2022 Lunchtime Concert Diary

Scroll down the page for week by week concert summaries
Search this Site
search for a performer, composer, instrument, or the title of a piece
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
&
Music on Thursdays

proud to be members of

Making Music

the National Federation of
Music Societies
Picture
click above for membership information

our themed concert video selections
from the lockdown periods, are on our sister site:
musicinsurrey.co.uk

Here are nine videos we invited musicians to produce during the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. They remain online for your entertainment.

Accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade
The Buck Brass Quartet
Viols player Ibrahim Aziz
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

Pianist Thomas Ang
Classical harmonica player
Phil Hopkins with accompanist
Stuart Whatton
CarmenCo
her  story told by flute, voice
and two guitars
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬
Marion Bettsworth
at the organ in
St Michael's Church, Highgate
Diphonon Duo
Viola & Accordion
Eddie Lee's
JAZZ on Thursday
▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

Now we run live, but we still put matching video recordings onto each concert's webpage for you to enjoy when you cannot be with us

2022 Lunchtime Concert Diary

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 24th February 2022

2pm
Annual General Meeting of the
Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society
Registered Charity Nº 1166764
all are welcome to attend

followed by:

3.30pm
Silent Movie Time with Thomas Ang at the piano

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 31st March 2022 • 12.30

Trio Kaizen

Hannah Hever, clarinet
William Clark-Maxwell, cello
Eran Sulkin, piano
 
music by Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven & Chopin​

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 7th April 2022 • 12.30

Yuzhang Li, piano

music by Beethoven • Haydn • Scriabin


courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 14th April 2022 • 12.30

There will be no concert today, Maundy Thursday

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 21st April 2022 • 12.30

Inis Oírr Asano, viola
Naoki Toyomura, piano
​music includes a Bach Sonata, Christopher Tin's Baba Yetu (from the video game Civilization IV), Vieuxtemps' Capriccio, and excerpts from Prokofiev's music for Romeo & Juliet

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 28th April 2022 • 12.30

Lavinia Vlad, violin
Mark Kinkaid, piano
Violin Sonatas by Beethoven & Brahms


courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 5th May 2022 • 12.30

Matthew Chin, violin
Eunji Han, piano
Brahms Sonata (1st Mov)
Beethoven Concert (2nd & 3rd Movs)
​Ysaÿe Solo sonata

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 12th May 2022 • 12.30

Kira Frolu, piano
Debussy: Estampes
Bach: French Suite no 1 in D minor BWV 812
Stravinsky: Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka


​courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

​Kenny Fu is indisposed. His concert will be rescheduled.

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 19th May 2022 • 12.30

Mark Dangerfield, guitar
classical guitar music by
John Dowland, Tarrega, Albéniz, Villa-Lobos, & Leo Brouwer


courtesy of the Royal College of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 26th May 2022 • 12.30

Ibrahim Aziz, viola da gamba

Jonatan Bougt, theorbo
Music of the 16th and 17th centuries by Anon (Greensleeves), Bach, Gustav Düben, Marin Marais, Forqueray, Couperin, Robert de Visée, Telemann, plus a contemporary work by Carlos Martínez Gil

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 2nd June 2022 • 12.30

Concert for The Queen's

Platinum Jubilee 2022
​

Buck Brass Quartet

Music from the Times of the Monarch

Adam Stockbridge, trumpet
Frances Leith & Benji Hartnell-Booth, French horns
Richard Buck, trombone and director​

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 9th June 2022 • 12.30


Eduards Grieznis
​
piano

courtesy of the London College of Music
A selection of piano music by Latvian composers, a refreshing sound of Scandinavia that is rarely heard in Britain

Jāzeps Vītols Popular Latvian Folk songs
    IV Aijā, žūžu, lāča bērni - Rock-a-bye, hush-a-bye, (my) bear cubs
    VII Redz' kur jāja div' bajāri - Look, there go two rich men
Eduards Grieznis - Latvian Folk song arrangement
Jānis Mediņš - Dainas / Preludes - Dainas - typical Latvian 4-line poems
Volfgangs Dārziņš - Two preludes in G
Pēteris Vasks - Baltā ainava    White Scenery

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 16th June 2022 • 12.30

Gus McQuade

classical guitar


Mompou: Suite Compostelana / Santiago de Compostela Suite
JS Bach: Ciaccone from Violin Partita in D minor
William Walton: 5 Bagatelles

​courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 23rd June 2022 • 12.30

Percussion
in the West End
Orchestra Pit


Phil Hopkins, percussion
Lindsay Bridgwater, piano

Numbers from several musicals, films, and from the times of Henry VIII - before there even was a West End Theatreland!

