At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets are available from the booking secretary using the booking form or via TicketSource.

Programme
Mozart, String Quartet no 8 F major K168
Smetana, String Quartet no 2 in D minor
Schubert, Quartet in D minor D 810 'Death and the Maiden'

Formed in 1985, the Wihan Quartet is one of the leading string quartets to emerge from the great Czech school of performance.  Praised by the New York Times for possessing a sound that is 'deeply pleasurable and also deeply traditional' and called 'one of the world's finest chamber ensembles' by BBC music magazine, the quartet has gained an extraordinary reputation for its interpretation of the Czech domestic repertoire and beyond.

For more information about the quartet see their website: https://wihanquartet.co.uk/

photo credit: Petra Hajska

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE TO PREVIOUSLY ADVERTISED CONCERT

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets are available from the booking secretary using the booking form or via TicketSource.

Programme

Beethoven, Piano Trio in E flat op 1 no 1
Fauré,  Piano Trio in D minor
Brahms, Piano Trio in B major

The award winning Trio Archai has quickly established itself as one of the most exciting young ensembles of its generation.  Founded in Basel in 2023, the trio has quickly gained international recognition through winning First Prize and Beethoven Prize at the Schoenfeld International String Competition 2025 in China, and First Prize at the 72nd Royal Over-Seas League Competition 2024 in London.
Generously supported by Grier and Partners

For more information on the trio see their website Trio Archai

Photo credit: Sophie Williams

At the Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4pm

Tickets £6 including refreshments.  This is an extra event not included in the season ticket.  Tickets are available from the booking secretary using the booking form or via TicketSource.

Young musicians from local schools are given an opportunity to perform for a live and appreciative audience, complete with a tea party after the concert.

At Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4pm

Tickets £12 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets are available from the booking secretary using the booking form or via TicketSource.

Christopher Hilton became Head of Archive and Library at the Red House, Aldeburgh, in 2017, where his role is to care for the unparalleled archive left by Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and to make it available to as wide a public as possible.  Prior to this he was senior archivist at the Wellcome Library in London.

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets are available from the booking secretary using the booking form or via TicketSource.

Programme

Debussy, Petite Suite for piano 4 hands
Mozart, Sonata in C major K521
Schubert, Fantasie in F minor D940
Ravel, Mother Goose

One of the most highly acclaimed piano duos performing today, Charles Owen and Katya Apekisheva are passionate advocates for the wide range of four hands and two piano repertoire.  In parallel with their extensive solo careers, they have been performing together around the world and across the UK since 2001.

Generously supported by Jane Jewell

For more information about the artists see their websites

http://www.charlesowen.net/  https://katyaapekisheva.com/

photo credit: Viktor Eric Emanuel

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets are available from the booking secretary using the booking form or via TicketSource.

Formed in 2021, Heron Brass is a London-based brass ensemble who first began playing together while students at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  The group come from a range of musical and international backgrounds, from Catalonia to Watford, and enjoy performing an equally wide range of brass ensemble music.

Programme

Lutoslawski, Mini Overture
Richard Bissill, Divertimento
Joseph Horowitz, Music Hall Suite
Bruckner, Christus Factus Est (arr. David Sztankov)
Derek Bourgeois, Sonata for brass quintet
Stanford, Bluebird

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets are available from the booking secretary using the booking form, or via TicketSource.

Programme

Haydn, String Quartet op 33 no 4 Bb major
Janacek, String Quartet no 2 'Intimate Letters'
Beethoven, String Quartet op 131

The Fibonacci Quartet is one of Europe's leading young string quartets.  They have already made a name for themselves at home, in the UK, and abroad as prolific competition winners.  The Quartet is Resident Ensemble at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid with Günter Pichler and at the Dutch String Quartet Academy with Marc Danel, and frequently performs in association with ProQuartet in Paris.

Generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

For more information about the quartet see their website https://www.fibonacciquartet.com/

photo credit: Julia Bohle

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets can be purchased from the Booking Secretary using the booking form or online from TicketSource.  Unless the concert is sold out in advance tickets will be available on the door.

Programme

Beethoven, op 18/3
Freda Swain, String quartet 'Norfolk'
Schubert, 'Rosamunde' D804

The quartet recently marked the start of their 30th year with a recital at the Aldeburgh Festival where they were Artists in Residence in 1994.  In 1995 the quartet won multiple prizes at the international competitions of Evrian, Banff, and Salzburg.  The following year they won 1st prize and the gold medal at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition.  Successful debuts in the world's musical capitals, including an acclaimed BBC live broadcast standing in for the Juilliard Quartet, led their way to the forefront of international chamber music.  "This is, no question, one of the best groups in the world, a great string quartet." (Los Angeles Times).

We are delighted to welcome them back to East Bergholt.

Generously supported by Martin and Alicia Herbert.

For more information about the quartet see https://www.henschel-quartett.de/biography

photo credit Wildunleise

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets can be purchased from the Booking Secretary using the booking form or online from TicketSource.  Unless the concert is sold in advance tickets will be available on the door.

Programme

Vivaldi, Concerto for Violin no 4 A minor RV357 La Stravaganza
Grieg, Two Elegaic Melodies op 34 Heartwounds; Last Spring
Ponchielli, Concerto in F major for trumpet and orchestra
JS Bach, Violin Concerto in E major BWV 1043
Faure, Pavane op 50
Mozart, Divertimento in D major KV 136

Concerts with this German based orchestra are popular with our audience and many other music societies in the UK and Ireland.  They tour widely and regularly across Northern Europe.  We look forward to their visit.

Generously supported by Grier and Partners

At the Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4pm.

Tickets £6.  Tickets can be purchased from the Booking Secretary using the booking form or online from TicketSource.  Unless the concert is sold out in advance tickets will be available on the door.

We are planning the return of this popular extra event, where young musicians from local schools are given an opportunity to perform for a live and appreciative audience, complete with tea party after the concert.  This is an extra event, not included in the season ticket.

At the Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4pm

Tickets £12 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets can be purchased from the Booking Secretary using the booking form or online from TicketSource.  Unless the lecture is sold out in advance tickets will be availble on the door.

Paul is a former Master of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.  He has a lifelong interest in music, especially opera.  He is the author of Ferrier - a Career Recorded, first published in 1992 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the singer's birth, with new editions in 2005 and 2020.

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets can be purchased from the Booking Secretary using the booking form or online from TicketSource.  Unless a concert is sold out in advance tickets will be available on the door.

Programme

Beethoven, Sonata in C minor op 13 Pathetique
Schubert, 4 Impromptus D899
Szymanowski, Etude in B flat minor op 4/3
        2 Mazurkas op 62
        Serenade of Don Juan (Masque) op 34/3
Liszt, Sonetto Del Petrarca 104
Wagner (arr. Liszt), Isolde's Liebestod
Liszt, Legend no 2 St Francis of Paule Walking on the Waves

During his illustrious career, Martin Roscoe has become one of the UK's most loved and respected pianists.  With his extensive repertoire, consummate musicianship and immediate connection with audiences, he is in great demand as a concerto soloist, chamber musician and recitalist.  We are delighted to welcome him back to East Bergholt.

Generously supported by Alan Swerdlow and Jeremy Greenwood

For more information about Martin Roscoe see his website https://www.martinroscoe.co.uk/

photo credit Eric Richmond

At St Mary's Church, Stratford-St-Mary CO7 6LS  Please note change to previously advertised date

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets can be purchased from the Booking Secretary using the booking form or online from TicketSource.  Unless a concert is sold out in advance tickets will be available on the door.

Programme

Valerie Coleman, Umoja
Samuel Barber, Summer Music
Amy Beach, Pastorale
Paul Taffanel, Wind Quintet
Gyorgi Ligeti, Six Bagatelles
Carl Nielsen, Wind Quintet

Founded in 2018, the ensemble has won several awards and honours, and consists of outstanding young musicians with busy and varied careers.

Generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

For more information about the ensemble see their website https://ensemblerenard.co.uk/

photo credit Betsa Collins

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4 pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets can be purchased from the Booking Secretary using the booking form or online from Ticketsource.  Unless a concert is sold out in advance tickets will be available on the door.

Programme

The programme includes Schubert, Schumann, Faure, Britten, and Victoria Wood.

An artist of great integrity, Nicky Spence's unique skills as a singing actor and the rare honesty in his musicianship have earned him a place at the top of the music profession.  He was made an OBE in the 2023 King's Birthday Honours, and is the winner of the RPS Singer Award 2024.
Pianist Dylan Perez is a recitalist, chamber musician and coach specialising in vocal repertoire who is highly in demand across the UK.  He studied at the Guildhall School and the University of Michigan, as well as being a fellow at the Royal College of Music.

Generously supported by Jane Jewell.

For more information about the artists see websites https://www.nickyspence.com/ and                    https://askonasholt.com/artist/dylan-perez

photo credit Ki Price

St Mary's Church, Stratford-St-Mary, CO7 6LS at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets available from the booking secretary using the booking form.  Tickets are available online via TicketSource.

Programme

Janáček String Quartet no 1, Kreutzer
Errollyn Wallen, String Quintet (World Premiere)
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet no 1 in A op 18

Praised for their "immaculate precision and spirit" (The Strad) and "cultured tone" (Arts Desk), the Solem Quartet has established itself as one of the most innovative and adventurous quartets of its generation.  A 2020 awardee of the Jerwood Arts Live Work Fund, the Solem Quartet takes its place among some of the UK's brightest artistic voices.  Since winning the Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Competition 2014, the Solem Quartet has built a strong following.  They enjoy a busy concert schedule, ranging from international tours to performances at venues such as London's Wigmore and Queen Elisabeth Halls, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Oxford's Holywell Music Room, Perth Concert Hall (subsequently broadcast by Radio 3) and the Tung Auditorium in Liverpool.  They are Quartet in Residence at the University of Liverpool and regularly appear as guest teachers across the UK.

Shiry Rashovsky enjoys a busy international career as a soloist and chamber musician.  The Strad praised her Royal Festival Hall debut as "beguiling...thrilling and exuberant".

For more information about the Solem Quartet see their website: solemquartet.co.uk
For more information about Shiry Rashkovsky see her website: shiryrashkovsky.com

With great regrets we have had to cancel the Young Musicians' Concert this year. It is never easy to find a good line-up with a mix of instruments and levels. This year we had a clash of dates with the Suffolk Music Festival competitions in Ipswich, which meant that many of the advanced performers that we rely on were unable to play for us. Others were too busy preparing for exams and we would have presented mainly very young pianists.

We hope to do better next year with a February date (Sunday 11th 2025).  Please accept our apologies. Those who have bought tickets will be contacted separately.

At Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets are available from the Booking Secretary using the booking form.  Tickets are available online via TicketSource.

Programme

Debussy, Sonata for cello and piano
Brahms, Sonata no 1 in E minor
Robert Schumann, Fantasiestucke op 73
Felix Mendelssohn, Sonata no 2 in D major

Praised for the "elegance of his technique, overall sound and natural poeticism" (Strad Magazine), Maxim Calver first gained recognition as a BBC Young Musician Grand Finalist and Strings Category winner when he made his concerto debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall, Birmingham.  This success has led him to be in high demand as a soloist across the UK and Europe and in October 2021 Maxim made his European Concerto debut in the Grosse Saal of the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, where he performed Schumann's Cello Concerto.

Kumi Matsuo was born in Tokyo and is a winner of several major piano competitions.  After studies in Japan she took a master's degree at the RCM as well as a fellowship in piano accompaniment.  She is much in demand as an accompanist.

Generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

More information about Maxim Calver on his website:  maximcalvercello.co.uk 

At Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4pm

Tickets £12 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets are available from the booking secretary using the booking form.  Tickets are available online via TicketSource.

In this talk Jenny presents an overview of the life and work of the artist Sir Alfred Munnings (1979-1959), past President of the Royal Academy of Arts (1944-1949).  From his early training in Norwich, his association with the Newlyn School in Cornwall, work as a war artist to the equestrian portraits of society figures and the Royal Family which brough his fame, Jenny explores both the paintings in detail and the social context in which they were made.

About the speaker: Jenny Hand has been the Director of the Munnings Art Museum since 2013.  Since that time Jenny and her team have instigated a programme of changing exhibitions, catalogued and researched the previously dormant archive, and begun a series of publications.  They have also developed a growing and ever more popular series of workshops and events to inspire today's plein air and equestrian artists.

Before taking up her role at the Munnings Art Museum Jenny worked at several museums in the East Midlands and spent ten years at Brighton Pavilion and Museums working with curatorial and conservation teams on new and ground-breaking projects funded by a large government grant scheme.

