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Friday 9 June BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10 pm CBSO Centre Stage: CBSO Cellos CBSO CELLOS to include Debussy, Rossini, Sibelius and J Strauss II CBSO 0121 780 3333 £10* Sunday 18 June CIRENCESTER
Royal Agricultural University GL7 6JS, 3.30 pm JASPA Brass Programme to include: Music from Peer Gynt Edvard Grieg Quintet No.1 Victor Ewald Kinderzirkus Jan Koetsier Royal Agricultural University 01285 889839 £16 Monday 19 June BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 3DQ, 7.30 pm CHRISTOPHER PARK – piano Beethoven Sonata D Major Op 10 No 3 Stravinsky Trois mouvements de Pétrouchka Olga Neuwirth Trurl-Tichy-Tinkle Schumann Fantasie Op 17 Town Hall & Symphony Hall 0121 345 0600 £31 - £12.50* Friday 30 June BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 7.30pm TOBY HUGHES - double bass (winner of Bromsgrove International Young Musicians competition 2016) BEN POWELL - piano Paul Hindemith Sonata Derek Bourgeois Sonata Dvořák Silent Woods Schubert Ständchen Bottesini Elegy Frank Proto Sonata Schumann Adagio and Allegro Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 577330 £12 (£5, free) |
Tuesday 13 June BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 3DQ, 7.30 pm SEONG-JIN CHO – piano Mozart Sonata K 332 Debussy Images Book 1 & 2 Chopin 4 Ballades Town Hall & Symphony Hall 0121 345 0600 £31 - £12.50* Sunday 18 June MONMOUTH
St Mary's Priory Church, Monk Street, Monmouth NP25 3NX , 3.30 pm BENJAMIN FRITH PIANO QUARTET CHI-CHI NWANOKU - double bass Piano Quartet in E flat Op. 16 Beethoven Piano Quintet in E flat Op. 87 Hummel Piano Quintet in A major The Trout D667 Schubert Wye Valley Music 01291 330020 - £18 (WVM Members £15, Students £2) Saturday 24 June CIRENCESTER
Cirencester Parish Church, Market Place GL7 2AG, 7.30pm SAINT MICHAEL’S SINGERS ORCHESTRA PRO ANIMA PAUL LEDDINGTON WRIGHT – conductor PHILIPPA HYDE - soprano KATIE TRETHEWEY - soprano Masters of the Baroque Jauchzet dem Herren Schütz Symphony No. 1 in Bb Boyce Lobet den Herrn Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major Bach Dixit Dominus Handel Saint Michael’s Singers saintmichaelssingers@gmail.com £30, £25, £20 (conc £28, £23, £18, under 18s & students half price) |
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WED 14 – SAT 17 JUNE BIRMINGHAM
Summer Chamber Music Festival at Birmingham Conservatoire
Hear the wonderful music of Mendelssohn and Schumann plus much more in Birmingham Conservatoire’s Summer Chamber Music Festival. The festival celebrates the achievements of the Conservatoire’s student ensembles. This year, Strings and Piano will focus on Mendelssohn and Schumann, whose wonderful Romantic chamber music includes so many favourite works.
The opening showcase concert brings offerings from different departments, finishing with Mendelssohn’s Octet in which The Gildas Quartet (this year’s Junior Fellows) will team up with four strings students. The Sylvia Cleaver Chamber Music Prize is always a highlight, with five finalist ensembles giving their all.
Festival tickets £30 advance only. Day tickets also available.
www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire
*Please note listings correct at time of going to print
Summer Chamber Music Festival at Birmingham Conservatoire
Hear the wonderful music of Mendelssohn and Schumann plus much more in Birmingham Conservatoire’s Summer Chamber Music Festival. The festival celebrates the achievements of the Conservatoire’s student ensembles. This year, Strings and Piano will focus on Mendelssohn and Schumann, whose wonderful Romantic chamber music includes so many favourite works.
