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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 27th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 27th November 2017
Dear Friends,
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This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church features our friends the Atéa Wind Quintet, with a couple of friendly substitutions.
Anna Hashimoto will be leading the quintet with her clarinet. Phillip Haworth will be on oboe, while flautist Katy Ovens will be moonlighting from Cavendish Winds. Also deputising will be Anna Douglass on horn, with regular Ashley Myall, bassoon.
Atéa's programme opens with a Humoreske by Zemlinsky. Next we'll hear three melodious movements by Bozza with the title 'Three night music pieces'. The first of Poulenc's Novelettes follows, leading into the final work, Taffanel's Quintet in G minor.
Atéa's playing always brings a joyous feel to our concerts. What a great way to end a season where we have enjoyed so many varied talents.
Anna Hashimoto will be leading the quintet with her clarinet. Phillip Haworth will be on oboe, while flautist Katy Ovens will be moonlighting from Cavendish Winds. Also deputising will be Anna Douglass on horn, with regular Ashley Myall, bassoon.
Atéa's programme opens with a Humoreske by Zemlinsky. Next we'll hear three melodious movements by Bozza with the title 'Three night music pieces'. The first of Poulenc's Novelettes follows, leading into the final work, Taffanel's Quintet in G minor.
Atéa's playing always brings a joyous feel to our concerts. What a great way to end a season where we have enjoyed so many varied talents.
Atéa - the regular line-up
You can read about the quintet and listen to recordings of the music that they will perform at Thursday's concert, on this concert webpage. Two of the recordings were made by Atéa themselves.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
LMC has level acess throughout so please take full advantage of the easy wheelchair access (including the loos).
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee to chat together and - if they are not rushing off to other gigs - with the musicians too.
We will be back with an extra mid-afternoon piano concert at 3pm on Thursday March 1st. That follows our AGM which is at 2pm the same afternoon. Unusually that day the teas will be ready before the meeting and again before the concert.
If you would like us to keep in touch through the winter and make sure you receive a copy of our Spring/Summer programme please your request to [email protected] - if you include your address we will be able to make sure you receive a paper copy of the programme.
Through the winter weeks our newsletter becomes 'occasional' so let's take a look at what else is on offer around the area this week, and into December.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
LMC has level acess throughout so please take full advantage of the easy wheelchair access (including the loos).
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee to chat together and - if they are not rushing off to other gigs - with the musicians too.
We will be back with an extra mid-afternoon piano concert at 3pm on Thursday March 1st. That follows our AGM which is at 2pm the same afternoon. Unusually that day the teas will be ready before the meeting and again before the concert.
If you would like us to keep in touch through the winter and make sure you receive a copy of our Spring/Summer programme please your request to [email protected] - if you include your address we will be able to make sure you receive a paper copy of the programme.
Through the winter weeks our newsletter becomes 'occasional' so let's take a look at what else is on offer around the area this week, and into December.
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Wednesday 29th November 7.30pm ♦ Cranleigh: Arts Centre, 1 High Street, GU6 8AS NOCTURNE ♥ Richard Saxel, piano ♥ nocturnes by different composers, as recorded on Richard's recent CD of nocturnes by 16 composers Tickets: £16 (in aid of Cranleigh Arts Centre) Thursday 30th Nov 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Season Finale Atéa Wind Quintet Katy Ovens, flute ♦ Phillip Haworth, oboe ♦ Anna Hashimoto, clarinet ♦ Anna Douglass, horn ♦ Ashley Myall, bassoon music by Zemlinsky ♦ Bozza ♦ Poulenc ♦ Taffanel Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Thursday 30th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road His (Head)Master's Voice: Richard Hillier, baritone (& retiring Head of School) James O'Donnell, organ • Thomas Carroll, cello • Nigel Hutchison, piano • Svitlana Kosenko, piano • Akiko Ono, violin Tickets: £17.50 click dateline DECEMBER 2017 Friday 1st December 7.30pm - Free ♦ Leatherhead: School Chapel, then later, Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road) Michaelmas Concert Christmas concert in the School Chapel followed by talents from across the School: Swing Band, Jazz Band, String Groups, Quartets, Sinfonia Tickets: free Saturday 2nd December 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW Martin Hall, piano ♦ Robert Huxford, baritone Saturday 2nd December **6.50pm - FRC ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Oxshott & Cobham Music Society Roy Stratford gives a pre-concert talk on Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, with illustrations by Ensemble Mirage Tickets: suggested donation £3 (not bookable) Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road The Grange Christmas Concert Tickets: £15 click dateline (Grange clients £9) Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Effingham: St Teresa's School, RH5 6ST Surrey Mozart Players ♦ Chloê Hanslip, violin ♦ Kenneth Woods, conductor Rosssini: Overture - The Thieving Magpie ♥ Beethoven Violin Concerto ♥ Beethoven Symphony No 6 Pastoral Tickets: £19.50 (21 & under £5), • 2 adult+2 child £40 Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Hammer, Haslemere: 3 Counties Church, Linchmere Road, GU27 3QW Concert in aid of Hope for Justice Ishani Bhoola, violin ♦ Ben Cooley, singer Tickets: £15 office @ 3countieschurch.org or OI4Z8 653OIl Saturday 2nd December 8pm ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Oxshott & Cobham Music Society Ensemble Mirage • clarinet • 2 violins • viola • cello • piano Finzi, arr C Alexander: Five Bagatelles • Dohnányi: Piano Quintet No 2 in Eb minor Op 26 • Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Tunes Op 34 • Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time Tickets: £20 Saturday 2nd December 7.30pm ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN English Arts Chorale & Orchestra Savitri Grier, violin ♦ Greg Tassell, tenor ♦ Benjamin Goldscheider, horn ♦ Leslie Olive, conductor Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending ♦ Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings ♦ Lauridsen: Lux aeterna ♦ Finzi: 'In terra pax' Britten: Serenade for tenor, horn & strings ♦ Leslie Olive: Magnificat Tickets: £22, £17, £12, children/students £6, disabled 2@half price Sunday 3rd December 7.30pm ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ HALLELUJAH ♦ Horsley Choral Society Handel's The Messiah, Part 1 - plus Christmas Music & Carols for All Tickets: £12 (u18 £6) Tuesday 5th December 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bonnet • Parry • Rutter • Bach • Howells • Jongen • Ireland • Dupré Tuesday 5th December **2pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Christmas Showcase Concert with Richard Hillier, baritone RVW: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis & Fantasia on Christmas Carols Tickets: £20 click dateline Tuesday 5th December 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Christmas Showcase Concert with Richard Hillier, baritone RVW: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis & Fantasia on Christmas Carols Tickets: £20 click dateline Friday 8th December 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Woking: St John's Church, Church Road, GU21 7QN Arisa Fukita & Will Dutton, violins ♦ t b c, viola ♦ Sebastian Kolin, cello Schubert: Quartettsatz D703 ♦ Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 Serioso ♦ Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1 in D major, Op 11 Saturday 9th December **6.30pm ♦ Cranleigh: Village Hall, Village Way, GU6 8AF Surrey Hills Family Christmas Concert ♦ Surrey Hills Choirs Tickets: £12 (16 & under £3) Saturday 9th December 7.30pm ♦ Guildford: The Cathedral Guildford Choral ♦ Jonathan Willcocks, conductor Saint-Saens: Christmas Oratorio ♦ Britten: St Nicolas Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) Saturday 9th December 7.30pm ♦ Oxshott: St Andrew's Church, Oakshade Road, KT22 0LE Oxshott Choral Society - Christmas Concert Val Beynon, conductor Bob Chilcott: Gloria, with Brass Quintet ♥ Carols & Christmas songs for choir and audience Tickets: £14 / child £7 (01 932)/863=082 Saturday 9th December 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU Arisa Fukita & Will Dutton, violins ♦ t b c, viola ♦ Sebastian Kolin, cello Schubert: Quartettsatz D703 ♦ Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 Serioso ♦ Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1 in D major, Op 11 Sunday 10th December **4.30pm ♦ Balcombe: St Mary's Church, RH17 6PX Once as I Remember • Christmas words and music English Arts Chorale • Leslie Olive, conductor Tickets: £12 Sunday 10th December 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Arisa Fukita & Will Dutton, violins ♦ t b c, viola ♦ Sebastian Kolin, cello Schubert: Quartettsatz D703 ♦ Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor, Op 95 Serioso ♦ Tchaikovsky: String Quartet No 1 in D major, Op 11 Sunday 10th December *8pm ♦ Guildford: St Nicolas Church, Bury Street, GU2 4AW Christmas Candlelit Concert ♦ Surrey Hills Adult Choirs Tickets: £12 (16 & under £5) Monday 11th December 7.30pm (??) ♦ Warnham: St Margaret's Church, RH12 3QW Capel Choral Society ♦ Christmas Concert Tickets: £12.50 click dateline Saturday 16th December **4pm ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8ST on-site parking Leatherhead Choral Society ♦ Christmas Concert Tickets: click dateline Saturday 16th December **4.30pm ♦ Bletchingley: St Mary's Church, RH1 4PD Once as I Remember • Christmas words and music English Arts Chorale • Leslie Olive, conductor Tickets: £14 nave, £10 side aisles |
Yes, that list does look decidedly Christmassy, doesn't it! To make sure your own society's or ensemble's events are included in the 2018 musicinsurrey diary please ask your publicity contact to send full information to us at: [email protected].
It will be lovely to see you at Thursday's final concert of the year. There's a rumour of 'cake' afterwards ! And, as always, I hope you enjoy your selection of those local events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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It will be lovely to see you at Thursday's final concert of the year. There's a rumour of 'cake' afterwards ! And, as always, I hope you enjoy your selection of those local events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 20th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 20th November 2017
Dear Friends,
We have just two more lunchtime concerts this year before our winter break. So let's look at this Thursday's concert first:
Harpist Gwenllian Llŷr came to us for the first time in August 2016 when she was studying at the Royal Academy of Music - having already graduated from the Royal Welsh. The harp is such a lovely gentle instrument, and Gwenllian showed us then that she is a superb performer.
In Thursday's 12.30 concert Gwenllian will perform music by a number of composers who were - or are - themselves harpists, and she will include some of her own compositions as well. You can hear samples of the music by going to the foot of the concert webpage and clicking on the videos and links there.
The sad coincidence of losing our dear friend Gaenor a few weeks ago seemed to almost require that our harp concert be dedicated to that lovely lady harpist, who had herself been a Bard of Gorsedd, given her chair at a National Eisteddfod many years ago.
Let's not be sad. No black ties, please. We shall enjoy this concert like any other, like all those concerts Gaenor herself attended over the last five years or so.
Come and hear excellent harp-playing by an extremely talented musician with a growing international reputation. And you can ask her about her honeymoon too - but please, wait until after the concert for that.
Full details of Gwenllian's harp concert at 12.30 on Thursday 23rd November are on this concert webpage.
Harpist Gwenllian Llŷr came to us for the first time in August 2016 when she was studying at the Royal Academy of Music - having already graduated from the Royal Welsh. The harp is such a lovely gentle instrument, and Gwenllian showed us then that she is a superb performer.
In Thursday's 12.30 concert Gwenllian will perform music by a number of composers who were - or are - themselves harpists, and she will include some of her own compositions as well. You can hear samples of the music by going to the foot of the concert webpage and clicking on the videos and links there.
The sad coincidence of losing our dear friend Gaenor a few weeks ago seemed to almost require that our harp concert be dedicated to that lovely lady harpist, who had herself been a Bard of Gorsedd, given her chair at a National Eisteddfod many years ago.
Let's not be sad. No black ties, please. We shall enjoy this concert like any other, like all those concerts Gaenor herself attended over the last five years or so.
Come and hear excellent harp-playing by an extremely talented musician with a growing international reputation. And you can ask her about her honeymoon too - but please, wait until after the concert for that.
Full details of Gwenllian's harp concert at 12.30 on Thursday 23rd November are on this concert webpage.
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And then we really do come to our final concert of the year.
Our guests on Thursday 30th November will be the wonderfully lively Atéa Wind Quintet.
This year they bring us music by Alexander Zemlinsky, Eugène Bozza, Francis Poulenc, and a favourite of theirs, Paul Taffanel.
You can listen to samples of the music Atéa will be performing and discover a little about the quintet on this concert webpage. Their concert will be a really good finish to a brilliant year of concerts.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, and are funded by your contribution in the basket as you leave. Let's be honest here, paper still beats plastic in these collections, and plastic beats metals.
At the end of the year the charity that runs these concerts - LCAS - aims to give the Churches a donation equivalent to the sort of amount they could have received if they had rented their buildings to us for each concert day.
After our concerts we have tea and coffee ready, creating a moment for chat together and, if they are not rushing on to other engagements, with the musicians too.
LMC has level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come along. Aim to arrive by 12 midday and you might even be able to park on site (blue badge only).
PARKING: it's the one thing LMC lacks. So we recommend the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street car park. Frustratingly, the closest one, behind the Parish Church Hall, tends to be full by mid-morning. Allow about 5-8 minutes to walk from the car park to the Church, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. There's a map on our homepage.
Next let's take a look at what other societies and venues within reach of East Surrey have on offer over the coming week or two. These are taken from our diary website musicinsurrey.co.uk, a service we offer to other music organisations in the area:
Our guests on Thursday 30th November will be the wonderfully lively Atéa Wind Quintet.
This year they bring us music by Alexander Zemlinsky, Eugène Bozza, Francis Poulenc, and a favourite of theirs, Paul Taffanel.
You can listen to samples of the music Atéa will be performing and discover a little about the quintet on this concert webpage. Their concert will be a really good finish to a brilliant year of concerts.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, and are funded by your contribution in the basket as you leave. Let's be honest here, paper still beats plastic in these collections, and plastic beats metals.
At the end of the year the charity that runs these concerts - LCAS - aims to give the Churches a donation equivalent to the sort of amount they could have received if they had rented their buildings to us for each concert day.
After our concerts we have tea and coffee ready, creating a moment for chat together and, if they are not rushing on to other engagements, with the musicians too.
LMC has level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come along. Aim to arrive by 12 midday and you might even be able to park on site (blue badge only).
PARKING: it's the one thing LMC lacks. So we recommend the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street car park. Frustratingly, the closest one, behind the Parish Church Hall, tends to be full by mid-morning. Allow about 5-8 minutes to walk from the car park to the Church, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. There's a map on our homepage.
Next let's take a look at what other societies and venues within reach of East Surrey have on offer over the coming week or two. These are taken from our diary website musicinsurrey.co.uk, a service we offer to other music organisations in the area:
To make sure your society's events are included in the 2018 musicinsurrey diary please ask your publicity contact to send full information to us at: [email protected].
Just two Leatherhead lunchtime concerts left for this year. Do come along and enjoy fine performance over the lunch hour. And, as always, I hope you enjoy your selection of the events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Just two Leatherhead lunchtime concerts left for this year. Do come along and enjoy fine performance over the lunch hour. And, as always, I hope you enjoy your selection of the events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 12th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 12th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Last Thursday's excellent piano recital was the last of this year's concerts with the London College of Music. Looking back over the year we can see that the College brought us new talents and fresh input to our programme. We will soon begin to plan for 2018 and hopefully many more students will be able to come to Leatherhead to perform for the lunchtime audience.
This week our concert is on Wednesday, when we have the last of the year's organ recitals in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
Guest organist this month is Ed Sutton. Ed played here a year ago and he has quite a background in organ scholarship and university posts. His programme for Wednesday's concert comprises solely music by Emglish composers of the 18th century. You can expect Cornet Voluntaries by Henry Heron, William Walond, and Anon ! Other composers to feature include William Croft, John Stanley, and Thomas Arne.
It isn't easy to track down recordings of this music, so take a look at the concert webpage here and see how successful I was ! I have also added a little note for each composer giving an idea of the posts held. One of them has an unexpected local connection.
This week our concert is on Wednesday, when we have the last of the year's organ recitals in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
Guest organist this month is Ed Sutton. Ed played here a year ago and he has quite a background in organ scholarship and university posts. His programme for Wednesday's concert comprises solely music by Emglish composers of the 18th century. You can expect Cornet Voluntaries by Henry Heron, William Walond, and Anon ! Other composers to feature include William Croft, John Stanley, and Thomas Arne.
It isn't easy to track down recordings of this music, so take a look at the concert webpage here and see how successful I was ! I have also added a little note for each composer giving an idea of the posts held. One of them has an unexpected local connection.
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That splendid picture reminds us that next week's Music on Thursdays concert will be given by Welsh harpist Gwenllian Llŷr, fresh from her extensive honeymoon.
Her programme for November 23rd includes some works Gwenllian has composed herself, as well as the works of Marcel Tournier, Sue Rothstein, Wilhelm Posse, Debussy and Pearl Chertok - several of them harpists themselves.
You can find full details of the concert, recordings of the music to be performed (including two recordings of Gwenllian herself), but the honeymoon you will have to ask her about after the concert. Everything else is on this concert webpage.
That just leaves us with one more concert this year, MoT on November 30th. Atéa Wind Quintet were to be a little depleted, due to other commitments for a couple of the players. However, two musicians well-known to our audience, through the Royal Academy of Music connection, have stepped in to cover the gaps. Full information is ready on the concert webpage.
These three 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Both churches have level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to join us for these concerts.
After the concerts we linger over tea and coffee and there is usually the chance to chat with the musicians too.
PARKING: While Christ Church has oodles of on-site parking, LMC can only cope with the artistes and a few blue badge holders (and it's best to arrive close to 12 midday for those spaces). We recommend using the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street / Waitrose car park. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Methodist Church, which is in the one-way section of Church Road.
Now it's time to take a look at what other local societies and venues are offering this month. Here's a list taken from our musicinsurrey diary website:
Her programme for November 23rd includes some works Gwenllian has composed herself, as well as the works of Marcel Tournier, Sue Rothstein, Wilhelm Posse, Debussy and Pearl Chertok - several of them harpists themselves.
You can find full details of the concert, recordings of the music to be performed (including two recordings of Gwenllian herself), but the honeymoon you will have to ask her about after the concert. Everything else is on this concert webpage.
That just leaves us with one more concert this year, MoT on November 30th. Atéa Wind Quintet were to be a little depleted, due to other commitments for a couple of the players. However, two musicians well-known to our audience, through the Royal Academy of Music connection, have stepped in to cover the gaps. Full information is ready on the concert webpage.
These three 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Both churches have level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to join us for these concerts.
After the concerts we linger over tea and coffee and there is usually the chance to chat with the musicians too.
PARKING: While Christ Church has oodles of on-site parking, LMC can only cope with the artistes and a few blue badge holders (and it's best to arrive close to 12 midday for those spaces). We recommend using the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street / Waitrose car park. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Methodist Church, which is in the one-way section of Church Road.
Now it's time to take a look at what other local societies and venues are offering this month. Here's a list taken from our musicinsurrey diary website:
To make sure your society's events are included in the 2018 musicinsurrey diary please ask your publicity contact to send full information to us at: [email protected].
As ever, it will be lovely to see you at a lunchtime concert, and I hope you enjoy your selection of the events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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As ever, it will be lovely to see you at a lunchtime concert, and I hope you enjoy your selection of the events listed above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 7th November 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 7th November 2017
Dear Friends,
How was your weekend ? I spent Saturday listening to six Early and Baroque ensembles in the Brighton Early Music Festival. I hope that will lead to us booking a few of them for concerts next summer.
Back here in Leatherhead we are ready for our second LCM LIVE concert. This Thursday we hear from two piano students of the London College of Music, each presenting their own part of the concert. Haley Myles is to play music by Ginastera, Liszt and Chopin, and Elia Stavrou has also chosen a Chopin item, along with Gershwin.
You will find full details of Thursday's 12.30 piano concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church, on this concert webpage, as well as recordings of the music Haley and Elia will be performing.
Back here in Leatherhead we are ready for our second LCM LIVE concert. This Thursday we hear from two piano students of the London College of Music, each presenting their own part of the concert. Haley Myles is to play music by Ginastera, Liszt and Chopin, and Elia Stavrou has also chosen a Chopin item, along with Gershwin.
You will find full details of Thursday's 12.30 piano concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church, on this concert webpage, as well as recordings of the music Haley and Elia will be performing.
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Next week we turn to the organ at Christ Church for our 12.30 lunchtime concert, on Wednesday 15th November. The organist (helping to bring the average age down) will be Ed Sutton. Ed played for us last November too. This year he has selected works by English composers of the 18th century. You will fiund full details of Ed's concert on this concert webpage. It wasn't easy finding matching recordings of these works, so see how well I did, and I hope you will enjoy the items I did manage to track down.
Still to come are Gwenllian Llyr's harp concert on November 23rd, which we are dedicating to the memory of our dear friend Gaenor Jones. And just beginning to take shape is the programme for our season finale with members of Atéa Wind Quintet on November 30th. Definitely a work in progress that one !
All of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts, in Leatherhead Methodist Church and in Christ Church United Reformed (on Epsom Road) are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
After the concert we linger a while to chat, often with the artistes too, over tea and coffee (and we might manage cake on the 30th).
Both churches have level access throughout (including the loos) so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert at this more accessible time of day.
Parking: Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking. LMC, however, only has space for a few blue card holders (best arrive close to 12 midday for this). So we recommend parking in the Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car park.
There is generally a great deal of music-making within easy reach of Leatherhead. Here are some events we have been told about that are taking place over the next week or two:
Still to come are Gwenllian Llyr's harp concert on November 23rd, which we are dedicating to the memory of our dear friend Gaenor Jones. And just beginning to take shape is the programme for our season finale with members of Atéa Wind Quintet on November 30th. Definitely a work in progress that one !
All of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts, in Leatherhead Methodist Church and in Christ Church United Reformed (on Epsom Road) are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
After the concert we linger a while to chat, often with the artistes too, over tea and coffee (and we might manage cake on the 30th).
Both churches have level access throughout (including the loos) so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy a concert at this more accessible time of day.
Parking: Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking. LMC, however, only has space for a few blue card holders (best arrive close to 12 midday for this). So we recommend parking in the Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car park.
There is generally a great deal of music-making within easy reach of Leatherhead. Here are some events we have been told about that are taking place over the next week or two:
You have a lot to choose from in that list ! I hope you enjoy your own selection of these delights, and I look forward to seeing you at one of the remaining lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead, this month.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 31st October 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 31st October 2017
Dear Friends,
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Let's begin with some positive news.
Mole Valley District Council have passed a motion in support of making efforts to save the Performing Arts Library. You can read more details here. Although it is on Mole Valley's patch, like all libraries, PerfArts / SPAL is the responsibility of Surrey County Council. SCC are meeting next Tuesday 7th November to discuss the Library's future. |
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LCM LIVE ♦ London College of Music with Music on Thursdays
This Thursday's 12.30 concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church is the first of two LCM LIVE concerts in this year's Arts Alive Festival, brought to us by students of the London College of Music.
On Thursday we shall hear soprano solos and duets sung by Elizabeth Pow and Veronika Rettich, with their accompanist (and LCM repetiteur) Emanuele Moillica.
The Marriage of Figaro, Lakmé, Tosca, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Threepenny Opera - items from each of these appear in Thursday's concert.
We rarely have the opportunity to hear two voices together. This is going to be an exceptional concert. You will find full details of the artistes and their programme, together with video performances of the work they will perform, on this linked webpage.
On Thursday we shall hear soprano solos and duets sung by Elizabeth Pow and Veronika Rettich, with their accompanist (and LCM repetiteur) Emanuele Moillica.
The Marriage of Figaro, Lakmé, Tosca, The Tales of Hoffmann, The Threepenny Opera - items from each of these appear in Thursday's concert.
We rarely have the opportunity to hear two voices together. This is going to be an exceptional concert. You will find full details of the artistes and their programme, together with video performances of the work they will perform, on this linked webpage.
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Next week's LCM LIVE concert, at 12.30 on Thursday 9th November, the College brings us two pianists. First, Haley Myles will present a short programme of music by Ginastera, Liszt and Chopin. Haley will be followed by Elia Stavrou with music by Chopin and Gershwin.
Again, full details of these performers and their programme are ready on this concert webpage.
The College's Head of Classical Performance, Emilie Capulet, has agreed to give us a piano concert in July 2018.
Our concerts remain free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout, but we ask you please to park in the town's Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street / Waitrose car parks. You might be lucky with the Church Road car park behind the Parish Hall, but it tends to fill during the morning.
After the concert we linger over a cup of tea or coffee and chat together, and if they can stay a while, with the musicians too. It can be interesting to hear about their journey to this point in their musical careers and about their plans for the future.
Still to come this month, as we draw towards the end of our 2017 season, are Ed Sutton's organ concert of works by 18th century English composers, a visit from lovely Welsh harpist Gwenllian Llŷr (gwen-thlee-an thleer), and our Season Finale with Atéa Wind Quintet (whose webpage I plan to set up next week).
59 of us enjoyed a wonderful string quartet playing last Thursday. I'm sure there is room for 59 more so do come along and add a bit of culture to your lunch hour ! Plus, if you missed the Kirkman Quartet's performance of Beethoven's String Quartet No 10 Harp, there's another opportunity to hear it at the Atrium Quartet's concert on Saturday evening in Holy Trinity Claygate.
If you really can't make lunchtimes, then why not take a look at these further local offerings. I'm still picking out Wednesday evening's Vivaldi in Venice as a highlight. I was lucky enough to be invited when Peter Medhurst gave his presentation in Leatherhead and I found it fascinating.
I hope you enjoy your own music-making and -listening over these next couple of weeks.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 23rd October 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 23rd October 2017
Dear Friends,
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It is almost exactly a year since we last heard a string quartet in these lunchtime concerts, and they too came from the Royal Academy of Music.
On Thursday, at 12.30 lunchtime in Leatherhead Methodist Church, we welcome the members of the Kirkman Quartet, led by Harriet Haynes, with fellow violinist Jack Greed, violist Kim Becker and cellist Yurie Lee. Formed last Autumn, the quartet has had remarkable success already. They come to us fresh from an appearance at Bristol's Colston Hall tomorrow (Tuesday 24th). Their concert for us has as its principal work Beethoven's String Quartet No 10 in Eb major 'Harp', followed by the short movement by Webern entitled Langsamer Satz. You can read more about the Kirkman Quartet and its members and hear recordings of the works they will be performing on this concert webpage. |
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London College of Music ♦ LCM Live
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In the second LCM Live event in Leatherhead, on November 9th, our concert comes from pianist Haley Myles.
Haley's programme comprises works by Ginastera, Liszt and Chopin. You can read full information and listen to recordings of the music on Haley's concert webpage. |
These three 12.30 lunchtime concerts all take place in LMC - Leatherhead Methodist Church. LMC has level access throughout so we positiely encourage wheelchair users to come along (and we won't hide you at the back unless you ask us to !)
The concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs, including musicians' fees, performing rights, heating, rent and marketing.
[P] - we recommend using the Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. (There is a map on our homepage.)
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee, giving a chance to chat together, and often with the musicians too.
We know ours are not the only events in the area, so here is a diary extract from our other website - musicinsurrey.co.uk - covering the next couple of weeks:
The concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs, including musicians' fees, performing rights, heating, rent and marketing.
[P] - we recommend using the Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from LMC, which is in the one-way section of Church Road. (There is a map on our homepage.)
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee, giving a chance to chat together, and often with the musicians too.
We know ours are not the only events in the area, so here is a diary extract from our other website - musicinsurrey.co.uk - covering the next couple of weeks:
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Saturday 21st October toSunday 29th October 10am to 4pm daily Leatherhead Art Club: Autumn Exhibition Tickets: not required, free entry ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP Thursday 26 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Kirkman String Quartet • courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music Harriet Haynes, violin ♦ Jack Greed, violin ♦ Kim Becker, viola ♦ Yurie Lee, cello music by Beethoven & Webern Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 28th October 10am ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church All day rehearsal for this evening's: Come & Sing - Haydn's Nelson Mass Participant Tickets: £10, inc tea/coffee - [email protected] Saturday 28th October **5.30pm ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church Performance: Come & Sing (rehearsals from 10am): Haydn: Nelson Mass Audience Tickets: £5 Saturday 28th October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Cobham Band presents Classic Brass: marches, overtures, solos, novelty pieces, both classical and modern Tickets: £15 click dateline Saturday 28th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU and Sunday 29th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Savitri Grier & Juliette Roos, violins ♦ Ting-Ru Lai, viola ♦ Matthijs Broersma, cello ♦ Yundu Wang, piano Fauré: Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor Op 89 • Dvorak: Piano Quintet No 2 in A major Op 81 Tuesday 31st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Bartholomew LaFollette, cello ♦ Caroline Palmer, piano Stravinsky: Suite Italienne ♦ Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor, ♦ & Four Serious Songs, Op 121 Poulenc: Cello Sonata Tickets: £25 click dateline NOVEMBER Wednesday 1st November 8pm ♦ CLADFAS ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Vivaldi in Venice - fascinating illustrated lecture by musicologist Peter Medhurst Tickets: contact CLADFAS pcorben AT talktalk DOT net *** Highly Recommended - especially if you missed this talk at Leatherhead *** Peter St Thursday 2 November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC & The London College of Music Opera Highlights, solos and duets with sopranos Elizabeth Pow & Veronika Rettich Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 4th November 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW David Hughes, organist, Albury Church Karen Borrett, Organ Scholar, St Martin's Dorking Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Guildford Choral ♦ Guildofrd: The Cathedral Haydn: The Creation ♦ Jonathan Willcocks, conductor Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8ST Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra ♦ Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor Cimarosa: Overture, The Secret Marriage ♦ JS Bach: Air on the G string, from Suite No 3 JB Waṅhal: Concerto in F for 2 Bassoons (soloists: Neil Gilchrist & Gillian Barrett) Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, Italian Tickets: £14 (u18 & students £9) Saturday 4th November 8pm ♦ Oxshott & Cobham Music Society ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Atrium Quartet Schubert: Quartet in A minor D804 Rosamunde • Shostakovich: Quartet No 8 in C minor Beethoven: String Quartet No 14 in C# minor Op 131 Tickets: £20 Tuesday 7th Nov 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bridge • Peeters • Ireland • Bach • Pärt • Parry • Duruflé Tuesday 7th November 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert ♦ Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Wednesday 8th November All day ♦ Oxford: Lady Margaret Hall (also Somerville and Keble) Organ Outreach Day - LMH & Royal College of Organists - Linked Article here Thursday 9th November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC & The London College of Music Haley Myles, piano ♦ music by Ginastera ♦ Liszt ♦ Chopin Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) |
Lots to choose from there then ! We hope you enjoy your personal selection of these concerts, and most of all we look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 15th October 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 15th October 2017
Dear Friends,
This Thursday - being the third Thursday of the month - LMC hosts Messy Church and Christ Church is home to a large U3A meeting. So it is that once a month our concert day moves to Wednesday, and we invite an organist to play the modern pipe organ at Christ Church.
Wednesday lunchtime at 12.30 our guest organist is Mark Brafield, a Trustee of the Royal College of Organists, and in his parallel legal career, a county court judge.
Mark's programme for us spans the centuries with one living composer, two 20th century ones (including Vaughan Williams), JS Bach, and the even earlier Sweelinck. You can see the programme on this concert webpage.
You will also find video performances of the music towards the foot of the page.
Wednesday lunchtime at 12.30 our guest organist is Mark Brafield, a Trustee of the Royal College of Organists, and in his parallel legal career, a county court judge.
Mark's programme for us spans the centuries with one living composer, two 20th century ones (including Vaughan Williams), JS Bach, and the even earlier Sweelinck. You can see the programme on this concert webpage.
You will also find video performances of the music towards the foot of the page.
Next week our lunchtime concert will be on Thursday, 26th October when we welcome the Kirkman String Quartet, four students of the Royal Academy of Music. The interesting thing to note from their photograph is that they are dressed for winter. That tells us this is not an ad hoc quartet but four musicians who have been working together for some time. At the Academy they are mentored by Levon Chilingirian. They are in for a busy week as next Tuesday the quartet have a concert at Bristol's Colston Hall.
The main work in next week's concert is Beethoven's String Quartet in E minor 'Harp', and they close with Webern's Slow Movement for Strings, Langsamer Satz.
Here's a rare chance to hear a Beethoven quartet, locally, and over the lunch hour.
You can read more about the Kirkman String Quartet and its members, as well as listening to performances of the music they will be playing, all on the concert webpage.
Both of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both churches have level access throughout - making access easy for wheelchair users - and after each concert we linger and chat over tea and coffee.
Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking.
For LMC we advise using the town's Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road where you will find LMC.
Not everyone is available at lunchtime, so here is an extract from the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk covering music events for the next couple of weeks:
The main work in next week's concert is Beethoven's String Quartet in E minor 'Harp', and they close with Webern's Slow Movement for Strings, Langsamer Satz.
Here's a rare chance to hear a Beethoven quartet, locally, and over the lunch hour.
You can read more about the Kirkman String Quartet and its members, as well as listening to performances of the music they will be playing, all on the concert webpage.
Both of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both churches have level access throughout - making access easy for wheelchair users - and after each concert we linger and chat over tea and coffee.
Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking.
For LMC we advise using the town's Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or Church Street/Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road where you will find LMC.
Not everyone is available at lunchtime, so here is an extract from the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk covering music events for the next couple of weeks:
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Tuesday 17th October 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Andrea Scarpa, organ (Italy) Wednesday 18th Oct 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: recitalist Mark Brafield Trustee, Royal College of Organists music by Sweelinck • Paul Sturman • JS Bach • Vaughan Williams • Christopher Steel Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Saturday 21st October toSunday 29th October 10am to 4pm daily Leatherhead Art Club: Autumn Exhibition ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP Tickets: not required, free entry Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Concert & Curry Series ♦ Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD Waverley Ensemble ♦ Ishani Bhoola, director JS Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor ♦ Brandenburg Concerto No 6 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ♦ Air on the G String ♦ Double Violin Concerto in D minor soloists Ishani Bhoola & Anna Dryer-Beers Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Watermill Jazz presents: PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA Tickets: £25 click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ Dorking Concertgoers present: The Marylebone Trio music for woodwind by Elgar, Dvorak, Mozart Grieg, Chopin Tickets: £18 click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ Banstead Arts Festival Society present: Dinara Klinton, piano music by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin Tickets: £12 (School pupils free) click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN English Arts Chorale & Chamber Ensemble Annabel Thwaite, piano ♦ Leslie Olive, conductor Elgar: Sea Pictures ♦ Paul Carr: Stabat Mater (première) Lauridsen: Nocturnes ♦ Samuel Barber: String Quartet Tickets: £20, £15, £12, children/students £6, disabled 2@half price Thursday 26 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Kirkman String Quartet Harriet Haynes, violin ♦ Jack Greed, violin ♦ Kim Becker, viola ♦ Yurie Lee, cello music by Beethoven & Webern courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 28th October 10am ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church All day rehearsal for this evening's Come & Sing - Haydn's Nelson Mass Participant Tickets: £10, inc tea/coffee - [email protected] Saturday 28th October **5.30pm ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church Come & Sing (rehearsals from 10am) Haydn: Nelson Mass Audience Tickets: £5 Saturday 28th October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Cobham Band presents Classic Brass: marches, overtures, solos, novelty pieces, both classical and modern Tickets: £15 click dateline Saturday 28th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DUand Sunday 29th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJSunday 29th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Sunday 29th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJSavitri Grier & Juliette Roos, violins ♦ Ting-Ru Lai, viola Matthijs Broersma, cello ♦ Yundu Wang, piano Fauré: Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor Op 89 ♦ Dvorak: Piano Quintet No 2 in A major Op 81 Tuesday 31st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Bartholomew LaFollette, cello ♦ Caroline Palmer, piano Stravinsky: Suite Italienne Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor ♦ & Four Serious Songs, Op 121 Poulenc: Cello Sonata Tickets: £25 click dateline NOVEMBER Wednesday 1st November 8pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road CLADFAS Vivaldi in Venice - fascinating illustrated lecture by musicologist Peter Medhurst Tickets: contact CLADFAS pcorben AT talktalk DOT net Recommended: I heard this talk at Leatherhead. 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Peter St Thursday 2 November 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Opera Highlights, with sopranos Elizabeth Pow & Veronika Rettich courtesy of the London College of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 4th November 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW David Hughes, organist, Albury Church Karen Borrett, Organ Scholar, St Martin's Dorking Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Guildford: The Cathedral Guildford Choral ♦ Jonathan Willcocks, conductor Haydn: The Creation Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) Saturday 4th November 7.30pm ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8ST Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8STSurrey Philharmonic Orchestra ♦ Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor Cimarosa: Overture, The Secret Marriage ♦ JS Bach: Air on the G string, from Suite No 3 JB Waṅhal: Concerto in F for 2 Bassoons (soloists: Neil Gilchrist & Gillian Barrett) Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A, Italian Tickets: £14 (u18 & students £9) Saturday 4th November 8pm ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Oxshott & Cobham Music Society Atrium Quartet Schubert: Quartet in A minor D804 Rosamunde • Shostakovich: Quartet No 8 in C minor Beethoven: String Quartet No 14 in C# minor Op 131 Tickets: £20 |
I hope you enjoy your pick of these events, and I especially look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert very soon !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 9th October 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 9th October 2017
Dear Friends,
For this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in the Music on Thursdays at LMC series we welcome two Royal Academy of Music Masters graduates, both classical guitarists.
We have been enjoying the playing of both Francisco Correa and David Massey as soloists and in duos with flautist Emily Andrews, since the first year of these concerts. Last Autumn they performed as a classical guitar duo for the very first time, and that took place
We have been enjoying the playing of both Francisco Correa and David Massey as soloists and in duos with flautist Emily Andrews, since the first year of these concerts. Last Autumn they performed as a classical guitar duo for the very first time, and that took place
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at LMC. They have had several more outings as a duo since then, and we are delighted to welcome them back this week.
Thursday's concert will include two pieces by Albéniz, a Fantasie in three movements by Fernando Sor, and they finish with two dances by Manuel de Falla. In between each has chosen a solo item. For David it's to be Pernambuco's Sons de Carrilhões, while Francisco has chosen Canción de cuna para seis by Lucas Saboya. You will find full details of Thursday's classical guitar concert on this concert webpage. |
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PARKING for LMC: We recommend the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church St/Waitrose car parks when attending concerts at LMC. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road, where you will find the Methodist Church.
Wednesdays at Christ Church - 18th October
Next week our concert is at Christ Church, Epsom Road, on Wednesday, also at 12.30 lunchtime. Our guest organist this month is Mark Brafield (pictured), a very experienced concert recitalist who also plays for church services on occasion.
Mark's programme opens with 16th/17th century Sweelinck and includes works by JS Bach and Vaughan Williams, along with two more modern pieces by Paul Sturman and Christopher Steel.
Mark always performs a well-considered programme and earlier this year he gave a recital at St Bride's Fleet Street. He is a Trustee of the Royal College of Organists. He has always had a parallel career practising in law and is now a judge.
You will find full details of this organ concert on the concert webpage. We hope to show the organist's moves on screen during this concert.
PARKING: Christ Church has plenty of parking on site.
BOTH CHURCHES have level access throughout, incuding toilets. As we have chairs, rather than pews, it is very easy to accommodate wheelchairs.
AFTERWARDS we linger and chat over tea and coffee, and the musicians usually join us if they are not rushing on to other engagements.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, but we rely on your generosity in the retiring collection to pay the musicians, heat the churches, etc.
Let's take a look at some of the other music-making in the Surrey area over the coming fortnight:
Next week our concert is at Christ Church, Epsom Road, on Wednesday, also at 12.30 lunchtime. Our guest organist this month is Mark Brafield (pictured), a very experienced concert recitalist who also plays for church services on occasion.
