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Blackburn Symphony Orchestra
Musical Director: Richard Howarth Sunday 21 November, 3pm Accrington Town Hall, 42 Blackburn Road, Accrington, BB5 1LA Sibelius - Karelia Suite, Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A Soloist: Paul Vowle, Brahms - Symphony No 2 in D Op73 Saturday 2 April, 7.30pm Blackburn Cathedral, Cathedral Close, Blackburn, BB1 5AA Dukas - Fanfare from La Peri, Wagner - Overture Die Meistersinger, Beethoven - Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat Op73 'Emperor' Soloist: Serene Koh, Tchaikovsky - Symphony No 2 in C minor Op 17 Saturday 9 July, 7.30pm Westholme School, Meins Road, Blackburn BB2 6QU Verdi - Overture The Force of Destiny, Saint-Saëns - Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor, Dvorak - Symphony No 9 in E minor 'From the New World' Tickets are £13 for adults or free for under 18’s. Tickets available from our website or from Eventbrite (search Blackburn Symphony Orchestra) blackburnsymphony@gmail.com www.blackburnsymphony.org.uk CUMBRIA FESTIVAL CHORUS and ORCHESTRA
Ian Jones - conductor Saturday 20 November JOSHUA ELLICOTT – tenor Wordsworth 250 Gerald Finzi Intimations of Immortality Roland Fudge and Jonathan Millican Two newly commissioned works based on Wordsworth’s poetry Saturday 9 July SARAH FOX (soprano), RODERICK WILLIAMS (baritone) Vaughan Williams 150 A Sea Symphony, The Lark Ascending (soloist Roland Fudge), Benedicite Concerts at Kendal Parish Church, Kirkland, LA9 5AF, 7.30pm Tickets £15 (students free) 01539 720168 www.cumbriafestivalchorus.uk Darlington Piano Society
Sunday 14th November Elisabeth Brauss (BBC Young Generation Artist) Scarlatti, Mozart, Ravel, Prokofiev, Brahms, Schumann Sunday 12th December Patrick Hemmerlé (Musician in Residence, Clare Hall, Cambridge) Vierne, Liszt, Ravel, Granados, Albeniz, Villa Lobos Sunday 16th January Lauren Zhang (BBC Young Musician of the Year 2018) JS Bach, Beethoven, Liebermann, Liszt Sunday, 20th February Dinara Klinton (2nd Prize, Busoni International Piano Competition) Glinka, Prokofiev, Medtner, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky Sunday, 20th March Eric Lu (Leeds International Piano competition winner 2018) Beethoven, Schumann, JS Bach, Chopin Individual tickets (£15, U21 free) are available at each recital on the door. Season tickets (£60) can also be purchased online via the website. For any further information please use the Contact Us form under the General Information page of the website, or email the chairman directly at gregwj1949@gmail.com www.dpiano.co.uk Haffner Orchestra
Saturday 4 December Great Hall, Lancaster University LA1 4YW 7.30pm There will be no pre-concert talk Christopher Jones – violin Jonathan Lo – conductor Julian Cann - leader Mendelssohn Overture, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mendelssohn Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony no. 7 Saturday 5 March Great Hall, Lancaster University LA1 4YW 7.30pm Pre-concert talk 6.30 pm Programme to be confirmed Saturday 25 June Ashton Hall, Dalton Square, Lancaster LA1 1PJ 7.30pm Pre-concert talk 6.30 pm Programme to be confirmed Tickets £15.00, 18’s and under free. 01524 582394 www.haffnerorchestra.org Kendal South Choir
Geoffrey Field – conductor Friday 10 December CHRISTOPHER STEELE – tenor A Christmas Celebration Ariel Ramirez Navidad Nuestra R Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols With carols for choir and audience Saturday 14 May ANDY PLOWMAN – organ An Evening with Haydn and Mozart Haydn Salve Regina and Little Organ Mass Mozart Regina Coeli and Orgelsolo Messe Concerts at St Thomas’s Church, Stricklandgate, Kendal LA9 4QG, 7.30pm Tickets £12 (under-18s free) T 015395 32241 www.kendalsouthchoir.org.uk ![]() Leeds International Chamber Season
