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March concerts

Wednesday 1 March                                              KEELE
Westminster Theatre, Keele University ST5 5BG,
7.30 pm

THE BUDAPEST CAFE ORCHESTRA
Christian Garrick – violin, darabuka
Eddie Hession – accordion
Kelly Cantlon – double bass
Adrian Zolotuhin – guitar, saz, balalaika, domra

Led by jazz violin superstar Christian Garrick the Budapest Café Orchestra play traditional folk and gypsy-flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia. A show by the BCO is good enough to make
you want to book that holiday down the Danube!
Concerts at Keele 01782 734340
£15 (students £8,16 & under, Keele MusicStudents FREE)

Thursday 2 March                                         COVENTRY
Helen Martin Studio, Warwick Arts Centre CV4 7AL, 7.15 pm
COULL QUARTET with SIMON CALLAGHAN – piano
Grand Passions

Mozart                Quartet in E flat K428
Prokofiev            Quartet No 1 in B minor Op 50
Brahms Piano    Quintet in F minor Op 34
Warwick Arts Centre 024 7652 4524
                                                               £19.50 (conc £17.50)

Saturday 4 March                                          PERSHORE
Pershore Abbey, Church Street WR10 1DT, 7.30 pm
ELGAR CHORALE
PAVILLION ENSEMBLE
PIERS MAXIM – conductor

Handel          Messiah
Elgar Chorale 01684 594570                                  £15/£12
Wednesday 8 March                                              KEELE
Keele University Chapel ST5 5BG, 7.30 pm
LONDON ARTS ORCHESTRA
The Soldiers Tale

London Arts Orchestra bring music to life through story telling, creating exciting concert experiences for music lovers and newcomers to classical music. Stravinsky’s Soldier’s Tale is based upon a Russian
folk tale which tells the parable of a runaway soldier who sells his violin to the devil in return for vast wealth. 11 performers, actors and musicians, join forces to bring you this dramatic musical story with dire consequences. The performance will last around 60 minutes and is suitable for all ages.
Concerts at Keele 01782 734340                                    £15 (students £8,16 & under, Keele Music Students FREE)
Friday 10 March                                        BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10 pm
CHETHAM’S SCHOOL OF MUSIC
Students from Chetham’s School of Music give their annual concert in the Barber Institute. One of the UK’s most respected music schools, Chetham’s support future generations of musicians and composers.
Come along to spot the stars of the future!
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333       
                                                                      Admission: Free

Saturday 11 March                                           LICHFIELD
Lichfield Cathedral, The Close WS13 7LD, 7.30 pm
BIRMINGHAM BACH CHOIR
MUSICAL & AMICABLE SOCIETY BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
PAUL SPICER – director
THOMAS HOBBS – Evangelist
ELIZABETH CRAGG – soprano
SIMON PONSFORD – countertenor
HENRY NEILL – baritone

J S Bach               St Mark Passion
Birmingham Bach Choir 07901 798 442 f            from £12
Sunday 12 March                                                CARDIFF
BBC Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff Bay CF10 5AL, 3.00 pm
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA and
CHAMBER CHOIR
ANDREA QUINN – conductor
KENNETH HAMILTON – piano

Beethoven                  Piano Concerto No 5
Haydn                          Orfeo: overture and choruses
Cardiff University Concert Series 0333 666 3366
                                                      £5 (students & u18s free)

Friday 17 March                                        BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10 pm
BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY SINGERS
JULIAN WILKINS – conductor

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333 
                                                                      Admission: Free

Saturday 18 March                                     MONMOUTH
St Mary’s Priory Church NP25 3BU 7.30 pm
ALAMIRE CONSORT
Please note that this concert has been cancelled - see Sunday 26 March for a replacement event by the Gesualdo Six
Wye Valley Music 01291 330020
                               £15 (WVM Members £12, Students £2)
Sunday 19 March                                      LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre, Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN,
3.00 pm

ENSEMBLE 360
Mozart           Flute Quartet in D K285
Mozart          Quintet in E flat for piano and winds K452
Beethoven   Septet in E flat Op 20
Leamington Music Box Office 01926 334418 
                                                                     £17.50/12.50 (£1)

Sunday 19 March                 STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Shakespeare Institute, Church Street CV37 6HP,
7.30 pm

