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Friday 1 March BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.10pm NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE DANIELE ROSINA – director The University of Birmingham’s New Music Ensemble perform contemporary works for mixed ensemble The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Wednesday 6 March BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 1.10pm AMANDA LAKE, BRYONY MORRISON – violins CATHERINE BOWER – viola HELEN EDGAR – cello Haydn String Quartet in G Op 54 No 1 Szymanowski String Quartet No 1 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra cbso.co.uk 0121 780 3333 £10 Thursday 7 March MALVERN
Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm WIHAN QUARTET Haydn Quartet in G Op 54 No 1 Beethoven Quartet No 16 in F Op 135 Tchaikovsky Quartet No 3 in E flat minor Op 30 Malvern Concert Club malvern-concert-club.co.uk malvern-theatres.co.uk 01684 892277 £23.52 (students in full-time education £6.72) Saturday 9 March WORCESTER
Worcester Baptist Church, Sansome Walk WR1 1LN, 7.30 pm ELGAR CHORALE French Connections Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor Vaughan Williams Three Shakespeare Songs Fauré Pavane Op 50 Ravel Trois Chansons Programme also includes works by Debussy, Duruflé and Lennox Berkeley Elgar Chorale 01684 594570 £12 Monday 11 March CHELTENHAM
College Chapel, Cheltenham College, Bath Road GL53 7LD, 8.00pm Cheltenham College Choral Festival 2018 CHELTENHAM COLLEGE SCHOLA CANTORUM Duruflé Requiem Cheltenham College Subscription Concerts cheltenhamcollege.org.uk 01242 265656 ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenham-college £10 Wednesday 13 March CHELTENHAM
College Chapel, Cheltenham College, Bath Road GL53 7LD, 8.00pm Cheltenham College Choral Festival 2018 THE QUEEN’S SIX Cheltenham College Subscription Concerts cheltenhamcollege.org.uk 01242 265656 ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenham-college £25/£15/£10 Thursday 14 March CHELTENHAM
College Chapel, Cheltenham College, Bath Road GL53 7LD, 8.00pm Cheltenham College Choral Festival 2018 GLEVUM CONSORT Cheltenham College Subscription Concerts cheltenhamcollege.org.uk 01242 265656 ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenham-college £25/£15/£10 Friday 15 March CHELTENHAM
College Chapel, Cheltenham College, Bath Road GL53 7LD, 8.00pm Cheltenham College Choral Festival 2018 CHELTENHAM COLLEGE CHAMBER CHOIR Stile Moderno – Music of the Italian Baroque cheltenhamcollege.org.uk No tickets required Wednesday 20 March CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30 pm DANTE QUARTET Haydn String Quartet in G Op 33 No 5 Howells String Quartet No 3 In Gloucestershire Beethoven String Quartet in E minor Op 59 No 2 Cheltenham Music Society cheltmusicsoc.co.uk cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk 01242 227979 or 0844 576 2210 £23 & £18, under 26 £5 Friday 22 March BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.10pm UNIVERSITY WOMEN’S CHOIR PATRICK BARRATT – conductor The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Friday 22 March BROMSGROVE
Artrix, Slideslow Drive (off A38 by-pass) B60 1GN, 8.00pm EBLANA STRING TRIO Purcell Three-part Fantasias Nos 1-3 Finzi Prelude and Fugue Op 24 Beethoven String Trio Op 9 No 2 David Matthews String Trio No 2 Op 89 (2003) Moeran String Trio in G Bromsgrove Concerts 01527 577330 £20 (Dis/Unemp £10, 8-25 years free) Sunday 24 March MUCH MARCLE
Hellens, nr Ledbury HR8 2LY, 3.00pm REIKO FUJISAWA – piano A programme of works by Clara and Robert Schumann in the bi-centenary year of Clara’s birth. With the aid of a narrator, Clara’s inspirational life will be told in words and music. Espressivo Concerts/ Hereford Courtyard 01432 340555 £16 (students £8) Sunday 24 March ST BRIAVELS
