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OCTOBER CONCERTS

Wednesday 2 October                                CLITHEROE
Trinity Methodist Church and Community Hub, Parson Lane BB7 2JY, 7.30pm
KLEZMER-ISH
Meet Klezmer-ish, four incredibly outward-looking classically trained musicians who met whilst playing with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
From rip-roaring klezmer and dynamic tango to their self-penned gypsy jazz, Klezmer-ish bring a trademark twist to whatever genre takes their fancy. Drawing inspiration from the music of bygone travellers, Klezmer-ish take their audience on a seamless musical journey, always on the move.
Clitheroe Concerts Society
www.clitheroeconcerts.org
£20 (Young people under the age of 18 accompanied by a Member or paying adult FREE)
Saturday 5 October                                          KESWICK
St John’s Church CA11 4DD, 7.30pm
DA VINCI TRIO
Beethoven            Trio in E Flat Op 1 No 1
Arvo Pärt               Mozart-Adagio
Mendelssohn       Trio in D Minor Op 49
Shostakovich        Trio No 1
Keswick Music Society  01900 403150
www.keswick-music-society.org.uk
£20 (£5)

Wednesday 9 October                                        ILKLEY
King’s Hall, Station Road LS29 8HB, 7.30pm
MISHKA RUSHDIE MOMEN – piano
Schubert               Sonata in A minor, D784
Byrd                       Prelude and Fantasia in A minor
Mendelssohn       Variations sérieuses, op 54
Janáček                  On an Overgrown Path, Book 1
                                (selection)
Schubert               Fantasie in C major, D760
Ilkley Concert Club  07791 083326  [email protected]
£20, £18, £16 (£5, Free U18
Saturday 12 October                                  BLACKBURN
Blackburn Cathedral, Cathedral Close BB1 5AA, 7.30pm
BLACKBURN CHAMBER CHOIR
JOHN ROBINSON – director
JOHN HOSKINGS – organ

Celestial Harmonies
A selection of French choral music including Duruflé's Requiem and Langlais' Messe solennelle
Blackburn Chamber Choir
blackburnchamberchoir.org
Tickets (free for 18s and under) available at our website
Tuesday 15 October                                              LEEDS
The Venue at Leeds Conservatoire, Quarry Hill LS2 7PD, 7.30pm
CAERUS QUARTET
JONIAN ILIAS KADESHA – violin
PABLO HERNÁN BENEDÍ – violin/viola
LILY FRANCIS – viola/violin
VASHTI HUNTER – cello

Henry Purcell                 15 Fantasias: Nos 7, 8, & 11
Germaine Tailleferre    String Quartet
Gabriel Fauré                 String Quartet
Benjamin Britten           String Quartet No 2
This concert is part of Leeds International Chamber Series 2024/25.
Leeds Ticket Hub  0113 376 0318  www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk
£27.50, £25.50 (£25.50, £23.50, £14, £13, £10)

Wednesday 16 October                                       LEEDS
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire, St Peter’s Square
LS2 7PD, 1.05pm

AKIKO ONO – violin
ALISON RHIND – piano

Erich Korngold         Much Ado about Nothing op.11
Richard Strauss        Violin Sonata op.18
Part of the Red Violin festival
leedsconcertseason.co.uk  0113 378 6600
Free admission, no booking required

Thursday 17 October                                             LEEDS
The Venue at Leeds Conservatoire, Quarry Hill LS2 7PD, 7.30pm
THE LONDON CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
MADELEINE MITCHELL, GORDON MACKAY, *CHLOE HANSLIP – violins
BRIDGET CAREY – viola
JOSEPH SPOONER – cello
*SIAN GRIFFITHS – mezzo soprano

Herbert Howells           Quartet In Gloucestershire
                                         (earlier version) coinciding with
                                         the release of the LCE album
                                         Howells and Wood Quartets
                                         for SOMM

Vaughan Williams        Folksong for voice and violin
Howells arr Mitchell    ‘Chosen’ Tune and
                                        ‘Luchinushka’ for quartet
*Jake Heggie &             Intonations (based on the
    Gene Scheer             Violins of Hope) European
                                        Premiere.
Song cycle for
                                        mezzo soprano, solo violin,
                                        string quartet & youth violinist
Part of the Red Violin festival
The Red Violin festival  www.redviolin.co.uk/events 0113 376 0318
£22.50, £20.50 Under 30s, Full time students & unwaged £10, Leeds Conservatoire students Free

Friday 18 October                                                  LEEDS
Seven Arts, 31A Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton LS7 3PD, 7.00pm
SIR KAMALBIR SINGH – violin
SIR VIJAY VENKAT – violin
Raga@Seven