Mark's programme opens with 16th/17th century Sweelinck and includes works by JS Bach and Vaughan Williams, along with two more modern pieces by Paul Sturman and Christopher Steel.
Mark always performs a well-considered programme and earlier this year he gave a recital at St Bride's Fleet Street. He is a Trustee of the Royal College of Organists. He has always had a parallel career practising in law and is now a judge.
You will find full details of this organ concert on the concert webpage. We hope to show the organist's moves on screen during this concert.
PARKING: Christ Church has plenty of parking on site.
BOTH CHURCHES have level access throughout, incuding toilets. As we have chairs, rather than pews, it is very easy to accommodate wheelchairs.
AFTERWARDS we linger and chat over tea and coffee, and the musicians usually join us if they are not rushing on to other engagements.
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, but we rely on your generosity in the retiring collection to pay the musicians, heat the churches, etc.
Let's take a look at some of the other music-making in the Surrey area over the coming fortnight:
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Tuesday 10th October 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bach • Jongen • Messiaen • Stanford • Ireland • Parry • Francis Jackson • David Johnson Thursday 12 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Classical Guitar Duo: Francisco Correa & David Massey music by Albéniz ♦ Pernambuco ♦ Sor ♦ Saboya ♦ de Falla Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Friday 13th October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert Tickets: £17.50 click dateline
Tuesday 17th October 12.45pm - FRC Andrea Scarpa, organ (Italy) Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Wednesday 18th Oct 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: recitalist Mark Brafield Trustee, Royal College of Organists music by Sweelinck • Paul Sturman • JS Bach • Vaughan Williams • Christopher Steel Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Saturday 21st October to Sunday 29th October 10am to 4pm daily Leatherhead Art Club: Autumn Exhibition Tickets: not required, free entry Leatherhead: Old Chapel, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Concert & Curry Series ♦ Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD Waverley Ensemble Ishani Bhoola, director JS Bach: Violin Concerto in A minor ♦ Brandenburg Concerto No 6 ♦ Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ♦ Air on the G String Double Violin Concerto in D minor (soloists Ishani Bhoola & Anna Dryer-Beers) Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Watermill Jazz presents PASADENA ROOF ORCHESTRA Tickets: £25 click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ Dorking Concertgoers present: The Marylebone Trio music for woodwind by Elgar, Dvorak, Mozart Grieg, Chopin Tickets: £18 click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ Banstead Arts Festival Society present: Dinara Klinton, piano • music by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin Tickets: £12 (School pupils free) click dateline Saturday 21st October 7.30pm ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN English Arts Chorale & Chamber Ensemble Annabel Thwaite, piano ♦ Leslie Olive, conductor Elgar: Sea Pictures ♦ Paul Carr: Stabat Mater (première) ♦ Lauridsen: Nocturnes ♦ Samuel Barber: String Quartet Tickets: £20, £15, £12, children/students £6, disabled 2@half price Thursday 26 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Kirkman String Quartet: Harriet Haynes & Jack Greed, violins ♦ Kim Becker, viola ♦ Yurie Lee, cello courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 28th October 10am ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church All day rehearsal for this evening's Come & Sing - Haydn's Nelson Mass Participant Tickets: £10, inc tea/coffee - [email protected] Saturday 28th October **5.30pm ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church Come & Sing (rehearsals from 10am) Haydn: Nelson Mass Audience Tickets: £5 Saturday 28th October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Cobham Band presents: Classic Brass: marches, overtures, solos, novelty pieces, both classical and modern Tickets: £15 click dateline Saturday 28th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU AND Sunday 29th October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Savitri Grier & Juliette Roos, violins ♦ Ting-Ru Lai, viola ♦ Matthijs Broersma, cello ♦ Yundu Wang, piano Fauré: Piano Quintet No 1 in D minor Op 89 ♦ Dvorak: Piano Quintet No 2 in A major Op 81 Tuesday 31st October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Bartholomew LaFollette, cello ♦ Caroline Palmer, piano Stravinsky: Suite Italienne ♦ Brahms: Cello Sonata in E minor, ♦ & Four Serious Songs, Op 121 ♦ Poulenc: Cello Sonata Tickets: £25 click dateline |
I hope to see you at a lunchtime concert very soon !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 2nd October 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 2nd October 2017
Dear Friends,
Jazz fans were delighted with last week's JAZZ on Thursday at LMC with the sweetly-voiced Alice Auer, while others enjoyed stepping to the side of their comfort zone for half an hour or so ! That young lady should go far. And you can listen to her original work on the newly launched EP by going over to Spotify and searching for Alice Auer and Close to You.
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So we turn to this week and cellist Jacqueline Phillips. For her concert this Thursday, with the excellent accompanist Richard Black, Jacqueline has chosen to play works by Manuel de Falla and Shostakovich, with a solo item between - Variations on Paganini's Caprice No 24.
If you'd like to remind yourself of the music there are video links on the concert webpage, along with the two musicians' biographies and full programme information. To bring you up to date with Jacqueline's news, here's the final part of her current biography: Jacqueline is currently on trial as sub-principal cellist for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, and in October she begins a concert hall tour with Marc Almond's Shadows & Reflections Tour, opening at London's Royal Festival Hall on the 3rd. Their concert with us is at 12.30 lunchtime, this Thursday 5th October, at Leatherhead Methodist Church. |
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Next week we welcome back two classical guitarists who have been friends since their Royal Academy of Music days. And yet, they only started playing as a duo a year ago. Now they are really enjoying the additional repertoire it opens up for them.
David Massey and Francisco Correa will be playing music by Albéniz, Pernambuco, Sor, Saboya, and Manuel de Falla. Each of the performers has included a solo item in the concert programme. |
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A chance to catch up with two young musicians who, like Jacqueline Phillips, have been friends of these concerts since they started, six years ago.
You will find full details of next week's double guitar concert, with links to video samples relevant to the concert, and the biographies of both players, on this concert webpage. That's on Thursday October 12th at 12.30 lunchtime, in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Afterwards we linger a while over tea and coffee, and there is usually a chance to chat with that day's musicians.
LMC has level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy the concerts.
PARKING: ever the tricky problem! We encourage you to use the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church St/Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road, and the Methodist Church.
Here's what some other local groups and venues have to offer over the coming fortnight or so:
You will find full details of next week's double guitar concert, with links to video samples relevant to the concert, and the biographies of both players, on this concert webpage. That's on Thursday October 12th at 12.30 lunchtime, in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Afterwards we linger a while over tea and coffee, and there is usually a chance to chat with that day's musicians.
LMC has level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come and enjoy the concerts.
PARKING: ever the tricky problem! We encourage you to use the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church St/Waitrose car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road, and the Methodist Church.
Here's what some other local groups and venues have to offer over the coming fortnight or so:
 Plenty of Arts Alive Events throughout Mole Valley this month
Tuesday 3rd October 7.30pm Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road ==
Ben Baker, violin ♦ Daniel Lebhardt, piano Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 9 Op 47 Ysäye: Sonata for solo vioin in A minor Richard Stauss: Sonata for violin and piano Op 18 Tickets: £25 click dateline Thursday 5th October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Music on Thursdays at LMC Jacqueline Phillips, cello ♦ Richard Black, piano Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 7th October 12 noon - FRC Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW DCO Wind Quintet: section principals from the Dorking Chamber Orchestra Janina Byrne, flute • Kathy Bucknill, oboe Andrew Meredith, clarinet, Jo James, bassoon • Cathy Jenkins, horn music by: Mozart • Ligeti • Bizet Saturday 7th October 3pm West Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY Come & Sing: Fauré Requiem Tickets: £10 (singers) contact [email protected] concert this evening at 7.30pm Saturday 7th October 7.30pm Dorking: St Paul's Church (near Dorking Hospital) Beare Green & Newdigate Choral Society Jamie Cordell, conductor Bob Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass • and many favourite items Tickets: click dateline Saturday 7th October 7.30pm West Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY Fauré Requiem Tickets: £7 (children £1) Tuesday 10th October 12.45pm - FRC Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bach • Jongen • Messiaen • Stanford • Ireland • Parry • Francis Jackson • David Johnson Thursday 12 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Music on Thursdays at LMC Classical Guitar Duo: Francisco Correa & David Massey music by Albéniz ♦ Pernambuco ♦ Sor ♦ Saboya ♦ de Falla Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Friday 13th October 7.30pm Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Saturday 14th October **7pm An Evening of Opera, Songs and Poetry Edita Zurauskaite-Durrant, mezzo-soprano Emilie Capulet, piano (Head of Classical Performance Studies, London College of Music) Graham Pountney, actor Tickets: £12 inc refreshments (u19 Free) Leatherhead: St Mary & St Nicholas Parish Church, Church Road, KT22 8BD Tuesday 17th October 12.45pm - FRC Andrea Scarpa, organ (Italy) Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Wednesday 18th Oct 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: recitalist Mark Brafield Trustee, Royal College of Organists music by Sweelinck • Paul Sturman • JS Bach • Vaughan Williams • Christopher Steel Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road |
I wonder which concerts you will choose from this varied selection. I hope you will be able to join us for a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead this month. And I wish you every enjoyment in your music-making and -listening.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Monday, 25th September 2017
Dear Friends,
Dear Friends,
Close to You - launched Saturday 23rd September - available to buy after Thursday's concert - £5 each
On Saturday evening Alice Auer, her quartet, and quite a few of their friends, were at The Troubadour in Earl's Court for the launch of Alice's first EP - Close to You.
Thursday lunchtime they will be in Leatherhead for this year's JAZZ on Thursday concert at 12.30 lunchtime in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
On The Alice Auer Quartet's programme we'll hear Alice's original numbers from the EP, together with standards like On the Sunny Side of the Street, and modern jazz ballads from Stephen Day and Gregory Porter (who was on Saturday's Later... with Jools Holland Live 25 celebration programme from the Royal Albert Hall).
This will be the first time we have heard percussion in these lunchtime concerts, and our first electric instument - bass guitar.
So many firsts, in a concert that has come about through our relationship with the London College of Music (from which Alice Auer graduated last year). Full programme and biographic info, and video links to the jazz standards in Thursday's 12.30 concert are on this concert webpage.
A big thank you to LMC and their band who are loaning the Quartet a drum set to save moving one across London for this concert.
Thursday lunchtime they will be in Leatherhead for this year's JAZZ on Thursday concert at 12.30 lunchtime in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
On The Alice Auer Quartet's programme we'll hear Alice's original numbers from the EP, together with standards like On the Sunny Side of the Street, and modern jazz ballads from Stephen Day and Gregory Porter (who was on Saturday's Later... with Jools Holland Live 25 celebration programme from the Royal Albert Hall).
This will be the first time we have heard percussion in these lunchtime concerts, and our first electric instument - bass guitar.
So many firsts, in a concert that has come about through our relationship with the London College of Music (from which Alice Auer graduated last year). Full programme and biographic info, and video links to the jazz standards in Thursday's 12.30 concert are on this concert webpage.
A big thank you to LMC and their band who are loaning the Quartet a drum set to save moving one across London for this concert.
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Next week ? We will be in LMC again on Thursday 5th October for a cello and piano concert. Jacqueline Phillips has been with these concerts since the start - literally the start, she played for our launch event in the Swan Centre.
In 2015 Jacqueline met pianist Richard Black, an excellent accompanist indeed, after another pianist dropped out of a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead. Their performance went well. It went very well.
Their programme for next week has music by de Falla, the ever-popular solo cello arrangement of Paganini's Caprice (think South Bank Show), and a Shostakovich Cello Sonata. Full details, and video samples on this concert webpage.
These two concerts are participating in the 2017 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival.(LInk to pdf file of the Arts Alive brochure)
Leatherhead's 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout, - we hope wheelchair users will take full advantage of that fact !
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee which usually means there is time for a chat, often with the musicians too.
PARKING: The nearest car parks for Church Road are 1) behind the Parish Church Hall (usually full by mid-morning), 2) the Swan Centre multi-storey and 3) the Church Street/Waitrose car park. Those last two are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC.
At this point we usually take a look around the area to see what other concerts are on offer over the coming week or two. Here's the current list from musicinsurrey.co.uk:
In 2015 Jacqueline met pianist Richard Black, an excellent accompanist indeed, after another pianist dropped out of a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead. Their performance went well. It went very well.
Their programme for next week has music by de Falla, the ever-popular solo cello arrangement of Paganini's Caprice (think South Bank Show), and a Shostakovich Cello Sonata. Full details, and video samples on this concert webpage.
These two concerts are participating in the 2017 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival.(LInk to pdf file of the Arts Alive brochure)
Leatherhead's 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout, - we hope wheelchair users will take full advantage of that fact !
After our concerts we linger over tea and coffee which usually means there is time for a chat, often with the musicians too.
PARKING: The nearest car parks for Church Road are 1) behind the Parish Church Hall (usually full by mid-morning), 2) the Swan Centre multi-storey and 3) the Church Street/Waitrose car park. Those last two are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC.
At this point we usually take a look around the area to see what other concerts are on offer over the coming week or two. Here's the current list from musicinsurrey.co.uk:
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Tuesday 26th September 7.45pm ♦ Chobham Festival ♦ Chobham: St Lawrence Church, GU24 8AA
Schubert & Beethoven by Candlelight Katya Apekisheva, piano • Patrick Savage, violin • Krzysztof Chorzelski, viola • Julia Graham, cello • Stacey Watton, double bass Tickets: £20 / £15 Thursday 28th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ JAZZ on Thursday at LMC The Alice Auer Quartet: Alice Auer, vocals, Ben Wickins, piano, Dan Hemsley, bass, Joe-Neil Solan, drums Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Thursday 28th September 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert ♦ Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Thursday 28th September 7.30pm ♦ National Youth Orchestra Fudraising Concert Members of NYO with the Schola Cantorum of St John's, including works by Beethoven • Mendelssohn • Schubert • Chopin Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions) Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road) Thursday 28th September 7.30pm ♦ Chobham Festival Barbershop Entertainment: Royal Harmonics Tickets: £10 Woking: Recreation Hall, Gordon's School, Bagshot Road, West End, GU24 9PT Friday 29th September 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU Arisa Fujita, violin, Leader David Lopez, violin • Ana Teresa Alves & Francesca Gilbert, viola • Kristiana Ignatjeva, cello Dvorak: String Quintet in Eb major Op 97 ♦ Mendelssohn: String Quintet in Bb major Op 87 Saturday 30th September 7.30pm ♦ Dorking Chamber Orchestra ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church Emily Trubshaw, violin ♦ Peter Allwood, conductor Beethoven: Egmont Overture ♦ Bruch: Violin Concerto ♦ Bizet: Symphony No 1 Tickets: £15/£14 (over 60s £7, students & u16s free) Saturday 30th September 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Woking: St John's Church, Church Road, St John's, GU21 7QN Arisa Fujita, violin, Leader David Lopez, violin • Ana Teresa Alves & Francesca Gilbert, viola • Kristiana Ignatjeva, cello Dvorak: String Quintet in Eb major Op 97 ♦ Mendelssohn: String Quintet in Bb major Op 87 Saturday 30th September 7.45pm ♦ Chobham Festival: Festive Baroque ♦ Chobham: St Lawrence Church, GU24 8AA Helen Barker, oboe • Tim Callahan, violin & director • Festival Orchestra music of Vivaldi ♦ Albinoni ♦ Bach ♦ Handel Tickets: £20 / £15 Saturday 30th September 8pm ♦ Oxshott & Cobham Music Society ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello - winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award 2016 with Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano Cassado: Suite for solo cello ♦ Beethoven: Cello Sonata No 5 Op 102/1 ♦ Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 Tickets: £20 OCTOBER Sunday 1st October 3pm - FRC ♦ Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA Cavaillé-Coll Mutin Organ Neil Wright, Abbey Organist Sunday 1st October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Arisa Fujita, violin, Leader David Lopez, violin • Ana Teresa Alves & Francesca Gilbert, viola • Kristiana Ignatjeva, cello Dvorak: String Quintet in Eb major Op 97 ♦ Mendelssohn: String Quintet in Bb major Op 87 Tuesday 3rd October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Ben Baker, violin ♦ Daniel Lebhardt, piano Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 9 Op 47 ♦ Ysäye: Sonata for solo vioin in A minor ♦ Richard Stauss: Sonata for violin and piano Op 18 Tickets: £25 click dateline Thursday 5th October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Jacqueline Phillips, cello ♦ Richard Black, piano Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 7th October 12 noon - FRC ♦ DCO Wind Quintet: section principals from the Dorking Chamber Orchestra Janina Byrne, flute • Kathy Bucknill, oboe Andrew Meredith, clarinet • Jo James, bassoon • Cathy Jenkins, horn music by: Mozart • Ligeti • Bizet Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW Saturday 7th October 3pm ♦ Come & Sing: Fauré Requiem ♦ West Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY Tickets: £10 (singers) contact [email protected] concert this evening at 7.30pm Saturday 7th October 7.30pm ♦ Beare Green & Newdigate Choral Society ♦ Dorking: St Paul's Church (near Dorking Hospital) Jamie Cordell, conductor Bob Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass • and many fourite items Tickets: click dateline Saturday 7th October 7.30pm ♦ West Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY (SEE ABOVE for a chance to sing !!) Fauré Requiem Tickets: £7 (children £1) Tuesday 10th October 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence Bach • Jongen • Messiaen • Stanford • Ireland • Parry • Francis Jackson • David Johnson Thursday 12 October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Classical Guitar Duo: Francisco Correa & David Massey music by Albéniz ♦ Pernambuco ♦ Sor ♦ Saboya ♦ de Falla Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) |
With plenty of clickable links there I'm sure you will be able to find something, if not several things, to interest you.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening. I hope to see you at this week's JAZZ on Thursday at LMC, or perhaps one of our more usual fare after that !
Enjoy your music-making and -listening. I hope to see you at this week's JAZZ on Thursday at LMC, or perhaps one of our more usual fare after that !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC • musicinsurrey.co.uk
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PS: Just in from Mole Valley is the Arts Alive Launch Video. You may recognise the tiniest of extracts from one of our concerts, just before the end of the video. |
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 18th September 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 18th September 2017
Dear Friends,
We do get to hear some excellent accompanists, pianists who judge the balance with their soloist just right. There was Peter Jaekel with baritone William Robert Allenby, young Oliver Till with oboist Amy Roberts, and last week was the turn of Alice Rosset who most sensitively accompanied flautist and long-standing friend of these concerts, Emily Andrews.
If you missed last week's concert there is still the opportunity to hear the music played by scrolling down to the videos section of their concert webpage.
If you missed last week's concert there is still the opportunity to hear the music played by scrolling down to the videos section of their concert webpage.
This week our concert is at 12.30 lunchtime on Wednesday, at Christ Church where our guest organist for September is Graham Thorpe.
Graham has played the organ at Christ Church a couple of times before, though not in the lunchtime series. He is bringing us a programme that includes Buxtehude, Brahms and Liszt.
A few years ago Graham was Organ Scholar at Guildford Cathedral. Since then he has been Assistant Director of Music at St Michael's Cornhill (near the Bank of England), and Organ Scholar of Kings College London. He is already a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) and has just been appointed to the highly prestigious position of Organ Scholar at Roman Catholic, Brompton Oratory.
Come and hear oneof the best of the next generation of organists, a young man who will soon be occupying a top position in the organ world. Full detail are ready on this concert webpage.
Graham has played the organ at Christ Church a couple of times before, though not in the lunchtime series. He is bringing us a programme that includes Buxtehude, Brahms and Liszt.
A few years ago Graham was Organ Scholar at Guildford Cathedral. Since then he has been Assistant Director of Music at St Michael's Cornhill (near the Bank of England), and Organ Scholar of Kings College London. He is already a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists (FRCO) and has just been appointed to the highly prestigious position of Organ Scholar at Roman Catholic, Brompton Oratory.
Come and hear oneof the best of the next generation of organists, a young man who will soon be occupying a top position in the organ world. Full detail are ready on this concert webpage.
Last year's foray into the world of jazz was very well received, with a couple of people commenting that they were no longer able to get to evening jazz events, so a lunchtime concert was most welcome. So we promised to do it again, which brings us to next week's JAZZ on Thursday at LMC.
The quartet is led by London College of Music graduate Alice Auer, with Dan Hemsley, bass, Ben Wickins, piano and Frenchman Joe-Neil Solan on drums.
The Alice Auer Quartet have their Close to You EP coming out this month, with a launch gig on Saturday. Alice comments: We decided to record 5 tunes as part of the EP including - Close To You (title track), Need To Know, Taking Chances, Never Have, and Disguise. The tunes have merged genres from jazz to neo soul, from funk to pop.
Quite what the quartet are bringing to their Leatherhead concert we are not sure yet. So watch the webpage for more info on next week's JAZZ on Thursday at LMC, at 12.30, on Thursday 28th September.
October will then be upon us, with cellist Jacqueline Phillips on the 5th, our two favourite classical guitarists on the 12th, the excellent Mark Brafield for our organ concert on the 18th, and a string quartet from the Royal Academy of Musicon the 26th.
Every one of these concerts is participating in this year's Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival, along with many other local arts events - Dance, Music of all genres, Drama, Poetry, Painting & Sketching, Comedy, Performance, Literature, Arts, Crafts and Pumpkins. (They said 'pumpkins', it wasn't me.)
Leatherhead's 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, funded by your kind generosity in the basket collection at the door. Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church have level access throughout (including toilets). Doors are open from 12 noon, and afterwards we tend to linger and chat over tea and coffee, often with the musicians too.
The quartet is led by London College of Music graduate Alice Auer, with Dan Hemsley, bass, Ben Wickins, piano and Frenchman Joe-Neil Solan on drums.
The Alice Auer Quartet have their Close to You EP coming out this month, with a launch gig on Saturday. Alice comments: We decided to record 5 tunes as part of the EP including - Close To You (title track), Need To Know, Taking Chances, Never Have, and Disguise. The tunes have merged genres from jazz to neo soul, from funk to pop.
Quite what the quartet are bringing to their Leatherhead concert we are not sure yet. So watch the webpage for more info on next week's JAZZ on Thursday at LMC, at 12.30, on Thursday 28th September.
October will then be upon us, with cellist Jacqueline Phillips on the 5th, our two favourite classical guitarists on the 12th, the excellent Mark Brafield for our organ concert on the 18th, and a string quartet from the Royal Academy of Musicon the 26th.
Every one of these concerts is participating in this year's Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival, along with many other local arts events - Dance, Music of all genres, Drama, Poetry, Painting & Sketching, Comedy, Performance, Literature, Arts, Crafts and Pumpkins. (They said 'pumpkins', it wasn't me.)
Leatherhead's 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, funded by your kind generosity in the basket collection at the door. Leatherhead Methodist Church and Christ Church have level access throughout (including toilets). Doors are open from 12 noon, and afterwards we tend to linger and chat over tea and coffee, often with the musicians too.
For concerts at LMC it is best to park in the Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street car park, allowing 5-7- minutes for the walk to Church Road and LMC. (There's a map on our homepage.)
Christ Church, on Epsom Road, has plenty of on-site parking.
So we are in full swing, while other societies have perhaps just begun the autumn rehearsal schedule. Still, there is plenty more music-making on offer around the area over the next few weeks, starting from tomorrow evening:
Christ Church, on Epsom Road, has plenty of on-site parking.
So we are in full swing, while other societies have perhaps just begun the autumn rehearsal schedule. Still, there is plenty more music-making on offer around the area over the next few weeks, starting from tomorrow evening:
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FRC means Free entry, with a Retiring Collection
Tuesday 19th September 7.30pm - FRC ♦ Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Organ Masterworks: Kaleidoscope I ♦ Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence plays Mathias • Parry • Andriessen • Bonnet • Bach • Duruflé • Farrington • Halley • Dupré Tuesday 19th September 7.45pm ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8ST Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra ♦ Come & Play with the SPO ♦ Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor all instruments welcome, especially strings & brass, playing works for our first concert Tickets: Free - call 01►372•27♥69♦49 to book Wednesday 20th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Wednesdays at Christ Church ♦ Guest organist: Graham Thorpe former Organ Scholar of Guildford Cathedral, newly appointed Organ Scholar, Brompton Oratory with music by Buxtehude, Kolb, Brahms, Karg-Elert, Liszt Friday 22nd September 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Trio Isimsiz • Michael Petrov • Pablo Hernan Benedi • Erdem Misirlioglu Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor Op 1 No 3 ♦ Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 2 C minor Op 66 Tickets: £25 click dateline Saturday 23rd September 4pm ♦ Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN Guest Organist Stephen Disley • sub-organist, Southwark Cathedral plays the 2014 Tickell organ Tickets: click dateline Sunday 24th September 7.30pm ♦ International Organ Series ♦ London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall, SE1 Simon Johnson, Organist of St Paul's Cathedral plays JS Bach, Simon Johnson, César Franck, Jonathan Harvey, and Reubke on the magnificent 7988 pipe organ Tickets: £17.50, (limited concs at £10) Tuesday 26th September 7.45pm ♦ Chobham: St Lawrence Church, GU24 8AA Chobham Festival: Schubert & Beethoven by Candlelight Katya Apekisheva, piano • Patrick Savage, violin • Krzysztof Chorzelski, viola Julia Graham, cello • Stacey Watton, double bass Tickets: £20 / £15 Thursday 28th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ JAZZ on Thursday at LMC The Alice Auer Quartet: Alice Auer, vocals • Ben Wickins, piano • Dan Hemsley, bass • Joe-Neil Solan, drums Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Thursday 28th September 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Pupil Showcase Concert Tickets: £17.50 click dateline Thursday 28th September 7.30pm ♦ National Youth Orchestra Fudraising Concert Members of NYO with the Schola Cantorum of St John's ♦ including works by Beethoven • Mendelssohn • Schubert • Chopin Tickets: £10 (£5 concessions) ♦ Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Rd) Thursday 28th September 7.30pm ♦ Woking: Recreation Hall, Gordon's School, Bagshot Road, West End, GU24 9PT Chobham Festival: Barbershop Entertainment: Royal Harmonics Tickets: £10 Friday 29th September 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU Arisa Fujita, violin, Leader David Lopez, violin • Ana Teresa Alves & Francesca Gilbert, viola • Kristiana Ignatjeva, cello Dvorak: String Quintet in Eb major Op 97 ♦ Mendelssohn: String Quintet in Bb major Op 87 Saturday 30th September 7.30pm ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church ♦ Dorking Chamber Orchestra Emily Trubshaw, violin • Peter Allwood, conductor Beethoven: Egmont Overture ♦ Bruch: Violin Concerto ♦ Bizet: Symphony No 1 Tickets: £15/£14 (over 60s £7, students & u16s free) Saturday 30th September 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Woking: St John's Church, Church Road, St John's, GU21 7QN Arisa Fujita, violin, Leader David Lopez, violin • Ana Teresa Alves & Francesca Gilbert, viola • Kristiana Ignatjeva, cello Dvorak: String Quintet in Eb major Op 97 ♦ Mendelssohn: String Quintet in Bb major Op 87 Saturday 30th September 7.45pm ♦ Chobham: St Lawrence Church, GU24 8AA Chobham Festival: Festive Baroque Helen Barker, oboe • Tim Callahan, violin & director • Festival Orchestra music of Vivaldi ♦ Albinoni ♦ Bach ♦ Handel Tickets: £20 / £15 Saturday 30th September 8pm ♦ Oxshott & Cobham Music Society ♦ Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello • winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award 2016 with Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano Cassado: Suite for solo cello ♦ Beethoven: Cello Sonata No 5 Op 102/1 ♦ Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 Tickets: £20 OCTOBER Sunday 1st October 3pm - FRC ♦ Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA Neil Wright, Abbey Organist plays the Cavaillé-Coll Mutin Organ Sunday 1st October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Arisa Fujita, violin, Leader David Lopez, violin ♦ Ana Teresa Alves & Francesca Gilbert, viola ♦ Kristiana Ignatjeva, cello Dvorak: String Quintet in Eb major Op 97 ♦ Mendelssohn: String Quintet in Bb major Op 87 Tuesday 3rd October 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Ben Baker, violin ♦ Daniel Lebhardt, piano Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 9 Op 47 ♦ Ysäye: Sonata for solo violin in A minor ♦ Richard Stauss: Sonata for violin and piano Op 18 Tickets: £25 click dateline Thursday 5th October 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Jacqueline Phillips, cello ♦ Richard Black, piano Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 7th October 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW DCO Wind Quintet: section principals from the Dorking Chamber Orchestra Janina Byrne, flute • Kathy Bucknill, oboe • Andrew Meredith, clarinet • Jo James, bassoon • Cathy Jenkins, horn music by: Mozart • Ligeti • Bizet Saturday 7th October 3pm ♦ West Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY Come & Sing: Fauré Requiem (concert this evening at 7.30pm) Tickets: £10 (singers) contact [email protected] Saturday 7th October 7.30pm ♦ Dorking: St Paul's Church (near Dorking Hospital) Beare Green & Newdigate Choral Society ♦ Jamie Cordell, conductor Bob Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass • and many fourite items Tickets: click dateline Saturday 7th October 7.30pm ♦ West Ewell: St Mary's Church, London Road, KT17 2AY Fauré Requiem Tickets: £7 (children £1) |
With concerts in the Chobham Festival, and an extra concert from MAIASTRA, there is more on offer than usual in the Woking area.
I hope you enjoy your selection of the concerts and other events above, and I look forwad to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead very soon.
I hope you enjoy your selection of the concerts and other events above, and I look forwad to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead very soon.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 11th September 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 11th September 2017
Dear Friends,
Last Thursday's opera and song concert by William Robert Allenby was a tremendous success. That's just as well because the audience included his Mum. Showing off to our Mum's is often where performance begins. I'm only sorry that the repairs to Leatherhead's wonderful by-pass prevented some of you from reaching LMC that day. Watch out for our next opera-based concert on November 2nd.
The next ten lunchtime concerts - 7 at LMC, 3 at Christ Church - are participating in this year's Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival. Please click on the logo for details of more Festival events.
This Thursday we welcome back two friends of the lunchtime concerts, flautist and soprano Emily Andrews, with French pianist Alice Rosset. The duo have been working together for the past six weeks or so. Ours is the final concert in their series this year, across both countries.
This Thursday we welcome back two friends of the lunchtime concerts, flautist and soprano Emily Andrews, with French pianist Alice Rosset. The duo have been working together for the past six weeks or so. Ours is the final concert in their series this year, across both countries.
How lovely it must be to play music under a tree!
Emily and Alice's concert for us at 12.30pm this Thursday, 14th September, includes music by Bach, Caplet, and Borne, with Emily offering two arias from Bizet's Carmen, and Alice playing two Chopin works - last year's audience asked that she play more piano solos on her next visit.
You will find full details on this concert webpage.
Next week's concert is at Christ Church, Epsom Road, at 12.30 lunchtime on Wednesday 20th September.
Guest organist this month is a young local player who is clearly headed for great things. I first came across Graham Thorpe as Organ Scholar at Guildford Cathedral. I ran into him at last year's live BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Choral Evensong from St John's School Chapel and asked whether he would like to play for us.
Graham has just gained the prestigious post of Pettman Organ Scholar at Brompton Oratory (or the London Oratory, Brompton).
With a programme of music by Buxtehude, Kolb, Brahms, Karg-Elert and Liszt this primises to be an intersting concert, by one of London's top young organists. Full details of Graham Thorpe's programme are on this concert webpage - together with recordings of the works he will be performing.
Emily and Alice's concert for us at 12.30pm this Thursday, 14th September, includes music by Bach, Caplet, and Borne, with Emily offering two arias from Bizet's Carmen, and Alice playing two Chopin works - last year's audience asked that she play more piano solos on her next visit.
You will find full details on this concert webpage.
Next week's concert is at Christ Church, Epsom Road, at 12.30 lunchtime on Wednesday 20th September.
Guest organist this month is a young local player who is clearly headed for great things. I first came across Graham Thorpe as Organ Scholar at Guildford Cathedral. I ran into him at last year's live BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Choral Evensong from St John's School Chapel and asked whether he would like to play for us.
Graham has just gained the prestigious post of Pettman Organ Scholar at Brompton Oratory (or the London Oratory, Brompton).
With a programme of music by Buxtehude, Kolb, Brahms, Karg-Elert and Liszt this primises to be an intersting concert, by one of London's top young organists. Full details of Graham Thorpe's programme are on this concert webpage - together with recordings of the works he will be performing.
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The following week we will be back at LMC for the third of our Arts Alive concerts, the annual Jazz on Thursday, which will be at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday, 28th September.
The Alice Auer Quartet, led by London College of Music graduate Alice Auer, will be with us. Details of their concert will appear on this concert webpage as they come in. |
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Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts are free to enter, and are funded by your contribution in the retiring collection. £5-£7 is generally considered the appropriate donation, although sometimes you will appreciate that a concert costs rather more to put on - by the number or the quality of the performers.
Both churches - LMC and Christ Church have level access throughout, including facilities.
Tea and coffee are available after our concerts, making time to linger and chat together and often with the musicians too. The warmth of hospitality and of the Leatherhead audience's feedback is an aspect players frequently remark upon, and has been key to developing our relationship with the London College of Music.
You will find details of both venues on our Homepage.
More Leatherhead news. . .
Leatherhead's 1,000-year old parish church is about to undertake a major project to both present its historic assets in a more accessible form and make the building more accessible and so fit for modern worship and community activities. That means changes to the flooring, heating, lighting, chairs, plus the addition of a small kitchen and some loos (at the moment people have to cross the road to use the toilets in the Church Hall - not so good when your child's need is urgent, or you are making the journey with a walking frame!)
Music on Thursdays was founded in the Parish Church some six years ago. Here's the opportunity to help fit the Church for a broad range of future events. You will find fuller details of the project here.
And here's news of more music-making this month:
Both churches - LMC and Christ Church have level access throughout, including facilities.
Tea and coffee are available after our concerts, making time to linger and chat together and often with the musicians too. The warmth of hospitality and of the Leatherhead audience's feedback is an aspect players frequently remark upon, and has been key to developing our relationship with the London College of Music.
You will find details of both venues on our Homepage.
More Leatherhead news. . .
Leatherhead's 1,000-year old parish church is about to undertake a major project to both present its historic assets in a more accessible form and make the building more accessible and so fit for modern worship and community activities. That means changes to the flooring, heating, lighting, chairs, plus the addition of a small kitchen and some loos (at the moment people have to cross the road to use the toilets in the Church Hall - not so good when your child's need is urgent, or you are making the journey with a walking frame!)
Music on Thursdays was founded in the Parish Church some six years ago. Here's the opportunity to help fit the Church for a broad range of future events. You will find fuller details of the project here.
And here's news of more music-making this month:
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Friday 15th September **7pm ♦ Tickell Organ Recital
Leatherhead: School Chapel, Main Quad, St John's School, Epsom Road (car park in Garlands Road) James O'Donnell, Organist & Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey Tickets: £15 (£12 concessions) Tuesday 19th September 7.45pm ♦ Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road, KT22 8ST Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra ♦ Come & Play with the SPO ♦ Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor all instruments welcome, especially strings & brass, playing works for our first concert Tickets: Free - call 01►372•27♥69♦49 to book Wednesday 20th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: Graham Thorpe ♦ Pettman Organ Scholar, Brompton Oratory; former Organ Scholar of Guildford Cathedral music by Buxtehude, Kolb, Brahms, Karg-Elert, Liszt Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road (parking on-site) Friday 22nd September 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Trio Isimsiz: Michael Petrov • Pablo Hernan Benedi • Erdem Misirlioglu Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor Op 1 No 3 Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 2 C minor Op 66 Tickets: £25 click dateline Saturday 23rd September 4pm ♦ Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN Organist Stephen Disley - sub-organist, Southwark Cathedral plays the 2014 Tickell organ Tickets: click dateline Sunday 24th September 7.30pm ♦ International Organ Series ♦ London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall, SE1 Simon Johnson, Organist of St Paul's Cathedral plays JS Bach, Simon Johnson, César Franck, Jonathan Harvey, and Reubke, on the magnificent 7988 pipe organ Tickets: £17.50, (limited concs at £10) Thursday 28th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ JAZZ on Thursday at LMC The Alice Auer Quartet: Alice Auer, vocals ♦ Ben Wickins, piano ♦ Dan Hemsley, bass ♦ Joe-Neil Solan, drums Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Friday 29th September 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW9 0DU and Saturday 30th September 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Woking: St John's Church, Church Road, St John's, GU21 7QN and also Sunday 1st October 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Arisa Fujita, violin, Leader David Lopez, violin ♦ Ana Teresa Alves & Francesca Gilbert, viola ♦ Kristiana Ignatjeva, cello Dvorak: String Quintet in Eb major Op 97 ♦ Mendelssohn: String Quintet in Bb major Op 87 Saturday 30th September 7.30pm ♦ Dorking Chamber Orchestra ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church Emily Trubshaw, violin ♦ Peter Allwood, conductor Beethoven: Egmont Overture ♦ Bruch: Violin Concerto ♦ Bizet: Symphony No 1 Tickets: £15/£14 (over 60s £7, students & u16s free) Saturday 30th September 8pm ♦ Oxshott & Cobham Music Society ♦ Claygate: Joly Trinity Church, KT10 0JP Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello - winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award 2016 with Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano Cassado: Suite for solo cello ♦ Beethoven: Cello Sonata No 5 Op 102/1 ♦ Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 Tickets: £20 Sunday 1st October 3pm - FRC ♦ Cavaillé-Coll Mutin Organ Neil Wright, Abbey Organist Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA |
I apologise if you feel there is too much in these newsletters. I always hope that there is enough choice so that everyone will find at least one musical outing that appeals.
Enjoy your selection of the month's remaining offerings.
Enjoy your selection of the month's remaining offerings.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 3rd September 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 3rd September 2017
Dear Friends,
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The character on the left here is Pish Tush, as portrayed by this week's guest artiste, William Robert Allenby, in a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado for English National Opera at the London Coliseum. We don't often find such proof of a performer's credentials. But if you want more, here's what Jeffrey Mayhew said on thepublicreviews: Pish Tush's quintessentially Ealing vicar is an inspired piece of characterisation sung with delicacy and refinement by William Robert Allenby.
William is also Voice Professor at the London College of Music, which is how we came to know him. He accompanied the group of students who gave us a performance of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, our first concert of the year. Although he is an excellent accompanist, we don't actually expect William to accompany himself. For this he is bringing LCM colleague Emanuele Mollica. Their programme for Thursday's 12.30 concert is full of opera and song from across the 17th to the 20th centuries, including Schubert, Tosca, Benjamin Britten, and a G&S patter song from Iolanthe. We don't hear many male singers, and certainly none with such a wealth of experience of performance, and of preparing the next generation of performers. Come along to Leatherhead Methodist Church this Thursday and enjoy William Robert Allenby's My World of Opera and Song. |
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Our concert at LMC next week, at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 14th September, brings together two friends of Music on Thursdays, flautist and soprano Emily Andrews and French accompanist Alice Rosset.
They have been working together for a few weeks this summer and our lunchtime concert is the last of the English part of their co-operation for this year. You will hear music by Bach, Chopin, Bizet (two songs from Carmen), Caplet and Borne. |
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This is also the first of our 10 lunchtime concerts in this year's Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival.
Music on Thursdays at LMC are a series of free concerts, funded by a retiring collection (there's a basket by the door). LMC has level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come along. Tea and coffee are available after the concerts which makes for a pleasant social time chatting together and with the musicians.
Still to come this month are the organ concert at Christ Church, Epsom Road, on Wednesday 20th, with guest organist Graham Thorpe. Graham was organ scholar of Guildford Cathedral and is just beginning a stint as organ scholar at London's prestigious Brompton Oratory.
Then on Thursday 28th we will be at LMC again for this year's JAZZ on Thursday concert - of which more in future newsletters.