KLEE STRING QUARTET
Purcell                    Fantasia
Britten                   String Quartet No 2 in C
Beethoven           String Quartet in A minor Op 132
Stratford upon Avon Chamber Music Society 01789 740791                                                       £17 (£5 students)
Thursday 23 March                                  CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30 pm
BRODSKY STRING QUARTET
Schubert              Quartettsatz in C minor D703
Webern                Six Bagatelles
Zemlinsky            String Quartet No 4 Op 25
Beethoven          String Quartet in C Op 59 No 3
Cheltenham Music Society 01242 234791        £25 & £20
Friday 24 March                                        LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30 pm
BRODSKY STRING QUARTET
Schubert                   Quarttetsatz D703
Webern                     Six Bagatelles Op 9
Zemlinsky                 Quartet No 4
Schubert                   Quartet in D minor D810 Death
                                     and the Maiden
Leamington Music Box Office 01926 334418 
                                                                       £21/£17/£13 (£1)
Saturday 25 March                                    GLOUCESTER
Chapter House, Gloucester Cathedral GL1 2LX, 3.00 pm
JAMES GILCHRIST – tenor LOUISE WILLIAMS – viola
BENJAMIN FRITH – piano


Ian Venables           Through These Pale Cold Days
                                    (2nd performance)
Schubert                  Auf dem Strom
Schumann               Märchenbilder
English songs by Gurney, Finzi, Vaughan Williams, 
W Dennis Browne, Dubery and Dring

Please note change of tenor and programme
Gloucester Music Society 01242 620736
                                                               £17 (£16/£8/£5,free)
Sunday 26 March                                   MUCH MARCLE
Hellens, Much Marcle, Ledbury HR8 2LY, 3.00 pm
BOCHMANN TRIO with GRAEME ADAMS – oboe
Mozart                      arr Derek Smith Oboe Quartet in C
                                    after String Quartet K170
Mozart                     Allegro fragment in G K562e
Mozart                     Oboe Quartet in F K370
Mozart                     Divertimento for String Trio in E flat
                                   K563
Espressivo Concerts / Hereford Courtyard
01432 340555                                     £15 (students £7.50)
Monday 27 March                                  BIRMINGHAM
Town Hall, Victoria Square B3 3DQ, 7.30 pm
ARMIDA QUARTET
Haydn                            String Quartet Op 33 No 6
Marko Nikodijevic        New work
Beethoven                     String Quartet Op 59 No 1
                                         Razumovsky
Town Hall & Symphony Hall 0121 345 0600
                                                                            £31 - £12.50*
Thursday 30 March                                  BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10 pm

CBSO Centre Stage: Beethoven String Quartets
ZÖE BEYERS, JANE WRIGHT – violin
ADAM RÖMER – viola   RICHARD JENKINSON – cello

Beethoven          String Quartet in B flat Op 130
Beethoven          Grosse Fuge Op 133
CBSO 0121 780 3333                                                      £10*
Wednesday 1 March                                 LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre Studio CV32 4EA, 7.30 pm
BOREALIS SAXOPHONE QUARTET
Concert to include music by Gershwin, Bach and Barber and contemporary works to include David Maslanka and Lucy Armstrong
Leamington Music Box Office 01926 334418        £10 (£1)
Saturday 4 March                                    CHELTENHAM
St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier Street GL50 1SP,
7.30 pm

CHELTENHAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
PETER KERR – bassoon WARWICK COLE – conductor
GEORGE EWART – leader

Handel        Arrival of the Queen of Sheba,
                      Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 4
                      Overture Samson
Vivaldi         Bassoon Concerto in D minor
Telemann  Tafelmusik (Third Set)
                      Concerto for 2 Horns
Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra 01242 237431
                                           £15, accompanied children free

Tuesday 7 March                                               CARDIFF
Cardiff University Concert Hall, Corbett Road
CF10 3EB, 7.00 pm

SIMON ROWLAND JONES – viola
HUW WATKINS – piano

Programme to be announced
Cardiff University Concert Series 0333 666 3366
                                              £10 (£8, students & u18s free)

Thursday 9 March                                           MALVERN
Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30 pm
EMERSON STRING QUARTET
Dvořák                String Quartet No 11 in C Op 61
Shostakovich    String Quartet No 4 in D Op 83
Beethoven         String Quartet No 15 in A minor Op 132
Malvern Concert Club / Malvern Theatres 01684 892277
                 £19 (students £6) + 12% theatre's booking fee

Friday 10 March                                      BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN,
8.00 pm

RETORICA – 2 Violins
William Croft                        Sonata IV
David Matthews                  Eight Duos Op 79 (2001)
Moeran                                   Sonata for 2 Violins (1930)
John McCabe                         Spielend (2003)
Rawsthorne                           Theme and Variations (1938)
Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 577330
                                  £19 (Dis/Unemp £5, 8-25 years free)

Saturday 11 March                                   STOURBRIDGE
St James’s Church, Bridgnorth Road, Wollaston DY8 3QG, 7.30 pm
CENTRAL ENGLAND ENSEMBLE with
MATTHEW DAVIES – piano
TONY BRIDGEWATER – conductor
ANNA DOWNES – leader