Generously sponsored by Grier and Partners.

For more information about the Munnings Museum see their website:  munningsmuseum.org.uk

Picture copyright: The Estate of Sir Alfred Munnings

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets are available from the Booking Secretary using the booking form.  Tickets are available online via TicketSource.

Programme

Hélène de Montgeroult, Etudes nos 62, 67, 104, 110, 111
Clara Schumann, 3 Romances op 21
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 'Thata Nabandjii', 'Deep River' and 'The Bamboula' from 24 Negro Melodies op 59 nos 3, 10 and 8
Cécile Chaminade, 'Impromptu' Étude de concert, op 35 no 5 and Étude romantique, op 132
Maurice Ravel, Miroirs
Isaac Albéniz, 'Cádiz (El Puerto)’, ‘Evocación’, and 'Triana' from Iberia (1908)

We are delighted to welcome Clare Hammond back to East Bergholt.  An acclaimed pianist, she was the 2016 winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society's 'Young Artist Award', and performs internationally as well as closer to home at the Wigmore Hall and Aldeburgh Festival.  Her most recent album of Études by Hélène de Montgeroult received widespread critical praise and was nominated for the 2023 International Classical Music Awards.

In memory of Courteney Willett and generously supported by Dianne Willett

More information on Clare Hammond is available on her website: clarehammond.com 

photo credit: Philip Gatward

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets are available from the booking secretary using the booking form.  Tickets are available online via TicketSource

Programme

Stravinsky, 3 pieces
Rachmaninov, 2 Movements for String Quartet
Britten, String Quartet no 1
Shostakovich, 2 pieces
Rachmaninov, Vocalise (arranged  P Cassidy)
Debussy, String Quartet

We are delighted to welcome back this distinguished quartet.  Since its formation in 1972 the Brodsky Quartet has performed over 3000 concerts on the major stages of the world and released more than 60 recordings.  A natural curiosity and insatiable desire to explore has propelled the group in many artistic directions and continues to ensure them not only a place at the very forefront of the international chamber music scene but also a rich and varied musical existence.  Their energy and craftsmanship have attracted numerous awards and accolades worldwide, while ongoing educational work provides a vehicle for passing on experience and staying in touch with the next generation.

Generously sponsored by Jane Jewell

More information on the Brodsky Quartet is available on their website: brodskyquartet.co.uk

photo credit: Sarah Cresswell

St Mary's Church, Stratford-St-Mary CO7 6LS at 4pm

Tickets £18 or buy a season ticket for £54.  Tickets available from the booking secretary using the booking form.  Tickets are available online via TicketSource.

Programme

Nicola Matteis, Ayres for the Violin
George Frederick Handel, Trio Sonata in F major HWV 389, op 2
John Playford, Grimstock and Bobbing Joe from The English Dancing Master
Elisabetta de Gambinari, Six Sets of Lessons for the Harpsichord op 2
Giuseppe Sammartini, Sonata VI from 12 Trio Sonatas
James Oswald, A Curious Collection of Scots Tunes (1740): a Sonata on Scots Tunes
John Blow, Trio Sonata in A major
Henry Purcell, Sonatas of Three Parts no 1 in G minor Z790
Robert Bremner, A Harpsichord or Spinnet Miscellany
George Frederick Handel, Trio Sonata in B minor HWV 386b op 2
James Oswald, Airs for Auturmn
Georg Philipp Telemann, Triosonate g-moll

Ensemble Hesperi is a dynamic and innovative London-based period ensemble, with a passion for showcasing Early Music through intelligent, distinctive programming.  Since 2019, the ensemble has gained a strong reputation for championing rarely-heard music, bringing forgotten stories to life through original historical research and joyful collaborations with guest artists, dancers, and actors.

In 2020, Hesperi was selected as Britten Pears Young Artists on the Chamber Music Residence scheme, and in November 2020 won first prize at the London International Festival of Early Music Young Ensemble Competition.  In September 2021, the ensemble was delighted to win third prize at the prestigous International Van Wassenaer Competition in Utrecht, and released its debut album with EM Records, "Full of the Highland Humours" later that year.  In December, the ensemble was selected as City Music Foundation artists 2021.  Hesperi has appeared regularly on Radio 3's Early Music Show, recorded in studio for Classic FM, and has performed at leading festivals and venues across the United Kingdom and Europe.  The ensemble received a second grant from the Continuo Foundation for its 2022-23 project, "Then I play'd upon the Harpsichord", an immersive concert exploring the musical tastes and talents of Queen Charlotte, consort to George III.

Ensemble Hesperi strongly believes that Early Music should be enjoyed by all, and always seeks to communicate the joy of live music to new audiences through an energetic stage presence.  Hesperi's members have extensive experience in education and outreach, performing regularly for those who have no opportunity to hear live classical music.

Generously sponsored by Birkett Long Solicitors

For more information about Ensemble Heperi go their website: ensemblehesperi.com

At St Mary's Church, Dedham at 5 pm

Tickets £12 members, £16 non-members.  Tickets available from the Booking Secretary using the booking form, or online via TicketSource

Programme

Beethoven, Piano Trio in E flat op 1 no 1
Frank Bridge, Phantasie for Piano Trio H 79
Korngold, Trio in D major op 1

The Mithras Trio is fast growing a reputation as one of the next generation's most exciting piano trios.  They are members of the prestigous BBC New Generation Artists scheme, broadcasting regularly on BBC Radio 3, and won first prize at the 10th Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition, 67th Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition among others, and in 2019 were recipients of the Royal Philharmonic Society Henderson Award.

Generously sponsored by Grier and Partners, East Bergholt

More information about the Mithras Trio is available on their website: mithrastrio.co.uk

At 4 pm at the Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP

EXTRA event: tickets £6 to members and non-members, available from the Booking Secretary using the booking form, or online via TicketSource.

This season we are able to bring back this popular extra event, where young musicians from local schools are given an opportunity to perform for a live and appreciative audience, complete with tea party after the concert.

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4 pm

Tickets £12 members, £16 non-members.  Tickets available from the Booking Secretary using the booking form, or online via TicketSource

Programme  Please note the changes to the previously advertised programme

Joseph Haydn, String Quartet no 57 in C major op 74 no 1
Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartet no 1 op 12 in E-flat major
Beethoven, String Quartet in F major op 59 no 1

The Echéa Quartet was formed in 2017 at the Royal Academy of Music.  They won the 2021 Royal Overseas String Quartet Prize and were recipients of other important national and international prizes.  The quartet are currently Chamber Music Fellows at the Royal College of Music, artists for the Concordia and City Music Foundations (2019/20) and Yeomen of the Worshipful Company of Musicians.

Generously supported by Alan Swerdlow and Jeremy Greenwood

More information about the Echéa Quartet is available on their website: echeaquartet.com

At 4 pm at the Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4 pm

Tickets £9 members, £12 non-members, available from the Booking Secretary using the booking form, or online from TicketSource

Benton End in Hadleigh, the home of celebrated artist-plantsman, Sir Cedric Morris and his lifelong partner, Arthur Lett-Haines is set for a revival. 

Hear about the history of the garden during Cedric & Lett’s time and how it inspired artists and gardeners alike, going on to have a profound effect on 20th-century horticulture. 

Lucy trained in fine art, has a National Collection of historic irises and is a researcher for the Benton End House and Garden Trust.

More information about the Benton End House and Garden Trust is available at their website: bentonend.co.uk

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4 pm

Tickets £12 members, £16 non-members.  Tickets available from the Booking Secretary using the booking form, or online via TicketSource

Programme

Haydn, Andante and Variations in F minor HOb XVII:6
Mozart, Rondo in A Minor K511
Schubert, 4 Impromptus D 935
Brahms, Three Intermezzi op 117
Beethoven, Piano Sonata no 31 in A flat major op 110

We are delighted and honoured to welcome the distinguished pianist, Martin Roscoe, whose achievements as a soloist and chamber musician in concert halls across the world and on radio and recordings, are outstanding.

Unlike many illustrious musicians he continutes to tour the UK extensively and is happy to perform for small societies like ours.  Please book early for this special occasion.

Funded by a generous donation from Jane Jewell

More information about Martin Roscoe is available on his website: martinroscoe.co.uk

photo credit: Eric Richmond

At St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4 pm

Tickets £12 members, £16 non-members.  Tickets available from the Booking Secretary using the booking form, or online via TicketSource

Programme

Mozart, Sonata no 24 in F
Poulenc, Sonata op 119
Brahms, Sonata no 1
Bartok, Rhapsody no 2

Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux was born in France and in 2021 completed her Master's degree at the Royal College of Music in London with Alina Ibragimova.  She was a prize-winner at the 2021 YCAT International Auditions, in partnership with Concert Artists Guild (New York).  In addition to her solo work, she is leader of Quatuor Confluence, which won first prize at the Trondheim Chamber Music Competition in 2021.

The Australian pianist Joseph Havlat studied with Joanna McGregor at the Royal Academy of Music and is a soloist, chamber musician and composer.  He is Young Artist at St John's Smith Square and at the Oxford Lieder Festival.

Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

More information about Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux and Joseph Havlat is available on their websites: charlottesalustebridoux.com and josephhavlat.com

photo credit: Kaupo Kittas

At St Mary's Church, Stratford-St-Mary CO7 6LS at 3 pm

Tickets £12 members, £16 non-members.  Tickets available from the Booking Secretary using the booking form, or online via TicketSource

Programme  Please note one change to previously advertised programme, Bach Concerto for 2 Violins replaces Concerto for Oboe and Violin

Corelli, Concerto Grosso op 6 no 4 in D major
Neruda, Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E flat
Bach, Concerto for two Violins in D minor BWV 1043
Elgar, Serenade for Strings op 20
Rachmaninov, Vocalise
Mozart, Divertimento in F major KV 138

A welcome return visit by the Cologne based chamber orchestra, consisting of musicians from across Europe playing popular classical pieces.

Generously sponsored by Birkett Long Solicitors

This will be our first concert at Stratford-St-Mary.  Please note the earlier start time.

More information about Kammerphilharmonie Europa is available on their website: kammerphilharmonie-europa.de

Photo from Ilkley Concert Club

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4 pm

Book online using a credit card.  Due to the uncertainties surrounding Covid online booking will open 3-4 weeks before events.

Programme

Mozart, Piano trio no 4 in B flat major K502
Rachmaninov, Piano trio in G minor, 1st Trio élégiaque
Schumann, Piano trio no 1 in D minor op 63

Please note change to originally advertised programme

Wiener Mozart Trio was founded in 1991 and has appeared to acclaim at concert halls and music festivals across the world.  We look forward to welcoming the Auner family to SVAM, Covid and Brexit travel rules permitting.

For more information on the Vienna Piano Trio see their website

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4 pm

Book online using a credit card.  Due to the uncertainties surrounding Covid online booking will open 3-4 weeks before events.

Programme

Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor (organ and trumpet)
Petr Eben, Okna (Windows)
Bach, Fantasia in D BWV 572
Telemann, Three Marches
Purcell, Sonata in D

Hailed as 'remarkable' by the Daily Telegraph, British trumpeter Matilda Lloyd is a fast-rising young artist with exceptional poise and musicality.  She has won several awards and has a busy international career.

Richard Gowers became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists at 17, and has won many awards as organist and pianist.

(photo credit: Benjamin Ealovega)

Generously sponsored by Grier and Partners, East Bergholt

More information about Matilda Lloyd and Richard Gowers on their websites
 

Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4 pm

Book online using a credit card.  Due to the uncertainties surrounding Covid online booking will open 3-4 weeks before events.

Programme

Lowell Lieberman, Sonata for flute and guitar op 25
Antonin Dvorak (arr. Massey), Sonatina in G major op 100
Rafael Marino Arcaro, À Norte, Rio Preto
Burt Bacharach (arr. Girling), A House is Not a Home

Performing as the Meraki Duo since 2013, Meera and James are both prize-winning soloists, who enjoy exploring the special repertoire for their instruments.  They are members of Live Music Now and we hope to be able to offer their workshop in local schools.

Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

More information about Meera Maharaj, James Girling and the Meraki Duo on their websites

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4 pm

Book online using a credit card.  Due to the uncertainties surrounding Covid online booking will open 3-4 weeks before events.

Programme

Schumann, Kinderszenen
Schubert, Four Impromptus D935
Chopin, Nocturne in F sharp major op 15 no 2
Chopin, Barcarolle op 60

Described by Gramophone magazine as 'one of the finest pianists of his generation', Charles Owen has enjoyed an extensive international career performing a wide-ranging repertoire to outstanding critical acclaim.

