Chapel of St John's School, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, KT22 8SY. The exhibition is open daily from 10am to 4pm.
Now back to the music:
The big event of this week is bass-baritone Sir Willard White, coming to give a concert in the Chapel of St John's School, at 7.30pm this Thursday 9th October. Booking on 01372 231 529 or via the School's website. (Note: Chapel NOT OLD Chapel)
Saturday 11th October, 10am to 12.30pm, Friends Life, Pixham, RH5 1QA, there's a "come and sing" workshop session on Mozart's Requiem, led by Ian Assersohn. Price £15 at the door, including refreshments and score.
Saturday 11th October, 7.30pm, St Martin's Church Dorking: Dorking Symphony Orchestra have a concert with Ursula Perks, piano. Mozart, Dvorak and Haydn works are on the programme and you'll find more information here.
Monday 13th October, 7.45pm: Working on London ? Fancy a free concert (well, for the cost of your rail fare) ? Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Recitals in the Purcell Room are given free by the students who benefit from these scholarships. We've had some of them play at the lunchtime concerts and they are superb musicians. Monday's concert is by pianist Yoshio Hamano. It is best to pre-book your FREE ticket on 0800 652 6717 - they don't even charge postage! There's a little more detail on this page.
Saturday 18th October, 2pm to 5.30pm: An Organ Taster Day - bring along your young pianists, or any reluctant organists who feel lumbered with accompanying at school or in church just because they can play the piano. Here's a chance to try out the organ with a bit of expert guidance from some of the county's finest. Or just come along and support the day. It all takes place in St Thomas-on-the-Bourne Church, Farnham. More details on this website. You could transform a teenager's life with this event!
Saturday 18th October, 7.30pm, Mickleham Village Hall: An American Dream - an evening by the Martineau Singers, blending jazz, close harmony and American gospel. Tickets £12 (u25 £6).
There is always a lot going on each October so we hope you will find time to fit in the lunchtime concerts. We look forward to seeing you soon.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
29th September 2014
Dear Friends,
29th September 2014
Dear Friends,
Villa-Lobos, Boehm, Elgar and Mozart are the composers in this week's Music on Thursdays trio concert. We welcome back two members of Atéa Wind Ensemble - Alena Lugovkina, flute, and Ashley Myall, bassoon - who will be accompanied by pianist Viv McLean for this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Full details of their concert are on this concert webpage.
In next week's Thursday lunchtime concert, on October 9th, American soprano Christine Buras will be accompanied by Lithuanian pianist Gabija Butkute. Christine will be singing Schumann's Frauenliebe und -Leben, as well as three songs by the Master of the Queen's Music, Judith Weir, Koechlin's lovely Sept Chansons pour Gladys, and Mozart's Abendempfindung an Laura. All the information on this concert are on its concert webpage.
Music on Thursdays concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Sandwiches and drinks are on sale after the concert, giving us a chance to linger and chat together and with the performers. LMC has level access throughout, and there is parking behind the Parish Church Hall, further along Church Road.
With Mole Valley's Arts Alive month just beginning, there is plenty of music-making in the area over the coming weeks. Here are a few highlights:
Saturday 4th October, 9.30am: A FREE Come and Sing event by Ashtead Choral Society, in the Peace Memorial Hall, Ashtead. Details on this link.
Saturday 4th October, 7.30pm, St Michael's Church, Mickleham, Bookham-based soprano Alice Bishop, and her accompanist Simon Marlow, have a concert entitled A Song for all Seasons. Tickets are £12, under 19s free. Full details here.
Thursday 9th October, 7.30pm, in the Chapel of St John's School, Leatherhead, there is a concert by the bass-baritone Sir Willard White. Tickets are £20 (concessions £12) and you will find booking information on this link.
Saturday 11th October, in St Martin's Church, central Dorking, Dorking Chamber Orchestra will be performing, with pianist Ursula Perks - a member of the local family whose three children have been talented enough to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School. The orchestra's website for more information is on this link.
On a broader artistic and cultural note: local artist Diana King has an exhibition and sale of some 100 of her works at Denbie's next week. She will be setting up on Monday morning, 6th October, and should be fully up and running that afternoon and then each day until the following Sunday (12th Oct). Diana is one of the Leatherhead Art Club members who regularly sketch the musicians playing at Music On Thursdays lunchtime concerts. She travels to various parts of the country through the year sketching wherever she goes.
Now there has to be something for everyone in that selection! And especially for those who through work or other commitments are unable to get to the lunchtime concerts. We hope you enjoy your concert-going and most of all we look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert soon.
In next week's Thursday lunchtime concert, on October 9th, American soprano Christine Buras will be accompanied by Lithuanian pianist Gabija Butkute. Christine will be singing Schumann's Frauenliebe und -Leben, as well as three songs by the Master of the Queen's Music, Judith Weir, Koechlin's lovely Sept Chansons pour Gladys, and Mozart's Abendempfindung an Laura. All the information on this concert are on its concert webpage.
Music on Thursdays concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Sandwiches and drinks are on sale after the concert, giving us a chance to linger and chat together and with the performers. LMC has level access throughout, and there is parking behind the Parish Church Hall, further along Church Road.
With Mole Valley's Arts Alive month just beginning, there is plenty of music-making in the area over the coming weeks. Here are a few highlights:
Saturday 4th October, 9.30am: A FREE Come and Sing event by Ashtead Choral Society, in the Peace Memorial Hall, Ashtead. Details on this link.
Saturday 4th October, 7.30pm, St Michael's Church, Mickleham, Bookham-based soprano Alice Bishop, and her accompanist Simon Marlow, have a concert entitled A Song for all Seasons. Tickets are £12, under 19s free. Full details here.
Thursday 9th October, 7.30pm, in the Chapel of St John's School, Leatherhead, there is a concert by the bass-baritone Sir Willard White. Tickets are £20 (concessions £12) and you will find booking information on this link.
Saturday 11th October, in St Martin's Church, central Dorking, Dorking Chamber Orchestra will be performing, with pianist Ursula Perks - a member of the local family whose three children have been talented enough to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School. The orchestra's website for more information is on this link.
On a broader artistic and cultural note: local artist Diana King has an exhibition and sale of some 100 of her works at Denbie's next week. She will be setting up on Monday morning, 6th October, and should be fully up and running that afternoon and then each day until the following Sunday (12th Oct). Diana is one of the Leatherhead Art Club members who regularly sketch the musicians playing at Music On Thursdays lunchtime concerts. She travels to various parts of the country through the year sketching wherever she goes.
Now there has to be something for everyone in that selection! And especially for those who through work or other commitments are unable to get to the lunchtime concerts. We hope you enjoy your concert-going and most of all we look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert soon.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
21st September 2014
Dear Friends,
21st September 2014
Dear Friends,
The first exciting news to share with you this week is that our accordion duo have confirmed they will be playing for the final concert of our 2014 season - on Thursday 27th November. Two accordions... a sound we are really looking forward to. It will be interesting to see what they choose to play, and you can be sure we will let you know as soon as they tell us.
For now, though, let's return to the coming week or two:
For now, though, let's return to the coming week or two:
12.30 lunchtime, this Thursday, 25th September, Music on Thursdays at LMC: we welcome the return of the lovely Acacia Flute and Harp Duo, - Samantha Pearce, flute, and Heather Wrighton, harp. The duo's concert last year was one of the most popular. They have selected works by Mozart, Saint-Saëns and Benjamin Godard, together with the more recent And Everything is Still by Andy Scott, and two tangos from Piazzolla's History of Tango. You will find full details, and links to other performances of these works, on the concert webpage.
Next Thursday, 2nd October, we have a slight change to the programme. Familiar performers Alena Lugovkina, flute, and Ashley Myall, flute, will be accompanied by Viv McLean, piano. These three young musicians are all recent graduates of the Royal Academy of Music. They have chosen music by Villa-Lobos, Elgar, Boehm and Mozart. You will find full details on their concert webpage.
Anna Hashimoto had originally planned to lead the trio for us that day. However, she will be performing in a Royal Opera House production instead. It is wonderful when one of our regular players has such an opportunity and we wish Anna every success.
Music on Thursdays concerts are free to enter and rely on your generosity in the retiring collection to cover costs. The Church has level access throughout, and sandwiches and drinks are on sale after the concerts. The nearest car park is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall, although the Church is about a 5-minute walk from most of Leatherhead's central car parks.
We have just a couple more local events to tell you about. On Friday evening (26th Sept) at 7.30pm in the Oaks Hall of Epsom Racecourse, Epsom Male Voice Choir will be one of the five local choirs performing with Epsom Silver Band in an evening entitled Epsom Harmony. More information via the Playhouse website.
And on Saturday 27th September, at 7.30pm in Dorking United Reformed Church, West Street, Surrey Fringe Men's Chorus has a concert called Resonating Harmony. Tickets £12 from the Church. More information on this link.
On the musicinsurrey website Peter has started a Musical Curios Page where he shares links to online musical performances he has found and enjoyed. Click here to see his choices.
Whether it's live or recorded, at lunchtime (preferably!) or in the evening, we hope you enjoy your concert-going and your own musical finds.
Next Thursday, 2nd October, we have a slight change to the programme. Familiar performers Alena Lugovkina, flute, and Ashley Myall, flute, will be accompanied by Viv McLean, piano. These three young musicians are all recent graduates of the Royal Academy of Music. They have chosen music by Villa-Lobos, Elgar, Boehm and Mozart. You will find full details on their concert webpage.
Anna Hashimoto had originally planned to lead the trio for us that day. However, she will be performing in a Royal Opera House production instead. It is wonderful when one of our regular players has such an opportunity and we wish Anna every success.
Music on Thursdays concerts are free to enter and rely on your generosity in the retiring collection to cover costs. The Church has level access throughout, and sandwiches and drinks are on sale after the concerts. The nearest car park is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall, although the Church is about a 5-minute walk from most of Leatherhead's central car parks.
We have just a couple more local events to tell you about. On Friday evening (26th Sept) at 7.30pm in the Oaks Hall of Epsom Racecourse, Epsom Male Voice Choir will be one of the five local choirs performing with Epsom Silver Band in an evening entitled Epsom Harmony. More information via the Playhouse website.
And on Saturday 27th September, at 7.30pm in Dorking United Reformed Church, West Street, Surrey Fringe Men's Chorus has a concert called Resonating Harmony. Tickets £12 from the Church. More information on this link.
On the musicinsurrey website Peter has started a Musical Curios Page where he shares links to online musical performances he has found and enjoyed. Click here to see his choices.
Whether it's live or recorded, at lunchtime (preferably!) or in the evening, we hope you enjoy your concert-going and your own musical finds.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
15th September 2014
Dear Friends
15th September 2014
Dear Friends
This Wednesday lunchtime, 17th September, brings the first of our three Autumn organ concerts in the Wednesdays at Christ Church series. Christ Church organist Anthony Cairns has held previous positions at Esher College and the Purcell School. He has been organist of Christ Church for many years, overseeing significant rebuilds on the Hill Norman and Beard organ.
Anthony has prepared a programme entitled In Time of War, a programme that spans the centuries from Sweelinck, to Frank Bridge, Messiaen and William Walton. To see the full programme please follow this link to the concert webpage.
Next week we are back to Thursdays. For Music on Thursdays at LMC on September 25th we welcome the return of the delightful Acacia Harp and Flute Duo. Their concert last year was very well received and had some quite moving moments. Samantha Pearce (flute) and Heather Wrighton (harp) have a programme that includes Mozart, Piazzolla, Saint-Saëns, Benjamin Godard, and Andy Scott. More information, and samples, on this link.
After that we are into October, with members of Atéa Wind group on the 2nd, a young Royal Academy soprano on the 9th, organ and violin on the 15th, Anna Hashimoto's clarinet on the 23rd and a flute, viola and harp trio on the 30th.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both churches have level access throughout, and Christ Church has the benefit of ample on-site parking.
Rialto join us afterwards, selling sandwiches and drinks, and giving us all a moment to pause and chat together - and with the players. Sometimes we have the opportunity to see the work of members of Leatherhead Art Club who sketch away during the concerts.
At the end of this month, and running through October there is the annual Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival. You can see a run-down of Arts Alive events on this webpage (some of the late September events appear at the foot of that page).
You may have heard news coverage today about Making Music, a report from the Royal Schools of Music published today. Here are some of the key statistics in that report:
To read the full report, follow this link.
There's a friendly welcome for all - regulars, occasional visitors, and newcomers - at the lunchtime concerts. We look forward to seeing you at a concert very soon - and when we get to half-term, why not bring along a young person? You may open up a whole new artistic avenue for them.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Anthony has prepared a programme entitled In Time of War, a programme that spans the centuries from Sweelinck, to Frank Bridge, Messiaen and William Walton. To see the full programme please follow this link to the concert webpage.
Next week we are back to Thursdays. For Music on Thursdays at LMC on September 25th we welcome the return of the delightful Acacia Harp and Flute Duo. Their concert last year was very well received and had some quite moving moments. Samantha Pearce (flute) and Heather Wrighton (harp) have a programme that includes Mozart, Piazzolla, Saint-Saëns, Benjamin Godard, and Andy Scott. More information, and samples, on this link.
After that we are into October, with members of Atéa Wind group on the 2nd, a young Royal Academy soprano on the 9th, organ and violin on the 15th, Anna Hashimoto's clarinet on the 23rd and a flute, viola and harp trio on the 30th.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both churches have level access throughout, and Christ Church has the benefit of ample on-site parking.
Rialto join us afterwards, selling sandwiches and drinks, and giving us all a moment to pause and chat together - and with the players. Sometimes we have the opportunity to see the work of members of Leatherhead Art Club who sketch away during the concerts.
At the end of this month, and running through October there is the annual Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival. You can see a run-down of Arts Alive events on this webpage (some of the late September events appear at the foot of that page).
You may have heard news coverage today about Making Music, a report from the Royal Schools of Music published today. Here are some of the key statistics in that report:
- 76% of UK children aged 5-14 say they ‘know how to play an instrument’ compared with 41% in 1999.
- Electric guitar overtakes violin for the first time in the list of top six most popular instruments learned. Drum kit, bass guitar, keyboard all surge in popularity while woodwind and percussion do not.
- Piano sees a 15% growth securing its place as the most popular instrument played by 5-14 year olds.
- 21% of 5-17 year olds who play are ‘self-taught’
- 15% of 5-17 year olds have never played an instrument
- 40% of children from the lower social grades who have never played an instrument said they had no opportunity to learn at school
- 74% of children from affluent backgrounds have had instrumental lessons – individually or in class groups – compared to 55% from disadvantaged social groups
- Almost 10% fewer children play instruments in Wales and Scotland than in England and Northern Ireland
- Teachers rate job fulfilment as 8 out of 10 on average, and are more fulfilled the longer they remain in the profession
To read the full report, follow this link.
There's a friendly welcome for all - regulars, occasional visitors, and newcomers - at the lunchtime concerts. We look forward to seeing you at a concert very soon - and when we get to half-term, why not bring along a young person? You may open up a whole new artistic avenue for them.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
8th September 2014
Dear Friends
8th September 2014
Dear Friends
There was almost a full house at Leatherhead Methodist Church last Thursday for Lesley Gladigau and Lynda Chang's Songs of the British Isles. A lovely concert, which was very well received indeed.
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This Thursday, 11th September, our 12.30 lunchtime concert will be performed by Charles Tait, violin, and Jacqueline Phillips, cello. Their programme has works by three German composers and the Russian, Shostakovich. As well as playing two string duos Charles and Jacqueline will each act as piano accompanist for the other. Full details are on this concert webpage. |
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Next week's concert is an organ recital in the once-a-month Wednesdays at Christ Church series. On Wednesday 17th September at 12.30, Anthony Cairns will play a programme under the title In Time of War, on the Hill, Norman & Beard pipe organ in Christ Church, Epsom Road. Anthony's selection of pieces spans the centuries, from the late 16th to the late 20th. You can read more on the concert webpage.
The following week (Thursday 25th September) sees the return of the Acacia Flute and Harp Duo whose concert was such a success last Autumn. Following them we welcome more returning players, this time a wind trio including oboe-player Philip Haworth, on October 2nd.
These concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church both have level access throughout, and after the concerts Rialto sell sandwiches and drinks in the church, which all adds to the relaxed atmosphere. Members of Leatherhead Art Club often join us to sketch the performers and we have a chance to look at their work too.
Sunday afternoon at 4pm, (September 14th), Martin Ellis gives a concert on the new Tickell organ in Betchworth Church. Martin has taught many organists and other musicians over his years at Reigate Grammar School and Epsom College, and he retired from the Director of Music post at St Martin's Dorking this summer. Details of his recital are on this concert webpage.
We look forward to welcoming you to these concerts.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
PS: We are sometimes asked why one concert a month is on a Wednesday. On the third Thursday of each month LMC hosts Messy Church - a great family event, but it does take over the whole building for the day! Meanwhile, at Christ Church there is a U3A meeting the same afternoon. So we step aside for that Thursday and we hope our audiences don't mind too much.
The following week (Thursday 25th September) sees the return of the Acacia Flute and Harp Duo whose concert was such a success last Autumn. Following them we welcome more returning players, this time a wind trio including oboe-player Philip Haworth, on October 2nd.
These concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church both have level access throughout, and after the concerts Rialto sell sandwiches and drinks in the church, which all adds to the relaxed atmosphere. Members of Leatherhead Art Club often join us to sketch the performers and we have a chance to look at their work too.
Sunday afternoon at 4pm, (September 14th), Martin Ellis gives a concert on the new Tickell organ in Betchworth Church. Martin has taught many organists and other musicians over his years at Reigate Grammar School and Epsom College, and he retired from the Director of Music post at St Martin's Dorking this summer. Details of his recital are on this concert webpage.