The opening showcase concert brings offerings from different departments, finishing with Mendelssohn’s Octet in which The Gildas Quartet (this year’s Junior Fellows) will team up with four strings students. The Sylvia Cleaver Chamber Music Prize is always a highlight, with five finalist ensembles giving their all.
Festival tickets £30 advance only. Day tickets also available.
www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoire
*Please note listings correct at time of going to print
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Wed 14 June Day Ticket £6 advance £10 on the door
SHOWCASE CONCERT: STUDENTS FROM THE CONSERVATOIRE 4.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire ￡4 advance ￡6 on the door Colmore Brass perform Amuse-Bouche by Christopher Houlding Mozart Gran Partita (Mvt. 1) for 13 Wind Instruments Schumann Piano Quartet, Andante Cantabile, Op.47 Alma Guitar Trio Avesta Saxophone Quartet Bach Brandenburg Concerto No.3 performed by Conservatoire Brass Mendelssohn Octet performed by Gildas String Quartet (Junior Fellows) with students STRINGS & PIANO I 7.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire £4 advance £6 on the door Mendelssohn String Quartet Op.44 No.1 in D Continental Quartet Jeffrey Armstrong violin Olga Eckert violin Yue Yu viola Vicky Groves cello Schumann String Quartet No.3 Op.44 No.3 Lobkowitcz Quartet Marketa Nadvornikova violin Luisina Rabago vioin Jack Gillet viola Laetitia van Wyk cello Mendelssohn Piano Trio No.2 in C minor Op.66 Mvts. 1 & 2 Jeffrey Armstrong violin Xiang Fan cello Arthur Bocaneanu piano Mvts. 3 and 4 Ruta Labutyte violin Chun-Chieh Yen cello Qiushuang Liu piano Thu 15 June Day Ticket £15 advance £20 on the door WOODWIND I 11am Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire ￡4 advance ￡6 on the door WOODWIND II 12.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire ￡4 advance ￡6 on the door Two woodwind concerts featuring: Mozart Serenade for 13 wind instruments, 'Gran Partita' Beethoven Variations on Mozart's 'La ci darem' Ibert Trio Pièces Brève Taffanel Wind Quintet Performed by: Tonnau Quintet Danzi Wind Quintet Inventus Quintet Bannaventa Quintet BERNARD BROWN BRASS ENSEMBLE PRIZE FINALISTS 1.05pm St Paul’s Church ￡4 advance ￡6 on the door Quintessential Brass Horn on the Cob Absolute Brass A mixed programme of brass chamber music from three different brass ensembles SYLVIA CLEAVER CHAMBER MUSIC PRIZE 2pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire ￡4 advance ￡6 on the door The best Chamber Music ensembles at the Conservatoire compete for this coveted prize, awarded by the Birmingham Chamber Music Society. SAXOPHONES 5.30pm Recital Hall ￡4 advance ￡6 on the door To include compositions by UK Jazz legend Stan Sulzmann and USA's Tom Kubis. MILLENNIUM BRASS & THE BERNARD BROWN BRASS PRIZE WINNER 5.30pm St Paul’s Church ￡4 advance ￡6 on the door Solomon Cutler Trombone Quartet Millennium Brass A varied programme featuring music from the Renaissance to Hans Zimmer. STRINGS & PIANO II 7pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire ￡4 advance ￡6 on the door Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor Op.44 No.2 Zhichao Dong violin Hunsik Lee violin Toby Holden viola Wing Ki Chung cello Schumann Piano Quintet Op.44 Yu-Mien Sun violin Wai Lam violin Louise Lansdown viola Xiang Fan cello Daniel Tong piano STRINGS & PIANO III 8.30pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire £4 advance £6 on the door Mendelssohn String Quartet in A minor Op.13 Clarke Luigi Alonzi violin Edwin Podolski violin Robin Ireland viola Alice Cheer cello Schumann Violin Sonata No.1 in A minor Op.105 Marketa Nadvornikova violin Domonkos Csabay piano Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor Op.80 Mvts. 1 & 2 Chu Yu Yang violin Maja Pluta violin Anna Barsegiata viola Ursula Miethe-Flores cello Mvts. 3 & 4 Lieva Starker violin Claudia Dehnke violin Martha Evans viola Xiang Fan cello |