(photo credit: Sim Cannetty-Clarke)

Funded by a generous donation from Jane Jewell

More information about Charles Owen on his website

Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4 pm

Book online using a credit card.  Due to the uncertainties surrounding Covid online booking will open 3-4 weeks before events.

Spirit of Place offers a panoramic view of the British landscape as seen through the eyes of writers and artists from Bede and the Gawain poet to Gainsborough, Dickens and Barbara Hepworth.

Susan Owens, formerly Curator of Paintings at the V&A, is a writer and art historian

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt at 4 pm  venue to be confirmed

Book online using a credit card.  Due to the uncertainties surrounding Covid online booking will open 3-4 weeks before events.

Programme

John Ireland, String Quartet no 1 (Maggini)
John Metcalf, Towards Silence (Solem)
Mendelssohn, Octet in E flat op 20

Formed in 1988, the Maggini Quartet is one of the finest British string quartets.  Its acclaimed recordings have won many international awards.  The Maggini Quartet appears frequently in prestigious concert series and makes regular media broadcasts.

The Solem Quartet has established itself as one of the most innovative and adventurous quartets of its generation.  Since winning the 2014 Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Competition they have enjoyed a busy schedule, ranging from international tours to performances at the main UK venues.

(photo credit: Bertie Watson)

Generously sponsored by Birkett Long Solicitors

More information about the Maggini and Solem quartets on their websites

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4 pm

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Purcell, Chaconne in G minor
Puccini, Crisantemi
Tanaka, At the Grave of Beethoven
Shostakovich, String Quartet no 7
Schubert, Death and the Maiden

Since its formation in 1972 the now famous Brodsky Quartet has performed over three thousand concerts on the major stages of the world and released more than 60 recordings.  We look forward to their first visit to East Bergholt.

(photo credit: Sarah Cresswell)

In memory of Joan Brown

More information about the Brodsky Quartet on their website

This concert has sadly been postponed due to concerns over the rising rate of Covid 19 infections

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00 pm

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Schumann, Arabesque in C op 18
Brahms, Variations in D minor op 18
Beethoven, Sonata in E flat op 7
Beethoven, Sonata in E minor op 90

Described by Gramophone Magazine as 'one of the finest pianists of his generation', Charles Owen has enjoyed an extensive international career performing a wide-ranging repertoire to outstanding critical acclaim.

(photo credit: Sim Canetty-Clarke)

Funded by a generous donation from Jane Jewell

This concert will last approximately sixty to seventy minutes, with no interval, and refreshments will not be served.  The audience will be required to wear masks, and preserve social distancing of two metres between households.  Access to the church lavatory will be emergency only.  Hand sanitizer will be provided on entry and exit, and stewards will monitor the number of audience members moving within the church at any time to ensure social distancing can be maintained.  Further information will be given at the time of booking.

The above list of conditions may sound forbidding, but the Committee, Rector and Church Wardens have worked together to ensure our concerts are safe for the audience and musicians.  We very much hope that you will feel safe, and will enjoy hearing live music and knowing that you are helping provide an opportunity for professional performance to musicians, whose ability to work has been severely curtailed since March.

This concert has sadly been postponed due to concerns about the rising rate of Covid 19 infections

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00 pm

Tickets will be released for sale three to four weeks before the concert date.  Due to Covid tickets will not be available on the door and must be purchased in advance with contact details supplied.

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Haydn, Quartet no 65 in E flat op 76/6 Hob.III:80
Beethoven, Quartet no 13 in B flat op 130

The Solem Quartet has established itself as one of the most innovative and adventurous quartets of its generation.  They won the Royal Over-Seas League Competition in 2014, and have since enjoyed a busy concert schedule.

(photo credit: Bertie Watson)

This concert is being funded partly from SVAM's reserves, and all ticket proceeds will go directly to the artists.  It will last approximately one hour, with no interval, and refreshments will not be served.  The audience will be required to wear masks, and preserve social distancing of two metres between households.  Access to the church lavatory will be emergency only.  Hand sanitizer will be provided on entry and exit, and stewards will monitor the number of audience members moving within the church at any time to ensure social distancing can be maintained.  Further information will be given at the time of booking.

The above list of conditions may sound forbidding, but the Committee, Rector and Church Wardens have worked together to ensure the concert is safe for the audience and musicians.  We very much hope that you will feel safe, and will enjoy hearing live music and knowing that you are helping provide an opportunity for professional performance to the musicians, whose ability to work has been severely curtailed since March.

More information about the Solem Quartet

Due to coronavirus this concert has been cancelled.  Advance single ticket holders will be refunded.  Season ticket holders will be contacted in due course as we try to work out the implications of the pandemic for the following season.

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00 pm

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Vivaldi, Concerto in G Minor F.X. no 21
Ponchielli, Concerto in F Major for trumpet and orchestra
Suk, Serenade for Strings op 6
J S Bach, Violin Concerto in E Major BWV 1042
Rachmaninov, Vocalise
Elgar, Serenade for Strings op 20

Returning by popular request and bringing their virtusos trumpeter, this small section of a larger German based orchestra consists of musicians from all over Europe performing much-loved chamber music repertoire.

Generously supported by Grier & Partners, East Bergholt

More information about the Kammerphilharmonie Europa on their website

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00 pm

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Borodin, Quartet no 2 in D major
Shostakovich, Quartet op 108 no 7
Beethoven, Quartet op 59 no 3 Razumovsky

We are pleased to welcome back this internationally renowned Anglo-Irish Quartet based in the UK. They were founded by the present members in 1997 and have won numerous awards in competitions and for their recordings.

 (Photo credit: Andy Holdsworth photography)

Generously sponsored by Birkett Long Solicitors

More information about the Carducci Quartet on their website

4.00 pm Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TG

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Welcome to our popular annual concert showcasing some of the many talented young musicians in our area.  We never know who will be performing until much nearer the time but they have never disappointed!  The concert will be followed by a delicious afternoon tea.

This is an extra event, supported by our own Education Fund

Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4.00 pm

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Beethoven, 12 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen' from the Opera Die Zauberflöte op 66
Rachmaninov, Vocalise
David Popper, Elfentanz op 39
Popper, Hungarian Rhapsody op 68 (1894)
Tchaikovsky, Pezzo capriccioso op 62
Lutolslavski, Sacher Variation
Franck, Sonata in A

Jamal was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and studied at the Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music.  He made his Proms debut in 2017 and was selected by YCAT the same year. He has performed as a soloist at major festivals and concert halls in Europe and beyond.

Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

More information about Jamal Aliyev on his website

5.00 pm Assembly Rooms, Dedham CO7 6HJ

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William Clegg QC was called to the Bar in 1972, he took silk in !991 and has been Head of Chambers at 2 Bedford Row, the country’s leading set of chambers specialising in criminal law, for 25 years. He has defended in numerous high profile cases both in England and abroad and is the author of the bestselling book Under The Wig.

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00 pm

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Haydn, Piano Trio in C major Hob XV: 27
Arensky, Piano Trio no 1 in D minor
Beethoven, Piano Trio in B flat Archduke

We are thrilled to welcome back one of the world’s leading piano trios and be a part of their extensive 20th anniversary touring programme.  The group, consisting of two Korean born sisters and a Danish pianist, who is married to the cellist, first got together in Vienna in 1999. 

(photo credit: Nicolaj Lund)

Generously supported by Jane Jewell

More information on the Trio con Brio Copenhagen on their website

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00 pm

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Zemlinsky, Humoreske
Danzi, Quintet in B flat op 56/1
Nielsen, Wind Quintet op 43
Arnold, Divertimento for flute, oboe and clarinet
Klughardt, Wind Quintet op 79
Walton (arr. Mason), Suite from Façade

We are pleased to welcome back the Aurora Ensemble, one of the UK’s leading wind quintets, which was established in 1996.  Each of its players work regularly with some of the country’s leading orchestras and chamber ensembles. They have made many recordings and organise regular courses.

With kind support from Roger Balmer Design, East Bergholt

More information about the ensemble on their website: Aurora Ensemble

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00 pm

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Mozart, Quartet in B flat K 458 The Hunt
Mendelssohn, Quartet no 2 in E minor op 44
Dvorak, Quartet in G major op 105

Winners of the St Martin's Chamber Music Competition 2017, the Manchester-based Zelkova Quartet has established a reputation as one of the UK's up-and-coming string quartets, praised for performing 'with a remarkable zeal and intensity' (Edinburgh Fringe, Herald Scotland 2015).

Generously supported by Grier and Partners, East Bergholt

(photo credit: Ion Photography)

More information on their website: Zelkova Quartet

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00 pm

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Mozart, Piano Quartet in G minor K478
Mahler, Quartet movement in A minor
Brahms, Piano Quartet no 1 in G minor op 25

The Trio is an award-winning and critically acclaimed ensemble.  They have performed in major UK venues and in France, Austria, Germany, and Israel.  The piano quartet is completed by Robin Ashwell, well-known as the Sacconi Quartet's viola player.

(photo credit: Graham Brandon)

This concert is held in memory of the late Mrs Sheila Grove-White and is supported by a generous legacy

More about the Rautio Piano Trio:   The Rautio Piano Trio is an award-winning and critically acclaimed ensemble, known for their innovative and captivating performances. The Trio presents highly imaginative programmes incorporating rarely-performed works alongside the cornerstones of the repertoire. They regularly use historical instruments for 18th- and 19th-century music: their début disc for Resonus Classics featured a selection of Mozart’s piano trios recorded on a fortepiano belonging to the late Christopher Hogwood. It was hailed by the Observer as ‘an impressive achievement’ and received multiple five-star reviews.

The Rautio Piano Trio has performed at the Wigmore Hall, South Bank, Bridgewater Hall, on BBC Radio 3, throughout the UK and in France, Austria, Germany and Israel. Highlights include performances at the Hambacher Musikfest in Germany, SOUND contemporary music festival in Scotland, English Haydn Festival, Pablo Casals Festival in France and at the Haydn-Saal in Vienna. At Kings Place, London, they curated a Shostakovich concert, ‘Approaching the Iron Curtain’, which celebrated the composer’s life and music on the 40th anniversary of his death. The Trio regularly appears at St George’s Bristol, where they have performed the complete cycle of Mozart Trios, Mendelssohn Trios and a special Shostakovich concert with Joan Rodgers featuring the Seven Romances for Trio and Soprano. The Trio continues to explore neglected works, including a focus on those by Johann Christian Bach (the ‘London Bach’), which they first performed for the London Bach Society BachFest and subsequently at the Cobbe Collection of historical instruments and at St George’s Bristol. 

The Rautio Piano Trio was formed at the Royal Academy of Music, London, and at the International Musicians Seminar, Prussia Cove. They later held a Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellowship at the Royal Academy of Music. They have been recipients of numerous awards, such as the Tillett Trust, Worshipful Company of Musicians, Park Lane Group, Musician’s Benevolent Fund Ensemble Award and the English-Speaking Union.

More information on their website: Rautio Piano Trio

Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 7.30 pm

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Joanna Eden presents a 'labour of love' show celebrating the music of her vocal hero Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied by Chris Ingham piano, Arnie Somogyi bass and George Double drums.

(photo credit: Evi Antonio)

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4.00 pm Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP

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Welcome to our popular annual concert showcasing some of the many talented young musicians in our area.  The concert will be followed by a delicious afternoon tea.

This is an extra event not included in the season ticket.

£6 to include refreshments.

Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4.00 pm

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Bax, Elegaic Trio
Corelli, Trio Sonata
Jolivet, Petite Suite
Bach, Flute Sonata in Eb
Timothy Salter, Mosaics
Ravel, Sonatine

The Pelléas Ensemble was formed at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 2011.  Playing with ‘verve and polish’ (The Times), they recently won the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award, and several other awards and competitions.

(photo credit: Alessandro Tear)

Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

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St Mary's Church, Dedham CO7 6DE at 4.00 pm

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Brahms, Sonata for violin and piano in A major op 100
Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel, arranged for horn violin and piano by Till Körber
Liszt, La Lugubre Gondol for violin and piano
Liszt, Mephisto Waltz for violin and piano
Brahms, Trio for violin, piano and horn in E flat op 40

Merlin Ensemble, Vienna was formed in 1991, drawn mainly from members of the European Chamber Orchestra.  A flexible group of players of wind, strings and piano in many varying combinations, the ensemble has appeared in many international festivals and concert halls, and has made several CD recordings.