We look forward to welcoming you to these concerts.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
PS: We are sometimes asked why one concert a month is on a Wednesday. On the third Thursday of each month LMC hosts Messy Church - a great family event, but it does take over the whole building for the day! Meanwhile, at Christ Church there is a U3A meeting the same afternoon. So we step aside for that Thursday and we hope our audiences don't mind too much.
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
1st September 2014
Dear Friends
1st September 2014
Dear Friends
September is here and with it comes a whole new Autumn season of arts and cultural activities. Lunchtime concerts from Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church continue each week until the end of November.
This Thursday, 4th September, 12.30 lunchtime, MoT at LMC: Soprano Lesley Gladigau and accompanist Lynda Chang have titled their concert Songs of the British Isles. Scarborough Fair, Drink to me only with thine eyes, The Ash Grove, The Skye Boat Song... they have the nations well covered. To see their full programme please click on this link.
In next week's Music on Thursdays concert violinist Charles Tait and cellist Jacqueline Phillips will be playing an interesting programme of works by Kummer, Shostakovich, Weber, and Hermann. They last played together for us at the old Trattoria in August 2012, although Jacqueline has performed here several times. Full details of their concert will be found on this link.
Wednesday 17th September, 12.30 lunchtime, Wednesdays at Christ Church: September's organ concert has as its theme In Time of War. Anthony Cairns has selected works reflecting his theme by Sweelinck, Scheidt, Frank Bridge, Hindemith, Messiaen, Flor Peeters and others. For more information please follow this link.
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Rialto will be selling sandwiches and drinks in the churches after each concert.
Both churches have level acess throughout. Christ Church has ample on-site parking, while for LMC there is a car park further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall - although LMC is within a 5-minute walk of most of the town's central car parks.
Highlights for next weekend include:
Saturday, 6th September, 7.30pm, St Andrew's Church, Cobham, MAIASTRA - a free concert, with retiring collection, featuring quartets by Hugo Wolf and Dvorak, and a piano quintet by Schumann. Full details on this link. [ This concert is also given on Friday evening, 5th September, in St Anne's Church, Kew Green, so if you have friends around the West London, Richmond, and Hounslow areas, please forward this link to them. ]
Sunday, 7th September, **7pm**, St Mary's Church. Stoke d'Abernon, MoT regulars Emily Andrews, flute, and Graham Davies, organ, are playing a concert of works by Couperin, Handel, Pachelbel, Rameau, Bach, Debussy, and Frederick the Great. The organ is one of the first Frobenius' to be installed in the UK, beautifully sized for the small scale of this ancient building. Tickets are £5 for this concert. There is plenty of parking, and you will find full details on this linked webpage.
And at 4pm on Sunday 14th September, Martin Ellis will be playing his final Surrey concert on the new Tickell organ in St Michael's Church, Betchworth. Martin retired recently after 28 years as Organist and Director of Music at St Martin's Church, Dorking. He has also taught organ at Epsom College, and before that he was Director of Music at Reigate Grammar School. Bach, Jean Françaix, Karg-Elert, Widor - Martin always gives a stunning performance. Full details on this link.
If you cannot get to a lunchtime concert, each webpage has its Concert at Home section, where we have selected works similar to that day's performances for you to enjoy - at a time and in a place that suit you.
Enjoy your listening !
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
This Thursday, 4th September, 12.30 lunchtime, MoT at LMC: Soprano Lesley Gladigau and accompanist Lynda Chang have titled their concert Songs of the British Isles. Scarborough Fair, Drink to me only with thine eyes, The Ash Grove, The Skye Boat Song... they have the nations well covered. To see their full programme please click on this link.
In next week's Music on Thursdays concert violinist Charles Tait and cellist Jacqueline Phillips will be playing an interesting programme of works by Kummer, Shostakovich, Weber, and Hermann. They last played together for us at the old Trattoria in August 2012, although Jacqueline has performed here several times. Full details of their concert will be found on this link.
Wednesday 17th September, 12.30 lunchtime, Wednesdays at Christ Church: September's organ concert has as its theme In Time of War. Anthony Cairns has selected works reflecting his theme by Sweelinck, Scheidt, Frank Bridge, Hindemith, Messiaen, Flor Peeters and others. For more information please follow this link.
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Rialto will be selling sandwiches and drinks in the churches after each concert.
Both churches have level acess throughout. Christ Church has ample on-site parking, while for LMC there is a car park further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall - although LMC is within a 5-minute walk of most of the town's central car parks.
Highlights for next weekend include:
Saturday, 6th September, 7.30pm, St Andrew's Church, Cobham, MAIASTRA - a free concert, with retiring collection, featuring quartets by Hugo Wolf and Dvorak, and a piano quintet by Schumann. Full details on this link. [ This concert is also given on Friday evening, 5th September, in St Anne's Church, Kew Green, so if you have friends around the West London, Richmond, and Hounslow areas, please forward this link to them. ]
Sunday, 7th September, **7pm**, St Mary's Church. Stoke d'Abernon, MoT regulars Emily Andrews, flute, and Graham Davies, organ, are playing a concert of works by Couperin, Handel, Pachelbel, Rameau, Bach, Debussy, and Frederick the Great. The organ is one of the first Frobenius' to be installed in the UK, beautifully sized for the small scale of this ancient building. Tickets are £5 for this concert. There is plenty of parking, and you will find full details on this linked webpage.
And at 4pm on Sunday 14th September, Martin Ellis will be playing his final Surrey concert on the new Tickell organ in St Michael's Church, Betchworth. Martin retired recently after 28 years as Organist and Director of Music at St Martin's Church, Dorking. He has also taught organ at Epsom College, and before that he was Director of Music at Reigate Grammar School. Bach, Jean Françaix, Karg-Elert, Widor - Martin always gives a stunning performance. Full details on this link.
If you cannot get to a lunchtime concert, each webpage has its Concert at Home section, where we have selected works similar to that day's performances for you to enjoy - at a time and in a place that suit you.
Enjoy your listening !
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
25th August 2014
Dear Friends
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
25th August 2014
Dear Friends
More than forty people enjoyed last Thursday's flute, recorders and harpsichord concert. Come and join us this Thursday lunchtime for the fourth of this year's August Baroque concerts.
This Thursday 28th August, 12.30 lunchtime - the last of the month's Baroque concerts features soprano Anna Tam accompanied by lutenist Wezi Elliott, in a programme of English Baroque songs, including Purcell and Handel and their contemporaries. Anna you may have heard in previous lunchtime concerts playing cello or viola da gamba. She and Wezi have made their choices for our concert. You will find their programme on this concert webpage.
Next Thursday, 4th September, 12.30 lunchtime, we welcome local soprano and singing teacher Lesley Gladigau, with popular Fetcham piano accompanist Lynda Chang. Lesley and Lynda have a programme entitled Songs of the British Isles. You will recognise many of the works they have chosen. The full programme is ready on their concert webpage.
On September 11th cellist Jacqueline Phillips returns with violinist Charles Tait (concert webpage here), and our Wednesday organ recital on the 17th is given by Anthony Cairns. Anthony's programme is ready on this link. On September 25th our Thursday concert features another welcome return - the Acacia Flute & Harp Duo (webpage here).
Saturday evening September 6th sees the next MAIASTRA concert, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. Hugo Wolf, Dvorák and Schumann are the featured composers. You will find full information here.
Music on Thursdays, Wednesdays at Christ Church, and MAIASTRA concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. The three hosting churches have level access.
Two of our regular performers are in concert together on Sunday evening 7th September, in the ancient church of St Mary's Stoke d'Abernon (entrance opposite the garden centre). Emily Andrews, flute, and Graham Davies, organ, will play a lovely programme of works by Couperin, Handel, Pachelbel, Rameau, Bach, Debussy and Frederick the Great. There is an excellent Frobenius organ at Stoke and you will find full details of their concert on this link.
And finally, Martin Ellis has recently retired from the post of Organist and Director of Music at St Martin's Dorking after 28 years service. He gives his final recital before leaving Surrey, on Sunday afternoon 14th September, at 4pm, on the newly installed Tickell organ of St Michael's Church, Betchworth. Tickets for Martin's concert are £10 (under 14s £7) from 01737 843 498. The full programme for this Betchworth organ recital is on this link.
We look forward to welcoming you to these events.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
This Thursday 28th August, 12.30 lunchtime - the last of the month's Baroque concerts features soprano Anna Tam accompanied by lutenist Wezi Elliott, in a programme of English Baroque songs, including Purcell and Handel and their contemporaries. Anna you may have heard in previous lunchtime concerts playing cello or viola da gamba. She and Wezi have made their choices for our concert. You will find their programme on this concert webpage.
Next Thursday, 4th September, 12.30 lunchtime, we welcome local soprano and singing teacher Lesley Gladigau, with popular Fetcham piano accompanist Lynda Chang. Lesley and Lynda have a programme entitled Songs of the British Isles. You will recognise many of the works they have chosen. The full programme is ready on their concert webpage.
On September 11th cellist Jacqueline Phillips returns with violinist Charles Tait (concert webpage here), and our Wednesday organ recital on the 17th is given by Anthony Cairns. Anthony's programme is ready on this link. On September 25th our Thursday concert features another welcome return - the Acacia Flute & Harp Duo (webpage here).
Saturday evening September 6th sees the next MAIASTRA concert, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. Hugo Wolf, Dvorák and Schumann are the featured composers. You will find full information here.
Music on Thursdays, Wednesdays at Christ Church, and MAIASTRA concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. The three hosting churches have level access.
Two of our regular performers are in concert together on Sunday evening 7th September, in the ancient church of St Mary's Stoke d'Abernon (entrance opposite the garden centre). Emily Andrews, flute, and Graham Davies, organ, will play a lovely programme of works by Couperin, Handel, Pachelbel, Rameau, Bach, Debussy and Frederick the Great. There is an excellent Frobenius organ at Stoke and you will find full details of their concert on this link.
And finally, Martin Ellis has recently retired from the post of Organist and Director of Music at St Martin's Dorking after 28 years service. He gives his final recital before leaving Surrey, on Sunday afternoon 14th September, at 4pm, on the newly installed Tickell organ of St Michael's Church, Betchworth. Tickets for Martin's concert are £10 (under 14s £7) from 01737 843 498. The full programme for this Betchworth organ recital is on this link.
We look forward to welcoming you to these events.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
18th August 2014
Dear Friends
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
18th August 2014
Dear Friends
There was a larger audience than usual last Thursday, all eager to hear the delicate tones of the theorbo or bass lute. Slightly longer than a double bass, with the eight strings of the lute, plus seven extra bass strings. Yair Avidor played French music that showed off the instrument's possibilities, music from the period when it was beginning to gain popularity across Europe.
This Thursday 21st August, 12.30 lunchtime - our August Baroque Month continues this week with German Baroque - Eva Caballero & Merlin Harrison, Baroque flutes and recorders accompanied by Graham Davies, harpsichord, play works by Pachelbel, Quantz and Telemann. Full details on this linked webpage.
Next Thursday 28th August, 12.30 lunchtime - and the last of the month's Baroque concerts features soprano Anna Tam accompanied by lutenist Wezi Elliott, in a programme of English Baroque songs, including Purcell and Handel and their contemporaries. Anna you may have heard in previous lunchtime concerts playing cello or viola da gamba. She and Wezi are making their final selection for the concert and we will add the programme to the concert webpage when it comes in.
Then we reach September with a complete change of gear. Our first Autumn concert on 4th September is a recital of Songs of the British Isles, with soprano Lesley Gladigau and pianist Lynda Chang. Full details here. On the 11th cellist Jacqueline Phillips returns in duet with a violinist friend, and our Wednesday organ recital on the 17th is given by Anthony Cairns. Anthony's programme is ready on this link.
Also on that first weekend of September is the next MAIASTRA concert. The nearest venue is on the Saturday evening, 6th September, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. Hugo Wolf, Dvorák and Schumann are the fetaured composers. Full information here.
Music on Thursdays, Wednesdays at Christ Church, and MAIASTRA concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. The three hosting churches have level access.
And finally, a date for the diary: Martin Ellis has recently retired from the post of Organist and Director of Music at St Martin's Dorking after 28 years service. He gives his final recital before leaving Surrey, on Sunday afternoon 14th September, at 4pm, on the newly installed Tickell organ of St Michael's Church, Betchworth. Tickets for Martin's concert are £10 (under 14s £7) from 01737 843 498. The full programme for this Betchworth organ recital on this link.
We look forward to welcoming you to these events.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
This Thursday 21st August, 12.30 lunchtime - our August Baroque Month continues this week with German Baroque - Eva Caballero & Merlin Harrison, Baroque flutes and recorders accompanied by Graham Davies, harpsichord, play works by Pachelbel, Quantz and Telemann. Full details on this linked webpage.
Next Thursday 28th August, 12.30 lunchtime - and the last of the month's Baroque concerts features soprano Anna Tam accompanied by lutenist Wezi Elliott, in a programme of English Baroque songs, including Purcell and Handel and their contemporaries. Anna you may have heard in previous lunchtime concerts playing cello or viola da gamba. She and Wezi are making their final selection for the concert and we will add the programme to the concert webpage when it comes in.
Then we reach September with a complete change of gear. Our first Autumn concert on 4th September is a recital of Songs of the British Isles, with soprano Lesley Gladigau and pianist Lynda Chang. Full details here. On the 11th cellist Jacqueline Phillips returns in duet with a violinist friend, and our Wednesday organ recital on the 17th is given by Anthony Cairns. Anthony's programme is ready on this link.
Also on that first weekend of September is the next MAIASTRA concert. The nearest venue is on the Saturday evening, 6th September, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. Hugo Wolf, Dvorák and Schumann are the fetaured composers. Full information here.
Music on Thursdays, Wednesdays at Christ Church, and MAIASTRA concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. The three hosting churches have level access.
And finally, a date for the diary: Martin Ellis has recently retired from the post of Organist and Director of Music at St Martin's Dorking after 28 years service. He gives his final recital before leaving Surrey, on Sunday afternoon 14th September, at 4pm, on the newly installed Tickell organ of St Michael's Church, Betchworth. Tickets for Martin's concert are £10 (under 14s £7) from 01737 843 498. The full programme for this Betchworth organ recital on this link.
We look forward to welcoming you to these events.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
and Wednesdays at Christ Church 11th August 2014 Dear Friends |
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Thursday 14th August, 12.30 lunchtime, MoT at LMC: Our first August Baroque concert was a great success last Thursday. This week we have the intimate sound of the theorbo, or bass lute. Rather like the bassoon or the cello, the bass lute surprises by its overall range. Lutenist Yair Avidor has chosen works familiar at the 17th Century French Court of Versailles, principally by composer Robert de Visée. On the concert webpage you will find links to samples of Yair playing, and of other musicians' performances of a couple of the works he is to play. Full details of this week's theorbo concert are ready on this webpage.
Thursday 21st August, 12.30 lunchtime, MoT at LMC: Next week's concert in the Baroque Month at LMC series has music for flutes, recorders, and harpsichord. From the French we move in this concert to the Germanic, with a programme of works by Quantz, Pachelbel, and Telemann. Full details of the concert are on this webpage.
Our final visit to the Baroque period, on August 28th, features Anna Tam with English Songs by Handel, Purcell and contemporaries. Anna will be accompanied by lutenist Wezi Elliott.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Rialto Lounge will be in the Church afterwards, selling sandwiches and drinks, and giving us all time to sit and chat.
LMC has level access throughout, and the nearest parking is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall.
Meanwhile, our friends at Leatherhead Art Club are holding their Summer Exhibition this week. You will find them at Denbie's Wine Estate from 9.30 to 5.30 Tuesday to Saturday, and next Sunday between 10am and 4.30pm. More information on this link.
And finally, for lovers of Elgar, there is a performance of The Dream of Gerontius this Saturday evening, August 16th, at 7.30pm in Guildford Cathedral. Full information, including performers and tickets, will be found on this link to the Cathedral's website.
We look forward to welcoming you to these events.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Thursday 21st August, 12.30 lunchtime, MoT at LMC: Next week's concert in the Baroque Month at LMC series has music for flutes, recorders, and harpsichord. From the French we move in this concert to the Germanic, with a programme of works by Quantz, Pachelbel, and Telemann. Full details of the concert are on this webpage.
Our final visit to the Baroque period, on August 28th, features Anna Tam with English Songs by Handel, Purcell and contemporaries. Anna will be accompanied by lutenist Wezi Elliott.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Rialto Lounge will be in the Church afterwards, selling sandwiches and drinks, and giving us all time to sit and chat.
LMC has level access throughout, and the nearest parking is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall.
Meanwhile, our friends at Leatherhead Art Club are holding their Summer Exhibition this week. You will find them at Denbie's Wine Estate from 9.30 to 5.30 Tuesday to Saturday, and next Sunday between 10am and 4.30pm. More information on this link.
And finally, for lovers of Elgar, there is a performance of The Dream of Gerontius this Saturday evening, August 16th, at 7.30pm in Guildford Cathedral. Full information, including performers and tickets, will be found on this link to the Cathedral's website.
We look forward to welcoming you to these events.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
and Wednesdays at Christ Church 4th August 2014 Dear Friends |
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Firstly, a big thank you to everyone who came to last week's concert and enjoyed Georgia and Fabrício's superb performance, sang Happy Birthday for me, and shared in the lovely cake. It was a brilliant occasion.
This week our promised month of Baroque concerts has arrived - four concerts of English and European music from the late 16th to early 18th centuries. LMC is the ideal size room for these small-scale, intimate concerts.
Thursday 7th August, 12.30 at LMC:
we start this Thursday with a lovely concert of 17th century works for viola da gamba (or Baroque cello) and harpsichord, by Italian composers Vivaldi, Geminani, and Gabrielli. Our players are familiar faces to these concerts, Anna Tam, viola da gamba, and Graham Davies, harpsichord. We are grateful as ever to Anthony Cairns for the loan of his harpsichord. You will find more details on this webpage.