Fri 16 June Day Ticket £10 advance £14 on the door
GUITARS 11am Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire £4 advance £6 on the door S. Bach Contrapunctus 1 from 'Art of Fugue' arranged for guitar orchestra. Rodrigo Fantasia para un Gentilhombre for guitar & harpsichord Dodgson Concertino for Two Guitars & Strings "Les Dentelles" Leo Brouwer The Sky, the Air and a Smile for Guitar Orchestra. STRINGS & PIANO IV 11am Arena Foyer, Birmingham Conservatoire £4 advance £6 on the door Schumann String Quartet No. 1 Op.44 No.1 Mvts. 1 & 2 Alicja Humeniuk violin Rana Tanaka violin Mabon Llyr viola Yahan Chan cello Mvts. 3 & 4 Varzar Quartet Wai Lam violin Katarzyna Deja violin Qiuhan Kang viola Griffith Wadkin cello Mendelssohn Piano Trio no 1 in D minor Op.49 Mvts. 1 & 2 Rebecca Barratto violin Griffith Wadkin cello Petrina Phua piano Mvts. 3 & 4 Seb Wyss violin Jon Madden cello LUMOS WIND QUINTET 12.30pm Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery Free admission Mendelssohn Quartet in Eb Op.12 Mvts. 1 & 2 Aria Trigas Payne violin Mae Edwards violin Maddi McArdle viola Jack Measham cello Mvts. 3 & 4 Risa Sekine violin Juliet Haley violin Emily Dore viola Flora McNicoll cello DAVID ANGEL TRIBUTE CONCERT 6pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire Including music by Bach, Bridge, Britten, Schumann, Schubert and Smetena performed by David’s former students and members of staff. Bridge Idylls 1 & 2 Nathaniel Vallois violin Amy Littlewood violin Robin Ireland viola Hetti Price cello Schumann String Quartet No. 1 (Mvt.1) Alicja Humeniuk violin Rana Tanaka violin Mabon Llyn viola Yahan Chen cello Smetana String Quartet in E minor No.1 Zhivko Georgiev violin Daniel Peev violin Liz Goble viola Mark Walkem cello Schubert Quartet in D minor ‘Death and the Maiden’ Ruta Labutye violin Duygu Ince violin Katti von Colson viola Thomas McMahon cello J.S. Bach (trans.for 4 violins by Robin Ireland) Adagio and Fugue from Sonata in C major for violin, Played by a violin orchestra of former students of David. Mendelssohn String Quartet in F minor Op.80 Allegro Assai Chu-yu Yang violin Maja Pluta violin Anna Barsegiata viola Ursula Miethe-Flores cello Britten String Quartet No.3 Recitative and Passacaglia ‘La Serenissima’ Susanne Stanzeleit violin Catalin Chelaru violin Robin Ireland viola Andrew Fuller cello STRINGS & PIANO V 9pm Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire Schumann Piano Quartet Op.47 Marketa Nadvornikova violin Anna Barsegiata viola Thomas McMahon cello Natalie Gabrieli piano Mendelssohn Sextet for Piano and Strings, Op.110 Ruta Labutyte violin Matthew Johnstone viola Alistair Rutherford viola Harry Broom cello Maddi Edinger double bass Lynn Arnold piano Sat 17 June BRASS OUTDOORS 1pm Library of Birmingham Canopy Free admission Colmore Brass (Conservatoire Brass Ensemble-in-Residence) A popular and varied programme of music for Brass Quintet with an American flavour.... |
*all tickets are inclusive of the per ticket commission, plus £1.50 (optional) postage will be charged on all bookings except purchases made in person at the Town Hall or Symphony Hall Box Office.