Generously supported by Jane Jewell

Please note the move from our usual venues.  There is some on-street parking outside the church in Dedham High Street, and a fee-paying car park a short walk away.

More about the Merlin Ensemble:

Martin Walch - Artistic Director, Violin

Born In Innsbruck, Austria, Martin studied violin with Sándor Végh and Michael Schnitzler and participated in Master classes given by Yehudi Menuhin and Nathan Milstein. He is the Director of the Merlin Ensemble and a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

He has made solo and chamber music appearances in all major European concert halls and festivals

Hubert Renner – Horn

Hubert studied Horn at the University of Arts and Music under Radovan Vlatkovic.  He has erformanced with several notable orchestras such as Bayerischen Radio Symphony Orchestra, Südwestdeutschen Philharmonie, and since 2004 been the solo hornist of the Symphony Orchestra St. Gallen , Switzerland. He has made solo and chamber music appearances with many European orchestras and festivals

Till Alexander Körber - Piano

Till Alexander Körber was born in Tübingen, Germany and studied at the Music Academy in Freiburg and between 1990 and 1995 was a pupil of Hans Petermandel at the Vienna Academy of Music. As a pianist and composer he has won several prizes – 1989 Interpretation prize for contemporary music at the Concours Européenne, 1991 the 1st prize of Austro Mechana and in 1997 the 2nd and 3 prize for composition "Guido d'Arezzo" and the Mozarteum Salzburg.

Since 1999 he teaches Piano and Piano Chamber music at the Anton-Bruckner private university in Linz.

More information on their website: Merlin Ensemble Wien

Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4.00 pm

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Peter Medhurst travels the world as musician and scholar, giving recitals and delivering illustrated lectures on music and the arts.  He studied singing and early keyboard instruments at the Royal College of Music and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

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St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00 pm

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Beethoven, Quartet no 10 in E flat major op 74 Harp
Debussy, Quartet in G minor op 10
Mendelssohn, String Quartet no 2 in A minor op 13

We look forward to the return of the internationally acclaimed Henschel Quartet, described by the Los Angeles Times as one of the top groups of the world.

(photo credit: Walter Lehmann)

Generously supported by Alan Swerdlow and Jeremy Greenwood

More about the Henschel Quartet:  The year 1994 marked the foundation of the Henschel Quartett’s international career, when cellist Mathias Beyer-Karlshøj joined the founding members Christoph, Markus, and Monika Henschel, and the quartet devoted itself exclusively to chamber music.  In 1995 the quartet won multiple prizes at the international competitions of Evian, Banff, and Salzburg, and the following year won 1st prize and the gold medal at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition.  Successful debuts in the world’s musical capitals, including an acclaimed BBC live broadcast standing in for the Juilliard Quartet, led their way to the forefront of international chamber music.  “This is, no question, one of the best groups in the world, a great string quartet.” (Los Angeles Times).

In February 2016 the quartet welcomed the celebrated violinist Catalin Desaga as a new member.

The quartet’s musical journey has included many remarkable highlights.  The Henschel Quartett played at the official re-opening of the Anna-Amalia Library in Weimar (a UNESCO World Heritage site), and travelled to Brussels as a Cultural Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany.  In March 2010 the quartet was privileged to perform at the Vatican in the presence of Pope Benedict XVI.  The quartet has regularly been invited to the Royal Palace of Madrid to perform on the four Stradivari of the royal collection.  In June 2012 the Henschel Quartett was invited, as the first European quartet in twenty years, to perform Beethoven’s complete string quartets in the prestigious Suntory Hall in Tokyo.  In the same year Monika Henschel became the president of the newly-formed Association of German String Quartets, and in 2013 Christoph Henschel was appointed Honorary Professor at the University of Augsburg.  
Highlights of last season and the current one include appearances in London, Amsterdam, Munich, Yokohama and Tokyo (Geidai University).

The Henschel Quartett’s recordings have been awarded many prizes, including the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik and several CD of the Year Awards (IMW).  Their CDs have been recommended in such prominent titles as Gramophone Magazine, the Sunday Times, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Forthcoming is a CD of works by Christopher Theofanidis.

The Henschel Quartett regularly accepts invitations to teach at world-class institutions, from Yale University in the USA to the Royal Northern College of Music in England and the University of Melbourne in Australia.  The quartet is also engaged in an ongoing dialogue with the Bavarian Ministry of Culture in relation to youth music projects in the quartet’s home city of Munich.

The quartet is happy to introduce Hannah Perowne as long-term substitute to Catalin Desaga on the second violin.  Hannah Perowne has made a name for herself as a sought-after chamber musician and concertmaster at home in Berlin and abroad.

More information on their website:  www.henschel-quartett.de

St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00pm

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Glazunov, Oriental Reverie op 14
Brahms, Clarinet Quintet in B minor op 115
Mozart, Clarinet Quintet in A K581

The Sacconi Quartet, founded in 2001 at The Royal College of Music, has earned many distinguished accolades for their compelling and stylish performances and is joined in this recital by the renowned clarinettist and conductor, Michael Collins.

(photo credit: Clive Barda)

Generously sponsored by Martin and Alicia Herbert

More about the Sacconi Quartet: The award-winning Sacconi Quartet is recognised for its unanimous and compelling ensemble, consistently communicating with a fresh and imaginative approach. Formed in 2001, its four founder members continue to demonstrate a shared passion for string quartet repertoire, infectiously reaching out to audiences with their energy and enthusiasm. The Sacconi is Quartet in Association at the Royal College of Music and Associate Artist at the Bristol Old Vic. The 2015/16 season saw the Quartet focusing on the works of Jonathan Dove, Graham Fitkin and John McCabe, culminating in CD recordings of all three composers. Their commission with Mark Padmore of Jonathan Dove’s new song cycle In Damascus, with words by Syrian poet Ali Safar, was premiered in Folkestone, Aldeburgh and London. Other highlights of last season included return performances at William Walton’s house in Ischia, Italy, and collaborations with Freddy Kempf, Charles Owen, Roger Chase, Pierre Doumenge, Miloš Karadaglić, Tim Boulton, Simon Rowland-Jones, Garfield Jackson and David Waterman. They also recorded John McCabe’s Horn Quintet, written for them and David Pyatt in 2011. In Summer 2015 the quartet launched HEARTFELT, their most innovative project to date. A radical reinterpretation of Beethoven’s iconic String Quartet in A minor opus 132, HEARTFELT pushed the boundaries of chamber music through combining sound, light and touch, for a truly unique performance in which audience members connected with each performer’s heartbeat through holding robotic ‘hearts’. www.heartfelt.org.uk Now in its tenth year, the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival in Folkestone, Kent is an established event in the cultural calendar and is expanding year on year with challenging programming and exciting collaborations. The Quartet’s recording of Beethoven Op. 132 and Mendelssohn Op. 13, the first commercial pairing of these closely related works, will shortly be released on Sacconi Records. The previous release, a disc of Czech quartets, was received with widespread critical acclaim, broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and tipped as a classical chart 'Hot Shot' by Classic FM. The name Sacconi Quartet comes from the outstanding twentieth-century Italian luthier and restorer Simone Sacconi, whose book The Secrets of Stradivari is considered an indispensable reference for violin makers. Robin is indebted to Ellen Solomon for the use of his viola. Ben, Hannah & Cara have all been generously loaned their instruments by the Royal Society of Musicians, a charity which helps musicians in need, for which they are extremely grateful.  For this performance the cello part will be taken by Pierre Doumenge, the reason being that Cara Berridge will be on maternity leave.  Pierre has performed frequently with the Sacconi Quartet, including a long stint in 2015 during Cara's previous pregnancy, and is almost a fifth member of the quartet. 

More information on their website: Sacconi Quartet

Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4.00pm

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Welcome to our popular annual concert showcasing some of the many talented young musicians in our area.  The concert will be followed by a delicious afternoon tea.

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St Mary's Church, East Bergholt CO7 6TG at 4.00pm

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Schubert, Sonatina in D384 op posth 137 no 1
Messiaen, Theme and Variations (1932)
Poulenc, Sonata for violin and piano op 119
Beethoven, Violin Sonata no 7 in C minor op 30
Bartok, Rhapsody no 1 for violin and piano (1928)

Savitri Grier and Richard Uttley are presently pursuing separate careers as soloists in addition to their frequent collaborations as chamber musicians.  Savitri has appeard as soloist at the Barbican and Wigmore Halls, while Richard is set to tour China this season.

(photo credit: Kaupo Kikkas)

Generously sponsored by Grier and Partners, East Bergholt

More about Savitri Grier: Born in 1992, Savitri read Music at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours, and is currently completing her Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama studying with David Takeno. In 2015 she was selected for representation by Young Classical Artists Trust. 

Over the last year Savitri has made her debut at Carnegie’s Weill Hall and appeared as soloist with the Bournemouth Symphony, English Chamber, Welsh National Opera and Birmingham Sinfonia orchestras.   

Throughout 2015/2016 she gave recitals and took part in festivals and masterclasses across Europe including IMS Prussia Cove, the East Neuk Festival retreat, the Holland International Music Sessions, Musique à Marsac in France, the Sage Gateshead, Newbury Spring and Roman River Festivals. 

Engagements this season include her debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a series of performances of the Mendelssohn Concerto.  She returns to Wigmore Hall,  takes part in the Avigdor Classics Festival in Bern, and continues to give recitals throughout the UK including the Bury St. Edmunds, Harrogate, St. Magnus and Portsmouth Festivals.  During 2017 she is Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra’s Featured Young Artist and in the autumn takes part in the IMS Prussia Cove Open Chamber Music and ensemble tour.

Previous highlights as a soloist have included performances of the Sibelius and Tchaikovsky Concertos with Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, Mozart with the Barbican Young Orchestra and Mendelssohn with the English Festival Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.

A committed chamber musician Savitri has collaborated with Susan Tomes, Christoph Richter, Steven Isserlis, Andrew Marriner and Alasdair Beatson, and regularly gives recitals with the Grier Trio (including her sister Indira and father Francis).  In 2014 the Trio gave their first performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto, and performed Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with Andrew Marriner at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge.

Savitri is grateful for support from Help Musicians UK, the Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, Hattori Foundation and the Countess of Munster Musical Trust.  Awards include 1st Prize at the Oxford Philomusica and Tunbridge Wells International Competitions. In 2015 she was selected for the Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concerts Artists. She has participated in masterclasses with Ferenc Rados, Johannes Goritski, Maxim Vengerov, András Keller, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Thomas Adès, among others.

Savitri plays on a Matteo Goffriller violin on generous loan from the Aidan Woodcock Charitable Trust.

More about Richard Uttley: Richard is noted for the integrity and breadth of his musicianship as soloist, chamber musician and recording artist. He has been recognised for his ‘musical intelligence and pristine facility’ (International Record Review), ‘amazing decisiveness’, and ‘tumultuous performance’ (Ivan Hewett, The Daily Telegraph). His playing is regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and has featured on BBC Two, BBC Four and Sky Arts. Richard was selected for representation by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2011.

Recent highlights include solo recitals in Bridgewater Hall, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and Cité des Arts, and concertos by Mozart, Brahms and Grieg. In collaboration with violinist Callum Smart, last season Richard released a CD of French music on Orchid Classics (La voix, selected as a Recommended Recording by The Strad magazine) and gave recitals in Wigmore Hall, Auditorium du Louvre and Konzerthaus Berlin. This season includes a solo recital tour in China, return visits to HCMF and Saffron Hall (solo recitals), Wigmore Hall with Savitri Grier, tours of China and Columbia with Peter Moore, Multi-Story with Kate Whitley, and live radio broadcasts with Mark Simpson.

Richard has released three solo discs to critical acclaim. Ghosts & Mirrors (ARC, 2014), was the first recording to be made at Milton Court Concert Hall. Richard spent a Winter Residency at The Banff Centre (Canada) preparing the programme and the disc was launched with live visuals in collaboration with artist Nat Urazmetova.

A passionate advocate of new music, Richard won the British Contemporary Piano Competition in 2006 and has made several recordings for NMC.

Richard is a contributor to the Tido Music app, an innovative educational project with Edition Peters, filming performances and tutorials for their Piano Masterworks series. He also recorded for the CDs that accompany the ABRSM Piano Syllabuses 2015-16 and 2017-18.

Born in Bradford, Richard studied piano with Ian Buckle, then Music at Clare College, Cambridge (graduating with a Double First in 2008), and at Guildhall School with Martin Roscoe. He was mentored by Rolf Hind through the RPS/YCAT Philip Langridge Mentoring Scheme. In 2014, Richard was invited to attend Open Chamber Music at IMS Prussia Cove.