Thursday 14th August, 12.30 at LMC: next week we welcome back lutenist Yair Avidor, playing a bass lute - or theorbo. Yair will play music from the 17th century Court of Versailles, including works by Robert de Visée and Jean Baptiste Lully. We will add more information to this webpage as it comes in.
Thursday 21st August, 12.30 at LMC: Eva Caballero and Merlin Harrison, Baroque flutes and recorders, Graham Davies, Harpsichord
Thursday 28th August, 12.30 at LMC: Anna Tam, soprano, accompanied by Wezi Elliott, lute, with English songs by Purcell and Handel
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Rialto Lounge will be in the Church after each of the first three concerts, selling sandwiches and drinks. You will find level access throughout the Church and there is a car park further along Church Roasd, behind the Parish Church Hall (the Multi-Storey and Church Street car parks are also within 5-7 minutes walk of LMC).
Next week sees Leatherhead Art Club's Summer Exhibition, hosted at Denbie's Wine Estate. The exhibition runs from Monday afternoon (11th August) through to the following Sunday (17th) and is free to enter. Members of the Art Club sketch the performers during our lunchtime concerts so you may well spot works by familiar names. You will find more information about the exhibition's opening times on this link.
Do come along this week and enjoy a couple of Vivaldi works alongside music by two of his near contemporaries.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
This week our promised month of Baroque concerts has arrived - four concerts of English and European music from the late 16th to early 18th centuries. LMC is the ideal size room for these small-scale, intimate concerts.
Thursday 7th August, 12.30 at LMC:
we start this Thursday with a lovely concert of 17th century works for viola da gamba (or Baroque cello) and harpsichord, by Italian composers Vivaldi, Geminani, and Gabrielli. Our players are familiar faces to these concerts, Anna Tam, viola da gamba, and Graham Davies, harpsichord. We are grateful as ever to Anthony Cairns for the loan of his harpsichord. You will find more details on this webpage.
Thursday 14th August, 12.30 at LMC: next week we welcome back lutenist Yair Avidor, playing a bass lute - or theorbo. Yair will play music from the 17th century Court of Versailles, including works by Robert de Visée and Jean Baptiste Lully. We will add more information to this webpage as it comes in.
Thursday 21st August, 12.30 at LMC: Eva Caballero and Merlin Harrison, Baroque flutes and recorders, Graham Davies, Harpsichord
Thursday 28th August, 12.30 at LMC: Anna Tam, soprano, accompanied by Wezi Elliott, lute, with English songs by Purcell and Handel
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Rialto Lounge will be in the Church after each of the first three concerts, selling sandwiches and drinks. You will find level access throughout the Church and there is a car park further along Church Roasd, behind the Parish Church Hall (the Multi-Storey and Church Street car parks are also within 5-7 minutes walk of LMC).
Next week sees Leatherhead Art Club's Summer Exhibition, hosted at Denbie's Wine Estate. The exhibition runs from Monday afternoon (11th August) through to the following Sunday (17th) and is free to enter. Members of the Art Club sketch the performers during our lunchtime concerts so you may well spot works by familiar names. You will find more information about the exhibition's opening times on this link.
Do come along this week and enjoy a couple of Vivaldi works alongside music by two of his near contemporaries.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
28th July 2014
Dear Friends,
Thursday 31st July: This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church brings an eclectic mix of songs: Habanera from Carmen, Grieg, Dowland, Phyllis Tate, and South American influences including Chico Buarque, Deolinda, Piazolla, and Ginastera. The rich mezzo-soprano voice of Georgia Knower will be accompanied by brilliant Brazilian guitarist Fabrício Mattos.
Peter Steadman asked the duo to return to Leatherhead to help celebrate this 60th birthday as he so much enjoyed their playing and singing last summer. As a famous lady once said, though perhaps not referring to the end of a concert, "Let them eat cake!" There will be a slice for everyone this Thursday.
Georgia and Fabrício's programme details are available on this link.
Thursday 7th August: Next week's lunchtime concert is the first of four featuring Baroque composers. Anna Tam, viola da gamba, accompanied by Graham Davies at the harpsichord, will be playing music by Italian composers of the period: Gabrielli, Vivaldi, and Geminiani.
On the August 14th lutenist Yair Avidor will be returning to Leatherhead, on the 21st Graham Davies will accompany the Baroque flutes and recorders of Eva Caballero and Merlin Harrison, and our August Baroque Month finishes on the 28th with Anna Tam singing a programme of English Baroque songs by Purcell and Handel with lutenist Wezi Elliott.
Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concerts at LMC are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. There is level access throughout the Church and sandwiches and drinks are on sale after each concert, courtesy of sponsors Rialto Lounge Wine Restaurant. The nearest car park is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall - although most of the town's central car parks are within a 5-minute walk of the Church.
Come and enjoy the music !
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Dear Friends,
Thursday 31st July: This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church brings an eclectic mix of songs: Habanera from Carmen, Grieg, Dowland, Phyllis Tate, and South American influences including Chico Buarque, Deolinda, Piazolla, and Ginastera. The rich mezzo-soprano voice of Georgia Knower will be accompanied by brilliant Brazilian guitarist Fabrício Mattos.
Peter Steadman asked the duo to return to Leatherhead to help celebrate this 60th birthday as he so much enjoyed their playing and singing last summer. As a famous lady once said, though perhaps not referring to the end of a concert, "Let them eat cake!" There will be a slice for everyone this Thursday.
Georgia and Fabrício's programme details are available on this link.
Thursday 7th August: Next week's lunchtime concert is the first of four featuring Baroque composers. Anna Tam, viola da gamba, accompanied by Graham Davies at the harpsichord, will be playing music by Italian composers of the period: Gabrielli, Vivaldi, and Geminiani.
On the August 14th lutenist Yair Avidor will be returning to Leatherhead, on the 21st Graham Davies will accompany the Baroque flutes and recorders of Eva Caballero and Merlin Harrison, and our August Baroque Month finishes on the 28th with Anna Tam singing a programme of English Baroque songs by Purcell and Handel with lutenist Wezi Elliott.
Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concerts at LMC are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. There is level access throughout the Church and sandwiches and drinks are on sale after each concert, courtesy of sponsors Rialto Lounge Wine Restaurant. The nearest car park is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall - although most of the town's central car parks are within a 5-minute walk of the Church.
Come and enjoy the music !
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
21st July 2014
Dear Friends,
First a reminder that tonight (Monday, 21st) there is another magnificent MAIASTRA concert at 7.30pm in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. This month's free concert (with retiring collection) features quartets by Haydn, Shostakovich and Schumann. More details on this linked webpage. And apologies if you don't read this until Tuesday - although we did mention this concert in the previous two weekly newsletters!
And so to the main business, our weekly 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church:
This Thursday, 24th July: violinist Olivia Ru Long Jarvis with piano accompanist Natalie Burch - both studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Olivia and Natalie have put together an excellent programme of music by Mozart, Brahms, and Britten. Full programme details are ready on this link.
If you'd like a taster of these pieces, or if you can't be with us on Thursday, you will find links to other performances of these works under the Concerts at Home heading on the webpage.
Next Thursday, 31st July: Georgia Knower, mezzo-soprano with guitarist Fabrício Mattos - this duo played for us last year and it is a delight to welcome them back. We will add details of their programme, as soon as they are available, on this concert webpage.
Dear Friends,
First a reminder that tonight (Monday, 21st) there is another magnificent MAIASTRA concert at 7.30pm in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. This month's free concert (with retiring collection) features quartets by Haydn, Shostakovich and Schumann. More details on this linked webpage. And apologies if you don't read this until Tuesday - although we did mention this concert in the previous two weekly newsletters!
And so to the main business, our weekly 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church:
This Thursday, 24th July: violinist Olivia Ru Long Jarvis with piano accompanist Natalie Burch - both studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Olivia and Natalie have put together an excellent programme of music by Mozart, Brahms, and Britten. Full programme details are ready on this link.
If you'd like a taster of these pieces, or if you can't be with us on Thursday, you will find links to other performances of these works under the Concerts at Home heading on the webpage.
Next Thursday, 31st July: Georgia Knower, mezzo-soprano with guitarist Fabrício Mattos - this duo played for us last year and it is a delight to welcome them back. We will add details of their programme, as soon as they are available, on this concert webpage.
A reminder too that we are continuing our tradition of concentrating on the Baroque period for the month of August. Anthony Cairns is kindly loaning his harpsichord, and week by week you will be able to enjoy four concerts on period and reproduction instruments - viola da gamba, lutes, recorders, and flutes - in the lovely recital room atmosphere of Leatherhead Methodist Church.
We look forward to welcoming you to these concerts.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
We look forward to welcoming you to these concerts.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays at LMC
13th July 2014
Dear Friends,
Wednesday 16th July: This Wednesday's 12.30 lunchtime concert is a short organ recital in Christ Church (United Reformed), Epsom Road, Leatherhead. Our invited organist is the concert and church organist Gary Sieling, who is organist of All Saints' Blackheath. Gary's programme spans four centuries from Scheidt and Purcell, through Bach, to Eric Thiman, Herbert Murrill and Stanley Vann. Full programme info on this link.
Thursday 24th July: Next week we return to Leatherhead Methodist Church for our Music on Thursdays lunchtime concert. Violinist Olivia Ru Long Jarvis and pianist Natalie Burch are students of the Royal Academy of Music. They have put together a fine programme of works by Mozart, Brahms and Britten and you will find full details on this link.
August sees a month of Baroque concerts at LMC - four MoT concerts on period and reproduction instruments. Do keep an eye on this website for more information about these summer lunchtimes.
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church are free to enter, and are funded by your generosity in the retiring collection. They usually last for 35-45 minutes, and you will find Rialto selling sandwiches and drinks in the churches after each concert.
Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking, LMC is close to most of the town's central car parks, with the one behind the Parish Church Hall (further along Church Road) being the closest.
Next Saturday, 19th July, at 7.30pm, Leatherhead Choral Society have a concert in Leatherhead Parish Church, entitled Echoes of the Renaissance. Tickets are £12.50 and can be purchased from Barton's Bookshop, or on the door. Under 16s free. More information on this link.
And on Monday 21st July, at 7.30pm, the next MAIASTRA concert will take place in St Andrew's Cobham. The evening features quartets by Schumann, Shostakovich and Haydn. MAIASTRA concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. More information will be found on this link. [This concert will also be played on Saturday evening in St Anne's Kew Green and on Sunday afternoon at Omnibus Clapham Common - so please tell your friends along the Northern Line and in the SW London, Richmond and Brentford areas.]
One of the joys of holidays is finding that unexpected gem of a concert - whether it is in the open-air, a remote village church, or in an internationally famous concert-hall. So if you are on your travels this summer, we wish you luck with your musical finds. We will still be here when you return, with Leatherhead's weekly lunchtime concerts.
Enjoy your listening !
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Dear Friends,
Wednesday 16th July: This Wednesday's 12.30 lunchtime concert is a short organ recital in Christ Church (United Reformed), Epsom Road, Leatherhead. Our invited organist is the concert and church organist Gary Sieling, who is organist of All Saints' Blackheath. Gary's programme spans four centuries from Scheidt and Purcell, through Bach, to Eric Thiman, Herbert Murrill and Stanley Vann. Full programme info on this link.
Thursday 24th July: Next week we return to Leatherhead Methodist Church for our Music on Thursdays lunchtime concert. Violinist Olivia Ru Long Jarvis and pianist Natalie Burch are students of the Royal Academy of Music. They have put together a fine programme of works by Mozart, Brahms and Britten and you will find full details on this link.
August sees a month of Baroque concerts at LMC - four MoT concerts on period and reproduction instruments. Do keep an eye on this website for more information about these summer lunchtimes.
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church are free to enter, and are funded by your generosity in the retiring collection. They usually last for 35-45 minutes, and you will find Rialto selling sandwiches and drinks in the churches after each concert.
Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking, LMC is close to most of the town's central car parks, with the one behind the Parish Church Hall (further along Church Road) being the closest.
Next Saturday, 19th July, at 7.30pm, Leatherhead Choral Society have a concert in Leatherhead Parish Church, entitled Echoes of the Renaissance. Tickets are £12.50 and can be purchased from Barton's Bookshop, or on the door. Under 16s free. More information on this link.
And on Monday 21st July, at 7.30pm, the next MAIASTRA concert will take place in St Andrew's Cobham. The evening features quartets by Schumann, Shostakovich and Haydn. MAIASTRA concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. More information will be found on this link. [This concert will also be played on Saturday evening in St Anne's Kew Green and on Sunday afternoon at Omnibus Clapham Common - so please tell your friends along the Northern Line and in the SW London, Richmond and Brentford areas.]
One of the joys of holidays is finding that unexpected gem of a concert - whether it is in the open-air, a remote village church, or in an internationally famous concert-hall. So if you are on your travels this summer, we wish you luck with your musical finds. We will still be here when you return, with Leatherhead's weekly lunchtime concerts.
Enjoy your listening !
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
7th July 2014
Dear Friends,
Yuhka Nagai delighted us last November when she slipped into her concert two short evocative pieces by the modern Japanese composer Hikaru Hayashi. We encouraged her to bring us more, so this Thursday Yuhka will play six of Hayashi's short pieces in a concert that starts with Ernest Bloch and finishes with Edvard Grieg. You will find the full programme, as well as biographies for Yuhka and her pianist Tokino Kaga, on this link.
Next week our concert is a Wednesdays at Christ Church organ recital. Gary Sieling is the organist of All Saint's Church, Blackheath - the Church whose spire can be see as you cross Blackheath or head for the gates of Greenwich Park. Gary interesting and varied programme is ready on this linked webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts last 30-40 minutes and are free to enter. There is a collection as you leave to help cover costs. Rialto will be on hand in the churches selling sandwiches and drinks after each concert.
Parking for the Methodist Church is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall - although most of the town's central car parks are within a five minute walk of LMC. Christ Church has plenty of parking on site. Both Churches have level access throughout.
You might also enjoy these two concerts the weekend after next:
Saturday 19th June, 7.30pm, St Mary & St Nicholas Parish Church, Leatherhead Choral Society's concert is entitled Echoes of the Renaissance with Ian Assersohn, conductor, Fiona Harrison, guitar, and Gina Eason, organ. Tickets are £12.50, (under 16s free). More information on this link to the Choir's website.
Monday 21st June, 7.30pm, St Andrew's Church, Cobham, MAIASTRA - this month's concert consists of quartets by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Schumann, led by Arisa Fujita. Full details on this linked webpage.
This same MAIASTRA programme will also be performed on Saturday 19th June, 7.30pm, in St Anne's Church, Kew Green, and on Sunday 20th June at 4.30pm in a new venue near Clapham Common, Omnibus, 1 CC Northside, SW4 0QW. Please tell your friends in West and SW London so that these venues are packed to the rafters too!
We are sure you will find at least one musical event to enjoy and we look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert very soon.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Dear Friends,
Yuhka Nagai delighted us last November when she slipped into her concert two short evocative pieces by the modern Japanese composer Hikaru Hayashi. We encouraged her to bring us more, so this Thursday Yuhka will play six of Hayashi's short pieces in a concert that starts with Ernest Bloch and finishes with Edvard Grieg. You will find the full programme, as well as biographies for Yuhka and her pianist Tokino Kaga, on this link.
Next week our concert is a Wednesdays at Christ Church organ recital. Gary Sieling is the organist of All Saint's Church, Blackheath - the Church whose spire can be see as you cross Blackheath or head for the gates of Greenwich Park. Gary interesting and varied programme is ready on this linked webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts last 30-40 minutes and are free to enter. There is a collection as you leave to help cover costs. Rialto will be on hand in the churches selling sandwiches and drinks after each concert.
Parking for the Methodist Church is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall - although most of the town's central car parks are within a five minute walk of LMC. Christ Church has plenty of parking on site. Both Churches have level access throughout.
You might also enjoy these two concerts the weekend after next:
Saturday 19th June, 7.30pm, St Mary & St Nicholas Parish Church, Leatherhead Choral Society's concert is entitled Echoes of the Renaissance with Ian Assersohn, conductor, Fiona Harrison, guitar, and Gina Eason, organ. Tickets are £12.50, (under 16s free). More information on this link to the Choir's website.
Monday 21st June, 7.30pm, St Andrew's Church, Cobham, MAIASTRA - this month's concert consists of quartets by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Schumann, led by Arisa Fujita. Full details on this linked webpage.
This same MAIASTRA programme will also be performed on Saturday 19th June, 7.30pm, in St Anne's Church, Kew Green, and on Sunday 20th June at 4.30pm in a new venue near Clapham Common, Omnibus, 1 CC Northside, SW4 0QW. Please tell your friends in West and SW London so that these venues are packed to the rafters too!
We are sure you will find at least one musical event to enjoy and we look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert very soon.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
30th June 2014
Dear Friends,
Well July is almost upon us! Our summer season is truly underway. For July we have the usual variety of musicians - Royal Academy of Music students and recent graduates from London's colleges. For August, and following on from the successful mini-season last year, we have lined up four Baroque concerts which will suit the recital room proportions of Leatherhead Methodist Church so well. This website will show more about the Baroque concerts as the details of each are finalised.
Thursday 3rd July, 12.30 lunchtime, MoT at LMC - The Andrews Massey Flute & Guitar Duo - Flautist Emily Andrews played a delightful concert for us a fortnight ago at Christ Church. This Thursday she returns in her more familiar guise for us, with her Duo partner, the guitarist David Massey. Emily and David met while studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Their repertoire this week is Brahms and Mozart, plus a modern work by Andy Scott. They also have a recent CD release which features more of the Mozart and Brahms we will be hearing at the concert. You can read more about the duo and their concert on this link.
Dear Friends,
Well July is almost upon us! Our summer season is truly underway. For July we have the usual variety of musicians - Royal Academy of Music students and recent graduates from London's colleges. For August, and following on from the successful mini-season last year, we have lined up four Baroque concerts which will suit the recital room proportions of Leatherhead Methodist Church so well. This website will show more about the Baroque concerts as the details of each are finalised.
