2023 Lunchtime Concert Diary


MoT at LMC: Music on Thursdays
at Leatherhead Methodist Church

MoT presents chamber music concerts, with
students of the Royal Academy of Music
graduates of London's internationally celebrated
music conservatoires, and
local musicians of similar professional standard

Each season brings
excellent performances of the familiar,
along with some lovely rare finds.

Whether you pick one concert to attend
or you decide to become a regular,
music-lovers will find a warm welcome awaits


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Here are nine videos we invited musicians to produce during the lockdown months. They remain available for your listening on YouTube.

Accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade
The Buck Brass Quartet
Viols player Ibrahim Aziz
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Pianist Thomas Ang
Classical harmonica player Phil Hopkins with accompanist 
​Stuart Whatton
CarmenCo
her story told by flute, voice and two guitars​
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Marion Bettsworth
at the organ in
St Michael's, Highgate
Diphonon Duo
Viola & Accordion
Eddie Lee's
JAZZ on Thursday
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Now we run live, and we put matching video recordings onto each concert webpage for you to enjoy when you cannot be with us

2023 Lunchtime Concert Diary

Music on Thursdays at LMC
2023 Opening Concert
Thursday 6th April 2023 • 12.30 lunchtime

Lavinia Vlad
violin

Mark Kinkaid
piano
Sonatas by Mozart & Brahms

courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

This is a late change of concert. Kenny Fu has to be in Italy this week, working with an important professor

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 13th April 2023 • 12.30

Hannah Shilvock
bass clarinet

Viola Lenzi
piano

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 20th April 2023 • 12.30

Solis Trio
trumpet, horn, trombone

music by Eric Ewazen, Ian McDougall, Pete Middleton, Dario Argentesi, Bizet, Owen Spafford, Scott Joplin


​courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music
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LCAS Outreach: Following this week's concert, Solis Trio will be visiting the town's primary school, Leatherhead Trinity, to perform and to demonstrate their instruments there. This is expected to encourage the take-up of brass tuition at the school.

​This activity will be funded by donations at the concert, and by drawing on the LCAS charity's existing fund for music education at Trinity.

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 27th April 2023 • 12.30

Tailleferre Ensemble

Nicola Hands & Penelope Smith, oboes
Helen Pierce, clarinet, Holly Redshaw, bassoon
music by Eugene Bozza • Sally Wave • Rudolf Maros • Bill Douglas • Cecilia McDowall

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 4th May 2023 • 12.30

May Robertson • baroque violin
Dan Tidhar • harpsichord
Ibrahim Aziz • bass viol
music by ​Marin Marais, JS Bach, Carl Abel, Rameau, & Buxtehude

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 11th May 2023 • 12.30

Mark Dangerfield
Seungyeon Lee
classical guitar duo

​courtesy of the Royal College of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 18th May 2023 • 12.30

Kenny Fu
​piano

music by Prokofiev • Debussy • Chopin • Medtner

​courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 25th May 2023 • 12.30

Samuel Vincent
cello

Ilan Kurtser
piano
Beethoven: Cello Sonata No 3 in A major
Robert Fuchs: Cello Sonata No 2 in Eb minor

courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 1st June 2023 • 12.30

Matthew Chin
violin

Eunji Han
piano

​music by Bach • Beethoven • Waxman

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 8th June 2023 • 12.30

​Jiali Wang
piano
​a concert of piano music by Ravel, Scriabin, Liszt and Chopin
​courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 15th June 2023 • 12.30

The Two Classical Guitars of

David Massey
&
Francisco Correa
Facebook: @DavidMassey.fingernail  @PacoGuitar
Twitter: @_DavidMassey_ @FCorreaGuitar

music of Steven Goss, Charles Ives, Mario Gangi
with the world premiere performance of
Duocosmos Suite by Mark Houghton

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 22nd June 2023 • 12.30
Alastair Penman
saxophone

Jonathan Pease
piano
music by Iturralde, Richard Rodney Bennett, Penman, Robert Planel, Debussy, Andy Scott & Demersseman

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 29th June 2023 • 12.30

Aliara Duo

Gwenlian Llŷr , harp
​Sirius Chau, flute
music by:
Albéniz • Zamara/Doppler • Schubert • Skaila Kanga
and Paul Reade's Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 6th July 2023 • 12.30

Ezo Sarici
violin

Ignas Maknickas
piano
Brahms Violin & Piano Sonatas

​courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

​Ignas Maknickas is a YCAT Artist for 2023-4 (Young Classical Artists Trust)

► Music on Thursdays
► at LMC
► Thursday 13th July 2023
► 12.30

Flutes & Frets
Beth Stone, flutes, recorders
Daniel Murphy, lute, theorbo

Courts, Cathedrals & Concert Halls

from music by Henry VIII, William Byrd and John Blow, to Rossini and Villa-Lobos !

