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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
9th December 2016
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
9th December 2016
Dear Friends,
We don't expect to bring you hot news during the winter break, but this week has been a significant one in the life of Leatherhead Concert & Arts.
Alongside our long-term relationship with the Royal Academy of Music, we have agreed to work with the London College of Music on a small number of concerts for 2017 and beyond. The college's 1,000 or so students cover a broad range of classical studies, jazz, musical theatre, and music technology. LCM provides courses for musicians from the strong A-level and Grade 8 student through to working musicians in the army's London-based Guards regiments. |
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Early in the New Year we will finalise how we bring some of LCM's talented young musicians into our concert programme. Suffice to say, we are exploring an opera-based idea to launch our connection at the 6th April opening concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church (I was going to put 'LMC' but it felt like an abbreviation too far.)
If you'd like to find out more about the London College of Music here is a link to their website. They have plenty of events open to the public, including their current production of West Side Story, as part of the UWL Shakespeare400 series. |
Let's look at events a little nearer to home, as we approach Christmas. The theme will be clear in this listing, with just a few refreshing exceptions. FRC against a date means the event is free with a retiring collection (either to cover costs or in aid of charity).
The following listings are drawn from our sister site: musicinsurrey.co.uk
The following listings are drawn from our sister site: musicinsurrey.co.uk
Saturday 10th December 3pm • Epsom Chamber Choir • Carols for All the Family • A one hour concert of festive carols, songs and readings which help bring alive the magic of the season • Tickets: £4 adult, £2 child (or family entry £12) • Epsom: St Martin's Church, Church St, KT17 4PX
Saturday 10th December **5.00pm • Dorking Chamber Orchestra, with Janina Byrne, flute • Yeo Yat-Soon, harpsichord
Clare Kennington, leader • Peter Fender, conductor • John Marsh (born Dorking, 1752): Symphony 4 in F major • JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major • Rutter: Suite Antique • Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major • Tickets: £14 (60+ £12, students £7, u15s free) • Bookham: St Nicolas's Church
Saturday 10th December 6.30pm • Surrey Hills Family Christmas Concert • with Surrey Hills Chamber Choir, Singers, Young Voices, and Training Choir • Christmas songs & carols • Tickets: £10 (u16 £4) • Cranleigh: Village Hall, Village Way, GU6 8AF
Saturday 10th December 7.30pm • Surrey Mozart Players with Sarah Bennett, flute • Kenneth Woods, conductor • Milhaud: Le Bœuf sur le Toit • Gounod: Petite Symphonie for Wind • Ibert: Flute Concerto • Poulenc: Suite Les Biches • Tickets: £19, child £9.50 • Guildford: The Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, GU1 4SZ
Saturday 10th December 7.30pm • Epsom Chamber Choir • Peace on Earth: A concert of Christmas Music including Finzi: In Terra Pax • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols • Tickets: in advance £12 (u25 £8); on door £15 (£10) • Epsom: St Martin's Church, Church St, KT17 4PX
Saturday 10th December 7.30pm - FRC • MAIASTRA • Arisa Fujita, violin (leader) • David Lopez, violin • Francesca Gilbert, viola • Kieran Carter, cello • Haydn: String quartet in D major Op 64 No. 5 The Lark • Ravel: String quartet in F major • Mendelssohn: String quartet in F minor Op 80 • Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 HIgh Street, TW8 0DU (repeated in Cobham on Monday)
Sunday 11th December 4.30pm - FRC • English Arts Chorale • Carol Concert, entitled Have You Heard the Story ?
Tickets: £12 • Balcombe: St Mary's Church, RH17 6PX
Sunday 11th December 6.30pm - FRC • Farnham Youth Choir • Christmas Words and Music • Farnham: United Reformed Church, South Street, GU9 7QU
Sunday 11th December 8pm • Surrey Hills Candlelit Christmas Concert with Surrey Hills Chamber Choir • Surrey Hills Singers • Christmas songs, Messiah highlights, carols • Tickets: £12 (u16 £5) • Guildford: St Nicolas Church, Bury Street, GU2 4AW
Monday 12th December 7.30pm - FRC • MAIASTRA • Arisa Fujita, violin (leader) • David Lopez, violin • Francesca Gilbert, viola • Kieran Carter, cello • Haydn: String quartet in D major Op 64 No. 5 The Lark • Ravel: String quartet in F major • Mendelssohn: String quartet in F minor Op 80 • Cobham: St Andrew's Church, KT11 3EJ (same concert in Brentford on Saturday)
Wednesday 14th December 1.10pm - FRC • Oliver MacFarlane, Organ Recitalist • plays the Saxon Aldred organ • Guildford: St Mary's, Quarry Street
We are looking forward to our AGM at 2pm on Thursday 23rd February, and that will be followed at 3pm by the AGM concert. The performers will be piano duo Jan & Ian Assersohn - four hands on one piano. A merry sound to look forward to, and everyone is welcome to come to the AGM or the concert - or both.
Until then, enjoy your choice of the musical selection above, and good luck with those Christmas preparations !
Saturday 10th December **5.00pm • Dorking Chamber Orchestra, with Janina Byrne, flute • Yeo Yat-Soon, harpsichord
Clare Kennington, leader • Peter Fender, conductor • John Marsh (born Dorking, 1752): Symphony 4 in F major • JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 in D major • Rutter: Suite Antique • Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major • Tickets: £14 (60+ £12, students £7, u15s free) • Bookham: St Nicolas's Church
Saturday 10th December 6.30pm • Surrey Hills Family Christmas Concert • with Surrey Hills Chamber Choir, Singers, Young Voices, and Training Choir • Christmas songs & carols • Tickets: £10 (u16 £4) • Cranleigh: Village Hall, Village Way, GU6 8AF
Saturday 10th December 7.30pm • Surrey Mozart Players with Sarah Bennett, flute • Kenneth Woods, conductor • Milhaud: Le Bœuf sur le Toit • Gounod: Petite Symphonie for Wind • Ibert: Flute Concerto • Poulenc: Suite Les Biches • Tickets: £19, child £9.50 • Guildford: The Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, GU1 4SZ
Saturday 10th December 7.30pm • Epsom Chamber Choir • Peace on Earth: A concert of Christmas Music including Finzi: In Terra Pax • Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols • Tickets: in advance £12 (u25 £8); on door £15 (£10) • Epsom: St Martin's Church, Church St, KT17 4PX
Saturday 10th December 7.30pm - FRC • MAIASTRA • Arisa Fujita, violin (leader) • David Lopez, violin • Francesca Gilbert, viola • Kieran Carter, cello • Haydn: String quartet in D major Op 64 No. 5 The Lark • Ravel: String quartet in F major • Mendelssohn: String quartet in F minor Op 80 • Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 HIgh Street, TW8 0DU (repeated in Cobham on Monday)
Sunday 11th December 4.30pm - FRC • English Arts Chorale • Carol Concert, entitled Have You Heard the Story ?
Tickets: £12 • Balcombe: St Mary's Church, RH17 6PX
Sunday 11th December 6.30pm - FRC • Farnham Youth Choir • Christmas Words and Music • Farnham: United Reformed Church, South Street, GU9 7QU
Sunday 11th December 8pm • Surrey Hills Candlelit Christmas Concert with Surrey Hills Chamber Choir • Surrey Hills Singers • Christmas songs, Messiah highlights, carols • Tickets: £12 (u16 £5) • Guildford: St Nicolas Church, Bury Street, GU2 4AW
Monday 12th December 7.30pm - FRC • MAIASTRA • Arisa Fujita, violin (leader) • David Lopez, violin • Francesca Gilbert, viola • Kieran Carter, cello • Haydn: String quartet in D major Op 64 No. 5 The Lark • Ravel: String quartet in F major • Mendelssohn: String quartet in F minor Op 80 • Cobham: St Andrew's Church, KT11 3EJ (same concert in Brentford on Saturday)
Wednesday 14th December 1.10pm - FRC • Oliver MacFarlane, Organ Recitalist • plays the Saxon Aldred organ • Guildford: St Mary's, Quarry Street
We are looking forward to our AGM at 2pm on Thursday 23rd February, and that will be followed at 3pm by the AGM concert. The performers will be piano duo Jan & Ian Assersohn - four hands on one piano. A merry sound to look forward to, and everyone is welcome to come to the AGM or the concert - or both.
Until then, enjoy your choice of the musical selection above, and good luck with those Christmas preparations !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity School Project
21st November 2016
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity School Project
21st November 2016
Dear Friends,
Flautist Emily Andrews and classical guitarist David Massey will be the performers in this week's Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Together, they are the Andrews Massey Duo.
In a concert with a strong flavour of Advent and Christmas they will slip in a couple of works by JS Bach and his Italian contemporary Francisco Durante. Emily and David have titled our concert 'make merry' - which is also the title of their seasonal CD - on sale after the concert. (Might that solve a couple of your Christmas present conundrums ?)
The Duo's performing day will begin a lot earlier when they go into Leatherhead Trinity School to play for, and to demonstrate their instruments to, the pupils there. Children's reactions to live music can be quite striking. The big question of the day may turn out to be whether a smaller instrument will produce a higher or a lower sound than a larger one. Opinions can be very divided until the pupils hear a flute, followed by a piccolo !
There will probably be gentle swaying to the music, spontaneous clapping to the beat, as there was when we took the five men of Mardi Brass into the School last summer.
As Emily and David will be playing Christmas tunes, there will surely be some singing too!
We have set ourselves the demanding task of funding both our own concert and the work at Leatherhead Trinity School. For those who can, that means trying to double our usual concert donation.
As Emily and David will be playing Christmas tunes, there will surely be some singing too!
We have set ourselves the demanding task of funding both our own concert and the work at Leatherhead Trinity School. For those who can, that means trying to double our usual concert donation.
We appreciate the support of this year's Project Sponsor Julie West Solicitor and two significant donations from one of the concerts' regular supporters and from a former pupil of Poplar Road School (which merged into today's Leatherhead Trinity School).
Do come along to Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert, the last one this year. Afterwards we'll have Christmas cake, tea and coffee, and that regular opportunity to chat together and with the musicians.
You can read more about the concert - and the Duo - on this concert webpage.
We are promised a visit by the Duo's youngest fan, if he's having a good day. Emily's son Sandy will be in the care of his grandmother. It will be lovely to see how Sandy has grown since he was with us in August for the classical guitar duo concert given by David and proud father Francisco Correa!
Our next event is the AGM of Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society, at 2pm on Thursday 23rd February 2017. The AGM will be followed by the AGM Concert at 3pm, in which Jan & Ian Assersohn will be playing music for four hands on the well-tuned Schiedmayer (I can say well tuned because the piano's tuning is booked for two days before their concert!) All are welcome to come to the AGM and to the 3pm piano duet concert. You don't need to be a member to attend either or both.
Our organ concert series, Wednesdays at Christ Church will resume its monthly cycle on Wednesday 15th March 2017. Music on Thursdays at LMC returns in its regular 12.30 lunchtime slot on Thursday 6th April 2017.
Do watch the diary pages for MoT and WaCC as bookings will be entered as they are confirmed by the music conservatoires and by the individual performers. A few 2017 chamber concert dates are online already ! We can promise you prodigious new talent from the conservatoires, some of our popular regular guests, and some new or unusual ideas too.
There are many more local music events over the coming weeks, so we encourage you to keep an eye on the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk, which LCAS operates to help promote the activities of other local music societies, choirs, orchestras, ensembles and performers.
You'll see that there is a pupil showcase concert on Tuesday evening at the Menuhin Hall, an interesting array of genres in Friday's Michaelmas Concert at St John's School (using both the Chapel AND the Old Chapel), and Saturday's premiere of Ian Assersohn's Dies Irae at Dorking Halls, with the Leatherhead Choral Society, Epsom Male Choir, and the Camerata of London. Plus several other Saturday evening events. all to be found on musicinsurrey.co.uk.
This newsletter becomes occasional through the winter months, just jogging your memory from time to time, until the weekly concerts begin next April. I hope you enjoy your selection of the musical treats on offer in the coming weeks whether you are performing, organising, or you are a member of that essential ingredient - the listening audience.
Do come along to Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert, the last one this year. Afterwards we'll have Christmas cake, tea and coffee, and that regular opportunity to chat together and with the musicians.
You can read more about the concert - and the Duo - on this concert webpage.
We are promised a visit by the Duo's youngest fan, if he's having a good day. Emily's son Sandy will be in the care of his grandmother. It will be lovely to see how Sandy has grown since he was with us in August for the classical guitar duo concert given by David and proud father Francisco Correa!
Our next event is the AGM of Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society, at 2pm on Thursday 23rd February 2017. The AGM will be followed by the AGM Concert at 3pm, in which Jan & Ian Assersohn will be playing music for four hands on the well-tuned Schiedmayer (I can say well tuned because the piano's tuning is booked for two days before their concert!) All are welcome to come to the AGM and to the 3pm piano duet concert. You don't need to be a member to attend either or both.
Our organ concert series, Wednesdays at Christ Church will resume its monthly cycle on Wednesday 15th March 2017. Music on Thursdays at LMC returns in its regular 12.30 lunchtime slot on Thursday 6th April 2017.
Do watch the diary pages for MoT and WaCC as bookings will be entered as they are confirmed by the music conservatoires and by the individual performers. A few 2017 chamber concert dates are online already ! We can promise you prodigious new talent from the conservatoires, some of our popular regular guests, and some new or unusual ideas too.
There are many more local music events over the coming weeks, so we encourage you to keep an eye on the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk, which LCAS operates to help promote the activities of other local music societies, choirs, orchestras, ensembles and performers.
You'll see that there is a pupil showcase concert on Tuesday evening at the Menuhin Hall, an interesting array of genres in Friday's Michaelmas Concert at St John's School (using both the Chapel AND the Old Chapel), and Saturday's premiere of Ian Assersohn's Dies Irae at Dorking Halls, with the Leatherhead Choral Society, Epsom Male Choir, and the Camerata of London. Plus several other Saturday evening events. all to be found on musicinsurrey.co.uk.
This newsletter becomes occasional through the winter months, just jogging your memory from time to time, until the weekly concerts begin next April. I hope you enjoy your selection of the musical treats on offer in the coming weeks whether you are performing, organising, or you are a member of that essential ingredient - the listening audience.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
14th November 2016
Dear Friends,
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
14th November 2016
Dear Friends,
The final organ concert of the year is going to be a rather good one. Ed Sutton has considerable experience and he has put together a programme of music by three composers, works that will be familiar to almost all.
With St Peter Mancroft, Norwich, University of Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, University of Exeter posts on his CV, Ed's musicianship can be in no doubt.
The concert opens with Buxtehude, a Danish-German composer from the generation before JS Bach, and a great influence on other composers. Then we move forward in time to the German Mendelssohn, who gave organ recitals in Britain in the mid-19th century. We end on an extremely familiar note with Widor, the French composer of a famous and frequently heard Toccata who also gave organ recitals in England.
If all of that sounds like a puzzle, well, you can listen to recordings of the music Ed Sutton is going to play by clicking through to the concert webpage.
The real puzzle here is whether you recognise the background in Ed Sutton's photo. Where are those arches ? Whose organ is he sat at ? (Answer lower down the page.) For me, however, the puzzle with any organist is how on earth do they remember where all those stops are, because they are definitely NOT in the same place on every instrument.
Ed Sutton's Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert is this Wednesday lunchtime, at 12.30. Christ Church is on Epsom Road, Leatherhead, where there is plenty of parking on-site. Christ Church has level access throughout (including toilets).
Next week's concert follows one of our charity's mornings introducing musicians to the pupils at Leatherhead Trinity School. On November 24th flautist Emily Andrews and classical guitarist David Massey will be giving two short concerts to the School's Keystage 1 and later the Keystage 2 pupils.
Christmas will feature on the programmes, and there will be a chance to compare the sound and appearance of the flute and the piccolo. When we took in a brass group last summer the children were quite divided on whether a smaller instrument would make a lower or a higher sound.
The Andrews Massey Duo will then come on to Leatherhead Methodist Church to perform our final concert of 2016, a concert with a distinctly Christmassy flavour. That's at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 24th November. Our aim that day will be to fund both our own concert and our valuable work with Trinity's pupils.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout, including toilets. And after each concert there will be time to chat over tea and coffee.
Key concert dates for the New Year are:
Let's take a look at some of the other accessible music-making this coming week:
On Saturday evening, 19th November: (links for these will be found on musicinsurrey.co.uk)
I hope you enjoy your choices from the extensive selection on offer. And as ever, I look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert this week and next.
The concert opens with Buxtehude, a Danish-German composer from the generation before JS Bach, and a great influence on other composers. Then we move forward in time to the German Mendelssohn, who gave organ recitals in Britain in the mid-19th century. We end on an extremely familiar note with Widor, the French composer of a famous and frequently heard Toccata who also gave organ recitals in England.
If all of that sounds like a puzzle, well, you can listen to recordings of the music Ed Sutton is going to play by clicking through to the concert webpage.
The real puzzle here is whether you recognise the background in Ed Sutton's photo. Where are those arches ? Whose organ is he sat at ? (Answer lower down the page.) For me, however, the puzzle with any organist is how on earth do they remember where all those stops are, because they are definitely NOT in the same place on every instrument.
Ed Sutton's Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert is this Wednesday lunchtime, at 12.30. Christ Church is on Epsom Road, Leatherhead, where there is plenty of parking on-site. Christ Church has level access throughout (including toilets).
Next week's concert follows one of our charity's mornings introducing musicians to the pupils at Leatherhead Trinity School. On November 24th flautist Emily Andrews and classical guitarist David Massey will be giving two short concerts to the School's Keystage 1 and later the Keystage 2 pupils.
Christmas will feature on the programmes, and there will be a chance to compare the sound and appearance of the flute and the piccolo. When we took in a brass group last summer the children were quite divided on whether a smaller instrument would make a lower or a higher sound.
The Andrews Massey Duo will then come on to Leatherhead Methodist Church to perform our final concert of 2016, a concert with a distinctly Christmassy flavour. That's at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 24th November. Our aim that day will be to fund both our own concert and our valuable work with Trinity's pupils.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout, including toilets. And after each concert there will be time to chat over tea and coffee.
Key concert dates for the New Year are:
- 3pm on Thursday 23rd February - AGM Concert - Jan & Ian Assersohn - 4 hands on one piano (the AGM is at 2pm, but you don't have to come to the AGM if you just want to enjoy the excellent concert)
- 12.30 on Wednesday 15th March - the opening Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert of the 2017 Season
- 12.30 on April 6th - the opening Music on Thursdays at LMC concert of the new season - there will be a concert every week until the end of November 2017
Let's take a look at some of the other accessible music-making this coming week:
- 6pm • Thursday 17th November, FREE concert at the Royal Festival Hall, Philharmonia Chamber Players, with a 45-minute programme by Russian composers - more info here
- 7.30pm • Thursday 17th, pianist Edith Fischer plays Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Pepi-Alos, Ravel, Debussy, at the Menuhin Hall, info here
On Saturday evening, 19th November: (links for these will be found on musicinsurrey.co.uk)
- 7pm • organist James Parsons, plays the Tickell organ in St John's School Chapel Leatherhead, £10 (£8 concessions)
- 7.30pm • Ripieno Choir, Handel: Messiah, with soloists, at All Saints, Weston Green, Esher £17 (schoolchildren £5)
- 7.30pm • Alexandra Lomeiko, violin & Gamal Khamis, piano, play Beethoven, Brahms, Elgar, Wieniawski, Banstead Community Hall, SM7 3AJ £12 from Banstead Library, or st the door, School pupils: FREE
- 7.30pm • Woking Symphony Orchestra, at HG Wells, Woking, perform Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin Act 1, Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2 (with soloist Dominic Doutney, Woking Young Musician 2016), Stravinsky: Petrushka £14 (u16s £7)
- 7.30pm • Epsom Choral Society, Nonsuch School Chamber Choir, Unicorn Singers Kew, Marion Lea & Ben Lewis-Smith, piano, Peter Jaekel, organ, John Findon, tenor, with string/percussion orchestra, perform Britten: St Nicolas, Parry: I was Glad, Blest Pair of Sirens, Howells: Like as the Hart, Tavener: Song for Athene, Jenkins: Adiemus - in St MArtin's Church, Epsom - £15 (students & u18 £7.50)
- 8pm • Trio Gaspard, perform works by Haydn, Ravel, Beethoven in Holy Trinity, Claygate £20
- 7.30pm • Sunday 20th, Dorking Choral Society, Austrian Music: Bruckner Motets, Schubert Ave Maria & Mass in G, in St Martin's Dorking
- 7.30pm • Tuesday 22nd, at the Menuhin Hall, YMS Showcase concert
- 7pm • Friday 25th November, St John's School Michaelmas Concert, In Chapel: Schola Cantorum: Duruflé Requiem Op 9, then in Old Chapel: string quartet, swing band, jazz band, and more, Tickets: must be pre-booked, no charge
I hope you enjoy your choices from the extensive selection on offer. And as ever, I look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert this week and next.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Puzzle Answer: Ed Sutton was playing the organ in St Paul's Cathedral.
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Puzzle Answer: Ed Sutton was playing the organ in St Paul's Cathedral.
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
7th November 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
7th November 2016
Dear Friends,
On Saturday four LCAS members went down to Brighton to hear five ensembles in the Brighton Early Music Festival. The Festival's definition of early music is: "... music from the medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods (up to the end of the 18th century) which is performed on period instruments and with an understanding of the sound world / intention of the composer."
The three hour session brought out some interesting observations which will feed into programme planning over the next two years.
And so we turn to this week's Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Our performers are those great friends of MoT, Atéa Wind Quintet. They were here a year ago, and several of the players have been with us previously in smaller groups or as soloists.
The three hour session brought out some interesting observations which will feed into programme planning over the next two years.
And so we turn to this week's Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Our performers are those great friends of MoT, Atéa Wind Quintet. They were here a year ago, and several of the players have been with us previously in smaller groups or as soloists.
This year Atéa bring us a concert of music by Jean-Michel Damase, Debussy, and Claude-Paul Taffanel. As ever, you will find more details on the concert webpage for 10th November, together with recordings of the music they will be playing. This week's samples include a recording of Atéa themselves playing the Taffanel quintet, plus the full set of Debussy preludes played on their original instrument, the piano, in an interesting documentary by Daniel Barenboim.
Next week sees the final Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert of the year, with guest organist Ed Sutton. You may remember an excellent concert earlier in the year given by Mark Brafield who combines a successful career in the law with serious music-making. Ed Sutton's day job is in financial services, and he is no less serious about his music.
Ed has selected three composers for next week's Wednesdays at Christ Church concert - Buxtehude, Mendelssohn and Widor. You can read more about Ed's interesting background and listen to samples of the music he will be playing on this concert webpage.
All of which brings us to our final Music on Thursdays at LMC concert of the year, on November 24th. We welcome once again the Andrews Massey Flute & Guitar Duo. Their concert will have a certain Christmassy feel. The duo will have spent the morning at Leatherhead Trinity School showing the pupils their instruments and I'm sure there will be singing and clapping there too.
Our aim on 24th November is to raise enough money to fund the day's concert as well as the work with the School's pupils. For those who can afford to, that means aiming to double their donation on the day.
If you would like to make a larger donation towards the regular introduction of professionally played music to the town's primary school pupils, you will find a donation form on this link.
Each of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts is free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs (musicians, buildings, admin). Both Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church, Epsom Road, have level access throughout, including toilets.
After each concert tea and coffee are available, which creates an informal atmosphere in which to chat together and with the musicians.
P - For concerts at LMC it is best to park in the town's multi-storey/Swan Centre car park, or the one facing the Theatre in Church Street. LMC is in the one-way section of Church Road, about a 5-7 minute walk from these car parks. You find a map on our homepage.
What other musical offerings are coming up ?
Guest organist for Wednesday's 1.10pm lunchtime concert at St Mary's Quarry Street, Guildford, is Henry Fairs from the Birmingham Conservatoire.
Thursday evening's free concert at 6pm in the Royal Festival Hall has the Philharmonia Chamber Players with works by Harrison Birtwistle, Johannes Schöllhorn, Edmund Finnis, and Betsy Jolas. I mention these concerts because the South Bank is so easy to get to from Waterloo, or if you are already in London for work. More details here.