Thursday 3rd July, 12.30 lunchtime, MoT at LMC - The Andrews Massey Flute & Guitar Duo - Flautist Emily Andrews played a delightful concert for us a fortnight ago at Christ Church. This Thursday she returns in her more familiar guise for us, with her Duo partner, the guitarist David Massey. Emily and David met while studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Their repertoire this week is Brahms and Mozart, plus a modern work by Andy Scott. They also have a recent CD release which features more of the Mozart and Brahms we will be hearing at the concert. You can read more about the duo and their concert on this link.
Thursday 10th July, 12.30 lunchtime, MoT at LMC - Yuhka Nagai, violin with Tokino Kaga, piano. When Yuhka Nagai played for us last Autumn she told us she was attempting a one-lady campaign to educate European ears to the music of Hikaru Hiyashi. She played us two of his works and we were entranced. So next week, alongside works by Ernest Bloch and Edvard Grieg, we have encouraged Yuhka to bring us six short evocative pieces by her composer hero. More details on this link.
Wednesday 16th July, 12.30 lunchtime, Wednesdays at Christ Church - this month's organ concert at Christ Church will be given by keyboard specialist Gary Sieling. Gary is organist of the prestigious All Saints' Church Blackheath and a regular concert performer on both organ and harpsichord. We'll be adding more to this concert webpage as it comes in.
Wednesday 16th July, 12.30 lunchtime, Wednesdays at Christ Church - this month's organ concert at Christ Church will be given by keyboard specialist Gary Sieling. Gary is organist of the prestigious All Saints' Church Blackheath and a regular concert performer on both organ and harpsichord. We'll be adding more to this concert webpage as it comes in.
These lunchtime concerts last 30-40 minutes and are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout, and Rialto Lounge sell sandwiches and drinks after each concert. For LMC, there is parking further along Church Road behind the Parish Church Hall, while Christ Church has plenty of parking on site.
As ever, we are not the only music-makers in these parts. Here a couple of choices for your July evenings:
Saturday 5th July, 7.30pm, Epsom College, Big School - The Sprig of Thyme - Epsom Chamber Choir - featuring works by Rutter, Mathias and Chilcott. Ticketing and full details on this link.
Saturday 12th July, 6.30pm, Leith Hill Place (National Trust) - Hepplewhite Trio play works by Piazzolla, Schoenfeld, Frank Bridge, Norman O'Neill and Hans Sitt. More information on this link.
Saturday 19th July, 7.30pm, Leatherhead Parish Church - Echoes of the Renaissance - Leatherhead Choral Society, with Fiona Harrison, guitar and Gina Eason, organ. Ticket and other information on this link.
We hope you enjoy your choice of these concerts, and we especially look forward to welcoming you to the lunchtime series.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
As ever, we are not the only music-makers in these parts. Here a couple of choices for your July evenings:
Saturday 5th July, 7.30pm, Epsom College, Big School - The Sprig of Thyme - Epsom Chamber Choir - featuring works by Rutter, Mathias and Chilcott. Ticketing and full details on this link.
Saturday 12th July, 6.30pm, Leith Hill Place (National Trust) - Hepplewhite Trio play works by Piazzolla, Schoenfeld, Frank Bridge, Norman O'Neill and Hans Sitt. More information on this link.
Saturday 19th July, 7.30pm, Leatherhead Parish Church - Echoes of the Renaissance - Leatherhead Choral Society, with Fiona Harrison, guitar and Gina Eason, organ. Ticket and other information on this link.
We hope you enjoy your choice of these concerts, and we especially look forward to welcoming you to the lunchtime series.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
23rd June 2014
Dear Friends,
This Thursday we welcome our first French horn player to the lunchtime concerts. The Ianthe Ensemble are a trio of violin, horn, and piano students from the Royal Academy of Music.They will be playing the Allegro from Mozart's E-flat Horn Quintet (arranged for trio), and the Brahms E-flat Horn Trio. As usual you can get a taster of these works by clicking on the buttons in the "Concert at Home" section of the concert webpage. On the page you will also find more information about our three players. 12.30, this Thursday 26th June, at Leatherhead Methodist Church - and the full details are on this webpage.
Next week's concert is also in the Methodist Church where we welcome one of our regular visitors - flautist Emily Andrews - with her duo partner, the guitarist David Massey. The Andrews Massey Duo will be playing movements from works featuring on their newly released CD - Stolen Serenades. More about the concert, the players, and their CD are on this linked webpage.
After each concert Paul from Rialto Lounge is at the back of the Church selling sandwiches, which makes for an informal, friendly atmosphere. The concerts are free to enter, with a collecting basket ready to receive your donation as you leave. Our aim is to cover costs and to make a donation to the Church itself.
The nearest car park is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall, although most of the town's central car parks are with a five-minute walk of LMC.
Just one extra musical date to tell you about this week and that is Epsom Chamber Choir's concert in the Big School of Epsom College, on Saturday 5th July. The works to be performed are John Rutter's The Sprig of Thyme, William Mathias' Shakespeare Songs and Bob Chilcott's Aesop's Fables. More information and ticket prices are available on this link.
Each week members of Leatherhead Art Club (and recently Ashtead Art Club too) come along to sketch the musicians as they perform. Diana King is a regular attender and she has an exhibition of some 100 works this week at Denbies Gallery (at the Winery). The exhibition is open from 9.30am to 5pm each day from Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th of June. Diana tells me one of the works is of cellist Alex Rolton. See if you can spot any other familiar figures among her artwork.
Music, art, and of course, our poetry page. We are sure you will find plenty to enjoy in the coming weeks of summer.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Dear Friends,
This Thursday we welcome our first French horn player to the lunchtime concerts. The Ianthe Ensemble are a trio of violin, horn, and piano students from the Royal Academy of Music.They will be playing the Allegro from Mozart's E-flat Horn Quintet (arranged for trio), and the Brahms E-flat Horn Trio. As usual you can get a taster of these works by clicking on the buttons in the "Concert at Home" section of the concert webpage. On the page you will also find more information about our three players. 12.30, this Thursday 26th June, at Leatherhead Methodist Church - and the full details are on this webpage.
Next week's concert is also in the Methodist Church where we welcome one of our regular visitors - flautist Emily Andrews - with her duo partner, the guitarist David Massey. The Andrews Massey Duo will be playing movements from works featuring on their newly released CD - Stolen Serenades. More about the concert, the players, and their CD are on this linked webpage.
After each concert Paul from Rialto Lounge is at the back of the Church selling sandwiches, which makes for an informal, friendly atmosphere. The concerts are free to enter, with a collecting basket ready to receive your donation as you leave. Our aim is to cover costs and to make a donation to the Church itself.
The nearest car park is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall, although most of the town's central car parks are with a five-minute walk of LMC.
Just one extra musical date to tell you about this week and that is Epsom Chamber Choir's concert in the Big School of Epsom College, on Saturday 5th July. The works to be performed are John Rutter's The Sprig of Thyme, William Mathias' Shakespeare Songs and Bob Chilcott's Aesop's Fables. More information and ticket prices are available on this link.
Each week members of Leatherhead Art Club (and recently Ashtead Art Club too) come along to sketch the musicians as they perform. Diana King is a regular attender and she has an exhibition of some 100 works this week at Denbies Gallery (at the Winery). The exhibition is open from 9.30am to 5pm each day from Monday 23rd to Sunday 29th of June. Diana tells me one of the works is of cellist Alex Rolton. See if you can spot any other familiar figures among her artwork.
Music, art, and of course, our poetry page. We are sure you will find plenty to enjoy in the coming weeks of summer.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays at LMC
16th June 2014
Dear Friends,
The Methodist Church was very full for last Thursday's Amici Trio concert. It was lovely to be part of such a large audience enjoying the excellent playing.
Wednesday 18th June, 12.30 lunchtime at Christ Church, Epsom Road: This Wednesday's concert features a regular at these concerts, the flautist Emily Andrews, accompanied by another of our regular players, organist Graham Davies. Their programme has works by Couperin, Rameau, Buxtehude, and Handel. Using the organ to accompany a solo instrument is a first for Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts, so we hope you will come along and enjoy this new feature. For more information on Wednesday's concert, please click this link.
Emily Andrews will be with us again on Thursday 3rd July when she and guitarist David Massey will be playing in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Thursday 26th June, 12.30 lunchtime at LMC: Next week's Thursday concert features works by Mozart and Brahms played by the Ianthe Ensemble, a trio from the Royal Academy of Music. The mellow tones of the French horn will be heard for the first time on these lunchtime concerts, together with a violinist and pianist. Full details are on this link.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Rialto Lounge will be in the churches after each concert, selling sandwiches and drinks, and giving us time to linger and chat. Both churches have level access throughout. Christ Church has ample parking on site, while the nearest car park for LMC is further along Church Road behind the Parish Church Hall. Venue information and photographs appear on the Home page of this website.
On Saturday evening The Ripieno Choir have a concert in Stoke d'Abernon's Menuhin Hall entitled The Flight of Song. They are joined by composer and accordionist Howard Skempton for a performance of his work and he also will play accordion solos.The concert also features traditional folk, Victorian part-songs and works by Cyril Bradley Rootham and Ernst Toch. Full details are on the choir's website.
Next Sunday evening, 22nd June at 7.30pm, there is the next of the year's MAIASTRA concerts. This month they are bringing us an octet who will be playing in the Old Chapel of St John's School, Epsom Road. The two works are by Schubert and Jean Françaix. Full details are on this linked webpage. MAIASTRA concerts are given free with a retiring collection. [This concert is also played on Saturday 21st June in St Anne's Church, Kew Green, near Richmond, Brentford, and Kew Bridge. Details are on the same link.]
Looking to the first weekend of July, Epsom Chamber Choir's concert on the 5th at 7.30 pm features works by Rutter, Mathias, and Chilcott. Ticket and venue information are on the Choir's own website.
Poetry: from time to time Peter Horsfield pens a poem in a particular style, inspired by one of our concerts. The muse took him after the recent Atéa Trio's concert, possibly triggered by the answer to the question: What does Atéa mean ? You will find Peter's poem Wind of Atéa, and poems inspired by several other concerts on our Poetry Page.
Do come along to one of these concerts. There's always a warm welcome to go with the excellent performances.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Dear Friends,
The Methodist Church was very full for last Thursday's Amici Trio concert. It was lovely to be part of such a large audience enjoying the excellent playing.
Wednesday 18th June, 12.30 lunchtime at Christ Church, Epsom Road: This Wednesday's concert features a regular at these concerts, the flautist Emily Andrews, accompanied by another of our regular players, organist Graham Davies. Their programme has works by Couperin, Rameau, Buxtehude, and Handel. Using the organ to accompany a solo instrument is a first for Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts, so we hope you will come along and enjoy this new feature. For more information on Wednesday's concert, please click this link.
Emily Andrews will be with us again on Thursday 3rd July when she and guitarist David Massey will be playing in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Thursday 26th June, 12.30 lunchtime at LMC: Next week's Thursday concert features works by Mozart and Brahms played by the Ianthe Ensemble, a trio from the Royal Academy of Music. The mellow tones of the French horn will be heard for the first time on these lunchtime concerts, together with a violinist and pianist. Full details are on this link.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Rialto Lounge will be in the churches after each concert, selling sandwiches and drinks, and giving us time to linger and chat. Both churches have level access throughout. Christ Church has ample parking on site, while the nearest car park for LMC is further along Church Road behind the Parish Church Hall. Venue information and photographs appear on the Home page of this website.
On Saturday evening The Ripieno Choir have a concert in Stoke d'Abernon's Menuhin Hall entitled The Flight of Song. They are joined by composer and accordionist Howard Skempton for a performance of his work and he also will play accordion solos.The concert also features traditional folk, Victorian part-songs and works by Cyril Bradley Rootham and Ernst Toch. Full details are on the choir's website.
Next Sunday evening, 22nd June at 7.30pm, there is the next of the year's MAIASTRA concerts. This month they are bringing us an octet who will be playing in the Old Chapel of St John's School, Epsom Road. The two works are by Schubert and Jean Françaix. Full details are on this linked webpage. MAIASTRA concerts are given free with a retiring collection. [This concert is also played on Saturday 21st June in St Anne's Church, Kew Green, near Richmond, Brentford, and Kew Bridge. Details are on the same link.]
Looking to the first weekend of July, Epsom Chamber Choir's concert on the 5th at 7.30 pm features works by Rutter, Mathias, and Chilcott. Ticket and venue information are on the Choir's own website.
Poetry: from time to time Peter Horsfield pens a poem in a particular style, inspired by one of our concerts. The muse took him after the recent Atéa Trio's concert, possibly triggered by the answer to the question: What does Atéa mean ? You will find Peter's poem Wind of Atéa, and poems inspired by several other concerts on our Poetry Page.
Do come along to one of these concerts. There's always a warm welcome to go with the excellent performances.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
9th June 2014
Dear Friends,
If you haven't been, or haven't been for a while, do come along to Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. This week's short concert is given by the Amici Trio - Gill Herbert, violin, Hilary Taylor, cello, and pianist Lynda Chang. They will be playing works by Haydn, Frank Bridge and Dvořák. You will find a webpage with more information about this concert on this link.
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Next week our concert is on Wednesday, 18th June when this month's Wednesdays at Christ Church features organist Graham Davies, accompanying the flute-playing of Emily Andrews. Both Graham and Emily have been frequent concert performers for Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts. On this occasion they come together to play 17th and 18th century music by Couperin, Frederick the Great, Rameau, Buxtehude. and Handel. You will find full details on this linked webpage.
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout, including toilets. Parking for the Methodist Church is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall. At Christ Church there is ample parking on-site. |
Emily Andrews, flute
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After each lunchtime concert Rialto Lounge sell sandwiches and drinks in the church.
Here a couple more local concerts that may also interest you:
Next Saturday 14th June, at 7.30pm in St George's Christian Centre, Ashtead, Ashtead Choral Society have a concert entitled Pack Up Your Troubles - an evening of songs of the Great War and of the present day. Tickets are £12 ion the day, or £10 in advance. more information on the Society's website.I
Here a couple more local concerts that may also interest you:
Next Saturday 14th June, at 7.30pm in St George's Christian Centre, Ashtead, Ashtead Choral Society have a concert entitled Pack Up Your Troubles - an evening of songs of the Great War and of the present day. Tickets are £12 ion the day, or £10 in advance. more information on the Society's website.I
Alice Bishop, soprano
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In the occasional series, Sundays at Seven, Mickleham Parish Church have a concert by local soprano Alice Bishop, who also gives concerts for Music on Thursdays. On this occasion Alice will be accompanied by pianist Elenlucia Papplardo. A full list of the songs they will perform for this free concert (with retiring collection) can be seen on this linked webpage.
Looking a little further ahead, the next MAIASTRA concert weekend features octets by Schubert and Jean Françaix. The dates for your diary are Saturday 21st June at St Anne's Kew Green (close to Kew Bridge), and Sunday 22nd in the Old Chapel of St John's School, Leatherhead. More information on this link. |
A variety of tastes are catered for by this week's concert selection. We are sure you will find something, or may be several events, to please you.
We look forwrd to seeing you at one of these concerts.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
We look forwrd to seeing you at one of these concerts.
Peter Steadman & Graham Davies
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
2nd June 2014
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
2nd June 2014
Dear Friends,
There is plenty to tell you about this week, so let's get straight into the concerts:
Thursday 5th June, 12.30 lunchtime at LMC: Clarinettist Anna Hashimoto has played for the Leatherhead lunchtime audience several times over the years, both as soloist and in her role leading the Atéa Wind Quintet. This Thursday she brings us a trio - herself, flautist Alena Lugovkina, and bassoonist Jonathan Davies. Their 12.30 concert this Thursday in Leatherhead Methodist Church begins with a Mozart Divertimento, and continues with a Sonata by Poulenc, an exciting work called The Chase by the living composer Olivier Truan, and finishes with a lovely familiar piece by Gossec. Full details of this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert are on this linked webpage.
Thursday 12th June, 12.30 lunchtime at LMC: In next week's concert the Amici Trio perform works by Haydn, Frank Bridge and Dvořák. The players are Gill Herbert, violin, Hilary Taylor, cello, and Lynda Chang, piano. Thier programme information is ready on this linked webpage.
Wednesday 18th June, 12.30 lunchtime at Christ Church: For our next organ concert we have added another ingredient - the flute-playing of Emily Andrews. Emily has performed in Leatherhead several times as part of a duo with guitarist David Massey. Recently she has been working with organist Graham Davies. Their Wednesdays at Christ Church concert includes music by Couperin, Rameau, Frederick the Great, Buxtehude and Handel. Full details on this linked webpage.
There is free entry to all Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church concerts, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert sandwiches and drinks are sold in the church by our sponsors Rialto Lounge Wine Restaurant. There is level access throughout both churches. Parking for the Methodist Church is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall, while Christ Church has plenty of parking on-site.
Concert at Home: Most of our concert webpages now include links to online performances of the works in that day's lunchtime concert. If you cannot be with us at lunchtime, just click on the link and settle back to enjoy your own Concert at Home at a time that suits you.
LONDON, 6pm, 5th June: There is a free concert on Thursday evening in the Royal Festival Hall, given by Amy Green, soprano sax. Amy holds a Martin Musical Scholarship and gives this concert as one of the requirements of that scholarship. These scholarship holders are some of the world's finest young musicians. They come to London to pursue their studies in the city's world-class music colleges. More about the concert on this linked webpage, hosted by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Next Saturday, 7th June, Bookham Choral Society encourage us all to Come and Sing for the afternoon, starting at 2pm. The event is open to everyone who fancies an afternoon's singing - with no auditions or formalities at all. More information on this webpage.
If you'd like to hear the pieces they have been working on during the afternoon, there is a free concert in Bookham Baptist Church at 6pm.
