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MARCH CONCERTS

Friday 3 March                                BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 2.00pm
EUGENE TZIKINDELEAN – violin
PHILIP BRETT – violin
ADAM RÖMER – viola
JESSICA TICKLE – viola
EDUARDO VASSALLO – cello
ARTHUR BOUTLLIER – cello
JEREMY WATT – double bass

Strauss         Metamorphosen
Korngold      Piano Quintet
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | cbso.co.uk | B:Music Box Office: 0121 780 3333  £10
Sunday 5 March                              LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre, Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN, 3.00pm
ENSEMBLE 360
Berwald         Grand Septet
Mozart           Clarinet Quintet in A K581
Beethoven     Septet in B flat
Leamington Music  01926 334418 or www.leamingtonmusic.org


Sunday 12 March                              GLOUCESTER
Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street GL1 2BH, 3.00pm
JEREMY HUW WILLAMS – baritone
PAULA FAN – piano
The Bawdy Bard meets a Dark Lady

Finzi                 O mistress mine (Twelfth Night),
                         It was a lover and his lass (As you like it)
                         Who is Silvia (Two Gentlemen of Verona)
                         Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
                         (Cymbeline)
German          Nocturne (Romeo and Juliet), Gigue
                        (Much Ado about Nothing)
Korngold        Sonnet 130
Purcell            If music be the food of love (Twelfth
                        Night)
Burgess          Under the Greenwood Tree (As you like
                         it), Sonnet 116
Dankworth    Where the bee sucks (The Tempest),
                        The Compleat Works
Arr. Vaughan  Greensleeves (Sir John in Love)
     Williams  
Enquiries 01242 620736 www.gloucestermusicsociety.org.uk
£20 (£18, £5, children free, accompanying adults £15)

Saturday 18 March                               PAINSWICK
St Mary’s Church GL6 6UT, 3.00pm
EMMA JOHNSON – clarinet
JOHN LENEHAN – piano 
 
Finzi                        Bagatelles
Brahms                   Sonata Op. 120 No. 1 in F minor
Dvorak                    Sonatina Op. 100
Emma Johnson      Isolation Lament and Dance for
                                 solo clarinet and tapping foot
Ellington arr.          Medley
   Johnson 
Painswick Music Society  www.painswickmusicsoc.co.uk
Enquiries to 07789 006006

Sunday 19 March            STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Town Hall, Sheep Street CV37 6EF, 7.30pm
ROSSETTI PIANO QUARTET         
Mahler            Quartet-movement in A minor
Dvořák            Piano Quartet in D major, Op. 23 
Brahms           Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25
Tickets £20 from 01608 662597 or www.stratfordchambermusic.co.uk
Tuesday 21 March                                WARWICK
St Mary’s Church, Old Square CV34 4RA, 7.30pm
EX CATHEDRA
JEFFREY SKIDMORE – director
ANDREW SKIDMORE – cello

Baroque Passion
Music by Bach, Purcell, Lotti, D Scarlatti, Kuhnau, Monteverdi, Carissimi and Charpentier.
Leamington Music  01926 334418 or www.leamingtonmusic.org



Saturday 25 March                         TEWKESBURY
Tewkesbury Abbey, Church Street GL20 5RZ, 6.30pm
MARK WILDE – Evangelist
MARKUS MATHEIS – Christus
CHELTENHAM BACH CHOIR
MUSICAL AND AMICABLE SOCIETY BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
DAVID CROWN – director

Bach        St Matthew Passion BWV 244
Cheltenham Bach Choir  www.cheltbachchoir.com tickets@cheltbachchoir.com

Thursday 30 March                               MALVERN
Great Malvern Priory, Church Street WR14 2AY   7.30pm
AMAEL PIANO TRIO
Haydn                Trio in A major Hob XV:18
Schubert            Notturno in E flat major D 897
Milko Lazar       Three short pieces (written for the Trio)
Paganini             Cantabile
Smetana             Piano Trio in G minor Op 15
Espressivo Concerts
www.courtyard.org.uk  01432 340555
Malvern TIC 01684 892289
£15 (students £7.50)
Sunday 5 March                              LEAMINGTON
Royal Spa Centre, Newbold Terrace CV32 4HN, 11.30am
ENSEMBLE 360
POLLY IVES – narrator

Morning Family Concert
Paul Rissmann       Sir Scallywag and the Golden
                                 Underpants
Leamington Music  01926 334418 or www.leamingtonmusic.org



Friday 10 March                               BIRMINGHAM
CBSO Centre, Berkley Street B1 2LF, 8.00pm
KIRSTY LOVIE – violin
ADAM RÖMER – viola
CBSO Percussion

The Lovie-Römer Duo offers a unique fusion of traditional Scottish and Hungarian music centering around all sorts of dance music – from beautiful slow Airs to foot stomping Czardas.
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | cbso.co.uk | B:Music Box Office: 0121 780 3333  £10
Friday 17 March                              BROMSGROVE
Routh Hall, Bromsgrove School B61 7DU, 7.30pm
BIRMINGHAM PHILHARMONIC CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Saint-Saëns         Septet in E flat Op 65
Copland                Appalachian Spring (original
                               chamber version)
Richard Strauss   Symphony for Wind Instruments
                              ’The Happy Workshop’
Bromsgrove Concerts  07849 774529
bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk 
£22 (Students & Children free, subscriptions available)