I hope you enjoy your selection of these music events, whether as audience or in taking part.
Ed has selected three composers for next week's Wednesdays at Christ Church concert - Buxtehude, Mendelssohn and Widor. You can read more about Ed's interesting background and listen to samples of the music he will be playing on this concert webpage.
All of which brings us to our final Music on Thursdays at LMC concert of the year, on November 24th. We welcome once again the Andrews Massey Flute & Guitar Duo. Their concert will have a certain Christmassy feel. The duo will have spent the morning at Leatherhead Trinity School showing the pupils their instruments and I'm sure there will be singing and clapping there too.
Our aim on 24th November is to raise enough money to fund the day's concert as well as the work with the School's pupils. For those who can afford to, that means aiming to double their donation on the day.
If you would like to make a larger donation towards the regular introduction of professionally played music to the town's primary school pupils, you will find a donation form on this link.
Each of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts is free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs (musicians, buildings, admin). Both Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church, Epsom Road, have level access throughout, including toilets.
After each concert tea and coffee are available, which creates an informal atmosphere in which to chat together and with the musicians.
P - For concerts at LMC it is best to park in the town's multi-storey/Swan Centre car park, or the one facing the Theatre in Church Street. LMC is in the one-way section of Church Road, about a 5-7 minute walk from these car parks. You find a map on our homepage.
What other musical offerings are coming up ?
Guest organist for Wednesday's 1.10pm lunchtime concert at St Mary's Quarry Street, Guildford, is Henry Fairs from the Birmingham Conservatoire.
Thursday evening's free concert at 6pm in the Royal Festival Hall has the Philharmonia Chamber Players with works by Harrison Birtwistle, Johannes Schöllhorn, Edmund Finnis, and Betsy Jolas. I mention these concerts because the South Bank is so easy to get to from Waterloo, or if you are already in London for work. More details here.
- On Friday 11th, in the Old Chapel of St John's School, Leatherhead, at an early 7pm, there is a concert by the Škampa Quartet, with an interesting programme of Dvorak, Martinu and Smetana. Details here.
- Also on Friday evening, at 7.30pm in the Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal Conservatoire of the Hague have a showcase concert. More details here.
- 7.30pm in Dorking Halls pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen, plays Mozart, Messiaen, Schubert, Schumann, Beethoven. Tickets are £18 from Dorking Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19, or Dorking Halls 01306 881717 Dorking Halls website
- 7.30pm in the Menuhin Hall Stoke d'Abernon, Cobham Band have their 11th Autumn Concert, with Glenn Hayter, conductor. Tickets are £14.
- 7.30pm in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead,Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra, Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor, Susan Moss, clarinet (Weber Clarinet Concerto No 1 F minor), JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F, Haydn Symphony No 101 D major The Clock, Brahms St Anthony Variations. Tickets are £14 & £9, and there is plenty of on-site parking.
- 7.30pm in St Martin's Church, Dorking, Brockham Choral Society's concert is entitled For the Fallen. Saint-Saëns: Requiem, plus works by Assersohn, Britten, Elgar, Guest, and Ireland. Patrick Barrett, musical director. Tickets: £12 (£10 in advance from Maria Chadwick, c/o Michael Frith Pharmacy, 40 South Street, Dorking, 01306 88 27 28)
- 7.30pm in the Elizabeth Green Hall, Manor House School, Bookham Choral Society with The Burley Ensemble, Jessica Broad, soprano, Felicity Turner, mezzo-soprano, William Blake, tenor, and Thomas Flint, bass, perform Vivaldi's Gloria & JS Bach Magnificat. Tickets: £12 (under 18s £6) from Cascade, High St Bookham, or 01-372_375_644. The School is in Manor House Lane, Little Bookham.
I hope you enjoy your selection of these music events, whether as audience or in taking part.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
P S : MAIASTRA supporters may like to read the Daily Telegraph's excellent obituary of violinist and musical benefactor Aidan Woodcock who founded MAIASTRA through his charitable trust, and whose good foresight has ensured its work will continue. Please click here.
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Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
P S : MAIASTRA supporters may like to read the Daily Telegraph's excellent obituary of violinist and musical benefactor Aidan Woodcock who founded MAIASTRA through his charitable trust, and whose good foresight has ensured its work will continue. Please click here.
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
31st October 2016
Dear Friends,
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
31st October 2016
Dear Friends,
First item this week is a call to members of other choral, orchestral, and concert societies in Surrey, Sussex, and South London.
Making Music, to which most music societies belong, have an information morning on Saturday 12th November, at Denbies Wine Estate. The invitation was buried deep down at the foot of a recent Making Music email, and I'll bet I wasn't the only one to miss it on the first read.
Please send your own committee members a link, or consider coming along to represent your choir, orchestra, etc, at the meeting. It's a good way of meeting folk from other societies and of hearing what help Making Music can give us all. There is more information here:
https://www.makingmusic.org.uk/event/information-and-advice-event-dorking-making-local-connections?utm_source=inotes&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct
Now to MoT business, as we enter the final month of this year's weekly lunchtime concert series.
Our guests for Music on Thursdays at LMC this week are the Bennett String Quartet. Four ladies from four different counties, who met while studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Their main work is Beethoven's Quartet No 1 in F major.
They will also play the first movement from a quartet by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz. This quartet deserves being heard in full, but there just won't be time in a lunchtime concert. There is a link to a youtube recording of the whole piece on the concert webpage, where you will find more details of the string quartet and their concert.
Two of the performers are familiar faces here as leader Roma Tic and viola player Victoria Bernath gave us an excellent duo concert earlier this season.
Making Music, to which most music societies belong, have an information morning on Saturday 12th November, at Denbies Wine Estate. The invitation was buried deep down at the foot of a recent Making Music email, and I'll bet I wasn't the only one to miss it on the first read.
Please send your own committee members a link, or consider coming along to represent your choir, orchestra, etc, at the meeting. It's a good way of meeting folk from other societies and of hearing what help Making Music can give us all. There is more information here:
https://www.makingmusic.org.uk/event/information-and-advice-event-dorking-making-local-connections?utm_source=inotes&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=oct
Now to MoT business, as we enter the final month of this year's weekly lunchtime concert series.
Our guests for Music on Thursdays at LMC this week are the Bennett String Quartet. Four ladies from four different counties, who met while studying at the Royal Academy of Music. Their main work is Beethoven's Quartet No 1 in F major.
They will also play the first movement from a quartet by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz. This quartet deserves being heard in full, but there just won't be time in a lunchtime concert. There is a link to a youtube recording of the whole piece on the concert webpage, where you will find more details of the string quartet and their concert.
Two of the performers are familiar faces here as leader Roma Tic and viola player Victoria Bernath gave us an excellent duo concert earlier this season.
Next week we welcome back Atéa Wind Quintet for what must seem like their annual visit ! Their diminutive leader and all-round human dynamo, Anna Hashimoto, tells us she has been standing on a box as the quintet put together their CD recording. They are working in a church at Perivale, and are bound to be having fun. These excellent musicians always leave us on a high after their concerts, so do put Thursday 10th November in the diary. The composers are Jean-Michel Damase, Debussy and Taffanel.
Again, recordings are linked from the concert webpage where you can read more about the members of Atéa Wind Quintet.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs (there's a basket by the door). LMC has level access throughout, including toilets.
After the concet tea and coffee are available, and we have a chance to chat among ourselves - and with the musicians.
P - Parking: We reccomend parking in the town's multi-storey (Swan Centre / Sainsburys) or the Church Street / Theatre car park. They are both about a 5-7 minute walk from LMC, in the one-way section of Church Road. There is limited blue badge parking on site, so for that it's best to arrive close to midday.
Our final concert of the year, on November 24th, sees the performers (Andrews Massey Flute & Guitar Duo) going into Leatherhead Trinity School, the town's main primary school, to introduce their instruments to the pupils there. Our aim that day is to raise enough money to fund both our own concert and the work with the primary school. If everyone could give double their usual concert donation on the day that would cover the costs nicely.
As the opening paragraphs recognise, we are not the only music-makers inthe area, so let's take a look at what else is going on. You will find a fuller concert list on our sister website musicinsurrey.co.uk:
Tomorrow lunchtime: Tuesday 1st November 12.45pm - Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence of Cranleigh School, continue his Organ Masterworks series with: JS Bach: Toccata and Fugue in F BWV 540, Trio Sonata No. 3 in D minor BWV 527 and Guilmant: Sonata No. 3 in C minor. Free concert with retiring collection, at School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Saturday is a busy concert day, although I will be down in Brighton checking out some early music groups for our 2017 and 2018 programmes. Locally your choices incude:
Next Wednesday 9th November at 1.10pm - the guest organist at St Mary's Quarry Street, Guildford will be Henry Fairs, from the Birmingham Conservatoire
Please take a look at the musicinsurrey diary for details of a free concert at the Festival Hall on Thursday 10th at 6pm (handy for commuters) and two major concerts in Leatherhead and Stoke-d'Abernon on Friday evening the 11th November.
As ever, there is plenty to choose from this coming week, and as ever, I really hope to be able to welcome you to a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead this November.
Again, recordings are linked from the concert webpage where you can read more about the members of Atéa Wind Quintet.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs (there's a basket by the door). LMC has level access throughout, including toilets.
After the concet tea and coffee are available, and we have a chance to chat among ourselves - and with the musicians.
P - Parking: We reccomend parking in the town's multi-storey (Swan Centre / Sainsburys) or the Church Street / Theatre car park. They are both about a 5-7 minute walk from LMC, in the one-way section of Church Road. There is limited blue badge parking on site, so for that it's best to arrive close to midday.
Our final concert of the year, on November 24th, sees the performers (Andrews Massey Flute & Guitar Duo) going into Leatherhead Trinity School, the town's main primary school, to introduce their instruments to the pupils there. Our aim that day is to raise enough money to fund both our own concert and the work with the primary school. If everyone could give double their usual concert donation on the day that would cover the costs nicely.
As the opening paragraphs recognise, we are not the only music-makers inthe area, so let's take a look at what else is going on. You will find a fuller concert list on our sister website musicinsurrey.co.uk:
Tomorrow lunchtime: Tuesday 1st November 12.45pm - Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence of Cranleigh School, continue his Organ Masterworks series with: JS Bach: Toccata and Fugue in F BWV 540, Trio Sonata No. 3 in D minor BWV 527 and Guilmant: Sonata No. 3 in C minor. Free concert with retiring collection, at School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Saturday is a busy concert day, although I will be down in Brighton checking out some early music groups for our 2017 and 2018 programmes. Locally your choices incude:
- Saturday 5th November 12 noon - Martin Hall, the new Organist & Director of Music, in St Martin's Church, central Dorking
- Saturday 5th November 7.30pm - Lest we Forget: Guildford Choral with London Mozart Players, Jonathan Willcocks, conductor • Mozart: Requiem, & Funeral Music • Ronald Corp: And all the Trumpets Sounded Tickets: click dateline, G-Live, London Rd, Guildford, GU1 2AA
- Saturday 5th November 7.30pm - Watermill Jazz, THE Michael Parkinson presents Joe Stilgoe - in Concert • Joe Stilgoe, vocals & piano • Tom Farmer, double bass • Ben Reynolds, drums • Tickets: £25 • Menuhin Hall, Cobham Rd, Stoke d'Abernon, KT11 3QQ
- Saturday 5th November 7.30pm - MAIASTRA, Quartet led by Arisa Fujita, violin, with Matthijs Broersma, cello & Gunel Mirzayeva, piano • Mozart Piano Quartet in Eb K493 • Dvorak Piano Quartet in Eb Op 87 • St Andrew's Church, Church St, Cobham, KT11 3ES
- (SUNDAY: This concert is repeated at the same time on Sunday 6th in Brentford Musical Museum - please tell your friends in West London about the high standard of performance they can enjoy)
- Saturday 5th November 7.30pm - SACRED SPLENDOUR • Ashtead Choral Society • James Henshaw, conductor • Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor • Tickets: £15, £12 (u25s -50%) 07504 332 354 • Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, KT17 4PX
Next Wednesday 9th November at 1.10pm - the guest organist at St Mary's Quarry Street, Guildford will be Henry Fairs, from the Birmingham Conservatoire
Please take a look at the musicinsurrey diary for details of a free concert at the Festival Hall on Thursday 10th at 6pm (handy for commuters) and two major concerts in Leatherhead and Stoke-d'Abernon on Friday evening the 11th November.
As ever, there is plenty to choose from this coming week, and as ever, I really hope to be able to welcome you to a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead this November.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
24th October 2016
Dear Friends,
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
24th October 2016
Dear Friends,
Yet again, this week, we welcome familiar friends to our concert. The AMICI Trio were with us two years ago and their pianist, Lynda Chang, is well-known in the area. One could describe their concert as two serious works followed by a bit of fun! But fun is often hard work too, for the performers.
The main part of the concert has two lovely Piano Trios by Haydn and Debussy, written about 100 years apart. The fun comes in the form of Scott Joplin's Ragtime Dance, which he wrote in the early 1900s (rather earlier than one might have expected).
The main part of the concert has two lovely Piano Trios by Haydn and Debussy, written about 100 years apart. The fun comes in the form of Scott Joplin's Ragtime Dance, which he wrote in the early 1900s (rather earlier than one might have expected).
This excellent photo of the AMICI Trio was taken earlier this year by Aidan Woodcock, to enhance the trio's entry in the Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival Programme.
It certainly does that, and it brightens every webpage on which it appears too! So I make no apology for slipping it in here. This Music on Thursdays concert is at 12.30 lunchtime this Thursday 27th October, in Leatherhead Methodist Church. You will find full information on the concert webpage. |
Our concert next week includes two musicians who were with us earlier in the summer, violinist Roma Tic and violist Victoria Bernath. Together with two more colleagues from the Royal Academy of Music, they form the Bennett String Quartet.
In their concert on Thursday 3rd November they will perform a Beethoven String Quartet, and part of a quartet by the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, who was that rarity, a highly regarded woman composer.
We won't have time to hear the entire Bacewicz quartet, but you can listen to a recording on the concert webpage for November 3rd.
Incidentally, the trio is named after the 19th century composer and RAM stalwart, William Sterndale Bennett.
Looking further afield, I see that this week's organ concert in St Michael's W Croydon is to be performed by prizewinning Australian organist Sarah Kim, who is currently living in Paris and has been organist of St George's Anglican Church there. The concert is at 1.10pm on Wednesday 26th October, and the church is close to West Croydon Station and tram stop.
There are still a few tickets remaining for the Guildhall Cantata Ensemble's concert on Thursday evening at 7pm. John Blow's Venus and Adonis is the main work, supplemented with some of Purcell's settings of Shakespeare. This concert takes place at Hatchlands. More info here.
Mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant has a concert at 7pm next Saturday, 29th October, in St George's Anglican Centre, Ashtead. Her accompanist is the excellent Emilie Capulet, Senior Lecturer and Head of Classical Performance at the London College of Music. They are joined by actor Graham Pountney who will be delivering a number of readings through the evening. You may find more on Edita's facebook page.
Also this Saturday evening, both at 8pm, are:
Or come along at 6.30 to enjoy a beautiful service in St Mary's Church, which is close to the river, about 2 miles from the new Walton Bridge.
At 12.45 on Tuesday 1st November, Simon Scrivens, Organist in Residence at Cranleigh School has a concert of Bach and Guilmant on the School Chapel organ. This concert is part of a season Simon is giving and whose details you will find on this link.
If you would like to plan ahead you are going to have plenty of choice for the weekend of 5th November. So do take a look at the diary on musicinsurrey.co.uk.
And as always, whether listening or taking part, I hope you enjoy your selections from the professional and amateur musical offerings this coming week.
In their concert on Thursday 3rd November they will perform a Beethoven String Quartet, and part of a quartet by the Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, who was that rarity, a highly regarded woman composer.
We won't have time to hear the entire Bacewicz quartet, but you can listen to a recording on the concert webpage for November 3rd.
Incidentally, the trio is named after the 19th century composer and RAM stalwart, William Sterndale Bennett.
Looking further afield, I see that this week's organ concert in St Michael's W Croydon is to be performed by prizewinning Australian organist Sarah Kim, who is currently living in Paris and has been organist of St George's Anglican Church there. The concert is at 1.10pm on Wednesday 26th October, and the church is close to West Croydon Station and tram stop.
There are still a few tickets remaining for the Guildhall Cantata Ensemble's concert on Thursday evening at 7pm. John Blow's Venus and Adonis is the main work, supplemented with some of Purcell's settings of Shakespeare. This concert takes place at Hatchlands. More info here.
Mezzo-soprano Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant has a concert at 7pm next Saturday, 29th October, in St George's Anglican Centre, Ashtead. Her accompanist is the excellent Emilie Capulet, Senior Lecturer and Head of Classical Performance at the London College of Music. They are joined by actor Graham Pountney who will be delivering a number of readings through the evening. You may find more on Edita's facebook page.
Also this Saturday evening, both at 8pm, are:
- Glories of Spain • Epsom Chamber Choir, with Jamie Akers, guitar • music of Victoria, Guerrero, the Spanish Masters, up to 20th century • Tickets: £15/£10 • at St Martin's Church, Central Epsom, KT17 4PX
- Leonard Elschenbroich, cello, & Alexei Grynyuk, piano • performing works by Stravinsky, Kensaku Shimizu & Beethoven • Tickets: £20 • in Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, Claygate KT10 0JP (Oxshott & Cobham Music Society, non-members welcome)
Or come along at 6.30 to enjoy a beautiful service in St Mary's Church, which is close to the river, about 2 miles from the new Walton Bridge.
At 12.45 on Tuesday 1st November, Simon Scrivens, Organist in Residence at Cranleigh School has a concert of Bach and Guilmant on the School Chapel organ. This concert is part of a season Simon is giving and whose details you will find on this link.
If you would like to plan ahead you are going to have plenty of choice for the weekend of 5th November. So do take a look at the diary on musicinsurrey.co.uk.
And as always, whether listening or taking part, I hope you enjoy your selections from the professional and amateur musical offerings this coming week.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
17th October 2016
Dear Friends,
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
17th October 2016
Dear Friends,
This week our 12.30 lunchtime concert takes place on Wednesday in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead. Guest organist this month is John Sharples who has played regularly in Arundel Cathedral, London's Second Church of Christ Scientist, and the Archbishop of Canterbury's London home - Lambeth Palace.
John's programme consists entirely of transcriptions and adaptations for the organ of music we are familiar with hearing on other instruments. Indeed, he told one of his keen supporters that he would be playing 'no organ music'.
But there's nothing to feel disappointed about in this programme. There's Elgar's Imperial March, a Trio Sonata which Fasch wrote for 2 violins & continuo and JS Bach later set for organ, Fauré's Pavane in F# minor, Scott Joplin's The Entertainer, several well-known excerpts from Handel, the Vaughan Williams setting of Greensleeves (re-written for organ, of course) and to round the concert off, Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever, arranged by John Sharples himself.
You'll find full details, and links to recordings of some of the music, on the concert webpage.
Next week we will be back in Leatherhead Methodist Church for Music on Thursdays, with the AMICI Trio. For their 12.30 concert on 27th October these three local musicians will be playing piano trios by Haydn and Debussy, and an arrangement of Scott Joplin's Ragtime Dance. You will find more about the concert and the performers on this concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After the concert there is usually a chance to chat with the performers over a cup of tea or coffee.
Both Churches have level access throughout, including toilets. If you arrive in a wheelchair, we won't make you sit at the front or in a gangway. We'll just whip out a chair so you can sit with the friends you came with.
Parking: Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking. Unfortunately, LMC does not. So for Thursday concerts we advise using the town's multi-storey Swan Centre / Sainsbury's car park, or the one near the Theatre. They are both a 5-7 minute walk from LMC which is in the one-way section of Church Road. (There's a map lower down the homepage.)
There's a free concert on the South Bank at 6pm on Thursday. The Philharmonia Chamber Players are playing a Brahms String Sextet and a Schubert Quartet in the Royal Festival Hall.
You will find details of this and more concerts closer to home on our other website: musicinsurrey.couk
Enjoy your choices of music-making and -listening !
John's programme consists entirely of transcriptions and adaptations for the organ of music we are familiar with hearing on other instruments. Indeed, he told one of his keen supporters that he would be playing 'no organ music'.
But there's nothing to feel disappointed about in this programme. There's Elgar's Imperial March, a Trio Sonata which Fasch wrote for 2 violins & continuo and JS Bach later set for organ, Fauré's Pavane in F# minor, Scott Joplin's The Entertainer, several well-known excerpts from Handel, the Vaughan Williams setting of Greensleeves (re-written for organ, of course) and to round the concert off, Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever, arranged by John Sharples himself.
You'll find full details, and links to recordings of some of the music, on the concert webpage.
Next week we will be back in Leatherhead Methodist Church for Music on Thursdays, with the AMICI Trio. For their 12.30 concert on 27th October these three local musicians will be playing piano trios by Haydn and Debussy, and an arrangement of Scott Joplin's Ragtime Dance. You will find more about the concert and the performers on this concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After the concert there is usually a chance to chat with the performers over a cup of tea or coffee.
Both Churches have level access throughout, including toilets. If you arrive in a wheelchair, we won't make you sit at the front or in a gangway. We'll just whip out a chair so you can sit with the friends you came with.
Parking: Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking. Unfortunately, LMC does not. So for Thursday concerts we advise using the town's multi-storey Swan Centre / Sainsbury's car park, or the one near the Theatre. They are both a 5-7 minute walk from LMC which is in the one-way section of Church Road. (There's a map lower down the homepage.)
There's a free concert on the South Bank at 6pm on Thursday. The Philharmonia Chamber Players are playing a Brahms String Sextet and a Schubert Quartet in the Royal Festival Hall.
You will find details of this and more concerts closer to home on our other website: musicinsurrey.couk
Enjoy your choices of music-making and -listening !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
10th October 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
10th October 2016
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays - 12.30 lunchtime, this Thursday 13 Oct, Leatherhead Methodist Church
This week's 12.30 lunchtime concert is under the very agile fingers of cellist Jacqueline Phillips. For her final concert of the season Jacqueline will be performing the 2nd and 6th of JS Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello, having played the other four suites in previous concerts this year.
We have been fortunate to secure three concert dates from this very experienced and popular cellist. Her biography merits more than a glance and you will find it, and full information about Jacqueline's concert on this concert webpage. The page also has videos of other performances of the Bach Suites for those unable to be with us on the day.
Wednesdays at Christ Church - 12.30 lunchtime, 19th October, Christ Church, Epsom Road
Next week we continue our organ concert series with guest organist John Sharples. John is a popular and accomplished local organist. He is currently the organist of St Nicholas Church, Charlwood, and has held posts including at Lambeth Palace, the London home and HQ of the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is also a deputy organist of Arundel Cathedral, and plays at Second Church of Christ Scientist, London. John has prepared quite a varied repertoire for us. Full details are available on this concert webpage.
These lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead's churches are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After the concert tea and coffee are available and there is generally a chance to chat informally with the musicians.
Both churches have level access throughout, including toilets.
For concerts at LMC we advise parking in the town's multi-storey Sainsbury / Swan Centre or Church St / Theatre car parks. These are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC in the one-way section of Church Road. Map on our homepage.
Christ Church has ample on-site parking.
Looking further afield, there are many choices this weekend. Let's consider Saturday 15th October first:
- Dorking Halls, 11am to 5pm • Leith Hill Musical Festival • Come & Sing - Fundraiser, under new conductor Jonathan Willcocks, all parts welcome, music scores provided • Fauré: Requiem • Willcocks: Sing Africa • £21.75 (u18 £11.20)
- Tadworth: Church of the Good Shepherd, *7pm* • Beethoven Piano Sonatas • Christopher Sayles, piano • Sonata No 12 Ab major Funeral March • No 9 E major • No 13 Eb major • No 14 C# minor (Moonlight) • £8 • The Avenue, KT20 5AS
- St Martin's Church, Dorking, 7.30pm • Dorking Camerata • Bach & Bruckner
- G Live, Guildford. 7.30pm • Band of HM Royal Marines, Collingwood • £18-£24 (concessions £1 off!)