Here are a couple of events to draw your attention to for the following weekend:
Saturday 14th June: Ashtead Choral Society have a concert entitled Pack up Your Troubles, featuring songs of the Great War and of the present day. The concert is at 7.30pm in St George's Christian Centre, Ashtead. Tickets are £12 each and there is more info on this link.
Sunday 15th June, 7pm: soprano Alice Bishop, who has performed in several concerts in the Music on Thursdays series, will be giving the Sundays at Seven concert in St Michael's Church, Mickleham. Alice will be accompanied by pianist Elenlucia Pappalardo in a concert of songs and piano music including Brahms, Strauss, Elgar, and Liszt.
There is plenty of music to choose from in the coming weeks, and we look forward to seeing you at some of these events.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Thursday 5th June, 12.30 lunchtime at LMC: Clarinettist Anna Hashimoto has played for the Leatherhead lunchtime audience several times over the years, both as soloist and in her role leading the Atéa Wind Quintet. This Thursday she brings us a trio - herself, flautist Alena Lugovkina, and bassoonist Jonathan Davies. Their 12.30 concert this Thursday in Leatherhead Methodist Church begins with a Mozart Divertimento, and continues with a Sonata by Poulenc, an exciting work called The Chase by the living composer Olivier Truan, and finishes with a lovely familiar piece by Gossec. Full details of this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert are on this linked webpage.
Thursday 12th June, 12.30 lunchtime at LMC: In next week's concert the Amici Trio perform works by Haydn, Frank Bridge and Dvořák. The players are Gill Herbert, violin, Hilary Taylor, cello, and Lynda Chang, piano. Thier programme information is ready on this linked webpage.
Wednesday 18th June, 12.30 lunchtime at Christ Church: For our next organ concert we have added another ingredient - the flute-playing of Emily Andrews. Emily has performed in Leatherhead several times as part of a duo with guitarist David Massey. Recently she has been working with organist Graham Davies. Their Wednesdays at Christ Church concert includes music by Couperin, Rameau, Frederick the Great, Buxtehude and Handel. Full details on this linked webpage.
There is free entry to all Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church concerts, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After each concert sandwiches and drinks are sold in the church by our sponsors Rialto Lounge Wine Restaurant. There is level access throughout both churches. Parking for the Methodist Church is further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall, while Christ Church has plenty of parking on-site.
Concert at Home: Most of our concert webpages now include links to online performances of the works in that day's lunchtime concert. If you cannot be with us at lunchtime, just click on the link and settle back to enjoy your own Concert at Home at a time that suits you.
LONDON, 6pm, 5th June: There is a free concert on Thursday evening in the Royal Festival Hall, given by Amy Green, soprano sax. Amy holds a Martin Musical Scholarship and gives this concert as one of the requirements of that scholarship. These scholarship holders are some of the world's finest young musicians. They come to London to pursue their studies in the city's world-class music colleges. More about the concert on this linked webpage, hosted by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Next Saturday, 7th June, Bookham Choral Society encourage us all to Come and Sing for the afternoon, starting at 2pm. The event is open to everyone who fancies an afternoon's singing - with no auditions or formalities at all. More information on this webpage.
If you'd like to hear the pieces they have been working on during the afternoon, there is a free concert in Bookham Baptist Church at 6pm.
Here are a couple of events to draw your attention to for the following weekend:
Saturday 14th June: Ashtead Choral Society have a concert entitled Pack up Your Troubles, featuring songs of the Great War and of the present day. The concert is at 7.30pm in St George's Christian Centre, Ashtead. Tickets are £12 each and there is more info on this link.
Sunday 15th June, 7pm: soprano Alice Bishop, who has performed in several concerts in the Music on Thursdays series, will be giving the Sundays at Seven concert in St Michael's Church, Mickleham. Alice will be accompanied by pianist Elenlucia Pappalardo in a concert of songs and piano music including Brahms, Strauss, Elgar, and Liszt.
There is plenty of music to choose from in the coming weeks, and we look forward to seeing you at some of these events.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
26th May 2014
Dear Friends,
Concert at Home is a new idea from Music on Thursdays. Sometimes, you might miss a concert through ill health, holidays, or through work or other commitments. Now you can have the concert experience at home. Simply go to the webpage for that week's concert, and towards the foot of the page you will find links to other performances of the works from that week's concerts - or something as similar as we find for you. We do come across some interesting videos - old and new. If you are uncertain about a composer or a work perhaps hearing it before you come along will help you to enjoy the live performance that bit more.
29th May: This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church is to be given by Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, mezzo-soprano, accompanied by pianist Richard Price. Edita has once again chosen a varied programme from the opera and popular song repertoires with composers from Puccini and Rossini to Bert Kaempfert and Robert Stolz, with a Russian folk song and a traditional Lithuanian song along the way. Do take a look at the full programme which you will find on the webpage for Edita's concert on this link.
5th June: Next Thursday we welcome another old friend of Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts, the clarinettist Anna Hashimoto. Anna leads the Atéa Wind Trio, with flautist Alena Lugovkina and bassoonist Jonathan Davies, in works by Mozart, Poulenc, Truan and Gossec. If those last two seem less familiar, you will almost certainly recognise Gossec's Gavotte. Olivier Truan's piece is called "The Chase". If you are rarely convinced of the names composers give their works, we have found a performance on clarinet and accordion. You will be in no doubt that a chase is occurring! More information and links on the concert webpage.
Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Sandwiches and drinks are on sale in the church afterwards, courtesy of Leatherhead High Street's Rialto Lounge. Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout. The nearest car park is further along Church Road behind the Parish Church Hall, although LMC is within 5-7 minutes walk of most of the town's central car parks.
There's a free concert in the Royal Festival Hall at 6pm on Thursday 5th June. Amy Green, soprano saxophone, accompanied by pianist Christine Zerafa both hold Martin Music Scholarships and are giving this free concert at the RFH. Just turn up, no tickets are required. If you know someone who comes home via Waterloo or Charing Cross this would make a lovely early evening diversion. Full details on this linked webpage - hosted by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Closer to home, there is a "Come and Sing" afternoon hosted by Bookham Choral Society on Saturday 7th June, from 2pm. Full details are on this linked webpage. There's no commitment to join BCS, just come along and enjoy an afternoon's singing in pleasant company.
We hope you will find something to please in this week's selection of events, and most of all we look forward to welcoming you to LMC and to one of our 12.30 lunchtime concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Dear Friends,
Concert at Home is a new idea from Music on Thursdays. Sometimes, you might miss a concert through ill health, holidays, or through work or other commitments. Now you can have the concert experience at home. Simply go to the webpage for that week's concert, and towards the foot of the page you will find links to other performances of the works from that week's concerts - or something as similar as we find for you. We do come across some interesting videos - old and new. If you are uncertain about a composer or a work perhaps hearing it before you come along will help you to enjoy the live performance that bit more.
29th May: This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church is to be given by Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, mezzo-soprano, accompanied by pianist Richard Price. Edita has once again chosen a varied programme from the opera and popular song repertoires with composers from Puccini and Rossini to Bert Kaempfert and Robert Stolz, with a Russian folk song and a traditional Lithuanian song along the way. Do take a look at the full programme which you will find on the webpage for Edita's concert on this link.
5th June: Next Thursday we welcome another old friend of Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts, the clarinettist Anna Hashimoto. Anna leads the Atéa Wind Trio, with flautist Alena Lugovkina and bassoonist Jonathan Davies, in works by Mozart, Poulenc, Truan and Gossec. If those last two seem less familiar, you will almost certainly recognise Gossec's Gavotte. Olivier Truan's piece is called "The Chase". If you are rarely convinced of the names composers give their works, we have found a performance on clarinet and accordion. You will be in no doubt that a chase is occurring! More information and links on the concert webpage.
Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Sandwiches and drinks are on sale in the church afterwards, courtesy of Leatherhead High Street's Rialto Lounge. Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout. The nearest car park is further along Church Road behind the Parish Church Hall, although LMC is within 5-7 minutes walk of most of the town's central car parks.
There's a free concert in the Royal Festival Hall at 6pm on Thursday 5th June. Amy Green, soprano saxophone, accompanied by pianist Christine Zerafa both hold Martin Music Scholarships and are giving this free concert at the RFH. Just turn up, no tickets are required. If you know someone who comes home via Waterloo or Charing Cross this would make a lovely early evening diversion. Full details on this linked webpage - hosted by the Philharmonia Orchestra.
Closer to home, there is a "Come and Sing" afternoon hosted by Bookham Choral Society on Saturday 7th June, from 2pm. Full details are on this linked webpage. There's no commitment to join BCS, just come along and enjoy an afternoon's singing in pleasant company.
We hope you will find something to please in this week's selection of events, and most of all we look forward to welcoming you to LMC and to one of our 12.30 lunchtime concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
19th May 2014
Dear Friends,
22nd May: For this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church we welcome back cellist Jacqueline Phillips, who will be accompanied by pianist Michael Round. These two professional musicians will be playing a cello Sonata by Beethoven and Martinů's Variations on a Slovak Folk Song. Definitely a concert not to be missed. More about Jacqui and Michael on this webpage.
Thursday 29th May: next week another friend of these concerts, the mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, will be performing a selection of songs including works by Puccini, Rossini, Schubert, Donizetti, Bert Kaempfert and Robert Stolz. The programme also includes a Russian song, and one from her native Lithuania. Edita's accompanist next Thursday is Richard Price and you will find more about their concert, including the full programme, on this webpage.
Coming in June we have Anna Hashimoto's Atéa Wind Trio on the 5th (full programme ready on this link), followed on the 12th by the Fetcham-based Amici Trio (violin, cello, piano). Our organ concert at Christ Church on the 18th has a different twist in June when Graham Davies accompanies flautist Emily Andrews in music they have been working on over recent months. Their programme includes Rameau, Couperin and Frederick the Great. Our concert on June 26th features the Ianthe Trio - violin, horn, and piano students of the Royal Academy of Music.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout and there is parking further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall - although most of the town's car parks are within a 5-minute walk. After each concert Rialto Lounge are in the church selling sandwiches and drinks, giving us space to chat together and with the musicians.
Just one more concert to mention this week and that is this coming Saturday evening (24th May) at 7.30pm, when the Imperial Male Voice Choir, with soprano Tessa Spong, are performing in Betchworth Parish Church. Tickets and information are available from: 01737 84 46 32. There is a map showing the church on this page.
We look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
19th May 2014
Dear Friends,
22nd May: For this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church we welcome back cellist Jacqueline Phillips, who will be accompanied by pianist Michael Round. These two professional musicians will be playing a cello Sonata by Beethoven and Martinů's Variations on a Slovak Folk Song. Definitely a concert not to be missed. More about Jacqui and Michael on this webpage.
Thursday 29th May: next week another friend of these concerts, the mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, will be performing a selection of songs including works by Puccini, Rossini, Schubert, Donizetti, Bert Kaempfert and Robert Stolz. The programme also includes a Russian song, and one from her native Lithuania. Edita's accompanist next Thursday is Richard Price and you will find more about their concert, including the full programme, on this webpage.
Coming in June we have Anna Hashimoto's Atéa Wind Trio on the 5th (full programme ready on this link), followed on the 12th by the Fetcham-based Amici Trio (violin, cello, piano). Our organ concert at Christ Church on the 18th has a different twist in June when Graham Davies accompanies flautist Emily Andrews in music they have been working on over recent months. Their programme includes Rameau, Couperin and Frederick the Great. Our concert on June 26th features the Ianthe Trio - violin, horn, and piano students of the Royal Academy of Music.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout and there is parking further along Church Road, behind the Parish Church Hall - although most of the town's car parks are within a 5-minute walk. After each concert Rialto Lounge are in the church selling sandwiches and drinks, giving us space to chat together and with the musicians.
Just one more concert to mention this week and that is this coming Saturday evening (24th May) at 7.30pm, when the Imperial Male Voice Choir, with soprano Tessa Spong, are performing in Betchworth Parish Church. Tickets and information are available from: 01737 84 46 32. There is a map showing the church on this page.
We look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays at LMC
12th May 2014
Dear Friends,
At 12.30 this Wednesday (14th May) we have the next in our series of organ recitals in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead. John Sharples is the organist of Charlwood Parish Church and has played the organs in some major venues over the years. For our concert this week he has chosen to play works by JS Bach, John Ireland, the rarely heard 18th century London-French Peter Prelleur and the, very much still with us, French-Canadian Denis Bédard. There is more about John Sharples and his concert on this linked webpage.
Next Thursday, 22nd May, we will be back in our usual home, Leatherhead Methodist Church where we welcome cellist Jacqueline Phillips. We haven't seen Jacqueline for over a year - she has been so busy with professional engagements. So we've booked early this year, and this is the first of her concerts for Music on Thursdays. Accompanied by pianist Michael Round, Jacqueline will be playing a Beethoven cello sonata and a set of variations by Martinů. We don't hear much of Martinů but a trio of his went down extremely well in one of our recent lunchtime concerts. More about Jacqueline and Michael on this concert webpage.
We also have details of Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant's next concert, on Thursday 29th May at LMC, when she will be accompanied by pianist Richard Price. We still have some researches to complete but most of Edita's programme information will be found on this link.
Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. You will find links to online performances of most works on the webpage for each concert. Both churches have level access throughout, and Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking. After each concert, Rialto Lounge will be in the church selling sandwiches, cake and drinks. You are very welcome to stay a while and chat.
Here are details of a few more local concerts for your enjoyment:
Saturday 17th May, 7.30pm, Dorking Concertgoers
Jenkinson Frith Duo - Richard Jenkinson, cello - Benjamin Frith, piano
Tickets: £12 to £29 01306 740619
Dorking: Dorking Halls (Martineau Hall)
Saturday 17th May, 7.30pm, Cantilena Choir
A Garland of Songs - music with a floral theme, celebrating Cranleigh in Bloom
Jenny Hansell, conductor
Tickets: £12, Children £5
Cranleigh: St Nicolas Church, GU6 8AS
Saturday 24th May 7.30pm, Imperial Male Voice Choir
Tessa Spong, soprano
Tickets: £12, u18/students £6 - from 01737 ♦ 84 _46_32 or david (dot) slater2 (at) tiscali.co.uk
Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN
We look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays at LMC
12th May 2014
Dear Friends,
At 12.30 this Wednesday (14th May) we have the next in our series of organ recitals in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead. John Sharples is the organist of Charlwood Parish Church and has played the organs in some major venues over the years. For our concert this week he has chosen to play works by JS Bach, John Ireland, the rarely heard 18th century London-French Peter Prelleur and the, very much still with us, French-Canadian Denis Bédard. There is more about John Sharples and his concert on this linked webpage.
Next Thursday, 22nd May, we will be back in our usual home, Leatherhead Methodist Church where we welcome cellist Jacqueline Phillips. We haven't seen Jacqueline for over a year - she has been so busy with professional engagements. So we've booked early this year, and this is the first of her concerts for Music on Thursdays. Accompanied by pianist Michael Round, Jacqueline will be playing a Beethoven cello sonata and a set of variations by Martinů. We don't hear much of Martinů but a trio of his went down extremely well in one of our recent lunchtime concerts. More about Jacqueline and Michael on this concert webpage.
We also have details of Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant's next concert, on Thursday 29th May at LMC, when she will be accompanied by pianist Richard Price. We still have some researches to complete but most of Edita's programme information will be found on this link.
Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. You will find links to online performances of most works on the webpage for each concert. Both churches have level access throughout, and Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking. After each concert, Rialto Lounge will be in the church selling sandwiches, cake and drinks. You are very welcome to stay a while and chat.
Here are details of a few more local concerts for your enjoyment:
Saturday 17th May, 7.30pm, Dorking Concertgoers
Jenkinson Frith Duo - Richard Jenkinson, cello - Benjamin Frith, piano
Tickets: £12 to £29 01306 740619
Dorking: Dorking Halls (Martineau Hall)
Saturday 17th May, 7.30pm, Cantilena Choir
A Garland of Songs - music with a floral theme, celebrating Cranleigh in Bloom
Jenny Hansell, conductor
Tickets: £12, Children £5
Cranleigh: St Nicolas Church, GU6 8AS
Saturday 24th May 7.30pm, Imperial Male Voice Choir
Tessa Spong, soprano
Tickets: £12, u18/students £6 - from 01737 ♦ 84 _46_32 or david (dot) slater2 (at) tiscali.co.uk
Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN
We look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
6th May 2014
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts - weekly in Leatherhead Methodist Church and monthly in Christ Church - are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. You'll find both churches have toilets and there is level access throughout. For LMC the nearest parking is further along Church Road behind the Parish church Hall, although most of the town's car parks are within an easy walk. Christ Church has the benefit of plenty of parking spaces behind the church.
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
6th May 2014
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts - weekly in Leatherhead Methodist Church and monthly in Christ Church - are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. You'll find both churches have toilets and there is level access throughout. For LMC the nearest parking is further along Church Road behind the Parish church Hall, although most of the town's car parks are within an easy walk. Christ Church has the benefit of plenty of parking spaces behind the church.
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Members of Leatherhead Art
Club sketch our performers during the concerts. Audience and musicians
alike enjoy seeing their work afterwards. Rialto Lounge sell sandwiches,
cake and drinks in the churches after our concerts, giving a pleasant
informal atmosphere in which audience members often have a chance to
talk to the musicians.