Artists’ Choice Artistic Director – David Waterman Tuesday 2 November, 7.30pm Castalian Quartet with David Waterman – cello Mendelssohn – Tema con Variazioni Sibelius – Voces intimae Schubert – String Quintet Tuesday 7 December, 7.30pm Sini Simonen – violin David Waterman – cello Alasdair Beatson – piano Haydn – Piano Trio No 39 (Gypsy Rondo) Beethoven – Piano Trio Op 70, No 2 Brahms – Piano Trio No 1 Tuesday 18 January, 7.30pm Jonian-Ilias Kadesha – violin Sini Simonen – violin Charlotte Bonneton – viola David Adams – viola Vashti Hunter – cello David Waterman – cello Brahms – String Sextet No 2 Martinů – Duo for Violin and Cello Dvořák – String Sextet Tuesday 22 February, 7.30pm Steven Isserlis – cello Alasdair Beatson – piano Mendelssohn - Variations concertantes Schumann (arr S Isserlis) - Violin Sonata No 2 Schumann - Adagio and Allegro Mendelssohn – Cello Sonata No 2 Tuesday 22 March, 7.30pm Jonian-Ilias Kadesha – violin Timothy Ridout – viola David Waterman – cello Connie Shih – piano Fauré – Piano Quartet No 1 Ravel – Tzigane for violin and piano Brahms – Piano Quartet No 1 Concerts at The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire, Leeds, LS2 7PD Tickets: Full price: A £25, B £23, Over 60s: A £23, B £21, Under 18s, full-time students, unwaged 50% off (prices include booking fee) Buy tickets online: www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk / Box Office: 0113 376 0318 ![]() Leeds International Piano Series Presented in association with Leeds International Piano Competition Thursday 11 November, 7.30pm Imogen Cooper – piano Schubert - Sonata in A minor D845 Ravel – Sonatine, Jeux d'eau, Valses Nobles et Sentimentales Liszt - Les jeux d'eaux a la villa d'Este, Hungarian Rhapsody No 13 Tuesday 21 December, 7.30pm Cédric Tiberghien – piano Beethoven - Six variations on Paisiello, Six variations on Les Ruines d’Athènes Schumann – Etudes in Variation Form on a Theme by Beethoven, Geistervariationen Beethoven - Seven Variations on Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen Mozart – Sonata No 11, K331 Thursday 27 January, 7.30pm Isata Kanneh-Mason – piano Mozart - Sonata No 14, K457 Beethoven - Sonata No 1, Op 2, No 1 Gubaidulina - Chaconne Scriabin - 24 Preludes, Op 11 (selection) Rachmaninov - Études-Tableaux Op 39: Nos 1, 2, 4, 5 & 6 Chopin - Ballade No 2 Tuesday 8 February 2022, 7.30pm Alexander Gavrylyuk – piano Beethoven – Sonata No 14 (Moonlight) Chopin – Nocturne Op 27, No 2, Polonaise Op 40, No 1 (Military Polonaise) Liszt – Consolation No 3, Tarantella Debussy – Two Arabesques Rachmaninov – Sonata No 2 (revised edition) Tuesday 8 March 2022, 7.30pm Federico Colli – piano Mozart – Fantasy in D minor K 396, Fantasy in C minor K 397 Mozart – Fantasy in C minor K 475, Sonata No 13 K 333 Schubert (trans M Grinberg) – Fantasy in F minor Prokofiev (trans T Nikolayeva) – Peter and the Wolf Concerts at The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire, Leeds, LS2 7PD Tickets: Full price: A £25, B £23, Over 60s: A £23, B £21, Under 18s, full-time students, unwaged 50% off (prices include booking fee) Buy tickets online: www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk / Box Office: 0113 376 0318 [logo] Music in the Round