- Holy Trinity Church, Claygate, 8pm • Dover Quartet • Dvorak • Barber • Smetana • £20 • Oxshott & Cobham Music Society
Sunday 16th at **3pm** in Dorking Halls • Vijay Jagtap & Divine Vibes • Sublime Sitar: traditional ragas from North India • £18+ from Dorking Concertgoers, 01306 74_06-19 OR Dkg Halls, 01306 881717
In the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk you will find details of a free concert of chamber music in London's Royal Festival Hall at 6pm next Thursday 20th, and local concerts in the Menuhin Hall and in St Nicolas Bookham on Saturday 22nd. Details here.
I look forward to seeing you at Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert, and I hope you enjoy your other musical choices over the coming days and weeks.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
5th October 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
5th October 2016
Dear Friends,
Last Thursday's lunchtime jazz concert was very well received, with one visitor thanking us for making jazz available at lunchtime now she no longer goes out in the evenings. As a result of the audience enjoyment that day we will mark the last week of September as jazz week - which will tie in nicely with the Arts Alive Festival.
That remark echoes a comment in a letter we recived earlier in the year. A member said how good it was to come to lunchtime concerts of good quality as she doesn't get to the London venues any more. High quality musical performance in accessible buildings, at an accessible time of day, and with price no barrier to attendance - these are fundamental to Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church.
So we turn to this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert when soprano Clare Tunney brings us a recital of songs spanning a little over two centuries. You'll find Mozart, Strauss, Puccini and Cole Porter on CLare's programme. She and her accompanist Matthew Ryan are both students of the Royal Academy of Music who have had considerable experience of musical performance - despite their young ages. Full details here.
That remark echoes a comment in a letter we recived earlier in the year. A member said how good it was to come to lunchtime concerts of good quality as she doesn't get to the London venues any more. High quality musical performance in accessible buildings, at an accessible time of day, and with price no barrier to attendance - these are fundamental to Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church.
So we turn to this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert when soprano Clare Tunney brings us a recital of songs spanning a little over two centuries. You'll find Mozart, Strauss, Puccini and Cole Porter on CLare's programme. She and her accompanist Matthew Ryan are both students of the Royal Academy of Music who have had considerable experience of musical performance - despite their young ages. Full details here.
Next week sees the third and final concert in the series on JS Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. Jacqueline Phillips has put together Suites No 2 and No 6, in the related keys of D minor and D major. We know we are in safe hands with Jacqueline's concerts, a performer who has been with us since the launch of the weekly concerts nearly five years ago. Full info here.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout, including toilets.
After each concert tea and coffee are available, and there is usually a chance to talk with the performers informally.
Parking can be tricky! So we advise using the multi-storey (Sainsbury's / Swan Centre) or the ever-shrinking Theatre / Church Street car park. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. Blue badge holders who arrive at LMC close to 12noon may be able to park on site.
Notable concerts in the coming week or so include:
These can all be found in the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk, which is where you'll find details of concerts further ahead too.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening choices this Arts Alive Festival !
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout, including toilets.
After each concert tea and coffee are available, and there is usually a chance to talk with the performers informally.
Parking can be tricky! So we advise using the multi-storey (Sainsbury's / Swan Centre) or the ever-shrinking Theatre / Church Street car park. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. Blue badge holders who arrive at LMC close to 12noon may be able to park on site.
Notable concerts in the coming week or so include:
- Saturday 8th Oct 9.30am to 5.30pm - Epsom Chamber Choir, Come & Sing: Mendelssohn's Elijah, under Piers Maxim, musical director, Tickets: £15 (under 25s free), Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, KT17 4PX
- Saturday 8th Oct 10.30am to 5.30pm - Dorking Choral Society, Come & Sing ! Will Todd's Mass in Blue, Tickets: £15 (incl drinks, please bring packed lunch), Dorking: United Reformed Church, West Street, RH4
- Saturday 8th Oct 2pm - Come & Sing: Mozart Requiem, Tickets: £10 (singers) contact Arthur020 8337 2160 - bring Novello edition, or will be provided - concert this evening at 7.30pm, West Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY
- Saturday 8th Oct 7.30pm - Banstead Arts Festival Society, DORIC STRING QUARTET, Haydn • Mendelssohn • Beethoven, Tickets: £12 from Banstead Library, or st the door, School pupils: FREE, Banstead: Community Hall, SM7 3AJ
- Saturday 8th Oct 7.30pm - Parish Choir Soloists with Scratch Choir, Mozart: Requiem, Tickets: £7 (u16 £1) contact Arthur020 8337 2160, West Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY
- Monday 10th Oct 7.30pm - Sam Haywood, piano performs Bach-Busoni, Schubert, Villa-Lobos, Stanford, Julius Isserlis, Chopin, Tickets: £25, East Clandon: Hatchlands Park, GU4 7RT
- Monday 10th Oct 7.30pm for 8pm - FREE - Ashtead Choral Society, Come and Sing Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor, Ashtead: Peace Memorial Hall, KT21 2BE
- Wednesday 12th Oct 10.45am to 1pm - Inauguration of Weber harpsichord of 1746, 10.45: Alec Cobbe talk on harpsichord maker Ferdinand Weber and his 1746 instrument, 12noon: Malcolm Proud, plays the instrument, including Bach Overture in the French Style BWV 831 and works by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Tickets: £25, East Clandon: Hatchlands Park, GU4 7RT
- Wednesday 12th Oct 1.10pm - guest organist: Timothy Parsons, Organ Scholar, Winchester Cathedral, plays the Saxon Aldred organ, Guildford: St Mary's, Quarry Street - free with a retiring collection
- Weds 12th Oct 1.10pm - guest organist: Callum Alger, Birmingham Conservatoire, West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels Church, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA - free with a retiring collection
These can all be found in the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk, which is where you'll find details of concerts further ahead too.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening choices this Arts Alive Festival !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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26th September 2016
Dear Friends,
The big news is that for the first time in five years of these lunchtime concerts, this is JAZZ week !
On Thursday we welcome three vibrant young musicians, brought together by jazz saxophonist Tom Ridout. Tom has pedigree. He was a finalist in this year's BBC Young Musician of the Year Jazz Awards. Here he is in action on soprano saxophone, performing his own work No excuses:
by The Tom Ridout Acoustic Trio.
We start at 12.30, in LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. It's best to park in the town's multi-storey (Swan Centre / Sainsburys) car park, or the one near the Theatre in Church Street, that keeps shrinking. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC. This 45-55 minute concert is free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Afterwards there'll be tea and coffee in the Church - a chance to chat together, and with the musicians. |
If you are tight for time nobody minds if you slip in late or have to leave early. Just enjoy the time you have with us.
There is level access throughout the Church. Wheelchair users are very welcome. You can sit in the middle for a great view of the performers, or we can take a chair out if you prefer to be less conspicuous!
Full concert details, biographies, and samples of the music are all available on the concert webpage for 29th September.
Next week we return to our more usual fare with a song recital by RAM student Clare Tunney. Soprano Clare will be accompanied by fellow student Matthew Ryan on piano. You will find more about their 12.30 lunchtime concert on Thursday 6th October on this concert webpage.
These accessible 12.30 lunchtime concerts are both part of this year's Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival programme.
Looking further afield . . . there's the weekly organ concert at St Michael's, West Croydon, at 1.10pm on Wednesday 28th. This week's performer is Kristiaan Seynhave from Gent, Belgium. You can check details here.
On Thursday evening at 7.30pm the celebrated choir Tenebrae have a superb concert in the Chapel of St John's School. Info here.
There is quite a selection of events on Saturday and Sunday. To help you choose between lunchtime, afternoon and evening, between organ, chamber orchestra, string quartet, soprano, violin and piano, it is best to check out the diary on our sister website: musicinsurrey.co.uk
If the jazz concert on Thursday lunchtime goes well we will make the last Thursday of September a regular jazz fixture in the Music on Thursdays calendar. So it really a case of 'use it or lose it' !
Whatever your choices from the great variety of events on offer we hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening !
There is level access throughout the Church. Wheelchair users are very welcome. You can sit in the middle for a great view of the performers, or we can take a chair out if you prefer to be less conspicuous!
Full concert details, biographies, and samples of the music are all available on the concert webpage for 29th September.
Next week we return to our more usual fare with a song recital by RAM student Clare Tunney. Soprano Clare will be accompanied by fellow student Matthew Ryan on piano. You will find more about their 12.30 lunchtime concert on Thursday 6th October on this concert webpage.
These accessible 12.30 lunchtime concerts are both part of this year's Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival programme.
Looking further afield . . . there's the weekly organ concert at St Michael's, West Croydon, at 1.10pm on Wednesday 28th. This week's performer is Kristiaan Seynhave from Gent, Belgium. You can check details here.
On Thursday evening at 7.30pm the celebrated choir Tenebrae have a superb concert in the Chapel of St John's School. Info here.
There is quite a selection of events on Saturday and Sunday. To help you choose between lunchtime, afternoon and evening, between organ, chamber orchestra, string quartet, soprano, violin and piano, it is best to check out the diary on our sister website: musicinsurrey.co.uk
If the jazz concert on Thursday lunchtime goes well we will make the last Thursday of September a regular jazz fixture in the Music on Thursdays calendar. So it really a case of 'use it or lose it' !
Whatever your choices from the great variety of events on offer we hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
JAZZ on Thursday at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
19th September 2016
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
19th September 2016
Dear Friends,
This Thursday our 12.30 lunchtime concert brings music for a brass trio. The composers you'll hear are Eric Ewazen, Beethoven, Poulenc, and Anthony Plog, giving a good spread of 18th to 20th century works.
There is a slight change to the line-up this year. Horn player Timothy Ellis is on trial with the Royal National Orchestra of Scotland at the moment - for which we wish him every success. So at short notice the remaining duo of Richard Buck, trombone, and Daniel Walton, trumpet, will be joined by the very experienced young horn player Alexei Watkins, who is also a current student of the Royal Academy of Music.
There is a slight change to the line-up this year. Horn player Timothy Ellis is on trial with the Royal National Orchestra of Scotland at the moment - for which we wish him every success. So at short notice the remaining duo of Richard Buck, trombone, and Daniel Walton, trumpet, will be joined by the very experienced young horn player Alexei Watkins, who is also a current student of the Royal Academy of Music.
Buck Brass Trio
The original line-up - Richard Buck, trombone, Timothy Ellis, horn, Daniel Walton, trumpet Alexei Watkins, French horn
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Next week's Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concert is our first foray into the world of jazz. Our guides are three more graduates of the Royal Academy of Music, The Tom Ridout Acoustic Trio. 22-year old Tom has been playing jazz saxophone for several years and was a finalist in this year's BBC Young Musician of the Year Jazz Awards (which his sister won on trumpet!) Pianist Will Barry and double bass player Flo Moore join Tom - also making this the first time we have hosted a double bass for these lunchtime concerts.
So, tell all your jazz-loving friends to put Thursday 29th in their diaries, and come along and give jazz a try yourself. You'll have 45 minutes listening to help you decide whether to come again next year !
The JAZZ on Thursday at LMC concert at 12.30 on Thursday 29th September has its webpage on this link.
This week's brass or next week's jazz - these 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free, to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both concerts are part of the 2016 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival. After the concert tea and coffee are available, and there's usually a chance to chat with the musicians too.
Please park in the Sainsburys/Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street/Theatre car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from Leatherhead Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road (we've a map on our homepage). The Church has level access throughout, and wheelchair users are most definitley welcome.
We will soon move into October, with a soprano from the Royal Academy of Music, the last of Jacqueline Phillips' Bach Cello Suite concerts, John Sharples making a very welcome return in our Wednesday organ concert series, and Lynda Chang's Amici Trio at the end of the month. Plenty to look forward to in the Music on Thursdays lunchtime concerts !
There is quite an array of music events around Surrey over the coming weeks - rather too much variety to list here! So please take a look at the diary page on musicinsurrey.co.uk.
I hope you enjoy your selection of the county's musical offerings, and above all I look forward to seing you at one of our Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
12th September 2016
Dear Friends,
Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
12th September 2016
Dear Friends,
First of all, congratulations to Atéa on reaching - and then passing - their fund-raising target. And thank you to our own members and supporters who have chipped in. See you at the CD launch next year !
This Wednesday lunchtime we have our monthly Wednesdays at Christ Church, 12.30 organ concert, in the Church on Epsom Road, Leatherhead. The big advantages at Christ Church are the ample parking and the level access throughout. Like LMC, it's easy to accommodate a wheelchair too. We just remove a chair.
Anthony Cairns always presents a well-thought out programme. This week he will be playing Eight Short Preludes & Fugues, whose authorship is disputed. Possibly Bach, possibly Krebs - father or son. Anthony has also re-ordered the works so that the keys flow more comfortably than in the numbered sequence.
Then he gives us two works by turn-of-the-century composer Sigfrid Karg-Elert, a Passiontide Chorale and Improvisation, and the lovely Harmonies du Soir from his Three Impressions for Organ. Finally Anthony has put together three familiar works by William Mathias to form a short suite - Processional, Canzonetta, and Postlude.
Full details of Anthony's concert at 12.30 on Wednesday 14th September are on this concert webpage along with recordings of some of the music he will be playing.
Next week we will be back at Leatherhead Methodist Church for Music on Thursdays at LMC, where our artistes are the Buck Brass Trio. These three musicians from the Royal Academy of Music gave us a superb concert last year, and did the same for a lunchtime concert in St Martin's Dorking earlier this year. Trombonist Richard Buck has just completed a year as Student Union President at the RAM - which kept him pretty busy, by all accounts.
Do take a look at the programme the trio have prepared for us. Full information on their concert webpage.
Just a fortnight to go before our JAZZ on Thursday at LMC concert by three more graduates of the Royal Academy of Music. Do you know a jazz-lover or two who ought to be putting 12.30 on September 29th in their diary ? There's a webpage ready for this one too - here !
All three of these lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. The brass and the jazz concerts are part of this year's Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival. After each concert tea and coffee are available and there's a chance to chat together and with the musicians. What would you like to ask about them, their training, their plans ?
This Wednesday lunchtime we have our monthly Wednesdays at Christ Church, 12.30 organ concert, in the Church on Epsom Road, Leatherhead. The big advantages at Christ Church are the ample parking and the level access throughout. Like LMC, it's easy to accommodate a wheelchair too. We just remove a chair.
Anthony Cairns always presents a well-thought out programme. This week he will be playing Eight Short Preludes & Fugues, whose authorship is disputed. Possibly Bach, possibly Krebs - father or son. Anthony has also re-ordered the works so that the keys flow more comfortably than in the numbered sequence.
Then he gives us two works by turn-of-the-century composer Sigfrid Karg-Elert, a Passiontide Chorale and Improvisation, and the lovely Harmonies du Soir from his Three Impressions for Organ. Finally Anthony has put together three familiar works by William Mathias to form a short suite - Processional, Canzonetta, and Postlude.
Full details of Anthony's concert at 12.30 on Wednesday 14th September are on this concert webpage along with recordings of some of the music he will be playing.
Next week we will be back at Leatherhead Methodist Church for Music on Thursdays at LMC, where our artistes are the Buck Brass Trio. These three musicians from the Royal Academy of Music gave us a superb concert last year, and did the same for a lunchtime concert in St Martin's Dorking earlier this year. Trombonist Richard Buck has just completed a year as Student Union President at the RAM - which kept him pretty busy, by all accounts.
Do take a look at the programme the trio have prepared for us. Full information on their concert webpage.
Just a fortnight to go before our JAZZ on Thursday at LMC concert by three more graduates of the Royal Academy of Music. Do you know a jazz-lover or two who ought to be putting 12.30 on September 29th in their diary ? There's a webpage ready for this one too - here !
All three of these lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. The brass and the jazz concerts are part of this year's Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival. After each concert tea and coffee are available and there's a chance to chat together and with the musicians. What would you like to ask about them, their training, their plans ?
PARKING: For concerts at LMC please use the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks.
Just one local concert to mention today, before I refer you to the musicinsurrey website for plenty more:
Tomorrow evening, Tuesday 13th at 7.30pm in the Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, there are about 30 seats remaining for the Doric String Quartet's concert of works by Haydn, Schubert, Bartok and Debussy. Booking info here.
Of course, there are plenty of other events over the coming week, so please pop over to musicinsurrey.co.uk for a list that includes organ, chamber, choral, come & sing, and the new children's choir.
You'll find a wide choice there, so I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening this September.
Most of all, if you can, come and enjoy a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead.
Just one local concert to mention today, before I refer you to the musicinsurrey website for plenty more:
Tomorrow evening, Tuesday 13th at 7.30pm in the Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, there are about 30 seats remaining for the Doric String Quartet's concert of works by Haydn, Schubert, Bartok and Debussy. Booking info here.
Of course, there are plenty of other events over the coming week, so please pop over to musicinsurrey.co.uk for a list that includes organ, chamber, choral, come & sing, and the new children's choir.
You'll find a wide choice there, so I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening this September.
Most of all, if you can, come and enjoy a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Hello! We're the Atéa Quintet, a wind quintet formed of 5 friends who are so lucky to get to regularly play fantastic chamber music together professionally. We are super thrilled to announce that we've been invited by the brilliant record label Coviello Classics to record our debut CD.
Making a CD isn't cheap, there's an awful lot that happens behind the scenes that all adds up. We've saved and raised a lot of money but we still have a little way to go, that's where you come in! By choosing one of our exciting hand-crafted rewards you can join us in helping to bring this album into being. As well as this, you can also get insider updates on the recording process and loads of exclusive content.
Please click on the image above to read more about the ways you can help us raise the final slice of funds to get our CD project underway.
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
5th September 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
5th September 2016
Dear Friends,
Those of you who are also Streetlife regulars may recognise this photograph of Cavendish Winds in action at LMC last Autumn. As well as the musicians, it includes several regular members of our audience ! Cavendish Winds are with us again this Thursday, 8th September, at 12.30 lunchtime in LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church. There's a slight change to the line-up this |
week , as Henry Clay (seen adjusting his oboe) is replaced by fellow RAM student, Imogen Davies.
The quintet will be performing two suites, Jean Françaix's First Wind Quintet, and Medaglia's Suite Popular Brasileira - full of Brazilian zest!
You will find more about the players and examples of similar music on this concert webpage.
Next week our concert is another Wednesday at Christ Church organ recital, with Director of Music, Anthony Cairns.
Anthony's selection of works by Bach (or was it Krebs?), Karg-Elert and William Mathias can be seen on the concert webpage for Wednesday 14th September.
Still to come this month are the return of three more RAM students, the young men of Buck Brass Trio, who will be with us on 22nd September. On the 29th we meet three newcomers who have recently graduated from the RAM as Jazz performers. They are The Tom Ridout Acoustic Trio.
All of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts in LMC and in Christ Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After the concerts there will be a chance to meet the performers and to chat over a cup of tea or coffee. Both Churches have level access throughout and wheelchair users have the choice to sit in the aisle (which often gives a better view) or we can whip a chair out so you can sit with your friends.
[P] for Parking !
For lunchtime concerts at LMC we recommend using Leatherhead's multi-storey or Church Street car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road and the Methodist Church itself.
Christ Church, on the other hand, has plenty of on-site parking.
We really want you to come to our lunchtime concetrs, but let's take a look at some of the other music-making going on in the area over the coming week or so:
Plenty of choice there then ! And for singers, a quick look at the musicinsurrey diary will reveal even more Come & Sing events.
I hope you enjoy your particular choices from this music-making !
The quintet will be performing two suites, Jean Françaix's First Wind Quintet, and Medaglia's Suite Popular Brasileira - full of Brazilian zest!
You will find more about the players and examples of similar music on this concert webpage.
Next week our concert is another Wednesday at Christ Church organ recital, with Director of Music, Anthony Cairns.
Anthony's selection of works by Bach (or was it Krebs?), Karg-Elert and William Mathias can be seen on the concert webpage for Wednesday 14th September.
Still to come this month are the return of three more RAM students, the young men of Buck Brass Trio, who will be with us on 22nd September. On the 29th we meet three newcomers who have recently graduated from the RAM as Jazz performers. They are The Tom Ridout Acoustic Trio.
All of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts in LMC and in Christ Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After the concerts there will be a chance to meet the performers and to chat over a cup of tea or coffee. Both Churches have level access throughout and wheelchair users have the choice to sit in the aisle (which often gives a better view) or we can whip a chair out so you can sit with your friends.
[P] for Parking !
For lunchtime concerts at LMC we recommend using Leatherhead's multi-storey or Church Street car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road and the Methodist Church itself.
Christ Church, on the other hand, has plenty of on-site parking.
We really want you to come to our lunchtime concetrs, but let's take a look at some of the other music-making going on in the area over the coming week or so:
- Working in Croydon ? - at 1.10pm, Wednesdays you will find an organ concert in St Michael's Church, W Croydon (near the station and tram stop). This Wednesday the organist is Martin Kaspoarek from St Imier, Switzerland. INFO
- Heritage Weekend Special: 2.30pm, Saturday 10th September, Surrey Performing Arts Library lead a Vaughan Williams Walk, starting from the composer's statue, by Dorking Halls. Booking essential. INFO on musicinsurrey.
- Puccini La Bohème: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th at 4pm, Music at Woodhouse present La Bohème - FULL INFO
- Doric String Quartet: will be at the Menuhin Hall next Tuesday 13th, at 7.30pm, performing works by Haydn, Schubert, Bartok, and Debussy - INFO
- Carmina Burana: Come and Sing with Epsom Choral Society at 7.30pm in St Martin's Church, Epsom, music provided, sounds like fun! - INFO
- Leatherhead Youth Choir - a new initiative from Leatherhead Choral Society - especially for 7-11 year olds, 4.30 to 5.30 each Thursday after School. INFO
- Sound the Trumpets ! 7.30pm Friday 16th September in Leatherhead's Catholic Church of Our Lady & St Peter, Garlands Road, Crispian Steele-Perkins & Simon Sturgeon-Clegg - trumpets, Carmen Konopke-Lasok, soprano & Shirley Weston, organ. Tickets £15 (concessions £7.50) from 07_75 3 9619_11 or at the door.
- Bennet Ortmann, viola & Ursula Perks, piano: 7.30pm, Friday 16th September, in St Michael's Church, Mickleham. Free concert, with retiring collection.
Plenty of choice there then ! And for singers, a quick look at the musicinsurrey diary will reveal even more Come & Sing events.
I hope you enjoy your particular choices from this music-making !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
29th August 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
29th August 2016
Dear Friends,
In this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime we will hear music of the French and German Baroque, played on a Baroque lute. Lutenist Wezi Elliott performed here two years ago accompanying soprano Anna Tam in songs of the same period. Wezi performs at Brighton's Early Music Festival, and has played for Shakespeare productions at the Globe Theatre, as well as appearing on BBC Radio 3.
In Thursday's concert he will perform music by Robert de Visée, Charles Mouton and the German composer David Kellner. We couldn't quite match allof the the recordings for the concert webpage this week. Music of this period is quite rarely performed. Instead, you will find music by the same composers, to give a flavour of the concert.
There is more about Wezi Elliott and his concert on this concert webpage.
Next week's Music on Thursdays concert brings us another group of returners - Cavendish Winds Quintet. Katy Ovens, Mary Tyler, Alice Quayle, Charlie Ransley and their relacement oboist Imogen Davies have prepared a programme of music by Françaix and Medaglia. We will be adding more to the concert webpage as it comes in during the coming week.
Also to come in September we have:
That's a quintet and two trios of stunning musical talent, all from the Royal Academy of Music !
Each of these concerts is free to enter, with a retiring collection, we really hope will cover the costs ! Both LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church, and Christ Church (United Reformed) have level access throughout, including toilets.
After each concert there is an opportunity to chat with the performer(s) over a friendly cup of tea or coffee.
In Thursday's concert he will perform music by Robert de Visée, Charles Mouton and the German composer David Kellner. We couldn't quite match allof the the recordings for the concert webpage this week. Music of this period is quite rarely performed. Instead, you will find music by the same composers, to give a flavour of the concert.
There is more about Wezi Elliott and his concert on this concert webpage.
Next week's Music on Thursdays concert brings us another group of returners - Cavendish Winds Quintet. Katy Ovens, Mary Tyler, Alice Quayle, Charlie Ransley and their relacement oboist Imogen Davies have prepared a programme of music by Françaix and Medaglia. We will be adding more to the concert webpage as it comes in during the coming week.
