The Milverton Concert Society
Past Events
Friday 20th October 2006 at 8·00pm
The Atrium Quartet
This young quartet from St Petersburg Conservatoire rose to international prominence in April 2003 when they won First Prize and the Audience Prize in the London International String Quartet Competition. They had previously come second in the 6th International Competition for performances of string quartets by Shostakovich, held in Moscow. Anyone who was lucky enough to hear them in one of our concerts in Fitzhead in 2004 can vouch that that award was justified. We are therefore delighted to announce their return with another Shostakovich quartet balanced by quartets by Schumann and Schubert.
Friday 8th December 2006 at 8·00pm
Melvyn Tan
Melvyn Tan first played in Milverton in 1988 and returned three times: in 1990, 1994 and 2002. His 5th visit coincides with his 50th birthday and our 20th anniversary. A celebration indeed.
After moving to the UK from Singapore in 1978, he studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and at the Royal College of Music. He rapidly built a formidable international reputation for piano performances and his exclusive contract with EMI Classics produced a series of groundbreaking recordings. His recitals and recordings are too numerous to cover and they continue to receive great critical acclaim. The first half of the programme on the 8th December will be alternating works by Albéniz (a Spaniard born in 1860, the same year as Mahler) with works by Scarlatti (an Italian born in 1685, the same year as Bach). After the interval, Melvyn Tan will play Schubert¹s Sonata in G major.
Friday 9th February 2007 at 8·00pm
The Emerald Ensemble
The Emerald Ensemble is Bristol's professional chamber orchestra, and is renowned for its accessible, passionate, warm and virtuosic performances. The group holds a pivotal position in South West music, presenting eighty events per year in the region's major venues - including the 2005 Bristol High Sheriff's Gala Concert, and the Wells High Sheriff Gala for the past three years. Formed in 1994 by Roger Huckle, Emerald is a musicians' collective, bringing together the best of the region's performers. Roger is a violinist well known to Milverton audiences most recently as one half of Duo del Fuego.
The programme they will play is in reference to yet another celebration: the 150th Anniversary of Elgar¹s birth. The pieces will range from his piano quintet to Salut d¹Amor.
Friday 9th March 2007 at 8·00pm
Classic Rhythm
This is a unique and exciting chamber group with a difference. Formed in 1992, this trio for flute, piano and percussion has met with astonishing success playing to sell-out audiences all over the UK. Their programme will range from Handel to West Side Story.
Saturday
13th October 2007 · 1.15 pm
Lunchtime Concert
· Milverton Church
The
Aronowitz Ensemble
We are delighted to
be hosting one of the Two Moors Festival’s concerts in Milverton Church.
The Aronowitz Ensemble, which was selected a few months ago to be BBC3’s
New Generation Artists, will be playing Fauré’s Piano Quintet
No 1 in D minor and Dvorák’s String Quintet in E flat major.
The concert will be
preceded by a light lunch and wine in the St Michael’s rooms which are
about 200yds from the church and will be sign-posted.
Tickets for Saturday Lunchtime Concert from the Two
Moors Festival Box Office 01643 831006
Friday
23rd November 2007 · 8.00 pm
Milverton Church
The Dominant Quartet
This young quartet was
founded in Moscow in 1995 under the professorship of Valentin Berlinsky, the
cellist of the Borodin Quartet. In 1996, the Dominant Quartet was awarded
the Grand Prix at the Schostakovich International String Quartet Competition
in St. Petersburg and were Prize Winners at the International String Quartet
Competition in Bordeaux in 2001.
The Times described
the quartet’s UK debut in 2004 as “outstanding”. Since then
the Quartet has had regular tours around the United Kingdom, including Wigmore
Hall, where the Quartet made their successful debut in October 2006. Local
audiences may have heard them at The Castle Hotel in Taunton in 2004 and 2006.