Thursday 8th May: Classical guitarist Francisco Correa will be playing for this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Francisco will be playing works by Albéniz, Stephen Dodgson, Ponce and Villa-Lobos. Full details are on this linked webpage. |
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Wednesday 14th May:
John Sharples is the organist of St Nicholas Church, Charlwood. He has played organs in St Paul's and Southwark Cathedrals, in Lambeth Palace, and in New York, as well as many other major venues. Full details of his programme for our 12.30 lunchtime concert in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, next Wednesday will be found on this linked webpage. |
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Thursday 22nd May:
We welcome back cellist Jacqueline Phillips who many will remember from several concerts in the 2012 season. For this 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church Jacqueline is accompanied by pianist Michael Round in works by Beethoven and Martinů. If Martinů is less familiar to you, you may feel reassured to know that one of his works was much enjoyed by our audience when it featured in a recent trio concert here. There is more about Jacqueline's concert on this linked webpage. |
Thursday 29th May: Mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant is another of our popular performers, returning for a lunchtime concert this month. There will be more about her concert with accompanist Peter Bailey coming soon.
On the webpage for each concert you will also find links to other performances of the works on that day's programme. If you are uncertain whether the repertoire is quite your cup of tea, we hope you will click on the links and give yourself a taster of what is coming.
If you really cannot get to a concert, following the links gives you a chance to enjoy your own personal concert at home - or perhaps in your lunch break at work.
Leatherhead Art Club's Spring Exhibition continues in the former Help Shop this week, Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm. Do go along and browse.
THIS SATURDAY - FAMILY CONCERT: this is a brilliant initiative from Dorking Chamber Orchestra. They are linking with three school choirs to give a concert designed for children to enjoy, and timed sensibly at 3pm. The venue is St Paul's Church, Dorking. You will find more about this afternoon concert for families on this linked webpage.
Monday evening - FREE CONCERT: Quintabile Brass Ensemble are giving a free concert in the Purcell Room on London's South Bank at 7.45pm on Monday 12th May. Here is the freefone number for tickets: 0800 652 6717. This concert is one of a series given by advanced students who are holders of Martin Musical Scholarships, with the support of the Philharmonia Orchestra. If the feel and sound of brass hasn't hooked you already, just take a look at the excellent programme on this link for that extra little bit of persuasion. And all you have to pay is the train fare!
You will find more information about local concerts at: www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
We look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
On the webpage for each concert you will also find links to other performances of the works on that day's programme. If you are uncertain whether the repertoire is quite your cup of tea, we hope you will click on the links and give yourself a taster of what is coming.
If you really cannot get to a concert, following the links gives you a chance to enjoy your own personal concert at home - or perhaps in your lunch break at work.
Leatherhead Art Club's Spring Exhibition continues in the former Help Shop this week, Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm. Do go along and browse.
THIS SATURDAY - FAMILY CONCERT: this is a brilliant initiative from Dorking Chamber Orchestra. They are linking with three school choirs to give a concert designed for children to enjoy, and timed sensibly at 3pm. The venue is St Paul's Church, Dorking. You will find more about this afternoon concert for families on this linked webpage.
Monday evening - FREE CONCERT: Quintabile Brass Ensemble are giving a free concert in the Purcell Room on London's South Bank at 7.45pm on Monday 12th May. Here is the freefone number for tickets: 0800 652 6717. This concert is one of a series given by advanced students who are holders of Martin Musical Scholarships, with the support of the Philharmonia Orchestra. If the feel and sound of brass hasn't hooked you already, just take a look at the excellent programme on this link for that extra little bit of persuasion. And all you have to pay is the train fare!
You will find more information about local concerts at: www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
We look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
28th April 2014
Dear Friends,
In this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church the Tritium Trio will be playing works by Carl Frühling and Giovanni "Nino" Rota. On the webpage for their 1st May concert you will find more details of these three very international players - Slovenian clarinettist Jernej Albreht, Swedish cellist Lydia Hillerudh and Australian pianist Joseph Havlat. They are students of the Royal Academy of Music and their concert webpage is on this link.
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
28th April 2014
Dear Friends,
In this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church the Tritium Trio will be playing works by Carl Frühling and Giovanni "Nino" Rota. On the webpage for their 1st May concert you will find more details of these three very international players - Slovenian clarinettist Jernej Albreht, Swedish cellist Lydia Hillerudh and Australian pianist Joseph Havlat. They are students of the Royal Academy of Music and their concert webpage is on this link.
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Next Thursday, 8th May, we welcome back a friend of these lunchtime concerts - the Colombian classical guitar-player, Francisco Correa. Francisco's programme includes pieces by Albéniz, Dodgson, Ponce, and Villa-Lobos. LMC is an ideal room for a solo guitar concert. You will find more about Francisco and his programme on this linked webpage.
These Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout, and the nearest car park is behind the Parish Church Hall, further along Church Road. |
Next weekend brings us the Surrey Hills International Music Festival, starting on Thursday evening with a mandolin and accordion concert at Denbies Wine Estate, a gala concert by the London Mozart Players and soloists at St Teresa's School Effingham on Saturday evening, and a Cushion Concert at Shere Village Hall on Sunday afternoon. This last is aimed at 5-11 year olds (and their accompanying grown-up) and features the Mother Goose Suite and the Carnival of the Animals. Full details of times and tickets on this link.
Also aimed at a younger audience and their older friends and relatives is Dorking Chamber Orchestra's concert the following Saturday afternoon, 10th May. The orchestra will be joined by singers from three schools. Here's the link to DCO's website with more information.
Fans of organ music will welcome the release of a new CD on which Professor Robert Woolley plays the restored Parker Organ in St Mary & St Nicholas Parish Church. Robert's chosen repertoire is music by Handel and his English contemporaries.
Also aimed at a younger audience and their older friends and relatives is Dorking Chamber Orchestra's concert the following Saturday afternoon, 10th May. The orchestra will be joined by singers from three schools. Here's the link to DCO's website with more information.
Fans of organ music will welcome the release of a new CD on which Professor Robert Woolley plays the restored Parker Organ in St Mary & St Nicholas Parish Church. Robert's chosen repertoire is music by Handel and his English contemporaries.
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A selection of organ music by Handel and his English contemporaries, played by internationally-respected early keyboard artist, Robert Woolley, in his first recording on the Regent label. The disc includes both orginal organ music and contemporary eighteen-century transcriptions of works by Handel, together with orginal works for organ by the most renowed British composers of Handels time: William Boyce, Starling Goodwin, Maurice Greene, John James, James Nares, Thomas Roseingrave, John Stanley, and William Walond. Played on the 1766 Thomas Parker organ in the church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Leatherhead. This instrument was reconstructed from orginal casework and pipework by the organ builders, Goetze & Gwynn, in 2007, and is a very rare example of organs from this period in England. This is the first recording of this delightful eighteenth-century instrument. Robert Woolley is one of Europe's leading performers and teachers of the harpsichord, and other early keyboard instruments. He studied at the Royal College of Music ,where he is now Professor of Harpsichord and Clavichord, and was Director of the Early Music Department and Adviser for Early Music from 1985-2006. He is well known as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player on the harpsichord, organ and fortepiano; his solo recordings include discs of music by Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Frescobaldi, Weckmann, Bohm, Handel, J S Bach, Scarlatti, Seixas and J C Bach for EMI, Virgin, Archiv, Hyperion and Chandos. |
The restored and rebuilt Thomas Parker Organ of 1766, in St Mary & St Nicholas Church, Leatherhead
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Meanwhile, Leatherhead Art Club's Spring Exhibition continues at the former Help Shop in the High Street, so if you missed it before Easter here's a chance to catch up. Although, if you did go before you will find plenty of works inthe Exhibition now that were not on show earlier. They are open this week and next, Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm.
We look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert. Until then, enjoy your music-making and your listening.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
We look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert. Until then, enjoy your music-making and your listening.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
20th April 2014
Dear Friends,
I am writing this on Sunday afternoon - Easter Day - so I hope the disappointing weather hasn't put paid to your plans for the day.
The outlook for Thursday is much brighter, and we'll cheer you up all the more with this week's Trio from the Royal Academy of Music. Our players at 12.30 this Thursday - 24th April - in Leatherhead Methodist Church are a flautist, a cellist and a pianist. They will play works from the first half of the 20th century, by Philippe Gaubert and Bohuslav Martinů. If you really can't make the concert, or if you'd like a taster of what is coming, you will find links to youtube videos of these works, along with biographies of the players on this concert webpage.
Next week sees another trio from the Royal Academy of Music coming to play in Leatherhead Methodist Church. At 12.30 on Thursday 1st May the Tritium Trio - clarinet, cello and piano - will be playing trios by Austrian composer Carl Frühling and the Italian Giovanni "Nino" Rota. Their concert webpage is building here.
Entry to these lunchtime concerts is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Rialto Lounge will be in the church after each concert, selling sandwiches with an Italian flavour.
Working in London ? Fancy an evening out (or on the cheap) ? The next in the series of free concerts by Martin Musical Fund Scholarship students is next Monday evening 28th April at 7.45pm in the Purcell Room (behind the Royal Festival Hall). The pianist is Samson Tsoy. He will be playing Beethoven, Schubert and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibtion. Full details here.
At the end of next week (May 1st to 4th) there is the Surrey Hills International Music Festival. Plenty of information about this local but international series on this link.
Dorking Chamber Orchestra have an interesting "family concert" coming up. It's at 3pm on Saturday, 10th May, in St Paul's Church, St Paul's Road West, Dorking. You'll find DCO's website, with more information about the orchestra, the concert and the three school choirs taking part, on this link. This is such a welcome initiative from DCO, introducing children to classical music, it deserves our support. So gather up your children, grandchildren, godchildren, the neighbour's children, and have a lovely afternoon together with these singers and musicians.
We look forward to seeing you at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
20th April 2014
Dear Friends,
I am writing this on Sunday afternoon - Easter Day - so I hope the disappointing weather hasn't put paid to your plans for the day.
The outlook for Thursday is much brighter, and we'll cheer you up all the more with this week's Trio from the Royal Academy of Music. Our players at 12.30 this Thursday - 24th April - in Leatherhead Methodist Church are a flautist, a cellist and a pianist. They will play works from the first half of the 20th century, by Philippe Gaubert and Bohuslav Martinů. If you really can't make the concert, or if you'd like a taster of what is coming, you will find links to youtube videos of these works, along with biographies of the players on this concert webpage.
Next week sees another trio from the Royal Academy of Music coming to play in Leatherhead Methodist Church. At 12.30 on Thursday 1st May the Tritium Trio - clarinet, cello and piano - will be playing trios by Austrian composer Carl Frühling and the Italian Giovanni "Nino" Rota. Their concert webpage is building here.
Entry to these lunchtime concerts is free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Rialto Lounge will be in the church after each concert, selling sandwiches with an Italian flavour.
Working in London ? Fancy an evening out (or on the cheap) ? The next in the series of free concerts by Martin Musical Fund Scholarship students is next Monday evening 28th April at 7.45pm in the Purcell Room (behind the Royal Festival Hall). The pianist is Samson Tsoy. He will be playing Beethoven, Schubert and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibtion. Full details here.
At the end of next week (May 1st to 4th) there is the Surrey Hills International Music Festival. Plenty of information about this local but international series on this link.
Dorking Chamber Orchestra have an interesting "family concert" coming up. It's at 3pm on Saturday, 10th May, in St Paul's Church, St Paul's Road West, Dorking. You'll find DCO's website, with more information about the orchestra, the concert and the three school choirs taking part, on this link. This is such a welcome initiative from DCO, introducing children to classical music, it deserves our support. So gather up your children, grandchildren, godchildren, the neighbour's children, and have a lovely afternoon together with these singers and musicians.
We look forward to seeing you at these concerts.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays at LMC
14th April 2014
Dear Friends,
This week's 12.30 lunchtime concert is on Wednesday (16th April) at Christ Church United Reformed, on Epsom Road. Resident organist, Anthony Cairns will be playing a varied programme ranging across the centuries from Buxtehude and Bach, through Wesley, to Mathias, Walton, and the Paris-based organist and composer Julien Bret. More details on this link.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter and we rely on your generosity in the retiring collection to cover the costs. There is plenty of parking at Christ Church, and level access to church and facilities. Rialto Lounge will be selling sandwiches in the church afterwards.
After Easter we are back in Leatherhead Methodist Church to listen to a trio from the Royal Academy of Music. Our players on Thursday 24th April are a flautist, a cellist, and a pianist who will be playing works by Philippe Gaubert and Bohuslav Martinů, European composers of the early 20th century. More details of next week's lunchtime players are on this linked webpage.
We welcome another trio from the Royal Academy of Music on Thursday 1st May - May Day. There's an intriguing story about Australian pianist Joe Havlat and an over-sized piano too. A link to that item is on this linked webpage. We will add details of the three players and their programme to that page as they come in.
All this week, in the former Help Shop in Leatherhead High Street, our friends at Leatherhead Art Club have their Spring Exhibition. Admission is free, and the Exhibition is open each day Monday to Saturday this week from 10am to 5.30pm (including Good Friday). The final day of this exhibition is next Sunday, Easter Day, from 11am to 5pm - what a lovely idea for your post-lunch Easter Sunday stroll !
Come and enjoy a short lunchtime concert, given by local and international musicians of a very high standard.
Happy Easter !
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church and Music on Thursdays at LMC
14th April 2014
Dear Friends,
This week's 12.30 lunchtime concert is on Wednesday (16th April) at Christ Church United Reformed, on Epsom Road. Resident organist, Anthony Cairns will be playing a varied programme ranging across the centuries from Buxtehude and Bach, through Wesley, to Mathias, Walton, and the Paris-based organist and composer Julien Bret. More details on this link.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter and we rely on your generosity in the retiring collection to cover the costs. There is plenty of parking at Christ Church, and level access to church and facilities. Rialto Lounge will be selling sandwiches in the church afterwards.
After Easter we are back in Leatherhead Methodist Church to listen to a trio from the Royal Academy of Music. Our players on Thursday 24th April are a flautist, a cellist, and a pianist who will be playing works by Philippe Gaubert and Bohuslav Martinů, European composers of the early 20th century. More details of next week's lunchtime players are on this linked webpage.
We welcome another trio from the Royal Academy of Music on Thursday 1st May - May Day. There's an intriguing story about Australian pianist Joe Havlat and an over-sized piano too. A link to that item is on this linked webpage. We will add details of the three players and their programme to that page as they come in.
All this week, in the former Help Shop in Leatherhead High Street, our friends at Leatherhead Art Club have their Spring Exhibition. Admission is free, and the Exhibition is open each day Monday to Saturday this week from 10am to 5.30pm (including Good Friday). The final day of this exhibition is next Sunday, Easter Day, from 11am to 5pm - what a lovely idea for your post-lunch Easter Sunday stroll !
Come and enjoy a short lunchtime concert, given by local and international musicians of a very high standard.
Happy Easter !
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
7th April 2014
Dear Friends,
Alice Bishop launched this year's lunchtime concert series with a very popular concert last week. There was a healthy audience of 50, many of whom stayed afterwards and tucked into the sandwiches being sold by Rialto Lounge. There's a definite Italian flavour to the catering this year. Any sandwiches left over are donated to Pitstop and to the former night shelter - now called Leatherhead Start.
This Thursday we welcome the first of our students from the Royal Academy of Music. Flautist Michelle Choi with her piano accompanist Snow Silu Wang will perform Mozart's D major Flute Concerto and Enesco's Cantabile et Presto. There is more information on this webpage.
Next week, on 16th April, we move to Wednesdays at Christ Church. Resident organist Anthony Cairns will be playing works from Buxtehude and Bach through Samuel Wesley, to William Walton, William Lloyd Webber (you may have heard of his famous sons), to Julien Bret, currently organist of St-Ambroise, Paris. Wednesdays at Christ Church concerts also start at 12.30, are free to enter with a retiring collection, and you will find the usual sandwiches from Rialto Lounge on sale in the church after the concert.
There is level access to the church and facilities at Christ Church, and plenty of parking on-site too. Full programme information is on this link.
After Easter we are back in Leatherhead Methodist Church on Thursday 24th April to hear a trio from the Royal Academy of Music. Flute, cello and piano works by two early 20th century composers - Gaubert and Martinů. Programme details are already available on this webpage.
Student commitments have meant some changes from the original programme leaflet you may have seen, so please do keep an eye on our diary page to keep abreast of what's on each week.
7.30pm, Sunday 13th April: Our friends at MAIASTRA have a concert this Sunday evening in St Andrews Church, Cobham. Vaughan Williams, Mozart and Dvořák works will be played by a quintet lead by Arisa Fujita, Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. The qunitet includes local viola-player and former Yehudi Menuhin School pupil Elliott Perks. Full programme details for this free concert with retiring collection are on this link.
We look forward to seeing you at these concerts.
And finally . . . Leatherhead Art Club, whose members sketch our musicians as they play each week, have their Spring Art Exhibition starting this Friday. The venue is the former Help Shop in the High Street, almost facing our Sponsors - Rialto Lounge. More information on the Art Club's webpage.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
7th April 2014
Dear Friends,
Alice Bishop launched this year's lunchtime concert series with a very popular concert last week. There was a healthy audience of 50, many of whom stayed afterwards and tucked into the sandwiches being sold by Rialto Lounge. There's a definite Italian flavour to the catering this year. Any sandwiches left over are donated to Pitstop and to the former night shelter - now called Leatherhead Start.
This Thursday we welcome the first of our students from the Royal Academy of Music. Flautist Michelle Choi with her piano accompanist Snow Silu Wang will perform Mozart's D major Flute Concerto and Enesco's Cantabile et Presto. There is more information on this webpage.
Next week, on 16th April, we move to Wednesdays at Christ Church. Resident organist Anthony Cairns will be playing works from Buxtehude and Bach through Samuel Wesley, to William Walton, William Lloyd Webber (you may have heard of his famous sons), to Julien Bret, currently organist of St-Ambroise, Paris. Wednesdays at Christ Church concerts also start at 12.30, are free to enter with a retiring collection, and you will find the usual sandwiches from Rialto Lounge on sale in the church after the concert.
There is level access to the church and facilities at Christ Church, and plenty of parking on-site too. Full programme information is on this link.
After Easter we are back in Leatherhead Methodist Church on Thursday 24th April to hear a trio from the Royal Academy of Music. Flute, cello and piano works by two early 20th century composers - Gaubert and Martinů. Programme details are already available on this webpage.