Also to come in September we have:
- Wednesday 14th September organ recital at Christ Church, for which Anthony Cairns will be playing music by JL Krebs/JS Bach, Karg-Eletr and William Mathias • details here
- Thursday 22nd September at LMC, the return of the Buck Brass Trio with works by Eric Ewazen, Beethoven and Anthony Plog • details here
- Thursday 29th September, Jazz on Thursday at LMC, our first foray into jazz, with The Tom Ridout Acoustic Trio (sax, bass, piano) • details here soon
That's a quintet and two trios of stunning musical talent, all from the Royal Academy of Music !
Each of these concerts is free to enter, with a retiring collection, we really hope will cover the costs ! Both LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church, and Christ Church (United Reformed) have level access throughout, including toilets.
After each concert there is an opportunity to chat with the performer(s) over a friendly cup of tea or coffee.
At Christ Church there is plenty of parking on site.
For LMC, we recommend using the town's multi-storey (Sainsbury's) or Church Street (Theatre) car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road.
Let's take a look at music-making around Surrey this coming week or so:
Plenty to look forward to then as September gets under way.
Enjoy your choice of local music-making !
For LMC, we recommend using the town's multi-storey (Sainsbury's) or Church Street (Theatre) car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road.
Let's take a look at music-making around Surrey this coming week or so:
- This Saturday 3rd September, at 12 noon, in St Martin's Church, Central Dorking, violinist Litsa Tunnah plays the monthly concert (free, with retiring collection)
- Saturday evening, 7.30pm, in St Andrew's Cobham, From Kosovo with live, two Kosovan pianists and Yehudi Menuhin alumnus William Dutton have a concert of music by Beethoven, Sarasate, Friesler, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, and Dvorák • more here
- Sunday 4th at 3pm, Gian Vito Tannoia, Professor of Organ & Gregorian Chant at the Music Conservatory of Matera, Italy, plays the Mutin Cavaillé-Coll organ in Farnborough Abbey, GU14 7NQ
- Sunday afternoon at 4pm, in St Martin's Church East Horsley, another chance to hear the From Kosovo with Love concert
- Wednesday 7th September, 1.10pm in St Michael's Church, West Croydon, the organist is Martin Kasparek from St Imier, Switzerland
- Next Saturday and Sunday at 4pm, there is a chance to see Puccini's La Bohème, in Music at Woodhouse, • full details here
Plenty to look forward to then as September gets under way.
Enjoy your choice of local music-making !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesday at St John's • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesday at St John's • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
22nd August 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
22nd August 2016
Dear Friends,
It was about a year ago that we had the idea of asking our two favourite guitarists to bring us a duo concert. Francisco Correa and David Massey know each other very well - David has a duo with flautist Emily Andrews, she is married to Francisco, and all three are Masters graduates of the Royal Academy of Music. So this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert at Leatherhead Methodist Church features the two classical guitarists in duos by Granados, Beethoven, Piazzolla, and Castelnuovo-Tedesco, with each of the players adding a solo item. Having recently given birth to a son, we assumed Emily Andrews would not come along to this concert, but she assures us she and their 5-week old baby will be there. Talk about starting them young ! You will find biographies for Francisco and David, the full programme, and links to recordings of the works they will be performing, on this concert webpage. Next week's concert, on Thursday 1st September, features the return of lutenist Wezi Elliott, in a solo concert of Barqoue music by Robert de Visée, Charles Mouton and David Kellner. Wezi teaches lute around his home town of Tottenham, and is a regular performer at the Brighton Early Music Festival. You will find more on this concert webpage. |
These 12.30 lunchtime concert generally last 35-45 minutes. They are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee are available after the concerts, and there will usually be the opportunity to chat with the musicians.
LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church - has level access throughout, including toilets. If you are bringing a wheelchair, we advise reaching the Church at 12 midday because there is very limited on-site parking. But once inside you'll find the seating is very flexible and we can easily remove a chair so you can sit with your friends.
On Sunday evening this Bank Holiday weekend, there will be a MAIASTRA concert in the Performing Arts Cente of St John's School, Leatherhead. This 7.30pm concert on Sunday 28th August features string quartets by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Dvorak. The quartet is led by Arisa Fujita, a professor of violin at the Guidhall School of Music & Drama. Link to Arisa's biography page.
This concert is repeated on Monday evening at 7.30pm, in the Musical Museum Brentford (near the north side of Kew Bridge). Why not tell your London friends about the superb standard of preformance they can expect from a MAIASTRA concert ?
Full details of the Leatherhead and Brentford concerts are on this MAIASTRA webpage.
If you'd like to start planning your September musical outings then do take a look at our MusicInSurrey diary.
Enjoy your selection of music-making and -listening this coming week !
LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church - has level access throughout, including toilets. If you are bringing a wheelchair, we advise reaching the Church at 12 midday because there is very limited on-site parking. But once inside you'll find the seating is very flexible and we can easily remove a chair so you can sit with your friends.
On Sunday evening this Bank Holiday weekend, there will be a MAIASTRA concert in the Performing Arts Cente of St John's School, Leatherhead. This 7.30pm concert on Sunday 28th August features string quartets by Haydn, Shostakovich, and Dvorak. The quartet is led by Arisa Fujita, a professor of violin at the Guidhall School of Music & Drama. Link to Arisa's biography page.
This concert is repeated on Monday evening at 7.30pm, in the Musical Museum Brentford (near the north side of Kew Bridge). Why not tell your London friends about the superb standard of preformance they can expect from a MAIASTRA concert ?
Full details of the Leatherhead and Brentford concerts are on this MAIASTRA webpage.
If you'd like to start planning your September musical outings then do take a look at our MusicInSurrey diary.
Enjoy your selection of music-making and -listening this coming week !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesday at St John's • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesday at St John's • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
15th August 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
15th August 2016
Dear Friends,
This is a big week for Leatherhead Concert & Arts. For the first time ever, we have two lunchtime concerts in the same week - organ on Wednesday, harp on Thursday. Not only that, but our friends at MAIASTRA then have a Friday evening concert in Cobham to round off the week.
Here's the key information for each event:
Here's the key information for each event:
Please use the buttons below to click through to more information about each concert: |
Next week, for our lunchtime concert on Thursday 25th August, we welcome classical guitarists Francisco Correa and David Massey. We have often heard these supremely talented players separately; here is a first chance to hear them perform together as a duo. You will find more about their concert on this webage.
Over the Bank Holiday weekend MAIASTRA have a string quartet concert, on Sunday evening, 28th August at 7.30pm, in the Performing Arts Centre of St John's School, Leatherhead, and repeated the following evening at the Musical Museum in Brentford. Please check out their website for more information on these concerts of quartets by Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvorak.
I hope you and your friends enjoy your choices from this fortnight of superb musical performances.
Over the Bank Holiday weekend MAIASTRA have a string quartet concert, on Sunday evening, 28th August at 7.30pm, in the Performing Arts Centre of St John's School, Leatherhead, and repeated the following evening at the Musical Museum in Brentford. Please check out their website for more information on these concerts of quartets by Haydn, Shostakovich and Dvorak.
I hope you and your friends enjoy your choices from this fortnight of superb musical performances.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesday at St John's • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesday at St John's • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
8th August 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
8th August 2016
Dear Friends,
Jacqueline Phillips has been playing cello at these lunchtime concerts each year since they started in 2012. On Thursday this week, 11th August at 12.30 lunchtime, she will be playing the 3rd and 4th of JS Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello. Jacqueline will continue with the final two Suites in an October concert. You can read more about Jacqueline Phillips, and find links to recordings of the Bach Suites, on this link.
Next week we have two concerts. This is the one month of the year when there is no Messy Church at LMC so we are able to have a concert there on the third Thursday of August - the 18th. This year it will be a harp concert by the wonderfully talented Welsh harpist, Gwenllian Llyr.
Gwenllian has studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the Julliard School in New York, and at the moment she is completing her studies at London's Royal Academy of music. Her choice of works by Louis Spohr, André Caplet, Balakirev and Henriette Renié is going to give us an intersting concert. Read more about Gwenllian, and explore recordings of the music she will be performing, on the concert webpage.
As well as the regular Thursday concert we decided to add in an August organ concert this year. This will be a special concert because we are inviting two French cathedral organists to play for us. Florence Rousseau and Loïc Georgeault are very keen on Early and Baroque music, so they will bring us music from both German and French Baroque. But they are French after all, and who better to perform works by French composers? So their concert ends with music by César Franck and Jehan Alain.
The organ concert is also special because it takes place in the Chapel of St John's School, Leatherhead. Last summer St John's had a new English-built pipe organ installed. Next Wednesday's will be only the second public concert on this fine instrument. Please be in your seat by 12.20 on Wednesday 17th August for this 1-hour organ concert. More details here.
These three 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. There is level access to both LMC and St John's School Chapel.
After concerts at LMC tea and coffee are available, giving a chance to chat together and with the musicians. Parking can be tricky. We advise using the town's Church Street (Theatre) or Multi-storey car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Methodist Church in Church Road.
Next week we have two concerts. This is the one month of the year when there is no Messy Church at LMC so we are able to have a concert there on the third Thursday of August - the 18th. This year it will be a harp concert by the wonderfully talented Welsh harpist, Gwenllian Llyr.
Gwenllian has studied at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the Julliard School in New York, and at the moment she is completing her studies at London's Royal Academy of music. Her choice of works by Louis Spohr, André Caplet, Balakirev and Henriette Renié is going to give us an intersting concert. Read more about Gwenllian, and explore recordings of the music she will be performing, on the concert webpage.
As well as the regular Thursday concert we decided to add in an August organ concert this year. This will be a special concert because we are inviting two French cathedral organists to play for us. Florence Rousseau and Loïc Georgeault are very keen on Early and Baroque music, so they will bring us music from both German and French Baroque. But they are French after all, and who better to perform works by French composers? So their concert ends with music by César Franck and Jehan Alain.
The organ concert is also special because it takes place in the Chapel of St John's School, Leatherhead. Last summer St John's had a new English-built pipe organ installed. Next Wednesday's will be only the second public concert on this fine instrument. Please be in your seat by 12.20 on Wednesday 17th August for this 1-hour organ concert. More details here.
These three 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. There is level access to both LMC and St John's School Chapel.
After concerts at LMC tea and coffee are available, giving a chance to chat together and with the musicians. Parking can be tricky. We advise using the town's Church Street (Theatre) or Multi-storey car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Methodist Church in Church Road.
For St John's School Chapel, please see the map. ►►►
You may find it easier to head for the Garlands Road car park and walk into the School Cloister and grounds from that corner, by the Performing Arts Centre. With building and landscaping staff busy working through the holiday the School's car park on Epsom Road, by the Science block, may fill during the morning. click on map to expand |
Here are a few more music events in the area:
10th: Wednesdsay lunchtime at 1.10pm, Nicholas Graham is the organist in this month's lunchtime concert in St Mary's Quarry Street, Guildford. Nicholas is Organ Scholar at Croydon Minster. This is another 'free with reitring collection' concert.
13th: On Saturday at 6pm Va-Riotous Productions' offering is Romeo and Jemima - a familiar story, with an extra character in the form of Jemima. You'd best take a look here for more information !
19th: On Friday evening next week at 7.30pm (after our two concerts, we hope you have the stamina!) MAIASTRA's evening concert in St Andrew's Church, Cobham comprises two piano quartets, by Brahms and Fauré. This too is a free concert with retiring collection.
MAIASTRA also have concerts on the Bank Holiday weekend. If you'd like to plan ahead please see the musicinsurrey diary.
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices this summer.
10th: Wednesdsay lunchtime at 1.10pm, Nicholas Graham is the organist in this month's lunchtime concert in St Mary's Quarry Street, Guildford. Nicholas is Organ Scholar at Croydon Minster. This is another 'free with reitring collection' concert.
13th: On Saturday at 6pm Va-Riotous Productions' offering is Romeo and Jemima - a familiar story, with an extra character in the form of Jemima. You'd best take a look here for more information !
19th: On Friday evening next week at 7.30pm (after our two concerts, we hope you have the stamina!) MAIASTRA's evening concert in St Andrew's Church, Cobham comprises two piano quartets, by Brahms and Fauré. This too is a free concert with retiring collection.
MAIASTRA also have concerts on the Bank Holiday weekend. If you'd like to plan ahead please see the musicinsurrey diary.
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening choices this summer.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
1st August 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
1st August 2016
Dear Friends,
On Thursday this week (4th August) we welcome back violinist Roma Tic who will be accompanied by pianist Emil Duncumb, both students of the Royal Academy of Music.
Roma's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church opens with a familiar Caprice by Paganini, and an Adagio and Fugue by JS Bach. Joined by Emil Duncumb, Miss Tic's concert continues with the Allegro from Mozart's 4th Violin Concerto, including a cadenza by Joseph Joachim, and Wieniawski's Fantaisie Brillante on themes from Gounod's opera Faust. You will find full details of the concert and the performers, and online recordings of the music Roma and Emil will be performing on this webpage. Next week we stay with the string section on August 11th when cellist Jacqueline Phillips performs the next two of JS Bach's Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello. Jacqueline will be with us again on October 13th when she will complete the Bach Suite series. Links to performances of the cello suites and Jacqueline's biography are on this concert webpage. |
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout, including toilets. After the concert tea and coffee are available, giving time to linger and chat.
Parking is not so easy, so we recommend you use the town's Multi-storey or Church Street car parks when coming to concerts at LMC.
Two interesting organ concerts coming up, and something a little different:
We are also busy preparing for three concerts later this month. That's the organ concert in St John's School Chapel on Wednesday 17th; the harp concert the next day, Thursday August 18th at LMC; and a first duo concert for our two popular classical guitarists - Francisco Correa and David Massey - on Thursday August 25th at LMC.
And one final piece of non-musical news: flautist and mezzo-soprano Emily Andrews, who was with us on July 14th, has had a lovely little boy named Sandy Luke Correa. Mother and father delighted (yes, that's Francisco) and Emily's duo partner David Massey seems just as excited !
Isn't it lovely to finish on good news for some of our performers! I hope you too have plenty of good times and good news this summer.
Parking is not so easy, so we recommend you use the town's Multi-storey or Church Street car parks when coming to concerts at LMC.
Two interesting organ concerts coming up, and something a little different:
- next Sunday (August 7th, 3pm) at Farnborough Abbey, Prof Jérôme Faucheur from the Lille Institute of Music is the organist. St Michael's Abbey has an interesting Mutin-Cavaillé-Coll organ. You will find ample parking at the Abbey, SatNav GU14 7NQ. Visit the Abbey.
- Wednesday of next week, 10th August at 1.10pm, Nicolas Graham, Organ Scholar at Croydon Minster has a concert on the lovely Saxon Aldred organ in St Mary's Church, Quarry Street, Guildford. Visit St Mary's.
- and for sometihng completely different, Romeo and Jemima is the name of a production by Va-Riotous Productions, at 6pm on Saturday 13th August, at St Barnabas Church, Ranmore, RH5 6SP. More info here.
We are also busy preparing for three concerts later this month. That's the organ concert in St John's School Chapel on Wednesday 17th; the harp concert the next day, Thursday August 18th at LMC; and a first duo concert for our two popular classical guitarists - Francisco Correa and David Massey - on Thursday August 25th at LMC.
And one final piece of non-musical news: flautist and mezzo-soprano Emily Andrews, who was with us on July 14th, has had a lovely little boy named Sandy Luke Correa. Mother and father delighted (yes, that's Francisco) and Emily's duo partner David Massey seems just as excited !
Isn't it lovely to finish on good news for some of our performers! I hope you too have plenty of good times and good news this summer.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
25th July 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
25th July 2016
Dear Friends,
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert sees the return of Swedish pianist Greta Åstedt who accompanied the lovely violinist Irma Vastakaite when they were here last year. Greta's concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church this week consists of two works, a delightful Intermezzo by Brahms, followed by Schumann's Carnaval, which is truly challenging for the performer, both physically and emotionally.
Each of Carnaval's movements reflects a different personality encountered at the carnival that precedes Lent in many countries.Some are Schumann's friends, some are the traditional characters of the commedia dell'arte - Pierrot, Arlequin, Pantalon et Columbine. There is also a play on the letters ASCH running through the pieces, but you'll have to read up on wikipedia for more about that !
You will find the full programme for July 28th and more about Greta Åstedt, plus link to performances of the music on the concert webpage.
Next week, on Thursday 4th August, we welcome back violinist Roma Tic, with accompanist Emil Duncumb. Roma has put together an excellent programme of music by Paganini, Bach, Mozart and Wieniawski. It promises to be a quite virtuosic performance, so do take a look at the concert webpage.
These weekly concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee are available afterwards, and Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout, including toilets.
Parking can be an issue as there are only spaces for blue badge parking at the Church. We advise using the multi-storey or Church Street car parks, and allowing 5-7 minutes for the walk to LMC, in the one-way section of Church Road.
Our concerts continue through August, and we even have two concerts in the same week at one point. So please do take a note of these dates, and tell your friends. There don't seem to be many other local concerts in the musicinsurrey diary:
We've spotted one organ concert coming up this week:
Wednesday 27th July, 1.10pm at St Michael's, West Croydon: Richard Townend organist of St Margaret's Lothbury, in the City of London
If you are having one, do enjoy your holiday. And whether you are at home or away, I hope you enjoy your choice of music-making and listening this summer.
Each of Carnaval's movements reflects a different personality encountered at the carnival that precedes Lent in many countries.Some are Schumann's friends, some are the traditional characters of the commedia dell'arte - Pierrot, Arlequin, Pantalon et Columbine. There is also a play on the letters ASCH running through the pieces, but you'll have to read up on wikipedia for more about that !
You will find the full programme for July 28th and more about Greta Åstedt, plus link to performances of the music on the concert webpage.
Next week, on Thursday 4th August, we welcome back violinist Roma Tic, with accompanist Emil Duncumb. Roma has put together an excellent programme of music by Paganini, Bach, Mozart and Wieniawski. It promises to be a quite virtuosic performance, so do take a look at the concert webpage.
These weekly concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee are available afterwards, and Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout, including toilets.
Parking can be an issue as there are only spaces for blue badge parking at the Church. We advise using the multi-storey or Church Street car parks, and allowing 5-7 minutes for the walk to LMC, in the one-way section of Church Road.
Our concerts continue through August, and we even have two concerts in the same week at one point. So please do take a note of these dates, and tell your friends. There don't seem to be many other local concerts in the musicinsurrey diary:
- Thursday 4th August • MoT at LMC • Roma Tic, violin • Emil Duncumb, piano (from Royal Academy of Music) •
- Thursday 11th August • MoT at LMC • Jacqueline Phillips, cello • JS Bach Cello Suites No 4 & No 3 •
- Wednesday 17th August • Wednesday at St John's • *New Chapel* • French cathedral organists • Florence Rousseau • Loïc Georgeault • (please note the new venue for this concert, still free with a retiring collection) •
- Thursday 18th August • MoT at LMC • Welsh harpist • Gwenllian Llyr (from Royal Academy of Music) •
- Thursday 25th August • MoT at LMC • Classical Guitar Duo of • David Massey • Francisco Correa •
We've spotted one organ concert coming up this week:
Wednesday 27th July, 1.10pm at St Michael's, West Croydon: Richard Townend organist of St Margaret's Lothbury, in the City of London
If you are having one, do enjoy your holiday. And whether you are at home or away, I hope you enjoy your choice of music-making and listening this summer.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
18th July 2016
Dear Friends,
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
18th July 2016
Dear Friends,
We heard a lovely concert last Thursday, in which Emily Andrews sang as well as playing flute, and we had a chance to appreciate Alice Rosset's performance as a pianist. We hope to bring Alice back next summer for a solo concert. Emily will be with us on November 24th, with her classical guitar duo partner, David Massey.
This week is organ week. Technically, organ concerts are held the day before the third Thursday, because both churches are busy on that Thursday. Except in August, but more about that closer to the time.
This week is organ week. Technically, organ concerts are held the day before the third Thursday, because both churches are busy on that Thursday. Except in August, but more about that closer to the time.
So it is that on Wednesday our 12.30 lunchtime concert will be Wednesdays at Christ Church, when the guest organist is Jonathan Melling. Jonathan is organist and director of music at the City Church near the Tower of London - All Hallows by the Tower. There he runs an organ recital series of his own, and he plays for the services which various City Livery Companies hold in that historic Church.
Here is a player experienced in formulating well-balanced concert programmes and, after his two previous visits, well-used to the Christ Church organ. Jonathan has put together a varied and interesting programme for our concert, with a few familiar names - Coleridge Taylor, JS Bach, Widor - alongside less well-known composers, and including a lovely Welsh Lullaby melody, arranged by Caleb Jarvis.
You will find more details of this 12.30 concert in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead on the concert webpage. The page includes audio and video samples of the music he will be playing.
Next week's Music on Thursdays at LMC concert programme has just come in this afternoon. Swedish pianist Greta Åstedt will perform Schumann's Carnaval, followed by the beautiful Brahms work, Intermezzo No 1. More details, and video performances of the two works are on the concert webpage.
These lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout, and tea and coffee are available afterwards, almost always giving us a chance to chat with the musicians too.
There is plenty of parking at Christ Church, while for LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church, it is best to park in the multi-storey or Church Street car parks, and allow 5-7 minutes for the walk to Church Road.
If you are shopping or working in West Croydon, you will be able to enjoy one of the fine organ concets in St Michael and All Angel's Church, each Wednesday this month, at 1.10pm. Full details here.
Everyone else seems to be taking a break at the moment, so we hope you will come to a lunchtime concert this summer to enjoy your fill of great musicianship close to your home or work.
Here is a player experienced in formulating well-balanced concert programmes and, after his two previous visits, well-used to the Christ Church organ. Jonathan has put together a varied and interesting programme for our concert, with a few familiar names - Coleridge Taylor, JS Bach, Widor - alongside less well-known composers, and including a lovely Welsh Lullaby melody, arranged by Caleb Jarvis.
You will find more details of this 12.30 concert in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead on the concert webpage. The page includes audio and video samples of the music he will be playing.
Next week's Music on Thursdays at LMC concert programme has just come in this afternoon. Swedish pianist Greta Åstedt will perform Schumann's Carnaval, followed by the beautiful Brahms work, Intermezzo No 1. More details, and video performances of the two works are on the concert webpage.
These lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout, and tea and coffee are available afterwards, almost always giving us a chance to chat with the musicians too.
There is plenty of parking at Christ Church, while for LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church, it is best to park in the multi-storey or Church Street car parks, and allow 5-7 minutes for the walk to Church Road.
If you are shopping or working in West Croydon, you will be able to enjoy one of the fine organ concets in St Michael and All Angel's Church, each Wednesday this month, at 1.10pm. Full details here.
Everyone else seems to be taking a break at the moment, so we hope you will come to a lunchtime concert this summer to enjoy your fill of great musicianship close to your home or work.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
PS: If you haven't seen it yet, below is our summer concert programme with details of weekly concerts through July, August, and into September:
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
PS: If you haven't seen it yet, below is our summer concert programme with details of weekly concerts through July, August, and into September:
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
11th July 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
11th July 2016
Dear Friends,
The idea for this Thursday's concert of French music for flute and piano arose when we saw that in 2016 we would indeed have a Music on Thursdays concert on the French national holiday - 14th July.
If you have Sky or Virgin, with access to TV5 Europe or TV5 Monde, you could spend from 9am Thursday watching the parade of every piece of military, police and fire brigade hardware the French possess, as it goes up the Champs Elysées. The Foreign Legion, the mounted Garde Républicaine, the final parachute drop in front of the President and his guests - it all makes for great spectacle. But don't get too carried away, because at 12.30....
At 12.30 on Thursday we have a lunchtime concert in LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church, with our friend, the flautist Emily Andrews, and her French friend and chère collègue, pianist, Alice Rosset.
Emily and Alice have chosen music entirely by French composers, so do take a look at their concert webpage for more details of the music, and of both performers - including the story of how they met. Emily is awaiting good news. We just hope it doesn't arrive during the concert ! |
Next week our concert is at 12.30 on Wednesday, July 20th, in the organ series Wednesdays at Christ Church. This month's guest organist is Jonathan Melling, one of the City of London's most active organists. He has his own weekly lunchtime concert series in All Hallows by the Tower, and he is called on to play for quite a few of the City Livery Company services that take place in the Church.