The CEE programme includes Mozart’s 41st symphony (Jupiter) and Beethoven’s 4th Piano Concerto plus a new work composed by Tony Bridgewater.
Local & Live 01384 377162                              £9 (U18 free)
Tuesday 14 March                                           WARWICK
St Mary’s Church CV34 4AR, 7.30 pm
THE BROOK STREET BAND
NICKI KENNEDY – soprano
SIMON DESBRULAIS – trumpet
Triumph over Tragedy

Telemann     Trumpet Concerto in D TWV51:D7
Bach               Trio Sonata in D minor BWV527
Handel          Cantata La Lucrezia HWV145
Bach               Cantata Jauchzet Gott BWV51
Handel          Trio Sonata in G minor Op 6 No 2 HWV391
                        Let the Bright Seraphim (Samson) HWV57
Leamington Music Box Office 01926 334418
                                                              £20/£18/£15/£13 (£1)

Friday 17 March                                        BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10 pm
CBSO Centre Stage: Tango with the
Quinteto Juan Vassallo

CBSO 0121 780 3333                                                      £10*
Sunday 19 March                                      LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre, Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN,
1.30 am

ENSEMBLE 360 with POLLY IVES – narrator
Family concert with Paul Rissmann’s The Chimpanzees
of Happytown Polly Ives and the eleven members of Ensemble 360 tell the story of Chutney the chimp as he and his beautiful tree help to spread colour
and happiness throughout the town. Recommended for 3-8 year olds.
Leamington Music Box Office 01926 334418        £10/£5
Sunday 19 March                                        WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00 pm
MUSICAL AND AMICABLE SOCIETY
Sophie Barber, Christiane Gagelmann, Kate Fawcett – violin
Henrik Persson – cello Martin Perkins – harpsichord

Schmelzer           Sonata a tre violini
Marini                   Sonata in ecco
Telemann            Gulliver Suite
Purcell                  Three parts upon a ground
Pachelbel            Canon and Gigue
Fux                        Sonate a tre violini
Worcester Concert Club 01905 611427
                                                                    £16 (students £5)

Wednesday 22 March                              BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 7.30 pm
I FAGIOLINI
ROBERT HOLLINGWORTH – director
Flaming Heart

One of Europe’s leading vocal ensembles, I Fagiolini present their latest programme ‘Flaming Heart’.
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333
                                                                     £18 (£15, £12, £5)

Friday 24 March                                       BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston B15 2TS, 1.10 pm
UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S CHOIR
SIMON CARRINGTON – conductor
Cozzolani            Magnificat a 8
Verdi                     Laudi alla vergine Maria
Gardner               A Shakespeare Sequence
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333 
                                                                      Admission: Free

Friday 24 March                                    ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School Chapel, Rocester, Uttoxeter
ST14 5BS, 8.00 pm

ACADEMY BRASS
Some of the Royal Academy of Music’s best brass students performing a wide variety of music from William Byrd to Malcolm Arnold.
Abbotsholme Arts Society 01543 263304
                                                              £16.50 (£5 under 25)

Saturday 25 March                                       PAINSWICK
St Mary’s Church GL6 6UN, 3.00 pm
TASMIN LITTLE – violin       JOHN LENEHAN – piano
Schubert          Rondo Brilliant in B minor D895 Op 70
Ireland              Sonata No 1 in D minor
Fauré                 Romance
Franck               Sonata
Painswick Music Society 01285 821854 Ticket prices tbc
Sunday 26 March                           MONMOUTH
St Mary's Priory Church, 3.00pm
GESUALDO SIX
Tallis, Gibbons, Byrd, some of Ligeti’s ‘Nonsense Madrigals’, folksong arrangements and a selection of light music
Wye Valley Music 01291 330020
                                    £15 (Members £12; Students £2)

Wednesday 29 March                                     EVESHAM
Evesham Arts Centre, Victoria Road WR11 4QH,
7.30 pm

TRIO AQUILON
Haydn                         Trio in G No 39 Hob XV:25 Gypsy
Fauré                          Trio in D minor Op 120
Shostakovich           Trio No 2 Op 67
Evesham & District Music Club 01386 861206
                                                   £16 (conc £15, students £3)

Friday 31 March                                          WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate, Worcester WR1 3LD 7.30 pm
RICHARD McMAHON – piano
Mozart           Sonatas in A minor K310 and B flat K570
Ravel              Sonatine
Chopin           Nocturnes Op 27 No 2 in D flat
                         and Op 48 No 1 in C minor
Chopin           Ballades No 3 in A flat Op 47
                         and No 4 in F minor Op 52
Espressivo Concerts / Worcester Live 01905 611427
                                                               £15 (students £7.50)

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