Student commitments have meant some changes from the original programme leaflet you may have seen, so please do keep an eye on our diary page to keep abreast of what's on each week.
7.30pm, Sunday 13th April: Our friends at MAIASTRA have a concert this Sunday evening in St Andrews Church, Cobham. Vaughan Williams, Mozart and Dvořák works will be played by a quintet lead by Arisa Fujita, Professor at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. The qunitet includes local viola-player and former Yehudi Menuhin School pupil Elliott Perks. Full programme details for this free concert with retiring collection are on this link.
We look forward to seeing you at these concerts.
And finally . . . Leatherhead Art Club, whose members sketch our musicians as they play each week, have their Spring Art Exhibition starting this Friday. The venue is the former Help Shop in the High Street, almost facing our Sponsors - Rialto Lounge. More information on the Art Club's webpage.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
31st March 2014
Dear Friends,
Our 2014 Opening Concert takes place this Thursday lunchtime, 3rd April, at 12.30. Soprano Alice Bishop will be performing a varied programme of songs, accompanied by pianist Simon Marlow. Full details of their programme will be found on this linked webpage.
Next Thursday, 10th April, we welcome the first of this year's students from the Royal Academy of Music. Michelle Choi, flute, accompanied by Snow Wang Silu, piano, will play a Mozart flute concerto followed by Enescu's Cantabile and Presto. More about the players appears on this webpage.
Rialto Lounge will be with us after each lunchtime concert, selling sandwiches and drinks, so do stay and have a chat.
And there is plenty of other music-making in the area:
On Saturday 5th April, 7.30pm, Dorking Concertgoers have a concert given by Kimon Parry, clarinet and Tony Ingham, piano in the Martineau Hall at Dorking Halls. Tickets: £12 to £29 from 01306 740619. Click on the date for more information.
Also on Saturday 5th April 7.30pm, Epsom Chamber Choir, under their conductor Piers Maxim, will give a performance of Bach's St John Passion in St Martin's Church, Epsom Town Centre. The performance features period instruments from the Pavillion Ensemble. Tickets: £12, concessions £10, u15s £3.
Looking forward one further week, the next in the superb MAIASTRA concert series is on Sunday 13th April, 7.30pm in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. A quintet, led by Arisa Fujita, will perform works by Vaughan Williams, Mozart and Dvorak. MAIASTRA concerts are free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Please click ion the date for more information about this concert (which also plays in St Anne's Church, Kew Green on the preceding Friday, and at Ilminster Arts Centre on the Saturday evening).
We look forward to seeing our many regulars and plenty of newcomers at this year's Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church 12.30 lunchtime concerts. Everyone is very welcome - you will find the year's programme on our diary page.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church
31st March 2014
Dear Friends,
Our 2014 Opening Concert takes place this Thursday lunchtime, 3rd April, at 12.30. Soprano Alice Bishop will be performing a varied programme of songs, accompanied by pianist Simon Marlow. Full details of their programme will be found on this linked webpage.
Next Thursday, 10th April, we welcome the first of this year's students from the Royal Academy of Music. Michelle Choi, flute, accompanied by Snow Wang Silu, piano, will play a Mozart flute concerto followed by Enescu's Cantabile and Presto. More about the players appears on this webpage.
Rialto Lounge will be with us after each lunchtime concert, selling sandwiches and drinks, so do stay and have a chat.
And there is plenty of other music-making in the area:
On Saturday 5th April, 7.30pm, Dorking Concertgoers have a concert given by Kimon Parry, clarinet and Tony Ingham, piano in the Martineau Hall at Dorking Halls. Tickets: £12 to £29 from 01306 740619. Click on the date for more information.
Also on Saturday 5th April 7.30pm, Epsom Chamber Choir, under their conductor Piers Maxim, will give a performance of Bach's St John Passion in St Martin's Church, Epsom Town Centre. The performance features period instruments from the Pavillion Ensemble. Tickets: £12, concessions £10, u15s £3.
Looking forward one further week, the next in the superb MAIASTRA concert series is on Sunday 13th April, 7.30pm in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. A quintet, led by Arisa Fujita, will perform works by Vaughan Williams, Mozart and Dvorak. MAIASTRA concerts are free, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Please click ion the date for more information about this concert (which also plays in St Anne's Church, Kew Green on the preceding Friday, and at Ilminster Arts Centre on the Saturday evening).
We look forward to seeing our many regulars and plenty of newcomers at this year's Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church 12.30 lunchtime concerts. Everyone is very welcome - you will find the year's programme on our diary page.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
25th March 2014
Dear Friend,
Next week sees the first of this year's Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church (LMC). To open this third season we welcome soprano Alice Bishop, with her accompanist, Simon Marlow. Alice's programme of songs by Mozart, Haydn, Debussy, Richard Strauss and Frank Bridge is sure to delight our audience. Simon will be playing a Haydn piano solo for us too. Full details of their concert are on this linked webpage.
The following week the first of the year's Royal Academy of Music students join us. Flautist Michelle Choi and pianist Snow Wang Silu have chosen a flute concerto by Mozart and a piece by the early 20th century Romanian composer Enescu. Their programme and biographical notes are on this webpage.
The nearest car park for LMC is the one behind the Parish Church Hall further along Church Road.
This year's first organ concert will be given by Anthony Cairns, organist of Christ Church, Leatherhead, on Wednesday 16th April, also at 12.30, but in Christ Church itself, on Epsom Road, Leatherhead. Anthony's programme is listed on this webpage.
After each concert Rialto Lounge will be in the church selling sandwiches and drinks, giving us a chance to chat together and with the musicians. Members of Leatherhead Art Club also join us each week, sketching the musicians as they perform (which sounds like quite a challenge).
This coming Saturday evening, 29th March, at 7.30pm, also in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead's chamber choir AntiphoniA will be giving a concert entitled "I Sing of a Rose". Their programme features a selection of works on the subject of roses, with songs in a variety of styles from the early 16th century Senfl, to the more familiar Vaughan Williams and Howells, and living composers Paul Mealor and David Mooney. Full details are on this linked webpage.
You will find more details of the lunchtime concerts and of other music-making on these websites: www.musiconthursdays.org and www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
We look forward to seeing you at a concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
25th March 2014
Dear Friend,
Next week sees the first of this year's Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church (LMC). To open this third season we welcome soprano Alice Bishop, with her accompanist, Simon Marlow. Alice's programme of songs by Mozart, Haydn, Debussy, Richard Strauss and Frank Bridge is sure to delight our audience. Simon will be playing a Haydn piano solo for us too. Full details of their concert are on this linked webpage.
The following week the first of the year's Royal Academy of Music students join us. Flautist Michelle Choi and pianist Snow Wang Silu have chosen a flute concerto by Mozart and a piece by the early 20th century Romanian composer Enescu. Their programme and biographical notes are on this webpage.
The nearest car park for LMC is the one behind the Parish Church Hall further along Church Road.
This year's first organ concert will be given by Anthony Cairns, organist of Christ Church, Leatherhead, on Wednesday 16th April, also at 12.30, but in Christ Church itself, on Epsom Road, Leatherhead. Anthony's programme is listed on this webpage.
After each concert Rialto Lounge will be in the church selling sandwiches and drinks, giving us a chance to chat together and with the musicians. Members of Leatherhead Art Club also join us each week, sketching the musicians as they perform (which sounds like quite a challenge).
This coming Saturday evening, 29th March, at 7.30pm, also in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead's chamber choir AntiphoniA will be giving a concert entitled "I Sing of a Rose". Their programme features a selection of works on the subject of roses, with songs in a variety of styles from the early 16th century Senfl, to the more familiar Vaughan Williams and Howells, and living composers Paul Mealor and David Mooney. Full details are on this linked webpage.
You will find more details of the lunchtime concerts and of other music-making on these websites: www.musiconthursdays.org and www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
We look forward to seeing you at a concert soon.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
17 March 2014
Dear Friends,
Our Programme Director Graham Davies is playing this Thursday's free lunchtime organ concert in St Martin's Church, in the centre of Dorking. A fine player, a great instrument, and a superb acoustic. We hope to see many of you at Graham's 1pm concert. There will be a voluntary collection at the end of the concert.
Alice Bishop's programme for this year's Music on Thursdays opening concert on Thursday April 3rd is now ready on this linked webpage. Flautist Michelle Choi has been in touch too, and has sent us her programme and more information about herself and her Royal Academy of Music colleague Snow Wang Silu. You will find information about their 10th April concert on this link.
Anthony Cairns plays the season's first organ concert at Christ Church, Epsom Road, on Wednesday 16th April. Anthony's programme is ready on this webpage.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of music choices for you this coming weekend, including:
Saturday 22nd March, 8pm - Oxshott & Cobham Music Society's CELEBRITY CONCERT, in Holy Trinity Church, Claygate, features Benjamin Grosvenor, piano, performing works by Mendelssohn ♦ Schubert ♦ Schumann ♦ Medtner ♦ Mompou ♦ Ravel ♦ Strauss. Tickets for non-members are £18 (8-25yr FREE).
There's also a pre-concert talk at 6.50pm, from Roy Stratford of the Wigmore Hall, who will talk about the works to be performed this evening (Free with retiring collection - talk only).
Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm - Dorking Concertgoers - Navarra String Quartet play Schubert ♦ Haydn ♦ Beethoven
Tickets: £12 to £29 01306 740619 - venue: Dorking Halls
Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm - Ashtead Choral Society - Mozart Requiem - Tickets: £12 (£10 unreserved) in Epsom's St Martin of Tours Church
Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm - The King's Men (Choral Scholars of Kings College Cambridge) perform a variety of works including Byrd ♦ Broadway ♦ Beach Boys, at Holy Trinity Church, Westcott. Tickets: £15 from 01 306 877 940 & margaret [dot] stephen [at] cantab [dot] net
And next Saturday in Leatherhead - Saturday 29th March, 7.30pm - AntiphoniA - Leatherhead Chamber Choir, a concert entitled "I sing of a Rose" with choral works by Bax, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Mancini, MacMillan, Mealor, Gardner, and Senfl, directed by Anthony Cairns. Tickets: £10 (£3 students) incl refreshments, in Leatherhead's Christ Church, Epsom Road (ample parking on site).
If you haven't had a chance to see it yet, do please take a look at the lunchtime season's full programme which you'll find in last week's newsletter below our signatures (as a poster) or on the diary page.
Enjoy your music-making and your listening !
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays & Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
17 March 2014
Dear Friends,
Our Programme Director Graham Davies is playing this Thursday's free lunchtime organ concert in St Martin's Church, in the centre of Dorking. A fine player, a great instrument, and a superb acoustic. We hope to see many of you at Graham's 1pm concert. There will be a voluntary collection at the end of the concert.
Alice Bishop's programme for this year's Music on Thursdays opening concert on Thursday April 3rd is now ready on this linked webpage. Flautist Michelle Choi has been in touch too, and has sent us her programme and more information about herself and her Royal Academy of Music colleague Snow Wang Silu. You will find information about their 10th April concert on this link.
Anthony Cairns plays the season's first organ concert at Christ Church, Epsom Road, on Wednesday 16th April. Anthony's programme is ready on this webpage.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of music choices for you this coming weekend, including:
Saturday 22nd March, 8pm - Oxshott & Cobham Music Society's CELEBRITY CONCERT, in Holy Trinity Church, Claygate, features Benjamin Grosvenor, piano, performing works by Mendelssohn ♦ Schubert ♦ Schumann ♦ Medtner ♦ Mompou ♦ Ravel ♦ Strauss. Tickets for non-members are £18 (8-25yr FREE).
There's also a pre-concert talk at 6.50pm, from Roy Stratford of the Wigmore Hall, who will talk about the works to be performed this evening (Free with retiring collection - talk only).
Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm - Dorking Concertgoers - Navarra String Quartet play Schubert ♦ Haydn ♦ Beethoven
Tickets: £12 to £29 01306 740619 - venue: Dorking Halls
Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm - Ashtead Choral Society - Mozart Requiem - Tickets: £12 (£10 unreserved) in Epsom's St Martin of Tours Church
Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm - The King's Men (Choral Scholars of Kings College Cambridge) perform a variety of works including Byrd ♦ Broadway ♦ Beach Boys, at Holy Trinity Church, Westcott. Tickets: £15 from 01 306 877 940 & margaret [dot] stephen [at] cantab [dot] net
And next Saturday in Leatherhead - Saturday 29th March, 7.30pm - AntiphoniA - Leatherhead Chamber Choir, a concert entitled "I sing of a Rose" with choral works by Bax, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Mancini, MacMillan, Mealor, Gardner, and Senfl, directed by Anthony Cairns. Tickets: £10 (£3 students) incl refreshments, in Leatherhead's Christ Church, Epsom Road (ample parking on site).
If you haven't had a chance to see it yet, do please take a look at the lunchtime season's full programme which you'll find in last week's newsletter below our signatures (as a poster) or on the diary page.
Enjoy your music-making and your listening !
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays & Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays and Wednesdays at Christ Church
10 March 2014
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead's Lunchtime concerts will be in their third year when they start again on Thursday 3rd April. The popular local soprano Alice Bishop gives this year's opening concert, supported by piano accompanist Simon Marlow - and Simon will be playing a piano solo this time too. Alice's programme will be on this webpage once it is ready.
If you are a regular in Leatherhead's High Street you may have noticed changes at the Trattoria. The new owners (who took over last year) have transformed the place into the Rialto Lounge Wine Restaurant. And the terrific news for us is that they want to continue the association with lunchtime concerts, selling sandwiches and drinks after each concert.
We are also pleased to announce continuing support for this year's concerts from sponsor Patricia Morgan Optician, of Bridge Street Leatherhead.
10 March 2014
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead's Lunchtime concerts will be in their third year when they start again on Thursday 3rd April. The popular local soprano Alice Bishop gives this year's opening concert, supported by piano accompanist Simon Marlow - and Simon will be playing a piano solo this time too. Alice's programme will be on this webpage once it is ready.
If you are a regular in Leatherhead's High Street you may have noticed changes at the Trattoria. The new owners (who took over last year) have transformed the place into the Rialto Lounge Wine Restaurant. And the terrific news for us is that they want to continue the association with lunchtime concerts, selling sandwiches and drinks after each concert.
We are also pleased to announce continuing support for this year's concerts from sponsor Patricia Morgan Optician, of Bridge Street Leatherhead.
LCAS
The lunchtime concert series is also supported by the charity "Leatherhead Concert and Arts Society" (LCAS) whose members held their annual meeting at the end of February. After accepting the financial report (all's well), the meeting went on to elect Trustees for this year. They are: Graham Davies, Peter Steadman, Peter Bailey, John Burrows-Watson and Peter Horsfield.
The Society exists to provide financial support for the concert series as the collection after each individual concert doesn't always cover that day's costs, and there are of course administrative and promotional expenses too. LCAS is registered as a charity with HM Revenue & Customs, but this year it will also have to register with the Charity Commission.
If you would like to join the Society please click on this link to go to the LCAS page or pick up a form at one of the concerts. Membership requires a donation of at least £20 and lasts for three years. Please don't view donation as a "season ticket" to free concerts! There would be very few concerts if membership were our only source of income.
MORE CONCERTS
There is plenty of music-making in the area this month:Next Saturday 15th March 7.30pm - Trio Con Brio, from Copenhagen perform piano trios by Haydn, Martin & Tchaikovsky, tickets £12 (school pupils £3) at Banstead's Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ
Also next Saturday 15th March, 7.30pm - Ripieno Choir will perform "A Calendar of Bach Cantatas" - his cantatas set to the texts for Sundays and Festivals from Advent Sunday, through Christmas, Lent Easter, and on to Advent 27. Tickets £15 in advance, £17 on the door at All Saints' Church, Weston Green (off Hampton Court Way) Esher KT10 8JL
At 1pm on Thursday 20th March, MoT's own Programme Director, Graham Davies, is the soloist in an organ recital in St Martin's Church. Unusually for church recitals, the organ console is placed in the centre of the church so the player is visible throughout the concert. Graham is the organist of St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes, Middlesex, and gives regular recitals in churches and cathedrals at home and abroad.
The following Saturday, 22nd March, at 8pm, Oxshott & Cobham Music Society have their CELEBRITY CONCERT given by Benjamin Grosvenor, piano, who will play works by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Medtner, Mompou, Ravel & Strauss. There is a Pre-concert talk at 6.50pm by Roy Stratford of the Wigmore Hall, who will talk about the works to be performed this evening (talk only - FRC)
Concert Tickets: 8-25yrs FREE, Non-members £18, in Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, Claygate.
On the same evening, Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm, in Dorking Halls, Dorking Concertgoers host a concert by the Navarra String Quartet
of works by Schubert, Haydn & Beethoven. Tickets: £12 to £29 01306 740619
Ashtead Choral Society's performance of Mozart's Requiem is also on Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm. Tickets: £12 (£10 unreserved)
Epsom: St Martin of Tours Church
And the final choice we have for Saturday 22nd March, at 7.30pm, is The King's Men, Choral Scholars of Kings College Cambridge, singing works including Byrd, Broadway & the Beach Boys ! That's in Holy Trinity Church, Westcott, Dorking. Tickets: £15 from 01 306 ♦ 877 940 and
margaret [dot] stephen [at] cantab [dot] net
On Saturday 29th March, at 7.30pm. AntiphoniA - Leatherhead's Chamber Choir have a concert entitled "I sing of a Rose", with choral works by Bax, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Mancini, MacMillan, Mealor, Gardner, & Senfl. Tickets: £10 (£3 students) incl refreshments, and the venue is
Leatherhead's Christ Church, on Epsom Road. that rarity - a church with plenty of on-site parking.