Saturday 15 January, 7.15pm – 9pm Crucible Studio Theatre MISHKA RUSHDIE MOMEN piano Programme includes: BACH Prelude and Fugue in C MOZART Fantasie in C minor K475 PROKOFIEV Visions fugitives SCHUBERT Fantasie in C Wanderer-Fantasy Friday 21 January, 1pm – 2pm / 7pm – 8pm Upper Chapel ENSEMBLE 360 BACH Cello Suites No.1 & No.3 Saturday 5 February, 7pm – 8.45pm Upper Chapel ENSEMBLE 360 BEETHOVEN String Quartet Op.18 No.3, String Quartet Op.19 Serioso, String Quartet Op.59 No.1 Thursday 10 February. 7pm – 8.45pm Upper Chapel ENSEMBLE 360 MOZART Piano Trio in B flat K502 ADÈS Catch STRAVINSKY A Soldier's Tale Suite BRAHMS Clarinet Trio Friday 11 February, 7.30pm - 9pm Emmanuel Church, Barnsley ENSEMBLE 360 MOZART Piano Trio in B flat K502 ADÈS Catch STRAVINSKY A Soldier's Tale Suite BRAHMS Clarinet Trio Friday 12 February, 7pm – 8.45pm Cast, Doncaster ENSEMBLE 360 MOZART Piano Trio in B flat K502 ADÈS Catch STRAVINSKY A Soldier's Tale Suite BRAHMS Clarinet Trio Friday 18 February, 1pm – 2pm / 7pm – 8pm Upper Chapel ENSEMBLE 360 BACH Goldberg Variations BWV988 arr. for string trio Saturday 5 March, 7.15pm – 9pm Crucible Studio Theatre TIM HORTON piano MOZART Fantasy in C minor K396 SZYMANOWSKI Masques Op.34 CHOPIN Four Ballades Thursday 10 March, 7.15pm – 9pm Crucible Studio Theatre ENSEMBLE 360 VIGNERI Sonata for Horn and Piano BRAHMS Clarinet Sonata in F minor ROBERT SCHUMANN Fantasiestücke Op.73 REINECKE Trio for clarinet, horn and piano Friday 11 March, 8pm – 9.30pm Theatre Deli SOUNDS OF NOW: ELAINE MITCHENER & APARTMENT HOUSE Programme includes works by Charles Mingus, Benjamin Patterson, Jeanne Lee, Louise Bourgeois, Archie Shepp, Elaine Mitchener, Katalin Ladik and Christian Wolff Friday 18 March, 7.15pm – 9pm Crucible Studio Theatre LEONORE PIANO TRIO HAYDN Piano Trio No.39 Gypsy Rondo DVOŘÁK Piano Trio No.4 Dumky BRAHMS Piano Trio No.1 Saturday 26 March, 7pm – 10pm Theatre Deli JON BODEN with supporting guests TOM MOORE & ARCHIE MOSS Jon Boden, best known is the lead singer of the progressive folk juggernaut Bellowhead, performs self-penned songs including his latest album, as well as material from Bellowhead, Spiers & Boden, and his A Folk Song A Day project. Friday 8 April, 7pm – 9pm Theatre Deli MAYA YOUSSEF and guests Damascus-born Maya Youssef is hailed as ‘the queen of the qanun’, a traditional Syrian 78-stringed plucked zither, her innovative sound has echoes of everything from jazz to flamenco, infused with warmth, humour and optimism. Friday 15 April, 7.30pm - 9pm Emmanuel Church, Barnsley ENSEMBLE 360 Saturday 16 April, 7pm – 8.45pm Cast, Doncaster ENSEMBLE 360 Friday 29 April, 8pm – 9.30pm Upper Chapel SOUNDS OF NOW: PSAPPHA NINFEA CRUTTWELL-READE Three Études for Piano and Flower Pots HARRISON BIRTWISTLE The Axe Manual JOANNA WARD Translucent SIMON HOLT The Sower Venues: Crucible Studio Theatre, 55 Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 1DA Upper Chapel, Norfolk Street, Sheffield S1 2JD Theatre Deli, 202 Eyre Street, Sheffield S1 4QZ Emmanuel Church, Huddersfield Road, Barnsley, S75 1DT Cast, Waterdale, Doncaster, DN1 3BU Tickets: www.musicintheround.co.uk Sheffield: 0114 249 6000 Barnsley: 01226 327 000 Cast in Doncaster: 01302 303 959 www.musicintheround.co.uk |
Bollington Chamber Concerts
Saturday 27th November The Carducci Quartet Saturday 22nd January The Eblana Trio Saturday 19th February Jean Johnson, clarinet & Danny Driver, piano Saturday 19th March The Villiers Quartet Saturday 9th April Emma Purslow, violin & Eleanor Kornas, piano Concerts start at 7.30 pm at Bollington Arts Centre, Wellington Road, Bollington SK10 5JR Individual Auditorium Tickets are £20. Subscription for all six concerts is £100. All the concerts will be simultaneously live-streamed – full details are on the website. Admin@bollington-chamber-concerts.org https://bollington-chamber-concerts.org/2021-22-season/ Darlington Music Society