That's what we have on offer. Let's see what else is coming in our part of Surrey this month, starting with more good news for opera lovers:
Music on Thursdays at LMC are a series of free concerts, funded by a retiring collection (there's a basket by the door). LMC has level access throughout so we positively encourage wheelchair users to come along. Tea and coffee are available after the concerts which makes for a pleasant social time chatting together and with the musicians.
Still to come this month are the organ concert at Christ Church, Epsom Road, on Wednesday 20th, with guest organist Graham Thorpe. Graham was organ scholar of Guildford Cathedral and is just beginning a stint as organ scholar at London's prestigious Brompton Oratory.
Then on Thursday 28th we will be at LMC again for this year's JAZZ on Thursday concert - of which more in future newsletters.
That's what we have on offer. Let's see what else is coming in our part of Surrey this month, starting with more good news for opera lovers:
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Saturday September 9th **4pm
and Sunday September 10th **4pm Woodhouse Opera presents,fully staged, with Ensemble OrQuesta Gaetano Dinizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore Tickets: £30 (£20 student) ♦ Holmbury St Mary: Woodhouse Cospe, RH5 6NL Saturday 9th September **7pm ♦ Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD Bramley Music Concert Series ♦ 2017 Celebrity Concert The Trumpet Shall Sound ! - with Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet Handel, Stradella, Haydn, Mozart, Bernstein, Bacharach and Glenn Miller Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) Thursday 14th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Emily Andrews, flute (& soprano) with French pianist Alice Rosset Bach ♦ Chopin ♦ Bizet (2 songs from Carmen) ♦ Caplet ♦ Borne Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Friday 15th September **7pm ♦ Leatherhead: School Chapel, Main Quad, St John's School, Epsom Road Tickell Organ Recital ♦ James O'Donnell, Organist & Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey Tickets: £15 (£12 concessions) Tuesday 19th September 7.45pm ♦ Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra Come & Play with the SPO ♦ Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor all instruments welcome, especially strings & brass, playing works for our first concert Tickets: Free - call 01►372•27♥69♦49 to book Wednesday 20th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: Graham Thorpe, Organ Scholar, Brompton Oratory, recently Asst Director of Music, St Michael's Cornhill, City of London; Organ Scholar, Kings College, University of London, and student of the Royal Academy of Music, former Organ Scholar of Guildford Cathedral ♦ music by Buxtehude, Kolb, Brahms, Karg-Elert, Liszt Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Friday 22nd September 7.30pm ♦ Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road Trio Isimsiz: Michael Petrov • Pablo Hernan Benedi • Erdem Misirlioglu Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor Op 1 No 3 ♥ Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 2 C minor Op 66 Tickets: £25 click dateline Saturday 23rd September 4pm ♦ Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN Organist Stephen Disley, sub-organist, Southwark Cathedral, plays the 2014 Tickell organ Tickets: click dateline Sunday 24th September 7.30pm ♦ London Waterloo: Royal Festival Hall, SE1 International Organ Series Simon Johnson, Organist of St Paul's Cathedral plays JS Bach, Simon Johnson, César Franck, Jonathan Harvey, and Reubke, on the magnificent 7988 pipe organ Tickets: £17.50, (limited concs at £10) Thursday 28th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ JAZZ on Thursday at LMC The Alice Auer Quartet: Alice Auer, vocals ♦ Ben Wickins, piano ♦ Dan Hemsley, bass ♦ Joe-Neil Solan, drums graduates of the London College of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 30th September 7.30pm ♦ Dorking Chamber Orchestra Emily Trubshaw, violin ♦ Peter Allwood, conductor Beethoven: Egmont Overture ♦ Bruch: Violin Concerto ♦ Bizet: Symphony No 1 Tickets: £15/£14 (over 60s £7, students & u16s free) Saturday 30th September 8pm ♦ Oxshott & Cobham Music Society Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello - winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Award 2016 with Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano Cassado: Suite for solo cello ♦ Beethoven: Cello Sonata No 5 Op 102/1 ♦ Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor Op 40 Tickets: £20 |
I hope you will be able to make the most of this year's Arts Alive Festival, and I look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead too.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 28th August 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 28th August 2017
Dear Friends,
This week we are back in our chamber music home, at Leatherhead Methodist Church. Our concert this Thursday lunchtime is titled From Bach to Jazz.
Pianist Daniel Nicholson will lead us on a journey of musical development that crosses the centuries. His programme does indeed begin with JS Bach, and he will progress through Chopin and Ravel to Gershwin, Earl Wild, Kapustin, and finishing at the great musical duo of Rodgers & Hammerstein.
Daniel is a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and he has been performing and teaching piano in the London area for some time. He has recently returned to Cardiff to open up new teaching opportunities there.
You will find Daniel's biography, his full programme and video samples of the music, all on this concert webpage. And the concert takes place this Thursday, 31st August, at 12.30 lunchtime, in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Pianist Daniel Nicholson will lead us on a journey of musical development that crosses the centuries. His programme does indeed begin with JS Bach, and he will progress through Chopin and Ravel to Gershwin, Earl Wild, Kapustin, and finishing at the great musical duo of Rodgers & Hammerstein.
Daniel is a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and he has been performing and teaching piano in the London area for some time. He has recently returned to Cardiff to open up new teaching opportunities there.
You will find Daniel's biography, his full programme and video samples of the music, all on this concert webpage. And the concert takes place this Thursday, 31st August, at 12.30 lunchtime, in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Looking ahead to next week, our guest artistes are two key members of the London College of Music. Emanuele Mollica is an accompanist and Musical Director at the LCM, where William Robert Allenby is Professor of Voice, And what better tutor could one have than a regular soloist with the Welsh and English National Opera companies, and Covent Garden itself.
William's concert carries the title 'My World of Opera and Song' and his programme fully lives up to that.
We have met William before. He performed in our very first venture with the London College of Music, the opening concert of this year's season, when he accompanied a student group in excerpts from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
September 7th's My World of Opera & Song has its concert webpage here.
All our 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection (a basket near the door), to cover costs. LMC, in Church Road, Leatherhead, has level access throughout. We linger and chat over tea and coffee after the concerts.
Parking: please use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car parks for concert at LMC.
Still to come next month are flautist and soprano Emily Andrews and French pianist Alice Rosset on the 14th, former Guildford Cathedral organ scholar (now at Brompton Oratory) Graham Thorpe at Christ Church on Wednesday 20th, and our annual JAZZ on Thursday concert at LMC on the 28th with the Alice Auer Quartet. Some great concerts on the way then and the last three of them are part of this year's Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival.
Time then to look around at what musical events others are arranging in the coming couple of weeks:
William's concert carries the title 'My World of Opera and Song' and his programme fully lives up to that.
We have met William before. He performed in our very first venture with the London College of Music, the opening concert of this year's season, when he accompanied a student group in excerpts from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
September 7th's My World of Opera & Song has its concert webpage here.
All our 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection (a basket near the door), to cover costs. LMC, in Church Road, Leatherhead, has level access throughout. We linger and chat over tea and coffee after the concerts.
Parking: please use the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church Street/Waitrose car parks for concert at LMC.
Still to come next month are flautist and soprano Emily Andrews and French pianist Alice Rosset on the 14th, former Guildford Cathedral organ scholar (now at Brompton Oratory) Graham Thorpe at Christ Church on Wednesday 20th, and our annual JAZZ on Thursday concert at LMC on the 28th with the Alice Auer Quartet. Some great concerts on the way then and the last three of them are part of this year's Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival.
Time then to look around at what musical events others are arranging in the coming couple of weeks:
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Saturday 2nd September 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Dorking Flutes - with Fiona Harrison, guitar music by Bach, Shotstakovish, Sant-Saens, Grieg, and guitar works by Villa Lobos, Roland Dyens, Albeniz Sunday 3rd September 3pm - FRC ♦ Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey. 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA Cavaillé-Coll Mutin Organ David Dunnett, Norwich Cathedral Thursday 7th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC ♦ My World of Opera & Song William Robert Allenby, bass-baritone, soloist with ENO, WNO, Covent Garden Emanuele Mollica, piano, Accompanist & MD, London College of Music music of Caldara, Durante, Giordano, Schubert, Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Warlock, Mozart, Puccini, Britten, Sullivan Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday September 9th **4pm ♦ Holmbury St Mary: Woodhouse Cospe, RH5 6NL Woodhouse Opera presents,fully staged, with Ensemble OrQuesta Gaetano Dinizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore Tickets: £30 (£20 student) Saturday 9th September **7pm ♦ Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD Bramley Music Concert Series ♦ 2017 Celebrity Concert ♦ The Trumpet Shall Sound ! Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet Handel, Stradella, Haydn, Mozart, Bernstein, Bacharach and Glenn Miller Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) Sunday September 10th **4pm ♦ Holmbury St Mary: Woodhouse Cospe, RH5 6NL Woodhouse Opera presents, fully staged, with Ensemble OrQuesta Gaetano Dinizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore Tickets: £30 (£20 student) Thursday 14th Sept 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Emily Andrews, flute (& soprano), with French pianist Alice Rosset Bach ♦ Chopin ♦ Bizet (2 songs from Carmen) ♦ Caplet ♦ Borne Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Friday 15th September **7pm ♦ Leatherhead: School Chapel, Main Quad, St John's School, Epsom Road Tickell Organ Recital James O'Donnell, Organist & Master of the Choristers, Westminster Abbey Tickets: £15 (£12 concessions) (car park in Garlands Road) |
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Before I close this week, I would like to thank audience members, stewards, and Trustees for supporting our three magnificent lunchtime concerts in the chapels of St John's School. We have this annual opportunity to bring performers into very different spaces and all are agreed that organist Carl Jackson, the three ladies of Barooque trio IMPROVISO, and the three gentlemen of Buck Brass Trio, every one of them rose to the occasion.
I would like to thank the School too for their kind support of these concerts, and of course for permission to use the lovely chapels. We hope to return next year and already have two of the concert dates fixed in performers' diaries! You have to move fast if you want the best people (which we do) !
If you haven't tried our lunchtime concerts yet, why not make this Autumn the season to come along. You will find a full listing of events from now until the end of November on the Diary Page. Something is bound to take your fancy !
Enjoy your music-making and -listening and, please, let us be your hosts for at least some of it.
I would like to thank the School too for their kind support of these concerts, and of course for permission to use the lovely chapels. We hope to return next year and already have two of the concert dates fixed in performers' diaries! You have to move fast if you want the best people (which we do) !
If you haven't tried our lunchtime concerts yet, why not make this Autumn the season to come along. You will find a full listing of events from now until the end of November on the Diary Page. Something is bound to take your fancy !
Enjoy your music-making and -listening and, please, let us be your hosts for at least some of it.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Monday, 21st August 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 21st August 2017
Dear Friends,
Last week's two lunchtime concerts at St John's School proved very successful. On Wednesday 49 of us heard a superb concert by organist Carl Jackson who introduced us to less well-known composers and to less-well known parts of the repertoire of Bach, Purcell and Liszt. And then on Thursday there were 73 of us in the Old Chapel for IMPROVISO's Baroque concert which at times received almost thunderous applause.
While we were at St John's, local children were enjoying Space Academy at Christ Church, in fact that's the reason we were not in our usual churches !
While we were at St John's, local children were enjoying Space Academy at Christ Church, in fact that's the reason we were not in our usual churches !
We shall stay on at St John's for a further week, inviting our friends the Buck Brass Trio to perform in the School's Old Chapel this Thursday lunchtime.
Buck Brass Trio is led by trombonist Richard Buck who has chosen three items to play on Thursday. They are works by Mozart, Anthony Plog and Beethoven. Also in the trio are Daniel Walton, trumpet and Timothy Ellis, horn. Richard and Timothy are both organists and all three are graduates of the Royal Academy of Music.
Full details of Thursday 24th August's 12.30 concert in the Old Chapel at St John's School, together with a map of the area showing the car park in Garlands Road, are ready on this concert webpage.
Next week we will be back home at Leatherhead Methodist Church for our 12.30 lunchtime concert on Thursday August 31st.
Buck Brass Trio is led by trombonist Richard Buck who has chosen three items to play on Thursday. They are works by Mozart, Anthony Plog and Beethoven. Also in the trio are Daniel Walton, trumpet and Timothy Ellis, horn. Richard and Timothy are both organists and all three are graduates of the Royal Academy of Music.
Full details of Thursday 24th August's 12.30 concert in the Old Chapel at St John's School, together with a map of the area showing the car park in Garlands Road, are ready on this concert webpage.
Next week we will be back home at Leatherhead Methodist Church for our 12.30 lunchtime concert on Thursday August 31st.
Pianist Daniel Nicholson, a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, is coming to us from Cardiff with a concert entitled From Bach to Jazz.
Daniel's meander through the years will take in JS Bach, Chopin, Ravel, Gershwin, and on through the 20th century to Rodgers & Hammerstein and his own arrangement of My Favourite Things from everybody's favourite Christmas musical The Sound of Music.
From Bach to Jazz in the final week of August prepares us, perhaps, for our annual foray into jazz at the end of September. The Alice Auer Quartet will be with us on Thursday 28th September. Meanwhile, for more details of Daniel Nicholson's concert on Thursday 31st August please take a look at the concert webpage.
And then we are into September which opens with operatic bass-baritone William Robert Allenby's concert My World of Opera & Song on Thursday the 7th, continues with flautist Emily Andrews and her French accompanist Alice Rosset on the 14th, then we welcome for the first time the young organist Graham Thorpe on Wednesday the 20th, and after that it's JAZZ on Thursday - the 28th.
But, let's take a look at what other local music-makers are up to over the coming couple of weeks:
Daniel's meander through the years will take in JS Bach, Chopin, Ravel, Gershwin, and on through the 20th century to Rodgers & Hammerstein and his own arrangement of My Favourite Things from everybody's favourite Christmas musical The Sound of Music.
From Bach to Jazz in the final week of August prepares us, perhaps, for our annual foray into jazz at the end of September. The Alice Auer Quartet will be with us on Thursday 28th September. Meanwhile, for more details of Daniel Nicholson's concert on Thursday 31st August please take a look at the concert webpage.
And then we are into September which opens with operatic bass-baritone William Robert Allenby's concert My World of Opera & Song on Thursday the 7th, continues with flautist Emily Andrews and her French accompanist Alice Rosset on the 14th, then we welcome for the first time the young organist Graham Thorpe on Wednesday the 20th, and after that it's JAZZ on Thursday - the 28th.
But, let's take a look at what other local music-makers are up to over the coming couple of weeks:
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Thursday 24th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ
Elvina Auh, violin ♦ Damir Durmanovic, piano (recent students of the Yehudi Menuhin School) music by Bach ♦ Mozart ♦ Liszt ♦ Paganini ♦ Prokofiev Saturday 26th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Kew: St Anne's Church, Kew Green, TW9 3AA and Sunday 27th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street KT11 3EJ Arisa Fujita, violin ♦ Tim Crawford, violin ♦ Alinka Rowe, viola ♦ Deni Teo, cello
Dorking Flutes, with Fiona Harrison, guitar music by Bach, Shotstakovish, Sant-Saens, Grieg guitar works by Villa Lobos, Roland Dyens, Albeniz Sunday 3rd September 3pm - FRC ♦ Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey. 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA Cavaillé-Coll Mutin Organ Guset organist: David Dunnett, Norwich Cathedral Saturday 9th September **7pm ♦ Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD Bramley Music Concert Series ♦ 2017 Celebrity Concert The Trumpet Shall Sound ! with Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet Handel, Stradella, Haydn, Mozart, Bernstein, Bacharach and Glenn Miller Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) |
Once we are into mid-September the music diary will soon fill up again, and we'll be back to making difficult choices for our weekend listening, plus, of course, Mole Valley's Arts Alive Festival will be coming soon too.
Do come along to one of the lunchtime concerts this month. What will it be ? A little brass ? That Bach to Jazz journey ? Or perhaps both !
I hope you enjoy your choices of music-making and -listening over these next few weeks !
Do come along to one of the lunchtime concerts this month. What will it be ? A little brass ? That Bach to Jazz journey ? Or perhaps both !
I hope you enjoy your choices of music-making and -listening over these next few weeks !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Sunday, 14th August 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 14th August 2017
Dear Friends,
Carl Jackson MVO, organ, Wednesday, 12.30, School Chapel on Main Quad, St John's School, Epsom Rd
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I have cheekily interposed myself between some superbly talented musicians this week. It's just a further reminder that this week we have two concerts, in the chapels of St John's School !
Carl Jackson I have known since our late teens when I was an Alto Choral Scholar at Hampton Court Palace, and Carl was Organ Scholar. All these years later Carl is again at the Chapel Royal, as Director of Music, a post he has held for almost two decades, alongside teaching posts at Kingston Grammar School, and now Kings College School. |
IMPROVISO: Baroque concert, Thursday, 12.30, Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, Leatherhead
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Carl's programme for Wednesday lunchtime opens with Bach and Purcell, Liszt, Marcel Dupré, and William Mathias follow, and the final two works are by Mons Leidvin Takle and the Nigerian composer Fela Sowande.
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You will find more of Carl's biography, his programme for Wednesday lunchtime, and recordings of some of the works he will be playing on this concert webpage.
The webpage also includes our adaption of the School's colourful map showing the two chapels and the car park on Garlands Road.
The webpage also includes our adaption of the School's colourful map showing the two chapels and the car park on Garlands Road.
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We next turn to Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert, in the School's Old Chapel.
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Recorders are in the hands of Fatima Lahham, an authority on the instrument who has completed a great deal of research as well as writing and presenting papers and, of course, recording too.
All three performers are graduates of the Royal College of Music and IMPROVISO are selected artistes for this Autumn's Brighton Early Music Festival.
IMPROVISO have put together a programme of music by Vivaldi, CPE Bach, Corelli, and Karl Abel. The simple shape of St John's Old Chapel, similar to that of a medieval 'hall', and unencumbered by pillars, seems appropriate for this style of music.
On the concert webpage you will find more information about IMPROVISO and its members, as well as video performances of the music, and three extra (short) videos of IMPROVISO themselves.
So that's our second concert next week, in the Old Chapel of St John's School, at 12.30 on Thursday 17th August. With full details on this concert webpage.
We shall remain at the Old Chapel for a further week. This will give our friends the Buck Brass Trio the opportunity to fill the Chapel with their music.
For their concert at 12.30 on the following Thursday, August 24th, the trio will play music by Mozart, Anthony Plog, and Beethoven. Programme details and recordings are ready on this concert webpage.
At the end of the month, our concert in Bank Holiday Week sees Music on Thursdays returning to Leatherhead Methodist Church for a concert at 12.30 on August 31st, entitled: From Bach to Jazz. Pianist Daniel Nicholson takes us on a journey, in preparation for our annual JAZZ on Thursday concert on September 28th.
Also ready for you to peruse is William Robert Allenby's selection of songs and arias for: My World of Opera and Song, on 7th September.
Each of these concerts, at St John's and at LMC, is free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. All three venues have level access throughout.
PARKING: Please see the maps on the St John's pages which show the location of the St John's car park on Garlands Road. You can then walk onto the site through the Performing Arts Centre gates and out onto Main Quad, or by coming along Garlands Road and turning right into Epsom Road.
Here are some more local concerts in the coming weeks:
All three performers are graduates of the Royal College of Music and IMPROVISO are selected artistes for this Autumn's Brighton Early Music Festival.
IMPROVISO have put together a programme of music by Vivaldi, CPE Bach, Corelli, and Karl Abel. The simple shape of St John's Old Chapel, similar to that of a medieval 'hall', and unencumbered by pillars, seems appropriate for this style of music.
On the concert webpage you will find more information about IMPROVISO and its members, as well as video performances of the music, and three extra (short) videos of IMPROVISO themselves.
So that's our second concert next week, in the Old Chapel of St John's School, at 12.30 on Thursday 17th August. With full details on this concert webpage.
We shall remain at the Old Chapel for a further week. This will give our friends the Buck Brass Trio the opportunity to fill the Chapel with their music.
For their concert at 12.30 on the following Thursday, August 24th, the trio will play music by Mozart, Anthony Plog, and Beethoven. Programme details and recordings are ready on this concert webpage.
At the end of the month, our concert in Bank Holiday Week sees Music on Thursdays returning to Leatherhead Methodist Church for a concert at 12.30 on August 31st, entitled: From Bach to Jazz. Pianist Daniel Nicholson takes us on a journey, in preparation for our annual JAZZ on Thursday concert on September 28th.
Also ready for you to peruse is William Robert Allenby's selection of songs and arias for: My World of Opera and Song, on 7th September.
Each of these concerts, at St John's and at LMC, is free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. All three venues have level access throughout.
PARKING: Please see the maps on the St John's pages which show the location of the St John's car park on Garlands Road. You can then walk onto the site through the Performing Arts Centre gates and out onto Main Quad, or by coming along Garlands Road and turning right into Epsom Road.
Here are some more local concerts in the coming weeks:
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Thursday 17th August 12noon - FRC
William Bass, cello, with piano accompanist Masahiro Yamaguchi Dorking: St Martin's Church, off High Street Saturday 26th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Kew: St Anne's Church, Kew Green, TW9 3AA and also Sunday 27th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street KT11 3EJ Arisa Fujita, violin ♦ Tim Crawford, violin ♦ Alinka Rowe, viola ♦ Deni Teo, cello Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 ♦ Webern Rondo for String Quartet (1906) Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 51 No 2 Saturday 2nd September 12 noon - FRC ♦ Dorking Flutes, with Fiona Harrison, guitar music by Bach, Shotstakovish, Sant-Saens, Grieg guitar works by Villa Lobos, Roland Dyens, Albeniz Sunday 3rd September 3pm - FRC ♦ Cavaillé-Coll Mutin Organ David Dunnett, Norwich Cathedral Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey. 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA |
Those two concerts in the first weekend of September are a sign of things getting back to normal ! If you would like to start to plan your Autumn listening, then do take a look at our diary website: musicinsurrey.co.uk
Meanwhile, I hope to be able to welcome you to one or more of our concerts in the chapels of St John's School. Enjoy these few summery days!
Meanwhile, I hope to be able to welcome you to one or more of our concerts in the chapels of St John's School. Enjoy these few summery days!
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
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Monday, 7th August 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 7th August 2017
Dear Friends,
For the organ fans - which I know isn't everyone - I have written a postscript beneath this newsletter with videos of some of the music I heard Florence Rousseau and Loïc Georgeault perform yesterday.
Our next Music on Thursdays concert is at 12.30 this Thursday, 10th August, in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Our guests this week are oboist Amy Roberts and pianist Oliver Till. They open their concert with Bach, famously arranged for oboe and piano by André Papillon, continue with Saint-Saëns D major Sonata for Oboe and Piano, a solo oboe work by Silvestrini, and their concert closes with a new work, the world premiere here at Leatherhead, for Hamish Brown's Our Love is Here to Stay.
Full information for the oboe & piano concert on Thursday 10th August is on this concert webpage.
Next week we have TWO concerts in the chapels of St John's School, on Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
On Wednesday 16th at 12.30 we are in the newer School Chapel, on Main Quad, where we will hear a concert by organist Carl Jackson, Director of Music at HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace.
Our next Music on Thursdays concert is at 12.30 this Thursday, 10th August, in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Our guests this week are oboist Amy Roberts and pianist Oliver Till. They open their concert with Bach, famously arranged for oboe and piano by André Papillon, continue with Saint-Saëns D major Sonata for Oboe and Piano, a solo oboe work by Silvestrini, and their concert closes with a new work, the world premiere here at Leatherhead, for Hamish Brown's Our Love is Here to Stay.
Full information for the oboe & piano concert on Thursday 10th August is on this concert webpage.
Next week we have TWO concerts in the chapels of St John's School, on Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
On Wednesday 16th at 12.30 we are in the newer School Chapel, on Main Quad, where we will hear a concert by organist Carl Jackson, Director of Music at HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace.
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Carl's programme opens with JS Bach and Purcell, then we hear Liszt and Marcel Dupré, William Mathias, Mons Leidvin Takle, and the Nigerian composer Fela Sowande. The magnificent 2015 Tickell organ has the strength to support 800 pupils singing hymns at morning worship. We heard our two French cathedral organists last August, and we can certainly look forward to another interesting, professional performance from Carl Jackson next Wednesday.
Full details of Carl Jackson's Wednesday concert next week are on this concert webpage.
The following day we move to the Old Chapel for a concert by IMPROVISO Baroque trio.
Full details of Carl Jackson's Wednesday concert next week are on this concert webpage.
The following day we move to the Old Chapel for a concert by IMPROVISO Baroque trio.
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Recorders, Baroque violin, and Baroque cello make up IMPROVISO who have been selected for this year's Brighton Early Music Festival. We are ahead of the game here because we had invited an ensemble from last year's Festival. They were so good they were picked up by Antwerp Early Music Festival, so they in turn recommended IMPROVISO.
Their concert at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday next week, 17th August, includes music by Vivaldi, CPE Bach, Corelli and KF Abel. As usual, you will find full concert details on this concert webpage.
We shall stay another week at St John's Old Chapel, with a Buck Brass Trio concert on Thursday 24th August.
After that we return to Leatherhead Methodist Church on Thursday 31st August for a piano concert entitled From Bach to Jazz - a pre-cursor to our end of September JAZZ on Thursday concert.
Every one of these concerts is free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. All three venues have level access throughout, and at LMC there will be tea and coffee ready after the concerts.
Parking for St John's is in Garlands Road, while for LMC it is best to park in the Swan Centre or Church Street car parks. Please allow for 5-7 minutes walk from car park to church or chapel.
And what else is on offer locally this month ?
Thursday 17th August 12noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, off High Street
William Bass, cello, with piano accompanist Masahiro Yamaguchi
Saturday 26th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Kew: St Anne's Church, Kew Green, TW9 3AA
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Sunday 27th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street KT11 3EJ
Arisa Fujita, violin ♦ Tim Crawford, violin ♦ Alinka Rowe, viola ♦ Deni Teo, cello
Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 ♦ Webern Rondo for String Quartet (1906)
Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 51 No 2
Our month of lunchtime concerts started brilliantly last week with Emmanual Bach's violin concert, and it looks like continuing to bring us superb performances each week. Our usual welcome awaits at all three venues this month.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
Their concert at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday next week, 17th August, includes music by Vivaldi, CPE Bach, Corelli and KF Abel. As usual, you will find full concert details on this concert webpage.
We shall stay another week at St John's Old Chapel, with a Buck Brass Trio concert on Thursday 24th August.
After that we return to Leatherhead Methodist Church on Thursday 31st August for a piano concert entitled From Bach to Jazz - a pre-cursor to our end of September JAZZ on Thursday concert.
Every one of these concerts is free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. All three venues have level access throughout, and at LMC there will be tea and coffee ready after the concerts.
Parking for St John's is in Garlands Road, while for LMC it is best to park in the Swan Centre or Church Street car parks. Please allow for 5-7 minutes walk from car park to church or chapel.
And what else is on offer locally this month ?
Thursday 17th August 12noon - FRC ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, off High Street
William Bass, cello, with piano accompanist Masahiro Yamaguchi
Saturday 26th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Kew: St Anne's Church, Kew Green, TW9 3AA
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Sunday 27th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street KT11 3EJ
Arisa Fujita, violin ♦ Tim Crawford, violin ♦ Alinka Rowe, viola ♦ Deni Teo, cello
Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 ♦ Webern Rondo for String Quartet (1906)
Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 51 No 2
Our month of lunchtime concerts started brilliantly last week with Emmanual Bach's violin concert, and it looks like continuing to bring us superb performances each week. Our usual welcome awaits at all three venues this month.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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PS: I had the joy yesterday of travelling to Gillingham Dorset to hear Florence Rousseau and Loïc Georgeault, our friendly organists from Rennes and St Malo. On the final day of this year's visit to Southern England they gave a concert on the beautifully maintained Sweetland organ in Gillingham Methodist Church. The full spec for this 2-maunal instrument can be seen on the National Pipe Organ Register.
Can I tempt you with some of the items from the concert ? First Florence played Mendelssohn's Sonata No 2 in C minor. You can play the last two movements of this as my box leaves the Church (though hopefully not for a good while yet.)
Can I tempt you with some of the items from the concert ? First Florence played Mendelssohn's Sonata No 2 in C minor. You can play the last two movements of this as my box leaves the Church (though hopefully not for a good while yet.)
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Here, Daniel Ficarri plays the 4-manual Rudolf von Bekerath organ in St Paul Cathedral, Pittsburgh. Next, Loïc joined Florence on the organ bench to perform a four hands arrangement of Mozart's Church Sonata No 6 in Bb major K212 I didn't find an organ version of this piece. We'll hear the Corelli Chamber Orchestra: We should have heard next Joseph-Guy Ropartz's Prière but somehow it slipped off the programme.
Instead (and covering the fact that I couldn't find it on youtube either) let us hear German concert organist Daniel Tappe, on the 1972 Danion Gonzalez organ in St Martin's Church, Biarritz (restored and revoiced by Bernard Darhassies 2007). The piece is Sortie which has plenty of Ropartz ebullience along with some more reflective moments: This four hands sesction of the concert hasn't gone so well in terms of matching videos, has it ! We heard Fauré pupil Paul Ladmirault's Variations on Celtic Dances to complete the section. Another youtube gap! However, I enjoyed finding this recording of his Berceuse Créole (Creole Lullaby) played by Florence Ladmirault, organ, with Claire Ladmirault, flute, and Paul-Renan Ladmirault, oboe. You will also find recordings of Claire on organ and Paul-Renan playing the bombarde |
Florence & Loïc continued with two Jean Langlais pieces, Menuet, and Danse Amoricaine. On the left is his Fête pour orgue, played here by Hans-André Stamm on the Klais organ in Altenburger Dom, Rhineland, Germany. Next we heard Clara Schumann's March in Bb major, written for four hands (on piano). The pianists here are Victorya Kasuto and Alexandre Solopov, Duo Romantika, playing in the Pollack Hall, at McGill University's Schulich School of Music, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. |
Loïc Georgeault continued with his solo section of the concert. First this is Charles-Marie Widor's Andante sostenuto from his Symphonie Gothique.
On the left is a recording by Prof Nathan Laube on Joerg Glebe's home Hauptwerk set-up, emulating the Cavaillé-Coll organ in Caen Cathedral.
On the right, we hear Yi-Rang-Ock playing the 2004 Mühleisen organ in Stuttgart's Stiftskirche (Collegiate Church). This is effectively the regional cathedral of the Evangelistic Church. The church has a history of organs going back to 1381. The present 4-manual organ is said to be the largest church organ in Germany today, replacing a 19th century Walcker. Its specification includes glockenspiels on both the Ruckpositiv and the Swellpositiv, and it boasts two zimbelsterns !
On the left is a recording by Prof Nathan Laube on Joerg Glebe's home Hauptwerk set-up, emulating the Cavaillé-Coll organ in Caen Cathedral.
On the right, we hear Yi-Rang-Ock playing the 2004 Mühleisen organ in Stuttgart's Stiftskirche (Collegiate Church). This is effectively the regional cathedral of the Evangelistic Church. The church has a history of organs going back to 1381. The present 4-manual organ is said to be the largest church organ in Germany today, replacing a 19th century Walcker. Its specification includes glockenspiels on both the Ruckpositiv and the Swellpositiv, and it boasts two zimbelsterns !
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Our concert closes with César Franck's Pièce héroïque, plated here by Olivier Penin, organist of Ste-Clotilde Casoilica, Paris, the church at which Franck was himself organist when he wrote the piece.
Other famous organists here include Charles Tournemire and Jean Langlais. The 1859 Cavaillé-Coll organ started with 46 ranks. After several restorations and rewokings, including a 2005 project by Bernard Dargassies, the instrument now has 71 ranks.
Other famous organists here include Charles Tournemire and Jean Langlais. The 1859 Cavaillé-Coll organ started with 46 ranks. After several restorations and rewokings, including a 2005 project by Bernard Dargassies, the instrument now has 71 ranks.
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 31st July 2017
Dear Friends,
Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 31st July 2017
Dear Friends,
There were 70 of us in Leatherhead Methodist Church for last Thursday's excellent guitar concert with RAM student Hugh Millington. That was the highest attendance so far this year. Clearly the guitar has a particular following. Our next guitar concert is on Thursday October 12th when we welcome back the amazing duo of Francisco Correa and David Massey.
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert at LMC features an excellent violinist - Emmanuel Bach - with an interesting and demanding programme (demanding for the player, that is). Composers include Fritz Kreisler, Beethoven, Joseph Achron (Hebrew Melody), Sibelius, and Wieniawski. With mentors like Natasha Boyarsky and Maxim Vengerov in the performer's history we can expect a high standard of performance.
Accompanist Jenny Stern holds posts at the Royal College of Music and at Eton College.
You can read more about their 12.30 lunchtime concert this Thursday 3rd August, and listen to some of the music they will be performing on this concert webpage. There is even a recording of Emmanuel Bach himself playing another Kreisler arrangement - Midnight Bells.
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert at LMC features an excellent violinist - Emmanuel Bach - with an interesting and demanding programme (demanding for the player, that is). Composers include Fritz Kreisler, Beethoven, Joseph Achron (Hebrew Melody), Sibelius, and Wieniawski. With mentors like Natasha Boyarsky and Maxim Vengerov in the performer's history we can expect a high standard of performance.
Accompanist Jenny Stern holds posts at the Royal College of Music and at Eton College.
You can read more about their 12.30 lunchtime concert this Thursday 3rd August, and listen to some of the music they will be performing on this concert webpage. There is even a recording of Emmanuel Bach himself playing another Kreisler arrangement - Midnight Bells.
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Next week, at 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 10th August, we welcome two more students of the Royal Academy of Music to MoT at LMC. Reading their biographies, it's a wonder they fitted in any time for studies when you see the range of activities both players have already been involved in.
Oboist Amy Roberts will be performing works by JS Bach, Saint-Saëns, Silvestrini and their contemporary, the composer Hamish Brown. Her accompanist Olie Till is a former Westminster Cathedral chorister who is already enjoying success as accompanist, pianist, musical director and choral and orchestral conductor.
Another concert of great young talents is promised then. You can read all about the two performers, see their programme, and listen to some of the music they will be playing. It'a ll on this concert webpage.
There is a good reason why one piece is NOT available to listen to. We are to hear the world premiere of a Hamish Brown work. Leatherhead will be the first audience to hear his new work for oboe and piano Our Love is Here to Stay. The webpage includes Hamish and Ollie in a piano duo concert, and Hamish playing several instruments in Chick Corea's La Fiesta.
And after that, we spend a couple of weeks having three concerts in the chapels at St John's School. Details of these three concerts are now ready, so I'll let you explore at your leisure. We need capacity audiences at St John's so please bring every musical friend you can think of. Offer them bed and board if it'll bring them in from far away. They will be amazed at what Leatherhead has to offer! Here's what's coming at St John's:
Oboist Amy Roberts will be performing works by JS Bach, Saint-Saëns, Silvestrini and their contemporary, the composer Hamish Brown. Her accompanist Olie Till is a former Westminster Cathedral chorister who is already enjoying success as accompanist, pianist, musical director and choral and orchestral conductor.
Another concert of great young talents is promised then. You can read all about the two performers, see their programme, and listen to some of the music they will be playing. It'a ll on this concert webpage.
There is a good reason why one piece is NOT available to listen to. We are to hear the world premiere of a Hamish Brown work. Leatherhead will be the first audience to hear his new work for oboe and piano Our Love is Here to Stay. The webpage includes Hamish and Ollie in a piano duo concert, and Hamish playing several instruments in Chick Corea's La Fiesta.
And after that, we spend a couple of weeks having three concerts in the chapels at St John's School. Details of these three concerts are now ready, so I'll let you explore at your leisure. We need capacity audiences at St John's so please bring every musical friend you can think of. Offer them bed and board if it'll bring them in from far away. They will be amazed at what Leatherhead has to offer! Here's what's coming at St John's:
Every one of these concerts, at LMC and in the chapels of St John's School:
At LMC we will have tea and coffee ready at the end of each concert on August 3rd, 10th, (and 31st - details coming soon). At both venues we hope you will have a chance to chat with the musicians, and on August 16th to take a good look at the School's magnificent Tickell organ.
Parking:
The August diary for the wider area is looking a little light still. Here's what we have been told about:
- starts at 12.30 lunchtime
- is free to enter with a retiring collection to cover costs, and
- take place in an accessible venue (including the toilets).
At LMC we will have tea and coffee ready at the end of each concert on August 3rd, 10th, (and 31st - details coming soon). At both venues we hope you will have a chance to chat with the musicians, and on August 16th to take a good look at the School's magnificent Tickell organ.
Parking:
- for LMC it is best to park in the town's Swan Centre/Sainsbury's multi-storey or the Church Street car park (behind Waitrose).
- at St John's there is some parking on site by the Science block, there may be spaces along Linden Pit Path, but the main car park is in Garlands Road - there is a map of the St John's area on each concert webpage - and there will be signage around the School to help you
The August diary for the wider area is looking a little light still. Here's what we have been told about:
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Sunday 6th August 3pm - FRC ♦ Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA
Cavaillé-Coll Mutin Organ: Norman Harper, St George's RC Cathedral, Southwark Thursday 10th August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Amy Roberts, oboe ♦ Oliver Till, piano ♦ courtesy of Royal Academy of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Wednesday 16th August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC please be seated by 12.20pm Wednesday at St John's School Chapel (on Main Quad) Guest organist: Carl Jackson MVO ♦ Director of Music, HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace music by Bach • Purcell • Liszt • Dupré • Mathias • Mons Leidvin Takle • Fela Sowande Leatherhead: St John's School Chapel, Epsom Road (car park in Garlands Road) see map on musiconthursdays website Thursday 17th August 12noon - FRC William Bass, cello, with piano accompanist Masahiro Yamaguchi ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, off High Street Thursday 17th August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at St John's Old Chapel IMPROVISO • Baroque ensemble • Fatima Lahham, recorders ♦ Elin White, Baroque violin ♦ Florence Petit, Baroque cello ♦ play Vivaldi ♦ CPE Bach ♦ Corelli ♦ Abel Leatherhead: St John's School, Old Chapel, Epsom Road (car park in Garlands Road) Thursday 24th August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at St John's Old Chapel Buck Brass Trio ♦ Daniel Walton, trumpet ♦ Richard Buck, trombone ♦ Timothy Ellis, horn music by Mozart • Anthony Plog • Beethoven Leatherhead: St John's School Old Chapel, Epsom Road (car park in Garlands Road) Saturday 26th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Kew: St Anne's Church, Kew Green, TW9 3AA Arisa Fujita, violin ♦ Tim Crawford, violin ♦ Alinka Rowe, viola ♦ Deni Teo, cello Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 ♦ Webern Rondo for String Quartet (1906) Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 51 No 2 Sunday 27th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA ♦ Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street KT11 3EJ Arisa Fujita, violin ♦ Tim Crawford, violin ♦ Alinka Rowe, viola ♦ Deni Teo, cello Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 ♦ Webern Rondo for String Quartet (1906) Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 51 No 2 Thursday 31st August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC From Bach to Jazz with Daniel Nicholson, piano Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) |
We hope you enjoy your own choices of these concerts, and we particularly hope to see you at some of Leatherhead's 12.30 lunchtime concerts this summer.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 24th July 2017
Dear Friends,
Sometimes I type in a musician's programme and suddenly realise what devilishly challenging pieces they are bringing us, or what an interesting programme it is going to be.
Either could be said of each of the next three concerts. Virtuoso performances are promised on guitar this week, violin next week, and oboe the week after - and include the accompanists in that too.