Richard is on the teaching staff at Guildhall School and City University, and is a trustee of New Dots, a charity supporting emerging composers and performers.

More information on Savitri Grier on her website: Savitri Grier violinist and on Richard Uttley at his website Richard Uttley pianist

Constable Hall, East Bergholt CO7 6TP at 4.00pm

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Bartosz will perform a programme of original works for accordion as well as arrangements of classical pieces.

Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in A major K 208
Václav Trojan, The Ruined Cathedral
Victor Vlasov, Archipelago Gulag
Yevgeny Derbenko, Prelude and Toccata
Franck Angelis, Intérieur
Vladislav Zolotaryov, Sonata no 3
Arvo Pärt, Pari intervallo
Sofia Gubaidulina, De Profundis
Alessandro Marcello (arr JS Bach), Oboe concerto in D minor BWV 974 ‘Adagio’
Petri Makkonen, Flight Beyond The Time
Viatcheslav Semionov, Brahmsiana
Astor Piazzolla, Chiquilin de Bachin
Astor Piazzolla, Libertango
 

Hailed as one of the leading exponents of the classical accordion, Bartosz was born in Poland and studied at the Royal Academy of Music.  He was awarded Polish Young Musician of the Year in 2009 and has appeared in major concert halls in this country and in Europe.

(photo credit: Karol Prajzner)

Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

More about Bartosz Glowacki: Bartosz Glowacki is one of the leading lights of a new generation of accordionists. His artistic goal is to improve awareness of the accordion in classical music, as well as to develop a new repertoire for his instrument. 

He was born in Poland, where he has studied classical accordion with Professor Andrzej Smolik in the National Music School in Sanok. In 2015 he graduated from The Royal Academy of Music with the first class diploma and Regency Award for noticeable achievements where he continues his Master studies now. 
Bartosz won the Polish Young Musician of the Year in 2009, following which he represented Poland in the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition in Vienna. Here, he performed Mikolaj Majkusiak's "Concerto Classicco" for accordion and symphony orchestra in the grand finale with the ORF Vienna Symphony Orchestra. He is a recipient of many prizes in National, as well as International Music Competitions. He is a recipient of The Countess of Munster Musical Trust, John Hosier Special Award 2015 and Zygmunt Zaleski Foundation.

As a soloist he has performed in many prestigious concert halls, for example, The Wigmore Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, The Purcell Room, Salle Cortot, The Colston Hall, Studio SI of The Polish National Radio Station, and many others. He has premiered compositions by Luke Bedford, Richard Causton, Richard Ayres, Christopher Austin, Maciej Zimka, Marko Nikodijevic, Diana Burrell and Johannes Schöllhorn. As well as being a soloist, Bartosz is extremely active chamber musician. He is a founding member of The Deco Ensemble, described as an “exceptional ensemble of the highest caliber”, with a “strong and highly individual voice”. The ensemble has toured Europe extensively. Highlights from last season included sold-out performances in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Brighton, York, Bristol, Brussels, Bratislava, Strasbourg, Rome, and Poland, including appearances at Wigmore Hall, Colston Hall, Norfolk and Norwich festival. Next season’s engagements include recitals at the Purcell Room, Royal Albert Hall, National Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, Salle Cortot in Paris and are taking the ensemble as far as Azerbaijan. Deco Ensemble’s debut album ‘Encuentro’ was released in July 2015.

During his career, he collaborated with many world famous musicians such as Nigel Kennedy, Trevor Pinnock, Rob da Bank, Atom String Quartet, Meccorre String Quartet, Dave Maric and many others. Bartosz has worked with musical institutions like The Royal Opera House, The Chroma Ensemble, The Philharmonia Orchestra, London Sinfonietta, Welsh National Opera, The City of London Sinfonia, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Sinfonia Varsovia, ORF Symphony Orchestra and many others. With these institutions, he has performed multiple new operas and orchestral works, which feature the accordion in several different styles.
His plan for the year ahead is to release his debut CD “Out of the Depths” featuring contemporary music for accordion by composers such us Magnus Lindberg, Luciano Berio, Sofia Gubaidulina and Vladislav Zolotaryov as well as new commissions by promising British composers. Bartosz has been awarded the place in Open Space scheme 2015/2016 in Aldeburgh where he will have his residency in order to conduct innovative projects with accordion music.

 More information on his website: Bartosz Glowacki

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We are delighted that the distinguished architect John Lyall has agreed to give the annual lecture.  John trained at the Architectural Association and worked in the offices of several notable architects before forming John Lyall Architects in 1991 and Lyall, Bills and Young in 2011.  His work in urban regeneration and his adaptations of historic buildings have won many prestigious awards.

More about John Lyall:   John established his reputation as an innovative young architect in the 1980’s with a number of landmark projects at home and abroad. Trained at the Architectural Association, for most of his professional career he has combined running an award-winning practice with contributios to the education of architects by teaching and examining all over the world.

Formative years working for Cedric Price and Piano+Rogers lead to the creation of the firm of Alsop & Lyall, from which John Lyall Architects was developed in 1991, then Lyall Bills & Young in 2011.

John has a successful track-record for his work in urban regeneration with projects in Leeds, Cardiff Bay and the London Olympics. Rail stations such as North Greenwich on the Jubilee Line, and cultural projects, like the recent Goldsmiths Centre in Clerkenwell  and Ipswich’s Jerwood DanceHouse, have also resulted in significant new buildings. Adaptations of historic buildings , like the Corn Exchange in Leeds, have added to the many awards received from bodies like the Civic Trust and the RIBA.

His design approach is summarized by the architectural critic Ken Powell, in the publication “John Lyall, Contexts and Catalysts”, and described on an urban scale in John Worthington’s book, “Context: New Buildings in Historic Settings”.

More information on their website: Lyall, Bills and Young

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Haydn, Piano Trio in G major HobXV: 25 Gypsy
Smetana, Piano Trio in G minor op 15
Schubert, Piano Trio in B flat major D898

Founded in Vienna in 1999 and based in Copenhagen since 2003, this internationally acclaimed piano trio has won many prestigious prizes and produced highly praised recordings.  They have an extensive worldwide touring schedule, and we look forward to welcoming them back to East Bergholt.

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More about the Trio Con Brio Copenhagen: “Glowing reports hold true. The Trio con Brio Copenhagen clearly occupies a lofty perch in today’s musical scene.” – Washington Post

Trio con Brio Copenhagen has throughout their career been hailed by press and audiences for their “unique sound and unity of interpretation” —Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany.

Founded in Vienna in 1999 with the concept of pairs coming together, the two Korean sisters and Soo-Kyung and Jens (who is married to Soo-Kyung) have since then been exploring the piano trio repertoire with freshness and curiosity as well as with respect and reflection. In particular they have been gaining a reputation for the freshness of their approach to the core repertoire: “works by Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms are transformed in their hands into the alive-and-kicking music of today” —Esben Tange, editor at DR P2.

Trio con Brio Copenhagen is in great international demand and has an intensive worldwide touring schedule. Appearances this season include Washington DC, Los Angeles, Dublin, Hannover and Mannheim, (Germany), the Evian Festival (France), Göteborg (Sweden), Trondheim (Norway) and Copenhagen among many other cities. In recent years, Trio con Brio Copenhagen has appeared in major concert halls in Europe, the USA and Asia, such as Tivoli Concert Hall, the Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Seoul Arts Center, Bunka Kaikan Tokyo, and Teatro Olimpico Vicenza.

Since its inception the trio has won most of the international competitions for piano trio, including the ARD (Munich), Vittorio Gui (Florence) and Norway’s Trondheim Competition. In January 2015 the trio will be the first ensemble to receive one of Denmark’s most prestigious music awards, the “P2 Artists Prize,” at a live televised concert where they will perform Beethovens’ Triple Concerto with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Other major awards received include the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award (USA) and the “Allianz Prize” in Germany’s Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

Trio con Brio Copenhagen continues to play a central role in Scandinavia’s vibrant contemporary music scene. Several of Denmark’s most prominent composers such as Per Nørgård and Bent Sørensen, as well as Swedish composer Sven David Sandström, have composed and dedicated works to the trio. Trio con Brio Copenhagen was enormously honored to be chosen by Per Nørgård to be the dedicatee of a work that was premiered at a festival in Stockholm celebrating his 80tth birthday. Coming up in January 2016 is the world premiere of Bent Sørensen’s Triple Concerto with the Danish National Orchestra.

As founders and artistic directors of the Copenhagen Chamber Music Festival – a festival that is gaining more and more international attention – the trio is searching for new and interesting paths and directions in chamber music as well as initiating concerts for the young generation.

The trio’s début CD was unanimously praised by critics. American Record Guide wrote: “One of the greatest performances of chamber music I’ve ever encountered . . .”. Gramophone Magazine wrote: “the performances can compete with the best available . . . airtight ensemble . . . a superb, greatly gifted chamber group.” Their Mendelssohn CD was chosen by Classic FM, UK as Chamber Disc of the year: “Every phrase soars and pulsates with the excitement of a fresh discovery as the Copenhagen players go the full distance with playing of skin-rippling sensitivity… sensational playing . . . ” Their latest recording, “Phantasmagoria,” of Danish contemporary music, has been receiving rave reviews as well.

Trio con Brio Copenhagen is frequently featured as soloists in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with orchestras. In 2011 the trio premiered a new Triple Concerto by the renowned Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Kristjan Järvi in Copenhagen’s Koncerthuset. The following year, they were invited to perform the Triple Concerto with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra for Sandström’s 70th birthday concert in the Stockholm Konserthus.

As educators, the trio gives masterclasses on their international tours, including at Yale University and Rice University in Houston among many others.

The trio’s sound benefits from the superb instruments all three play: Soo-Jin plays a violin built by Andrea Guarneri from the 17th century, Soo-Kyung plays a Grancino cello, and Jens is Denmark’s first Steinway Artist. The ensemble was coached by the Alban Berg Quartet, Frans Helmerson, Mihaela Martin and Harald Schoneweg at the Cologne University of Music and received excellent musical guidance by Ferenc Rados in Budapest.

More information on their website: Trio Con Brio Copenhagen

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Haydn, Quartet op 20 no 2
Schumann, Quartet in A minor op 41 no 1
Beethoven, Quartet in A minor op 132

Since its formation in 2011, the Castalian quartet has gained recognition and won awards at several important international competitions, travelled extensively throughout Europe, appeared at festivals in Aldeburgh and Cheltenham and in the Purcell Room in London.

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A concert in memory of Michael Brown

More about the Castalian Quartet: Formed in 2011, the Castalian Quartet studied with Oliver Wille (Kuss Quartet) at the Hannover University of Music, Dance and Theatre, graduating with a Masters. They have also worked with Thomas Brandis, Levon Chilingirian, Simon Rowland-Jones and members of the Endellion Quartet.

The Castalian Quartet is rapidly emerging as an exciting voice on the international chamber music scene. Over the last three years they have won top prizes at major international competitions including 3rd Prize at the 2016 Banff International Quartet Competition, 1st Prize and three special awards at the 2015 Lyon International Competition, and in 2013 1st Prize and the Audience Prize at the Kammermusik Hannover Next Generation Competition.

The Quartet has performed widely throughout Europe. Engagements this season include recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, the Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung Mittagskonzerte in Hannover, Quartetaffairs in Frankfurt (broadcast by NDR), the Festival de Musique de Conques in France, Festival Autunno Musicale near Naples and Turin Chamber Music Series. The Quartet return to Aldeburgh and will be Artist in Residence at the Festival Musique d'Été à Suzette near Avignon. They continue to give recitals throughout the UK.

Highlights over the last two years have included recitals at the Heidelberger Frühling Quartet Festival, the Ceresio Estate Festival in Lugano, the Hamburg Chamber Music Series, International Musikfest Goslar and NDR Concert Hall in Hannover. In the UK the Quartet has appeared at Jubilee Hall Aldeburgh, the Cheltenham Festival broadcast by BBC Radio 3, Lake District Summer Music, Peasmarsh Festival, Purcell Room and Kings Place. Further afield the Quartet toured China in 2013, under the auspices of the British Council. They have collaborated with Nils Mönkemeyer and Alasdair Beatson.

The Quartet has been the beneficiary of awards from the Royal Overseas League (2011 Elias Fawcett Trust Award), the Countess of Munster Trust, the Tunnell Trust, the Royal Philharmonic Society (2016 Albert and Eugenie Frost Chamber Music Prize), St. Peter's Eaton Square, Kirckman Concert Society and Mozarteum de France.