Friday 17 March                               LEAMINGTON
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade CV32 4AA, 7.30pm
ARCADIA STRING QUARTET (Romania)
Haydn               Quartet in B flat Op 33 No 4
Weinberg         Quartet No 15
Beethoven        Quartet in F Op 59 No 1
Leamington Music  01926 334418 or www.leamingtonmusic.org
Saturday 18 March                            WORCESTER
Worcester Cathedral, College Yard WR1 2LA, 7.30pm
WORCESTER FESTIVAL CHORAL SOCIETY
SAMUEL HUDSON – conductor
MARTA FONTANALS-SIMMONS – mezzo soprano
MARK WILDE – tenor
NJABULO MADLALA – bass baritone
MERIDIAN SINFONIA

Elgar                The Dream of Gerontius
Worcester Festival Choral Society  www.wfcs.online / 0333 666 3366 (TicketSource)  £15–£25


Tuesday 21 March                         CHELTENHAM
Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive GL52 3JE, 7.30pm
CHARLES OWEN AND KATYA APEKISHEVA – piano four hands
Mozart              Sonata in B flat major K358
Schubert           Rondo in A major D951
Schubert           Lebensstürme D947
Debussy            Petite Suite
Stravinsky         Cinq pièces faciles
Mozart               Sonata in F major K497
Cheltenham Music Society  01242 528764  www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk
£25, £20 (£5 under 26)

Thursday 23 March                                MALVERN
Malvern Theatres, Grange Road WR14 3HB, 7.30pm
THE CALIDORE QUARTET
JEFFREY MYERS & RYAN MEEHAN – violins
JEREMY BERRY – viola
ESTELLE CHOI – cello

Mozart            String Quartet No. 17 in B flat, K.458
                         The Hunt
Widmann       String Quartet No. 3 Jagdquartett
Dvořák            String Quartet No. 14 in A flat, Op. 105
Malvern Concert Club   For contact details, ticket prices and subscription options, please see display ad
Sunday 26 March                             WORCESTER
Huntingdon Hall, Crowngate WR1 2ES, 3.00pm
MARIA MARCHANT – piano
Programme to include works by Handel, Grieg, Debussy, Schubert, Sibelius, Ireland, Roderick Williams, Clara Schumann, Joanne Gill and Rachmaninoff.
This recital has received most generous support from the John Ireland Trust
Worcester Concert Club  01905 611427
worcserenade.co.uk   £20  Students £5

Friday 31 March                             BROMSGROVE
Cobham Theatre, Bromsgrove Preparatory School
B60 2BU, 7.30pm

CALLINO STRING QUARTET
Haydn                          String Quartet in C Op 33 No 3
                                      ‘The Bird’
Helena Winkelman    Papa Haydn’s Parrot (2016)
Ian Wilson                   String Quartet No 6 ‘In fretta,
                                      in vento’ (2001)
Ravel                            String Quartet
Bromsgrove Concerts  07849 774529
bromsgrove-concerts.org.uk 
£22 (Students & Children free, subscriptions available)


Header photo: Emma Johnson (credit: Frances Marshall)
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Extra concerts

Thursday 9 March     BRISTOL
The Mount Without, Upper Church Lane BS2 8FN, 7.30pm
​Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, op.26 (‘Fingal’s Cave’)
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, op.46
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3, op.56, in A minor (‘Scottish’)
English Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Woods, conductor
Esther Abrami, violin
https://eso.co.uk/09mar23-bristol/

Friday 10 March                                  LEOMINSTER
The Priory, Church Street HR6 8EQ        7.30pm
JAMES GILCHRIST – tenor
LINAROL CONSORT OF VIOLS

A programme of 16th century German song
Music by Heinrich Isaac, Paul Hofhaimer, Ludwig Senfl
Espressivo Concerts
www.courtyard.org.uk  01432 340555
Leominster TIC 01568 616460
£20 (students £10, under 18s free)

Friday 10 March                    OXFORD
Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street OX1 3AZ, 7.30pm
Robert Saxton: Scenes from the Epic of Gilgamesh
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy, op.46
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, op.56 (‘Scottish’)
English Symphony Orchestra
Kenneth Woods, conductor
Esther Abrami, violin
https://www.musicatoxford.com/whats-on/esther-abrami-and-the-english-symphony-orchestra/


Saturday 11 March       CHELTENHAM
Church of St Philip & St James, Leckhampton GL50 2DL, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Concert hosted by The Holst Society
Programme includes:
William Byrd: Laudibus in Sanctis
Vaughan Williams: Three Elizabethan Folk Songs
Stanford: On Time
Imogen Holst: Hymne to Christ
Gustav Holst:
Nunc Dimittis
Rig Veda Third and Fourth Groups
Ave Maria
Benjamin Britten: The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard
Gustav Holst: Five Part-Songs
ORIEL SINGERS
BEN SAWYER conductor
Tickets in advance or on the door: £20:00 (Children and students £10:00)
The Holst Society: http://www.holstsociety.org/ Contact: chairman@holstsociety.org  or telephone 01769 580041
Tickets will also be on sale on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/

Illuminate Women's Music

Friday 17th March 1.00pm – 1.50pm             
University of Birmingham

Location:
Part of the Barber lunchtime concert series
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building
University of Birmingham,
B15 2TS Birmingham, UK

Trio Sonorité Özlem Çelik clarinet
Daryl Giuliano cello
Jelena Makarova piano
Trio Sonorité join us under the auspices of Illuminate Women’s Music – a project to promote the work of emerging women composers and performers. It also gives a platform for historical repertoire by women composers to sit alongside new works. The project has been set up by Dr Angela Elizabeth Slater, a freelance composer who is a strong advocate of the promotion of women’s music both past and present.

The programme includes new works from Kristina Arakelyan, Angela Slater, and Sylvia Lim, along with complimentary historical works

Free, no booking required

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