This Thursday's concert sees classical guitarist Hugh Millington with a programme that opens in the 16th and 17th centuries with John Dowland and Luys de Narváez, moves onto the mid 18th century with Karl Kohaut, then follows the still with us Michael Berkeley, before slipping back to the mid 19th century for Napoléon Coste. A beautiful selection of music - and you can hear some of these works by clicking on the videos on the concert webpage.
Hugh comes to us courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music. Full information on his concert, at 12.30 on Thursday July 27th in Leatherhead Methodist Church will be found on this concert webpage.
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 24th July 2017
Dear Friends,
Sometimes I type in a musician's programme and suddenly realise what devilishly challenging pieces they are bringing us, or what an interesting programme it is going to be.
Either could be said of each of the next three concerts. Virtuoso performances are promised on guitar this week, violin next week, and oboe the week after - and include the accompanists in that too.
This Thursday's concert sees classical guitarist Hugh Millington with a programme that opens in the 16th and 17th centuries with John Dowland and Luys de Narváez, moves onto the mid 18th century with Karl Kohaut, then follows the still with us Michael Berkeley, before slipping back to the mid 19th century for Napoléon Coste. A beautiful selection of music - and you can hear some of these works by clicking on the videos on the concert webpage.
Hugh comes to us courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music. Full information on his concert, at 12.30 on Thursday July 27th in Leatherhead Methodist Church will be found on this concert webpage.
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There will be no less than six lunchtime concerts this August. Three at LMC and three in the chapels of St John's School. While the School's away the town will play !
Next week's Thursday concert at LMC on 3rd August features violinist Emmanuel Bach (I haven't dared ask the significance of that surname, perhaps he'll explain). What I can tell you is that this young man comes highly recommended. He has played in all the right places, and is a selected artist on the Countess of Munster Recital scheme for 2017-18.
When you listen to his playing - or tempt yourself with the online videos at the foot of his concert webpage - you will appreciate the standard of performance we shall be hearing. Jenny Stern is clearly a highly professional accompanist with whom Emmanuel has worked for a while now. Full details of this unmissable violin concert are in the usual place.
Here's a quick run down of our five other 12.30 lunchtime concerts for August:
You are welcome to linger and chat with the musicians after each concert, and at LMC we have tea and coffee too. Both LMC and St John's have level access throughout, including toilets.
PARKING !
We've been told about 4 other local events for August. If you know of more not too far away please drop a line to [email protected]. We'll be pleased to add to the diary. Here's what we have so far:
Next week's Thursday concert at LMC on 3rd August features violinist Emmanuel Bach (I haven't dared ask the significance of that surname, perhaps he'll explain). What I can tell you is that this young man comes highly recommended. He has played in all the right places, and is a selected artist on the Countess of Munster Recital scheme for 2017-18.
When you listen to his playing - or tempt yourself with the online videos at the foot of his concert webpage - you will appreciate the standard of performance we shall be hearing. Jenny Stern is clearly a highly professional accompanist with whom Emmanuel has worked for a while now. Full details of this unmissable violin concert are in the usual place.
Here's a quick run down of our five other 12.30 lunchtime concerts for August:
- Thursday 10th at LMC ♦ Amy Roberts, oboe ♦ Oliver Till, piano
- Wednesday 16th ♦ School Chapel on Main Quad, St John's School ♦ organist Carl Jackson, Director of Music, HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace
- Thursday 17th ♦ Old Chapel at St John's ♦ IMPROVISO trio - recorders • Baroque violin • Baroque cello
- Thursday 24th ♦ Old Chapel at St John's ♦ Buck Brass Trio - trumpet • horn • trombone
- Thursday 31st at LMC ♦ From Bach to Jazz - with Daniel Nicholson, piano (this year's JAZZ week concert will be on September 28th, as part of Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival)
You are welcome to linger and chat with the musicians after each concert, and at LMC we have tea and coffee too. Both LMC and St John's have level access throughout, including toilets.
PARKING !
- For LMC it is best to use the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks. These are about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road where you will find LMC.
- For St John's events there is a map on our homepage. Main rule is, only blue card holders through the main gates please ! There is parking in Garlands Road or at Christ Church for these concerts.
We've been told about 4 other local events for August. If you know of more not too far away please drop a line to [email protected]. We'll be pleased to add to the diary. Here's what we have so far:
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Sunday 6th August 3pm - FRC • Cavaillé-Coll Mutin Organ • Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA
Norman Harper, St George's RC Cathedral, Southwark Thursday 17th August 12noon - FRC William Bass, cello, with piano accompanist Masahiro Yamaguchi Dorking: St Martin's Church, off High Street Saturday 26th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA Kew: St Anne's Church, Kew Green, TW9 3AA Arisa Fujita, violin ♦ Tim Crawford, violin ♦ Alinka Rowe, viola ♦ Deni Teo, cello Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 ♦ Webern Rondo for String Quartet (1906) Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 51 No 2 repeated the following evening at Cobham: Sunday 27th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street KT11 3EJ |
It has been such a dismal dark day that we'll need at least one concert to lift our spirits. I hope you will fit in a few of Leatherhead's lunchtime concerts this summer. They are really rather good !*
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
* My own (ahem) completely unbiased opinion.
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 16th July 2017
Dear Friends,
Gary Sieling has performed in the lunchtime series twice before. He is very strong on the English repertoire and plays Herbert Howells, Herbert Murrill, George Dyson, and Stanley Vann in Wednesday's 12.30 organ concert at Christ Church. Gary has held posts at Dunstable Priory and Peterborough Cathedral and is an established organist, choral conductor, and choir trainer, now holding the Director of Music post at St Mary the Virgin, Henley-on-Thames.
Full details of Gary's 12.30 lunchtime concert at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, this Wednesday 19th July are available on this concert webpage.
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 16th July 2017
Dear Friends,
Gary Sieling has performed in the lunchtime series twice before. He is very strong on the English repertoire and plays Herbert Howells, Herbert Murrill, George Dyson, and Stanley Vann in Wednesday's 12.30 organ concert at Christ Church. Gary has held posts at Dunstable Priory and Peterborough Cathedral and is an established organist, choral conductor, and choir trainer, now holding the Director of Music post at St Mary the Virgin, Henley-on-Thames.
Full details of Gary's 12.30 lunchtime concert at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, this Wednesday 19th July are available on this concert webpage.
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The picture on the right gives the game away here, but on Thursday July 27th we have a classical guitar concert at Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Hugh Millington is a student at the Royal Academy of Music. Originally from Nottingham, various orchestras and singer in the East Midlands have kept this young musician busy with concertos and with guitar accompaniment. For our concert Hugh will be performing works from as early as the first half of the 16th century, to as recent as Michael Berkeley in the late 20th century, more or less dipping into each century in between!
You can read more about Hugh Millington's classical guitar concert on this concert webpage.
Both of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both LMC and Christ Church have level access throughout, and we linger over tea and coffee to chat informally after the concert.
Parking: While Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking, for LMC it is best to use the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks. These are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Methodist Church, which you will find in the narrow one-way section of Church Road. There's a map on our homepage here.
There are fewer local concerts than usual over the next couple of weeks so I'll include August here, and let you plan ahead:
Hugh Millington is a student at the Royal Academy of Music. Originally from Nottingham, various orchestras and singer in the East Midlands have kept this young musician busy with concertos and with guitar accompaniment. For our concert Hugh will be performing works from as early as the first half of the 16th century, to as recent as Michael Berkeley in the late 20th century, more or less dipping into each century in between!
You can read more about Hugh Millington's classical guitar concert on this concert webpage.
Both of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both LMC and Christ Church have level access throughout, and we linger over tea and coffee to chat informally after the concert.
Parking: While Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking, for LMC it is best to use the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks. These are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Methodist Church, which you will find in the narrow one-way section of Church Road. There's a map on our homepage here.
There are fewer local concerts than usual over the next couple of weeks so I'll include August here, and let you plan ahead:
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Wednesday 19th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Gary Sieling Director of Music, St Mary the Virgin Church, Henley-on-Thames works by Herbert Howells, Herbert Murrill, George Dyson, Stanley Vann Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road (on-site parking) Wednesday 19th July 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Roger Judd. St Laurence, Ludlow West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA Saturday 22nd July **4pm • Brahms with Strawberries English Arts Chorale ♦ Ian Le Grice, piano ♦ Leslie Olive, conductor Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes & music from 16th to 21st Centuries - followed by strawberries and prosecco Tickets (inc strawberries & prosecco): £10 (£5 students) click dateline, or phone 01♥737-☺- 762_097, or available at the door Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN Wednesday 26th July 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Enrico Presti, Bologna, Italy West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA Thursday 27th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Hugh Millington, guitar ♦ courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music music by John Dowland ♦ Luys de Nervàez ♦ Karl Kohaut ♦ Michael Berkeley ♦ Napoléon Coste Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) AUGUST Thursday 3rd August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Emmanuel Bach, violin ♦ Jenny Stern, piano ♦ with a programme of music by Fritz Kreisler, Beethoven (Sonata No 8), Joseph Achron, Sibelius, and Wieniawski Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Sunday 6th August 3pm - FRC ♦ Cavaillé-Coll Mutin Organ ♦ Norman Harper, St George's RC Cathedral, Southwark Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA Thursday 10th August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Amy Roberts, oboe ♦ Oliver Till, piano ♦ courtesy of Royal Academy of Music Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Wednesday 16 August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC please be seated by 12.20pm Wednesday at St John's School Chapel (on Main Quad) Guest organist: Carl Jackson MVO Director of Music, HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace Leatherhead: St John's School Chapel, Epsom Road (car park in Garlands Road) see map on musiconthursdays website Thursday 17th August 12noon - FRC William Bass, cello • with piano accompanist Dorking: St Martin's Church, off High Street Thursday 17th August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Music on Thursdays at St John's Old Chapel IMPROVISO • Baroque ensemble Fatima Lahham, recorders ♦ Elin White, Baroque violin ♦ Florence Petit, Baroque cello play Vivaldi ♦ CPE Bach ♦ Corelli ♦ Abel Leatherhead: St John's School, Old Chapel, Epsom Road (car park in Garlands Road) Thursday 24th August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Music on Thursdays at St John's Old Chapel Buck Brass Trio: Daniel Walton, trumpet ♦ Richard Buck, trombone ♦ Timothy Ellis, horn Leatherhead: St John's School Old Chapel, Epsom Road (car park in Garlands Road) Saturday 26th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA Arisa Fujita, violin ♦ Tim Crawford, violin ♦ Alinka Rowe, viola ♦ Deni Teo, cello Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 ♦ Webern Rondo for String Quartet (1906) Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 51 No 2 Kew: St Anne's Church, Kew Green, TW9 3AA Sunday 27th August 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA Arisa Fujita, violin ♦ Tim Crawford, violin ♦ Alinka Rowe, viola ♦ Deni Teo, cello Haydn String Quartet in G major, Op 77 No 1 ♦ Webern Rondo for String Quartet (1906) Brahms String Quartet No 2 in A minor, Op 51 No 2 Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street KT11 3EJ Thursday 31st August 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC From Bach to Jazz, with Daniel Nicholson, piano Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) |
I shan't name names, but a year ago someone told me our programme helped him decide when to hand the grandchildren back ! I'm sure he was joking, almost sure, anyway. So whether you are holidaying, child-minding, or achieving a good balance of activities for the family and for yourself, I hope you are able to enjoy a wonderful summer and, of course, that you manage to fit in some of the musical delights above, especially those lunchtime concerts.
Very best wishes.
Very best wishes.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 10th July 2017
Dear Friends,
There were 50 of us in Leatherhead Methodist Church last Thursday enjoying an interesting trombone concert by three highly professional performers. So what have we in store for this Thursday ?
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 10th July 2017
Dear Friends,
There were 50 of us in Leatherhead Methodist Church last Thursday enjoying an interesting trombone concert by three highly professional performers. So what have we in store for this Thursday ?
Bookham-based soprano Alice Bishop is our guest, with her piano accompanist Simon Marlow. Their concert comprises several settings of Shakespeare songs, a suite of Greek melodies set to music by Maurice Ravel, and Simon Marlow's performance of Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Infanta.
Alice has kindly provided texts or translations for the songs in her concert. So another interesting and entertaining Thursday lunchtime is prepared for us. Full details and recordings of the music are to be found on this concert webpage.
Next week we turn to Wednesdays at Christ Church, our monthly organ concert at Christ Church, on Epsom Road. Gary Sieling was unable to take up our invitation last year due to teaching commitments so we are particularly pleased that we were able to offer him this July date. He is an excellent performer holding both an FRCO and MA in Performance, and is an examiner for the Royal College of Organists. Gary's recital programme is ready on this concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concetrs are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee are usually available afterwards, giving time to linger and chat. Both churches have level access throughout, including toilets.
Parking: While Christ Church has plenty of on-site car park, for concerts at Leatherhead Methodist Church it is best to use the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the one-way section of Church Road where LMC is situated.
Concerts continue each week through the summer - there's even an August week with two concerts ! Please take a look at our Diary page if you like to plan ahead.
Here is a selection of concerts from other local organisers this month:
Alice has kindly provided texts or translations for the songs in her concert. So another interesting and entertaining Thursday lunchtime is prepared for us. Full details and recordings of the music are to be found on this concert webpage.
Next week we turn to Wednesdays at Christ Church, our monthly organ concert at Christ Church, on Epsom Road. Gary Sieling was unable to take up our invitation last year due to teaching commitments so we are particularly pleased that we were able to offer him this July date. He is an excellent performer holding both an FRCO and MA in Performance, and is an examiner for the Royal College of Organists. Gary's recital programme is ready on this concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concetrs are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee are usually available afterwards, giving time to linger and chat. Both churches have level access throughout, including toilets.
Parking: While Christ Church has plenty of on-site car park, for concerts at Leatherhead Methodist Church it is best to use the town's multi-storey or Church Street car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the one-way section of Church Road where LMC is situated.
Concerts continue each week through the summer - there's even an August week with two concerts ! Please take a look at our Diary page if you like to plan ahead.
Here is a selection of concerts from other local organisers this month:
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Wednesday 12th July 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Richard Townend, St Margaret, Lothbury, London EC ♦ West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA Thursday 13th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Alice Bishop, soprano ♦ Simon Marlow, piano song settings by Amy Beach ♦ Samuel Barber Maurice Ravel ♦ Madeleine Dring Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 15th July 7.30pm ♦ 20th Anniversary Frobenius Concert Organist: Tom Bell performs works by JS Bach and Jehan Alain Tickets: £10 (students £5) on the door ♦ West Horsley: St Mary's Church, Epsom Road, KT24 6AP Sunday 16th July 2.30pm ♦ Two Halves Make a Whole 1st Half: pianist Lynda Chang with music by Bach, Haydn, Brahms, Maxwell Davies, Copland 2nd Half: Life's a Soap Opera - actor Carole Boyd gives away back-stage secrets from her Radio 4 role as Lynda Snell Tickets: £16, inc post-concert Cream Tea, call Box Office 01932 787390 Sunbury: Riverside Arts Centre 59 Thames Street, TW16 5QF Wednesday 19th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: Gary Sieling - Director of Music, St Mary the Virgin Church, Henley-on-Thames works by Herbert Howells, Herbert Murrill, George Dyson, Stanley Vann Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Wednesday 19th July 1.10pm - FRC Organist: Roger Judd. St Laurence, Ludlow West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA Saturday 22nd July **4pm ♦ Brahms with Strawberries English Arts Chorale ♦ Ian Le Grice, piano ♦ Leslie Olive, conductor Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes & music from 16th to 21st Centuries - followed by strawberries and prosecco Tickets (inc strawberries & prosecco): £10 (£5 students) click dateline, or phone 01♥737-☺- 762_097, or available at the door Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN Wednesday 26th July 1.10pm - FRC Organist: Enrico Presti, Bologna, Italy ♦ West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA Thursday 27th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC Hugh Millington, guitar - courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music music by John Dowland ♦ Luys de Nervàez ♦ Karl Kohaut ♦ Michael Berkeley ♦ Napoléon Coste Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Coming in August: three 12.30 lunchtime concerts in the chapels of St John's School Wednesday 16th August: Carl Jackson MVO Director of Music, HM Chapel Royal Hampton Court Palace, plays the 2015 Tickell organ Thursday 17th August: Improviso - Baroque ensemble Fatima Lahham, recorders ♦ Elin White, Baroque violin ♦ Florence Petit, Baroque cello play Vivaldi, CPE Bach, Corelli, & Abel, in the Old Chapel Thursday 24th August: Buck Brass Trio Daniel Walton, trumpet ♦ Richard Buck, trombone ♦ Timothy Ellis, horn |
We shall need a big audience to fill those chapels at St John's so I hope you are inviting lots of friends for these three rather special concerts.
I hope you enjoy your choices from the diary above and at musicinsurrey and I look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert very soon
I hope you enjoy your choices from the diary above and at musicinsurrey and I look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert very soon
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 4th July 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 4th July 2017
Dear Friends,
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An Independence Day newsletter, which I hope will contain no fake news, as I seek to make music-making in Leatherhead great again. As if the town was ever anything less than GREAT !
We do our bit, and this week that means a trombone concert at 12.30 Thursday lunchtime. You may recognise their accompanist as Alan Brown is one of the two regular accompanists for the Leith Hill Musical Festival. The leading player is bass trombonist Josh Cirtina. He already has a string of famous brass bands and orchestras under his belt - Grimethorpe, Brighouse & Rastrick, Black Dyke, the Hallé, Royal Liverpool Phil, BBC Phil. And it is Josh who has devised Thursday's concert programme. He and Alan Brown open with Brahms, then follows a Concerto for Bass Trombone and Piano by Chris Brubeck (yes, from that famous musical family). Josh is joined by tenor trombone colleague Alistair Welsh, whose background includes the LSO and Glastonbury, for Conversation for Tenor and Bass Trombone. Josh and Alan round off the concert with Mahler. Click here for full details ► ► ► |
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From three newcomers to our concert this week, we look to next week's welcome return of local soprano Alice Bishop and piano accompanist Simon Marlow. No less than five Shakespeare song settings are in the programme, along with several Ravel songs, and Simon's performance of the composer's Pavane pour une infante défunte.
We'll have the song texts or translations printed for you next week, and you will find full details of July 13th's concert on this concert webpage.
Both of these 12.30 concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. The Church has level access throughout, and we linger over tea and coffee after the concert, so please join us for a chat - quite possibly with the musicians themselves.
Parking - please use the car park behind Waitrose or the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey. They are about a 5 to 7 minute walk from the one-way section of Church Road, and the Church.
Our concerts continue each week through the summer, although the venues change for a couple of weeks in August, so please keep an eye on the diary page.
A lot of societies have already wound down for the summer break, but we invite you to take a look at these events to see if something here is calling you to pop along !
We'll have the song texts or translations printed for you next week, and you will find full details of July 13th's concert on this concert webpage.
Both of these 12.30 concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. The Church has level access throughout, and we linger over tea and coffee after the concert, so please join us for a chat - quite possibly with the musicians themselves.
Parking - please use the car park behind Waitrose or the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's multi-storey. They are about a 5 to 7 minute walk from the one-way section of Church Road, and the Church.
Our concerts continue each week through the summer, although the venues change for a couple of weeks in August, so please keep an eye on the diary page.
A lot of societies have already wound down for the summer break, but we invite you to take a look at these events to see if something here is calling you to pop along !
Wednesday 5th July 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Alessandro Bianchi, Basilica di S Paolo, Cantù, Italy ♦ West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 6th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Joshua Cirtina, bass trombone ♦ with trombonist Alastair Walsh
& Alan Brown (piano accompanist to RAM & Leith Hill Musical Festival)
music by Brahms ♦ Brubeck ♦ Charles Small ♦ Mahler (courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music)
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Friday 7th July 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono • Samuel Staples, violins • Ben Voce, viola • Leo Plashinov, viola • Joe Davies, cello
Beethoven: String Quintet in C major Op 29 ♦ Brahms: String Quintet No 2 in G major Op 111
Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street. TW8 0DU
Saturday 8th July 3pm ♦ Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the William Cole Music Trust
Crispin Steele-Perkins, trumpet ♦ Kensington Sinfonia, Martin Hall, director
Tickets: £12 inc Pimms/cake from judypeace58 [a7} gmail d0t com ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 8th July **7pm ♦ Bramley Music Concert Series ♦ Summer Concert
My Spirit Sang All Day ♦ Harlequin Chamber Choir
Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) ♦ Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD
Saturday 8th July 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono • Samuel Staples, violins • Ben Voce, viola • Leo Plashinov, viola • Joe Davies, cello
Beethoven: String Quintet in C major Op 29 ♦ Brahms: String Quintet No 2 in G major Op 111
Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ
Saturday 8th July 7.30pm ♦ Chantry Singers ♦ 'soundscapes' - music from the movies
Tickets: £14 (u16 £2) from visit.guildford.com ♦ Guildford: St Nicolas Church, GU2 4AW
Wednesday 12th July 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Richard Townend, St Margaret, Lothbury, London EC ♦ West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 13th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Alice Bishop, soprano ♦ Simon Marlow, piano
song settings by Amy Beach ♦ Samuel Barber Maurice Ravel ♦ Madeleine Dring
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Saturday 15th July 7.30pm ♦ 20th Anniversary Frobenius Concert
Organist: Tom Bell performs works by JS Bach and Jehan Alain
Tickets: £10 (students £5) on the door ♦ West Horsley: St Mary's Church, Epsom Road, KT24 6AP
Sunday 16th July 2.30pm ♦ Two Halves Make a Whole
1st Half: pianist Lynda Chang with music by Bach, Haydn, Brahms, Maxwell Davies, Copland
2nd Half: Life's a Soap Opera - actor Carole Boyd gives away back-stage secrets from her BBC Radio 4 role as Lynda Snell
Tickets: £16, inc post-concert Cream Tea, call Box Office 01932 787390 ♦ Sunbury: Riverside Arts Centre 59 Thames Street, TW16 5QF
Wednesday 19th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Gary Sieling, Director of Music, St Mary the Virgin Church, Henley-on-Thames
works by Herbert Howells, Herbert Murrill, George Dyson, Stanley Vann
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
I hope you enjoy the summer weather - along with your choices from these local concerts - and most of all, I look forward to welcoming you to Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts very soon.
Organist: Alessandro Bianchi, Basilica di S Paolo, Cantù, Italy ♦ West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 6th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Joshua Cirtina, bass trombone ♦ with trombonist Alastair Walsh
& Alan Brown (piano accompanist to RAM & Leith Hill Musical Festival)
music by Brahms ♦ Brubeck ♦ Charles Small ♦ Mahler (courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music)
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Friday 7th July 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono • Samuel Staples, violins • Ben Voce, viola • Leo Plashinov, viola • Joe Davies, cello
Beethoven: String Quintet in C major Op 29 ♦ Brahms: String Quintet No 2 in G major Op 111
Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street. TW8 0DU
Saturday 8th July 3pm ♦ Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the William Cole Music Trust
Crispin Steele-Perkins, trumpet ♦ Kensington Sinfonia, Martin Hall, director
Tickets: £12 inc Pimms/cake from judypeace58 [a7} gmail d0t com ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 8th July **7pm ♦ Bramley Music Concert Series ♦ Summer Concert
My Spirit Sang All Day ♦ Harlequin Chamber Choir
Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) ♦ Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD
Saturday 8th July 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono • Samuel Staples, violins • Ben Voce, viola • Leo Plashinov, viola • Joe Davies, cello
Beethoven: String Quintet in C major Op 29 ♦ Brahms: String Quintet No 2 in G major Op 111
Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ
Saturday 8th July 7.30pm ♦ Chantry Singers ♦ 'soundscapes' - music from the movies
Tickets: £14 (u16 £2) from visit.guildford.com ♦ Guildford: St Nicolas Church, GU2 4AW
Wednesday 12th July 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Richard Townend, St Margaret, Lothbury, London EC ♦ West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 13th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Alice Bishop, soprano ♦ Simon Marlow, piano
song settings by Amy Beach ♦ Samuel Barber Maurice Ravel ♦ Madeleine Dring
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Saturday 15th July 7.30pm ♦ 20th Anniversary Frobenius Concert
Organist: Tom Bell performs works by JS Bach and Jehan Alain
Tickets: £10 (students £5) on the door ♦ West Horsley: St Mary's Church, Epsom Road, KT24 6AP
Sunday 16th July 2.30pm ♦ Two Halves Make a Whole
1st Half: pianist Lynda Chang with music by Bach, Haydn, Brahms, Maxwell Davies, Copland
2nd Half: Life's a Soap Opera - actor Carole Boyd gives away back-stage secrets from her BBC Radio 4 role as Lynda Snell
Tickets: £16, inc post-concert Cream Tea, call Box Office 01932 787390 ♦ Sunbury: Riverside Arts Centre 59 Thames Street, TW16 5QF
Wednesday 19th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: Gary Sieling, Director of Music, St Mary the Virgin Church, Henley-on-Thames
works by Herbert Howells, Herbert Murrill, George Dyson, Stanley Vann
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
I hope you enjoy the summer weather - along with your choices from these local concerts - and most of all, I look forward to welcoming you to Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts very soon.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 26th June 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 26th June 2017
Dear Friends,
With the AGM of Making Music (the National Federation of Music Societies) on Sunday and hospital commitments on Monday, this week's newsletter is likely to consist of an email only.
In the email I'll be sure to mention Thursday's 12.30 trio concert with the Bishop Ensemble, playing music for violin, cello, and piano by Mozart, Arvo Pärt and Rachmaninoff. Full details are on the concert webpage.
As ever the venue is Leatherhead Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road, and the closest parking is the multi-storey Swan Centre or Sainsbury's car park or the one behind Waitrose.
Next week's Thursday concert brings us two trombonists and a pianist with some interesting music. Not sure if it's going to be your thing ? Why not listen to the samples at the foot of this concert webpage?
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. The Churches have level access throughout and we hope you will join us for tea coffee and a chat afterwards.
Music-making tends to wind down a little at this time of the year, but do take a look at the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk for news of more local events this coming week and next month.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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In the email I'll be sure to mention Thursday's 12.30 trio concert with the Bishop Ensemble, playing music for violin, cello, and piano by Mozart, Arvo Pärt and Rachmaninoff. Full details are on the concert webpage.
As ever the venue is Leatherhead Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road, and the closest parking is the multi-storey Swan Centre or Sainsbury's car park or the one behind Waitrose.
Next week's Thursday concert brings us two trombonists and a pianist with some interesting music. Not sure if it's going to be your thing ? Why not listen to the samples at the foot of this concert webpage?
These lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. The Churches have level access throughout and we hope you will join us for tea coffee and a chat afterwards.
Music-making tends to wind down a little at this time of the year, but do take a look at the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk for news of more local events this coming week and next month.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 19th June 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 19th June 2017
Dear Friends,
There were 40 of us at Christ Church last Wednesday to hear the trumpet and organ concert. A good turnout, for an excellent concert. You can hear recordings of the music we listened to on the concert webpage.
A few of us went up to St Martin-in-the-Fields, on Trafalgar Square, last Friday for the lunchtime concert by our friends of Cavendish Winds. They drew an audience of around 250 for a concert that deserved all of that and more. We heard the same Danzi and Ravel works they had played for us ten days ago, plus the premiere of By Air composed by their RAM contemporary Daniel Ehrlich. To hear familiar players in the wonderful acoustic of St Martin's was quite an experience. And it was lovely to see the many friends who, like us, congratulated the players on the sucess of their concert.
This Thursday our music comes in the form of a piano solo concert by RAM student Frederic Bager. Frederic gained his BMus from the Royal College of Music before moving to the RAM to pursue his MMus in Performance.
Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert brings music by Haydn, Berg, and Chopin. You can see full details of Frederic Bager's concert on this concert webpage.
A few of us went up to St Martin-in-the-Fields, on Trafalgar Square, last Friday for the lunchtime concert by our friends of Cavendish Winds. They drew an audience of around 250 for a concert that deserved all of that and more. We heard the same Danzi and Ravel works they had played for us ten days ago, plus the premiere of By Air composed by their RAM contemporary Daniel Ehrlich. To hear familiar players in the wonderful acoustic of St Martin's was quite an experience. And it was lovely to see the many friends who, like us, congratulated the players on the sucess of their concert.
This Thursday our music comes in the form of a piano solo concert by RAM student Frederic Bager. Frederic gained his BMus from the Royal College of Music before moving to the RAM to pursue his MMus in Performance.
Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert brings music by Haydn, Berg, and Chopin. You can see full details of Frederic Bager's concert on this concert webpage.
Frederic Bager, piano
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Bishop Ensemble's Madelaine Jones and Cameron Smith
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For next week's Music on Thursdays at LMC 12.30 lunchtime concert we welcome a trio we have not met before. Actually the photo above is slightly inaccurate because their violinist next week will be Emily Turkanik, rather than Carl Bradford. But the quality from this trio of Trinity Laban graduates remains undiminished.
Mozart, Arvo Pärt, and Rachmaninoff are the composers in the concert on 29th June. For this concert too you will find full information on the concert webpage.
These lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout, and after our concerts tea and coffee are available and the musicians usually linger and chat too.
Parking: we advise using the town's multi-storey car park at the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's, or the car park behind Waitrose. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the one-way section of Church Road, where you will find LMC.
With our young musicians at the start of their careers things sometimes move more rapidly than we, or they, expect. So you will notice changes to the following week's trombone concert with a second trombone joining Josh Cirtina's bass trombone, and he has now name his accompanist. That's our concert for the 6th July.
Meanwhile, Lux Musicae London who were due to perform in our concert on August 17th at St John's School Old Chapel have been offered a week's residency at a festival in Amsterdam. They recommended, and we have been able to book, IMPROVISO, a Baroque trio of recorders with Baroque violin and Baroque cello, playing period music by Vivaldi, CPE Bach, Corelli, and Abel. Definitely a date for the diary - 12.30 on Thursday 17th August in the Old Chapel of St John's School.
Before we look at the diary for the next week or two, I want to pick out an event sent in by one of our members - who is also a regular performer, and known to many of us. Lynda Chang has a long-standing cabaret act with actor Carole Boyd. If you are not sure who Lynda Snell is (mentioned in the note below) then a quick search on the BBC website, might help !
Mozart, Arvo Pärt, and Rachmaninoff are the composers in the concert on 29th June. For this concert too you will find full information on the concert webpage.
These lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. LMC has level access throughout, and after our concerts tea and coffee are available and the musicians usually linger and chat too.
Parking: we advise using the town's multi-storey car park at the Swan Centre / Sainsbury's, or the car park behind Waitrose. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the one-way section of Church Road, where you will find LMC.
With our young musicians at the start of their careers things sometimes move more rapidly than we, or they, expect. So you will notice changes to the following week's trombone concert with a second trombone joining Josh Cirtina's bass trombone, and he has now name his accompanist. That's our concert for the 6th July.
Meanwhile, Lux Musicae London who were due to perform in our concert on August 17th at St John's School Old Chapel have been offered a week's residency at a festival in Amsterdam. They recommended, and we have been able to book, IMPROVISO, a Baroque trio of recorders with Baroque violin and Baroque cello, playing period music by Vivaldi, CPE Bach, Corelli, and Abel. Definitely a date for the diary - 12.30 on Thursday 17th August in the Old Chapel of St John's School.
Before we look at the diary for the next week or two, I want to pick out an event sent in by one of our members - who is also a regular performer, and known to many of us. Lynda Chang has a long-standing cabaret act with actor Carole Boyd. If you are not sure who Lynda Snell is (mentioned in the note below) then a quick search on the BBC website, might help !
Sunday 16th July 2.30pm ♦ Two Halves Make a Whole
1st Half: pianist Lynda Chang with music by Bach, Haydn, Brahms, Maxwell Davies, Copland
2nd Half: Life's a Soap Opera - actor Carole Boyd gives away back-stage secrets from her
BBC Radio 4 role as Lynda Snell
Tickets: £16, inc post-concert Cream Tea, call Box Office 01932 787390
Sunbury: Riverside Arts Centre 59 Thames Street, TW16 5QF
I predict an early sell-out ! Thames Street Sunbury can be reached by crossing Walton Bridge and turning right at the roundabout, or by crossing Hampton Court Bridge and turning left, then left again at the Hampton traffic lights two miles later.
Let's see what everyone else is up to over the coming days:
1st Half: pianist Lynda Chang with music by Bach, Haydn, Brahms, Maxwell Davies, Copland
2nd Half: Life's a Soap Opera - actor Carole Boyd gives away back-stage secrets from her
BBC Radio 4 role as Lynda Snell
Tickets: £16, inc post-concert Cream Tea, call Box Office 01932 787390
Sunbury: Riverside Arts Centre 59 Thames Street, TW16 5QF
I predict an early sell-out ! Thames Street Sunbury can be reached by crossing Walton Bridge and turning right at the roundabout, or by crossing Hampton Court Bridge and turning left, then left again at the Hampton traffic lights two miles later.
Let's see what everyone else is up to over the coming days:
Wednesday 21st June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Daniel Chappuis, Vevey, Switzerland
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 22nd June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Frederic Bager, piano (courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music)
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Saturday 24th June 4pm ♦ International Concert Organist D'Arcy Trinkwon plays the 2014 Tickell organ
Tickets: £15 please click dateline (or available at the door) ♦ Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Surrey Mozart Players ♦ Season Finale Gala Concert
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin • Kenneth Woods, conductor
Brahms: Tragic Overture • Sawyers: Violin Concerto • Beethoven: Romances 1 & 2 for Violin & Orchestra; and Symphony No 5
Tickets: £19, child £9.50 ♦ Guildford: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU1 3RR
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ English Arts Chorale • +children's choir
Call me Al Quintet • Lisa Cassidy, soprano
Alexander L'Estrange: Ahoy (Sing for the Mary Rose) • Will Todd: Mass in Blue
Tickets: £20, £15, £12 ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Cranleigh Choral Society ♦ Catherine Beddison, conductor
Karl Jenkins: Armed Man • Andrew Carter: Benedicite ♦ Tickets: £12 ♦ Cranleigh: Cranleigh Village Hall
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Ripieno Choir ♦ Roads as yet Untravelled
Messiaen, Naylor, Mauersberger, Mendelssohn never before performed by Ripieno
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. £5 for under-18s. Group discounts available ♦ Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ By Popular Request ♦ Epsom Chamber Choir with jazz trio ♦ conductor: John Bawden
Bob Chilcot's A Little Jazz Mass, and other jazz inspired music
Tickets: £12 in advance (02*08=672-54_95), £15 on door (u25's £8 advance or £10) ♦ Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, Church Street, KT17 4PX
Wednesday 28th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Iain Quinn, Florida State University
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 29th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Bishop Ensemble: Emily Turkanik, violin • Cameron Smith, cello • Madelaine Jones, piano
Mozart Trio in G Major K564 • Arvo Pärt Fratres • Rachmaninoff Trio Élégiaque No 1 in G Minor
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Friday 30th June **7pm ♦ Basie Bounces into Bramley ♦ Junction 4 Big Band
Tickets: £10 (£5 u18 & students) via Stuart White - click dateline ♦ Bramley: Village Hall, GU5 0AX
July 2017
Saturday 1st July **6pm ♦ Surrey Hills Summer Family Concert
Surrey Hills Singers (Mums' Choir) + Young Voices ♦ Training Choir
favourites including Hakuna Matata, Cups, Singing in the Rain, Skyfall and many more
Tickets: £10 (u16 £4) from debbie AT surreyhills-choirs • co • uk ♦ Cranleigh: Village Hall, Village Way, GU6 8AF
Saturday 1st July 7.30pm ♦ Songs from the Shows ♦ Leatherhead Choral Society ♦ Ian Assersohn, conductor
Lion King, Les Miserables, West Side Story, Singing in the Rain, and more ♦ Tickets: click dateline
Leatherhead: St Mary & St Nicholas Church, Church Road, KT22 8BD
Sunday 2nd July 3pm - FRC ♦ Cavaille-Coll Mutin Organ ♦ Johannes Trümpler, Dresden Cathedral
Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA
Wednesday 5th July 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Alessandro Bianchi, Basilica di S Paolo, Cantù, Italy
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 6th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Josh Cirtina, bass trombone, with trombonist Alastair Walsh, & piano accompanist Alan Brown
music by Brahms ♦ Brubeck ♦ Charles Small ♦ Mahler (courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music)
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Following next weekend's busy diary of concerts things seem to wind down for the summer. The weekly lunchtime concerts continue right through the summer and into the autumn, with an extra concert in August while we are at St John's School. You'll lfind a complete run-down on our own Diary Page.
I hope you enjoy your selection of the many local events on offer over this next week or two, whether as performer, organiser or audience member.
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 22nd June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Frederic Bager, piano (courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music)
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Saturday 24th June 4pm ♦ International Concert Organist D'Arcy Trinkwon plays the 2014 Tickell organ
Tickets: £15 please click dateline (or available at the door) ♦ Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Surrey Mozart Players ♦ Season Finale Gala Concert
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin • Kenneth Woods, conductor
Brahms: Tragic Overture • Sawyers: Violin Concerto • Beethoven: Romances 1 & 2 for Violin & Orchestra; and Symphony No 5
Tickets: £19, child £9.50 ♦ Guildford: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU1 3RR
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ English Arts Chorale • +children's choir
Call me Al Quintet • Lisa Cassidy, soprano
Alexander L'Estrange: Ahoy (Sing for the Mary Rose) • Will Todd: Mass in Blue
Tickets: £20, £15, £12 ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Cranleigh Choral Society ♦ Catherine Beddison, conductor
Karl Jenkins: Armed Man • Andrew Carter: Benedicite ♦ Tickets: £12 ♦ Cranleigh: Cranleigh Village Hall
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Ripieno Choir ♦ Roads as yet Untravelled
Messiaen, Naylor, Mauersberger, Mendelssohn never before performed by Ripieno
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. £5 for under-18s. Group discounts available ♦ Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ By Popular Request ♦ Epsom Chamber Choir with jazz trio ♦ conductor: John Bawden
Bob Chilcot's A Little Jazz Mass, and other jazz inspired music
Tickets: £12 in advance (02*08=672-54_95), £15 on door (u25's £8 advance or £10) ♦ Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, Church Street, KT17 4PX
Wednesday 28th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Iain Quinn, Florida State University
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 29th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Bishop Ensemble: Emily Turkanik, violin • Cameron Smith, cello • Madelaine Jones, piano
Mozart Trio in G Major K564 • Arvo Pärt Fratres • Rachmaninoff Trio Élégiaque No 1 in G Minor
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Friday 30th June **7pm ♦ Basie Bounces into Bramley ♦ Junction 4 Big Band
Tickets: £10 (£5 u18 & students) via Stuart White - click dateline ♦ Bramley: Village Hall, GU5 0AX
July 2017
Saturday 1st July **6pm ♦ Surrey Hills Summer Family Concert
Surrey Hills Singers (Mums' Choir) + Young Voices ♦ Training Choir
favourites including Hakuna Matata, Cups, Singing in the Rain, Skyfall and many more
Tickets: £10 (u16 £4) from debbie AT surreyhills-choirs • co • uk ♦ Cranleigh: Village Hall, Village Way, GU6 8AF
Saturday 1st July 7.30pm ♦ Songs from the Shows ♦ Leatherhead Choral Society ♦ Ian Assersohn, conductor
Lion King, Les Miserables, West Side Story, Singing in the Rain, and more ♦ Tickets: click dateline
Leatherhead: St Mary & St Nicholas Church, Church Road, KT22 8BD
Sunday 2nd July 3pm - FRC ♦ Cavaille-Coll Mutin Organ ♦ Johannes Trümpler, Dresden Cathedral
Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA
Wednesday 5th July 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Alessandro Bianchi, Basilica di S Paolo, Cantù, Italy
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 6th July 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Josh Cirtina, bass trombone, with trombonist Alastair Walsh, & piano accompanist Alan Brown
music by Brahms ♦ Brubeck ♦ Charles Small ♦ Mahler (courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music)
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Following next weekend's busy diary of concerts things seem to wind down for the summer. The weekly lunchtime concerts continue right through the summer and into the autumn, with an extra concert in August while we are at St John's School. You'll lfind a complete run-down on our own Diary Page.