More information on their website: The Castalian Quartet

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Hugo Wolf, Italian Serenade
Hummel, Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in E-flat major
Nielsen, Little Suite for Strings op 1
Schubert, Rondo for violin and orchestra in A major D438
Fauré, Pavane op 50
Grieg, Holberg Suite op 40

We are looking forward to the retun visit by popular demand of this exciting ensemble. The Chamber Philharmonic Europe was founded in 2001 in Cologne. The orchestra engages talented young musicians from 18 European nations.

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Another opportunity to hear some of the many talented young musicans in our area.

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Shostakovich, String Quartet no 10 in A-flat op 118
Borodin, String Quartet no 2
Sean Doherty, Devil's Dream
Kraggerud, Preghiera
Ludwig van Beethoven, String quartet no 11 in F minor op 95

The legendary Vanbrugh Quartet was a regular fixture for SVAM during the 1990s. Their glittering international career was launched when they won the Yehudi Menuhin London String Quartet Competition in 1988. By then they were already the RTÉ Quartet in Residence at Cork, a position they still hold.   
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More about the quartet: 
The longevity of the Vanbrugh Quartet is due in no small part to the Irish people. As students of the 1980s in London the young Vanbrugh quartet responded to a newspaper advertisement for the position of a resident string quartet to the national broadcaster of Ireland (RTÉ). Beating off stiff competition they secured one of the most durable and creative positions in quartet history. The residency in Cork has existed since the 1950s, and in 1986 the Vanbrugh were the fourth quartet in succession to accept the honour. The creative environment of county Cork, combined with the encouragement they received from the Irish musical establishment, and a loyal following, have all nurtured their progress from students, via international competition successes, to becoming established on the professional international classical music scene. Their appointment as artists-in-residence to the National University of Ireland at University College Cork since 1991 has helped secure their position as Ireland’s longest established professional chamber ensemble. For this they are eternally grateful.

Their landmark first prize in the Yehudi Menhuin London International String Quartet Competition in 1988 launched their international career. Numerous commercial recordings followed culminating in the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets released in 1996. That same year they co-founded the West Cork Chamber Music Festival in Bantry, now frequented by the most bespoke musicians on the chamber music circuit. Situated on Ireland’s mystical south-west coast, the festival today is a beacon of excellence for top performers, music lovers, and young musicians alike.

In 2015 the Vanbrugh Quartet established the National String Quartet Foundation as their legacy. The foundation aspires to support string quartets, chamber musicians, and composers of the present and future generations.

More information on their website: Vanbrugh Quartet

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Orpheus could quite literally charm the birds out of the trees with his music - yet he failed to bring his beloved Eurydice safely out of the Underworld. All he had to do was to lead her up to the light without looking back at her… Not surprisingly the tale of how the legendary singer lost his lover through a single glance has inspired much great music (including the first masterpiece of opera, Monteverdi’s Orfeo), and visual artists too have responded to this tragic story of love and loss. Explore the wealth of art and music on the theme of Orpheus, with a rich array of paintings and musical examples from Monteverdi, Gluck, and Offenbach, even taking in the Can-Can! 

Dr Lois Oliver studied English Literature at Cambridge University, and History of Art at the Courtauld Institute, completing an MA in Venetian Renaissance Art and writing her doctoral thesis on The Image of the Artist, Paris 1815-1855. She worked at the Harvard University Art Museums before joining the curatorial team at the V&A and then the National Gallery where she co-curated the major exhibition Rebels and Martyrs: the image of the artist in the nineteenth century (2006) and a series of touring exhibitions. Currently Assistant Professor in History of Art at the University of Notre Dame in London, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute, she writes audio and multimedia tours for clients including the National Gallery, National Maritime Museum, Royal Academy and Tate, and has appeared on TV programmes for the BBC and Channel 5, as well as broadcasting on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. Also a keen violinist, she plays regularly with orchestras including the Endellion Festival Orchestra.

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Jacquet de la Guerre, Suite no 6 in G major
Beethoven, Sonata no 4 in E-flat major op 7
Ashton, Ornithology
Faure, 2 Nocturnes (no 8 in D-flat major op 37 and no 12 in E minor op 107)
Stravinsky, Petrushka Suite

Acclaimed as a pianist of “amazing power and panache” (The Telegraph), Clare Hammond is recognised for the virtuosity and authority of her performances and has developed a “reputation for brilliantly imaginative concert programmes” (BBC Music Magazine, ‘Rising Star’). She recently won the Royal Philharmonic Society's 'Young Artist Award', in recognition of outstanding achievements in 2015. Over the past year Clare has performed at the Barbican Hall, where The Guardian described her as a "dazzling athlete", gave 5 broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and has recorded discs for Sony, BIS and Signum. In 2014, she gave debut performances at 7 festivals across Europe, including the ‘Chopin and his Europe Festival’ in Warsaw.

Highlights in 2016 include her Royal Festival Hall debut with the Philharmonia, and a concerto tour of Poland, to include a newly discovered work by Josef Myslivecek, a mentor of Mozart. Hammond releases her third disc for BIS Records, Horae (pro clara), with solo piano music by Ken Hesketh, in May and returns to the Cheltenham and Presteigne Festivals later in the summer. Over the autumn, she curates three concerts for the BBC at the Belfast International Arts Festival, to be broadcast at a later date as part of the BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts series. In future seasons, Clare will make world premiere recordings of two keyboard concertos by Myslivecek with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra for BIS.

Her most recent disc release, ‘Etude’ has received unanimous critical praise for its “unfaltering bravura and conviction” (Gramophone) while the BBC Music Magazine stated that “this array of wizardry is not for the faint hearted”. ‘Etude’, and Hammond’s previous disc of music by Andrzej and Roxanna Panufnik, ‘Reflections’, have been featured on BBC Radio 3’s ‘In Tune’ and ‘CD Review’, and on radio in Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, the US and Canada.

In 2014, Hammond gave a Panufnik Centenary tour of Poland with a series of recital and concerto performances, under the auspices of the British Council’s ‘Artists’ International Development Fund’. Her debut recital at the ‘Chopin and his Europe Festival’ in Warsaw was recorded for broadcast on Polish Radio. Hammond also co-curated and managed the festival ‘Panufnik 100: a family celebration’ with the Brodsky Quartet at Kings Place in London which was hailed as the “culmination of this year’s Andrzej Panufnik centenary” (The Telegraph).

Contemporary music forms an important part of Hammond’s work. She has given 24 world premieres including those of major works by composers Robert Saxton, Edwin Roxburgh, John McCabe and Arlene Sierra. In 2015, she premiered and recorded concertos for trumpet and piano by Geoffrey Gordon and Toby Young with Simon Desbruslais and the English Symphony Orchestra, to be released on Signum Records.

An active chamber musician, Hammond is a member of the Odysseus Piano Trio alongside violinist Sara Trickey and cellist Gregor Riddell. She has also worked with the Brodsky, Endellion, Badke, Dante and Piatti Quartets and in duos with Henning Kraggerud, Andrew Kennedy, Jennifer Pike, Philippe Graffin and Lawrence Power. In November 2015 she made her film debut as the younger version of Maggie Smith's character, 'Miss Shepherd', in the Alan Bennett film adaptation The Lady in the Van, directed by Nick Hytner.

Hammond completed a BA at Cambridge University, where she obtained a double first in music, and undertook postgraduate study with Ronan O’Hora at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and with Professor Rhian Samuel at City University London. She completed a doctorate on twentieth-century left-hand piano concertos in 2012 and is in demand as a speaker, regularly giving presentations for research series at universities across the UK. In 2014 she was paired with French pianist Anne Queffélec on the Philip Langridge Mentoring Scheme run by the Royal Philharmonic Society.

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Strauss, Mädchenblumen op 22
Grieg, Sechs Lieder op 48
Rossini, La Regata Veneziana
Britten, On this Island
De Falla, Popular Spanish Songs

An outstanding young soprano at the start of her career, Alison won the 2015 Maggie Teyt Recital Prize and has just completed a year at the prestigious National Opera Studio. James Cheung is an accomplished chamber musician and accompanist, who specialises in working with singers.
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Alison Rose is the winner of the 2015 Maggie Teyte Prize and recently completed her studies on the opera course at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She is a National Opera Studio Young Artist for the 2015/2016 Season where she is sponsored by the Glyndebourne New Generation Programme. Alison is a member of The Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme and is an Oxford Lieder Young Artist.

Operatic roles include; Frasquita, Carmen (understudy for Glyndebourne Festival Opera); Lady in Waiting, Gloriana with Martyn Brabbins (St Endellion Festival); Miranda, Arnold's The Dancing Master (GSMD); Bětuška, Dvořák’s The Cunning Peasant (GSMD); Rosaura, The Adventures of Pinocchio (GSMD); Adele, Die Fledermaus (Clonter Opera) and Servilia, La Clemenza di Tito (RNCM).

Performances at the National Opera Studio have included residencies with Opera North, Welsh National Opera, and a performance of Contemporary Opera Scenes at Sadler’s Wells with acclaimed director Graham Vick.

Concert highlights include Bach St John Passion at Milton Court, Iain Burnside’s musical play Shining Armour with Roderick Williams and Victoria Newlyn, Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream with the Manchester Camerata, Mendelssohn Elijah for the Dartington Festival, Hadyn The Creation for the St Endellion Festival, Schubert’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen at the Southwell Music Festival and solo recitals at the Oxford Lieder Festival, King's Place and the Royal Opera House Crush Room.

Future engagements include Gloriana with Martyn Brabbins (St Endellion Festival) and Vaughan Williams’ Serenade To Music at the BBC Last Night of the Proms 2016.

Prior to the GSMD, Alison studied at the RNCM and then on the Masters programme at the RAM, graduating with First Class Honours and the prestigious DipRAM. Her studies have been generously supported by Help Musicians UK and The Countess of Munster Musical Trust. Alison continues her vocal studies with Gary Coward in London.

More information about Alison Rose on her website

James Cheung

Recently featured as a 'new face' in the Telegraph, James has worked with some of the most exciting artists today. Recent and upcoming performances include a recital tour with Christian Gerhaher, Winterreise with Ian Bostridge, piano duets with Gerold Huber, recitals with Elizabeth Watts, Ruby Hughes, Lawrence Power and Joan Rodgers at St John’s Smith Square, Jonathan McGovern at the Wigmore Hall for the Kirckman Concert Society, performances of the Schubert song cycles with Benjamin Appl, Marcus Farnsworth and Philip Smith, A recital with Alison Rose in the Crush Room at the Royal Opera House, Messiaen's Quartet for the end of time at the Munich Festival as well as live broadcasts on BBC3 and BBC 2 television.

Past performances include the Aldeburgh, City of London, Endellion, Chichester and Aix en Provence Festivals as well as performances throughout Europe and Asia.

James studied at the Royal Academy of Music where he was recently elected an associate and the Moscow Conservatoire.

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Debussy, String Quartet in G minor op 10
Hillborg, Kongsgaard Variations
Beethoven, String Quartet no 8 in E minor op 59 no 2

One of the leading young quartets in the USA, described as ‘superb’ by the NY Times, the Calder Quartet will visit us as part of a European Tour, which also includes the Wigmore Hall.  We are looking forward to welcoming them.
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The Calder Quartet performs a broad range of repertoire at an exceptional level, always striving to channel and fulfil the composer’s vision. Already the choice of many leading composers to perform their works, the group’s distinctive approach is exemplified by a musical curiosity brought to everything they perform.

Winners of the prestigious 2014 Avery Fisher Career Grant, they are widely known for the discovery, commissioning, recording and mentoring of some of today’s best emerging composers (over 25 commissioned works to date). The group continues to work and collaborate with artists across musical genres, spanning the ranges of the classical and contemporary music world, as well as rock and film/tv soundtracks, and in venues ranging from museums to Carnegie and the Hollywood Bowl. Inspired by innovative American artist Alexander Calder, the Calder Quartet’s desire to bring immediacy and context to the works they perform creates an artfully crafted musical experience.

Recent and upcoming highlights include Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, multiple performances at Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Salzburg Festival, Donaueschingen Festival, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Tonhalle Zurich, IRCAM Paris, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid, a residency at the Perth International Arts Festival and returns to Los Angeles’ Disney Hall and the Ojai Music Festival on a program curated by Peter Sellars. Their long list of collaborators include the Cleveland Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, Thomas Adès, Peter Eötvös, Barbara Hannigan, Audrey Luna, Johannes Moser, Joshua Bell, Edgar Meyer and Danielle DeNiese.