Jonathan is making his third visit to Christ Church, so he knows the instrument well by now, and has chosen his programme accordingly. Do take a look at the concert webpage and come and enjoy organ playing by a fine musician.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in LMC and Christ Church, Epsom Road, are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Tea and coffee will be available afterwards, and there's usually a chance to chat with the musicians, as well as among ourselves. Both Churches have level access throughout, including toilets. Parking is a different matter ! While Christ Church has plenty of space on site, for LMC it is best to head for the multi-storey or Church Street car parks.
Also this week, we are launching our Summer programme. We will hand out copies at both of the concerts above, but if you can't come along for a week or two, you might like to download and print the PDF below.
Jonathan is making his third visit to Christ Church, so he knows the instrument well by now, and has chosen his programme accordingly. Do take a look at the concert webpage and come and enjoy organ playing by a fine musician.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in LMC and Christ Church, Epsom Road, are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Tea and coffee will be available afterwards, and there's usually a chance to chat with the musicians, as well as among ourselves. Both Churches have level access throughout, including toilets. Parking is a different matter ! While Christ Church has plenty of space on site, for LMC it is best to head for the multi-storey or Church Street car parks.
Also this week, we are launching our Summer programme. We will hand out copies at both of the concerts above, but if you can't come along for a week or two, you might like to download and print the PDF below.
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Organ lovers have a choice of concert on Wednesday 13th July, both at 1.10pm (and both free with retiring collection) :
Concert organist Mark Brafield (who played at Leatherhead recently), will be at St Mary's, Quarry Street, Guildford, and
Charles Andrews, of All Saints, Margaret Street, Westminster, will be giving a recital in St Michael and All Angels, near West Croydon station.
It is always a pleasure to promote MAIASTRA concerts. You can be assured of a very high standard of musicianship, knowing that the players have spent a week at Slyfield, working under the guidance of Arisa Fujita - professor of violin at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. There are two chances to hear this week's concert of quartets by Haydn, Webern, and Schubert:
Saturday 16th, 7.30pm, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham, KT11 3EJ, and
Sunday 17th, 7.30pm, at the Musical Museum, 399 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DU
These popular concerts are also free with a retiring collection. More information about MAIASTRA and the concerts here.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening choices - and I look forward to welcoming you to one of our lunchtime concerts too.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Concert organist Mark Brafield (who played at Leatherhead recently), will be at St Mary's, Quarry Street, Guildford, and
Charles Andrews, of All Saints, Margaret Street, Westminster, will be giving a recital in St Michael and All Angels, near West Croydon station.
It is always a pleasure to promote MAIASTRA concerts. You can be assured of a very high standard of musicianship, knowing that the players have spent a week at Slyfield, working under the guidance of Arisa Fujita - professor of violin at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. There are two chances to hear this week's concert of quartets by Haydn, Webern, and Schubert:
Saturday 16th, 7.30pm, in St Andrew's Church, Cobham, KT11 3EJ, and
Sunday 17th, 7.30pm, at the Musical Museum, 399 High Street, Brentford, TW8 0DU
These popular concerts are also free with a retiring collection. More information about MAIASTRA and the concerts here.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening choices - and I look forward to welcoming you to one of our lunchtime concerts too.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
5th July 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
5th July 2016
Dear Friends,
Our next two concerts are of mostly French music. That is pure coincidence because we don't get to choose the students' repertoires each week, only to advise them if we have heard the same work recently.
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert, by Welsh trumpet player Gwyn Owen and piano accompanist Rebecca Taylor, brings us music by Marcel Bitsch (on a Scarlatti theme), Georges Enescu (OK, so he was Romanian), Debussy (The girl with the flaxen hair), Florent Schmitt (Suite for Trumpet & Piano), and Ravel (a Habanera-styled piece).
Gwyn and Rebecca are students of the Royal Academy of Music, both with substantial performance experience behind them already. You can read their biographies, and take a better look at their programme, on the concert webpage. You will also be able to listen to other video performances of the music they have chosen for us. |
Next week is Totalement français for the 14th July, the French National Day (we really mustn't keep calling it Bastille Day!) Last summer flautist Emily Andrews brought us a pianist from Iceland (and well done them, by the way). Next week she brings us a concert of entirely French music, with her duo partner la pianiste aux pieds nus - Alice Rosset.
On next week's concert webpage you can read about how these two musicians met, and the work they do together, as well as seeing their individual biographies, the full programme, and links to videos of the music.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. We advise you to use the town's Multi-story or Church Street (Theatre) car parks which are a 5-7 minute walk from Church Road. The nearest car park tends to fill by mid-morning.
After each concert we linger a while over tea and coffee, providing a chance to chat together and with the musicians. Incidentally, LMC has level access throughout, including toilets.
Let's take a look at other some local concerts:
On Wednesday at 1.10pm in St Michael's, West Croydon the guest organist will be Jérôme Faucheur, Professor of Organ at the Institute of Sacred Music at Lille, France. (Free with retiring collection.)
Bookham Choral Society's concert next Saturday evening at 8pm in St Nicolas' Church, Bookham, is titled Animal Crackers, and includes themed works by Britten, Bob Chilcott, and Eric Whitacre. Details here.
Next Sunday at 6pm in the Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon actor Sam West leads a celebration of Shakespeare-inspired words and music, with pupils of the School. Ticket info here.
And Wednesday of next week, 13th July, organ lovers have a choice of 1.10pm concerts: at St Michael's West Croydon the organist will be Charles Andrews, of All Saints, Margaret Street, Westminster, while at St Mary's Quarry Street, in Guildford, the guest organist will be Mark Brafield who gave a superb recital for us in the Wednesdays at Christ Church series back in May.
On next week's concert webpage you can read about how these two musicians met, and the work they do together, as well as seeing their individual biographies, the full programme, and links to videos of the music.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. We advise you to use the town's Multi-story or Church Street (Theatre) car parks which are a 5-7 minute walk from Church Road. The nearest car park tends to fill by mid-morning.
After each concert we linger a while over tea and coffee, providing a chance to chat together and with the musicians. Incidentally, LMC has level access throughout, including toilets.
Let's take a look at other some local concerts:
On Wednesday at 1.10pm in St Michael's, West Croydon the guest organist will be Jérôme Faucheur, Professor of Organ at the Institute of Sacred Music at Lille, France. (Free with retiring collection.)
Bookham Choral Society's concert next Saturday evening at 8pm in St Nicolas' Church, Bookham, is titled Animal Crackers, and includes themed works by Britten, Bob Chilcott, and Eric Whitacre. Details here.
Next Sunday at 6pm in the Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon actor Sam West leads a celebration of Shakespeare-inspired words and music, with pupils of the School. Ticket info here.
And Wednesday of next week, 13th July, organ lovers have a choice of 1.10pm concerts: at St Michael's West Croydon the organist will be Charles Andrews, of All Saints, Margaret Street, Westminster, while at St Mary's Quarry Street, in Guildford, the guest organist will be Mark Brafield who gave a superb recital for us in the Wednesdays at Christ Church series back in May.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening choices - and I hope to see you at one of our lunchtime concerts too.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
28th June 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
28th June 2016
Dear Friends,
Well, in these uncertain times it's good to know last Thursday's audience were agreed on one key point: We would like to hear more piano duo concerts, please ! The combination of percussive force and simultaneous harmonies right across the instrument's range proved very appealing, and our duo made excellent choices for their programme.
Violist Timothy Ridout is the solo performer in this Thursday's concert. Timothy gave a 12.30 lunchtime concert at LMC last October. The nature of the silence in the room that day was quite exceptional. Right from his first notes we knew we were in the safe hands of a genius, a player of incredible virtuosity, made all the more remarkable by his age.
Timothy's programme this Thursday lunchtime opens with a Telemann Fantasia, a modern work by David Philip Hefti follows, and he then performs - still on viola - JS Bach's 4th Cello Suite. Timothy is headed for greater things so we shouldn't expect to have many further chances to hear him locally. This is a concert definitely NOT to be missed. Full concert details on this concert webpage.
Next week's Music on Thursdays concert is our first trumpet and piano duo, with Welsh trumpet player Gwyn Owen, and accompanist Rebecca Taylor - who is also Assistant Conductor and Pianist for Twickenham Choral Society, and Director of Music at St Philip's Church, Earls Court Road.
Their programme has works by five different composers, from Marcel Bitsch's Four Variations on a Scarlatti Theme, to Debussy and Ravel. You can read more about Gwyn Owen and Rebecca Taylor, and listen to recordings of the music they will be performing, on this concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Afterwards tea and coffee are available, and usually a chance to chat with the musicians. LMC, in Church Road, has level access throughout (including toilets).
Parking: We advise you to use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or Church Street car parks which are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Church. We have limited blue badge parking on site - please arrive close to midday if you need one of these spaces. (The car park behind the Parish Church Hall tends to fill by mid-morning.)
Working in Croydon ? If you are, you may be able to get to Wednesday's organ concert in St Michael & All Angels, West Croydon where Christopher Beaumont is this week's artiste at 1.10pm. You will find the programme for this year's lunchtime concerts on this link. Next week the invited organist will be Jérôme Faucheur, Professor of Organ, Institute of Sacred Music, Lille, France.
Saturday lunchtime: In St Martin's Dorking at 12noon there is a concert by the DCO Wind Quintet - the principal wind players of Dorking Chamber Orchestra. Fine playing in a superb acoustic. More information here.
Further choices for Saturday include:
• Menuhin 100 Festival Showcase - 2pm and 7.30pm, Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, student showcase commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founder's birth
• East Surrey Choral Society, Love is in the Air, 7.30pm, Woldingham Village Hall, including Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, with soloists gfrom Guildhall School of Music & Drama
• Fetcham Singers Summer Concert, 7.30pm, Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, includes Purcell's Come, ye Sons of Art, Shakepseare setting, some G&S, and Showboat songs
And on Sunday 3rd July:
• at 2pm Menuhin 100 Festival Showcase (as above)
• at 3pm, on the magnificent Mutin-Cavaillé-Coll organ of St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, Matthias Jacob, of Klein-Glienicker Kappelle, Berlin
And then on Tuesday next week, July 5th, at 1pm, James O'Donnell, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey, gives a concert on the lovely Frobenius organ in St Mary's, Stoke d'Abernon. Tickets are £12 from 08700 842 020 (booking is via Yehudi Menuhin School).
Timothy's programme this Thursday lunchtime opens with a Telemann Fantasia, a modern work by David Philip Hefti follows, and he then performs - still on viola - JS Bach's 4th Cello Suite. Timothy is headed for greater things so we shouldn't expect to have many further chances to hear him locally. This is a concert definitely NOT to be missed. Full concert details on this concert webpage.
Next week's Music on Thursdays concert is our first trumpet and piano duo, with Welsh trumpet player Gwyn Owen, and accompanist Rebecca Taylor - who is also Assistant Conductor and Pianist for Twickenham Choral Society, and Director of Music at St Philip's Church, Earls Court Road.
Their programme has works by five different composers, from Marcel Bitsch's Four Variations on a Scarlatti Theme, to Debussy and Ravel. You can read more about Gwyn Owen and Rebecca Taylor, and listen to recordings of the music they will be performing, on this concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Afterwards tea and coffee are available, and usually a chance to chat with the musicians. LMC, in Church Road, has level access throughout (including toilets).
Parking: We advise you to use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or Church Street car parks which are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Church. We have limited blue badge parking on site - please arrive close to midday if you need one of these spaces. (The car park behind the Parish Church Hall tends to fill by mid-morning.)
Working in Croydon ? If you are, you may be able to get to Wednesday's organ concert in St Michael & All Angels, West Croydon where Christopher Beaumont is this week's artiste at 1.10pm. You will find the programme for this year's lunchtime concerts on this link. Next week the invited organist will be Jérôme Faucheur, Professor of Organ, Institute of Sacred Music, Lille, France.
Saturday lunchtime: In St Martin's Dorking at 12noon there is a concert by the DCO Wind Quintet - the principal wind players of Dorking Chamber Orchestra. Fine playing in a superb acoustic. More information here.
Further choices for Saturday include:
• Menuhin 100 Festival Showcase - 2pm and 7.30pm, Menuhin Hall, Stoke d'Abernon, student showcase commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founder's birth
• East Surrey Choral Society, Love is in the Air, 7.30pm, Woldingham Village Hall, including Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, with soloists gfrom Guildhall School of Music & Drama
• Fetcham Singers Summer Concert, 7.30pm, Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, includes Purcell's Come, ye Sons of Art, Shakepseare setting, some G&S, and Showboat songs
And on Sunday 3rd July:
• at 2pm Menuhin 100 Festival Showcase (as above)
• at 3pm, on the magnificent Mutin-Cavaillé-Coll organ of St Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, Matthias Jacob, of Klein-Glienicker Kappelle, Berlin
And then on Tuesday next week, July 5th, at 1pm, James O'Donnell, Organist and Master of the Choristers at Westminster Abbey, gives a concert on the lovely Frobenius organ in St Mary's, Stoke d'Abernon. Tickets are £12 from 08700 842 020 (booking is via Yehudi Menuhin School).
Enjoy your music-making and -listening choices this summer !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
20th June 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
20th June 2016
Dear Friends,
Bringing a good piano into the Methodist Church changed the feel of our concerts. The Schiedmayer stands up well both as an accompanying instrument, and in the hands of a soloist. This Thursday we put the piano under the well-trained fingers of two soloists - well, a duo - a combination that transforms the instrument. Lena Napradean is from Romania, and Nathan Ben-Yehuda comes from the USA. They are both students of the Royal Academy of Music, although Nathan won't be there much longer as he has secured a place on a Masters course at the Juilliard School in New York. The duo have been working together for most of the past year and bring us a good selection of pieces written for piano duo by Brahms and Dvorák. There is more information on the concert webpage - and we look forward to seeing you at our first piano duo concert, at 12.30 lunchtime, this Thursday, 23rd June, in Leatherhead Methodist Church. |
Next week we welcome back stunning young virtuoso viola player Timothy Ridout. Timothy performed here last October and amazed our audience with his brilliant playing. On June 30th he returns for a solo recital which will include a Telemann Fantasia, Con Anima, David Phlip Hefti's Mosaic for solo viola, and Bach's 4th cello suite - an interesting performance choice, given that we will hear it again on cello later in the season. For Timothy this is to be a trial of works he is performing in a large public concert later this summer. Full details are now ready on the concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea & coffee are available after each concert, with the opportunity to chat among oureselves, and usually with the artistes. LMC has level acess throughout.
We recommend visitors park in the town's Church Street or Multi-storey car parks which are a 5-7 minute walk from the Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road.
Let's take a look at other people's concerts in the area:
On Wednesday at 1.10pm in St Michael and All Angels', West Croydon, this week's guest organist is Hartmut Leuschner-Rostoski from Bayreuth, Germany.
On Thursday evening at 7.30pm, St John's Choral Society (parents, staff, pupils, & friends) have a concert of Handel's Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi's Gloria, in the Old Chapel.
On Saturday afternoon/evening at 5.30pm, Gillian Lloyd will give a recital on the newly restored Samuel Letts of Edinburgh organ in Holy Trinity Church, Forest Green, RH5 5SF. There are only two such instruments known to survive. Best take a look at the entry on musicinsurrey for more on the instrument.
This Saturday at 7.30pm there are several choices, so again do take a look at musicinsurrey for more information and for links to:
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea & coffee are available after each concert, with the opportunity to chat among oureselves, and usually with the artistes. LMC has level acess throughout.
We recommend visitors park in the town's Church Street or Multi-storey car parks which are a 5-7 minute walk from the Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road.
Let's take a look at other people's concerts in the area:
On Wednesday at 1.10pm in St Michael and All Angels', West Croydon, this week's guest organist is Hartmut Leuschner-Rostoski from Bayreuth, Germany.
On Thursday evening at 7.30pm, St John's Choral Society (parents, staff, pupils, & friends) have a concert of Handel's Dixit Dominus and Vivaldi's Gloria, in the Old Chapel.
On Saturday afternoon/evening at 5.30pm, Gillian Lloyd will give a recital on the newly restored Samuel Letts of Edinburgh organ in Holy Trinity Church, Forest Green, RH5 5SF. There are only two such instruments known to survive. Best take a look at the entry on musicinsurrey for more on the instrument.
This Saturday at 7.30pm there are several choices, so again do take a look at musicinsurrey for more information and for links to:
Ripeno Choir, Taverner & Byrd, at All Saints Weston Green;
Epsom Chamber Choir at St Martin's Church, Central Epsom; English Arts Chorale at St Mary's Reigate; and Leatherhead Choral Society's Summer Concert, in the Old Chapel of St John's School. |
Enjoy your choice of music-making and -listening this summer!
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
13th June 2016
Dear Friends,
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
13th June 2016
Dear Friends,
Last Thursday's Mardi Brass mini-concerts at Leatherhead Trinity School went very well. The children's reactions were brilliant. They were attentive throughout, and by the various reports that have reached me over the last few days, I'm pretty sure they really enjoyed the experience. Have a look at page 4 of the School's recent newsletter to parents:
Mardi Brass then came to the Methodist Church and gave the lunchtime audience their Story of Brass. It was a fast-moving, light-hearted canter through the history of brass instruments, illustrated with musical examples including Disney's The Bare Necessities, a bit of a Mozart horn concerto, and Pie Jesu. You will find recordings of the music we heard last Thursday at the bottom of the Mardi Brass concert webpage.
At a meeting with Assistant Headteacher Barbara Sheppard this morning, we agreed to continue helping Trinity's pupils to broaden their experience of orchestral instruments. On Novermber 24th Emily and David, our friends of The Andrews Massey Flute & Guitar Duo, will play for the children, before performing our final lunchtime concert of 2016 - a good excuse to slip in some of their Christmassy items.
This week our concert comes from the monthly Wednesdays at Christ Church series, in the Church on Epsom Road.
At a meeting with Assistant Headteacher Barbara Sheppard this morning, we agreed to continue helping Trinity's pupils to broaden their experience of orchestral instruments. On Novermber 24th Emily and David, our friends of The Andrews Massey Flute & Guitar Duo, will play for the children, before performing our final lunchtime concert of 2016 - a good excuse to slip in some of their Christmassy items.
This week our concert comes from the monthly Wednesdays at Christ Church series, in the Church on Epsom Road.
John Eagles is the invited organist, and he has selected music 'In Honour of Her Majesty's Official 90th Birthday Celebrations'. In Wednesday's 12.30 concert John performs works by a number of British composers, gives a quick nod to current affairs with the Charpentier prelude now mostly known for its 'Eurovision' connections, and he rounds off his programme with William Walton's Orb & Sceptre - written for the 1953 Coronation. You will find more about John and his programme, including recordings of most of the music on the concert webpage.
Next week we are back with Music on Thursdays at LMC for our first ever performance by two pianists on one piano. Lena Napradean and Nathan Ben-Yehuda are international students of the Royal Academy of Music. Nathan is going on to study for his MMus at the Julliard in New York in the next academic year.
For their 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church on June 23rd, Lena and Nathan have chosen music written for piano duo by Brahms (Waltzes) and by Dvorák (Slavonic Dances). There is a particular excitement about four hands playing across the range of a single piano. Recordings of the music, biographies of the players, and the full programme can all be seen on the concert webpage.
These two lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After the concert there will be time to linger and chat over a cup of tea or coffee.
While Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking, for concerts at LMC we advise you to park in the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks.
There are several organ, chamber, and choral concerts in the area during the next couple of weeks, so please take a look at our musicinsurrey website for more information. Wherever possible the diary there has links to the organisers of each event.
Whether you are listening, organising, or performing, we hope you enjoy your pick of the concerts on offer over the next week or two. And of course, we would particularly like to welcome you to a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead.
Next week we are back with Music on Thursdays at LMC for our first ever performance by two pianists on one piano. Lena Napradean and Nathan Ben-Yehuda are international students of the Royal Academy of Music. Nathan is going on to study for his MMus at the Julliard in New York in the next academic year.
For their 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church on June 23rd, Lena and Nathan have chosen music written for piano duo by Brahms (Waltzes) and by Dvorák (Slavonic Dances). There is a particular excitement about four hands playing across the range of a single piano. Recordings of the music, biographies of the players, and the full programme can all be seen on the concert webpage.
These two lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. After the concert there will be time to linger and chat over a cup of tea or coffee.
While Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking, for concerts at LMC we advise you to park in the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks.
There are several organ, chamber, and choral concerts in the area during the next couple of weeks, so please take a look at our musicinsurrey website for more information. Wherever possible the diary there has links to the organisers of each event.
Whether you are listening, organising, or performing, we hope you enjoy your pick of the concerts on offer over the next week or two. And of course, we would particularly like to welcome you to a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
6th June 2016
Dear Friends,
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
6th June 2016
Dear Friends,
This Thursday is a big day for LCAS and for music in Leatherhead. First, the five members of Mardi Brass will play their instruments to the pupils at Leatherhead Trinity School, and then they will come along to Leatherhead Methodist Church to play for the lunchtime concert.
Their 12.30 concert for us is a light-hearted and lively take on The Story of Brass - from animal horn and hollow stick to the modern valve trumpet.
Our two aims for the day are to have a fun concert for ourselves and, through it, to raise funds to continue our project to bring professional musicians to play at Leatherhead Trinity.
Donations on the day will be split equally between the concert and the project - unless you write a different instruction on the back of your envelope. If you prefer to give more to the Project than to the concert, or vice versa, please use a Gift Aid envelope, but don't sign it if you are NOT claiming Gift Aid. (That sounded simpler when I said it out loud, sorry!)
Their 12.30 concert for us is a light-hearted and lively take on The Story of Brass - from animal horn and hollow stick to the modern valve trumpet.
Our two aims for the day are to have a fun concert for ourselves and, through it, to raise funds to continue our project to bring professional musicians to play at Leatherhead Trinity.
Donations on the day will be split equally between the concert and the project - unless you write a different instruction on the back of your envelope. If you prefer to give more to the Project than to the concert, or vice versa, please use a Gift Aid envelope, but don't sign it if you are NOT claiming Gift Aid. (That sounded simpler when I said it out loud, sorry!)
You can read all about the five brass players on their concert webpage.
We are grateful to local law firm Julie West Solicitor for generous support of the LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity School Music Project.
Next week it's Wednesdays at Christ Church. The invited organist on Wednesday 15th June is John Eagles. John has selected works with the theme: In Honour of Her Majesty's Official 90th Birthday. He opens with the famous Eurovision anthem, properly the Prelude Marche en Rondeau, from Charpentier's Te Deum.
Vaughan Williams' arrangements on three Welsh hymn tunes follow, and a familiar Adagio by Frank Bridge. Less familiar will be the lovely Lullaby for a Royal Prince, by Arthur Wills, the Prince being Prince William. Max Reger and Herbert Howells follow, and John closes with William Walton's Orb and Sceptre Coronation March - written for the event itself in 1953. Full details are on the concert webpage.
On June 23rd we welcome two more performers from the Royal Academy of Music, and for the first time in five years of these concerts, we will hear four hands on one piano. Lena Napradean and Nathan Ben-Yehuda are the international artistes. We will be adding more to their concert webpage as it comes in.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead's Churches are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs (and on 9th June to fund the LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity School Music Project).
Both Churches have level access throughout, and tea and coffee are available afterwards, with a chance to chat with that day's musicians.
Christ Church, Epsom Road, has plenty of on-site parking. Leatherhead Methodist Church is not so blessed, just having spaces for disabled users (please arrive around 12 noon). We advise you to use the town's multi-storey or Church Street/Theatre car parks for concerts at LMC.
There's a treat for handbell enthusiasts on Thursday evening, when The Raleigh Ringers (from Raleigh, North Carolina), give a concert at Redhill's Harlequin Theatre. Full info here.
Next weekend the Tilford Bach Festival is in full flow, with the London Handel Players and The Art of Fugue on Friday evening; two Violin Partitas Saturday lunchtime; two Bach Cantatas plus concerti by Carl Friederich Abel, Leonardo Leo and Alessandro Marcello on Saturday evening; and Bach's B minor Mass on Sunday evening, repeated on Monday evening at St John's Smith Square. Follow the TBS link for details of all these superb concerts.