A unique evening of music celebrating the violin, an instrument that is renowned across the world and has been adapted by each country to express its rich cultural heritage. Sir Kamalbir Singh and Sir Vijay Venkat are maestros of the violin played in South Asian style. Kamalbir Ji specialises in Hindustani (North Indian Music) and Vijay Venkat specialises in Carnatic (South Indian Music).
Part of the Red Violin festival
saa-uk.org   £18, £9, £6 for under 30’s
Monday 21 October                                               LEEDS
The Venue at Leeds Conservatoire, Quarry Hill LS2 7PD, 7.30pm
ELISABETH LEONSKAJA – piano
Franz Schubert             Piano Sonata, D 850
Arnold Schoenberg     Suite for Piano, Op 25
Arnold Schoenberg     Six Little Piano Pieces, Op 19
Franz Schubert             Piano Sonata, D 960
This concert is part of Leeds International Piano Series 2024/25.
Leeds Ticket Hub  0113 376 0318 www.leedsconcertseason.co.uk
£27.50, £25.50 (£25.50, £23.50, £14, £13, £10)

Saturday 26 October                               BOLLINGTON
Bollington Arts Centre, Wellington Road SK10 5JR, 7.30pm
LAURA VAN DER HEIJDEN – cello
TOM POSTER – piano

Debussy               Cello Sonata
N. Boulanger       Three Pieces for cello and piano
Beethoven           Cello Sonata no 3 in A major, op 69
Wallen                  Dervish
Poulenc                Cello Sonata
Bollington Chamber Concerts  07535 892436  www.bollington-chamber-concerts.org/heijden-poster
£24 (Students £2)

Sunday 27 October                                       LIVERPOOL
The Tung Auditorium, 60 Oxford Street L7 3NY, 2.30pm
CHILINGIRIAN QUARTET
LEVON CHILINGIRIAN – violin
MARK BUTTER – violin
SIMON ROWLAND-JONES – viola
STEPHEN ORTON – cello

Mozart                             String Quartet K428
Haydn                              String Quartet Op.64 No.3
Komitas/Aslamazyan    Armenian Songs and Dances
Borodin                           String Quartet No.2
Liverpool Philharmonic  0151 709 3789  www.liverpoolphil.com   £29, £9
Wednesday 30 October                                    KENDAL
Kendal Town Hall, Highgate LA9 4DL, 1.00pm
VICTORIA STRING QUARTET
BENEDICT HOLLAND, DAVID GREED – violins
HEATHER WALLINGTON – viola
JENNIFER LANGRIDGE – cello

Schubert                         Quartettsatz, D.703
Elgar (ed. Farrington)   Quartet Fragments
Verdi                               String Quartet in E minor
Kendal Midday Concert Club
www.kendalmiddayconcertclub.org
Tickets on sale at the Hall from 12 noon
£10 (students £2)

Wednesday 2 October                                       KENDAL
Kendal Town Hall, Highgate LA9 4DL, 1.00pm
MANCHESTER CAMERATA
Schubert        Octet in F major, D.803
Kendal Midday Concert Club www.kendalmiddayconcertclub.org
Tickets on sale at the Hall from 12 noon

£10 (students £2)
Monday 7 October                                           LONDON
St John’s Smith Square SW1P 3HA
POLYPHONY
STEPHEN LAYTON – conductor

C V Stanford                  Three Latin Motets
Gerald Finzi                    Seven Poems of Robert Bridges
R Vaughan Williams     Three Shakespeare Songs
Herbert Howells            Salve Regina
Gustav Holst                  The Evening Watch
Hubert Parry                  Songs of Farewell
Cecilia McDowall          Three Latin Motets 2004
Gustav Holst                  Nunc dimittis
Sinfonia Smith Square  www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk 020 7222 1061   £50–£20
Thursday 10 October                               MANCHESTER
The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street M2 3WS, 1.10pm
ELMORE STRING QUARTET
XANDER CROFT – violin
MILES AMES – violin
INIS OÍRR ASANO – viola
FELIX HUGHES – cello

Leo Geyer        “Unfurling”
Debussy           String Quartet in G minor Op. 10
Sponsored by Kirckman Concerts
Manchester Mid-days
bridgewater-hall.co.uk/whats-on/?series=17968
£10, concessions £8.50, students £5, + £3 booking fee unless booked in person

Monday 14 October                                              LEEDS
Leeds Cathedral, Great George St LS2 8BE, 1.15pm
DARIUS BATTIWALLA – organ
SARAH BRANDWOOD-SPENCER – violin

Florence Price           Suite No 1: Toccata
JS Bach                       Sonata No 4 in C minor for violin
                                    & cembalo
Otto Olsen                Romance for violin and organ
Samuel                      Two Pieces: Romance, Cavatina
   Coleridge-Taylor
César Franck             Prelude, Fugue and Variation for
                                    Organ
César Franck             Violin Sonata IV Allegretto
                                    poco mosso
Part of the Red Violin festival
leedsconcertseason.co.uk  0113 378 6600
Free admission, no booking required