The quartet has been featured in extremely popular TV shows such as the Late Show with David Letterman, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel, and
the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

In 2011 the Calder Quartet launched a non-profit dedicated to furthering its efforts in commissioning, presenting, recording, and education, collaborating with the Getty Museum, Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and the Barbican Centre in London.
The Calder Quartet formed at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music and continued studies at the Colburn Conservatory of Music with Ronald Leonard, and at the Juilliard School, receiving the Artist Diploma in Chamber Music Studies as the Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet. The quartet regularly conducts master classes and has taught at the Colburn School, the Juilliard School, Cleveland Institute of Music, University of Cincinnati College Conservatory and USC Thornton School of Music.

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Baroque buccaneers Red Priest perform a fantastic family-friendly programme of music from the baroque era, a treasure chest of rediscovered riches and stolen musical jewels! 

Generously supported by a Charitable Trust.

The programme will feature music by the original ‘red priest’ Antonio Vivaldi – including selections from the Four Seasons and the Storm at Sea concerto – alongside a host of hits by baroque greats Handel, Bach and Telemann, and a few unsung heroes of the age, all performed in Red Priest’s inimitable, high-octane style!   Swashbuckling recorder maestro Piers Adams leads proceedings, his arsenal of recorders of all shapes and sizes duelling with the strings and harpsichord of his Red Priest cohorts.
 

Red Priest is the only early music group in the world to have been compared in the press to the Rolling Stones, Jackson Pollock, the Marx Brothers, Spike Jones and the Cirque du Soleil. This extraordinary acoustic foursome has been described by music critics as “visionary and heretical,” “outrageous yet compulsive,” “wholly irreverent and highly enlightened,” “completely wild and deeply imaginative,” with a “red-hot wicked sense of humour” and a “break-all-rules, rock-chamber concert approach to early music.”

Founded in 1997, and named after the flame-haired priest, Antonio Vivaldi, Red Priest has given several hundred sell-out concerts in many of the world’s most prestigious festivals, including the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Moscow December Nights Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, Prague Spring Festival, Ravinia Festival, Bermuda Festival, and in most European countries, Japan, Australia, and throughout North and Central America. The group has been the subject of hour-long TV profiles for NHK (Japan) and ITV (UK) - the latter for the prestigious South Bank Show in 2005, which documented the launch of the Red Hot Baroque Show, an electrifying marriage of old music with the latest light and video technology.

In 2008 Red Priest launched its own record label, Red Priest Recordings, which is now the home for all of the recordings of the ensemble and its members, and has attracted much attention in the music press worldwide.  Gramophone said of the  group’s latest release ‘Handel in the Wind’ – ‘…quite brilliant…. some of the most extraordinary instrumental playing you’re likely to hear.’ Other releases have included a swashbuckling collection entitled “Pirates of the Baroque” and the group’s all-Bach blockbuster, “Johann, I'm Only Dancing.”

Some of you may be aware of the absence of violinist Julia Bishop.   Sadly, Julia is not able to perform with the group at the moment due to health reasons.   We have been very lucky that Adam Summerhayes has been able to step in and join the group for the concerts this winter.

Piers Adams has been heralded in the Washington Post as ‘the reigning recorder virtuoso in the world today’.   He has performed in numerous festivals and at premiere concert halls throughout the world, including London’s Royal Festival, Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth Halls, and as concerto soloist with the Philharmonia, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Singapore Symphony and the BBC Symphony. Piers has made several solo CDs reflecting an eclectic taste, ranging from his award-winning Vivaldi début disc to David Bedford’s Recorder Concerto - one of many major works written for and premiered by him. He has also researched, arranged and recorded many classical, romantic, impressionist and folk-influenced showpieces, which are a mainstay of his recital programs.

Adam Summerhayes's grandfather studied the violin with Joachim's last pupil and with Adolf Brodsky, the violinist who premiered the Tchaikovsky concerto. He learnt first from him and then from Yfrah Neaman, one of the twentieth century's greatest pedagogues. He was introduced to the Baroque violin by Roy Goodman in the 1980s, initiated into period instrument performance by Paul McCreesh and studied with Micaela Comberti, then at the forefront of the early music scene.

He has been very highly acclaimed as a chamber musician, particularly for a number of discs featuring first recordings of previously unknown repertoire, including works by Aaron Copland.  He has also given many concerto performances in europe, Russia and the USA. Adam has recorded over 20 CDs for Harmonia Mundi, Chandos, ASV, Meridian, Sargasso and others. A disc of his gypsy fiddle playing, was described as "heady stuff … thrilling virtuoso playing" (Gramophone). This disc lead to a cameo film moment, in Guy Ritchie's recent blockbuster Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. A performance of one of his own tracks is also featured.

He has broadcast live for BBC Radio 3 - including on the Early Music Show - and his recordings and compositions have been broadcast throughout the world.

Angela East is widely respected as one of the most brilliant and dynamic performers in the period instrument world, praised in The Times, London, for the “elemental power” of her cello playing. She has given numerous concerto performances in London's Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls, and has performed as soloist and continuo cellist with many of Europe's leading baroque orchestras, as well as with her own ensemble, the Revolutionary Drawing Room. Among her impressive list of concert credits are La Scala, Milan, Sydney Opera House, Versailles and Glyndebourne.   Her long awaited disc of Bach’s Cello Suites was recently released on Red Priest Recordings, together with a recital disc of popular baroque cello sonatas.

David Wright was an almost entirely self taught musician before gaining a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, where he won several prizes, including the International Broadwood Competition, and graduated with distinction. Since then he has worked with some of the world’s leading musicians including Emma Kirkby, James Bowman and Steven Varcoe, and as a soloist with many groups of international renown. He has directed numerous concerts from the harpsichord, including the first modern performance of Arne's The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, and is guest conductor to several European orchestras. Much of David's time in recent years has been devoted to performing Bach’s Goldberg Variations, which he recorded in 2007 and has since toured extensively, and performed on TV and radio.   He joined Red Priest in 2011, taking over from his predecessor in a Dr. Who style regeneration event in BREMF 2010!

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Constable Hall East Bergholt CO7 6TP 7.30pm

This concert is NOT included in the Season ticket. 
Tickets are £14 to include interval refreshments
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Singer Georgia Mancio will be performing Brazilian jazz with a piano, guitar, bass and drums combo.

Generously sponsored by Grier and Partners, Estate Agents, East Bergholt

Award-winning jazz vocalist/lyricist, Georgia Mancio, has proved herself one of the UK’s most original, adventurous and multi-faceted new artists.  A true improviser with a boundless and bold imagination,

Georgia produces music of beauty, bite and unfailing integrity, embracing a wide-ranging jazz and modern song repertoire alongside influences from her Anglo/Italian/Uruguayan heritage.

More information about Georgia Mancio: http://www.georgiamancio.com/

St Mary's Church East Bergholt 4.00pm

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Change of Programme due to injury
Piano and Violin Sonatas by Mozart and Beethoven and two piano solo works (full details below or download pdf)

The well-known pianist, broadcaster and composer, David Owen-Norris, will be joined by Adrian Chandler  David will perform on his own 1828 Broadwood piano.

Generously sponsored by Birkett Long LLP

More about the change of programme: 
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have to announce a complete change of programme for our forthcoming concert. 
Our cellist, Jonathan Byers, had an accident on Wednesday cutting his hand so deeply that he needed five stitches and was told not to play for at least a week. 

David Owen Norris is still coming with his 1828 Broadwood piano and we have a new programme which we are proud to present

At this short notice no cellist could be found to join the ensemble as there would be far too much to learn. We are now very privileged to welcome as our violinist Adrian Chandler, the Leader of the La Serenissima ensemble (of which our published artist, Camilla Scarlett, is a member). Adrian has won many accolades for his performances and recordings.  He and David Owen Norris have often performed together before.  

We apologise to our ticket holders for this unavoidable change.  Please let us know if you prefer to cancel. We are sure, however, that we will have an excellent and most enjoyable concert.

New Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Sonata for piano and violin in B flat major K378             
Allegro Moderato
Andantino sostenuto e cantabile
Rondeau: Allegro – Allegro – Come prima

George Kiallmark (1781-1835)
Variations for solo piano on Robin Adair (see note on Jane Austen)        
Andante semplice.
Var:1 Gayment
Var:2 Siciliano
Var:3 Marcia risoluto
Var:4 Brillante
Var:5 A Tempo

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
6 variations on Hélas, j’ai perdu mon amant in G minor K360         

Ludwig van Beethoven  (1770-1827)
Sonata for fortepiano and violin in A major op 12/2              
Allegro vivace
Andante più tosto allegretto
Allegro piacevole

INTERVAL

Felix Mendelssohn  (1809-1847)
Piano solo: Rondo capriccioso op 14 (Vienna, 1830)                     

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Sonata for fortepiano and violin in F major op 24           
Allegro
Adagio molto espressivo
Scherzo – Allegro molto
Rondo – Allegro mà non troppo

Note on Jane Austen:  Kiallmark’s Variations on Robin Adair (the only piece of music actually named in Jane Austen’s novels) appears in the novelist’s own music collection as a cherished and carefully bound print.

In Emma, Frank Churchill and Emma listen to Jane Fairfax playing the new piano which Frank has anonymously presented to her: the engagement between Jane and Frank is a secret. Frank’s remarks to Emma are full of double meanings as they discuss Jane’s supposed infatuation with the married Mr. Dixon. Despite the fact that Frank says: ‘She is playing Robin Adair at this moment – his favourite’, many assume that Jane was singing as well (Peter F. Alexander, for instance, in The Review of English Studies Volume XXXIX, Number 153, Pp84-86). Even in Jane Austen’s time, with drawing-room music an ordinary entertainment, it would have been ruder to converse while someone was singing than while they were merely playing. Now we have access to new volumes from Jane Austen’s music library, we see that it’s included in the collection as a piano solo. As Professor Richard Jenkyns pointed out in Jane Austen’s iPod (BBC Radio 4, January 2nd 2010), we can now understand the significance of that word ‘playing’. The verses behind Jane Fairfax’s showy piano solo would have been known to all the listeners, of course, but their hidden significance, on which Peter F. Alexander so rightly comments, was even more cunningly obscured than he suggests. The chorus runs:

‘Yet he I loved so well
Still in my heart shall dwell
Oh, I can ne'er forget
Robin Adair’

Adrian Chandler, Violin  Born on Merseyside in 1974, Adrian Chandler studied modern and baroque violin at the Royal College of Music with Rodney Friend and Catherine Mackintosh. Whilst a student at the Royal College he founded the ensemble La Serenissima with whom he has since performed numerous solo recitals and concerti in major festivals such as Bruges, Chelsea, Cheltenham, Handel Halle, Lake District Summer Music, Lichfield, Southwark, South Bank Early Music, Spitalfields and York Early Music, as well as in concert series in Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Spain and the UK. 

His performances have been broadcast by BBC Radio 3, Radio Scotland, Dutch Radio, Radio 3 Belgium, Radio France, Danish Radio, Classic FM and on Japanese TV.  He has also appeared as guest director/soloist with various ensembles, most recently at the Oslo Chamber Music Festival.

Adrian was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council fellowship in 2006 at Southampton University in order to research the development of the North Italian violin concerto 1690 – 1740; this research culminated in the release of the third CD in La Serenissima's North Italian Violin Concerto series. He recently finished a two-year post as a Turner Sims Professor at the University of Southampton.

His recording with La Serenissima The French Connection won a Gramophone Award in 2010, whilst his disc of virtuoso solo violin sonatas Per Monsieur Pisendel 2 released on the Avie label during 2014 attracted rave reviews and featured on the soundtrack of hit American TV series The Originals. 

Adrian’s interpretation of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons with La Serenissima debuted on the UK Specialist Classical Chart at number 8 and was featured as ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Gramophone’s October issue as well as BBC Music Magazine’s ‘Concerto Choice’ Christmas 2015.

David Owen Norris is a pianist, broadcaster & composer. In October, Norris will be giving Pre-Raphaelite premieres at the Guildhall Art Gallery in London: Sir Arnold Bax’s The Blessed Damozel, and songs by Elgar’s Music, Alice Millais, and her political husband, Charles Stuart Wortley M.P.

He contributed ten features to BBC Radio 3’s Great War season last year, and television viewers were delighted by the return of Chord of the Week on BBC2’s Proms Extra. His appearances on CD Review are keenly anticipated: his programme on Holst’s Planets stirred up a familiar Twitter storm, with the late Michael Kennedy declaring ‘This will go down as one of the great classics of Building a Library.’ ‘Sign this man up for a series!’ said the Sunday Times, after his celebrated deconstruction of ‘Jerusalem’ on BBC4; ‘deserves a gold medal’ said the Daily Telegraph of his fourth Playlist series on Radio 4, adding, at the start of the new series, ‘another gem from David Owen Norris’. Norris has embraced new technologies too: the Beethoven 9 app for which he wrote the book and the analyses won the BBC Music Magazine Best Music App Award in April 2014.