They will play
Beethoven’s Quartet in B flat, Tchaikovsky’s ‘Children’s
Album’, Shostakovich’s Quartet No 12.
Friday 8th February 2008 · 8.00pm
Milverton Church
Wu Qian - pianist
Wu Qian was
born in Shanghai in 1984 then studied at the Menuhin School from the age of
11. She played Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E flat Major in the Queen Elizabeth
Hall at 15 and won the Tunbridge Wells International Young Artists Competition
at 16. After a successful debut
at the Wigmore Hall in 2002, she has had a second solo recital there in 2005
and has performed at many major venues throughout the world. The
Independent
Newspaper named her as the Classical Music Bright Young Star for 2007.
Wu Qian will play Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in A flat, Chopin’s Ballade
No 4, Brahms’ Six Piano Pieces and Listz’s
Hungarian Rhapsody XII.
Saturday
19th April 2008 · 8.00 pm
Milverton Church
Collegium Regale
This is a group
of 7 singers who are choral scholars at King’s College, Cambridge. You
will have seen and heard them, as part of the King’s College Chapel Choir,
at Christmas on the television and radio - now see and hear them in Milverton.
They will perform
sacred music from the fifteenth to the twentieth century, madrigals, folk
songs, part songs and close harmony - for which the group is best known. The
programme will be interspersed with short organ recitals.
Friday
13th June 2008 · 8.00 pm
Milverton Church
Three Somerset Musicians
Elizabeth Hayley, Keith Tempest, Jonathan Hedges
Liz Hayley needs little introduction to many amateur musicians in Somerset because of her teaching, her much sought after accompanying skills and her patience, musicality and infectious enthusiasm in conducting the Wellington Choral Society. Keith plays with Bath’s Pump Room Trio and Jonathon is a music scholar at Queen’s College, Taunton.
These three Somerset musicians will play Rachmaninov’s Sonata for Piano and Cello, Ravel’s Sonatine for Piano and possibly Mike Mower’s Sonata Latino for Flute and piano - yet to be decided.
Saturday 11th October
2008 · 11· 30am · 3· 30pm · 7· 45
pm
At the Parish Church
Milverton
A day of music in collaboration with The Two Moors Festival
The Pavao
Quartet · 11·30 am
Alison Farr · piano
The Pavao Quartet was formed
in 1998 at the Royal Academy of Music. They had their Purcell Room début
in 2003 to favourable reviews. This versatile ensemble is not only highly
regarded in classical concert venues across the world but has enjoyed collaborations
with rock, pop and jazz artists. They are joined by award winning pianist
Alison Farr for Schumann's E Flat Piano Quintet and Dvorak's Piano Quintet
in A Major.
The concert will last approximately one hour with no interval. Following the
concert Milverton Concert Society are hosting lunch at the Victoria Rooms.
Please book lunch at the same time as booking tickets.
Beethoven and Biscuits · 3· 30pm
Alison Farr and Robin Davis
· piano
Petroc Trelauny · narrator
Alison Farr is joined by pianist
Robin Davis and narrator Petroc Trelawny for the first concert in the Festival
series of Beethoven's symphonies. They will be performing Beethoven's Pastoral
Symphony · no.6 . Tea will be provided in the church after the concert.
Piers Lane · 7· 45pm
The last concert of the day is given by Piers Lane, a performer whose playing "glitters with filigree charm", according to The Times. He will be playing Brahms Sonata no.3 in F Minor and Chopin's 24 Preludes · opus 28.
Tickets for all these concerts
from the Two Moors Festival
box office 01643 831006
Friday
21st November 2008 · 8pm
Milverton Church
The Dante Quartet
Winner of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music in 2007, the Dante Quartet is known for its imaginative programming and the emotional intensity of its performances. The group was founded in 1995 at the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, Cornwall, and chose the name of Dante to reflect the idea of a great and challenging journey.