Also on Saturday evening Guildford Choral have a concert entitled Across the Centuries, in Holy Trinity, Guildford High Street. Accompanied by Southern Pro Musica Brass, their concert selection spans the 16th to the 20th centuries, under the baton of Jonathan Willcocks. Full details here.
Do enjoy your choice of these superb concerts, and I look forward to welcoming you to one of our excellent lunchtime concerts soon.
We are grateful to local law firm Julie West Solicitor for generous support of the LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity School Music Project.
Next week it's Wednesdays at Christ Church. The invited organist on Wednesday 15th June is John Eagles. John has selected works with the theme: In Honour of Her Majesty's Official 90th Birthday. He opens with the famous Eurovision anthem, properly the Prelude Marche en Rondeau, from Charpentier's Te Deum.
Vaughan Williams' arrangements on three Welsh hymn tunes follow, and a familiar Adagio by Frank Bridge. Less familiar will be the lovely Lullaby for a Royal Prince, by Arthur Wills, the Prince being Prince William. Max Reger and Herbert Howells follow, and John closes with William Walton's Orb and Sceptre Coronation March - written for the event itself in 1953. Full details are on the concert webpage.
On June 23rd we welcome two more performers from the Royal Academy of Music, and for the first time in five years of these concerts, we will hear four hands on one piano. Lena Napradean and Nathan Ben-Yehuda are the international artistes. We will be adding more to their concert webpage as it comes in.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead's Churches are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs (and on 9th June to fund the LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity School Music Project).
Both Churches have level access throughout, and tea and coffee are available afterwards, with a chance to chat with that day's musicians.
Christ Church, Epsom Road, has plenty of on-site parking. Leatherhead Methodist Church is not so blessed, just having spaces for disabled users (please arrive around 12 noon). We advise you to use the town's multi-storey or Church Street/Theatre car parks for concerts at LMC.
There's a treat for handbell enthusiasts on Thursday evening, when The Raleigh Ringers (from Raleigh, North Carolina), give a concert at Redhill's Harlequin Theatre. Full info here.
Next weekend the Tilford Bach Festival is in full flow, with the London Handel Players and The Art of Fugue on Friday evening; two Violin Partitas Saturday lunchtime; two Bach Cantatas plus concerti by Carl Friederich Abel, Leonardo Leo and Alessandro Marcello on Saturday evening; and Bach's B minor Mass on Sunday evening, repeated on Monday evening at St John's Smith Square. Follow the TBS link for details of all these superb concerts.
Also on Saturday evening Guildford Choral have a concert entitled Across the Centuries, in Holy Trinity, Guildford High Street. Accompanied by Southern Pro Musica Brass, their concert selection spans the 16th to the 20th centuries, under the baton of Jonathan Willcocks. Full details here.
Do enjoy your choice of these superb concerts, and I look forward to welcoming you to one of our excellent lunchtime concerts soon.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
31st May 2016
Dear Friends,
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
31st May 2016
Dear Friends,
Last Thursday's first foray into the World of Music Theatre produced the expected mixed reactions, with lots of new faces present and many of our regulars enjoying the change of mood too. Martin Dickinson sang in a style that is so very different from the classically trained performers we are more used to, a style that clearly suited his lighter repertoire.
This Thursday lunchtime, 2nd June, we welcome the first of our Royal Academy of Music international students. Violinist Roma Tic comes from Poland and viola player Victoria Bernath is British-Canadian. Their concert of lovely duos by Mozart and Bartók will be an excellent opener for this year's RAM talent. You can read more about these two performers on the concert webpage, where you will also find links to videos of the works they are to play.
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The following week, on Thursday June 9th, our concert is entitled "The Story of Brass". Five professional brass players, Mardi Brass, will give us their light-hearted take on the history of brass instruments from animal horn and hollow stick to the present day. They have a lot of fun doing this, and it creates an excellent framework around which to hang some fine musical examples.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts take place in the comfortable surroundings of Leatherhead Methodist Church. The Church has level access throughout, and if you are in a wheel chair, we can easily remove a chair so you can sit with your friends without sticking out in a gangway !
The concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. And afterwards we linger and chat together and with the musicians over tea and coffee.
On June 9th we plan to raise enough money to fund the concert, plus the cost of putting Mardi Brass into Leatherhead Trinity School to demonstrate their instruments to the children there. What a great way of sharing our enthusiasm for professional performance with future generations of potential music-lovers. We are grateful for the support of Leatherhead-based Julie West Solicitor in this outreach project. You can read a little more about the LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity Project on the concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts take place in the comfortable surroundings of Leatherhead Methodist Church. The Church has level access throughout, and if you are in a wheel chair, we can easily remove a chair so you can sit with your friends without sticking out in a gangway !
The concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. And afterwards we linger and chat together and with the musicians over tea and coffee.
On June 9th we plan to raise enough money to fund the concert, plus the cost of putting Mardi Brass into Leatherhead Trinity School to demonstrate their instruments to the children there. What a great way of sharing our enthusiasm for professional performance with future generations of potential music-lovers. We are grateful for the support of Leatherhead-based Julie West Solicitor in this outreach project. You can read a little more about the LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity Project on the concert webpage.
As ever, there is plenty of music-making happening further afield, starting on Saturday, with a very dear friend of the lunchtime concerts, classical guitarist, David Massey.
12 noon, Saturday 4th June, in St Martin's Church, Dorking, classical guitarist and RAM graduate David Massey gives the lunchtime concert. You will find David's programme on this link. This is a free concert with a retiring collection (most people put £5-£10).
Sunday 5th June sees another international organist performing on the Mutin-Cavaillé-Coll organ in St Michael's Abbey Farnborough. Giandomenico Piermarini is organist of the famous Archbasilica of St John Lateran, in Rome. This free concert starts at 3pm, and the Abbey has plenty of parking on-site.
Looking ahead to the following weekend, Guildford Choral's concert in Holy Trinity Church, High Street Guildford, at 7.30pm on Saturday 11th June is entitled Across the Centuries. They are joined by Southern Pro Musica Brass and you can read full details of this concert here.
If you are looking further ahead, then do visit our musicinsurrey.co.uk website.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
12 noon, Saturday 4th June, in St Martin's Church, Dorking, classical guitarist and RAM graduate David Massey gives the lunchtime concert. You will find David's programme on this link. This is a free concert with a retiring collection (most people put £5-£10).
Sunday 5th June sees another international organist performing on the Mutin-Cavaillé-Coll organ in St Michael's Abbey Farnborough. Giandomenico Piermarini is organist of the famous Archbasilica of St John Lateran, in Rome. This free concert starts at 3pm, and the Abbey has plenty of parking on-site.
Looking ahead to the following weekend, Guildford Choral's concert in Holy Trinity Church, High Street Guildford, at 7.30pm on Saturday 11th June is entitled Across the Centuries. They are joined by Southern Pro Musica Brass and you can read full details of this concert here.
If you are looking further ahead, then do visit our musicinsurrey.co.uk website.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
23rd May 2016
Dear Friends,
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
23rd May 2016
Dear Friends,
Now the season is under way the weeks seem to fly past. I hope you didn't mind the extra newsletter last week, but with the 'ear-worm' experiment (did you have a go?) and late news on the 2nd June concert, I thought it best to let everyone know what was happening.
This week, though, we turn to a form of music we haven't really heard in our concerts until now. While singers have included musical theatre items in their programmes, here is a concert entirely of songs From the World of Musical Theatre.
This week, though, we turn to a form of music we haven't really heard in our concerts until now. While singers have included musical theatre items in their programmes, here is a concert entirely of songs From the World of Musical Theatre.
Martin Dickinson has a lot of experience on the West End stage and in touring productions, and he acts, sings, and directs too. Martin, and accompanist Nathan Lubbock-Smith, have put together a programme of their favourites from musicals, from Carousel and My Fair Lady to Tom Jones: The Musical, and We Will Rock You. It is going to be a concert you can bring someone new to, someone who might not be so keen on our usual programmes. They are out there, lots of them, people who love musicals.
Our concert of songs from the musicals is at the usual time of 12.30, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, this Thursday lunchtime, 26th March.
Then next week we have another innovation, a violin and viola duo. Polish Roma Tic and British-Canadian Victoria Bernath are both students of the Royal Academy of Music. For their concert on 2nd June they have chosen to perform a delightful selection of duos by Mozart and Bartók. There are samples of the works on the concert webpage.
Let's look ahead one more week to a further innovation, our working with Leatherhead Trinity School, a primary school with a foundation reflecting Leatherhead's Anglican, Methodist, and United Reformed Churches.
Our concert of songs from the musicals is at the usual time of 12.30, in Leatherhead Methodist Church, this Thursday lunchtime, 26th March.
Then next week we have another innovation, a violin and viola duo. Polish Roma Tic and British-Canadian Victoria Bernath are both students of the Royal Academy of Music. For their concert on 2nd June they have chosen to perform a delightful selection of duos by Mozart and Bartók. There are samples of the works on the concert webpage.
Let's look ahead one more week to a further innovation, our working with Leatherhead Trinity School, a primary school with a foundation reflecting Leatherhead's Anglican, Methodist, and United Reformed Churches.
On June 9th MARDI BRASS will start their day by introducing their trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba to the School's pupils. Later, they will come along to LMC to give us their presentation of "The Story of Brass" - a light-hearted canter through the history of wind and brass instruments, from animal horn to the valve trumpet.
We hope you will enjoy the Story and the musical examples so much that you will want to help us fund this and future visits to Leatherhead Trinity by many more of our professional musician contacts. That is how we will ensure that these youngsters are introduced to the sounds of live music. In the old days of the Middlesex and London County Councils, live presentations by orchestral players were a regular part of our childhood. Here LCAS and the MoT audience are creating opportunities to inspire another generation.
Please come along to the concert in LMC on June 9th, at the usual time of 12.30.
As always, these lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Please park in the multi-storey or Church Street car parks - you'd be very lucky to find a space behind the Parish Church Hall!
LMC has level access throughout, and if you come in a wheelchair we can easily take out a chair so you can sit with your friends. There's always tea and coffee afterwards, and a chance for interesting conversations with friends and with the performers.
With the Bank Holiday and Half-Term there is a little less going on over the next week or two. Here are some of ideas for your listening pleasure:
Wednesday lunchtime, 25th May at the precise time of 1.20pm, you'll find a showcase concert given by students of the Yehudi Menuhin School, in their concert hall. There should be more info on this link.
Surrey Hills Chamber Choir have a concert on Saturday evening 28th May at 7.30pm, entitled Celestial Moments. This concert takes place in St Nicolas' Church Cranleigh, and includes sacred, spiritual, folk, - in short, a variety of musical styles. Tickets £10 at the door.
A further date for the diary is David Massey's 12noon concert in St Martin's Church Dorking on Saturday 4th June. David has quite a following, so if you know any guitar fans who are usually working when we have our Thursday concerts, please tell them about this Saturday lunchtime concert in Dorking. He is such a nice chap to chat to, this would be an ideal chance for younger aspiring guitarists to find out how David got to be a busy professional performer, or perhaps to pick up a few tips.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
We hope you will enjoy the Story and the musical examples so much that you will want to help us fund this and future visits to Leatherhead Trinity by many more of our professional musician contacts. That is how we will ensure that these youngsters are introduced to the sounds of live music. In the old days of the Middlesex and London County Councils, live presentations by orchestral players were a regular part of our childhood. Here LCAS and the MoT audience are creating opportunities to inspire another generation.
Please come along to the concert in LMC on June 9th, at the usual time of 12.30.
As always, these lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Please park in the multi-storey or Church Street car parks - you'd be very lucky to find a space behind the Parish Church Hall!
LMC has level access throughout, and if you come in a wheelchair we can easily take out a chair so you can sit with your friends. There's always tea and coffee afterwards, and a chance for interesting conversations with friends and with the performers.
With the Bank Holiday and Half-Term there is a little less going on over the next week or two. Here are some of ideas for your listening pleasure:
Wednesday lunchtime, 25th May at the precise time of 1.20pm, you'll find a showcase concert given by students of the Yehudi Menuhin School, in their concert hall. There should be more info on this link.
Surrey Hills Chamber Choir have a concert on Saturday evening 28th May at 7.30pm, entitled Celestial Moments. This concert takes place in St Nicolas' Church Cranleigh, and includes sacred, spiritual, folk, - in short, a variety of musical styles. Tickets £10 at the door.
A further date for the diary is David Massey's 12noon concert in St Martin's Church Dorking on Saturday 4th June. David has quite a following, so if you know any guitar fans who are usually working when we have our Thursday concerts, please tell them about this Saturday lunchtime concert in Dorking. He is such a nice chap to chat to, this would be an ideal chance for younger aspiring guitarists to find out how David got to be a busy professional performer, or perhaps to pick up a few tips.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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News Update, 17th May 2016
Brigitte Furze was hoping to give her planned concert on 2nd June but has wisely decided to allow her damaged finger more time to heal fully. We wish her complete recovery and hope that Brigitte and Lynda Chang will join us early in the 2017 season.
We are delighted to announce that for the 2nd June violinist Roma Tic and violist Victoria Bernath have agreed to bring us a concert of two Mozart duos, and selections from Bartók's 44 Duos on folk themes.To describe these young ladies as students of the Royal Academy of Music risks under-selling their virtuosity. Roma is on the performance Masters course, and Victoria has completed her PhD thesis on previously undiscovered British repertoire of the early 20th century.
Roma Tic will also be performing at LMC on August 4th, with her duo partner, pianist Aleksandra Myslek.
She is also a member of the string quartet who will be performing in the lunchtime concert on November 3rd.
Brigitte Furze was hoping to give her planned concert on 2nd June but has wisely decided to allow her damaged finger more time to heal fully. We wish her complete recovery and hope that Brigitte and Lynda Chang will join us early in the 2017 season.
We are delighted to announce that for the 2nd June violinist Roma Tic and violist Victoria Bernath have agreed to bring us a concert of two Mozart duos, and selections from Bartók's 44 Duos on folk themes.To describe these young ladies as students of the Royal Academy of Music risks under-selling their virtuosity. Roma is on the performance Masters course, and Victoria has completed her PhD thesis on previously undiscovered British repertoire of the early 20th century.
Roma Tic will also be performing at LMC on August 4th, with her duo partner, pianist Aleksandra Myslek.
She is also a member of the string quartet who will be performing in the lunchtime concert on November 3rd.
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
15th May 2016
Dear Friends,
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
15th May 2016
Dear Friends,
We start with news of two fine organ concerts this coming week.
Our monthly Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert at 12.30 this Wednesday, the 18th, will be a performance by Mark Brafield. This very talented concert organist also has a career in the legal profession. His concert in Christ Church, Epsom Road, includes music by JS Bach, SS Wesley, Mendelssohn, Vierne, and Saint-Saëns. This concert is free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. For full details please visit the concert webpage. |
Then on Saturday 21st May the celebrated concert organist Margaret Phillips will be playing the 2014 Tickell organ in St Michael's Church, Betchworth. This concert starts at 4pm (arrive early for a good seat) and includes works by Handel, Buxtehude, Bach, Mendelssohn, Guilmant, Saint-Saëns, Rogg, Bovet, Sixten and Bonnet.
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From the World of Musical Theatre
Next week we return to Music on Thursdays at Leatherhead Methodist Church for a concert with a difference.
Martin Dickinson is an experienced West End actor and singer who has appeared in productions including The Sound of Music, We Will Rock You, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, and The Full Monty (don't panic, nothing untoward will occur at LMC!)
Martin's accompanist on May 26th is actor and voice coach Nathan Lubbock-Smith. Their concert, titled From the World of Musical Theatre, includes songs from Carousel, My Fair Lady, Jekyll and Hyde, Tom: The Tom Jones Story, and Phantom of the Opera and more.
This exciting change from our usual lunchtime fare might interest people who wouldn't normally join us. So please talk to your friends, work colleagues, family, and bring along those who will enjoy a bit of musical theatre. Fuller details on the concert webpage.
This 12.30 lunchtime concert is also free to enter, with a retiring collection. All three Churches mentioned above have level access, including toilets (well, just the one at Betchworth). After the lunchtime concerts in Christ Church and LMC, tea and coffee are available, and quite a few of us linger a while to chat.
Martin Dickinson is an experienced West End actor and singer who has appeared in productions including The Sound of Music, We Will Rock You, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, and The Full Monty (don't panic, nothing untoward will occur at LMC!)
Martin's accompanist on May 26th is actor and voice coach Nathan Lubbock-Smith. Their concert, titled From the World of Musical Theatre, includes songs from Carousel, My Fair Lady, Jekyll and Hyde, Tom: The Tom Jones Story, and Phantom of the Opera and more.
This exciting change from our usual lunchtime fare might interest people who wouldn't normally join us. So please talk to your friends, work colleagues, family, and bring along those who will enjoy a bit of musical theatre. Fuller details on the concert webpage.
This 12.30 lunchtime concert is also free to enter, with a retiring collection. All three Churches mentioned above have level access, including toilets (well, just the one at Betchworth). After the lunchtime concerts in Christ Church and LMC, tea and coffee are available, and quite a few of us linger a while to chat.
Music-making elsewhere
Viv McLean has impressed our audience with his versatility and his vivacious style as both accompanist and soloist in two concerts last year and the year before. On Wednesday evening he is the piano accompanist when cellist Corinne Morris gives a concert in Barnes Methodist Church. More information on their website.
On Friday evening in St Anne's Church Kew, and Saturday in St Andrew's Cobham, MAIASTRA's next piano quartet concert will be led by violinist Arisa Fujita. These concerts are also free to enter, with a retiring collection, and both concerts begin at 7.30pm.
Take a look at the musicinsurrey diary for details of more music-making next weekend, including an evening of opera excerpts 'in a quintessentially English garden setting', violinist Oscar Perks performing with the Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra in Ashtead Peace Memorial Hall, and the Surrey Hills Chamber Choir's concert in St Nicolas Church, Guildford, (those are all on Saturday evening), and then on Sunday there's Dorking Camerata's concert in St Joseph's, Dorking. More details of each of these concerts on this link.
One final mention, in case you read this in time... this evening's Sundays at 7 concert in St Michael's Church, Mickleham, is by the D'Cruz Piano Trio. Another free concert, with retiring collection.
Enjoy your choice of the many events on offer over the coming week or so, and if you are taking part, I hope you enjoy your concert and it is a great success.
I look forward to welcoming you to a Leatherhead lunchtime concert !
On Friday evening in St Anne's Church Kew, and Saturday in St Andrew's Cobham, MAIASTRA's next piano quartet concert will be led by violinist Arisa Fujita. These concerts are also free to enter, with a retiring collection, and both concerts begin at 7.30pm.
Take a look at the musicinsurrey diary for details of more music-making next weekend, including an evening of opera excerpts 'in a quintessentially English garden setting', violinist Oscar Perks performing with the Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra in Ashtead Peace Memorial Hall, and the Surrey Hills Chamber Choir's concert in St Nicolas Church, Guildford, (those are all on Saturday evening), and then on Sunday there's Dorking Camerata's concert in St Joseph's, Dorking. More details of each of these concerts on this link.
One final mention, in case you read this in time... this evening's Sundays at 7 concert in St Michael's Church, Mickleham, is by the D'Cruz Piano Trio. Another free concert, with retiring collection.
Enjoy your choice of the many events on offer over the coming week or so, and if you are taking part, I hope you enjoy your concert and it is a great success.
I look forward to welcoming you to a Leatherhead lunchtime concert !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
10th May 2016
Dear Friends,
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
10th May 2016
Dear Friends,
For our concert this Thursday lunchtime we welcome the highly talented young pianist, Leyla Cemiloglu. Leyla, who is now in her final year at Yehudi Menuhin School, performed for us a year ago and there have been many requests for her to return. Her programme at 12.30 this Thursday, 12th May, is of music by Mozart and Debussy. Full details are on the concert webpage. Definitely a concert not to be missed!
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Next week we will be along Epsom Road, for our monthly organ concert in the series Wednesdays at Christ Church. The concert at 12.30 on May 18th will be performed by concert organist Mark Brafield. Mark is a frequent recitalist, a Trustee of the Royal College of Organists, a solicitor specialising in family and property law, and a Deputy District Judge. Bach, Wesley, Mendelssohn, Vierne and Saint-Saëns make up his programme for another excellent concert. Full details on the concert webpage.
And the week after we will return to LMC on Thursday 26th May for a concert 'From the World of Musical Theatre'. Martin Dickinson is an actor and singer with both touring and West End credentials. You will find some of Martin's choices on the concert webpage. Here's a chance to bring along friends who might not choose our usual concert fare!
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts run for 35-45 minutes and are free to enter. There is a collection afterwards to help cover costs. Tea and coffee are available after each concert and both Churches have level access throughout.
At Christ Church, Epsom Road, there is plenty of on-site parking.
For LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church it is best to park in the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks which are 5-7 minutes walk from Church Road (LMC is in the one-way section of Church Road).
There is, as ever, plenty of music-making further afield.
It's Banstead Arts Festival at the moment, and tomorrow lunchtime (Tuesday 10th) at 1pm in All Saints Church you will be able to enjoy the brilliant Rolton Trio in a concert of Ibert, Debussy, Dubois, Bach & Ravel. You can read more here.
There is to be a stunning concert on Saturday evening too, when the Pegasus Chamber Choir perform Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham. Take a look at the Tilford Bach Society's website for more info, and for details of the Tilford Bach Festival, coming up next month.
On Sunday evening you might like to join in at the Songs of Praise evening in All Saints, Banstead, at 6.30pm. The hymns have been selected by members of the Church who will be describing their choices.
At 7pm in St Michael's Mickleham it's this month's Sundays at Seven. Clarinettist Edward Adams and the D'Cruz Piano Trio are performing. This is a free concert, with a retiring collection.
Please visit musicinsurrey.co.uk for details of more concerts in the coming weeks.
A warm welcome awaits at our own concerts, in both Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church (United Reformed). I look forward to seeing you soon, whether yours is a familiar face or you are visiting for the first time.
And the week after we will return to LMC on Thursday 26th May for a concert 'From the World of Musical Theatre'. Martin Dickinson is an actor and singer with both touring and West End credentials. You will find some of Martin's choices on the concert webpage. Here's a chance to bring along friends who might not choose our usual concert fare!
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts run for 35-45 minutes and are free to enter. There is a collection afterwards to help cover costs. Tea and coffee are available after each concert and both Churches have level access throughout.
At Christ Church, Epsom Road, there is plenty of on-site parking.
For LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church it is best to park in the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks which are 5-7 minutes walk from Church Road (LMC is in the one-way section of Church Road).
There is, as ever, plenty of music-making further afield.
It's Banstead Arts Festival at the moment, and tomorrow lunchtime (Tuesday 10th) at 1pm in All Saints Church you will be able to enjoy the brilliant Rolton Trio in a concert of Ibert, Debussy, Dubois, Bach & Ravel. You can read more here.
There is to be a stunning concert on Saturday evening too, when the Pegasus Chamber Choir perform Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 in St Andrew's Church, Farnham. Take a look at the Tilford Bach Society's website for more info, and for details of the Tilford Bach Festival, coming up next month.
On Sunday evening you might like to join in at the Songs of Praise evening in All Saints, Banstead, at 6.30pm. The hymns have been selected by members of the Church who will be describing their choices.
At 7pm in St Michael's Mickleham it's this month's Sundays at Seven. Clarinettist Edward Adams and the D'Cruz Piano Trio are performing. This is a free concert, with a retiring collection.
Please visit musicinsurrey.co.uk for details of more concerts in the coming weeks.
A warm welcome awaits at our own concerts, in both Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church (United Reformed). I look forward to seeing you soon, whether yours is a familiar face or you are visiting for the first time.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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
2nd May 2016
Dear Friends,
and
Wednesdays at Christ Church
2nd May 2016
Dear Friends,
It was lovely to see so many people enjoying last week's flute and harp concert in LMC. They helped us get the new season off to a flying start.
This Thursday we welcome back another friend of these concerts, cellist Jacqueline Phillips. Jacqueline has been with us since year one, and this season she is going to perform in three concerts.
We set her the project of bringing us the full set of six JS Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello this year. At 12.30 this Thursday, 5th May, we begin with Suites 5 and 1 - Jacqueline has paired them by their related keys rather than working through from 1 to 6.