We hope you enjoy your choice from these concerts, and we look forward to welcoming you to Leatherhead Methodist Church for the first of this year's lunchtime concerts at 12.30 on Thursday 3rd April.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays & Wednesdays at Christ Church
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The lunchtime concert series is also supported by the charity "Leatherhead Concert and Arts Society" (LCAS) whose members held their annual meeting at the end of February. After accepting the financial report (all's well), the meeting went on to elect Trustees for this year. They are: Graham Davies, Peter Steadman, Peter Bailey, John Burrows-Watson and Peter Horsfield.
The Society exists to provide financial support for the concert series as the collection after each individual concert doesn't always cover that day's costs, and there are of course administrative and promotional expenses too. LCAS is registered as a charity with HM Revenue & Customs, but this year it will also have to register with the Charity Commission.
If you would like to join the Society please click on this link to go to the LCAS page or pick up a form at one of the concerts. Membership requires a donation of at least £20 and lasts for three years. Please don't view donation as a "season ticket" to free concerts! There would be very few concerts if membership were our only source of income.
MORE CONCERTS
There is plenty of music-making in the area this month:Next Saturday 15th March 7.30pm - Trio Con Brio, from Copenhagen perform piano trios by Haydn, Martin & Tchaikovsky, tickets £12 (school pupils £3) at Banstead's Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ
Also next Saturday 15th March, 7.30pm - Ripieno Choir will perform "A Calendar of Bach Cantatas" - his cantatas set to the texts for Sundays and Festivals from Advent Sunday, through Christmas, Lent Easter, and on to Advent 27. Tickets £15 in advance, £17 on the door at All Saints' Church, Weston Green (off Hampton Court Way) Esher KT10 8JL
At 1pm on Thursday 20th March, MoT's own Programme Director, Graham Davies, is the soloist in an organ recital in St Martin's Church. Unusually for church recitals, the organ console is placed in the centre of the church so the player is visible throughout the concert. Graham is the organist of St Mary the Virgin Church, Hayes, Middlesex, and gives regular recitals in churches and cathedrals at home and abroad.
The following Saturday, 22nd March, at 8pm, Oxshott & Cobham Music Society have their CELEBRITY CONCERT given by Benjamin Grosvenor, piano, who will play works by Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Medtner, Mompou, Ravel & Strauss. There is a Pre-concert talk at 6.50pm by Roy Stratford of the Wigmore Hall, who will talk about the works to be performed this evening (talk only - FRC)
Concert Tickets: 8-25yrs FREE, Non-members £18, in Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, Claygate.
On the same evening, Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm, in Dorking Halls, Dorking Concertgoers host a concert by the Navarra String Quartet
of works by Schubert, Haydn & Beethoven. Tickets: £12 to £29 01306 740619
Ashtead Choral Society's performance of Mozart's Requiem is also on Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm. Tickets: £12 (£10 unreserved)
Epsom: St Martin of Tours Church
And the final choice we have for Saturday 22nd March, at 7.30pm, is The King's Men, Choral Scholars of Kings College Cambridge, singing works including Byrd, Broadway & the Beach Boys ! That's in Holy Trinity Church, Westcott, Dorking. Tickets: £15 from 01 306 ♦ 877 940 and
margaret [dot] stephen [at] cantab [dot] net
On Saturday 29th March, at 7.30pm. AntiphoniA - Leatherhead's Chamber Choir have a concert entitled "I sing of a Rose", with choral works by Bax, Vaughan Williams, Howells, Mancini, MacMillan, Mealor, Gardner, & Senfl. Tickets: £10 (£3 students) incl refreshments, and the venue is
Leatherhead's Christ Church, on Epsom Road. that rarity - a church with plenty of on-site parking.
We hope you enjoy your choice from these concerts, and we look forward to welcoming you to Leatherhead Methodist Church for the first of this year's lunchtime concerts at 12.30 on Thursday 3rd April.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays & Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays with Wednesdays at Christ Church
and
Music in Surrey
21 January 2014
Dear Friend,
Apologies for a long email this week. Below our diary section you will find a letter on behalf of Pitstop.
When we last mentioned Pitstop it was clear the floods had been disastrous for them. The letter below tells what the cost is going to be. Your £5, £20 or £100 donation, your workplace collection, or adding an appeal to your own website - anything you decide to do will certainly help Pitstop return to normal operations.
Now to the music! Soprano Alice Bishop is giving next Sunday's 7pm concert at Mickleham Church. Alice has given several local concerts, including two for Music on Thursdays. She and her pianist Simon Marlow always put together a lovely programme (click here or on the concert date below to reach a webpage with full details).
Concerts the following weekend include the Doric String Quartet in Claygate, and prize-winning pianist Oxana Shevchenko playing in Banstead. More details by clicking dates in the diary below.
We have started to include the FREE Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Recital Series at the South Bank's Purcell Room. Some of our lunchtime players hold Martin Musical Scholarships, they are performances of outstanding quality, and they are just a train ride away. They also add something for friends and family who work in London and miss out on our lunchtime concerts.
News too of the next MAIASTRA concert - to be played in Cobham and in Twickenham (so do please send this on to friends with TW postcodes) ! Last week's concert in Stoke d'Abernon Church was absolutely stunning - they always are. Feb 5th & 6th - definitely dates for the diary.
We've heard there are a few places remaining on the Sunday 2nd March coach to RAF St Clement Danes (the magnificently restored church in London's Strand) for a concert by the City of Oxford Choir, under Duncan Aspden's baton. Click on this sentence for more details and booking form.
And finally, it is reassuring to find new musical talent coming along. Do follow this link to read about a Fetcham lad's composing success with the National Youth Orchestra.
Happy music-making and -listening to you all.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
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THE DIARY SECTION
Sunday 26th January 7pm
Sundays at Seven
Alice Bishop, soprano & Simon Marlow, piano (click dateline for full song programme)
Tickets: £8 at the door, under 19 free
Mickleham: St Michael's Church
Saturday 1st February, 8pm
Oxshott & Cobham Music Society
Doric String Quartet play Haydn, Korngold, and Beethoven
Tickets: 8-25yrs FREE, Non-members £16
Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, Church Road
Saturday 1st February 7.30pm
Oxana Shevchenko, piano (1st Prize Scottish International Piano Competition 2012)
Schubert, Liszt, Bartok, Chopin, Ravel, Enescu
Tickets: £12 (school pupils £3)
Banstead: Community Hall, Park Rd, SM7 3AJ
Monday 3rd February, 7.45pm - FREE
Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Recital Series
Busch Ensemble play Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms
Mathieu van Bellen, violin - Jonathan Bloxham, cello - Omri Epstein, piano
Tickets: Free - available by calling FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717
London South Bank: Purcell Room, SE1
Wednesday 5th February, 7.30pm - FRC
MAIASTRA - play Webern - Mendelssohn - Ravel Quartets
Arisa Fujita, leader, violin - Eunsley Park, violin
Tetsuumi Nagata, viola - Matthijs Broersma, cello
Cobham: St Andrew's Church
Thursday 6th February, 7.30pm - FRC
MAIASTRA - same concert as above
Twickenham: St Mary's Church
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HOW YOU CAN HELP PITSTOP GET BACK ON ITS FEET
Dear Friends,
Firstly a big thank you to everyone who has already donated to my collection for Pit Stop, the Day Centre for the Homeless in Leatherhead that was completely flooded out by The River Mole. With pledges, over £600 has already been donated! This amazing local charity needs our help NOW!
To those of you I have not yet had a chance to discuss this with, I have recently spoken to Pit Stop. They are devastated - they are at least £30,000 down as the insurance will not cover all the damage. They are 100% dependent on voluntary donations and receive no government/council funding. They have had to move to Fetcham Village Hall, which they have to pay rent for. So I am asking you if you would like to contribute to helping them. If you would, please do drop in any donation to me (cash, or cheque made out to Pit Stop), give it to me when you see me, or post it to me. Donations can be gift-aided by writing a note with your name and address, the amount of the donation and saying you wish to gift-aid it. I can give you a receipt if required.
After a couple of weeks I will take the collection to Pit Stop from you all and I will keep you posted.
Thank you again, With love,
Gillian Russell
P.S. Please do pass this on and tell any of your friends/family who might like to help
“St Dominic”16 Woodfield Lane, Ashtead KT21 2BE
OR CLICK HERE TO GIVE THROUGH PITSTOP'S "VIRGIN GIVING" WEBPAGE
and
Music in Surrey
21 January 2014
Dear Friend,
Apologies for a long email this week. Below our diary section you will find a letter on behalf of Pitstop.
When we last mentioned Pitstop it was clear the floods had been disastrous for them. The letter below tells what the cost is going to be. Your £5, £20 or £100 donation, your workplace collection, or adding an appeal to your own website - anything you decide to do will certainly help Pitstop return to normal operations.
Now to the music! Soprano Alice Bishop is giving next Sunday's 7pm concert at Mickleham Church. Alice has given several local concerts, including two for Music on Thursdays. She and her pianist Simon Marlow always put together a lovely programme (click here or on the concert date below to reach a webpage with full details).
Concerts the following weekend include the Doric String Quartet in Claygate, and prize-winning pianist Oxana Shevchenko playing in Banstead. More details by clicking dates in the diary below.
We have started to include the FREE Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Recital Series at the South Bank's Purcell Room. Some of our lunchtime players hold Martin Musical Scholarships, they are performances of outstanding quality, and they are just a train ride away. They also add something for friends and family who work in London and miss out on our lunchtime concerts.
News too of the next MAIASTRA concert - to be played in Cobham and in Twickenham (so do please send this on to friends with TW postcodes) ! Last week's concert in Stoke d'Abernon Church was absolutely stunning - they always are. Feb 5th & 6th - definitely dates for the diary.
We've heard there are a few places remaining on the Sunday 2nd March coach to RAF St Clement Danes (the magnificently restored church in London's Strand) for a concert by the City of Oxford Choir, under Duncan Aspden's baton. Click on this sentence for more details and booking form.
And finally, it is reassuring to find new musical talent coming along. Do follow this link to read about a Fetcham lad's composing success with the National Youth Orchestra.
Happy music-making and -listening to you all.
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
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THE DIARY SECTION
Sunday 26th January 7pm
Sundays at Seven
Alice Bishop, soprano & Simon Marlow, piano (click dateline for full song programme)
Tickets: £8 at the door, under 19 free
Mickleham: St Michael's Church
Saturday 1st February, 8pm
Oxshott & Cobham Music Society
Doric String Quartet play Haydn, Korngold, and Beethoven
Tickets: 8-25yrs FREE, Non-members £16
Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, Church Road
Saturday 1st February 7.30pm
Oxana Shevchenko, piano (1st Prize Scottish International Piano Competition 2012)
Schubert, Liszt, Bartok, Chopin, Ravel, Enescu
Tickets: £12 (school pupils £3)
Banstead: Community Hall, Park Rd, SM7 3AJ
Monday 3rd February, 7.45pm - FREE
Martin Musical Scholarship Fund Recital Series
Busch Ensemble play Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms
Mathieu van Bellen, violin - Jonathan Bloxham, cello - Omri Epstein, piano
Tickets: Free - available by calling FREEPHONE 0800 652 6717
London South Bank: Purcell Room, SE1
Wednesday 5th February, 7.30pm - FRC
MAIASTRA - play Webern - Mendelssohn - Ravel Quartets
Arisa Fujita, leader, violin - Eunsley Park, violin
Tetsuumi Nagata, viola - Matthijs Broersma, cello
Cobham: St Andrew's Church
Thursday 6th February, 7.30pm - FRC
MAIASTRA - same concert as above
Twickenham: St Mary's Church
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HOW YOU CAN HELP PITSTOP GET BACK ON ITS FEET
Dear Friends,
Firstly a big thank you to everyone who has already donated to my collection for Pit Stop, the Day Centre for the Homeless in Leatherhead that was completely flooded out by The River Mole. With pledges, over £600 has already been donated! This amazing local charity needs our help NOW!
To those of you I have not yet had a chance to discuss this with, I have recently spoken to Pit Stop. They are devastated - they are at least £30,000 down as the insurance will not cover all the damage. They are 100% dependent on voluntary donations and receive no government/council funding. They have had to move to Fetcham Village Hall, which they have to pay rent for. So I am asking you if you would like to contribute to helping them. If you would, please do drop in any donation to me (cash, or cheque made out to Pit Stop), give it to me when you see me, or post it to me. Donations can be gift-aided by writing a note with your name and address, the amount of the donation and saying you wish to gift-aid it. I can give you a receipt if required.
After a couple of weeks I will take the collection to Pit Stop from you all and I will keep you posted.
Thank you again, With love,
Gillian Russell
P.S. Please do pass this on and tell any of your friends/family who might like to help
“St Dominic”16 Woodfield Lane, Ashtead KT21 2BE
OR CLICK HERE TO GIVE THROUGH PITSTOP'S "VIRGIN GIVING" WEBPAGE
Music on Thursdays with Wednesdays at Christ Church
7 January 2014
Dear Friend,
We hope you haven't got your feet wet - or worse. The water came rather too close here, reaching Domino's pizza and flooding the football club and Pitstop on the way.
The flood has been devastating for Pitstop so if you can help with a donation (large or small) you'll find a link on our homepage here.
Our friends Emily Andrews (flute) and David Massey (guitar) released a new CD before Christmas. If you'd like to try those familiar Christmas tunes with a more folk style take a look at their website: www.makemerry.eu where you will find full details.
Graham Davies and Anthony Cairns are busy planning this year's lunchtime concerts and organ recitals which all get underway in April. Meanwhile you'll find a few headlines for concerts in the coming weeks lower down the page.
We wish you a very Happy New Year !
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Please click on each headline for more information:
Thursday 9th January 1.00 to 1.50pm - FRC
Lunchtime Recitals
Martin Ellis 151, organ [Martin retires later this year, so this is one not to be missed - and St Martin's has an excellent acoustic]
Dorking: St Martin's Church
Saturday 11th January, 10am to 16.15pm (no weblink available)
Leatherhead Quartet Study Day
Tutor: Abigail Dance
Tchaikovsky Quartet no. 1 Opus 11 (For players of minimum Grade 5 standard)
Details: j.cangley (AT) btinternet . com
Saturday 11th January, **5.45pm** Oxshott & Cobham Music Society
with MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, leader, violin,
Henry Tong, violin, Tetsuumi Nagata, viola, Hannah Sloane, cello, Elaine Ruby, clarinet
Chacony - Purcell/Britten
Mendelssohn string quartet in E minor Op.44/2
Brahms Clarinet Quintet
Tickets: 8-25yrs FREE, Non-members £16
Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, church Road
Saturday 11th January, 7.30pm
Dorking Concertgoers
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Philip Quint, violin (Dvorák)
Verdi, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky
Tickets: £12 to £29 01306 740619
Dorking: Dorking Halls
Sunday 12th January 7.30pm - FRC
MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, leader, violin,
Henry Tong, violin, Tetsuumi Nagata, viola, Hannah Sloane, cello, Elaine Ruby, clarinet
Chacony - Purcell/Britten
Mendelssohn's string quartet in E minor Op.44/2
Brahms Clarinet Quintet
Cobham: St Andrew's Church
Sunday 26th January 7pm
Sundays at Seven
following very well-received local concerts in Guildford, and for Music on Thursdays:
Alice Bishop, soprano
Simon Marlow, piano
please click dateline for full song programme
Tickets: £8 at the door, under 19 free
Mickleham: St Michael's Church
www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
7 January 2014
Dear Friend,
We hope you haven't got your feet wet - or worse. The water came rather too close here, reaching Domino's pizza and flooding the football club and Pitstop on the way.
The flood has been devastating for Pitstop so if you can help with a donation (large or small) you'll find a link on our homepage here.
Our friends Emily Andrews (flute) and David Massey (guitar) released a new CD before Christmas. If you'd like to try those familiar Christmas tunes with a more folk style take a look at their website: www.makemerry.eu where you will find full details.
Graham Davies and Anthony Cairns are busy planning this year's lunchtime concerts and organ recitals which all get underway in April. Meanwhile you'll find a few headlines for concerts in the coming weeks lower down the page.
We wish you a very Happy New Year !
Graham Davies & Peter Steadman
Music on Thursdays
Please click on each headline for more information:
Thursday 9th January 1.00 to 1.50pm - FRC
Lunchtime Recitals
Martin Ellis 151, organ [Martin retires later this year, so this is one not to be missed - and St Martin's has an excellent acoustic]
Dorking: St Martin's Church
Saturday 11th January, 10am to 16.15pm (no weblink available)
Leatherhead Quartet Study Day
Tutor: Abigail Dance
Tchaikovsky Quartet no. 1 Opus 11 (For players of minimum Grade 5 standard)
Details: j.cangley (AT) btinternet . com
Saturday 11th January, **5.45pm** Oxshott & Cobham Music Society
with MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, leader, violin,
Henry Tong, violin, Tetsuumi Nagata, viola, Hannah Sloane, cello, Elaine Ruby, clarinet
Chacony - Purcell/Britten
Mendelssohn string quartet in E minor Op.44/2
Brahms Clarinet Quintet
Tickets: 8-25yrs FREE, Non-members £16
Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, church Road
Saturday 11th January, 7.30pm
Dorking Concertgoers
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Philip Quint, violin (Dvorák)
Verdi, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky
Tickets: £12 to £29 01306 740619
Dorking: Dorking Halls
Sunday 12th January 7.30pm - FRC
MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, leader, violin,
Henry Tong, violin, Tetsuumi Nagata, viola, Hannah Sloane, cello, Elaine Ruby, clarinet
Chacony - Purcell/Britten
Mendelssohn's string quartet in E minor Op.44/2
Brahms Clarinet Quintet
Cobham: St Andrew's Church
Sunday 26th January 7pm
Sundays at Seven
following very well-received local concerts in Guildford, and for Music on Thursdays:
Alice Bishop, soprano
Simon Marlow, piano
please click dateline for full song programme
Tickets: £8 at the door, under 19 free
Mickleham: St Michael's Church
www.musicinsurrey.co.uk