The quartet will play Debussy Opus 10 in G Minor, Ravel Quartet in F, Haydn Opus 33/2 · 'The Joke' · and his Opus 50/5 quartets.
Friday
12th December 2008 · 8pm
Milverton Church
The Rose Consort of Viols · Trickling Tears and Ruthless Rage
"The Rose Consort combines an entrancing ear for line and texture with great beauty of sound and suppleness of phrase, transporting us at once back to an era which gave a premium to grace, refinement, and civilised discourse", said CD Review. The programme we have chosen for the consort to perform is a series of dramatic songs from Elizabethan plays interspersed with dances and fantasias from Byrd, Tomkins and their contemporaries. For this they are joined by Katherine King, Mezzo-Soprano.
photo
by Stefan Schweiger
Saturday 24th January
2009 · 1.30pm
Lunch-time Concert · Milverton Church
Bella Tromba
· Trumpet Quartet
Organised in conjunction with the organisation Live Music Now!
Dispel winter gloom with this vibrant lunchtime concert. Bella Tromba is a unique and innovative ensemble. Their dynamic performances and charismatic personalities ensure that they achieve notable success performing anything from serious classical music to light jazz. They have earned the prestigious title of Park Lane Young Artists and have had their début recital at the Purcell Room.
Light lunch will be available from 12pm at the St. Michael's Rooms.
Friday
27th February 2009 · 7.30pm · please note the
earlier time!
Milverton Church
Exeter Cathedral Choir
The girls and gentlemen of Exeter Cathedral Choir under the direction of Stephen Tanner, will present a programme of Sacred Music with anthems and motets from the 16th century to the present day. Groups of choral pieces will be interspersed with organ solos.
Friday
1st May 2009 · 8pm
Milverton Church
The Zephyr
Ensemble of London
"A wind ensemble with flair and verve", said The Times, when this quintet was formed in 1997, immediately winning the RCM Wind and Brass Ensemble Prize. Since then they have gained an excellent reputation throughout the country, playing at the Wigmore Hall and Purcell Room amongst other prestigious venues. They will be joined for tonight's concert by pianist Martin Cousin and will play music by Poulenc, Debussy and Mozart among others.
Saturday 19 September 2009·8.00pm
Fujita Piano Trio
The Fujita sisters from Japan have been playing chamber music together since early childhood. They made a highly acclaimed debut at the Wigmore Hall in March1999 and have since played in many international venues. One of their talents is that they play from memory which is highly unusual for chamber musicians.
They will play trios by Haydn,Schubert and Mendelssohn. The last will mark the 200 anniversary of his birth.
Friday 16 October and Saturday 17 October 11.00 am, 2.30pm and 7.30pm
Two days of music in collaboration with
The Two Moors Festival
Please see the festival programme for full details. Tickets for all these concerts from the box office 01643 831006
Friday 16th October
11.00am
4-a-Slide Trombone Quartet
play Vivaldi to Lew
Pollack.
2.30pm
Anna Tilbrook, Callum Thorpe and Penny Adie
explore Schubert
Die Winterreise
7.30pm
Andreas Haefliger, Heinz Marecek,
Johannes Moser, David Orlowsky,
Marina Piccinini and Tamsin Waley-Cohen
present the World Premiere of Torsten Rasch Die Träumende Knaben. Brahms Piano Trioin Cminorand Beethoven Cello Sonata in D major.
Saturday 17th October
11.00am
The Tilbrook Horn Trio
play Beethoven
Horn Sonata and Romance in F major and Brahms Horn Trio in E flat major
2.30pm
Isca Voices
ex girl choristers
from Exeter Cathedral perform a wide repertoire.
7.30pm Wolfgang
Holzmair and Andreas Haefliger
perform Schubert
Die Winterreise
Please note that on both days, Milverton Concert Society will provide lunch in TheVictoria Rooms and should be booked at the same time as the concert tickets. Cream Teas will be served in the church following the afternoon concert. Drinks will be available in the evening.