The remaining four suites will be the subject of our concerts on August 11th and October 13th.
We set her the project of bringing us the full set of six JS Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Cello this year. At 12.30 this Thursday, 5th May, we begin with Suites 5 and 1 - Jacqueline has paired them by their related keys rather than working through from 1 to 6.
The remaining four suites will be the subject of our concerts on August 11th and October 13th.
Next week sees the return of our youngest ever performer. Pianist Leyla Cemiloglu is still a student at Yehudi Menuhin School - now in her 7th year there. She played a very well-received concert here a year ago. On Thursday 12th May Leyla's 12.30 lunchtime concert has piano works by Mozart and Debussy. It is bound to be another wonderful concert.
Still to come this month are our Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert, with Mark Brafield, on May 18th, and our first ever concert of Musical Theatre repertoire, with West End actor and singer Martin Dickinson on May 26th.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts run for 35 to 45 minutes and are free to enter. There is a retiring collection to cover costs for the musicians, the LCAS charity's work, and the Churches.
LMC and Christ Church have level access throughout, and teas and coffees are available after each concert, giving us a pause to chat together and with the musicians.
If you are coming to LMC by car, please use the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks which are a 5-7 minute walk from LMC in Church Road. The nearest car park is often full by mid-morning.
There is such a wide choice of local concerts this coming weekend that it is going to be best to suggest you take a look at our sister website musicinsurrey.co.uk for the full list.
I will just pick out one 'free with a retiring collection' concert. At 12 noon on Saturday you will find violinist Anna Orlik and her accompanist Yi-Shing Cheng performing for the monthly concert in St Martin's Church, Dorking. They gave a superb concert for us last September, and I'm sure you will enjoy another excellent programme on Saturday.
In the afternoon you could pop over to Bookham to join the choral society at 2pm in an afternoon on Vivaldi's Gloria, giving an impromptu free concert of the work at 6pm. It is also the Investec International Music Festival weekend (formerly the Surrey Hills IMF), with a concert each evening Thursday, Friday and Saturday. So do checkout the MusicInSurrey diary for these and several more events.
Whatever your choices over these next few days, we hope you will be able to include coming to the lunchtime concert on Thursday.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening!
Still to come this month are our Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert, with Mark Brafield, on May 18th, and our first ever concert of Musical Theatre repertoire, with West End actor and singer Martin Dickinson on May 26th.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts run for 35 to 45 minutes and are free to enter. There is a retiring collection to cover costs for the musicians, the LCAS charity's work, and the Churches.
LMC and Christ Church have level access throughout, and teas and coffees are available after each concert, giving us a pause to chat together and with the musicians.
If you are coming to LMC by car, please use the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks which are a 5-7 minute walk from LMC in Church Road. The nearest car park is often full by mid-morning.
There is such a wide choice of local concerts this coming weekend that it is going to be best to suggest you take a look at our sister website musicinsurrey.co.uk for the full list.
I will just pick out one 'free with a retiring collection' concert. At 12 noon on Saturday you will find violinist Anna Orlik and her accompanist Yi-Shing Cheng performing for the monthly concert in St Martin's Church, Dorking. They gave a superb concert for us last September, and I'm sure you will enjoy another excellent programme on Saturday.
In the afternoon you could pop over to Bookham to join the choral society at 2pm in an afternoon on Vivaldi's Gloria, giving an impromptu free concert of the work at 6pm. It is also the Investec International Music Festival weekend (formerly the Surrey Hills IMF), with a concert each evening Thursday, Friday and Saturday. So do checkout the MusicInSurrey diary for these and several more events.
Whatever your choices over these next few days, we hope you will be able to include coming to the lunchtime concert on Thursday.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening!
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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The big news for us is that this Thursday, April 28th, sees the first of the year's lunchtime chamber concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church. The 5th Music on Thursdays lunchtime season gets under way at 12.30 when our invited musicians are flautist Samantha Pearce and harpist Heather Wrighton - The Acacia Duo.
The duo have put together a lovely programme of music by Debussy, Furstenau, Carlos Salzedo, Paul Lewis, and François Borne (his fantasy on themes from Carmen). Full details are on this concert webpage - where you will also find links to videos of performances of these works.
Next week we have the first of three concerts this year in which Jacqueline Phillips will perform Bach's Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. Jacqueline has paired the suites by keys, rather than playing them numerically. So on May 5th her concert is of Suite No 5 in C minor, and Suite No 1 in G major. You will find more information on this concert webpage.
If you click on the image above you will see the complete list of this year's planned concerts at LMC, Christ Church, and at St John's School. Alternatively, consult the diary page.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC, in Church Road, has level access throughout, and tea and coffee will be served after each concert. There is usually a chance to chat with the musicians, and with local artists who have been sketching during the concert. You are welcome to bring your packed lunch, and of course nobody minds if you slip away quietly when work demands - nor if you have to arrive late for similar reasons.
If you are coming by car, please use the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks and give yourself 5-8 minutes for the stroll along to LMC. The car park behind the Parish Church Hall often fills during the morning.
On Saturday this year's Banstead Arts Festival begins. Their website has all the details, which include Saturday's Magic of Vienna concert, next Tuesday's lunchtime cello concert, the Phoenix Concert Band on Wednesday evening, and more delights for the following week - including a lunchtime concert by the Rolton Trio on May 9th.
There is a MAIASTRA concert on Sunday evening, 1st May, when Akiko Ono leads a quartet in works by Schubert, Haydn and Borodin. The concert is at 7.30pm in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. Akiko Ono is a professor at London's Guildhall School of Music. She leads a week of intense study and practice on the works, culminating in this concert and one the following evening at the Musical Museum in Brentford (just over Kew Bridge). Full info on these concerts is on the MAIASTRA website.
The Surrey Hills Music Festival has been renamed the Investec International Music Festival. The festival begins next Thursday May 5th and runs through the following weekend. You will find full details on their website.
From violinist Anna Orlik at 12 noon in Dorking, then a chance to sing Vivaldi's Gloria from 2pm in Bookham, to well into the evening, you really will be spoilt for choice on Saturday May 7th. It would be well worth looking through the musicinsurrey diary to decide which of the 8 events listed for that Saturday will be your choices.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening. We look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert very soon - perhaps on Thursday this week.
The duo have put together a lovely programme of music by Debussy, Furstenau, Carlos Salzedo, Paul Lewis, and François Borne (his fantasy on themes from Carmen). Full details are on this concert webpage - where you will also find links to videos of performances of these works.
Next week we have the first of three concerts this year in which Jacqueline Phillips will perform Bach's Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. Jacqueline has paired the suites by keys, rather than playing them numerically. So on May 5th her concert is of Suite No 5 in C minor, and Suite No 1 in G major. You will find more information on this concert webpage.
If you click on the image above you will see the complete list of this year's planned concerts at LMC, Christ Church, and at St John's School. Alternatively, consult the diary page.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC, in Church Road, has level access throughout, and tea and coffee will be served after each concert. There is usually a chance to chat with the musicians, and with local artists who have been sketching during the concert. You are welcome to bring your packed lunch, and of course nobody minds if you slip away quietly when work demands - nor if you have to arrive late for similar reasons.
If you are coming by car, please use the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks and give yourself 5-8 minutes for the stroll along to LMC. The car park behind the Parish Church Hall often fills during the morning.
On Saturday this year's Banstead Arts Festival begins. Their website has all the details, which include Saturday's Magic of Vienna concert, next Tuesday's lunchtime cello concert, the Phoenix Concert Band on Wednesday evening, and more delights for the following week - including a lunchtime concert by the Rolton Trio on May 9th.
There is a MAIASTRA concert on Sunday evening, 1st May, when Akiko Ono leads a quartet in works by Schubert, Haydn and Borodin. The concert is at 7.30pm in St Andrew's Church, Cobham. Akiko Ono is a professor at London's Guildhall School of Music. She leads a week of intense study and practice on the works, culminating in this concert and one the following evening at the Musical Museum in Brentford (just over Kew Bridge). Full info on these concerts is on the MAIASTRA website.
The Surrey Hills Music Festival has been renamed the Investec International Music Festival. The festival begins next Thursday May 5th and runs through the following weekend. You will find full details on their website.
From violinist Anna Orlik at 12 noon in Dorking, then a chance to sing Vivaldi's Gloria from 2pm in Bookham, to well into the evening, you really will be spoilt for choice on Saturday May 7th. It would be well worth looking through the musicinsurrey diary to decide which of the 8 events listed for that Saturday will be your choices.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening. We look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert very soon - perhaps on Thursday this week.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
18th April 2016
Dear Friends,
and
Wednesdays at Christ Church
18th April 2016
Dear Friends,
I hope you have now seen the fruits of my labours this winter - the 2016 season programme - either in physical folded form, or by printing on your own PC. There's a printable copy on our Homepage if you haven't seen one yet.
This Wednesday, however, it is Anthony Cairns we must thank for bringing back organist David Oldfield for the next in our monthly series of 12.30 lunchtime organ concerts - Wednesdays at Christ Church. David has held a number of Church posts in the area, and sings too. He played the Parker organ for us in the first year of the lunchtime concerts, and now we invite him to play the more recent Christ Church Hill, Norman & Beard organ.
Buxtehude, Herbert Howells, Bach, Guilmant, Healey Willan and Mendelssohn are in David's programme which you can consult fully on this link.
This Wednesday, however, it is Anthony Cairns we must thank for bringing back organist David Oldfield for the next in our monthly series of 12.30 lunchtime organ concerts - Wednesdays at Christ Church. David has held a number of Church posts in the area, and sings too. He played the Parker organ for us in the first year of the lunchtime concerts, and now we invite him to play the more recent Christ Church Hill, Norman & Beard organ.
Buxtehude, Herbert Howells, Bach, Guilmant, Healey Willan and Mendelssohn are in David's programme which you can consult fully on this link.
Next Thursday, April 28th at 12.30, sees the first of this year's weekly Music on Thursdays at LMC concerts. To open the 2016 season we have invited the popular Acacia Flute & Harp Duo. Samantha Pearce and Heather Wrighton will be making their third lunchtime visit to LMC, opening their concert with Debussy. They continue with Furstenau, a harp solo by Carlos Salzedo, Paul Lewis' Norfolk Idyll, and finish with François Borne's Fantasy on melodies from Carmen.
There is more about the Acacia Duo's concert on this webpage.
There is more about the Acacia Duo's concert on this webpage.
Moving into next month, on May 5th we have the first of three concerts across the season in which cellist Jacqueline Phillips will play each of JS Bach's Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites. Then on the 12th there is the return of piano student Leyla Cemiloglu, who is coming towards the end of her time at the Yehudi Menuhin School.
Mark Brafield is the organ recitalist on May 18th, and on May 26th we have a concert From the World of Musical Theatre, with West End actor and singer, Martin Dickinson.
You will find webpages for each of these concerts (in various states of readiness) by hovering your mouse or pointer over the Concert Pages heading at the top of this page.
As ever, we are not alone in our music-making around these parts.
On Sunday 24th April, in the series Sundays at 7, you will find flute and piano duo Bravura! performing in the intimate atmosphere of Mickleham's St Michael's Church. Janina Byrne and Tracy Kennington bring you sonatas by Quantz and Hummel, and Taffanel's Andante Pastoral and Scherzettino. This is a free concert, with retiring collection.
The following weekend, on Sunday May 1st at 7.30pm, Akika Ono leads a quartet of MAIASTRA players in works by Schubert, Haydn and Borodin. This free concert in St Andrew's Church, Cobham, is repeated on Monday 2nd at the Brentford Musical Museum. More info on the MAIASTRA website.
With David Oldfield's organ concert this Wednesday lunchtime, and the Acacia Duo on Thursday of next week, let's get this fifth season of Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts off to a great start.
I look forward to welcoming familiar faces and to meeting some new musical friends too.
Mark Brafield is the organ recitalist on May 18th, and on May 26th we have a concert From the World of Musical Theatre, with West End actor and singer, Martin Dickinson.
You will find webpages for each of these concerts (in various states of readiness) by hovering your mouse or pointer over the Concert Pages heading at the top of this page.
As ever, we are not alone in our music-making around these parts.
On Sunday 24th April, in the series Sundays at 7, you will find flute and piano duo Bravura! performing in the intimate atmosphere of Mickleham's St Michael's Church. Janina Byrne and Tracy Kennington bring you sonatas by Quantz and Hummel, and Taffanel's Andante Pastoral and Scherzettino. This is a free concert, with retiring collection.
The following weekend, on Sunday May 1st at 7.30pm, Akika Ono leads a quartet of MAIASTRA players in works by Schubert, Haydn and Borodin. This free concert in St Andrew's Church, Cobham, is repeated on Monday 2nd at the Brentford Musical Museum. More info on the MAIASTRA website.
With David Oldfield's organ concert this Wednesday lunchtime, and the Acacia Duo on Thursday of next week, let's get this fifth season of Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts off to a great start.
I look forward to welcoming familiar faces and to meeting some new musical friends too.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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
13th March 2016
Dear Friends,
and
Wednesdays at Christ Church
13th March 2016
Dear Friends,
This week brings the first of the year's lunchtime concerts when at 12.30 on Wednesday, Anthony Cairns kicks off the organ series with an entirely Bach concert at Christ Church.
This concert will take us through the Church Year and through Bach's development as a composer (you don't have to be technical about it, most of us just revel in the superb music). Come and enjoy a feast of JS Bach's wonderful organ music. You'll find Anthony's programme, plus links to YouTube recordings of the music, on this webpage.
Anthony has set up the year's excellent Wednesdays at Christ Church programme of nine monthly concerts, inviting organists from across the South-East, and two from a little further afield. Full details on the organ season webpage here. You'll hear from some of our regulars, plus a few new faces too.
After Easter, our concerts go weekly from Wednesday April 20th, our next organ concert, followed by Thursday April 28th, when Acacia Flute & Harp Duo give the first of this year's Music on Thursdays concerts at Leatherhead Methodist Church - more about those closer to the dates. If you want to have a preview of the year's programme as it develops, then please click on this link.
Have you ever fancied having a go at the organ yourself ? Well next Saturday in St Mary's Quarry Street, Guildford, you can do precisely that. From 12 noon until just before 4pm, there will be a mini-recital on the hour, and a chance to try their beautiful modern English-built pipe organ in between. Then at 4pm recitalist Tom Bell will round off the day with a 40 minute recital. Quarry Street is at the bottom of the High Street, not far from Guildford Station and the Bus Station, and close to the shops.
That evening, Saturday 19th, there is a wide choice of local concerts, so rather than list them here, why not follow this link to the Music In Surrey diary. We have brought Music In Surrey under the MoT banner. While MoT will list our own concerts and music-making in Leatherhead's Churches, MiS will cover more of the county and the adjoining districts.
Next Sunday, MARCH 20th, at Mickleham Church there is a 7pm violin recital by Clare Kennington, with Tracy Kennington accompanying. The programe includes the Bach Partita in D minor, and César Franck's Sonata in A minor. This concert is free with a retiring collection.
And then we come to the next MAIASTRA concerts. The works are for quintets including two violas, by Mozart and Mendelssohn. On Thursday 24th March they will perform in the new hall at St Mary's Stoke d'Abernon, on Good Friday they will be at the Brentford Musical Museum, and on Saturday evening, as guests of the Tilford Bach Society, they will perform in Farnham Methodist Church. More details in the MiS diary. All three concerts are open to all, and are free to enter, with a retiring collection.
This concert will take us through the Church Year and through Bach's development as a composer (you don't have to be technical about it, most of us just revel in the superb music). Come and enjoy a feast of JS Bach's wonderful organ music. You'll find Anthony's programme, plus links to YouTube recordings of the music, on this webpage.
Anthony has set up the year's excellent Wednesdays at Christ Church programme of nine monthly concerts, inviting organists from across the South-East, and two from a little further afield. Full details on the organ season webpage here. You'll hear from some of our regulars, plus a few new faces too.
After Easter, our concerts go weekly from Wednesday April 20th, our next organ concert, followed by Thursday April 28th, when Acacia Flute & Harp Duo give the first of this year's Music on Thursdays concerts at Leatherhead Methodist Church - more about those closer to the dates. If you want to have a preview of the year's programme as it develops, then please click on this link.
Have you ever fancied having a go at the organ yourself ? Well next Saturday in St Mary's Quarry Street, Guildford, you can do precisely that. From 12 noon until just before 4pm, there will be a mini-recital on the hour, and a chance to try their beautiful modern English-built pipe organ in between. Then at 4pm recitalist Tom Bell will round off the day with a 40 minute recital. Quarry Street is at the bottom of the High Street, not far from Guildford Station and the Bus Station, and close to the shops.
That evening, Saturday 19th, there is a wide choice of local concerts, so rather than list them here, why not follow this link to the Music In Surrey diary. We have brought Music In Surrey under the MoT banner. While MoT will list our own concerts and music-making in Leatherhead's Churches, MiS will cover more of the county and the adjoining districts.
Next Sunday, MARCH 20th, at Mickleham Church there is a 7pm violin recital by Clare Kennington, with Tracy Kennington accompanying. The programe includes the Bach Partita in D minor, and César Franck's Sonata in A minor. This concert is free with a retiring collection.
And then we come to the next MAIASTRA concerts. The works are for quintets including two violas, by Mozart and Mendelssohn. On Thursday 24th March they will perform in the new hall at St Mary's Stoke d'Abernon, on Good Friday they will be at the Brentford Musical Museum, and on Saturday evening, as guests of the Tilford Bach Society, they will perform in Farnham Methodist Church. More details in the MiS diary. All three concerts are open to all, and are free to enter, with a retiring collection.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
22nd February 2016
Dear Friends,
and
Wednesdays at Christ Church
22nd February 2016
Dear Friends,
We have at last reached AGM week for LCAS - the charity behind the lunchtime concert series at LMC and Christ Church. This Thursday, 25th February, is the day we look through the finances, adopt a new Constitution, and reward ourselves with an excellent concert afterwards. You will find the agenda for the meeting on the LCAS webpage. Anyone interested is welcome to attend the AGM. Paid up members of LCAS are entitled to vote on motions and to elect the Trustees for the coming year.
Tea and coffee will be available in the Lower Hall at Leatherhead Methodist Church, Church Road, from 1.40pm on Thursday. The meeting starts promptly at 2pm, followed by more tea and coffee for those arriving for the concert, and then we move into the Church . . .
Tea and coffee will be available in the Lower Hall at Leatherhead Methodist Church, Church Road, from 1.40pm on Thursday. The meeting starts promptly at 2pm, followed by more tea and coffee for those arriving for the concert, and then we move into the Church . . .
. . . for our 3pm AGM Concert. We welcome once more the Greek pianist Marios Panteliadis who has prepared a programme of Russian piano works for us, featuring, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, and Prokofiev.
The final piece is a stunning virtuoso work for which we will all wish we could have watched Marios's fingers more closely!
The concert is free to enter, with a collection afterwards to cover costs.
Please park in the town's Church Street or Multi-Storey car parks as we will only have space for blue badge holders at the Church.
Unashamedly lifted from a recent email from Elspeth Arden, at MAIASTRA, here are details of more local music-making over the coming weeks, with a few extra items from the musicinsurrey website:
Friday 26 February at 7.30 pm - Goldberg Ensemble
Farnham Methodist Church, South Street, Farnham GU9 7RN
The next concert organised by the Tilford Bach Society is a performance by the Goldberg Ensemble of Bach's Goldberg Variations transcribed for string trio. There will be a thirty minute introductory talk about the Goldberg Variations and their transcription by local composer Matthew Taylor. Tickets at £13.50 (Members £12.50) can be purchased before the date of the concert online at www.tilbach.org.uk, or they can be bought at the door at £15. 8-25 year olds may attend free thanks to the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust.
Saturday 27th February 10am-5pm - Guildford Choral • Singing Day: Verdi Requiem
Guildford, Normandy: Village Hall, Glaziers Lane, GU3 2DD
Jonathan Willcocks, conductor
Tickets: £20 (students £10)
Saturday 27th February 7.30pm - Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra
Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP
Andrada Maria Brisc, piano • Nicholas Smith, conductor
Beethoven: Overture: Prometheus • Schumann: PIano Concerto in A Minor
Mozart: Symphony No 41 Jupiter
Tickets: £14, concessions £9 info here
Saturday 27th February 7.30pm - FRC - MAIASTRA
Cobham: St Andrew's Church, KT11 3EJ
Akiko Ono, violin (leader) • Agata Darashkaite, violin
Elitsa Bogdanova, viola • Peteris Sokolovskis, cello
Haydn: Quartet in C major Op. 54 No. 2
Wolf: Italian Serenade • Brahms: Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Sunday 28th February 6pm - FREE, No booking required
London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall
Glain Dafydd, harp
Martin Musical Scholarship Fund award winner, plays works by Dussek, Debussy, Paradisi, Mathias, & Renié
Sunday 28th February 7.30pm - FRC - MAIASTRA
Brentford: Musical Museum, TW8 0DU
Akiko Ono, violin (leader) • Agata Darashkaite, violin,
Elitsa Bogdanova, viola • Peteris Sokolovskis, cello
Haydn: Quartet in C major Op. 54 No. 2
Wolf: Italian Serenade • Brahms: Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Wednesday 2 March at 7.30 p.m.
St. Mary's Perivale, Perivale Lane, Perivale, Middlesex UB6 8SS
Eunsley Park (violin), who has taken part in a number of MAIASTRA concerts, will be joined by Aleksandar Djermanovic (piano) and Luka Okros (piano) in a programme of works by Beethoven, Debussy, Schumann and Chopin amongst others. Further information about this and other St. Mary's concerts on their website www.st-marys-perivale.org.uk
Thursday 3rd March 6pm - FREE
London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall
Margarita Balanas, cello
Martin Musical Scholarship Fund award winner, plays Ligeti and Rachmaninov • with Vassilis Varvaresos, piano
Saturday 5th March, from 9.30am - LONDON ORGAN DAY, featuring the cathedral's Lewis organ
London SE1: Southwark Cathedral
music from German composers including Reger, Brahms, Schumann
Day Tickets: £34.66 (students £11.20) click headline for full information
Saturday 5th March 12 noon - FRC
Dorking: St Martin's Church
Clare Deniz, cello • Alan Brown, piano
Robert Schumann • Richard Strauss (click dateline for full programme)
Saturday 5 March at 7.30pm - The Vivace Chorus • Brandenburg Sinfonia, and soloists
Glive, London Road, Guildford GU1 2AA
The Vivace Chorus, with the Brandenburg Sinfonia and soloists, will perform some of opera's best-loved choruses and arias. Tickets at £16-£33 are available from Glive on 01483 369650 or online at Glive.co.uk .
Sunday 6 March at **3.00pm** - Heath Quartet
Martineau Hall, Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, Dorking RH4 1SG
In the second of three Sunday afternoon concerts the Heath Quartet performs Haydn's Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5, Ravel's Quartet in F and the Quartet No. 2 by Tchaikovsky. The final concert in the series will take place at 3pm on Sunday 20th March, when the programme will consist of Mozart's Adagio and Fugue in C minor K.546, Bartok's Quartet No. 5 and the Quartet No. 3 by Tchaikovsky. Tickets at £20 are available from the Dorking Concertgoers' Box Office on 01306 740619 or the Dorking Halls on 01306 881717 or at www.dorkinghalls.co.uk .
Monday 7th March 5pm to 10pm • Godalming Music Festival
Godalming: St Peter & St Paul's Church
listen to the Festival's Organ Classes
Adjudicator: Peter Wright, Vice President, Royal College of Organists
Thursday 10 March at 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Church Road, Barnes SW13 9HL
As part of the Barnes Music Festival 2016 the Barnes Music Society presents James Turnbull (oboe), Robyn Parton (soprano) and Libby Burgess (piano) in a programme of music by Handel, Herbert Howells, Stephen Dodgson and Gerald Finzi, plus a world premiere by Jim Parker. Tickets for non-BMS members at £12 (concessions £10, students £5) are available at the door or in advance from www.WeGotTickets.com (booking fee applies).