I hope you enjoy your selection of the many local events on offer over this next week or two, whether as performer, organiser or audience member.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 13th June 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Tuesday, 13th June 2017
Dear Friends,
Oh dear! Yes, it's Tuesday. Monday didn't go so well. Which is not so good in organ week, because our concert is tomorrow, 12.30, in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead.
The exquisite playing of Welsh trumpeter Gwyn Owen with his very talented accompanist Rebecca Taylor means you can rely on this being a superb concert.
These two graduates of the Royal Academy of Music have chosen excellent repertoire to show their talents and to give us a memorable concert. They promise us Martini, Telemann, Persichetti, Jeremiah Clarke, and plenty of Bach. Full details are of this unmissable event are on the concert webpage.
The exquisite playing of Welsh trumpeter Gwyn Owen with his very talented accompanist Rebecca Taylor means you can rely on this being a superb concert.
These two graduates of the Royal Academy of Music have chosen excellent repertoire to show their talents and to give us a memorable concert. They promise us Martini, Telemann, Persichetti, Jeremiah Clarke, and plenty of Bach. Full details are of this unmissable event are on the concert webpage.
Next week our Music on Thursdays 12.30 lunchtime concert on 22nd June will consist of piano solo works, performed by Frederic Bager. Frederic, a student of the Royal Academy of Music, will be playing music by Haydn, Alban Berg, and Chopin. Music which is sure to delight our piano and our audience.
Frederic is British, but raised in Switzerland. His background includes Wells Cathedral School and the Royal College of Music. You can read more about Frederic Bager, see the full details of his programme, and listen to samples of the music he will be playing, all of this on the concert webpage. Thursday concert take place in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead's churches are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs and make a contribution to church running costs. After our concerts we have tea and coffee ready which creates a space for chat together and with the musicians.
Both churches have level access throughout, including toilet facilities. Comfortable individual chairs mean we can easily lift one out so a wheelchair user can sit with the friends they came with - and not in some special separate place!
Parking: the nearest parking for concerts at the Methodist Church would be the Swan Centre/Sainsburys multi-storey, or behind Waitrose. Please allow 5-7- minutes to walk to Church Road from these car parks. At Christ Church, Epsom Road, you will find plenty of parking on site.
We are never alone in our music-making. Let's take a look at this extract from the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk covering the next two weeks or so:
Frederic is British, but raised in Switzerland. His background includes Wells Cathedral School and the Royal College of Music. You can read more about Frederic Bager, see the full details of his programme, and listen to samples of the music he will be playing, all of this on the concert webpage. Thursday concert take place in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead's churches are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs and make a contribution to church running costs. After our concerts we have tea and coffee ready which creates a space for chat together and with the musicians.
Both churches have level access throughout, including toilet facilities. Comfortable individual chairs mean we can easily lift one out so a wheelchair user can sit with the friends they came with - and not in some special separate place!
Parking: the nearest parking for concerts at the Methodist Church would be the Swan Centre/Sainsburys multi-storey, or behind Waitrose. Please allow 5-7- minutes to walk to Church Road from these car parks. At Christ Church, Epsom Road, you will find plenty of parking on site.
We are never alone in our music-making. Let's take a look at this extract from the diary at musicinsurrey.co.uk covering the next two weeks or so:
Wednesday 14th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Gwyn Owen, trumpet • Rebecca Taylor, organ ♦ graduates of the Royal Academy of Music
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
Wednesday 14th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Graham Thorpe, St Michael, Cornhill, London EC, Royal Academy of Music
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 15th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
Graffiti Classics - a string quartet with a diference - present an evening of hilarious cabaret
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Friday 16th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
The Battle of the Keyboards ♦ Simon Dinsdale, organ and Ken Harratt, piano
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Saturday 17th June hourly 11am to 6pm - FRC ♦ Shalford PLAYATHON
Gareth Giles gives a series of piano and organ mini-concerts on the hour every hour
Shalford: St Mary's Church, (A281) The Street. GU4 8BP
Saturday 17th June 12.30 lunchtime ♦ Tilford Bach Festival
Adrian Butterfield, violin ♦ Rachel Brown, flute ♦ JS Bach solo Partitas for flute and violin
Tickets: £10 on the door ♦ Farnham: St Andrew's Church, GU9 7PW
Saturday 17th June **7pm ♦ Concert of Music for 1 & 2 Pianos & Organ
including Gershwin, Michel Legrand, Jazz numbers, Showtunes, Ravel, Delius, Rhapsody in Blue and more
Tickets: £5 ♦ Shalford: St Mary's Church, (A281) The Street. GU4 8BP
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ JAZZIN' IT UP
Ashtead Choral Society • Ashtead Jazz Club
Tickets: £14 ♦ Ashtead: St George's Church
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Woking Symphony Orchestra
Roy Stratford, conductor (gives pre-concert talk at 6.45pm)
Mozart: Overture to Magic Flute & Piano Concerto No 24 (John Paul Ekins, piano) • Mahler: Symphony No 1
Tickets: £14 (u16 £7) wokingsymphony AT gmail DOT com ♦ Woking: HG Wells, Church Street East, satnav: GU21 8EW
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Transatlantic Harmonies ♦ Guildford Choral • Southern Pro Musica
John Rutter: Requiem • Thompson: Alleluia • Barber: Adagio for Strings • Lauridsen: Lux aeterna
Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) ♦ Guildford: The Cathedral
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Midsummer Serenade in aid of the pipe organ restoration fund
Paul Arden-Griffith (from Phantom of the Opera), Jill Maguire & Sandra Gayer, sopranos - and much more besides - click dateline for details
Tickets: £20 (u16s £10) ♦ Tadworth: Church of the Good Shepherd, The Avenue, KT20 5AS
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
Joe Stilgoe - pianist, singer, jazz musician
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Tilford Bach Festival ♦ Telemann Celebration Concert
London Handel Players ♦ Rowan Pierce, soprano
Tickets: £20 on the door (£17.50 via weblink, click dateline) ♦ 8-25 year olds AND their parents - FREE
Farnham: St Andrew's Church, GU9 7PW
Sunday 18th June **7pm ♦ Tilford Bach Festival ♦ JS Bach: St John Passion
London Handel Orchestra, Adrian Butterfield, conductor ♦ Julia Doyle ♦ Tim Meads ♦ Charles Daniels ♦ Peter Harvey
Tickets: £20-£35 via weblink - click dateline ♦ Tilford: Tilford Church, GU10 2DD
Wednesday 21st June ♥ International Make Music Day click here to visit makemusicday.org
Wednesday 21st June 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Daniel Chappuis, Vevey, Switzerland ♦ West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 22nd June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Frederic Bager, piano - courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd ♦ (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Saturday 24th June 4pm ♦ International Concert Organist D'Arcy Trinkwon plays the 2014 Tickell organ
Tickets: £15 please click dateline ♦ Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Surrey Mozart Players ♦ Season Finale Gala Concert
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin • Kenneth Woods, conductor
Brahms: Tragic Overture • Sawyers: Violin Concerto ♦ Beethoven: Romances 1 & 2 for Violin & Orchestra; and Symphony No 5
Tickets: £19, child £9.50 ♦ Guildford: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU1 3RR
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ English Arts Chorale + children's choir ♦ Call me Al Quintet • Lisa Cassidy, soprano
Alexander L'Estrange: Ahoy (Sing for the Mary Rose) • Will Todd: Mass in Blue
Tickets: £20, £15, £12 ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Cranleigh Choral Society ♦ Catherine Beddison, conductor
Karl Jenkins: Armed Man • Andrew Carter: Benedicite
Tickets: £12 ♦ Cranleigh: Cranleigh Village Hall
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Ripieno Choir
Roads as yet Untravelled: Messiaen, Naylor, Mauersberger, Mendelssohn never before performed by Ripieno
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. £5 for under-18s. Group discounts available ♦ Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ By Popular Request
Epsom Chamber Choir with jazz trio ♦ conductor: John Bawden
Bob Chilcot's A Little Jazz Mass, and other jazz inspired music
Tickets: £12 in advance (02*08=672-54_95), £15 on door (u25's £8 advance or £10) ♦ Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, Church Street, KT17 4PX
Wednesday 28th June 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Iain Quinn, Florida State University ♦ West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 29th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Bishop Ensemble: Emily Turkanik, violin • Cameron Smith, cello • Madelaine Jones, piano
Mozart Trio in G Major K564 ♦ Arvo Pärt Fratres ♦ Rachmaninoff Trio Élégiaque No 1 in G Minor
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Friday 30th June **7pm ♦ Basie Bounces into Bramley ♦ Junction 4 Big Band
Tickets: £10 (£5 u18 & students) via Stuart White - click dateline ♦ Bramley: Village Hall, GU5 0AX
If you are feeling spoiled for choice, I'm not a bit surprised. These coming weekends offer a range of concerts to suit many tastes. I hope you enjoy your own selection, and I look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead very soon - perhaps tomorrow!
Gwyn Owen, trumpet • Rebecca Taylor, organ ♦ graduates of the Royal Academy of Music
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
Wednesday 14th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Graham Thorpe, St Michael, Cornhill, London EC, Royal Academy of Music
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 15th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
Graffiti Classics - a string quartet with a diference - present an evening of hilarious cabaret
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Friday 16th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
The Battle of the Keyboards ♦ Simon Dinsdale, organ and Ken Harratt, piano
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Saturday 17th June hourly 11am to 6pm - FRC ♦ Shalford PLAYATHON
Gareth Giles gives a series of piano and organ mini-concerts on the hour every hour
Shalford: St Mary's Church, (A281) The Street. GU4 8BP
Saturday 17th June 12.30 lunchtime ♦ Tilford Bach Festival
Adrian Butterfield, violin ♦ Rachel Brown, flute ♦ JS Bach solo Partitas for flute and violin
Tickets: £10 on the door ♦ Farnham: St Andrew's Church, GU9 7PW
Saturday 17th June **7pm ♦ Concert of Music for 1 & 2 Pianos & Organ
including Gershwin, Michel Legrand, Jazz numbers, Showtunes, Ravel, Delius, Rhapsody in Blue and more
Tickets: £5 ♦ Shalford: St Mary's Church, (A281) The Street. GU4 8BP
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ JAZZIN' IT UP
Ashtead Choral Society • Ashtead Jazz Club
Tickets: £14 ♦ Ashtead: St George's Church
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Woking Symphony Orchestra
Roy Stratford, conductor (gives pre-concert talk at 6.45pm)
Mozart: Overture to Magic Flute & Piano Concerto No 24 (John Paul Ekins, piano) • Mahler: Symphony No 1
Tickets: £14 (u16 £7) wokingsymphony AT gmail DOT com ♦ Woking: HG Wells, Church Street East, satnav: GU21 8EW
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Transatlantic Harmonies ♦ Guildford Choral • Southern Pro Musica
John Rutter: Requiem • Thompson: Alleluia • Barber: Adagio for Strings • Lauridsen: Lux aeterna
Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) ♦ Guildford: The Cathedral
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Midsummer Serenade in aid of the pipe organ restoration fund
Paul Arden-Griffith (from Phantom of the Opera), Jill Maguire & Sandra Gayer, sopranos - and much more besides - click dateline for details
Tickets: £20 (u16s £10) ♦ Tadworth: Church of the Good Shepherd, The Avenue, KT20 5AS
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
Joe Stilgoe - pianist, singer, jazz musician
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Tilford Bach Festival ♦ Telemann Celebration Concert
London Handel Players ♦ Rowan Pierce, soprano
Tickets: £20 on the door (£17.50 via weblink, click dateline) ♦ 8-25 year olds AND their parents - FREE
Farnham: St Andrew's Church, GU9 7PW
Sunday 18th June **7pm ♦ Tilford Bach Festival ♦ JS Bach: St John Passion
London Handel Orchestra, Adrian Butterfield, conductor ♦ Julia Doyle ♦ Tim Meads ♦ Charles Daniels ♦ Peter Harvey
Tickets: £20-£35 via weblink - click dateline ♦ Tilford: Tilford Church, GU10 2DD
Wednesday 21st June ♥ International Make Music Day click here to visit makemusicday.org
Wednesday 21st June 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Daniel Chappuis, Vevey, Switzerland ♦ West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 22nd June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Frederic Bager, piano - courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd ♦ (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Saturday 24th June 4pm ♦ International Concert Organist D'Arcy Trinkwon plays the 2014 Tickell organ
Tickets: £15 please click dateline ♦ Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Surrey Mozart Players ♦ Season Finale Gala Concert
Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin • Kenneth Woods, conductor
Brahms: Tragic Overture • Sawyers: Violin Concerto ♦ Beethoven: Romances 1 & 2 for Violin & Orchestra; and Symphony No 5
Tickets: £19, child £9.50 ♦ Guildford: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU1 3RR
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ English Arts Chorale + children's choir ♦ Call me Al Quintet • Lisa Cassidy, soprano
Alexander L'Estrange: Ahoy (Sing for the Mary Rose) • Will Todd: Mass in Blue
Tickets: £20, £15, £12 ♦ Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Cranleigh Choral Society ♦ Catherine Beddison, conductor
Karl Jenkins: Armed Man • Andrew Carter: Benedicite
Tickets: £12 ♦ Cranleigh: Cranleigh Village Hall
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ Ripieno Choir
Roads as yet Untravelled: Messiaen, Naylor, Mauersberger, Mendelssohn never before performed by Ripieno
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. £5 for under-18s. Group discounts available ♦ Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
Saturday 24th June 7.30pm ♦ By Popular Request
Epsom Chamber Choir with jazz trio ♦ conductor: John Bawden
Bob Chilcot's A Little Jazz Mass, and other jazz inspired music
Tickets: £12 in advance (02*08=672-54_95), £15 on door (u25's £8 advance or £10) ♦ Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, Church Street, KT17 4PX
Wednesday 28th June 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Iain Quinn, Florida State University ♦ West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 29th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Bishop Ensemble: Emily Turkanik, violin • Cameron Smith, cello • Madelaine Jones, piano
Mozart Trio in G Major K564 ♦ Arvo Pärt Fratres ♦ Rachmaninoff Trio Élégiaque No 1 in G Minor
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Friday 30th June **7pm ♦ Basie Bounces into Bramley ♦ Junction 4 Big Band
Tickets: £10 (£5 u18 & students) via Stuart White - click dateline ♦ Bramley: Village Hall, GU5 0AX
If you are feeling spoiled for choice, I'm not a bit surprised. These coming weekends offer a range of concerts to suit many tastes. I hope you enjoy your own selection, and I look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead very soon - perhaps tomorrow!
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 5th June 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 5th June 2017
Dear Friends,
At the top of this page is a picture of this week's artistes.They are Cavendish Winds, the quintet who can be seen at the head of every page on this website!
With one substitution - oboist Timothy Keasley is covering for Henry Clay - we welcome the other four familiar faces for an interesting concert with works by the just post-Baroque Franz Danzi, to three composers working in the 20th century - Carl Nielsen, Maurice Ravel and Malcolm Arnold.
You will find full details of Thursday's 12.30 Cavendish Winds concert on this concert webpage.
The quintet will start their day at Leatherhead Trinity School performing to the pupils there. This is the fourth leg of our outreach project with the town's primary School. The children have previously met a brass group, a flute and guitar duo, and a piano duo.
With financial support from Julie West Solicitor, we hope to raise enough funds at Thursday's 12.30 public concert to cover the costs of working with the School as well as funding our own concert.
Wind concerts seem to leave us on a high so if you've been wondering which concert will be your first, then come along and enjoy the music. There'll be time for tea, coffee and biscuits afterwards, and a chance to chat with the musicians too.
P•P•P•Parking: for concerts at Leatherhead Methodist Church we advise using the multi-storey or Waitrose car parks, about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road. See map on our homepage.
With one substitution - oboist Timothy Keasley is covering for Henry Clay - we welcome the other four familiar faces for an interesting concert with works by the just post-Baroque Franz Danzi, to three composers working in the 20th century - Carl Nielsen, Maurice Ravel and Malcolm Arnold.
You will find full details of Thursday's 12.30 Cavendish Winds concert on this concert webpage.
The quintet will start their day at Leatherhead Trinity School performing to the pupils there. This is the fourth leg of our outreach project with the town's primary School. The children have previously met a brass group, a flute and guitar duo, and a piano duo.
With financial support from Julie West Solicitor, we hope to raise enough funds at Thursday's 12.30 public concert to cover the costs of working with the School as well as funding our own concert.
Wind concerts seem to leave us on a high so if you've been wondering which concert will be your first, then come along and enjoy the music. There'll be time for tea, coffee and biscuits afterwards, and a chance to chat with the musicians too.
P•P•P•Parking: for concerts at Leatherhead Methodist Church we advise using the multi-storey or Waitrose car parks, about 5-7 minutes walk from the one-way section of Church Road. See map on our homepage.
Cavendish Winds
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Gwyn Owen & Rebecca Taylor
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Next week our concert is at Christ Church, Epsom Road. A slight variation on the usual organ concerts there, we have invited back the young Welsh trumpeter, Gwyn Owen, whom we met when he last summer when he was studying at the Royal Academy of Music. His accompanist, Rebecca Taylor, was also at the RAM and was Organ Scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford. She is Director of Music at St Phillips, Earls Court Road.
You can read details of our next Wednesdays at Christ Church concert, at 12.30 on 14th June, on this concert webpage. Tea & coffee afterwards, and Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking.
Both of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs, and to help fund the work with Leatherhead Trinity School. Both churches have level acess throughout, including toilets. With chairs rather than pews you will be comfortable, and we can easily remove a chair so wheelchair users don't have to sit in a gangway ! (Mind you, from there you might have a better view!)
Time to take a look at what other local venues and societies are up to over the coming couple of weeks (FRC means 'free, with retiring collection'). You'll find plenty to choose from :
You can read details of our next Wednesdays at Christ Church concert, at 12.30 on 14th June, on this concert webpage. Tea & coffee afterwards, and Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking.
Both of these 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs, and to help fund the work with Leatherhead Trinity School. Both churches have level acess throughout, including toilets. With chairs rather than pews you will be comfortable, and we can easily remove a chair so wheelchair users don't have to sit in a gangway ! (Mind you, from there you might have a better view!)
Time to take a look at what other local venues and societies are up to over the coming couple of weeks (FRC means 'free, with retiring collection'). You'll find plenty to choose from :
Tuesday 6th June 2017 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Organ Masterworks with Phillip Scriven, School Organist
Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Wednesday 7th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Riccardo Bonci, St Barnabas, Dulwich
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 8th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Cavendish Winds: Katy Ovens, flute • Mary Tyler, clarinet • Henry Clay, oboe • Alice Quayle, bassoon Charlie Ransley, horn
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Friday 9th June from 6pm onwards ♦ Tilford Bach Festival ▬ an evening of Baroque music for strings and flute
Waverley Ensemble, director Ishani Bhoola, with Susan Milan, flute
from 6pm: Champagne & Canapés ♦ 7.30pm Concert ♦ 8.15pm Interval, Drinks, Canapés, Silent Auction ♦ 8.50pm 2nd half of concert ♦ 9.40pm concert finish (approx) ♦ Tickets: click dateline ♦ Puttenham: Myrtles Courtyard, Hamptons Estate
Friday 9th June **7pm ♦ Celebrity Organ Recital: Colin Walsh, Organist of Lincoln Cathedral
music by Bach ♦ Byrd ♦ Reubke ♦ Dupré ♦ Tickets: £10 (£8 concs) at the door
Leatherhead: School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road)
Saturday 10th June 7.30pm ♦ Oxshott Choral Society ♦ Horsley Choral Society
An Evening with Mozart - Requiem & other works
Jane Searle, soprano ♦ Louise Innes, mezzo ♦ John Upperton, tenor ♦ Geoffrey Horton, baritone
Simon Bland, organ ♦ Raven Ensemble ♦ Valerie Beynon, conductor ♦ Tickets: £15 child £8 Box Office: 01932 862759
Leatherhead: (New) School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road)
Saturday 10th June 7.30pm ♦ Epsom Choral Society
Famous Choruses from Opera ed John Rutter ♦ Julian Collings, Musical Director
Tickets: £15 (u18 £7.50) ♦ Cheam: St Andrew's URC, Northey Avenue, SM2 7HF
Wednesday 14th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Gwyn Owen, trumpet • Rebecca Taylor, organ ♦ graduates of the Royal Academy of Music
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
Wednesday 14th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Graham Thorpe, St Michael, Cornhill, London EC, Royal Academy of Music
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 15th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
Graffiti Classics - a string quartet with a diference - present an evening of hilarious cabaret
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Friday 16th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
The Battle of the Keyboards ♦ Simon Dinsdale, organ and Ken Harratt, piano
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Saturday 17th June hourly 11am to 6pm - FRC ♦ Shalford PLAYATHON
Gareth Giles gives a series of piano and organ mini-concerts on the hour every hour
Shalford: St Mary's Church, (A281) The Street. GU4 8BP
Saturday 17th June 12.30 lunchtime ♦ Tilford Bach Festival
Adrian Butterfield, violin ♦ Rachel Brown, flute ♦ JS Bach solo Partitas for flute and violin
Tickets: £10 on the door ♦ Farnham: St Andrew's Church, GU9 7PW
Saturday 17th June **7pm ♦ Concert of Music for 1 & 2 Pianos & Organ
including Gershwin, Michel Legrand, Jazz numbers, Showtunes, Ravel, Delius, Rhapsody in Blue and more
Tickets: £5 ♦ Shalford: St Mary's Church, (A281) The Street. GU4 8BP
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ JAZZIN' IT UP
Ashtead Choral Society • Ashtead Jazz Club
Tickets: £14 ♦ Ashtead: St George's Church
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Woking Symphony Orchestra
Roy Stratford, conductor (gives pre-concert talk at 6.45pm)
Mozart: Overture to Magic Flute & Piano Concerto No 24 (John Paul Ekins, piano) • Mahler: Symphony No 1
Tickets: £14 (u16 £7) wokingsymphony AT gmail DOT com ♦ Woking: HG Wells, Church Street East, satnav: GU21 8EW
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Transatlantic Harmonies
Guildford Choral • Southern Pro Musica
John Rutter: Requiem • Thompson: Alleluia • Barber: Adagio for Strings • Lauridsen: Lux aeterna
Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) ♦ Guildford: The Cathedral
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Midsummer Serenade in aid of the pipe organ restoration fund
Paul Arden-Griffith (from Phantom of the Opera), Jill Maguire & Sandra Gayer, sopranos - and much more besides - click dateline for details
Tickets: £20 (u16s £10) ♦ Tadworth: Church of the Good Shepherd, The Avenue, KT20 5AS
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
Joe Stilgoe - pianist, singer, jazz musician
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Tilford Bach Festival ♦ Telemann Celebration Concert
London Handel Players ♦ Rowan Pierce, soprano
Tickets: £20 on the door (£17.50 via weblink, click dateline) ♦ 8-25 year olds AND their parents - FREE
Farnham: St Andrew's Church, GU9 7PW
Sunday 18th June **7pm ♦ Tilford Bach Festival
JS Bach: St John Passion
London Handel Orchestra, Adrian Butterfield, conductor ♦ Julia Doyle ♦ Tim Meads ♦ Charles Daniels ♦ Peter Harvey
Tickets: £20-£35 via weblink - click dateline ♦ Tilford: Tilford Church, GU10 2DD
After that busy Saturday you may need a few days rest before taking part in::
Wednesday 21st June ♥ International Make Music Day click here to visit makemusicday.org
Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Wednesday 7th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Riccardo Bonci, St Barnabas, Dulwich
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 8th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Cavendish Winds: Katy Ovens, flute • Mary Tyler, clarinet • Henry Clay, oboe • Alice Quayle, bassoon Charlie Ransley, horn
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Friday 9th June from 6pm onwards ♦ Tilford Bach Festival ▬ an evening of Baroque music for strings and flute
Waverley Ensemble, director Ishani Bhoola, with Susan Milan, flute
from 6pm: Champagne & Canapés ♦ 7.30pm Concert ♦ 8.15pm Interval, Drinks, Canapés, Silent Auction ♦ 8.50pm 2nd half of concert ♦ 9.40pm concert finish (approx) ♦ Tickets: click dateline ♦ Puttenham: Myrtles Courtyard, Hamptons Estate
Friday 9th June **7pm ♦ Celebrity Organ Recital: Colin Walsh, Organist of Lincoln Cathedral
music by Bach ♦ Byrd ♦ Reubke ♦ Dupré ♦ Tickets: £10 (£8 concs) at the door
Leatherhead: School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road)
Saturday 10th June 7.30pm ♦ Oxshott Choral Society ♦ Horsley Choral Society
An Evening with Mozart - Requiem & other works
Jane Searle, soprano ♦ Louise Innes, mezzo ♦ John Upperton, tenor ♦ Geoffrey Horton, baritone
Simon Bland, organ ♦ Raven Ensemble ♦ Valerie Beynon, conductor ♦ Tickets: £15 child £8 Box Office: 01932 862759
Leatherhead: (New) School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP (car park in Garlands Road)
Saturday 10th June 7.30pm ♦ Epsom Choral Society
Famous Choruses from Opera ed John Rutter ♦ Julian Collings, Musical Director
Tickets: £15 (u18 £7.50) ♦ Cheam: St Andrew's URC, Northey Avenue, SM2 7HF
Wednesday 14th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Wednesdays at Christ Church
Gwyn Owen, trumpet • Rebecca Taylor, organ ♦ graduates of the Royal Academy of Music
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
Wednesday 14th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Graham Thorpe, St Michael, Cornhill, London EC, Royal Academy of Music
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 15th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
Graffiti Classics - a string quartet with a diference - present an evening of hilarious cabaret
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Friday 16th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
The Battle of the Keyboards ♦ Simon Dinsdale, organ and Ken Harratt, piano
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Saturday 17th June hourly 11am to 6pm - FRC ♦ Shalford PLAYATHON
Gareth Giles gives a series of piano and organ mini-concerts on the hour every hour
Shalford: St Mary's Church, (A281) The Street. GU4 8BP
Saturday 17th June 12.30 lunchtime ♦ Tilford Bach Festival
Adrian Butterfield, violin ♦ Rachel Brown, flute ♦ JS Bach solo Partitas for flute and violin
Tickets: £10 on the door ♦ Farnham: St Andrew's Church, GU9 7PW
Saturday 17th June **7pm ♦ Concert of Music for 1 & 2 Pianos & Organ
including Gershwin, Michel Legrand, Jazz numbers, Showtunes, Ravel, Delius, Rhapsody in Blue and more
Tickets: £5 ♦ Shalford: St Mary's Church, (A281) The Street. GU4 8BP
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ JAZZIN' IT UP
Ashtead Choral Society • Ashtead Jazz Club
Tickets: £14 ♦ Ashtead: St George's Church
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Woking Symphony Orchestra
Roy Stratford, conductor (gives pre-concert talk at 6.45pm)
Mozart: Overture to Magic Flute & Piano Concerto No 24 (John Paul Ekins, piano) • Mahler: Symphony No 1
Tickets: £14 (u16 £7) wokingsymphony AT gmail DOT com ♦ Woking: HG Wells, Church Street East, satnav: GU21 8EW
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Transatlantic Harmonies
Guildford Choral • Southern Pro Musica
John Rutter: Requiem • Thompson: Alleluia • Barber: Adagio for Strings • Lauridsen: Lux aeterna
Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) ♦ Guildford: The Cathedral
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Midsummer Serenade in aid of the pipe organ restoration fund
Paul Arden-Griffith (from Phantom of the Opera), Jill Maguire & Sandra Gayer, sopranos - and much more besides - click dateline for details
Tickets: £20 (u16s £10) ♦ Tadworth: Church of the Good Shepherd, The Avenue, KT20 5AS
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
Joe Stilgoe - pianist, singer, jazz musician
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
Saturday 17th June 7.30pm ♦ Tilford Bach Festival ♦ Telemann Celebration Concert
London Handel Players ♦ Rowan Pierce, soprano
Tickets: £20 on the door (£17.50 via weblink, click dateline) ♦ 8-25 year olds AND their parents - FREE
Farnham: St Andrew's Church, GU9 7PW
Sunday 18th June **7pm ♦ Tilford Bach Festival
JS Bach: St John Passion
London Handel Orchestra, Adrian Butterfield, conductor ♦ Julia Doyle ♦ Tim Meads ♦ Charles Daniels ♦ Peter Harvey
Tickets: £20-£35 via weblink - click dateline ♦ Tilford: Tilford Church, GU10 2DD
After that busy Saturday you may need a few days rest before taking part in::
Wednesday 21st June ♥ International Make Music Day click here to visit makemusicday.org
I look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert, this Thursday, or on Wednesday next week. I hope you enjoy your choices from the many offerings above.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 29th May 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 29th May 2017
Dear Friends,
Timothy Ridout was already making a name for himself when he first came to Leatherhead in the Autumn of 2015. By his third note most of us sensed we were in the presence of a stunningly gifted performer. A few weeks later he made his Wigmore Hall debut.
Ting-Ru Lai comes to us with similar credentials, and the fact that she and Tim are such great friends who enjoy performing together is something we are privileged to be able to share with them.
Did I mention that Thursday's will be a totally unmissable concert ? With viola duos by Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann, Frank Bridge, and Bartók the duo offer us a superb programme. You can listen to recordings of those works on the concert webpage.
This free concert, with a retiring collection, will take place in Leatherhead Methodist Church, at 12.30 lunchtime, this Thursday, 1st June. The nearest parking is the town's multi-storey or behind Waitrose. They are both a 5-7 minute walk from the Church. Full concert details, including biographies of the two violists are on this concert webpage.
Next week we welcome regular visitors Cavendish Winds to Leatherhead, not only for our lunchtime concert, but also for a morning performing for the pupils at Leatherhead Triinity School. We have taken a horn and a flute to the children before but this will be their introduction to the clarinet, oboe, and bassoon. Cavendish Winds are the ensemble featured in the photograph at the top of this page.
In the 12.30 concert on Thursday 8th June the quintet will be performing music by four composers - Carl Nielsen, Franz Danzi, Maurice Ravel, and finishing with three shanties set by Malcolm Arnold. Full information is available on the concert webpage.
We aim to raise enough money at the lunchtime concert to fund the School visit as well as our own concert. We are aided in that by the generous support of Leatherhead law firm Julie West Solicitor.
After each 35-45 minute concert we linger a while over tea and coffee, chatting together, and with the musicians. Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout and we positively encourage wheelchair users to join us.
Meanwhile, here's an overview of some of the musical highlights from Surrey and around, for the first half of June:
FRC = Free, with retiring collection
Ting-Ru Lai comes to us with similar credentials, and the fact that she and Tim are such great friends who enjoy performing together is something we are privileged to be able to share with them.
Did I mention that Thursday's will be a totally unmissable concert ? With viola duos by Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann, Frank Bridge, and Bartók the duo offer us a superb programme. You can listen to recordings of those works on the concert webpage.
This free concert, with a retiring collection, will take place in Leatherhead Methodist Church, at 12.30 lunchtime, this Thursday, 1st June. The nearest parking is the town's multi-storey or behind Waitrose. They are both a 5-7 minute walk from the Church. Full concert details, including biographies of the two violists are on this concert webpage.
Next week we welcome regular visitors Cavendish Winds to Leatherhead, not only for our lunchtime concert, but also for a morning performing for the pupils at Leatherhead Triinity School. We have taken a horn and a flute to the children before but this will be their introduction to the clarinet, oboe, and bassoon. Cavendish Winds are the ensemble featured in the photograph at the top of this page.
In the 12.30 concert on Thursday 8th June the quintet will be performing music by four composers - Carl Nielsen, Franz Danzi, Maurice Ravel, and finishing with three shanties set by Malcolm Arnold. Full information is available on the concert webpage.
We aim to raise enough money at the lunchtime concert to fund the School visit as well as our own concert. We are aided in that by the generous support of Leatherhead law firm Julie West Solicitor.
After each 35-45 minute concert we linger a while over tea and coffee, chatting together, and with the musicians. Leatherhead Methodist Church has level access throughout and we positively encourage wheelchair users to join us.
Meanwhile, here's an overview of some of the musical highlights from Surrey and around, for the first half of June:
FRC = Free, with retiring collection
Thursday 1st June 7.30pm ♦ Oxted & Limpsfield Music Society ♦ Rosanna Ter-Berg, flute • Olivia Jaguers, harp
music by Ibert, Donizetti, Saint-Säens, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Debussy, Piazzolla
Tickets: £10 (u25s £5) • Limpsfield: Bawtree Concert Hall, Hazlewood, RH8 0QU
Friday 2nd June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F minor
Smetana: String quartet No 1 in E minor From my Life ♦ Brentford: The Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW8 0DU
Saturday 3rd June 12 noon - FRC ♦ Elizabeth Dobson & The London Choir
Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 3rd June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F minor
Smetana: String quartet No 1 in E minor From my Life
Farnham: St Andrew's Church, Upper Church Lane, GU9 7PW
Sunday 4th June 3pm - FRC ♦ Cavaille-Coll Mutin Organ ♦ Eleni Keventsidou, Rugby School
Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA
Sunday 4th June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F minor
Smetana: String quartet No 1 in E minor From my Life
Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ
Tuesday 6th June 2017 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Philip Scriven plays Guilmant
Grand Choeur in A • Lamento • Caprice in B flat • Prelude in the style of Bach
March on a theme of Handel • Andante in G • Verset • Grand Choeur in D
Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Wednesday 7th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Riccardo Bonci, St Barnabas, Dulwich
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 8th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Cavendish Winds:
Katy Ovens, flute • Mary Tyler, clarinet • Henry Clay, oboe • Alice Quayle, bassoon Charlie Ransley, horn
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd ♦ (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Friday 9th June **7pm ♦ Celebrity Organ Recital: Colin Walsh, Organist of Lincoln Cathedral
Tickets: £10 (£8 concs) ♦ Leatherhead: School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road
Saturday 10th June 7.30pm ♦ Oxshott Choral Society ♦ Horsley Choral Society
An Evening with Mozart - Requiem & other works
Jane Searle, soprano ♦ Louise Innes, mezzo ♦ John Upperton, tenor ♦ Geoffrey Horton, baritone
Simon Bland, organ ♦ Raven Ensemble ♦ Valerie Beynon, conductor ♦ Tickets: £15 child £8 Box Office: 01932 862759
Leatherhead: (New) School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road
Saturday 10th June 7.30pm ♦ Epsom Choral Society
Famous Choruses from Opera ed John Rutter ♦ Julian Collings, Musical Director
Tickets: £15 (u18 £7.50) ♦ Cheam: St Andrew's URC, Northey Avenue, SM2 7HF
Wednesday 14th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Gwyn Owen, trumpet • Rebecca Taylor, organ (graduates of the Royal Academy of Music)
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
Wednesday 14th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Graham Thorpe, St Michael, Cornhill, London EC, Royal Academy of Music
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 15th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
Graffiti Classics - a string quartet with a diference - an evening of hilarious cabaret
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
The list includes some interesting choices. I hope you enjoy your selection from it. You can plan further ahead on musicinsurrey.co.uk.
I look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead this June!
music by Ibert, Donizetti, Saint-Säens, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Debussy, Piazzolla
Tickets: £10 (u25s £5) • Limpsfield: Bawtree Concert Hall, Hazlewood, RH8 0QU
Friday 2nd June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F minor
Smetana: String quartet No 1 in E minor From my Life ♦ Brentford: The Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW8 0DU
Saturday 3rd June 12 noon - FRC ♦ Elizabeth Dobson & The London Choir
Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 3rd June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F minor
Smetana: String quartet No 1 in E minor From my Life
Farnham: St Andrew's Church, Upper Church Lane, GU9 7PW
Sunday 4th June 3pm - FRC ♦ Cavaille-Coll Mutin Organ ♦ Eleni Keventsidou, Rugby School
Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA
Sunday 4th June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No 11 in F minor
Smetana: String quartet No 1 in E minor From my Life
Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ
Tuesday 6th June 2017 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Philip Scriven plays Guilmant
Grand Choeur in A • Lamento • Caprice in B flat • Prelude in the style of Bach
March on a theme of Handel • Andante in G • Verset • Grand Choeur in D
Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Wednesday 7th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Riccardo Bonci, St Barnabas, Dulwich
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 8th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Cavendish Winds:
Katy Ovens, flute • Mary Tyler, clarinet • Henry Clay, oboe • Alice Quayle, bassoon Charlie Ransley, horn
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd ♦ (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Friday 9th June **7pm ♦ Celebrity Organ Recital: Colin Walsh, Organist of Lincoln Cathedral
Tickets: £10 (£8 concs) ♦ Leatherhead: School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road
Saturday 10th June 7.30pm ♦ Oxshott Choral Society ♦ Horsley Choral Society
An Evening with Mozart - Requiem & other works
Jane Searle, soprano ♦ Louise Innes, mezzo ♦ John Upperton, tenor ♦ Geoffrey Horton, baritone
Simon Bland, organ ♦ Raven Ensemble ♦ Valerie Beynon, conductor ♦ Tickets: £15 child £8 Box Office: 01932 862759
Leatherhead: (New) School Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road
Saturday 10th June 7.30pm ♦ Epsom Choral Society
Famous Choruses from Opera ed John Rutter ♦ Julian Collings, Musical Director
Tickets: £15 (u18 £7.50) ♦ Cheam: St Andrew's URC, Northey Avenue, SM2 7HF
Wednesday 14th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Gwyn Owen, trumpet • Rebecca Taylor, organ (graduates of the Royal Academy of Music)
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
Wednesday 14th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Graham Thorpe, St Michael, Cornhill, London EC, Royal Academy of Music
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 15th June 7.30pm ♦ Bramley & Little London Music Festival
Graffiti Classics - a string quartet with a diference - an evening of hilarious cabaret
Tickets: £12.50 (school-age £6) please click dateline ♦ Bramley: St James's Church, RG26 5DF
The list includes some interesting choices. I hope you enjoy your selection from it. You can plan further ahead on musicinsurrey.co.uk.
I look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead this June!
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 22nd May 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 22nd May 2017
Dear Friends,
First news this week is, of course, the return of classical accordion player Bartosz Glowacki. It is great news that Bartosz is still based in London - having completed his studies at the Royal Academy of Music. I was extremely pleased when he agreed to pick up this concert, covering for Aurimas Goris who is out of the country at the moment.
Bartosz needs little introduction, having made quite an impact when he performed here in the final concert of 2014. He has chosen an interesting variety of works for Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert, works that show what classical and contemporary composers ask of the accordion player.
Expect beautiful music, and unusual sounds, in the course of this concert. You will find more information, his biography and even a video of Bartosz Glowacki himself on this concert webpage.
Concert date is 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 25th May, in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
Bartosz needs little introduction, having made quite an impact when he performed here in the final concert of 2014. He has chosen an interesting variety of works for Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert, works that show what classical and contemporary composers ask of the accordion player.
Expect beautiful music, and unusual sounds, in the course of this concert. You will find more information, his biography and even a video of Bartosz Glowacki himself on this concert webpage.
Concert date is 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 25th May, in Leatherhead Methodist Church.
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Next week, on Thursday June 1st, we welcome back two more performers we ave met before.