Saturday 27 November Emma Abbate (piano) and Sacconi Quartet Elgar Piano Quintet Op 84, Shostakovich Piano Quintet Op 57, Rachmaninov 'Romance' Saturday 8 January Mathilde Milwidsky (violin) and Joseph Havlat (piano) Beethoven Op 12 No 3, Faure Op 13, Ravel Sonata Posthume, Strauss Op 18 Saturday 12 February Sirius Chau (flute) and Irena Radić (piano) Prokofiev, Poulenc, Martin, Dutilleux, Bolling, Casella, Borne, Gade Saturday 12 March Barbican String Quartet Haydn Op 20 No 4, Bartok Quartet No 2, Beethoven Op 59 No 2 Saturday 2 April Aurora Wind Quintet Danzi, Ibert, Mozart, Zemlinsky, Vivaldi, Klughardt, Gershwin Saturday 30 April Alkyona String Quartet Shostakovich Quartet No 7, Beethoven Op 18 No 3, Schubert 'Death & the Maiden' All concerts 7.30pm at Central Hall, Dolphin Centre, Horse Market, Darlington DL1 5RP Single tickets £15 Season ticket for all six concerts £60 Buy online at darlingtonmusicsociety.org.uk Free entry for those aged 25 and under, thanks to Cavatina Chamber Music Trust Telephone enquiries 01325 467163 www.darlingtonmusicsociety.org.uk ![]() Musical director : Ian Jones Thursday December 2nd at 7.30pm Dvorak: Mass in D Mozart: Movements from the Solemn Vespers Haydn: String quartet The Lark Andy Plowman organ - Pam Redman, Jane Cull, Allison Calderbank, Bob Buller string quartet St Oswald's Church, Main Street, Warton, Carnforth LA5 9PG Tickets £10 Monday December 20th at 7.30pm A concert of Christmas music and carols Ian Pattinson organ St Thomas' Church, The Square, Milnthorpe LA7 7QJ Tickets £10 including seasonal refreshments Friday 6th May Purcell: Jubilate Deo Bach: Suite in B Minor for Flute and Strings with Meera Maharaj flute Haydn: ‘Nelson’ Mass Ian Pattinson organ St Oswald's Church, Main Street, Warton, Carnforth LA5 9PG Tickets £12 Tickets available on the door, from choir members or from Janet Clements Phone 01524 823072 Email. jan_etclements@yahoo.co.uk. www.eversleychoir.org [logo] ![]() Leeds International Chamber Orchestra Season
Saturday 13 November, 7.30pm BBC Philharmonic Daniel Pioro – director/violin Hildegard von Bingen (arr Coult) – O Ecclesia Edmund Finnis – The Centre is Everywhere Vivaldi – The Four Seasons Saturday 4 December, 7.30pm Manchester Camerata Patricia Kopatchinskaja – director/violin Biber – Battalia Ligeti – Six Bagatelles Hartmann – Concerto funèbre Patricia Kopatchinskaja – New Work Haydn – Symphony No 45 (Farewell) Saturday 18 December, 7.30pm Orchestra of Opera North Chorus of Opera North Oliver Rundell – conductor Programme to include: Arr Rathbone – In the Bleak Midwinter Will Todd – Away in a Manger Arr Rathbone – We Wish You a Merry Christmas Saturday 22 January, 7.30pm City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Kazuki Yamada – conductor Eugene Tzikindelean - violin Verdi – Prelude to Act I: La Traviata Mozart – Violin Concerto No 4 Schubert – Symphony No 5 Saturday 12 February, 7.30pm The Hallé Delyana Lazarova - conductor Wagner – Siegfried Idyll Bacewicz – Concerto for Orchestra Arensky – Variations on a Theme by Tchaikovsky Stravinsky/Schäffer – The Firebird (1945) Saturday 12 March, 7.30pm European Union Chamber Orchestra Darragh Morgan - director Fenella Humphreys – violin Holst – St Paul’s Suite Mozart – Violin Concerto No 5 (Turkish) Sibelius – Romance Haydn – Symphony No 57 Saturday 26 March, 7.30pm Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Rebecca Tong - conductor John Adams – Shaker Loops Vivian Fung – String Sinfonietta Dvořák – Serenade for Strings Saturday 9 April, 7.30pm Orchestra of Opera North Jack Liebeck – director/violin Programme to include: Saint-Saëns – Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso Glazunov – Violin Concerto Saturday 23 April, 7.30pm Britten Sinfonia Thomas Gould - director Mishka Rushdie Momen – piano Matilda Lloyd – trumpet Alisa Firsova – New Work Shostakovich – Concerto for piano, trumpet, and strings Prokofiev/Barshai – Visions Fugitives Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings Concerts at The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire, Leeds, LS2 7PD Tickets: A £38, B £28 inclusive of booking fees. Over 60s £1.50 off. Under 18s, students, unwaged 50% off Buy tickets online: www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk / Box Office: 0113 376 0318 [logo] Levens Choir