Wednesday 16 October                                     KENDAL
Kendal Town Hall, Highgate LA9 4DL, 1.00pm
SARAH SAVIET – violin
JO HOUSTON – piano

Debussy       Sonata for Violin and Piano
Debussy       Reflets dans l’eau (from Images I)
                      (solo piano)
Kreisler        Recitativo and Scherzo-Caprice op. 6
                      (solo violin)
Brahms        Violin Sonata No. 1 op. 78
Kendal Midday Concert Club
www.kendalmiddayconcertclub.org
Tickets on sale at the Hall from 12 noon
£10 (students £2)

Wednesday 16 October                                        LEEDS
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire, St Peter’s Square
LS2 7PD, 7.30pm

ANTAL ZALAI – violin
ADAM HERON – piano

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges 
                             Unpublished Violin Sonatas (selection)
Pablo de Sarasate               Zigeunerweisen
Maurice Ravel                      Tzigane
Samuel                                  Gipsy Suite Op 20: i Gypsy
   Coleridge-Taylor               Song, ii Gypsy Dance
Keith Jarrett                          Elegy
George Gershwin/Frolov   Concert Fantasy on themes
                                                of Porgy and Bess
Part of the Red Violin festival
leedsconcertseason.co.uk  0113 376 0318   £22
Friday 18 October                                                 LEEDS
Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall, Woodhouse
L32 3AR, 1.05pm

MADELEINE MITCHELL – violin
GORDON MACKAY – violin

Judith Weir                  Atlantic Drift Violin Duos
Béla Bartók                 Duos for Two Violins
James B. Wilson         new violin work World Première
                                      (supported by the Vaughan
                                      Williams Foundation)
Rebecca Clarke          Nocturne for 2 violins & piano
Michael Nyman          Taking it as Read (composed for
                                      the Red Violin festival)
Part of the Red Violin festival
University of Leeds International Concert Series   Admission free, no booking required

Saturday 19 October                                             LEEDS
St Edmund's Roundhay: Lidgett Park Rd, Roundhay LS8 1JN, 7.30pm
SINFONIA OF LEEDS
DAVID GREED – violin, director
TOM GREED – violin
*MADELEINE MITCHELL – violin
ANTHONY KRAUS – conductor

Vivaldi         Concerto in A minor for Two Violins
*Bruch         Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor
Dvořák         Symphony no.7 
Part of the Red Violin festival
redviolin.co.uk/events.php   [email protected]
£17 concessions £14 student/unwaged £5, under 18s free with accompanying adult


Monday 21 October                                       PENRITH
Penrith Methodist Church, Wordsworth Street CA11 7QY, 7.30pm
PIRASTI TRIO – violin, cello and piano
Rebecca Clarke          Piano Trio
Paul Schoenfield        Café Music
Brahms                        Piano Trio in B major, Op.8
Penrith Music Club
penrithmusicclub.com 
£20 (Students £5)

Sunday 27 October                                               LEEDS
Leeds University Great Hall, Woodhouse Lane LS2 9JT, 3.00pm
LEEDS BAROQUE CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA
PETER HOLMAN – director
ASUKA SUMI – leader
PHILIPPA HYDE – soprano
FRANCIS GUSH – countertenor
CHARLES DANIELS – tenor
STUART O’HARA – bass

A Celebration of Henry Purcell
Two of Purcell’s most celebrated Odes: Hail, bright Cecilia (an Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, 1692) and Welcome, glorious morn (a Birthday Ode for Queen Mary, 1691).
Leeds Baroque  0113 2680600  leedsbaroque.co.uk/concerts
£20 (students and U16’s free)

Monday 28 October                             HUDDERSFIELD
St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate HD1 3DH, 7.30pm
COULL QUARTET
Mozart                 String Quartet No 22 in B flat major
                              K589
Shostakovich      String Quartet No 4 in D major Op 83
Beethoven           String Quartet No 8 in E minor Op 59
                              No 2 Razumovsky
Huddersfield Music Society  07525 337233  www.huddersfield-music-society.org.uk
£25 (£18, £5)

Thursday 31 October                              MANCHESTER
The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street M2 3WS, 1.10pm
SCOTT BROTHERS DUO
JONATHAN SCOTT – organ
TOM SCOTT – piano

Johann Strauss II arr. Scott      Die Fledermaus Overture
                                                     Op. 362
Antonin Dvořak arr. Scott        Song to the Moon from
                                                     Rusalka Op. 114
Antonio Vivaldi arr. Scott         Winter from The Four
                                                     Seasons Op. 8, RV 297
Dmitri Shostakovich                 Andante from Piano
                                                     Concerto No. 2 in F Major
                                                     Op. 102
Alexander Borodin arr. Scott   Polovtsian Dances
                                                      Prince Igor
Manchester Mid-days
bridgewater-hall.co.uk/whats-on/?series=17968
£10, concessions £8.50, students £5, + £3 booking fee unless booked in person


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