Timothy Ridout has performed at LMC twice before and, although not playing, Ting-Ru Lai was here with Timothy and met many of the audience last June. For their viola duo concert next week they will be playing music by (eldest son) Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Frank Bridge, and Béla Bartók. More information about these tow stunning viola players will be found on the concert webpage. Concert date is 12.30 lunchtime on Thursday 1st June - also in Leatherhead Methodist Church. |
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Both of these concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Being lunchtime we don't mind if you have to arrive late or slip away early. LMC has level access throughout, including toilet facilities.
Afterwards we tend to linger and chat over tea and coffee, and the musicians usually join us (depending on their committments).
Parking: we recommend you park in the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church St/Waitrose car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Church. There's a map when you scroll down our homepage.
Let's take a look at some of the other local concerts over the coming two weekends: (most of the datelines below are clickabe links)
Afterwards we tend to linger and chat over tea and coffee, and the musicians usually join us (depending on their committments).
Parking: we recommend you park in the town's Swan Centre multi-storey or the Church St/Waitrose car parks. They are about a 5-7 minute walk from the Church. There's a map when you scroll down our homepage.
Let's take a look at some of the other local concerts over the coming two weekends: (most of the datelines below are clickabe links)
Friday 26th May 7.30pm - FRC ♦ De CHORALE - Antwerp Oratorio Choir
Paul Dinneweth, conductor • Peter Maus, organ
Zadok the Priest • Mendelssohn • van Nuffel • de Vocht • Nystedt • organ works by Weitz • Dupré • Smits • Jongen • Peeters
Central Epsom: St Martin of Tours Church, Church Street, KT17 4PX
Saturday 27th May 7.30pm ♦ Waverley Ensemble at the Haslemere Festival
and Sunday 28th May 7.30pm
Mid Summer Night's Dream - Premiere of Opera by Clive Osgood • and music by Purcell, Mozart, Albinoni
Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline • Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD
Wednesday 31st May 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organists: Ben Smith & Julian Collins, Oxbridge Organ Duo
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 1st June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Viola duo: Timothy Ridout & Ting-Ru Lai
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Thursday 1st June 7.30pm ♦ Oxted & Limpsfield Music Society
Rosanna Ter-Berg, flute • Olivia Jaguers, harp • music by Ibert, Donizetti, Saint-Säens, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Debussy, Piazzolla
Tickets: £10 (u25s £5) ♦ Limpsfield: Bawtree Concert Hall, Hazlewood, RH8 0QU
Friday 2nd June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No11 in Fminor • Smetana: String quartet No1 in Eminor From my Life Brentford: The Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW8 0DU
Saturday 3rd June 12 noon - FRC ♦ Elizabeth Dobson & The London Choir ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 3rd June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No11 in Fminor • Smetana: String quartet No1 in Eminor From my Life
Farnham: St Andrew's Church, Upper Church Lane, GU9 7PW
Sunday 4th June 3pm - FRC ♦ Cavaille-Coll Mutin Organ ♦ Eleni Keventsidou, Rugby School
Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA
Sunday 4th June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No11 in Fminor • Smetana: String quartet No1 in Eminor From my Life
Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ
Tuesday 6th June 2017 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Organ Masterworks ♦ James Gough, Organist in Residence, Haileybury School
Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Wednesday 7th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Riccardo Bonci, St Barnabas, Dulwich
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 8th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Music on Thursdays at LMC
Cavendish Winds: Katy Ovens, flute • Mary Tyler, clarinet
Henry Clay, oboe • Alice Quayle, bassoon Charlie Ransley, horn
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
The concert with Cavendish Winds follows the quintet's visit to Leatherhead Trinity School that same morning. There they will introduce their instruments to the pupils and perform for them in two mini-concerts for the younger and older halves of the school. This educational activity is supported by local legal firm Julie West Solicitor. We hope to raise sufficient funds on the day to fully cover the costs of the School concerts and our own lunchtime concert.
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening over the holiday weekend and the coming couple of weeks.
Paul Dinneweth, conductor • Peter Maus, organ
Zadok the Priest • Mendelssohn • van Nuffel • de Vocht • Nystedt • organ works by Weitz • Dupré • Smits • Jongen • Peeters
Central Epsom: St Martin of Tours Church, Church Street, KT17 4PX
Saturday 27th May 7.30pm ♦ Waverley Ensemble at the Haslemere Festival
and Sunday 28th May 7.30pm
Mid Summer Night's Dream - Premiere of Opera by Clive Osgood • and music by Purcell, Mozart, Albinoni
Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline • Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD
Wednesday 31st May 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organists: Ben Smith & Julian Collins, Oxbridge Organ Duo
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 1st June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♦ Music on Thursdays at LMC
Viola duo: Timothy Ridout & Ting-Ru Lai
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Thursday 1st June 7.30pm ♦ Oxted & Limpsfield Music Society
Rosanna Ter-Berg, flute • Olivia Jaguers, harp • music by Ibert, Donizetti, Saint-Säens, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Debussy, Piazzolla
Tickets: £10 (u25s £5) ♦ Limpsfield: Bawtree Concert Hall, Hazlewood, RH8 0QU
Friday 2nd June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No11 in Fminor • Smetana: String quartet No1 in Eminor From my Life Brentford: The Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW8 0DU
Saturday 3rd June 12 noon - FRC ♦ Elizabeth Dobson & The London Choir ♦ Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 3rd June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No11 in Fminor • Smetana: String quartet No1 in Eminor From my Life
Farnham: St Andrew's Church, Upper Church Lane, GU9 7PW
Sunday 4th June 3pm - FRC ♦ Cavaille-Coll Mutin Organ ♦ Eleni Keventsidou, Rugby School
Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA
Sunday 4th June 7.30pm - FRC ♦ MAIASTRA
Akiko Ono, violin • Kana Kawashima, violin • Ana Alves, viola • Kieran Carter, cello
Mozart: String Quartet in Bb major K458 Hunt • Shostakovich: String Quartet No11 in Fminor • Smetana: String quartet No1 in Eminor From my Life
Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ
Tuesday 6th June 2017 12.45pm - FRC ♦ Organ Masterworks ♦ James Gough, Organist in Residence, Haileybury School
Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Wednesday 7th June 1.10pm - FRC ♦ Organist: Riccardo Bonci, St Barnabas, Dulwich
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 8th June 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Music on Thursdays at LMC
Cavendish Winds: Katy Ovens, flute • Mary Tyler, clarinet
Henry Clay, oboe • Alice Quayle, bassoon Charlie Ransley, horn
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
The concert with Cavendish Winds follows the quintet's visit to Leatherhead Trinity School that same morning. There they will introduce their instruments to the pupils and perform for them in two mini-concerts for the younger and older halves of the school. This educational activity is supported by local legal firm Julie West Solicitor. We hope to raise sufficient funds on the day to fully cover the costs of the School concerts and our own lunchtime concert.
I hope you enjoy your music-making and -listening over the holiday weekend and the coming couple of weeks.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 14th May 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Sunday, 14th May 2017
Dear Friends,
This week's concert is a Wednesday organ recital at Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, starting at 12.30 lunchtime. Our guest organist is Gillian Lloyd, who is surely the first person in our concerts to perform a work written by her husband*.
Gillian Lloyd opens with a Voluntary by 18th century English composer John Stanley, then moves on to a Bach Trio Sonata, an Allegretto from a Mendelssohn Organ Sonata, Norman Cocker's Tuba Tune, then follows Jeffrey Lloyd's Partita on the hymn tune St Columba (you might know it to 'The King of Love my Shepherd is') and Gillian finishes with the grand Finale from Louis Vierne's Organ Symphony in D minor (that's the video I am listening to as I write this.)
You will find full details on this concert webpage - including links to video's of most of the works Gillian will be performing.
Gillian Lloyd opens with a Voluntary by 18th century English composer John Stanley, then moves on to a Bach Trio Sonata, an Allegretto from a Mendelssohn Organ Sonata, Norman Cocker's Tuba Tune, then follows Jeffrey Lloyd's Partita on the hymn tune St Columba (you might know it to 'The King of Love my Shepherd is') and Gillian finishes with the grand Finale from Louis Vierne's Organ Symphony in D minor (that's the video I am listening to as I write this.)
You will find full details on this concert webpage - including links to video's of most of the works Gillian will be performing.
The following week we return to Leatherhead Methodist Church for a 12.30 Music on Thursdays concert.
Our guest performer on Thursday 25th May will be Polish classical accordion player Bartosz Glowacki. Bartosz has become a stalwart of the London Accordion Orchestra with whom he has recently travelled to Nuremberg.
He has chosen music by several composers most of us have never heard of ! His final piece, Brahmsiana by Vyatcheslav Siemionov contains a few familiar melodies from the great composer. See if you recognise them in the video of Bartosz perfoming (at the foot of the concert webpage) !
Both of these lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. While there is ample on-site parking at Christ Church, LMC is a little trickier. We rely on the multi-storey and Church Street car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC (see the map on our homepage).
After the concerts there is time for tea, coffee, and chat - often with the musicians.
Let's take a look at the music diary for the coming couple of weekends, and see the variety of professional and amateur music-making that is on offer:
Our guest performer on Thursday 25th May will be Polish classical accordion player Bartosz Glowacki. Bartosz has become a stalwart of the London Accordion Orchestra with whom he has recently travelled to Nuremberg.
He has chosen music by several composers most of us have never heard of ! His final piece, Brahmsiana by Vyatcheslav Siemionov contains a few familiar melodies from the great composer. See if you recognise them in the video of Bartosz perfoming (at the foot of the concert webpage) !
Both of these lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. While there is ample on-site parking at Christ Church, LMC is a little trickier. We rely on the multi-storey and Church Street car parks. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC (see the map on our homepage).
After the concerts there is time for tea, coffee, and chat - often with the musicians.
Let's take a look at the music diary for the coming couple of weekends, and see the variety of professional and amateur music-making that is on offer:
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Wednesday 17th May 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: Gillian Lloyd, Organist of Guildford United Reformed Church including music by Bach, Stanley, Mendelssohn, Cocker, Vierne Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road Wednesday 17th May 1.10pm - FRC Organist: Andrew Scott, St Michael & All Angels W Croydon West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA Thursday 18th May **7pm Haslemere Strings Competition • Young violin, viola, & double bass players Tickets: at the door • Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, St Christopher's Green, GU27 1DD Saturday 20th May **7pm • Bramley Music Concert Series • Royal College of Music Concert supporting The Orpheus Centre (founded by Sir Ricard Stillgoe) Elysian Piano Trio: Emily Sun, violin • Jane Lindsay, cello • Jennifer Hughes, piano music by Haydn, Schumann, Kreisler, Handel, Brahms Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) • Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD Saturday 20th May 7.30pm • Together in Music Waverley Ensemble • Surrey Hills Chamber Choir Haydn: Missa Brevis St Joannis de Deo • Corelli: Trio Sonata in D major Telemann: Trio Sonata in G • Quartet in E minor • Handel: Trio Sonata in G minor Tickets: £14, u16 £5 from stuartwhite AT waitrose DOT com • Guildford: St Nicolas' Church, Bury Street, GU1 4QD Saturday 20th May 7.30pm • Cello & Guitar Recital • in aid of the pipe organ restoration fund Kein Loh, guitar & Frankie Carr, cello (final year students of the Yehudi Menuhin School) Tickets: £8 (u16s Free) • Tadworth: Church of the Good Shepherd, The Avenue, KT20 5AS Saturday 20th May 7.30pm • Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra • Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor • Margaret Whittall, leader Weber: Overture Der Freischütz • Gordon Jacob: Violin Concerto (soloist Clare Howick) • Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, The New World Tickets: £18 (u18/student £9) 01♦ 372• 275♥9 07 or click dateline • Ashtead: Peace Memorial Hall, Woodfield Lane, KT21 2BE Wednesday 24th May 1.10pm - FRC Organist: Toril Briese, Stockholm, Sweden • West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA Thursday 25th May 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Music on Thursdays at LMC Bartosz Glowacki, accordion Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Friday 26th May 7.30pm - FRC • De CHORALE - Antwerp Oratorio Choir Paul Dinneweth, conductor • Peter Maus, organ Zadok the Priest • Mendelssohn • van Nuffel • de Vocht • Nystedt plus organ works by Weitz • Dupré • Smits • Jongen • Peeters Central Epsom: St Martin of Tours Church, Church Street, KT17 4PX Saturday 27th May 7.30pm • Waverley Ensemble at the Haslemere Festival Mid Summer Night's Dream - Premiere of Opera by Clive Osgood, and music by Purcell, Mozart, Albinoni Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline • Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD Sunday 28th May 7.30pm • Waverley Ensemble at the Haslemere Festival Mid Summer Night's Dream - Premiere of Opera by Clive Osgood, and music by Purcell, Mozart, Albinoni Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline • Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD |
I hope you enjoy your choices from these events, and I look forward to welcoming you to a lunchtime concert in Leatherhead !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
* Note for the pedantic: no-one has yet performed a work written by 'his' husband, either.
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church Monday, 8th May 2017 Dear Friends, |
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Disappointed with the weather ? The good news is it isn't like this every year. Last year we didn't need heating at either church until late October. This year ? We've had the heaters on every week so far.
And it looks like they will be on again for soprano Nicola Berg this Thursday, 11th May, at Leatherhead Methodist Church. Nicola's programme, entitled Songs of the Countryside, roams across the British Isles to find its musical subjects.
For most of the songs Nicola will be accompanied by Lynda Chang at the piano. For one group of settings by Rebecca Clarke, Roland Appel joins Nicola with violin accompaniment (remember his lovely viola playing a couple of years ago ?)
You can read full details of Nicola Berg's concert on the concert webpage.
For most of the songs Nicola will be accompanied by Lynda Chang at the piano. For one group of settings by Rebecca Clarke, Roland Appel joins Nicola with violin accompaniment (remember his lovely viola playing a couple of years ago ?)
You can read full details of Nicola Berg's concert on the concert webpage.
Next week we have a Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert with our first lady organist, Gillian Lloyd. Gillian is a popular recitalist and holds the post of organist at Guildford United Reformed Church.
Her programme covers four centuries of organ music opening with John Stanley, and moving through JS Bach, Mendelssohn, to English composers Norman Cocker and Jeffrey Lloyd, closing, appropriately, with a Finale by Louis Vierne.
You can read full details of Gillian Lloyd's concert on the concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee are available afterwards, making time to chat together and with the musicians.
Parking: For Nicola Berg's concert at Leatherhead Methodist Church we advise using the Leatherhead's multi-story or Church Street car parks. For Gillian Lloyd's organ concert, Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking.
Her programme covers four centuries of organ music opening with John Stanley, and moving through JS Bach, Mendelssohn, to English composers Norman Cocker and Jeffrey Lloyd, closing, appropriately, with a Finale by Louis Vierne.
You can read full details of Gillian Lloyd's concert on the concert webpage.
These 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Tea and coffee are available afterwards, making time to chat together and with the musicians.
Parking: For Nicola Berg's concert at Leatherhead Methodist Church we advise using the Leatherhead's multi-story or Church Street car parks. For Gillian Lloyd's organ concert, Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking.
Thursday 11th May **7pm • Rose Consort of Viols • Early music concert
Tickets: £15 (£12 concs) • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road
Friday 12th May 7.30pm • Guildford Opera Company
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Saturday 13th May **6.30pm • Guildford Opera Company
Leo Delibes: Lakme - in English, fully staged, with piano duet accompaniment
Tickets: £20 from Guildford Tourist Information Centre • Guildford: Holy Trinity Church, High Street
Saturday 13th May 7.30pm • Epsom Male Voice Choir • Annual Epsom Concert
with guest artistes the guitar duo of Francisco Correa and David Massey
Tickets: £16.85 (approx) • Epsom: The Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, KT18 5AL
Saturday 13th May 7.30pm • South Nutfield Choral Society • Songs of Sea & Soul
Elgar: Sea Pictures, & music by Gershwin, Berlin & Porter, songs from Mark Hodgson's new musical Land of Dreams
Tickets: £12, students £6, u10s free • Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN
Saturday 13th May 7.30pm • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Red Priest - extraordinary Baroque ensemble present: Handel in the Wind
Tickets: £12 (school pupils free) • Banstead: Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ
Sunday 14th May 7.30pm - FRC • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Festival concludes with Choral Evensong • All Saints' Choir, Jan Pringle, music director
Banstead: All Saints Church, High Street, SM7 2NN
Sunday 14th May 8pm - FRC • Ripieno Choir • Il Divino
Claudio Monteverdi on the 450th anniversary of his birth. The concert will last approximately an hour and will be followed by wine and cake!
Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
Wednesday 17th May 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Wednesdays at Christ Church •
Guest organist: Gillian Lloyd, Organist of Guildford United Reformed Church
inc music by Bach, Stanley, Mendelssohn, Cocker, Vierne • Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
Wednesday 17th May 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Andrew Scott, St Michael & All Angels W Croydon • West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 18th May **7pm • Haslemere Strings Competition • Young violin, viola, & double bass players
Tickets: at the door • Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, St Christopher's Green, GU27 1DD
Saturday 20th May **7pm • Bramley Music Concert Series • Royal College of Music Concert
supporting The Orpheus Centre (founded by Sir Ricard Stillgoe)
Elysian Piano Trio : Emily Sun, violin • Jane Lindsay, cello • Jennifer Hughes, piano
music by Haydn, Schumann, Kreisler, Handel, Brahms
Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) • Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD
Saturday 20th May 7.30pm • Together in Music • Waverley Ensemble • Surrey Hills Chamber Choir
Baroque & Classical highlights of Corelli, Telemann, Handel and Haydn
Tickets: £14, u16 £5 from stuartwhite AT waitrose DOT com • Guildford: St Nicolas' Church, Bury Street, GU1 4QD
Saturday 20th May 7.30pm • Cello & Guitar Recital • in aid of the pipe organ restoration fund
Kein Loh, guitar & Frankie Carr, cello (final year students of the Yehudi Menuhin School)
Tickets: £8 (u16s Free) • Tadworth: Church of the Good Sheherd, The Avenue, KT20 5AS
Saturday 20th May 7.30pm • Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra • Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor • Margaret Whittall, leader
Weber: Overture Der Freischütz • Gordon Jacob: Violin Concerto (soloist Clare Howick) • Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, The New World
Tickets: £18 (u18/student £9) 01♦ 372• 275♥9 07 or click dateline • Ashtead: Peace Memorial Hall, Woodfield Lane, KT21 2BE
Plenty to consider there then ! Of course I will be happiest to see you at one of our own 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead this Thursday 11th May at LMC and Wednesday of next week, the 17th, at Christ Church. Enjoy your musical choices, whether as audience, performer or somewhere in the essential background !
Tickets: £15 (£12 concs) • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road
Friday 12th May 7.30pm • Guildford Opera Company
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Saturday 13th May **6.30pm • Guildford Opera Company
Leo Delibes: Lakme - in English, fully staged, with piano duet accompaniment
Tickets: £20 from Guildford Tourist Information Centre • Guildford: Holy Trinity Church, High Street
Saturday 13th May 7.30pm • Epsom Male Voice Choir • Annual Epsom Concert
with guest artistes the guitar duo of Francisco Correa and David Massey
Tickets: £16.85 (approx) • Epsom: The Playhouse, Ashley Avenue, KT18 5AL
Saturday 13th May 7.30pm • South Nutfield Choral Society • Songs of Sea & Soul
Elgar: Sea Pictures, & music by Gershwin, Berlin & Porter, songs from Mark Hodgson's new musical Land of Dreams
Tickets: £12, students £6, u10s free • Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN
Saturday 13th May 7.30pm • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Red Priest - extraordinary Baroque ensemble present: Handel in the Wind
Tickets: £12 (school pupils free) • Banstead: Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ
Sunday 14th May 7.30pm - FRC • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Festival concludes with Choral Evensong • All Saints' Choir, Jan Pringle, music director
Banstead: All Saints Church, High Street, SM7 2NN
Sunday 14th May 8pm - FRC • Ripieno Choir • Il Divino
Claudio Monteverdi on the 450th anniversary of his birth. The concert will last approximately an hour and will be followed by wine and cake!
Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
Wednesday 17th May 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Wednesdays at Christ Church •
Guest organist: Gillian Lloyd, Organist of Guildford United Reformed Church
inc music by Bach, Stanley, Mendelssohn, Cocker, Vierne • Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Rd
Wednesday 17th May 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Andrew Scott, St Michael & All Angels W Croydon • West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 18th May **7pm • Haslemere Strings Competition • Young violin, viola, & double bass players
Tickets: at the door • Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, St Christopher's Green, GU27 1DD
Saturday 20th May **7pm • Bramley Music Concert Series • Royal College of Music Concert
supporting The Orpheus Centre (founded by Sir Ricard Stillgoe)
Elysian Piano Trio : Emily Sun, violin • Jane Lindsay, cello • Jennifer Hughes, piano
music by Haydn, Schumann, Kreisler, Handel, Brahms
Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) • Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD
Saturday 20th May 7.30pm • Together in Music • Waverley Ensemble • Surrey Hills Chamber Choir
Baroque & Classical highlights of Corelli, Telemann, Handel and Haydn
Tickets: £14, u16 £5 from stuartwhite AT waitrose DOT com • Guildford: St Nicolas' Church, Bury Street, GU1 4QD
Saturday 20th May 7.30pm • Cello & Guitar Recital • in aid of the pipe organ restoration fund
Kein Loh, guitar & Frankie Carr, cello (final year students of the Yehudi Menuhin School)
Tickets: £8 (u16s Free) • Tadworth: Church of the Good Sheherd, The Avenue, KT20 5AS
Saturday 20th May 7.30pm • Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra • Mark Fitz-Gerald, conductor • Margaret Whittall, leader
Weber: Overture Der Freischütz • Gordon Jacob: Violin Concerto (soloist Clare Howick) • Dvorak: Symphony No 9 in E minor, The New World
Tickets: £18 (u18/student £9) 01♦ 372• 275♥9 07 or click dateline • Ashtead: Peace Memorial Hall, Woodfield Lane, KT21 2BE
Plenty to consider there then ! Of course I will be happiest to see you at one of our own 12.30 lunchtime concerts in Leatherhead this Thursday 11th May at LMC and Wednesday of next week, the 17th, at Christ Church. Enjoy your musical choices, whether as audience, performer or somewhere in the essential background !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 1st May 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 1st May 2017
Dear Friends,
More than 50 people have come to each of the Thursday concerts so far this season. That's a very pleasing start as in previous years it has taken a few weeks for the audience to build to that kind of number. It means plenty of new faces too ! The email list for this newsletter now stands at 258 members (plus a few where people share the same email address).
For this Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church we welcome a cellist who has been with these weekly concerts since their first year.
Jacqueline Phillips played all six of Bach's Cello Suites last year, a journey our audience clearly enjoyed. This Thursday lunchtime she returns, with fellow cellist Julian Metzger, for a programme of music written by two cellists of the 18th and 19th centuries - Jean-Baptiste Barrière and Julius Klengel.
You can read more about this concert, and listen to videos of the music Jacqueline and Julian will be performing, by clicking through to this concert webpage.
Next week's Music on Thursdays at LMC concert, entitled Songs of the Countryside, will be performed by soprano Nicola Berg, with pianist Lynda Chang. Nicola will also be joined by her violinist husband Roland Appel. Full details of their programme, which spans the British Isles, are ready on this concert webpage.
Music on Thursdays at LMC 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Leatherhead Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road, has level access throughout. The nearest car parks likely to have spaces are the Swan Centre multi-storey and the one behind the new Waitrose, in Church Street. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC.
After each concert there will be time to chat over a cup of tea or coffee, so don't feel you have to rush away.
Still to come this month is our Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert. This month's guest organist, on May 17th, is Gillian Lloyd, a popular recitalist, and organist of the very musical Guildford United Reformed Church. I'm ashamed to admit that Gillian is the first lady to have been invited to play in these monthly concerts. Never mind, we have another one lined up for June!
The following week, we welcome back Bartosz Glowacki, one of two accordion players who came to us originally from the Royal Academy of Music. You can check out his concert programme for May 25th on this concert webpage.
I know many of you have been looking forward to the return of amazing viola player Timothy Ridout. He will be in Leatherhead (at LMC) on Thursday June 1st with fellow player Ting-Ru Lai for a viola duo concert. They are both touring at the moment, so their programme has just come in this afternoon. It should be viewable online by the end of the week.
Let's take a look at the enormous variety of local music events on offer in the coming days:
(FRC means Free, with a retiring collection)
Jacqueline Phillips played all six of Bach's Cello Suites last year, a journey our audience clearly enjoyed. This Thursday lunchtime she returns, with fellow cellist Julian Metzger, for a programme of music written by two cellists of the 18th and 19th centuries - Jean-Baptiste Barrière and Julius Klengel.
You can read more about this concert, and listen to videos of the music Jacqueline and Julian will be performing, by clicking through to this concert webpage.
Next week's Music on Thursdays at LMC concert, entitled Songs of the Countryside, will be performed by soprano Nicola Berg, with pianist Lynda Chang. Nicola will also be joined by her violinist husband Roland Appel. Full details of their programme, which spans the British Isles, are ready on this concert webpage.
Music on Thursdays at LMC 12.30 lunchtime concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs.
Leatherhead Methodist Church, in the one-way section of Church Road, has level access throughout. The nearest car parks likely to have spaces are the Swan Centre multi-storey and the one behind the new Waitrose, in Church Street. They are about 5-7 minutes walk from LMC.
After each concert there will be time to chat over a cup of tea or coffee, so don't feel you have to rush away.
Still to come this month is our Wednesdays at Christ Church organ concert. This month's guest organist, on May 17th, is Gillian Lloyd, a popular recitalist, and organist of the very musical Guildford United Reformed Church. I'm ashamed to admit that Gillian is the first lady to have been invited to play in these monthly concerts. Never mind, we have another one lined up for June!
The following week, we welcome back Bartosz Glowacki, one of two accordion players who came to us originally from the Royal Academy of Music. You can check out his concert programme for May 25th on this concert webpage.
I know many of you have been looking forward to the return of amazing viola player Timothy Ridout. He will be in Leatherhead (at LMC) on Thursday June 1st with fellow player Ting-Ru Lai for a viola duo concert. They are both touring at the moment, so their programme has just come in this afternoon. It should be viewable online by the end of the week.
Let's take a look at the enormous variety of local music events on offer in the coming days:
(FRC means Free, with a retiring collection)
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Tuesday 2nd May 2017 12.45pm - FRC
Organ Masterworks: Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence JS Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor "Dorian" BWV 538 Guilmant: Sonata No 8 in A major Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Tuesday 2nd May **7pm - FREE Swing, Jazz, & Dance Evening various ensembles from the School Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School., Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road Thursday 4th May ***7.30am*** - FREE May Morning Madrigals ♦ St John's Schola Cantorum Sumer is icumen in • Gibbons: The Silver Swan Morley: Now is the month of Maying • Farmer: Fair Phyllis to be followed by breakfast in the Dining Hall Tickets: FREE - but please book Leatherhead: Main Quad, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road Thursday 4th May 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Music on Thursdays at LMC The Two Cellos of Jacqueline Phillips & Julian Metzger Jean-Baptiste Barrière: Sonata 10 • Julius Klengel: Suite for Two Cellos Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 6th May 12 noon - FRC Buck Brass Trio Daniel Walton, trumpet • Timothy Ellis, horn • Richard Buck, trombone Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW Leatherhead Parish Church Organfest ► ► ► Saturday evening choices: Saturday 6th May 7.30pm Dorking Chamber Orchestra Clare Kennington, violin • Andrew Morley, conductor Beethoven Violin Concerto • Rossini Overture Barber of Seville • Haydn Symphony No 99 Tickets: £14 (60+ £12, students £7, u15s free) Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW Saturday 6th May 7.30pm BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra music by Haydn, Kodaly, Elgar Dvorak Tickets: £12 (school pupils free) Banstead: Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ Saturday 6th May 7.30pm South Nutfield Choral Society Songs of Sea & Soul ♦ Elgar: Sea Pictures, & music by Gershwin, Berlin & Porter, songs from Mark Hodgson's new musical Land of Dreams ♦ Tickets: £12, students £6, u10s free Redhill: Christ Church, Kings Cross Lane, South Nutfield, RH1 5NJ Saturday 6th May 8pm Oxted & Limpsfield Music Society The Pat Davey Quartet: Duke Ellington - from Ragtime to Post-bop Pat Davey, drums • Andrea di Biase, double bass Arthur Lea, piano • Jon Shenoy, sax & clarinet Tickets: £20 Limpsfield: Bawtree Hall, Baily Building, Hazelwood School, Wolfs Hill, RH8 0QU Sunday 7th May 3pm Dorking Concertgoers Sitkovetsky Piano Trio music by Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Dvorák Tickets: £21 from Dkg Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19, OR Menuhin Hall • 0870 842020 • Menuhin Hall website Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ Monday 8th May 7.30pm BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL Banstead Organ & Keyboard Club present an evening with Brett Wales, showtunes, jazz, light classics ♦ Tickets: £8 Banstead: All Saints Church Institute, High Street, SM7 2NG |
Tuesday 2nd May 1pm
BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL Alke String Quartet - lunchtime concert works by Haydn • Webern • Janacek Tickets: £6 Banstead: All Saints Church, High Street, SM7 2NN Wednesday 3rd May 1.10pm - FRC Organist: Edward Hewes, Southwark Cathedral West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA Saturday 6th May afternoon 2pm to 4.30pm - FRC Organfest - part of the Dancing in the Aisles weekend featuring the restored 1½ manual 1766 Thomas Parker English Pipe Organ hear this historic instrument played in varying styles, with music from across the centuries, by five different organists:
Saturday 6th May 7.30pm Guildford Choral • Southern Pro Musica concert supporting Shooting Star Chase, Children Hospice Care Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) Guildford: G Live, London Road, GU1 2AA Saturday 6th May 7.30pm Poetry in Music: An Evening of Italian Opera in aid of refugee support charities • arias and ensembles by Mozart, Puccini, Handel and more, insights into the pieces, lyrics and composers from Matteo Dalle Fratte, Coach at the Royal Opera House Tickets: £13.02 (£6.51 u16s) in advance, click dateline for info, £15 (£7.50 u16s) on the door Dorking: St Paul's Church, St Paul's Road West, RH4 2HT Saturday 6th May 7.30pm The Darenth Diversion Claire Dillon, violin • Danny Kingshill, cello • Isabel Pearce, keyboard & oboe ♦ music from Bach to Gershwin and beyond ! Tickets: £12.50 www.ticketsource.co.uk/date/352772 or at the door Oxted: St Peter's Church, Tandridge Lane, RH8 9NJ Sunday 7th May 3pm - FRC Cavaille-Coll Mutin Organ Neil Wright, Abbey Organist Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA Tuesday 9th May 7.30pm BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL Lunchtime Concert with Emily Sun, violin • Jennifer Hughes, piano music by Schubert, Grieg, Frolov ♦ Tickets: £6 Banstead: All Saints Church, High Street, SM7 2NN |
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That represents an amazing array of choices ! If you would like to plan your musical amusement for the rest of the merry month of May you have only to visit our sister site - musicinsurrey.co.uk
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I hope you enjoy your personal selection from among these musical delights and I look forward to welcoming you to a 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead very soon.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 24th April 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 24th April 2017
Dear Friends,
Two of our Autumn concerts were booked last week, leaving just one Autumn vacancy at the moment, and that is under discussion.
London College of Music asked to take the first two weeks of November, the 2nd of November for an opera highlights concert. The idea for that came out of audience conversations after their Alice in Wonderland performance at the beginning of the month. The 9th of November they would like for a pianist. Artiste names will be filled in closer to the concert dates.
London College of Music asked to take the first two weeks of November, the 2nd of November for an opera highlights concert. The idea for that came out of audience conversations after their Alice in Wonderland performance at the beginning of the month. The 9th of November they would like for a pianist. Artiste names will be filled in closer to the concert dates.
Back to this week, and a first visit this Thursday by the Ellis Ensemble. Woodwind concerts are always popular, but clarinet, bassoon and piano is a combination we have not heard here before. While bassoonist Susanne Simma played in a lunchtime concert five years ago, when she was still at the Royal Academy of Music, clarinettist Kimon Parry and pianist Belinda Jones are welcome newcomers.
The Ensemble were eager to squeeze plenty of variety into Thursday's concert. They will be playing selected movements from each of: Mendelssohn's Concert Piece No 2, a Brahms Clarinet Trio, and Suite Cantando by Bill Douglas. There are video recordings of these at the foot of the concert webpage.
Next week, Thursday May 4th, sees the return of a popular player, cellist Jacqueline Phillips. She and Julian Metzger have chosen two works by composers who were themselves cellists. You can read more about this double cello concert on their concert webpage.
Peeping further into the merry month of May, I see Nicola Berg's Songs of the Countryside on the 11th, May's invited organist on the 17th is Gillian Lloyd, from Guildford URC (a Church with its own music society!), and the return of Polish accordion player Bartosz Glowacki on the 25th. You can safely click on those underlines as the concert pages are all set up - even the video samples are ready for you.
The Banstead Arts Festival gets underway this weekend. You will find the music events listed on musicinsurrey.co.uk, and the full event list is on the festival society's website.
We must not forget Organfest on Saturday May 6th from 2pm to 4.30pm.
Leatherhead Parish Church is home to an early English pipe organ which was wonderfully restored in 2007.
On May 6th five organists will take turns to present music on this historic instrument. Here are some pointers to an interesting afternoon:
Organists and their individual timings are listed on our homepage. This is a free Parish Church event, with a collection at the door.
On May 6th five organists will take turns to present music on this historic instrument. Here are some pointers to an interesting afternoon:
- the 1766 Thomas Parker English Pipe Organ was built in London, and first purchased by Watford Parish Church
- it was purchased by Leatherhead Parish Church in 1843
- the organ has 1½ manuals and, as you see in the photo, no pedals (the English were later than Europeans in adding pedals to organs)
- how often do we have the opportunity to hear five different organists perform on a single instrument ?
- come and go as you please during the afternoon, there is no formal start and finish
- there will be pauses for refreshments and other 'necessities' every half hour or so
Organists and their individual timings are listed on our homepage. This is a free Parish Church event, with a collection at the door.
Also on May 6th, Buck Brass Trio will have a concert in the 12noon series at St Martin's Church, off Dorking High Street. Buck Brass will be with us when we visit St John's School in August, but personally, I just can't get enough of them. If you see me thumbing a lift back to Leatherhead for Organfest afterwards, please be kind!
Let's take a look at the whole range of events coming our way over the next 10 days or so:
Let's take a look at the whole range of events coming our way over the next 10 days or so:
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Wednesday 26th April 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Ricardo Gnudi, Goteborg, Sweden West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA Thursday 27th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Music on Thursdays at LMC • Ellis Ensemble: Kimon Parry, clarinet Susanne Simma, bassoon • Belinda Jones, piano works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bill Douglas Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 29th April 7.30pm A Celebration of the Saxophone John Harle, saxophone • Steve Lodder, piano Tickets: £15 with Prosecco Reception (U18s £10) Concert in aid of All Saints' Witley's Youth Volunteering Trip to Kwasa Education Centre, Johannesburg Witley: All Saints Church, King Edwards School, Petworth Rd, GU8 5SG |
Wednesday 26th April **7pm The Marian Consort Early Music vocal ensemble Tickets: £15 (£12 conc) Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road Saturday 29th April 4pm - FRC Piano & Organ Concert with Animation The Scott Brothers Duo London: Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, Shaftesbury Ave, WC2H 8EP (bus no 1 from Waterloo, or 242 from City Thameslink) Saturday 29th April 7.30pm BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL Young Musicians' Showcase a selection of young local talent Tickets: £8 Banstead: Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ |
Wednesday 3rd May 1.10pm - FRC Organist: Edward Hewes, Southwark Cathedral West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA |
Tuesday 2nd May 2017 12.45pm - FRC
Organ Masterworks Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence JS Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor "Dorian" BWV 538 • Guilmant: Sonata No 8 in A major Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ Tuesday 2nd May 1pm BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL Alke String Quartet - lunchtime concert works by Haydn • Webern • Janacek Tickets: £6 Banstead: All Saints Church, High Street, SM7 2NN Tuesday 2nd May **7pm - FREE Swing, Jazz, & Dance Evening various ensembles from the School Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School., Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road |
Thursday 4th May ***7.30am*** - FREE • May Morning Madrigals • St John's Schola Cantorum
Sumer is icumen in • Gibbons: The Silver Swan • Morley: Now is the month of Maying • Farmer: Fair Phyllis
to be followed by breakfast in the Dining Hall
Tickets: FREE - but please book • Leatherhead: Main Quad, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road
Thursday 4th May 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Music on Thursdays at LMC • The Two Cellos of Jacqueline Phillips & Julian Metzger
Jean-Baptiste Barrière: Sonata 10 • Julius Klengel: Suite for Two Cellos
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Saturday 6th May 12 noon - FRC • Buck Brass Trio
Daniel Walton, trumpet • Timothy Ellis, horn • Richard Buck, trombone
Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 6th May afternoon 2pm to 4.30pm - FRC
Organfest - part of the Leatherhead Parish Church Dancing in the Aisles weekend • featuring the restored 1½ manual 1766 Thomas Parker English Pipe Organ • hear this historic instrument played in music across the centuries, by five organists: Richard Price, Leatherhead Parish Church, Yvette Murphy, Organ Scholar, St John's School, Anthony Cairns, Director of Music, Christ Church (United Reformed), Robert Woolley, Professor of Keyboards, Royal College of Music, Revd Roy Woodhams, Organ Adviser to Oxford Diocese • Leatherhead: Church Road, KT22 8BD
Saturday 6th May 7.30pm • Dorking Chamber Orchestra • Clare Kennington, violin • Andrew Morley, conductor
Beethoven Violin Concerto • Composition by winner of DCO Young Composer 2016-17 competition • Rossini Overture Barber of Seville • Haydn Symphony No 99 • Tickets: £14 (60+ £12, students £7, u15s free) • Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 6th May 7.30pm • Guildford Choral • Southern Pro Musica • concert supporting Shooting Star Chase, Children Hospice Care
Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) • Guildford: G Live, London Road, GU1 2AA
Saturday 6th May 7.30pm • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra • music by Haydn, Kodaly, Elgar Dvorak • Tickets: £12 (school pupils free)
Banstead: Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ
Saturday 6th May 7.30pm • Poetry in Music: An Evening of Italian Opera • in aid of refugee support charities
arias and ensembles by Mozart, Puccini, Handel and more, insights into the pieces, lyrics and composers from Matteo Dalle Fratte, Coach at the Royal Opera House • Tickets: £13.02 (£6.51 u16s) in advance, click dateline for info, £15 (£7.50 u16s) on the door
Dorking: St Paul's Church, St Paul's Road West, RH4 2HT
Saturday 6th May 8pm • Oxted & Limpsfield Music Society
The Pat Davey Quartet • Duke Ellington - from Ragtime to Post-bop
Pat Davey, drums • Andrea di Biase, double bass • Arthur Lea, piano • Jon Shenoy, sax & clarinet
Tickets: £20 • Limpsfield: Bawtree Hall, Baily Building, Hazelwood School, Wolfs Hill, RH8 0QU
Sunday 7th May 3pm • Dorking Concertgoers
Sitkovetsky Piano Trio • music by Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Dvorák
Tickets: £21 from Dkg Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19, OR Menuhin Hall • 0870 842020 • Menuhin Hall website
Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ
Sunday 7th May 3pm - FRC • Cavaille-Coll Mutin Organ
Neil Wright, Abbey Organist
Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA
Monday 8th May 7.30pm • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Banstead Organ & Keyboard Club present
an evening with Brett Wales, showtunes, jazz, light classics
Tickets: £8 • Banstead: All Saints Church Institute, High Street, SM7 2NG
Tuesday 9th May 7.30pm • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Lunchtime Concert with Emily Sun, violin • Jennifer Hughes, piano
music by Schubert, Grieg, Frolov
Tickets: £6 • Banstead: All Saints Church, High Street, SM7 2NN
Wednesday 10th May 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Istvan Ella, Budapest, Hungary
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 11th May 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Music on Thursdays at LMC
Songs of the Countryside • Nicola Berg, soprano • Roland Appel, violin • Lynda Chang, piano
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Thursday 11th May **7pm
Rose Consort of Viols • Early music concert
Tickets: £15 (£12 concs) • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road
Sumer is icumen in • Gibbons: The Silver Swan • Morley: Now is the month of Maying • Farmer: Fair Phyllis
to be followed by breakfast in the Dining Hall
Tickets: FREE - but please book • Leatherhead: Main Quad, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road
Thursday 4th May 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Music on Thursdays at LMC • The Two Cellos of Jacqueline Phillips & Julian Metzger
Jean-Baptiste Barrière: Sonata 10 • Julius Klengel: Suite for Two Cellos
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Saturday 6th May 12 noon - FRC • Buck Brass Trio
Daniel Walton, trumpet • Timothy Ellis, horn • Richard Buck, trombone
Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 6th May afternoon 2pm to 4.30pm - FRC
Organfest - part of the Leatherhead Parish Church Dancing in the Aisles weekend • featuring the restored 1½ manual 1766 Thomas Parker English Pipe Organ • hear this historic instrument played in music across the centuries, by five organists: Richard Price, Leatherhead Parish Church, Yvette Murphy, Organ Scholar, St John's School, Anthony Cairns, Director of Music, Christ Church (United Reformed), Robert Woolley, Professor of Keyboards, Royal College of Music, Revd Roy Woodhams, Organ Adviser to Oxford Diocese • Leatherhead: Church Road, KT22 8BD
Saturday 6th May 7.30pm • Dorking Chamber Orchestra • Clare Kennington, violin • Andrew Morley, conductor
Beethoven Violin Concerto • Composition by winner of DCO Young Composer 2016-17 competition • Rossini Overture Barber of Seville • Haydn Symphony No 99 • Tickets: £14 (60+ £12, students £7, u15s free) • Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 6th May 7.30pm • Guildford Choral • Southern Pro Musica • concert supporting Shooting Star Chase, Children Hospice Care
Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) • Guildford: G Live, London Road, GU1 2AA
Saturday 6th May 7.30pm • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Yehudi Menuhin School Orchestra • music by Haydn, Kodaly, Elgar Dvorak • Tickets: £12 (school pupils free)
Banstead: Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ
Saturday 6th May 7.30pm • Poetry in Music: An Evening of Italian Opera • in aid of refugee support charities
arias and ensembles by Mozart, Puccini, Handel and more, insights into the pieces, lyrics and composers from Matteo Dalle Fratte, Coach at the Royal Opera House • Tickets: £13.02 (£6.51 u16s) in advance, click dateline for info, £15 (£7.50 u16s) on the door
Dorking: St Paul's Church, St Paul's Road West, RH4 2HT
Saturday 6th May 8pm • Oxted & Limpsfield Music Society
The Pat Davey Quartet • Duke Ellington - from Ragtime to Post-bop
Pat Davey, drums • Andrea di Biase, double bass • Arthur Lea, piano • Jon Shenoy, sax & clarinet
Tickets: £20 • Limpsfield: Bawtree Hall, Baily Building, Hazelwood School, Wolfs Hill, RH8 0QU
Sunday 7th May 3pm • Dorking Concertgoers
Sitkovetsky Piano Trio • music by Haydn, Saint-Saëns, Dvorák
Tickets: £21 from Dkg Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19, OR Menuhin Hall • 0870 842020 • Menuhin Hall website
Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ
Sunday 7th May 3pm - FRC • Cavaille-Coll Mutin Organ
Neil Wright, Abbey Organist
Farnborough: St Michael's Abbey, 280 Farnborough Road, GU14 7NA
Monday 8th May 7.30pm • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Banstead Organ & Keyboard Club present
an evening with Brett Wales, showtunes, jazz, light classics
Tickets: £8 • Banstead: All Saints Church Institute, High Street, SM7 2NG
Tuesday 9th May 7.30pm • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Lunchtime Concert with Emily Sun, violin • Jennifer Hughes, piano
music by Schubert, Grieg, Frolov
Tickets: £6 • Banstead: All Saints Church, High Street, SM7 2NN
Wednesday 10th May 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Istvan Ella, Budapest, Hungary
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 11th May 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Music on Thursdays at LMC
Songs of the Countryside • Nicola Berg, soprano • Roland Appel, violin • Lynda Chang, piano
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Thursday 11th May **7pm
Rose Consort of Viols • Early music concert
Tickets: £15 (£12 concs) • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road
You can rely on Banstead Arts to put a bit of variety into the programme. Add to that some interesting events at St John's School, plus all the choral and organ offerings, we are almost spoilt for choice. Enjoy your pick of these music events !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Apologies for the May Day picture, but I thought Magdalen Chapel Choir on top of the tower was a little too predictable. Get up early and be in Oxford by 5.30am to join the crowds for a fun May Morning !
