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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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Music on Thursdays at LMC • Wednesdays at Christ Church
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
Wednesdays at Christ Church • Music on Thursdays at LMC
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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.
IMPROVISO are a Baroque trio of recorders, Baroque violin, and Baroque cello. We will ask the players to point out the differences between the instruments of the Baroque period and those we are more used to seeing and hearing today. |
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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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