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 30th June 2022 • 12.30

G.RA.Y Piano Quintet

conservatoire students of the
Guildhall, Royal Academy, Royal College, & Yale

*Andrew Samarasekara, violin 1 - Y
Julia Hwang, violin 2 - RC
Ami-Louise Johnsson, viola - G
Hattie McGregor, cello - RA
*Yuki Hammyo, piano - G

*Brahms violin sonata
tutti: Shostakovich Piano Quintet
Dmitri Shostakovich, Andrew Samarasekara, violin, Julia Hwang, violin, Ami-Louise Johnsson , viola, Hattie McGregor, cello, Yuki Hammyo, piano,
Dmitri Shostakovich

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 7th July 2022 • 12.30


LEVANTO

with music by Edward McGuire, Jørgan Bentzon, John Cage and Leonardo de Lorenzo

Camilla Marchant, flute 
Jernej Albreht, clarinet 
Emily Newman, bassoon

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 14th July 2022 • 12.30


​Diphonon Duo


Michael Iskas, alto / viola
Iñigo Mikelleiz Berrade, accordéon


nous offrent une sélection de musique française
bring us sélection of French music, including

Édith Piaf songs, French Chansons & Waltzes, and other music evocative of Paris and of France

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 21st July 2022 • 12.30


Sungbin Cho
classical guitar


with music by Torroba, Tansman, Litha Efthymiou, Stephen Dodgson & Napoléon Coste


courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 28th July 2022 • 12.30


Sam Russell
electric guitar, composer

Jacqueline Phillips
violoncello, arranger


music by Sam Russell, Karl Jenkins, JS Bach

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 4th August 2022 • 12.30


David Massey
guitar, songwriter


music by David Massey, Takemitsu (on Summertime & Over the Rainbow), Anohni, Schubert, Leo Brouwer, John Dowland, & Don McLean

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 11th August 2022 • 12.30

Modern Muse - British Music for Viola & Piano


Victoria Bernath
viola, composer

Thomas Ang
piano


music by:
Eibhlis Farrell, Victoria Bernath, Rebecca Clarke (violin sonata)

no Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 18th August 2022

No concert this week due to
Church closure for carpet cleaning

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 25th August 2022 • 12.30



Eri Yamamoto
piano


music by: Beethoven, and arrangements by Liszt of works by Beethoven, Schubert, Wagner & Saint-Saëns

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 1st September 2022 • 12.30

Gabriel Bilbao
violin

Jeffery Macsim
piano

music by: Messiaen • Szymanowski • Bartók

courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 8th September 2022 • 12.30


Kenny Fu
piano


performs music by:

Schumann, Liszt, Haydn, followed by

Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (complete)


courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 15th September 2022 • 12.30

Catriona Bourne Swinton Hunter
flute

Raymond Wui-Man Yiu
piano


perform music by:
JS Bach, Donizetti, Enescu, & Taktakishvili


courtesy of
​Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 22nd September 2022 • 12.30

First Encounters
Musical Journeys from the first Age of Globalisation


Western and original Eastern takes on Chinese music


Yeo Yat-Soon
harpsichord

Agnes Chin
guzheng
a blend of Eastern music, and Western evocations of Eastern sounds

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 29th September 2022 • 12.30

Louisa Till
violin

Oliver Till
piano
sonatas by Schubert & Debussy, romances by Clara Schumann
We have four

12:30
​
​ lunchtime concerts

during October's

2022 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival

2022 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival

2022 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 20th October 2022 • 12.30

Rachel Stott
viola d'amore/viola/composer

Ibrahim Aziz
viola da gamba
programme under consideration
Following the sad news of the death of Emma Murphy, who was due to perform in this concert, there will be changes to the players and programme. The concert will be dedicated to Emma's memory.

2022 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 24th November 2022 • 12.30

RAM String Quartet
leader: Inis Oírr, violin

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 1st December 2022 • 12.30

CarmenCo Trio

Emily Andrews
​flute & voice

David Massey & Francisco Correa
guitars