St Briavels Church (opposite castle) GL15 6RG, 3.00pm ROYAL WELSH COLLEGE of MUSIC & DRAMA Showcase Concert by top-ranking students from Cardiff’s Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama – we have never failed to be impressed by the talent and virtuosity shown by these young artists-in-the-making. Wye Valley Music wyevalleymusic.org.uk 01291 330020 £12 (WVM Members £10, Students £2) Tuesday 26 March WARWICK
St Mary’s Church, Old Square CV34 4RA, 7.30pm EX CATHEDRA JEFFREY SKIDMORE – director Fire Burning in Snow An exuberant programme of music of the Latin American Baroque centred on works by Juan de Araujo, often described as the greatest Latin American composer of the age. Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £24/£19/£15/£13 (£1) Saturday 30 March BIRMINGHAM
St Philip’s Cathedral, Colmore Row B3 2QB, 7.30pm BIRMINGHAM BACH CHOIR PAUL SPICER – conductor Music for Passiontide Plainchant Stabat mater Lassus Tristis est anima mea Lotti Crucifixus Tallis In ieiunio et fletu Bruckner Ave Maria, Christus Factus Est JS Bach Ruht Wohl (St John Passion) Howells Requiem Leighton Crucifixus pro nobis Birmingham Bach Choir birmingham.bachchoir.com 07901 798442 £18 (£16 conc), £10 |
Saturday 2 March CHELTENHAM
St Andrew's Church, Montpellier Street GL50 1SP, 7.30 pm CHELTENHAM CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WARWICK COLE – conductor GEORGE EWART – leader ELISABETH IRVINE – mezzo soprano Handel-themed concert Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra cheltenhamchamberorchestra.org.uk 01452 856700 For ticket prices please see website Wednesday 6 March CODSALL
Codsall Community High School, Elliotts Lane WV8 1PQ, 7.30pm ANDREW TYSON – piano Couperin Selected works Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue Scriabin Sonata No 2 in G sharp minor Gershwin Selections from the George Gershwin Songbook Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin Codsall Community Arts Festival codsallartsfestival.org.uk 07852 200421 Ticket details on website early in 2019 Friday 8 March WITNEY
High Street Methodist Church, High Street OX28 6HG, 7.30pm please note change of artist and programme ELENA URIOSTE – violin TOM POSTER - piano Ravel Sonata No 1 in A minor Sonate posthume Lili Boulanger Nocturne and Cortège Grieg Violin Sonata No 2 in G Op 13 Kreisler Preghiera (in the Style of Martini) Dvořák arr Kreisler Songs My Mother Taught Me Heuberger arr Kreisler Midnight Bells Strauss Violin Sonata in E flat Op 18 Witney Music Society witneymusicsociety.org.uk 01993 702296 £12 (under 19 £1) Sunday 10 March GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street, GL1 2BH, 3.00pm CHAMBER PHILHARMONIC EUROPE Vivaldi Concerto in G minor FXI No 21 Albinoni Trumpet Concerto Saint Marc in E flat Bach Violin Concerto in E BWV 1042 Suk Serenade for Strings Op 6 Albinoni Adagio in G minor for String Orchestra Nielsen Little Suite for Strings Op 1 Gloucester Music Society gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk 01242 620736 £17 (£16/£8/£5,free) Wednesday 13 March BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 7.30pm BOZZINI QUARTET John Woolrich Bricolage Scott Wilson new work (world premiere) Hailing from Canada, the Bozzini Quartet performs a world premiere by University of Birmingham and Canadian composer Dr Scott Wilson. The concert also includes a new work by John Woolrich as part of the University’s year-long string quartet project with the composer, and a work by Linda Smith. The Barber Institute of Fine Arts 0121 414 7333 barber.org.uk/concerts £18 (£15, £12, £5) Thursday 14 March CHELTENHAM
College Chapel, Cheltenham College, Bath Road GL53 7LD, 6.00pm Cheltenham College Choral Festival 2018 CHELTENHAM COLLEGE SCHOLA CANTORUM Choral Evensong No tickets required Friday 15 March BIRMINGHAM