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 20th July 2023 • 12.30

​L U C E N T   Q U A R T E T
Haydn
String Quartet Op 20 No 2
​String Quartet Op 33 No 4

courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 27th July 2023 • 12.30

Gwyn Owen
trumpet, flugelhorn

Bernard Robertson
piano

includes Haydn Trumpet Concerto, music by Arban, Piazzolla, Rodrigo, Nathan Hudson, & Goedicke

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 3rd August 2023 • 12.30
XinRu Chen
piano
piano works by:
Beethoven  •  Chopin  •  Schumann

​courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

recordings of this music, performed by Alfred Brendel, Daniil Trifonov, and Arthur Rubinstein, are available on the concert webpage:

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 10th August 2023 • 12.30

Diphonon Duo

Michael Iskas, viola
Iñigo Mikeleiz Berrade, accordion

with music by Purcell, Granados, Ernest Bloch,
​Villa-Lobos, Joaquin Taboada, Piazzolla , Juan Cazcarra

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 17th August 2023 • 12.30

Piano à Deux
Robert Stoodley & Linda Ang Stoodley
piano 4 hands

Beethoven • Mendelssohn • Liszt • Gershwin

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 24th August 2023 • 12.30

Thomas Ang
piano

music by Clara Schumann & Nikolai Medtner

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 31st August 2023 • 12.30

Yuzhang Li
piano
JS Bach Partita, &
Rachmaninoff, 7 of the 10 preludes

​courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 7th September 2023 • 12.30

400th Anniversary of William Byrd (c1540-1632)


​Yeo Yat-Soon
harpsichord

harpsichord music by
William Byrd
​and his contemporaries

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 14th Sepember 2023 • 12.30

Buck Brass Trio

Richard Buck, trombone
with Katie Lodge, trumpet
& Timothy Ellis, horn​

music by Jeremiah Clarke, Francis Poulenc, Bruckner, Ibert, Vaughan Williams

Leatherhead Parish Church
Organfest - Saturday 16 September
​3pm - 5pm

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​Please note: This event is organised by Leatherhead Parish Church

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 21st September 2023 12.30

Asaka Quartet

music by Schubert, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel (older sister of Felix), with arrangements by the Danish String Quartet / Danske Strygekvartet

​courtesy of the Royal Academy of Music

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 28th September 2023 12.30

Francisco Correa
classical guitar

music by Stephen Goss, Pedro Barreiro, Agustín Barrios, Francisco Tárrega


​2023 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 5th October 2023 • 12.30

Matt Cook Quartet

John Coltrane: a Love Supreme

Matt Cook, saxophone
Reuben Goldmark, piano
Max Kahn, double bass
Jack Yardley, drums

2023 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 12th Oct 2023 • 12.30

Khamis & Jones

Gamal Khamis & Belinda Jones
piano 4 hands

2023 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 19th Oct 2023 • 12.30

Tailleferre Ensemble
clarinet, oboe, bassoon, piano

2023 Mole Valley Arts Alive Festival

Music on Thursdays at LMC
&
The Westminster Society

Thursday 26 October 2023 12.30

Phil Hopkins, classical harmonica
Lindsay Bridgwater, piano

music by Handel, Schubert, Ennio Morricone, Bach, Debussy, and Bernstein's West Side Story

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 2nd Nov 2023 • 12.30

Elena Toponogova
piano

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 9th Nov 2023 • 12.30

Catriona Bourne
flute
​
Fabio Fernandes
lute

2023 Season • All American Finale

Music on Thursdays at LMC
Thursday 16th November 2023 • 12.30

Anna Ovsyanikova
piano

Thomas Ang
piano
music by Amy Beach, Harry T Burleigh, Cole Porter, Scott Joplin, William Grant Still