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 17th April 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Monday, 17th April 2017
Dear Friends,
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Following two very successful concerts before Easter, this week we turn to the organ, and Wednesdays at Christ Church. Our guest organist for April is David OIdfield. David played a very enjoyable recital a year ago and we are pleased to welcome him to Christ Church once more.
Since his previous concert here David has founded cathedral stand-in choir Stag Montem Chorem, and has taken up the post of Director of Music at St Luke's Whyteleafe. His choice of repertoire for Wednesday lunchtime ranges from works by Bach and Clérambault, written at the beginning of the 1700s, to composers who bridge the 19th and 20th centuries - Bossi, Dubois, Stanford, and Hindemith. You will find links to video performances of the music in Wednesday's concert towards the foot of the concert webpage. This free concert begins at 12.30 on Wednesday 19th April, in Christ Church, Epsom Road. There is plenty of on-site parking, and afterwards there is time for tea, coffee and chat. Your contribution to costs will be most welcome ! Full details here. The following week we return to Music onThursdays at LMC for a wind and piano trio. The Ellis Ensemble come to us for the first time on April 27th. They play clarinet, bassoon and piano, and have chosen to perform movements from three works by Mendelssohn, Brahms and Bill Douglas. More information, and videolinks, are available on the concert webpage. |
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Moving into May, on the 4th we will hear again cellists Jacqueline Phillips and Julian Metzger, on the 11th soprano Nicola Berg, once again accompanied by Lynda Chang, and joined by husband Roland Appel, this time on his first instrument, violin. In May our guest organist is to be Gillian Lloyd, of Guildford United Reformed Church.
Let's take a look too at some of the musical offerings in the area over the next couple of weeks:
Let's take a look too at some of the musical offerings in the area over the next couple of weeks:
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Saturday 22nd April 2017 7.30pm
Dorking Concertgoers Piatti String Quartet Series music by Brahms & Beethoven Tickets: £20 from Dkg Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19, OR Dkg Halls • 01306 881717 • Dkg Halls website Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ Saturday 22nd April 7.30pm - FRC MAIASTRA Eunsley Park, violin • Francesca Gilbert, viola Matthijs Broersma, cello • Ljubica Stojanovic, piano Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No 3 in B minor, Op 3 Brahms: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor, Op 60 Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ Wednesday 26th April 1.10pm - FRC Organist: Ricardo Gnudi, Goteborg, Sweden West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA Thursday 27th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC Music on Thursdays at LMC Ellis Ensemble Kimon Parry, clarinet • Susanne Simma, bassoon • Belinda Jones, piano works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bill Douglas Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Saturday 29th April 4pm - FRC Piano & Organ Concert with Animation The Scott Brothers Duo London: Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, Shaftesbury Ave, WC2H 8EP (bus no 1 from Waterloo, or 242 from City Thameslink) Saturday 29th April 7.30pm A Celebration of the Saxophone John Harle, saxophone • Steve Lodder, piano Tickets: £15 with Prosecco Reception (U18s £10) Concert in aid of All Saints' Witley's Youth Volunteering Trip to Kwasa Education Centre, Johannesburg Witley: All Saints Church, King Edwards School, Petworth Road, GU8 5SG |
Saturday 22nd April 7.30pm - FRC
A Celebration of Weddings Readings, Organ music, Choir anthems John Sharples, Melvin Hughes, organists Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN Sunday 23rd April 7.30pm - FRC MAIASTRA Eunsley Park, violin • Francesca Gilbert, viola Matthijs Broersma, cello • Ljubica Stojanovic, piano Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No 3 in B minor, Op 3 Brahms: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor, Op 60 Brentford: The Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW8 0DU Wednesday 26th April **7pm The Marian Consort Early Music vocal ensemble Tickets: £15 (£12 conc) Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School, Epsom Road, KT22 8SP, car park in Garlands Road Saturday 29th April 7.30pm BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL Young Musicians' Showcase a selection of young local talent Tickets: £8 Banstead: Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ If you would like to view musical events for the beginning of May, please click on the button below: |
I hope you have enjoyed your Easter weekend, and I look forward to welcoming you to Wednesday's 12.30 lunchtime organ concert at Christ Church.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
10th April 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
10th April 2017
Dear Friends,
Over 50 of us were at last week;s opening concert. We learned that there are 28 parts in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. You will have seen the cast list in which our five singers accounted for 7 roles. The remaining 21 were played by their Professor of Voice - William Allenby - from his place at the piano! It all made for a lively semi-staged performance.
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church comes from three international postgraduate students of the Royal Academy of Music - Trio Opal.
This Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church comes from three international postgraduate students of the Royal Academy of Music - Trio Opal.
For pianist Yi-Shing Cheng this is a second visit. She came to us in September 2015, accompanying violinist Anna Orlik. Now she returns with Eriko Nagayama, violin and Joel Siepmann, cello.
Their concert consists of two works, a piano trio by Haydn, with movements marked Allegro, Andante, and Presto, and another written 50 years later by Robert Schumann whose markings are in German. The fourth and final movement says 'Mit feuer' - which looks like 'with fire' or 'con fuoco'.
You can read the players' biographies and the full programme information on this link. Recordings of these two piano trios are also linked from the same webpage.
Straight after Easter, at 12.30 on Wednesday 19th April, our next organ concert takes place in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead. This month's guest organist is David Oldfield who is Director of Music at St Luke's Whyteleafe and runs Stag Montem Chorem - a choir that sings in cathedrals when their home choir is not available.
Another returning artiste, you will find details of David's programme on this linked concert webpage.
These concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout. While Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking, for LMC it is best to use the car park behind Waitrose or the Swan Centre multi-storey. They are about 5-7 minutes from Church Road, and LMC.
I look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert this week or next. Meanwhile take a look at the offerings from other local music societies and venues, including Banstead Arts Festival which starts at the end of the month.
Happy Easter !
Their concert consists of two works, a piano trio by Haydn, with movements marked Allegro, Andante, and Presto, and another written 50 years later by Robert Schumann whose markings are in German. The fourth and final movement says 'Mit feuer' - which looks like 'with fire' or 'con fuoco'.
You can read the players' biographies and the full programme information on this link. Recordings of these two piano trios are also linked from the same webpage.
Straight after Easter, at 12.30 on Wednesday 19th April, our next organ concert takes place in Christ Church, Epsom Road, Leatherhead. This month's guest organist is David Oldfield who is Director of Music at St Luke's Whyteleafe and runs Stag Montem Chorem - a choir that sings in cathedrals when their home choir is not available.
Another returning artiste, you will find details of David's programme on this linked concert webpage.
These concerts are free to enter, with a retiring collection to cover costs. Both Churches have level access throughout. While Christ Church has plenty of on-site parking, for LMC it is best to use the car park behind Waitrose or the Swan Centre multi-storey. They are about 5-7 minutes from Church Road, and LMC.
I look forward to seeing you at a lunchtime concert this week or next. Meanwhile take a look at the offerings from other local music societies and venues, including Banstead Arts Festival which starts at the end of the month.
Happy Easter !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music from now to the end of the month - FRC means FREE, with a retiring collection
Thursday 13th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Trio Opal • Eriko Nagayama, violin • Joel Siepmann, cello • Yi-Shing Cheng, piano • courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
Haydn: Piano Trio in C major Hob XV:27 • Schumann: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Wednesday 19 April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: David Oldfield • Organist & Director of Music, St Luke's Whyteleafe, Director, Stag Montem Chorem
works by Dubois, Mendelssohn, Hindemith, Clérambault, Bossi, JS Bach
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road (plenty of parking on site)
Wednesday 19th April 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Michael Overbury, from Newark, Notts
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Saturday 22nd April 2017 7.30pm • Dorking Concertgoers
Piatti String Quartet Series • music by Brahms & Beethoven
Tickets: £20 from Dkg Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19, OR Dkg Halls • 01306 881717 • Dkg Halls website
Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ
Saturday 22nd April 7.30pm - FRC • A Celebration of Weddings
Readings, Organ music, Choir anthems • John Sharples & Melvin Hughes, organists
Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN
Saturday 22nd April 7.30pm - FRC • MAIASTRA
Eunsley Park, violin • Francesca Gilbert, viola • Matthijs Broersma, cello • Ljubica Stojanovic, piano
Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No 3 in B minor, Op 3 • Brahms: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor, Op 60
Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ
Sunday 23rd April 7.30pm - FRC • MAIASTRA
Eunsley Park, violin • Francesca Gilbert, viola • Matthijs Broersma, cello • Ljubica Stojanovic, piano
Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No 3 in B minor, Op 3 • Brahms: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor, Op 60
Brentford: The Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW8 0DU
Wednesday 26th April 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Ricardo Gnudi, Goteborg, Sweden
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 27th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Ellis Ensemble • Kimon Parry, clarinet • Susanne Simma, bassoon • Belinda Jones, piano
works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bill Douglas
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Saturday 29th April 4pm - FRC • Piano & Organ Concert with Animation
The Scott Brothers Duo
London: Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, Shaftesbury Ave, WC2H 8EP (bus no 1 from Waterloo, or 242 from City Thameslink)
Saturday 29th April 7.30pm • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Young Musicians' Showcase • a selection of young local talent
Tickets: £8 • Banstead: Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ
Saturday 29th April 7.30pm • A Celebration of the Saxophone
John Harle, saxophone • Steve Lodder, piano
Tickets: £15 with Prosecco Reception (U18s £10) Concert in aid of All Saints' Witley's Youth Volunteering Trip to Kwasa Education Centre, Johannesburg • Witley: All Saints Church, King Edwards School, Petworth Road, GU8 5SG
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Thursday 13th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Trio Opal • Eriko Nagayama, violin • Joel Siepmann, cello • Yi-Shing Cheng, piano • courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
Haydn: Piano Trio in C major Hob XV:27 • Schumann: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Wednesday 19 April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: David Oldfield • Organist & Director of Music, St Luke's Whyteleafe, Director, Stag Montem Chorem
works by Dubois, Mendelssohn, Hindemith, Clérambault, Bossi, JS Bach
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road (plenty of parking on site)
Wednesday 19th April 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Michael Overbury, from Newark, Notts
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Saturday 22nd April 2017 7.30pm • Dorking Concertgoers
Piatti String Quartet Series • music by Brahms & Beethoven
Tickets: £20 from Dkg Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19, OR Dkg Halls • 01306 881717 • Dkg Halls website
Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ
Saturday 22nd April 7.30pm - FRC • A Celebration of Weddings
Readings, Organ music, Choir anthems • John Sharples & Melvin Hughes, organists
Betchworth: St Michael's Church, RH3 7DN
Saturday 22nd April 7.30pm - FRC • MAIASTRA
Eunsley Park, violin • Francesca Gilbert, viola • Matthijs Broersma, cello • Ljubica Stojanovic, piano
Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No 3 in B minor, Op 3 • Brahms: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor, Op 60
Cobham: St Andrew's Church, Church Street, KT11 3EJ
Sunday 23rd April 7.30pm - FRC • MAIASTRA
Eunsley Park, violin • Francesca Gilbert, viola • Matthijs Broersma, cello • Ljubica Stojanovic, piano
Mendelssohn: Piano Quartet No 3 in B minor, Op 3 • Brahms: Piano Quartet No 3 in C minor, Op 60
Brentford: The Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW8 0DU
Wednesday 26th April 1.10pm - FRC
Organist: Ricardo Gnudi, Goteborg, Sweden
West Croydon: St Michael & All Angels, Poplar Walk, CR0 1UA
Thursday 27th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Ellis Ensemble • Kimon Parry, clarinet • Susanne Simma, bassoon • Belinda Jones, piano
works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bill Douglas
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Saturday 29th April 4pm - FRC • Piano & Organ Concert with Animation
The Scott Brothers Duo
London: Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, Shaftesbury Ave, WC2H 8EP (bus no 1 from Waterloo, or 242 from City Thameslink)
Saturday 29th April 7.30pm • BANSTEAD ARTS FESTIVAL
Young Musicians' Showcase • a selection of young local talent
Tickets: £8 • Banstead: Banstead Community Association Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ
Saturday 29th April 7.30pm • A Celebration of the Saxophone
John Harle, saxophone • Steve Lodder, piano
Tickets: £15 with Prosecco Reception (U18s £10) Concert in aid of All Saints' Witley's Youth Volunteering Trip to Kwasa Education Centre, Johannesburg • Witley: All Saints Church, King Edwards School, Petworth Road, GU8 5SG
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
3rd April 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
3rd April 2017
Dear Friends,
Last Thursday was full of interesting things. The main event was going to the University of West London (in Ealing) to see the London College of Music production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. There were over 100 primary school children and teenagers in the audience. A chance to see their reactions too.
It was an excellent show in which I recognised the five singers who will be with us on Thursday, and the on-stage orchestra included accordion player Aurimas Goris who will be coming to Leatherhead in late May.
It was an excellent show in which I recognised the five singers who will be with us on Thursday, and the on-stage orchestra included accordion player Aurimas Goris who will be coming to Leatherhead in late May.
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Back at home there was an email from the Philharmonia Orchestra with a video link to a music project for teenagers, led by orchestra members as well as some less conventional musicians.
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Here's one LCAS member's reaction: I found it fascinating for a number of reasons. ... takes you away from the classical dimension with all sorts of "urban" styles I was barely even aware of. I've often wondered what all those electronic gismo's did and this gives a feel for what is being cut and pasted together. I love the way they were inspiring youngsters to have a go at classical instruments (with some success too) and based on Beethoven, but with all sorts of opportunities to mix and match with modern sounds. I think (the video) will enthral some people, but equally will be a step too far for those who don't want their classical background disturbed. A few will think you're off your rocker, but quite a number I'm sure will be pleased to enhance their understanding of the modern world.
And to crown it all, my post on Thursday included an official letter from Speaker Bercow asking LCAS to get involved in November's Parliament Week. I'm not sure how that fits a concert society. (Although we are, of course, all citizens of this great parliamentary democracy, the United Kingdom.)
So to the main business of the week, Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert of songs from the family opera
And to crown it all, my post on Thursday included an official letter from Speaker Bercow asking LCAS to get involved in November's Parliament Week. I'm not sure how that fits a concert society. (Although we are, of course, all citizens of this great parliamentary democracy, the United Kingdom.)
So to the main business of the week, Thursday's 12.30 lunchtime concert of songs from the family opera
♥ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ♥
by singers from the London College of Music. These five singers take the roles of Alice (naturally), White Rabbit, Mad Hatter, Bottle, Cheshire Cat, Duchess, plus of course, Queen of Hearts (off with their heads !)
They also know all the chorus parts because LCM select two (or even three) casts for each production, with singers joining the chorus for performances in which they are not required as principals.
They also know all the chorus parts because LCM select two (or even three) casts for each production, with singers joining the chorus for performances in which they are not required as principals.
Our concert performance begins at 12.30, this Thursday 6th April, in Leatherhead Methodist Church. We'll have the kettle going for teas and coffees afterwards, and that all-important chance to chat.
The concert is free to enter, wth a retiring collection to cover costs.
Next week we welcome three students from the Royal Academy of Music with a concert of Piano Trios by Haydn and Schumann.
Meanwhile, do take a look at the list of local music events (below this newsletter), each dateline links to more information where it is available.
Come and enjoy the opening Alice's Adventures in Wonderland concert at 12.30, in Leatherhead Methodist Church this Thursday 6th April, the beginning of a new collaboration between Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts and the London College of Music.
Let's give our new friends from LCM a warm welcome for their first performance in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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The concert is free to enter, wth a retiring collection to cover costs.
Next week we welcome three students from the Royal Academy of Music with a concert of Piano Trios by Haydn and Schumann.
Meanwhile, do take a look at the list of local music events (below this newsletter), each dateline links to more information where it is available.
Come and enjoy the opening Alice's Adventures in Wonderland concert at 12.30, in Leatherhead Methodist Church this Thursday 6th April, the beginning of a new collaboration between Leatherhead's Lunchtime Concerts and the London College of Music.
Let's give our new friends from LCM a warm welcome for their first performance in Leatherhead.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Music for the coming fortnight - FRC means FREE, with a retiring collection
Thursday 6th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♥ Music on Thursdays at LMC - 2017 Opening Concert
sung excerpts from Will Todd's family opera Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Principal singers from the London College of Music with excerpts from their recent production
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Leith Hill Music Festival • Tickets: LHMF Box Office 01403 240093 • Dorking: Dorking Halls, RH4 1SG
Thursday 6th April 7.30pm • Choirs: Dorking - Epsom - Horsley Leatherhead • Southern Pro Musica
Bibi Heal, soprano • Gareth Brynmor John, baritone
Parry: Blest pair of sirens • RVW: Dona nobis pacem
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Friday 7th April 7.30pm • Mendelssohn: Elijah
Choirs: Buckland & Betchworth - Capel - Holmbury St Mary - Oxshott • Southern Pro Musica
Josephine Goddard, soprano • Rosanna Cooper, contralto • Thobela Ntshanyana, tenor • Marcus Farnsworth, bass
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Saturday 8th April 7.30pm • Haydn: Little Organ Mass • Carter: Benedicite
Choirs: Beare Green & Newdigate - Bookham Mickleham - Shalford • Southern Pro Musica • Margo Arsane, soprano
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Thursday 13th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Trio Opal • Eriko Nagayama, violin • Joel Siepmann, cello • Yi-Shing Cheng, piano (courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music)
Haydn: Piano Trio in C major Hob XV:27 • Schumann: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Wednesday 19 April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: David Oldfield • Organist & Director of Music, St Luke's Whyteleafe, Director, Stag Montem Chorem
works by Dubois, Mendelssohn, Hindemith, Clérambault, Bossi, JS Bach
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road (plenty of on-site parking)
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Thursday 6th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC ♥ Music on Thursdays at LMC - 2017 Opening Concert
sung excerpts from Will Todd's family opera Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Principal singers from the London College of Music with excerpts from their recent production
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Leith Hill Music Festival • Tickets: LHMF Box Office 01403 240093 • Dorking: Dorking Halls, RH4 1SG
Thursday 6th April 7.30pm • Choirs: Dorking - Epsom - Horsley Leatherhead • Southern Pro Musica
Bibi Heal, soprano • Gareth Brynmor John, baritone
Parry: Blest pair of sirens • RVW: Dona nobis pacem
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Friday 7th April 7.30pm • Mendelssohn: Elijah
Choirs: Buckland & Betchworth - Capel - Holmbury St Mary - Oxshott • Southern Pro Musica
Josephine Goddard, soprano • Rosanna Cooper, contralto • Thobela Ntshanyana, tenor • Marcus Farnsworth, bass
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Saturday 8th April 7.30pm • Haydn: Little Organ Mass • Carter: Benedicite
Choirs: Beare Green & Newdigate - Bookham Mickleham - Shalford • Southern Pro Musica • Margo Arsane, soprano
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Thursday 13th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Music on Thursdays at LMC
Trio Opal • Eriko Nagayama, violin • Joel Siepmann, cello • Yi-Shing Cheng, piano (courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music)
Haydn: Piano Trio in C major Hob XV:27 • Schumann: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Wednesday 19 April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: David Oldfield • Organist & Director of Music, St Luke's Whyteleafe, Director, Stag Montem Chorem
works by Dubois, Mendelssohn, Hindemith, Clérambault, Bossi, JS Bach
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road (plenty of on-site parking)
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
28th March 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
28th March 2017
Dear Friends,
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Just in case you have not seen this year's Spring/Summer concert programme, here it is, on the right, for you to click on, download, and print.
As the new chamber concert season approaches, personally, I have a couple of highlights this week. On Thursday I shall be going to Ealing and the London College of Music to see their student production of the family opera Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is the principals from this production who will be coming to Leatherhead to bring us highlights from the opera on Thursday 6th April. You can find more about the concert, or this week's opera performances on these links: |
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Our diary of local events opens with what for me is the second highlight of the week. I heard counter-tenor Dan Collins a year ago and when I saw he was coming to Dorking again this Saturday lunchtime the date went straight into my diary. With the recent saving of the 465 bus route it is still going to be easy to get to St Martins too ! What will you pick out from these local events ?
Saturday 1st April 12 noon - FRC • Daniel Collins, counter-tenor (of The Sixteen), with piano accompanist
Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 1st April **7pm • Bramley Music Concert Series • Bells Across the Meadows (the Church bells will be ringing before the concert)
Paul Guinery, piano - a Steinway Grand, with music by Rachmaninov, Debussy, Chopin, Ketèlbey, Billy Mayerl and others, including pieces about bells or sounding like bells
Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) supporting the Holy Trinity Church Bells Restoration Appeal • Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD
Saturday 1st April 7.30pm • English Arts Chorale & Orchestra • JS Bach: St John Passion
Evangelist: Stefan Kennedy • Christus: Thomas Flint • Pilate: Robert Garland • soprano: Jessica Broad • alto: Felicity Turner
tenor: Christopher Hann • conductor: Leslie Olive
Tickets: £20, £15, £12, £6 • Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane RH2 7RN
Saturday 1st April 7.30pm • Chantry Singers • Modulus Quartet • Roy Rashbrook, conductor
Handel: Dixit Dominus • Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden • Tickets: £14 (u16 £2) • Guildford: St Nicolas Church, Bury Street, GU2 4AW
Saturday 1st April 7.30pm • Ashtead Choral Society • Handel: MESSIAH
Tickets: £16 / £13 • Epsom: St Martin's Church
Saturday 1st April 7.30 pm • Tilford Bach Society • Bartosz Woroch, violin • Caroline Palmer, piano
Mozart • Brahms • Schubert • Tickets: £16 on door, £14-50 via web in advance • Farnham: Methodist Church, GU9 7RN
Saturday 1st April 7.30pm • Twickenham Choral Society • Words & Music with Timothy West
Parry: Songs of Farewell • MacMillan: Five Strathclyde Motets • Poulenc: Quatre Motets pour un Temps de Pénitence
Tickets: click dateline for full details • Twickenham: St Mary's Church
Saturday April 1st 7.30pm • East Surrey Choral Society
Music for Easter • Haydn: Little Organ Mass • Stainer: Crucifixion
with soloists from Guildhall School of Music & Drama • Tickets: £10, u14s free • Caterham: Caterham Valley URC, Harestone Hill, CR3 6SX
Thursday 6th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♥ 2017 Opening Concert ♥ sung excerpts from Will Todd's family opera
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Principal singers from the London College of Music with excerpts from their recent production:
Alice • Alice Pearson ♥ White Rabbit • Frank St John ♥ Cheshire Cat / Mad Hatter • Madeline Castrey
Bottle / Duchess • Melodie Hornett ♥ Queen of Hearts • John Wood ♥ Accompanist • William Allenby
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Leith Hill Music Festival • Tickets: LHMF Box Office 01403 240093 • Dorking: Dorking Halls, RH4 1SG
Thursday 6th April 7.30pm • Choirs: Dorking - Epsom - Horsley Leatherhead • Southern Pro Musica
Bibi Heal, soprano • Gareth Brynmor John, baritone • Parry: Blest pair of sirens • RVW: Dona nobis pacem
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Friday 7th April 7.30pm • Mendelssohn: Elijah • Choirs: Buckland & Betchworth - Capel - Holmbury St Mary - Oxshott
Southern Pro Musica • Josephine Goddard, soprano • Rosanna Cooper, contralto • Thobela Ntshanyana, tenor • Marcus Farnsworth, bass
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Saturday 8th April 7.30pm • Haydn: Little Organ Mass • Carter: Benedicite
Choirs: Beare Green & Newdigate - Bookham Mickleham - Shalford • Southern Pro Musica • Margo Arsane, soprano
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Thursday 13th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Music on Thursdays at LMC • Trio Opal • courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music ♥ Eriko Nagayama, violin • Joel Siepmann, cello • Yi-Shing Cheng, piano
Haydn: Piano Trio in C major Hob XV:27 • Schumann: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Wednesday 19th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: David Oldfield • Organist & Director of Music, St Luke's Whyteleafe, Director, Stag Montem Chorem ♥ works by Dubois, Mendelssohn, Hindemith, Clérambault, Bossi, JS Bach
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW
Saturday 1st April **7pm • Bramley Music Concert Series • Bells Across the Meadows (the Church bells will be ringing before the concert)
Paul Guinery, piano - a Steinway Grand, with music by Rachmaninov, Debussy, Chopin, Ketèlbey, Billy Mayerl and others, including pieces about bells or sounding like bells
Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) supporting the Holy Trinity Church Bells Restoration Appeal • Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD
Saturday 1st April 7.30pm • English Arts Chorale & Orchestra • JS Bach: St John Passion
Evangelist: Stefan Kennedy • Christus: Thomas Flint • Pilate: Robert Garland • soprano: Jessica Broad • alto: Felicity Turner
tenor: Christopher Hann • conductor: Leslie Olive
Tickets: £20, £15, £12, £6 • Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane RH2 7RN
Saturday 1st April 7.30pm • Chantry Singers • Modulus Quartet • Roy Rashbrook, conductor
Handel: Dixit Dominus • Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden • Tickets: £14 (u16 £2) • Guildford: St Nicolas Church, Bury Street, GU2 4AW
Saturday 1st April 7.30pm • Ashtead Choral Society • Handel: MESSIAH
Tickets: £16 / £13 • Epsom: St Martin's Church
Saturday 1st April 7.30 pm • Tilford Bach Society • Bartosz Woroch, violin • Caroline Palmer, piano
Mozart • Brahms • Schubert • Tickets: £16 on door, £14-50 via web in advance • Farnham: Methodist Church, GU9 7RN
Saturday 1st April 7.30pm • Twickenham Choral Society • Words & Music with Timothy West
Parry: Songs of Farewell • MacMillan: Five Strathclyde Motets • Poulenc: Quatre Motets pour un Temps de Pénitence
Tickets: click dateline for full details • Twickenham: St Mary's Church
Saturday April 1st 7.30pm • East Surrey Choral Society
Music for Easter • Haydn: Little Organ Mass • Stainer: Crucifixion
with soloists from Guildhall School of Music & Drama • Tickets: £10, u14s free • Caterham: Caterham Valley URC, Harestone Hill, CR3 6SX
Thursday 6th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Music on Thursdays at LMC ♥ 2017 Opening Concert ♥ sung excerpts from Will Todd's family opera
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Principal singers from the London College of Music with excerpts from their recent production:
Alice • Alice Pearson ♥ White Rabbit • Frank St John ♥ Cheshire Cat / Mad Hatter • Madeline Castrey
Bottle / Duchess • Melodie Hornett ♥ Queen of Hearts • John Wood ♥ Accompanist • William Allenby
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Leith Hill Music Festival • Tickets: LHMF Box Office 01403 240093 • Dorking: Dorking Halls, RH4 1SG
Thursday 6th April 7.30pm • Choirs: Dorking - Epsom - Horsley Leatherhead • Southern Pro Musica
Bibi Heal, soprano • Gareth Brynmor John, baritone • Parry: Blest pair of sirens • RVW: Dona nobis pacem
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Friday 7th April 7.30pm • Mendelssohn: Elijah • Choirs: Buckland & Betchworth - Capel - Holmbury St Mary - Oxshott
Southern Pro Musica • Josephine Goddard, soprano • Rosanna Cooper, contralto • Thobela Ntshanyana, tenor • Marcus Farnsworth, bass
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Saturday 8th April 7.30pm • Haydn: Little Organ Mass • Carter: Benedicite
Choirs: Beare Green & Newdigate - Bookham Mickleham - Shalford • Southern Pro Musica • Margo Arsane, soprano
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Thursday 13th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Music on Thursdays at LMC • Trio Opal • courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music ♥ Eriko Nagayama, violin • Joel Siepmann, cello • Yi-Shing Cheng, piano
Haydn: Piano Trio in C major Hob XV:27 • Schumann: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Op 63
Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks)
Wednesday 19th April 12.30 lunchtime - FRC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
Guest organist: David Oldfield • Organist & Director of Music, St Luke's Whyteleafe, Director, Stag Montem Chorem ♥ works by Dubois, Mendelssohn, Hindemith, Clérambault, Bossi, JS Bach
Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road
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Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
17th March 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
17th March 2017
Dear Friends,
Here are jpegs of the file we sent out this afternoon - our Spring Summer 2017 programme.
Click on an image, then right click it to save it or to print it.
Click on an image, then right click it to save it or to print it.
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Come and enjoy the opening Alice's Adventures in Wonderland concert at 12.30, in Leatherhead Methodist Church on Thursday 6th April.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
13th March 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
13th March 2017
Dear Friends,
On Saturday afternoon I went up to the Wigmore Hall to hear quintet Cavendish Winds. They performed a varied programme which will suit us well for their lunchtime concert in June. The big improvement over their last Leatherhead appearance was the quality of their spoken introductions - an area that will be all the more significant when they introduce their instruments at Leatherhead Trinity School on that same June morning.
Members of Cavendish Winds are having a month of individual projects and working with other ensembles and orchestras. For example, at the moment oboist Henry Clay is in North America for a tour with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. But they will be together again in time for our concert, and for their St Martin-in-the-Fields lunchtime concert on Friday June 16th.
Members of Cavendish Winds are having a month of individual projects and working with other ensembles and orchestras. For example, at the moment oboist Henry Clay is in North America for a tour with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. But they will be together again in time for our concert, and for their St Martin-in-the-Fields lunchtime concert on Friday June 16th.
You don't need to wait until June for a local concert. This Wednesday at Christ Church we have an opportunity to hear organist Jonathan Melling. Jonathan, who has played here twice before, is Director of Music at All Hallows by the Tower. This busy City church is home to many of the Livery Companies who hold their grand services there. Jonathan plays for these, and for his own series of Thursday lunchtime concerts.
Jonathan's 12.30 concert at Christ Church this Wednesday features works by Walther (a contemporary of Bach), JS Bach himself, Mendelssohn, Rheinberger, Percy Fletcher, Charles Villiers Stanford, and by his predecessor at All Hallows, Gordon Phillips. Full details on this concert webpage.
After that there is a three week gap until the Thursday concerts begin on April 6th. That day we welcome principal singers from the production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at the London College of Music. Not sure if this is for you ? Why not try out the video links at the foot of this concert webpage. You'll have some fun there!
Let's take a look at music-making in our area over the coming couple of weeks.
Jonathan's 12.30 concert at Christ Church this Wednesday features works by Walther (a contemporary of Bach), JS Bach himself, Mendelssohn, Rheinberger, Percy Fletcher, Charles Villiers Stanford, and by his predecessor at All Hallows, Gordon Phillips. Full details on this concert webpage.
After that there is a three week gap until the Thursday concerts begin on April 6th. That day we welcome principal singers from the production of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at the London College of Music. Not sure if this is for you ? Why not try out the video links at the foot of this concert webpage. You'll have some fun there!
Let's take a look at music-making in our area over the coming couple of weeks.
Tomorrow: Tuesday 14th March **6.30pm - Free admission
Junior Schools Choral Evensong - following afternoon rehearsals, a choir of local junior and prep school singers sing a Book of Common Prayer Evensong • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School
Junior Schools Choral Evensong - following afternoon rehearsals, a choir of local junior and prep school singers sing a Book of Common Prayer Evensong • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School
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Wednesday 15th March 2017 7.30pm
Melvyn Tan. Elisabeth Perry, Niall Brown : past pupils of the School - celebrate Melvyn Tan's 60th birthday programme includes Ravel Tickets: check dateline link • Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ |
Friday 17th March **7pm Musical Theatre Evening: cabaret scenettes from the musical theatre repertoire Tickets: check website (click dateline) • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School |
Leith Hill Musical Festival
Saturday 18th March from 9am : LHMF Youth Choirs Competition
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Saturday 18th March from 9am : LHMF Youth Choirs Competition
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Saturday 18th March 9.45am to 4pm
English Arts Chorale Open Singing Day: Come and sing with Ralph Allwood
Music Director of the Eton Choral Courses and the Rodolfus Choir
exploring music from living composers Paul Mealor, Eric Whitacre, James Macmillan,
Morten Lauridsen & Ralph Allwood
Fee: £20 including music hire. (Students 16+ £5). Download a booking form from www.englisharts.org or email Gail Easterbrook: [email protected] • Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN
English Arts Chorale Open Singing Day: Come and sing with Ralph Allwood
Music Director of the Eton Choral Courses and the Rodolfus Choir
exploring music from living composers Paul Mealor, Eric Whitacre, James Macmillan,
Morten Lauridsen & Ralph Allwood
Fee: £20 including music hire. (Students 16+ £5). Download a booking form from www.englisharts.org or email Gail Easterbrook: [email protected] • Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN
Early Saturday Evening 18th March **6.30pm** - FRC
Tilford Bach Society present: Catherine Lee, cello • Ettore Strangio, piano
Beethoven: Sonata in A major, Op 69 • Schumann: Fantasy Pieces, Op 73 • Stravinsky: Suite Italienne
Godalming: Baptist Church, GU7 1BA
Tilford Bach Society present: Catherine Lee, cello • Ettore Strangio, piano
Beethoven: Sonata in A major, Op 69 • Schumann: Fantasy Pieces, Op 73 • Stravinsky: Suite Italienne
Godalming: Baptist Church, GU7 1BA
Saturday 18th March 7.30pm: Ripieno Choir
Latin motets by Byrd, Weelkes & Philips • English anthems by Gibbons, Byrd and Weelkes; and
450th anniversary tributes to their contemporary Claudio Monteverdi.
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. £5 for under-18s. Group discounts available
Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
Latin motets by Byrd, Weelkes & Philips • English anthems by Gibbons, Byrd and Weelkes; and
450th anniversary tributes to their contemporary Claudio Monteverdi.