Saturday 12th March 7.30pm • Chantry Singers
Guildford: St Nicolas Church
Roy Rashbrook, tenor & conductor
Stainer: The Cricifixion • Music for Passiontide
Tickets: £12 (16 & under £2)
Saturday 12 March at 7.30pm • Concert for Médecins sans Frontières
St Paul's Church, Church Road, East Molesey KT8 9DR
This concert to raise funds for the charity Médecins sans Frontières features five members of the Kingston & District Chamber Music Society in a performance of Schubert's Piano Quintet in A major D.667 'The Trout' and the Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 67 by Joaquin Turina. The concert will be followed by a cheese and wine supper. The suggested donation is £15 per head, payable at the door, and further information can be obtained from [email protected] .
Saturday 12 March at 7.30pm • Smetana Trio
Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, Banstead SM7 3AJ
One of the indisputably great European chamber groups, which celebrated its eightieth anniversary in 2014, the Smetana Trio performs piano trios by Beethoven (B flat, Op. 11), Mendelssohn (D minor, Op. 49) and Dvorak (E minor, Op. 90 - Dumky). Tickets are available from Collingwood Sound & Vision, 43 High Street, Banstead, online at www.bansteadarts.co.uk, by telephone on 01737 350288 or by email at [email protected].
Sunday 13 March at 7.30pm
All Saints Church, Market Place, Kingston upon Thames KT1 1JP
A musical gala in aid of Momentum, the Surrey and South West London children's cancer charity, features Sally Matthews, Jean Rigby, Finnur Bjarnason, Ashley Holland, The Tiffinians and Viva Voce, with special guest Dame Felicity Lott. Tickets at £25 are available from the Box Office on 020 8974 5931 or online at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-musical-gala-for-momentum-tickets-19381891760?aff=ebrowse .
Wednesday 16 Mar 12.30 lunchtime - The first of nine, monthly Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concerts - Free, with Retiring Collection
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road (Parking available on site)
J S Bach, through the Church Year
Organist: Anthony Cairns, Director of Music, Christ Church (United Reformed)
Wednesday 16 Mar 12.45 lunchtime - FRC • Music on the Green
Esher: Christ Church, Church St, KT10 8QS
Tormead School Showcase
Saturday 19th March 12 noon to 4.45pm • PLAY THE ORGAN!
Guildford: St Mary's Quarry Street
Mini-recitals on the hour, workshop led by international recitalist Tom Bell
Saturday 19th March 4pm • FINALE RECITAL
Guildford: St Mary's Quarry Street
international recitalist Tom Bell rounds off the day with an organ recital
Saturday 19th March 7.30pm • Woking Symphony Orchestra
Woking: HG Wells, Church Street East, GU21 6HJ (satnav 8EW)
Oliver Nelson, violin
Rossini La Cenerentola Overture ♦ Brahms Violin Concerto ♦ Dvorak Symphony No 7
Tickets: £14, (U16/student £7) 01 ♦ 483 ♦ 71 ♦ 27 ♦ 10
Saturday 19th March 7.30pm • Verdi: Requiem
Guildford: G-Live!, London Road, GU1 2AA
Guildford Choral, Salisbury Musical Society, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Willcocks, conductor
Tickets: click on dateline
Saturday 19 March 7.30pm • The Ripieno Choir • Heaven’s Sparkling Courtiers
Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
A survey of the glorious repertoire inspired by our wonderful cathedrals and their choirs, from the Restoration to the Romantics
Tickets: £15 in advance, £17 on the door, £5 school children
Saturday 19 March at 10.15 (coffee and croissants) for 11.00 a.m.
Riverside Arts Centre, 59 Thames Street, Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 5QF
'Spring is sprung ....' - a light hearted programme of words and music presented by Carole Boyd (Lynda Snell from 'The Archers') and pianist Lynda Chang at a coffee concert organised by Sunbury and Shepperton Arts Association. Tickets at £8.50 can be obtained from the Box Office (01932 782788). Please book ahead to ensure there will be enough croissants for all!
Saturday 19 March at 7.30 for 8pm • Oxshott & Cobham Music Society's Celebrity Recital
Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, Claygate KT10 0JP
OCMS's Celebrity Recital features soprano Chen Reiss with Marc Verter, piano, in a programme entitled Love around the Mediterranean, which includes lieder, French song and wonderful operatic arias. A protegee of the conductor Zubin Mehta, Chen currently sings all the lyric soprano leads with the Vienna State Opera and is booked to sing at Covent Garden in July 2018. Tickets at £20 can be purchased from the Membership Secretary, Mrs Glynis Kortright, on 020 8399 6389 or by email at [email protected]
I look forward to seeing many of you at Thursday's meeting and concert, when we will tell you more about the coming year's projects. Meanwhile, do enjoy your music-making and -listening. There is plenty to choose from and not far from home !
The final piece is a stunning virtuoso work for which we will all wish we could have watched Marios's fingers more closely!
The concert is free to enter, with a collection afterwards to cover costs.
Please park in the town's Church Street or Multi-Storey car parks as we will only have space for blue badge holders at the Church.
Unashamedly lifted from a recent email from Elspeth Arden, at MAIASTRA, here are details of more local music-making over the coming weeks, with a few extra items from the musicinsurrey website:
Friday 26 February at 7.30 pm - Goldberg Ensemble
Farnham Methodist Church, South Street, Farnham GU9 7RN
The next concert organised by the Tilford Bach Society is a performance by the Goldberg Ensemble of Bach's Goldberg Variations transcribed for string trio. There will be a thirty minute introductory talk about the Goldberg Variations and their transcription by local composer Matthew Taylor. Tickets at £13.50 (Members £12.50) can be purchased before the date of the concert online at www.tilbach.org.uk, or they can be bought at the door at £15. 8-25 year olds may attend free thanks to the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust.
Saturday 27th February 10am-5pm - Guildford Choral • Singing Day: Verdi Requiem
Guildford, Normandy: Village Hall, Glaziers Lane, GU3 2DD
Jonathan Willcocks, conductor
Tickets: £20 (students £10)
Saturday 27th February 7.30pm - Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra
Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP
Andrada Maria Brisc, piano • Nicholas Smith, conductor
Beethoven: Overture: Prometheus • Schumann: PIano Concerto in A Minor
Mozart: Symphony No 41 Jupiter
Tickets: £14, concessions £9 info here
Saturday 27th February 7.30pm - FRC - MAIASTRA
Cobham: St Andrew's Church, KT11 3EJ
Akiko Ono, violin (leader) • Agata Darashkaite, violin
Elitsa Bogdanova, viola • Peteris Sokolovskis, cello
Haydn: Quartet in C major Op. 54 No. 2
Wolf: Italian Serenade • Brahms: Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Sunday 28th February 6pm - FREE, No booking required
London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall
Glain Dafydd, harp
Martin Musical Scholarship Fund award winner, plays works by Dussek, Debussy, Paradisi, Mathias, & Renié
Sunday 28th February 7.30pm - FRC - MAIASTRA
Brentford: Musical Museum, TW8 0DU
Akiko Ono, violin (leader) • Agata Darashkaite, violin,
Elitsa Bogdanova, viola • Peteris Sokolovskis, cello
Haydn: Quartet in C major Op. 54 No. 2
Wolf: Italian Serenade • Brahms: Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No. 2
Wednesday 2 March at 7.30 p.m.
St. Mary's Perivale, Perivale Lane, Perivale, Middlesex UB6 8SS
Eunsley Park (violin), who has taken part in a number of MAIASTRA concerts, will be joined by Aleksandar Djermanovic (piano) and Luka Okros (piano) in a programme of works by Beethoven, Debussy, Schumann and Chopin amongst others. Further information about this and other St. Mary's concerts on their website www.st-marys-perivale.org.uk
Thursday 3rd March 6pm - FREE
London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall
Margarita Balanas, cello
Martin Musical Scholarship Fund award winner, plays Ligeti and Rachmaninov • with Vassilis Varvaresos, piano
Saturday 5th March, from 9.30am - LONDON ORGAN DAY, featuring the cathedral's Lewis organ
London SE1: Southwark Cathedral
music from German composers including Reger, Brahms, Schumann
Day Tickets: £34.66 (students £11.20) click headline for full information
Saturday 5th March 12 noon - FRC
Dorking: St Martin's Church
Clare Deniz, cello • Alan Brown, piano
Robert Schumann • Richard Strauss (click dateline for full programme)
Saturday 5 March at 7.30pm - The Vivace Chorus • Brandenburg Sinfonia, and soloists
Glive, London Road, Guildford GU1 2AA
The Vivace Chorus, with the Brandenburg Sinfonia and soloists, will perform some of opera's best-loved choruses and arias. Tickets at £16-£33 are available from Glive on 01483 369650 or online at Glive.co.uk .
Sunday 6 March at **3.00pm** - Heath Quartet
Martineau Hall, Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, Dorking RH4 1SG
In the second of three Sunday afternoon concerts the Heath Quartet performs Haydn's Quartet in F minor Op. 20 No. 5, Ravel's Quartet in F and the Quartet No. 2 by Tchaikovsky. The final concert in the series will take place at 3pm on Sunday 20th March, when the programme will consist of Mozart's Adagio and Fugue in C minor K.546, Bartok's Quartet No. 5 and the Quartet No. 3 by Tchaikovsky. Tickets at £20 are available from the Dorking Concertgoers' Box Office on 01306 740619 or the Dorking Halls on 01306 881717 or at www.dorkinghalls.co.uk .
Monday 7th March 5pm to 10pm • Godalming Music Festival
Godalming: St Peter & St Paul's Church
listen to the Festival's Organ Classes
Adjudicator: Peter Wright, Vice President, Royal College of Organists
Thursday 10 March at 7.30pm
St Mary's Church, Church Road, Barnes SW13 9HL
As part of the Barnes Music Festival 2016 the Barnes Music Society presents James Turnbull (oboe), Robyn Parton (soprano) and Libby Burgess (piano) in a programme of music by Handel, Herbert Howells, Stephen Dodgson and Gerald Finzi, plus a world premiere by Jim Parker. Tickets for non-BMS members at £12 (concessions £10, students £5) are available at the door or in advance from www.WeGotTickets.com (booking fee applies).
Saturday 12th March 7.30pm • Chantry Singers
Guildford: St Nicolas Church
Roy Rashbrook, tenor & conductor
Stainer: The Cricifixion • Music for Passiontide
Tickets: £12 (16 & under £2)
Saturday 12 March at 7.30pm • Concert for Médecins sans Frontières
St Paul's Church, Church Road, East Molesey KT8 9DR
This concert to raise funds for the charity Médecins sans Frontières features five members of the Kingston & District Chamber Music Society in a performance of Schubert's Piano Quintet in A major D.667 'The Trout' and the Piano Quartet in A minor Op. 67 by Joaquin Turina. The concert will be followed by a cheese and wine supper. The suggested donation is £15 per head, payable at the door, and further information can be obtained from [email protected] .
Saturday 12 March at 7.30pm • Smetana Trio
Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, Banstead SM7 3AJ
One of the indisputably great European chamber groups, which celebrated its eightieth anniversary in 2014, the Smetana Trio performs piano trios by Beethoven (B flat, Op. 11), Mendelssohn (D minor, Op. 49) and Dvorak (E minor, Op. 90 - Dumky). Tickets are available from Collingwood Sound & Vision, 43 High Street, Banstead, online at www.bansteadarts.co.uk, by telephone on 01737 350288 or by email at [email protected].
Sunday 13 March at 7.30pm
All Saints Church, Market Place, Kingston upon Thames KT1 1JP
A musical gala in aid of Momentum, the Surrey and South West London children's cancer charity, features Sally Matthews, Jean Rigby, Finnur Bjarnason, Ashley Holland, The Tiffinians and Viva Voce, with special guest Dame Felicity Lott. Tickets at £25 are available from the Box Office on 020 8974 5931 or online at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-musical-gala-for-momentum-tickets-19381891760?aff=ebrowse .
Wednesday 16 Mar 12.30 lunchtime - The first of nine, monthly Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concerts - Free, with Retiring Collection
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road (Parking available on site)
J S Bach, through the Church Year
Organist: Anthony Cairns, Director of Music, Christ Church (United Reformed)
Wednesday 16 Mar 12.45 lunchtime - FRC • Music on the Green
Esher: Christ Church, Church St, KT10 8QS
Tormead School Showcase
Saturday 19th March 12 noon to 4.45pm • PLAY THE ORGAN!
Guildford: St Mary's Quarry Street
Mini-recitals on the hour, workshop led by international recitalist Tom Bell
Saturday 19th March 4pm • FINALE RECITAL
Guildford: St Mary's Quarry Street
international recitalist Tom Bell rounds off the day with an organ recital
Saturday 19th March 7.30pm • Woking Symphony Orchestra
Woking: HG Wells, Church Street East, GU21 6HJ (satnav 8EW)
Oliver Nelson, violin
Rossini La Cenerentola Overture ♦ Brahms Violin Concerto ♦ Dvorak Symphony No 7
Tickets: £14, (U16/student £7) 01 ♦ 483 ♦ 71 ♦ 27 ♦ 10
Saturday 19th March 7.30pm • Verdi: Requiem
Guildford: G-Live!, London Road, GU1 2AA
Guildford Choral, Salisbury Musical Society, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Willcocks, conductor
Tickets: click on dateline
Saturday 19 March 7.30pm • The Ripieno Choir • Heaven’s Sparkling Courtiers
Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
A survey of the glorious repertoire inspired by our wonderful cathedrals and their choirs, from the Restoration to the Romantics
Tickets: £15 in advance, £17 on the door, £5 school children
Saturday 19 March at 10.15 (coffee and croissants) for 11.00 a.m.
Riverside Arts Centre, 59 Thames Street, Sunbury-on-Thames TW16 5QF
'Spring is sprung ....' - a light hearted programme of words and music presented by Carole Boyd (Lynda Snell from 'The Archers') and pianist Lynda Chang at a coffee concert organised by Sunbury and Shepperton Arts Association. Tickets at £8.50 can be obtained from the Box Office (01932 782788). Please book ahead to ensure there will be enough croissants for all!
Saturday 19 March at 7.30 for 8pm • Oxshott & Cobham Music Society's Celebrity Recital
Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, Claygate KT10 0JP
OCMS's Celebrity Recital features soprano Chen Reiss with Marc Verter, piano, in a programme entitled Love around the Mediterranean, which includes lieder, French song and wonderful operatic arias. A protegee of the conductor Zubin Mehta, Chen currently sings all the lyric soprano leads with the Vienna State Opera and is booked to sing at Covent Garden in July 2018. Tickets at £20 can be purchased from the Membership Secretary, Mrs Glynis Kortright, on 020 8399 6389 or by email at [email protected]
I look forward to seeing many of you at Thursday's meeting and concert, when we will tell you more about the coming year's projects. Meanwhile, do enjoy your music-making and -listening. There is plenty to choose from and not far from home !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
27th January 2016
Dear Friends,
and
Wednesdays at Christ Church
27th January 2016
Dear Friends,
This week we have been delivering leaflets about the AGM & Concert on 25th February to those audience members for whom we have no email address. Here's the leaflet, if you would like to view it, save it, and/or print it out (please hit back arrow to return to this page afterwards).
You will find the latest agenda and documents for the meeting on our LCAS Page. And then there's the fun bit ! At 3pm we get to hear Marios Panteliadis again, this time with a wonderful concert of Russian Piano Works. Do take a look at his programme: |
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Before we get to February 25th there is plenty of other music-making going on locally. You will find details on the musicinsurrey website.
Highlights include tomorrow's free trumpet recital at 9.30pm on the South Bank, and a busy weekend full of choices on the 5th and 6th of February.
David Briggs is the organ recitalist for the Inaugural Concert on the new Tickell organ installed in St John's School's New Chapel in Leatherhead. That's on Friday 5th February at 7pm.
Then at 12 noon on Saturday 6th February there is another chance to hear the talented Buck Brass Trio, performing in the lovely acoustic of St Martin's Church, Dorking. Their Leatherhead lunchtime concert was very popular last Autumn.
At a very civilised 5pm that day you will find Dorking Chamber Orchestra performing in St Nicolas Church, Bookham. CPE Bach, Vanhal, Albinoni, Corelli, and JS Bach will make for an excellent concert.
At 7.30pm the Perks Ensemble have a concert for Banstead Arts (Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak), and at 8pm Sunwook Kim is the guest pianist for Oxshott & Cobham Music Society's concert in Holy Trinty Church, Claygate.
There are also several MAIASTRA concerts coming our way, so do please check the diary for those.
Links to more information on all of these concerts will be found on the musicinsurrey website.
Enjoy your music-making and listening!
Highlights include tomorrow's free trumpet recital at 9.30pm on the South Bank, and a busy weekend full of choices on the 5th and 6th of February.
David Briggs is the organ recitalist for the Inaugural Concert on the new Tickell organ installed in St John's School's New Chapel in Leatherhead. That's on Friday 5th February at 7pm.
Then at 12 noon on Saturday 6th February there is another chance to hear the talented Buck Brass Trio, performing in the lovely acoustic of St Martin's Church, Dorking. Their Leatherhead lunchtime concert was very popular last Autumn.
At a very civilised 5pm that day you will find Dorking Chamber Orchestra performing in St Nicolas Church, Bookham. CPE Bach, Vanhal, Albinoni, Corelli, and JS Bach will make for an excellent concert.
At 7.30pm the Perks Ensemble have a concert for Banstead Arts (Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak), and at 8pm Sunwook Kim is the guest pianist for Oxshott & Cobham Music Society's concert in Holy Trinty Church, Claygate.
There are also several MAIASTRA concerts coming our way, so do please check the diary for those.
Links to more information on all of these concerts will be found on the musicinsurrey website.
Enjoy your music-making and listening!
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Music on Thursdays at LMC
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
5th January 2016
Dear Friends,
and
Wednesdays at Christ Church
5th January 2016
Dear Friends,
First let's take a look at local music-making as we enter this New Year.
Next Saturday Abigail Dance leads a quartet study day on Borodin's Quartet No 2. Contact details are on the musicinsurrey website here.
On Saturday at 5.30pm Oxshott & Cobham Music Society's concert at Holy Trinity Church, Claygate will be performed by the Grove Wind Quintet. For full details of this concert of works by Ibert, Nielsen, Danzi, Françaix, and Hallam, please follow this link.
The following Saturday, January 16th, at the HG Wells Centre in Woking, Woking Symphony Orchestra have a most accessible concert at 3.30pm. Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, from Nutcracker Suite, Chabrier's Marche Joyeuse and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1. All for the price of just £7! You will find more information on this link.
It looks like a great month for wind enthusiasts. The monthly lunchtime concert in Christ Church Esher welcomes the Gelachter Wind Trio on Wednesday 20th January. This is a lovely series of 1.10pm lunchtime concerts. You will find more information on the Church website here.
Planning is well under way for this year's Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church concert series.
The WaCC organ concert season starts on Wednesday March 16th and runs through the year to November 16th. Anthony Cairns has several familiar favourites lined up, and we hope to introduce you to organists he and I have heard recently and enjoyed.
It is early days for MoT's programme planning as we first offer a selection of dates to Royal Academy of Music students. Once we know which students and ensembles will be coming we can safely fill in the gaps without giving you too many weeks of the same instruments.
Next Saturday Abigail Dance leads a quartet study day on Borodin's Quartet No 2. Contact details are on the musicinsurrey website here.
On Saturday at 5.30pm Oxshott & Cobham Music Society's concert at Holy Trinity Church, Claygate will be performed by the Grove Wind Quintet. For full details of this concert of works by Ibert, Nielsen, Danzi, Françaix, and Hallam, please follow this link.
The following Saturday, January 16th, at the HG Wells Centre in Woking, Woking Symphony Orchestra have a most accessible concert at 3.30pm. Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet, from Nutcracker Suite, Chabrier's Marche Joyeuse and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1. All for the price of just £7! You will find more information on this link.
It looks like a great month for wind enthusiasts. The monthly lunchtime concert in Christ Church Esher welcomes the Gelachter Wind Trio on Wednesday 20th January. This is a lovely series of 1.10pm lunchtime concerts. You will find more information on the Church website here.
Planning is well under way for this year's Music on Thursdays at LMC and Wednesdays at Christ Church concert series.
The WaCC organ concert season starts on Wednesday March 16th and runs through the year to November 16th. Anthony Cairns has several familiar favourites lined up, and we hope to introduce you to organists he and I have heard recently and enjoyed.
It is early days for MoT's programme planning as we first offer a selection of dates to Royal Academy of Music students. Once we know which students and ensembles will be coming we can safely fill in the gaps without giving you too many weeks of the same instruments.
We are delighted to announce that our opening concert on 28th April will be performed by the Acacia Duo, flautist Samantha Pearce and harpist Heather Wrighton. We're encouraging Heather to show you more harps this year - even if she restricts her playing to that lovely concert harp of hers for the concert.
Cellist Jacqueline Phillips is poised with pen over diary so we can slot in her concerts of the six Bach Cello Suites that were so well-received in 2012. We are in touch with another young cellist and composer who we hope will bring us some of his own works.
In June Lynda Chang will be accompanying violinist Brigitte Furze in the Brahms A major Sonata, and in July flautist Emily Andrews' accompanist is French pianist Alice Rosset. Their thoroughly French concert falls on Bastille Day - 14th July.
Concerts for four hands on one piano are under discussion, and a guitar duo from two very familiar performers looks likely for early Autumn. Atéa Wind Quintet will be with us in November, and the season will finish with the Andrews Massey Duo of Emily Andrews, flute, and David Massey, guitar.
Before then there is the small matter of the LCAS AGM at 2pm on Thursday 25th February, and the AGM concert at 3pm. LCAS grows up in 2016. The Charities Commission have asked us to register and to adopt a more substantial Constitution, and we will soon enter into a contract with LMC which requires us to hold public liability insurance. Fortunately, we can do that through Making Music, the former National Federation of Music Societies. Even if you are not a member of LCAS you are welcome to attend the meeting before the concert. (That's where the tea will be!) Watch the LCAS page for updates on the meeting and agenda.
Then at 3pm Marios Panteliadis will be playing a 40-minute concert of Great Russian Piano Works on the Schiedmayer baby grand. This excellent performer will be with us for a third time on 25th February, with works by Tchaikovsky, Scriabin and Prokofiev. Do take a look at his concert webpage.
We look forward to seeing you all on February 25th. The kettle will be on before the meeting and before the concert too.
Happy New Year !
Cellist Jacqueline Phillips is poised with pen over diary so we can slot in her concerts of the six Bach Cello Suites that were so well-received in 2012. We are in touch with another young cellist and composer who we hope will bring us some of his own works.
In June Lynda Chang will be accompanying violinist Brigitte Furze in the Brahms A major Sonata, and in July flautist Emily Andrews' accompanist is French pianist Alice Rosset. Their thoroughly French concert falls on Bastille Day - 14th July.
Concerts for four hands on one piano are under discussion, and a guitar duo from two very familiar performers looks likely for early Autumn. Atéa Wind Quintet will be with us in November, and the season will finish with the Andrews Massey Duo of Emily Andrews, flute, and David Massey, guitar.
Before then there is the small matter of the LCAS AGM at 2pm on Thursday 25th February, and the AGM concert at 3pm. LCAS grows up in 2016. The Charities Commission have asked us to register and to adopt a more substantial Constitution, and we will soon enter into a contract with LMC which requires us to hold public liability insurance. Fortunately, we can do that through Making Music, the former National Federation of Music Societies. Even if you are not a member of LCAS you are welcome to attend the meeting before the concert. (That's where the tea will be!) Watch the LCAS page for updates on the meeting and agenda.
Then at 3pm Marios Panteliadis will be playing a 40-minute concert of Great Russian Piano Works on the Schiedmayer baby grand. This excellent performer will be with us for a third time on 25th February, with works by Tchaikovsky, Scriabin and Prokofiev. Do take a look at his concert webpage.
We look forward to seeing you all on February 25th. The kettle will be on before the meeting and before the concert too.
Happy New Year !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
PS: Potential Quote of the Year - Can't help putting this in, not because the English isn't good (he's an international student) but because of what it suggests about the way the music business views what we do " my record company gived me your contact details." Leatherhead is on the map!
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
PS: Potential Quote of the Year - Can't help putting this in, not because the English isn't good (he's an international student) but because of what it suggests about the way the music business views what we do " my record company gived me your contact details." Leatherhead is on the map!
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