Director: Ian Jones Tuesday 23rd November 7:30pm Carver United Reformed Church, Lake Road, Windermere LA23 2DB Organist: Andy Plowman, Tenor Soloist: James Marczak For St Cecilia: Music for St Cecilia’s Day by Britten, Finzi and Howells plus other items. Saturday 9th April 7:30 pm, Lancaster Priory, Priory Close, Lancaster LA1 1YZ Sunday 10th April 7:30 pm, St George’s Church, Castle Street, Kendal LA9 7AS A programme of Venetian Music with the English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble, directed by Gawain Glenton Apply for tickets via the choir’s website: details and prices will be posted there. Tickets will also be available at the door. www.levenschoir.net Music in Dumfries
Friday 19 November, 7.30pm Crichton Church, Bankend Road, Dumfries DG1 4ZZ DANIEL CIOBANU piano Gesualdo, Haydn, Schumann, Liszt, Hamelin, Prokofiev, Satie Saturday 11 December, 7.30pm THE GOULD PIANO TRIO with ROBERT PLANE Lucy Gould, violin; Richard Lester, cello; Benjamin Frith, piano; Robert Plane, clarinet Fauré, Watkins, Messiaen Saturday 22 January, 7.30pm THE WALLACE COLLECTION John Wallace, Bede Williams, John Miller, trumpets; Fergus Horn, F horn; Paul Stone, trombone; Tony George, tuba Gabrieli, Bellon, Mimart, Martland, Previn, Werner Henze Friday 18 February, 7.30pm FLORILEGIUM Ashley Solomon, flute; Bojan Cicic, violin; Gabriella Jones, violin; Jane Rogers, viola; Jennifer Morsches, cello Florilegium Celebrates Thirty Years with Haydn Thursday 24 March, 7.30pm Crichton Church, Bankend Road, Dumfries DG1 4ZZ THE BRODSKY QUARTET - Fiftieth Anniversary Tour Krysia Osostowicz, violin; Ian Belton, violin; Paul Cassidy, viola; Jacky Thomas, cello Bach, Shostakovich, Beethoven Friday 1 April, 7.30pm Clare Hammond, piano Beethoven, Brahms, Carwithen, Still, Medtner Concerts at St John’s Church, Lovers Walk, Dumfries DG1 1LR except where stated Tickets available online through the website, through Midsteeple Box Office or at the door Adult £15, student £5, schoolchildren free www.musicindumfries.com info@musicindumfries.com 07972 503895 Northern Chamber Orchestra
Saturday 4 December, 5.30pm, The Heritage Centre, Macclesfield Sunday 5 December, 3.00pm, The Stoller Hall, Manchester NCO with Chloë Hanslip, violin and director Saturday 11 December, 3.30pm & 7pm, Tatton Park Northern Chamber Orchestra Romance at Christmas Saturday 15 January, 5.30pm, The Heritage Centre, Macclesfield Northern Chamber Orchestra Bach, Mozart, Prokofiev, Shostakovich Saturday 12 February, 7.30pm, Christ Church, West Didsbury, Manchester Sunday 13 February, 1.30pm, Storyhouse, Chester NCO Soloists Haydn, Beethoven, Dvorak Saturday 26 February 2022 7.30pm, The Heritage Centre, Macclesfield NCO with Raphael Wallfisch, cello Saturday 26 March 2022 7.30pm, The Heritage Centre, Macclesfield NCO Soloists Mendelssohn, Dvorak, R Strauss Saturday 23 April 2022 7.30pm, The Heritage Centre, Macclesfield Sunday 24 April 2022 3.00pm, The Stoller Hall, Manchester NCO with Ben Hulme, horn Saturday 21 May 2022 7.30pm, The Heritage Centre, Macclesfield Sunday 22 May 2022 3.00pm, The Stoller Hall, Manchester NCO with Craig Ogden, guitar Saturday 28 May 2022 7.30pm, Christ Church, West Didsbury, Manchester Sunday 29 May 2022 1.30pm, Storyhouse, Chester NCO Soloists Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, R Straus Storyhouse, Hunter Street, Chester CH1 2AR Tatton Park, Rostherne Drive, Knutsford WA16 6SG The Old Sunday School Heritage Centre, Roe Street, Macclesfield SK11 6UT Christ Church, Darley Avenue, West Didsbury, Manchester M20 2ZD The Stoller Hall, Hunts Bank, Manchester M3 1DA Full details and all tickets from www.ncorch.co.uk Header photo: Cuarteto Quiroga (credit IGOR-STUDIO)
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