Barber Institute, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Park Road B15 2TS, 1.10pm FIDELIO TRIO Contemporary repertoire, including music by Professor Michael Zev Gordon The Barber Institute of Fine Arts barber.org.uk/concerts 0121 414 7333 Free Sunday 17 March STRATFORD-UPON-AVON Shakespeare Institute (Mason Croft), Church Street CV37 6HP, 7.30pm
DANTE STRING QUARTET Works by Haydn, Shostakovich and Beethoven Stratford-upon-Avon Chamber Music Society stratfordchambermusic.co.uk 01789 740791 £18 (students £5) Thursday 21 March BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street, Birmingham, B1 2LF, 7.30pm BIRMINGHAM CONTEMPORARY MUSIC GROUP Rebecca Saunders Crimson Molly’s Song 1 (1995) Donghoon Shin Sheng Concerto (2019) Jia Guoping The Wind Sounds in the Sky (2002) Rebecca Saunders Murmurs (2009) BCMG bcmg.org.uk 0121 616 2616 £15 Friday 22 March LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm ROYAL STRING QUARTET (Poland) Schubert Quartettsatz D703 Arvo Pärt Fratres James MacMillan Memento Szymanowski Quartet No 1 Schubert Quartet D804 Rosamunde Leamington Music leamingtonmusic.org 01926 334418 royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk £24/£19/£14 (£1) Saturday 23 March WORCESTER
Worcester Cathedral, College Yard, WR1 2LA, 7.30pm WORCESTER FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY MERIDIAN SINFONIA Mendelssohn Elijah Worcester Festival Choral Society worcesterfestivalchoralsociety.org.uk 01905 611427 £10-£25 (some concessions available / children 9-15 free) Sunday 24 March WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00pm FITZWILLIAM STRING QUARTET Purcell Fantazias and Dance music from operas Liz Johnson Tide Purl John Gibson String Quartet Schubert Quartet No 15 in G D887 Worcester Concert Club worcserenade.co.uk 01905 611427 £16 (students £5) Tuesday 26 March ABBOTSHOLME
Abbotsholme School, Rocester, Uttoxeter ST14 5BS, 7.30 pm JULIAN TREVELYAN – piano Bach Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor BWV887 Mozart Sonata in A minor K310 Chopin Etude in C Op 10 No 1 Liszt Transcendental Study No 5 Feux Follets Rachmaninov Etude-Tableau in E flat minor Op 33 No 5 Schumann Humoreske Op 20 Shostakovich Sonata Op 12 Abbotsholme Arts Society abbotsholmeartssociety.co.uk 01543 263304 aas@tetley.org £19 Saturday 30 March PAINSWICK
St Mary’s Church GL6 6UT, 3.00pm VOCES8 Choral Dances Join VOCES8 as they return to Painswick to lead you on a Choral Dance. With their customary skill and style they will sing music from the renaissance to the present day, featuring composers Byrd, Britten, Rachmaninov and composer-in residence Jonathan Dove. They will also perform trademark jazz and pop arrangements from Nat King Cole, Van Morrison and Duke Ellington to have you dancing in the aisles! Painswick Music Society painswickmusicsoc.co.uk Ticket Prices tbc Saturday 30 March LUDLOW
Henderson Hall, Moor Park, Overton SY8 4DZ, 7.30pm NOTOS QUARTET Mozart Piano Quartet in E flat K493 Jean Françaix Divertissement (1935) Schumann Piano Quartet in E flat Op 47 Ludlow Music Society ludlow-arts-classical.org.uk 01584 876141 ludlowassemblyrooms.co.uk £18 (students £6) |
EXTRA CONCERT!
Saturday 2 March DORCHESTER-ON-THAMES Dorchester Abbey, High Street OX10 7HH, 7.30pm CORONA STRINGS ANITA D’ATTELLIS – piano JANET LINCÉ – conductor CATHERINE LEECH – leader Best of Britain Elgar Introduction and Allegro; Elegy Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis Finzi Eclogue Grace Williams Sea Sketches Warlock Capriol Suite Corona Strings coronastrings.co.uk ticketsoxford.com £20 (£17); £15 (£12); £5 students & U18 
EXTRA CONCERT!
Sunday 17 March HAY-ON-WYE St Mary’s Church, St Mary’s Road HR3 5ED, 3.00pm MILLY FORREST – soprano with piano accompaniment Songs from Germany, Italy, England and opera arias Hay Music Trust haymusic.org 01497 820322 boothbooks.co.uk £12 (students £6) |
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