Concerts
Our 2020/21 season features six classical concerts and a lunchtime workshop.
Click here for details of the 2019/20 season's concerts.
Sunday 11 October at 3.00pm
Cavendish Winds
Mary Tyler (clarinet), Katy Ovens (flute), Henry Clay (oboe), Alice Quayle (bassoon) and Charlie Ransley (horn)
Cavendish Winds is an award-winning quintet formed at the Royal Academy of Music in 2014. They have performed in concerts, educational projects and competitions throughout the UK and abroad – establishing a reputation as one of the country's leading chamber ensembles; committed to exploring and expanding wind repertoire by presenting innovative programmes.
- Ravel (arr. Jones) – Le Tombeau de Couperin (1917)
- Poulenc – Novelette in C, Op. 47 no. 1 (1927)
- Tomasi – Cinq Danses Profanes et Sacrées (1963)
- Debussy – Syrinx (1922) 3' for solo flute
- Debussy – La fille aux cheveux de lin (1908)
- Bozza – Trois Pièces Pour une Musique de Nuit (1977) for wind quartet
- Taffanel – Wind Quintet in G minor (1876)
Sunday 8 November at 3.00pm
The Carducci String Quartet
Matthew Denton (violin), Michelle Fleming (violin), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola) and Emma Denton (cello)
Described by The Strad as presenting 'a masterclass in unanimity of musical purpose, in which severity could melt seamlessly into charm, and drama into geniality', the award-winning Carducci Quartet is internationally acclaimed as one of the most accomplished and versatile ensembles of today.
This is the second in a series of three concerts each containing a Bartok String Quartet
- Beethoven – Quartet in C minor, Op. 18 no. 4
- Bartok – Quartet no. 3 Sz 85
- Dvorak – Quartet no. 1 in F minor, Op. 96 American
Tuesday 10 November at 12.30pm
The Carducci String Quartet
Matthew Denton (violin), Michelle Fleming (violin), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola) and Emma Denton (cello)
Described by the 'Strad' as presenting 'a masterclass in unanimity of musical purpose, in which severity could melt seamlessly into charm, and drama into geniality' the award-winning Carducci Quartet is internationally acclaimed as one of the most accomplished and versatile ensembles of today.
- Beethoven – Quartet in C minor, Op. 18 no. 4
- Shostakovich – Quartet no. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
- Dvorak – Quartet no. 12 in F major, Op. 96 American