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. £5 for under-18s. Group discounts available
Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
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Saturday 18th March 7.30pm
Epsom Chamber Choir with orchestra and soloists conductor: Piers Maxim Haydn Nelson Mass • Mozart Vespers Tickets: £15 in advance (02*08=672-54_95); £18 on door Epsom: St Martin's Church, Church St, KT17 4PX |
Saturday 18th March 7.30pm
Beethoven: Miss Solemnis Guildford Choral • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra • Jonathan Willcocks, conductor Claire Seaton, soprano • Diana Moore, contralto Thomas Hobbs, tenor • Timothy Nelson, bass Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 concessions from £5.50 Guildford: G Live, London Road, GU1 2AA |
Sunday 19th March 7.30pm
Cranleigh Choral Society • Cranleigh School Choir • Merriman Concert Orchestra
Marcus Pashley, conductor • Janet Shell, mezzo-soprano • Timothy Dickinson, baritone
Haydn: Nelson Mass • Stanford: Songs of the Fleet • Elgar: Sea Pictures
Tickets: click dateline • Cranleigh: Speech Hall, Cranleigh School, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Cranleigh Choral Society • Cranleigh School Choir • Merriman Concert Orchestra
Marcus Pashley, conductor • Janet Shell, mezzo-soprano • Timothy Dickinson, baritone
Haydn: Nelson Mass • Stanford: Songs of the Fleet • Elgar: Sea Pictures
Tickets: click dateline • Cranleigh: Speech Hall, Cranleigh School, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Saturday 25th March at 10.15 for 11.00am • Sunbury & Shepperton Arts Association
Morning Coffee Concert: This Sceptred Isle
A programme of Words and Music, with Lynda Chang, piano
Readers: Stephen Bentley, Moira Edwards, James Ford-Bannister, Gill Lambourn
Tickets: £8.50 (includes coffee and croissant) 01932 765498 and [email protected]
Sunbury-on-Thames: 59 Thames Street, TW16 5QF, (over Walton Bridge, turn right, OR over Hampton Court Bridge, turn left, and left again at the Waterworks traffic lights)
Morning Coffee Concert: This Sceptred Isle
A programme of Words and Music, with Lynda Chang, piano
Readers: Stephen Bentley, Moira Edwards, James Ford-Bannister, Gill Lambourn
Tickets: £8.50 (includes coffee and croissant) 01932 765498 and [email protected]
Sunbury-on-Thames: 59 Thames Street, TW16 5QF, (over Walton Bridge, turn right, OR over Hampton Court Bridge, turn left, and left again at the Waterworks traffic lights)
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Tuesday 21st March 7.30pm
St John's Sinfonia, directed by: Nicholas Smith Beethoven: 8th Symphony Hamish McCunn: Land of the Mountain and the Flood Tickets: Free admission, booking required Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School |
Saturday 25th March 4pm - FRC
Organ Concert Richard Hills, concert organist London: Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, Shaftesbury Ave, WC2H 8EP (bus no 1 from Waterloo, or 242 from City Thameslink) |
Saturday 25th March 2017 7.30pm • Dorking Concertgoers
Kammerphilharmonie Europa • Pavel Zuzanski, concertmaster • Cyrill Gussaroff, trumpet
music by Wolf, Hummel, Mozart, Holst, Borodin, Grieg
Tickets: £12 to £25 from Dkg Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19, OR Dkg Halls • 01306 881717 • Dkg Halls website • Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ
Kammerphilharmonie Europa • Pavel Zuzanski, concertmaster • Cyrill Gussaroff, trumpet
music by Wolf, Hummel, Mozart, Holst, Borodin, Grieg
Tickets: £12 to £25 from Dkg Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19, OR Dkg Halls • 01306 881717 • Dkg Halls website • Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ
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Saturday 25th March 7.30pm • Woking Symphony Orchestra
Roy Stratford, conductor (gives pre-concert talk at 6.45pm) Smetana: Sarka (from Ma Vlast) • Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto Op 125 (Joy Lisney, cello) Elgar: Enigma Variations Tickets: £14 (u16 £7) wokingsymphony AT gmail DOT com Woking: HG Wells, Church Street East, satnav: GU21 8EW |
Saturday 25th March 7.30pm • Surrey Mozart Players
Jarek Augustyniak, bassoon • Kenneth Woods, conductor
Mozart: Overture to La Clemenza di Tito • Weber: Bassoon Concerto • Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite • Elgar: Romance for Bassoon & Orchestra • Sibelius: Symphony No 5
Tickets: £19, child £9.50 • Guildford: The Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, GU1 4SZ
This week we are distributing the printed programmes for the new season. Later in the week we will put out an email with the electronic version for you to print for yourself, and to pass along to friends.
After our winter break I look forward to meeting many of you again at this Wednesday's 12.30 organ concert at Christ Church. Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
Jarek Augustyniak, bassoon • Kenneth Woods, conductor
Mozart: Overture to La Clemenza di Tito • Weber: Bassoon Concerto • Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite • Elgar: Romance for Bassoon & Orchestra • Sibelius: Symphony No 5
Tickets: £19, child £9.50 • Guildford: The Electric Theatre, Onslow Street, GU1 4SZ
This week we are distributing the printed programmes for the new season. Later in the week we will put out an email with the electronic version for you to print for yourself, and to pass along to friends.
After our winter break I look forward to meeting many of you again at this Wednesday's 12.30 organ concert at Christ Church. Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
7th March 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
7th March 2017
Dear Friends,
We had a great turnout at last month's AGM concert - 77 of us ! I'm sure that is down to a lot of promotional activity by the Assersohns themselves, so thanks go to them for bringing their audience, for an excellent piano duet concert, and for the two mini-concerts that same morning for the pupils of Leatherhead Trinity School. Thank you Jan and Ian for a very successful day altogether !
Now we are looking forward to the first organ concert of the season, next week in Christ Church, Epsom Road. Our guest is one of our excellent regulars, Jonathan Melling, who comes to us form a busy post as Director of Music at the City of London's All Hallows by the Tower. You can see his programme, and you'll find links to video samples, on this concert webpage.
Three weeks later the first of the year's Music on Thursdays concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church takes place on 6th April, at 12.30 lunchtime.
London College of Music are putting on a production of Will Todd's family opera Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It's a fun project that I'm sure many will enjoy. So on 6th April we have invited the principal singers to come to Leatherhead and give us a concert performance of excerpts from the opera. More on that in a future newsletter.
There are a couple of musically busy weekends coming up, so lets take a look at what's on offer in our area. Click the dateline for further information on any event:
Now we are looking forward to the first organ concert of the season, next week in Christ Church, Epsom Road. Our guest is one of our excellent regulars, Jonathan Melling, who comes to us form a busy post as Director of Music at the City of London's All Hallows by the Tower. You can see his programme, and you'll find links to video samples, on this concert webpage.
Three weeks later the first of the year's Music on Thursdays concerts in Leatherhead Methodist Church takes place on 6th April, at 12.30 lunchtime.
London College of Music are putting on a production of Will Todd's family opera Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It's a fun project that I'm sure many will enjoy. So on 6th April we have invited the principal singers to come to Leatherhead and give us a concert performance of excerpts from the opera. More on that in a future newsletter.
There are a couple of musically busy weekends coming up, so lets take a look at what's on offer in our area. Click the dateline for further information on any event:
Wednesday 8th March 2017 7.30pm
Showcase Concert with pupils from the School
Tickets: £17.50 • Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ
Showcase Concert with pupils from the School
Tickets: £17.50 • Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ
Saturday 11th March 7.30pm • Waverley Ensemble
Vivaldi: Cello Concerto, soloist, Bozidar Vukotic • CPE Bach: Flute Concerto, soloist, Susan Milan
Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline • Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD
Vivaldi: Cello Concerto, soloist, Bozidar Vukotic • CPE Bach: Flute Concerto, soloist, Susan Milan
Tickets: £15 (£8 child) click on dateline • Haslemere: St Christopher's Church, GU27 1DD
Saturday 11th March 7.30pm • Banstead Arts Festival Society present
Trio Isimiz : Pablo Hernán Benedí, violin • Michael Petrov, cello • Erdem Misirioglu, piano
music by Haydn • Schumann • Dvořák
Tickets: £12, school pupils free • Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ
Trio Isimiz : Pablo Hernán Benedí, violin • Michael Petrov, cello • Erdem Misirioglu, piano
music by Haydn • Schumann • Dvořák
Tickets: £12, school pupils free • Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ
Saturday 11th March 7.30pm • Epsom Choral Society
Rossini: Petite Messe Solonnelle • Janacek: Otcenáš (The Lord's Prayer)
Marion Lea, piano • Ben Lewis Smith, organ • Fontane Liang, harp
Tickets: £15 (£7.50 u187/student) • Central Epsom: St Martin of Tours Church, KT17 4PX
Rossini: Petite Messe Solonnelle • Janacek: Otcenáš (The Lord's Prayer)
Marion Lea, piano • Ben Lewis Smith, organ • Fontane Liang, harp
Tickets: £15 (£7.50 u187/student) • Central Epsom: St Martin of Tours Church, KT17 4PX
Saturday 11th March 2017 8pm • Oxshott & Cobham Music Society
Julian Bliss, clarinet • Robert Bottriell, piano
music by Françaix • Debussy • Poulenc • Rossini • Piazzolla • Horovitz
Tickets: £20 • Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, KT10 0JP
Julian Bliss, clarinet • Robert Bottriell, piano
music by Françaix • Debussy • Poulenc • Rossini • Piazzolla • Horovitz
Tickets: £20 • Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, KT10 0JP
Sunday 12th March **7pm**
Leith Hill Musical Festival • JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
James Oxley, tenor • Marcus Farnsworth & Richard Walshe, bass
Milly Forest, soprano • Marvic Monreal, contralto
Jonathan Willcocks, conductor
Tickets: £21.75 u18s £11.20 click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Leith Hill Musical Festival • JS Bach: St Matthew Passion
James Oxley, tenor • Marcus Farnsworth & Richard Walshe, bass
Milly Forest, soprano • Marvic Monreal, contralto
Jonathan Willcocks, conductor
Tickets: £21.75 u18s £11.20 click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Tuesday 14th March **6.30pm
Junior Schools Choral Evensong - following afternoon rehearsals, a choir of local junior and prep school singers sing a Book of Common Prayer Evensong
Tickets: Free admission, no booking required • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School
Junior Schools Choral Evensong - following afternoon rehearsals, a choir of local junior and prep school singers sing a Book of Common Prayer Evensong
Tickets: Free admission, no booking required • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School
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Wednesday 15 March 12.30 lunchtime - FRC
Wednesdays at Christ Church Guest organist: Jonathan Melling Organist & Director of Music, All Hallows by the Tower, London EC music by Gordon Phillips, Johann Walther, JS Bach, Mendelssohn, Percy Fletcher, Stanford (click dateline for video samples) Leatherhead: Christ Church, Epsom Road |
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Wednesday 15th March 2017 7.30pm
Melvyn Tan. Elisabeth Perry, Niall Brown : past pupils of the School - celebrate Melvyn Tan's 60th birthday
programme includes Ravel
Tickets: check dateline link • Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ
Melvyn Tan. Elisabeth Perry, Niall Brown : past pupils of the School - celebrate Melvyn Tan's 60th birthday
programme includes Ravel
Tickets: check dateline link • Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ
Friday 17th March **7pm
Musical Theatre Evening: cabaret scenettes from the musical theatre repertoire
Tickets: check website (click dateline) • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School
Musical Theatre Evening: cabaret scenettes from the musical theatre repertoire
Tickets: check website (click dateline) • Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School
Leith Hill Musical Festival
Saturday 18th March from 9am : LHMF Youth Choirs Competition
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Saturday 18th March from 9am : LHMF Youth Choirs Competition
Tickets: click dateline • Dorking: Dorking Halls
Saturday 18th March 9.45am to 4pm
English Arts Chorale Open Singing Day: Come and sing with Ralph Allwood
Music Director of the Eton Choral Courses and the Rodolfus Choir
exploring music from living composers Paul Mealor, Eric Whitacre, James Macmillan,
Morten Lauridsen & Ralph Allwood
Fee: £20 including music hire. (Students 16+ £5). Download a booking form from www.englisharts.org or email Gail Easterbrook: [email protected] • Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN
English Arts Chorale Open Singing Day: Come and sing with Ralph Allwood
Music Director of the Eton Choral Courses and the Rodolfus Choir
exploring music from living composers Paul Mealor, Eric Whitacre, James Macmillan,
Morten Lauridsen & Ralph Allwood
Fee: £20 including music hire. (Students 16+ £5). Download a booking form from www.englisharts.org or email Gail Easterbrook: [email protected] • Reigate: St Mary's Church, Chart Lane, RH2 7RN
Saturday 18th March 7.30pm: Ripieno Choir
Latin motets by Byrd, Weelkes & Philips • English anthems by Gibbons, Byrd and Weelkes; and
450th anniversary tributes to their contemporary Claudio Monteverdi.
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. £5 for under-18s. Group discounts available
Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
Latin motets by Byrd, Weelkes & Philips • English anthems by Gibbons, Byrd and Weelkes; and
450th anniversary tributes to their contemporary Claudio Monteverdi.
Tickets: £16 in advance, £18 on the door. £5 for under-18s. Group discounts available
Esher: All Saints′ Church, Weston Green, KT10 8JL
Saturday 18th March 7.30pm: Epsom Chamber Choir with orchestra and soloists
conductor: Piers Maxim
Haydn Nelson Mass • Mozart Vespers
Tickets: £15 in advance (02*08=672-54_95); £18 on door
Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, Church Street, KT17 4PX
conductor: Piers Maxim
Haydn Nelson Mass • Mozart Vespers
Tickets: £15 in advance (02*08=672-54_95); £18 on door
Central Epsom: St Martin's Church, Church Street, KT17 4PX
Saturday 18th March 7.30pm • Beethoven: Miss Solemnis
Guildford Choral • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Willcocks, conductor
Claire Seaton, soprano • Diana Moore, contralto • Thomas Hobbs, tenor • Timothy Nelson, bass
Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) • Guildford: G Live, London Road, GU1 2AA
Guildford Choral • Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Jonathan Willcocks, conductor
Claire Seaton, soprano • Diana Moore, contralto • Thomas Hobbs, tenor • Timothy Nelson, bass
Tickets: £22.50 to £32.50 (concessions from £5.50) • Guildford: G Live, London Road, GU1 2AA
Sunday 19th March 7.30pm
Cranleigh Choral Society • Cranleigh School Choir • Merriman Concert Orchestra
Marcus Pashley, conductor • Janet Shell, mezzo-soprano • Timothy Dickinson, baritone
Haydn: Nelson Mass • Stanford: Songs of the Fleet • Elgar: Sea Pictures
Tickets: click dateline • Cranleigh: Speech Hall, Cranleigh School, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Some terrific concerts there, so I hope you enjoy your choices of listening and/or taking part over the next couple of weeks.
Cranleigh Choral Society • Cranleigh School Choir • Merriman Concert Orchestra
Marcus Pashley, conductor • Janet Shell, mezzo-soprano • Timothy Dickinson, baritone
Haydn: Nelson Mass • Stanford: Songs of the Fleet • Elgar: Sea Pictures
Tickets: click dateline • Cranleigh: Speech Hall, Cranleigh School, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Some terrific concerts there, so I hope you enjoy your choices of listening and/or taking part over the next couple of weeks.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
20th February 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
20th February 2017
Dear Friends,
This Thursday is AGM day for Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society. Earlier, on Thursday morning, pianists Jan and Ian Assersohn will be giving two short concerts for the pupils at Leatherhead Trinity School.
In the afternoon, at 3pm, the duo will be performing a public concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Their programme includes music by Handel, Debussy, Brahms, Rachmaninov... you can check out their programme on this concert webpage.
Everyone is welcome to attend the AGM to hear how the charity is progressing, with a financial report on 2016 and plans for this year.
The AGM starts at 2pm, in the Lower Hall of LMC. There will be tea and coffee before the meeting, and BEFORE the concert.
Our next 12.30 concert will be the opening organ concert of the Wednesdays at Christ Church series on Wednesday, 15th March. Guest organist there will be Jonathan Melling, Organist and Director of Music at the city Church of All Hallows by the Tower. Jonathan gives weekly organ concerts there and on top of the usual services of a busy church he plays for events of many of the City Guilds. You can see his programme on this concert webpage.
At the foot of most of our concert webpages you will find samples of the music to be performed in that day's concert. So if you can't be with us, you can enjoy a similar concert in your own space. And if you are unsure whether this is the concert for you, it's a chance to listen to a recording and then come and hear the music LIVE !
Let's take a look at more music events coming in the next couple of weeks:
In the afternoon, at 3pm, the duo will be performing a public concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. Their programme includes music by Handel, Debussy, Brahms, Rachmaninov... you can check out their programme on this concert webpage.
Everyone is welcome to attend the AGM to hear how the charity is progressing, with a financial report on 2016 and plans for this year.
The AGM starts at 2pm, in the Lower Hall of LMC. There will be tea and coffee before the meeting, and BEFORE the concert.
Our next 12.30 concert will be the opening organ concert of the Wednesdays at Christ Church series on Wednesday, 15th March. Guest organist there will be Jonathan Melling, Organist and Director of Music at the city Church of All Hallows by the Tower. Jonathan gives weekly organ concerts there and on top of the usual services of a busy church he plays for events of many of the City Guilds. You can see his programme on this concert webpage.
At the foot of most of our concert webpages you will find samples of the music to be performed in that day's concert. So if you can't be with us, you can enjoy a similar concert in your own space. And if you are unsure whether this is the concert for you, it's a chance to listen to a recording and then come and hear the music LIVE !
Let's take a look at more music events coming in the next couple of weeks:
Tuesday 21st February 7.30pm
Colin Carr, cello • Thomas Sauer, piano
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms
Tickets: £25
Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ
Colin Carr, cello • Thomas Sauer, piano
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms
Tickets: £25
Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ
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Thursday 23rd February 3pm - FRC
Music on Thursdays at LMC AGM Piano Duet Concert (follows 2pm AGM) Ian Assersohn, piano • Jan Assersohn, piano music by Brahms • Dvorak • Handel • Rachmaninov • Benjamin • Debussy • Warlock • Warren • Akst • Mayerl Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) Tea & coffee available BEFORE the AGM and BEFORE the concert |
Thursday 23rd February **7pm Compline: Schola Cantorum sing music by Byrd and Howell's Salve Regina Tickets: Free admission, no booking required Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School |
IOLANTHE
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Thursday 23rd February & Friday 24th February at 7.30pm
Saturday 25th February at 2.30pm & 7.30pm Goldaming Operatic Society present: Gilbert & Sullivan's IOLANTHE with 23 piece professional orchestra Tickets: £11.50 to £18 (child from £9) Snr Citizen & Group Discounts available from boxoffice ]at{ godalmingoperatic }dot{ org 'dot" uk Leatherhead: The Theatre, Church Street, KT22 8DN |
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Friday 24th February 7.30 pm
Tilford Bach Society Flute Quartet of students from Royal College of Music, arranged by Rachel Brown Tickets: £16 on door, £14-50 via web in advance Farnham: Methodist Church, GU9 7RN |
Saturday 25th February 4pm - FRC
Daniel Moult concert & cathedral organist London: Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, Shaftesbury Ave, WC2H 8EP bus no 1 from Waterloo, or 242 from City Thameslink |
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Saturday 25th February 7.30pm
Surrey Philharmonic Orchestra Mishka Rushdie Momen, piano • Nicholas Smith, conductor Schubert: Symphony No 8 B minor Unfinished Chopin: Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor Beethoven: Symphony No 5 in C minor Tickets: £14 (concessions £9) Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School |
Saturday 25th February 8pm Oxshott & Cobham Music Society Vitaly Pisarenko, piano Beethoven • Prokofiev • Schumann Tickets: £20 Claygate: Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, KT10 0JP |
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Thursday 2nd March **7pm
James Parsons Organ Concert Head of Student Development at Royal College of Organists Visiting Tutor at Birmingham Conservatoire, President of The Organ Club Tickets: £10 (concessions £8) Leatherhead: School Chapel, St John's School |
Saturday 4th March 10.30am to 5pm
Come & Sing 2017 - Open Workshop • Parry: Songs of Farewell
Guest conductor: Ralph Allwood - Director of Eton Choral Courses, Director of Rudolfus Choir
Fee: £20 - click dateline for full details & leaflet
Surbiton: St Andrew's Church, KT6 4DT
Come & Sing 2017 - Open Workshop • Parry: Songs of Farewell
Guest conductor: Ralph Allwood - Director of Eton Choral Courses, Director of Rudolfus Choir
Fee: £20 - click dateline for full details & leaflet
Surbiton: St Andrew's Church, KT6 4DT
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Saturday 4th March 12 noon - FRC Alice Bishop, soprano Simon Marlow, piano Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW |
Sunday 5th March 2017 **3pm**
Dorking Concertgoers • Piatti String Quartet Series music by Haydn, Britten, Webern, Brahms Tickets: £20 from Dkg Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19 OR Dkg Halls • 01306 881717 • Dkg Halls website Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ |
Organ fans will have noticed two unmissable recitals in the diary. Daniel Moult's free afternoon concert at Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church on Saturday February 25th and the very reasonably priced concert on the St John's School Tickell organ on Thursday March 2nd, with James Parsons.
I look forward to seeing many of you at the AGM on Thursday, and/ or at the 3pm Piano Duet Concert afterwards (there'll be a cup of tea or coffee in the Lower Hall before the concert).
Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
I look forward to seeing many of you at the AGM on Thursday, and/ or at the 3pm Piano Duet Concert afterwards (there'll be a cup of tea or coffee in the Lower Hall before the concert).
Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
6th February 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
6th February 2017
Dear Friends,
Several members of the Music on Thursdays audience were at Saturday's 5pm concert in Bookham. Dorking Concert Orchestra performed two Brandenburg Concertos, Boccherini and Haydn. They also gave the premiere of James Anderson's 26th concerto.
James was present at the concert, possibly the first public performance of any of his 26 concertos. He wrote this one in one week, in the spare time between studies, practice, and his own ensemble work. James Anderson is 17, a member of Norfolk County Youth Orchestra and Norfolk Symphonic Wind Band. I predict we will be performing and listening to more of this young man's work in the coming decades.
Here are some of the delights coming our way over the next couple of weeks.
James was present at the concert, possibly the first public performance of any of his 26 concertos. He wrote this one in one week, in the spare time between studies, practice, and his own ensemble work. James Anderson is 17, a member of Norfolk County Youth Orchestra and Norfolk Symphonic Wind Band. I predict we will be performing and listening to more of this young man's work in the coming decades.
Here are some of the delights coming our way over the next couple of weeks.
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Tuesday 7th February 12.45pm - FRC
Organ Masterworks • Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence JS Bach: Trio Sonata No 6 in G BWV 530 • Bartok (arr Herrick): 6 Roumanian Dances • Guilmant: Sonata No 6 in B minor Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ |
Tuesday 7th February **7pm
The Forbes Senior Music Competition concert of the finalists, with announcement of the overall winner Tickets: Free admission, no booking required Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School |
Vivaldi
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Wednesday 8th February 7.15pm (to 9pm)
Leatherhead DFAS (guests welcome) Vivaldi in Venice - illustrated talk with piano examples • speaker: Peter Medhurst Tickets: £5 (please contact [email protected] or phone John Andrews on 01■372 •37-30_83) Leatherhead: Parish Church Hall, Church Road (facing the Church) please park in the Theatre Car Park (or Elm Road after 6pm) |
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Saturday 11th February 7.30pm
Bramley Music Concert Series ♥ Valentines Concert ♥ soprano Lucy Cronin with Richard Saxel, piano (Head of Performance, Cranleigh School) concert in support of YMCA Downslink Group Tickets: £10 (£5 students/u18) Bramley: Holy Trinity Church, High Street, GU5 0HD |
Sunday 12th February **3pm**
Dorking Concertgoers • Piatti String Quartet Series with Anna Hashimoto, clarinet music by Haydn, Mozart, Brahms Tickets: £20 from Dkg Concertgoers • 01306 74_06-19, OR Dorking Halls • 01306 881717 • Dorking Halls website Dorking: Dorking Halls, Reigate Road, RH4 1SJ |
IOLANTHE
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7.30pm on Tuesday ♥14th♥ , Wednesday 15th, Thursday 16th, Friday 17th, Saturday 18th *PLUS* Saturday 18th February - matinee at 2.30pm
Goldaming Operatic Society present ♥ Gilbert & Sullivan's IOLANTHE with 23 piece professional orchestra • Tickets♥ £11.50 to £18 (child from £9) Snr Citizen & Group Discounts available from: boxoffice ♥at♥ godalmingoperatic ♥.♥ org ♥.♥ uk Godalming: Borough Hall, The Burys, GU7 1HR |
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Tuesday 21st February 7.30pm
Colin Carr, cello Thomas Sauer, piano Bach, Beethoven, Brahms Tickets: £25 Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ |
Thursday 23rd February 3pm - FRC
Music on Thursdays at LMC Ian Assersohn & Jan Assersohn Side by Side Piano Duet Concert (follows 2pm AGM) music by Brahms • Dvorak • Handel • Rachmaninov • Benjamin • Debussy • Warlock • Warren • Akst • Mayerl Leatherhead: Methodist Church, Church Rd (5-7 mins walk from multi-storey & Church St car parks) |
Thursday 23rd February **7pm
Compline: Schola Cantorum sing music by Byrd and Howell's Salve Regina Tickets: Free admission, no booking required Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School |
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Thursday 23rd, Friday 24th, Saturday 25th February at 7.30pm and
Saturday 25th February - matinee at 2.30pmpm Goldaming Operatic Society present: Gilbert & Sullivan's IOLANTHE with 23 piece professional orchestra • Tickets: £11.50 to £18 (child from £9) Snr Citizen & Group Discounts available from boxoffice ]at{ godalmingoperatic }dot{ org 'dot" uk Leatherhead: The Theatre, Church Street, KT22 8DN |
IOLANTHE
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Meanwhile, the LCAS Trustees are busy preparing for the AGM at 2pm on Thursday 23rd February. As in previous years, the AGM will be followed by a 3pm concert. This year the day starts at Leatherhead Trinity School where Jan and Ian Assersohn will be playing the piano for the pupils. It will be interesting to see their reaction to four hands on one piano.
At 3pm the Assersohn's will perform their concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. They have prepared quite a varied range of music for us. You can see details of this treat here.
I look forward to seeing Members and friends at the AGM, and everyone is welcome to come to the 3pm concert.
Enjoy your musical choices !
At 3pm the Assersohn's will perform their concert in Leatherhead Methodist Church. They have prepared quite a varied range of music for us. You can see details of this treat here.
I look forward to seeing Members and friends at the AGM, and everyone is welcome to come to the 3pm concert.
Enjoy your musical choices !
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
23rd January 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
23rd January 2017
Dear Friends,
It must be time for one of our occasional winter newsletters. So here's an update on events coming our way in Surrey over the next few weeks.
So far, there is nothing in the diary for Saturday February 11th, but the next couple of weeks offer plenty of delights on other dates. A couple of talks drew my attention. Firstly David Flood's evening at Guildford Royal Grammar this Wednesday, and later on the LEDFAS illustrated lecture on Vivaldi in Venice. There's also a Rosalind Ventris concert, raising funds to acquire the 1619 Amati viola, setting her fully on the path to a professional career.
I had better let the other diary entries speak for themselves:
So far, there is nothing in the diary for Saturday February 11th, but the next couple of weeks offer plenty of delights on other dates. A couple of talks drew my attention. Firstly David Flood's evening at Guildford Royal Grammar this Wednesday, and later on the LEDFAS illustrated lecture on Vivaldi in Venice. There's also a Rosalind Ventris concert, raising funds to acquire the 1619 Amati viola, setting her fully on the path to a professional career.
I had better let the other diary entries speak for themselves:
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Tuesday 24th January 2017 7.30pm
A Matter of Patter Richard Stuart, singer Bryan Evans, piano G&S, Coward, Flanders & Swann, Tom Lehrer Tickets: £25 Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ |
Wednesday 25th January **7pm - FREE
An Evening with Canterbury Cathedral's Director of Music Dr David Flood, Master of the Cathedral Choristers & Cathedral Organist Tickets: Free, but allocated in advance (click dateline) Guildford: Auditorium, Royal Grammar School, High Street, GU1 3BB |
Thursday 26th January **7pm
Junior Schools Orchestral Play Day Concert 20-minute concert following afternoon of rehearsals for players from local junior and prep schools Tickets: Free admission, no booking required Leatherhead: Performing Arts Centre, St John's School |
Friday 27th January 7.30pm • Tilford Bach Society • Natalia Lomeiko, violin • Yuri Zhislin, viola
Bach • Bruni • Mozart • Prokofiev • Tickets: £16 on door, £14-50 via web in advance • Farnham: Methodist Church, GU9 7RN
Bach • Bruni • Mozart • Prokofiev • Tickets: £16 on door, £14-50 via web in advance • Farnham: Methodist Church, GU9 7RN
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Saturday 28th January from 1pm
Organ Day 2017 recitals, presentations, masterclass with: Dame Gilliam Weir • Paul Hale • William Whitehead • Alexander Binns • RCO Academy Tickets: free entry 1pm to 6pm, after 6pm £5 London: Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, Shaftesbury Ave, WC2H 8EP (bus no 1 from Waterloo, or 242 from City Thameslink) |
Saturday 28th January 7.30pm
Surrey Mozart Players Daniel de Borah, piano Beethoven: Egmont Overture • Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1 Haydn: Symphony No 73 D major La chasse Tickets: £19, child £9.50 Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ |
Saturday 28th January 7.30pm - FRC
Romance oubliée Rosalind Ventris, viola • Timothy End, piano music by Schumann • Liszt • Prokofiev • Brahms • Kodaly • Weiner • Vieuxtemps raising funds to acquire a 1619 Nicolo Amati viola Cobham: St Andrew,s Church, KT11 3EJ |
1st week of February:
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Saturday 4th February 12 noon - FRC
Delphine Boagey soprano choral scholar, St Martins William Bass cello Martin All piano (Director of Music, St Martin's) Dorking: St Martin's Church, RH4 1DW |
Saturday 4th February **5.00pm
Dorking Chamber Orchestra Clare Kennington, leader Andrew Morley, conductor JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F major soloist David Williams (Irish Guards) piccolo trumpet • Haydn Symphony No 62 • Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major • James Anderson Symphonia Concertante for Oboe, Bassoon & Horn Tickets: £14 (60+ £12, students £7, u15s free) • Bookham: St Nicolas's Church |
Saturday 4th February 7.30pm
Showcase Concert pupils from the School Tickets: £17.50 Stoke d'Abernon: Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ |
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Saturday 4th February 7.30pm - FRC
MAIASTRA Akiko Ono, violin • Eunsley Park, violin Tetsuumi Nagata, viola • Hannah Sloane, cello Purcell/Britten: Chacony in G minor • Debussy: Quartet in G minor Op 10 Tchaikovsky: Quartet No 3 in Eb minor Op 30 Brentford: Musical Museum, 399 High Street, TW8 0DU |
Saturday 4th February 7.30pm
Banstead Arts Festival Society present Alexei Grynyuk, piano music by Beethoven, Liszt, Scarlatti, Liszt-Horowitz Tickets: £12, school pupils free Banstead: Community Hall, Park Road, SM7 3AJ |
Sunday 5th February 7.30pm - FRC
MAIASTRA Akiko Ono, violin • Eunsley Park, violin Tetsuumi Nagata, viola • Hannah Sloane, cello Purcell/Britten: Chacony in G minor • Debussy: Quartet in G minor Op 10 Tchaikovsky: Quartet No 3 in Eb minor Op 30 Cobham: St Andrew's Church, KT11 3EJ |
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Tuesday 7th February 12.45pm - FRC
Organ Masterworks Philip Scriven, Organist in Residence JS Bach: Trio Sonata No 6 in G BWV 530 • Bartok (arr Herrick): 6 Roumanian Dances Guilmant: Sonata No 6 in B minor Cranleigh: School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ |
Tuesday 7th February **7pm
The Forbes Senior Music Competition concert of the finalists, with announcement of the overall winner Tickets: Free admission, no booking required Leatherhead: Old Chapel, St John's School |
Wednesday 8th February 7.15pm (to 9pm)
Leatherhead DFAS (guests welcome) Vivaldi in Venice - illustrated talk speaker: Peter Medhurst Tickets: £5 (please contact [email protected] or phone John Andrews on 01■372 •37-30_83) Leatherhead: Parish Church Hall, Church Road (facing the Church) please park in the Theatre Car Park (or Elm Road after 6pm) |
Piano Duet Concert & AGM :
My own preoccupations at the moment are booking performers for this year's season (and Anthony Cairns is working through his contact list for Wednesdays at Christ Church), and preparing for the AGM on Thursday 23rd February.
Everyone is welcome to come to the AGM concert at 3pm on February 23rd. This year's musicians are pianists Jan and Ian Assersohn (pictured here). There is something exciting about the sound of four hands on one piano, and the expressive possibilities are magnified too. You can take a look at their broad range of musical choices on this concert webpage - which includes samples of the music too.
A few weeks after that we welcome Jonathan Melling, organist of All Hallows by the Tower (of London, that is). He will be playing the opening organ concert of 2017, on Wednesday 15th March, 12.30, at Christ Church, Epsom Road. This will be Jonathan's third concert for us. He has his own weekly concert series at All Hallows, and his role involves playing for many of the City Livery Company events that take place in the Church. A very experienced organist, then, who always gives an excellent concert.
Lots to add to your music and social diary ! I hope you enjoy your choices from these events, and that you really enjoy your music-making and -listening.
Everyone is welcome to come to the AGM concert at 3pm on February 23rd. This year's musicians are pianists Jan and Ian Assersohn (pictured here). There is something exciting about the sound of four hands on one piano, and the expressive possibilities are magnified too. You can take a look at their broad range of musical choices on this concert webpage - which includes samples of the music too.
A few weeks after that we welcome Jonathan Melling, organist of All Hallows by the Tower (of London, that is). He will be playing the opening organ concert of 2017, on Wednesday 15th March, 12.30, at Christ Church, Epsom Road. This will be Jonathan's third concert for us. He has his own weekly concert series at All Hallows, and his role involves playing for many of the City Livery Company events that take place in the Church. A very experienced organist, then, who always gives an excellent concert.
Lots to add to your music and social diary ! I hope you enjoy your choices from these events, and that you really enjoy your music-making and -listening.
Peter Steadman
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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Leatherhead Concert & Arts
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
2nd January 2017
Dear Friends,
Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
2nd January 2017
Dear Friends,
First of all, here's a Happy New Year wish to all our musicians, members, sponsors, and supporters !
Your Trustees are busy preparing the 2016 accounts to present at the 2pm AGM on Thursday, 23rd February, at LMC.
There's a public concert the same day, at 3pm in LMC. This year our guests are piano duet Jan and Ian Assersohn. Alongside piano performance these two outstanding local musicians list teaching, accompanying, composing, and choir leadership among their musical achievements.
A few concert dates have already been agreed for the coming year but there is a lot of work still to be done. Details will be added to the diary page as each performer or ensemble confirms.
Meanwhile, we hope you will support these local events, more of which you will find in the musicinsurrey diary:
On Saturday, 7th January, at 12noon, in St Martin's Church Dorking the monthly concert is titled Walkin' with the King, featuring John Petters on drums, with his New Orleans Allstars. They promise a concert of spirituals, hymns, gospel music - New Orleans Style. Free with retiring collection.
Tuesday 10th January 2017 12.45pm in his Organ Masterworks series, Organist in Residence Philip Scriven plays JS Bach: Trio Sonata No 5 in C BWV 529 • Guilmant: Sonata No 5 in C minor, at Cranleigh School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Thursday 12th January 2017 7.30pm Trio Isimsiz • Pablo Hernán Benedi, violin • Michael Petrov, cello • Erdem Misiroglu, piano perform music by Beethoven, Wolfgang Rihms, and Dvorak. Tickets: £25 (click date line), and the concert is at the Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ
Friday 13th January 7.30 pm Tilford Bach Society get a busy month underway with an evening with composer Matthew Taylor (talk, music, questions). Tickets are £10 on the door, or £9 in advance (click dateline). The evening takes place in Farnham Methodist Church, GU9 7RN
Saturday 14th January 3.30pm • Woking Symphony Orchestra • Five Pieces Family Concert • come and try the instruments
Roy Stratford conducts Stravinsky: The Firebird (excerpts) • Mozart: Finale from Horn Concerto No 4 • Holst: Mars (from The Planets) • Grieg: Hall of the Mountain King • Beethoven: Symphony No 5 (excerpt). All seats priced at £7 wokingsymphony AT gmail DOT com and the concert takes place in Woking's HG Wells, Church Street East, satnav: GU21 8EW
Saturday 14th January 2017 **5.30pm Oxshott & Cobham Music Society host the Pelléas Ensemble in a concert of Bax • Misha Mullov-Abbado • Corelli • Ravel • Prokofiev • Britten • Debussy. Tickets are £22, and the concert is in Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, Claygate, KT10 0JP
Sunday 15th January 7.30pm • Southern Pro Musica: New Year Concert with Bibi Heal, soprano (operatic arias) • Jonathan Willcocks, conductor. Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream • Johann Straus: waltzes & polkas • Franz von Suppé: Light Cavalry Overture. Tickets: £25, £22 (u18s free - please ask) 01 483 44 00 00 Venue is Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.
That seems to kick off the New Year pretty well! I hope you enjoy your choices from these offerings over the coming couple of weeks. If you want to plan further ahead here's a link to the MusicInSurrey Diary page.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
Your Trustees are busy preparing the 2016 accounts to present at the 2pm AGM on Thursday, 23rd February, at LMC.
There's a public concert the same day, at 3pm in LMC. This year our guests are piano duet Jan and Ian Assersohn. Alongside piano performance these two outstanding local musicians list teaching, accompanying, composing, and choir leadership among their musical achievements.
A few concert dates have already been agreed for the coming year but there is a lot of work still to be done. Details will be added to the diary page as each performer or ensemble confirms.
Meanwhile, we hope you will support these local events, more of which you will find in the musicinsurrey diary:
On Saturday, 7th January, at 12noon, in St Martin's Church Dorking the monthly concert is titled Walkin' with the King, featuring John Petters on drums, with his New Orleans Allstars. They promise a concert of spirituals, hymns, gospel music - New Orleans Style. Free with retiring collection.
Tuesday 10th January 2017 12.45pm in his Organ Masterworks series, Organist in Residence Philip Scriven plays JS Bach: Trio Sonata No 5 in C BWV 529 • Guilmant: Sonata No 5 in C minor, at Cranleigh School Chapel, Horseshoe Lane, GU8 6QQ
Thursday 12th January 2017 7.30pm Trio Isimsiz • Pablo Hernán Benedi, violin • Michael Petrov, cello • Erdem Misiroglu, piano perform music by Beethoven, Wolfgang Rihms, and Dvorak. Tickets: £25 (click date line), and the concert is at the Menuhin Hall, Cobham Road, KT11 3QQ
Friday 13th January 7.30 pm Tilford Bach Society get a busy month underway with an evening with composer Matthew Taylor (talk, music, questions). Tickets are £10 on the door, or £9 in advance (click dateline). The evening takes place in Farnham Methodist Church, GU9 7RN
Saturday 14th January 3.30pm • Woking Symphony Orchestra • Five Pieces Family Concert • come and try the instruments
Roy Stratford conducts Stravinsky: The Firebird (excerpts) • Mozart: Finale from Horn Concerto No 4 • Holst: Mars (from The Planets) • Grieg: Hall of the Mountain King • Beethoven: Symphony No 5 (excerpt). All seats priced at £7 wokingsymphony AT gmail DOT com and the concert takes place in Woking's HG Wells, Church Street East, satnav: GU21 8EW
Saturday 14th January 2017 **5.30pm Oxshott & Cobham Music Society host the Pelléas Ensemble in a concert of Bax • Misha Mullov-Abbado • Corelli • Ravel • Prokofiev • Britten • Debussy. Tickets are £22, and the concert is in Holy Trinity Church, Church Road, Claygate, KT10 0JP
Sunday 15th January 7.30pm • Southern Pro Musica: New Year Concert with Bibi Heal, soprano (operatic arias) • Jonathan Willcocks, conductor. Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro • Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream • Johann Straus: waltzes & polkas • Franz von Suppé: Light Cavalry Overture. Tickets: £25, £22 (u18s free - please ask) 01 483 44 00 00 Venue is Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.
That seems to kick off the New Year pretty well! I hope you enjoy your choices from these offerings over the coming couple of weeks. If you want to plan further ahead here's a link to the MusicInSurrey Diary page.
Enjoy your music-making and -listening !
Peter Steadman
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
9th December 2016
Dear Friends,
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.
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
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Wednesdays at Christ Church
LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity School Project
21st November 2016
Dear Friends,
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 !
Leatherhead Trinity School Key Stage 1 pupils enjoying Mardi Brass, in June 2016
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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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.
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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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