David Owen Norris, who was chosen to be the First Gilmore Artist by the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in 1991, is Professor of Musical Performance at the University of Southampton, Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and an Honorary Fellow of Keble College, Oxford. He performs around the world on both modern pianos and ancient fortepianos.

His unusually varied career has seen him as a repetiteur at the Royal Opera House, harpist at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Artistic Director of the Petworth Festival & the Cardiff International Festival, Gresham Professor of Music, and Chairman of the Steans Institute for Singers at the Ravinia Festival in Chicago. His regular monthly columns in the BBC Music Magazine give rise to a steady flow of thoughtful correspondence.

This autumn sees the premiere of his new piece celebrating the values of democracy and the anniversaries of Magna Carta, Agincourt & Waterloo, Turning Points, and of his piece for organ, saxophones & film, HengeMusic, as well as more performances of his Symphony (2013) and Piano Concerto (2014), which will be recorded commercially in January 2016.

More information on David Owen Norris: http://www.davidowennorris.com/

Camilla Scarlett

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Jonathan Byers Cello

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Constable Hall East Bergholt CO7 6TP 4.00pm

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Piazolla, Histoire de Tango
Hendrik Andriessen, Intermezzo
Debussy, Syrinx
Bax, Sonata for flute and harp (1928)
Damase, Variation on Early Morning
Fauré, Une châtelaine en sa tour
Robert Saxton (b. 1953), King Herla
François Borne, Fantaisie brillante sûr Carmen

Tom and Rachel started their duo in 2007 when they were both students at St. Peter’s College Oxford. They both went on to the Royal Academy of Music, and now have busy careers as orchestral musicians, soloists and teachers.

Generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

Read more: Rachel and Tom are now much in demand throughout the country, with performances at the Cheltenham, St Davids, and Spitalfields festivals, and in venues including the Wigmore Hall, Colston Hall, Kensington Palace, Penshurst Place, and Lauderdale House. They have also been guest artists on cruises for P&O and Fred. Olsen.

Beyond their recital work, they work for Live Music Now, a charity that brings live music to those who would otherwise rarely, if ever, experience it, and also give educational performances for CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust and the Wigmore Hall. They are also available for performances as part of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust’s Recital Scheme.

Having graduated with a first from St. Peter's College, Oxford University, where she was both an instrumental and academic scholar, and an MA with distinction from the Royal Academy of Music, Rachel Wick is now pursuing a busy freelance career as a harpist.

She has recorded for both the Decca and Avie record labels with New College and Christ Church Cathedral Choirs, Oxford, respectively, and has performed with Her Majesty's Choir of the Chapel Royal in a concert at Buckingham Palace, which was broadcast on Classic FM on Christmas afternoon. She also appears on Howard Goodall's latest album, Inspired, released by Decca/Classic FM in January 2013.

Rachel is an experienced orchestral musician having played with the London Concert Orchestra, Orpheus Sinfonia, Orchestra Musica Romantica, City of London Sinfonia and European Union Youth Orchestra to name but a few, and was selected as a member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra's Foyle Future First scheme for 2011/12.

Her studies at RAM were generously supported by the Kathleen Trust, Craxton Memorial Trust, John Wates Charitable Trust, Michael James Music Trust, and the Yorkshire Ladies Council of Education.

Thomas Hancox has worked as guest principal flute of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, English Chamber Orchestra, London Mozart Players, Britten Sinfonia, Orchestra of St John's, Irish Chamber Orchestra, and the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra, along with performances with English National Opera, the Academy of Ancient Music, the Dunedin Consort, the London Handel Orchestra, London Concertante, the Saraband Consort, the Locrian Ensemble, and the Britten-Pears Orchestra. Solo and chamber work has led to collaborations with artists and ensembles including the Allegri and Sacconi string quartets, Trevor Pinnock, Ilya Gringolts, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Matthew Barley, and Matthew Hunt, with recitals in the Cheltenham, Spitalfields, St Davids, Canterbury, and Oxford Chamber Music festivals. He is an artist on the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme, and also with Live Music Now.

A committed teacher, he works with students at King's College London and on several summer courses (the Flute Kitchen, Harrogate; the London Flute Academy), having previously taught at the Dragon School (Oxford). He was formerly the Junior Editor of Pan, the journal of the British Flute Society, and now acts as an animateur for CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust.

He first read music at St Peter's College, Oxford, from where he graduated with a first, before pursuing further studies in Paris with Patrick Gallois, and subsequently at the Royal Academy of Music with Paul Edmund-Davies and Samuel Coles, finishing with a distinction and the honorary DipRAM. He was generously supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Musicians Benevolent Fund, and the Craxton Memorial Trust.

8pm
East Bergholt High School, Heath Road, CO7 6RJ

The lecture is included in the SVAM season ticket

Individual tickets are available at £10 to include refreshments after the lecture

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John Deathridge is Emeritus Professor of Music at King’s College, London.  He is a leading expert on Wagner and Beethoven, a musician, writer and broadcaster.  He will use images and music to illustrate his lecture. 

Directions to East Bergholt High School, Heath Road, CO7 6RJ

From the A12 follow the B1070 towards East Bergholt. Do not turn right into the village centre, but stay on the B1070 towards Manningtree.  The school is on the left soon after a garage on the right, just over a mile from the A12 (Ipswich exit). There is large car park to the left of the drive, close to the Hall entrance.

Sunday 22nd November 4pm
St Mary's Church East Bergholt

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Mozart, String Quintet in C K515
Haydn, String Quartet in F Major op 50 no 5 (Dream)
Brahms, String Quintet no 2 in G major op 111

The award-winning Eeden Quartet, formerly known as the Wu, performs regularly at major venues across the UK and the Continent. They will be joined by Graham Oppenheimer, one of the UK’s foremost violists.

Generously sponsored by Jane Adams

The Eeden Quartet,performs regularly across the UK and the Continent, having given concerts at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room in London, Music in the Round in Sheffield, the Arnold Schoenberg Centre in Vienna, the International Concert Hall in Beijing, Santa Croce in Florence, the William Walton Foundation in Ischia, Snape Maltings, the BBC Proms, Bridgewater Hall and at many music societies.  2014 saw their debut recording of all the Mendelssohn fugues on the Champs Hill label – to great critical acclaim – part of a project with many of the leading string quartets in  Britain.

The quartet has had a number of significant competition successes: 1st prize-winners at the 23rd V.E. Rimbotti International string quartet competition in Fiesole, Italy in 2012, the Wu Quartet has also received the 2011 Artis Quartet prize in Vienna and the 2nd and Baerenreiter prizes at the 2012 Charles Hennen Concours in Holland. In September 2011 the quartet reached the semi-finals of the Beijing International String Quartet Competition.  They are also recipients of the Albert and Eugenie Frost prize from the Royal Philharmonic Society.  The quartet has received awards from the Hattori Foundation and the Musicians Benevolent Fund and in 2010 was selected for the Park Lane Group Young Artists scheme as well as winning the MMSF/Philharmonia Orchestra Ensemble Award.

In 2011 the Eeden, then known as The Wu, joined the European Chamber Music Academy, which offered the opportunity to study at conservatoires around Europe with some of the world’s finest chamber musicians.  In 2013/2014 the quartet continued its participation in the ECMA personally mentored by its founder, Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet) with whom they worked regularly with in Germany.  In the UK they work closely with Simon Rowland-Jones. They have also attended IMS Prussia Cove and as part of its 40th anniversary celebrations performed in the Wigmore Hall.  They have studied with Johannes Meissl (Artis Quartet) and Peter Cropper (Lindsay Quartet) and in 2012 were invited to take part in the Royal Northern College of Music’s International Artist Diploma course.

Highlights for 2015/16 include a return to the Wigmore Hall, tours of Scotland, Wales, Channel Islands and quintet concerts with Leslie Howard and Graham Oppenheimer.

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Graham Oppenheimer, viola
Graham Oppenheimer holds a position as one of the UK's foremost and respected violists. He studied with Atar Arad at the Royal Northern College of Music and Eastman School USA, Thomas Riebl at Salzburg Mozarteum and Peter Schidlof at International Musicians Seminar.
Graham’s first professional position was as a member of the English Chamber Orchestra and he went on to become a founder member and principal viola of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Claudio Abbado. As a soloist he has performed with orchestras such as the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, East of England Orchestra and Lapeenranta Symphony Orchestra in Finland. He has appeared in chamber music with such artists as Yehudi Menuhin, Paul Tortellier, James Galway, Murray Perahia and Jack Brymer, and was also violist and founder of the Schidlof Quartet.

Graham founded the Leicester International Music Festival and is founder and Artistic Director of the Lincoln International Chamber Music Festival. Graham is Artistic Director of the University of Lincoln International Concert Series and Artistic Director of the DMH International Chamber Music Series in Leicester. A frequent chamber music collaborator, current invitations include festivals in Germany, France, Ireland and Canada. His recordings can be heard on the RCA and Linn labels, and on radio throughout the world from the BBC in the UK to the ABC in Australia.

Graham is also a respected and dedicated teacher and has taught in Finland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Italy and the USA, as well as given masterclasses across the UK. He is Director of the Repton International Strings Summer School which he founded in 2005.

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The Ultimate Viola joke:

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Sunday 1 November 2015 4.00 pm
Constable Hall East Bergholt
 

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£8.00 (children £4) to include Afternoon Tea
This concert is NOT included in the Season Ticket
 

Talented Musicians aged 16 and under
and special guest Phoebe Pimlott, Soprano

 Tickets £8 (children £4) to include
Afternoon Cream Tea

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Doreen Weatherall - 01206 298426—tickets@svam.org.uk

The programme includes music by Handel, Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Elgar, Debussy and Poulenc

Instruments include piano, violin, cello, clarinet and voice

Generously sponsored by a Charitable Trust

St Mary's Church East Bergholt at 4pm

Generously supported by Scrutton Bland

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Trio Isimsiz has recently won not just the prestigious Trondheim Chamber Music 1st Prize, but also the chance to take part in the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York in a few weeks.  They have therefore asked to make two changes to the advertised programme.We apologise for any disappointment, but feel sure they will give us a wonderful performance

New Programme
Beethoven, Piano Trio in D op 70 no 1 (Ghost)
Shostakovich, Piano Trio 0p 67
Bjørn Kruse, Locus, Scherzo for piano trio (2000)
Brahms, Piano Trio in C minor op 101

Previously advertised Programme:
Schubert, Notturno in E Flat D 897
Beethoven, Piano Trio in D op 70 no 1 (Ghost)
James Macmillan, Piano Trio: 14 Little Pieces (1997)
Brahms, Piano Trio in C minor op 101

The Trio Isimsiz was formed in 2009 at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, under the guidance of Louise Hopkins, Carole Presland and Alasdair Tait. In 2013 the Trio was selected for representation by YCAT, and in 2015 won 1st Prize and the Audience Prize in the Trondheim International Chamber Music Competition.

The Trio has undertaken residencies at the Banff Centre, Canada and Mozarteum, Salzburg, and participated in masterclasses with Andras Schiff, Steven Isserlis, Menahem Pressler, Thomas Riebl, Wolfgang Reddick, the Gould Piano Trio and Takács Quartet.  Earlier this year the Trio attended IMS Prussia Cove working with Ferenc Rados.

Concert highlights over the last year have included recitals at Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Purcell Room, Sage Gateshead, Colston Hall, Brighton Dome, the Newbury Spring, Peasmarsh and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festivals. They collaborated with Anthony Marwood, Richard Lester and Aleksander Madžar.

Following a successful residency in Aldeburgh, the Trio return for a recital in the Britten Weekend and a further residency in 2016.  They give recitals at Wigmore Hall, Tivoli Concert Hall in Copenhagen, the Fundacion Juan March in Madrid, and throughout the UK.  Further afield they make their debut in New York.

All three members of the Trio Isimsiz Piano Trio enjoy great success individually.  Erdem Misirlioglu was a Concerto Finalist in the BBC Young Musician Competition in 2008, Pablo Hernán Benedí is a member of the Chiaroscuro Quartet, formed by Alina Ibragimova, andMichael Petrov represented the UK in the European Concert Halls Organisation Rising Star series during the 2014/15 season.