Archive for Concerts and recitals
A concert on a snowy evening….
Last night, we gave a concert of Viennese classics at St. Nicholas Church, Cuddington. As with our previous concerts, we benefited from marvellous organisation, with superb staging and lighting, a terrific selection of food and drink during the interval and an organised ticket sales campaign. Even the church path was cleared of all remnants of snow, giving [...]
Viennese Evening – St. Nicholas Church, Cuddington
Next Saturday, we are delighted to be returning to one of our favourite local Churches – St. Nicholas in Cuddington, Buckinghamshire. We have performed several concerts here and always enjoyed playing for a warm and enthusiastic audience. This time, the concert will be (appropriately for the New Year), on a theme of ‘Viennese Music’ – so we’ll [...]
Very sad to witness…..
Before Christmas I was involved in a lovely concert that featured a small chamber orchestra, a vocal ensemble as well as a well-known boys and girls chorus. The children had apparently driven 2 hours in a coach to reach the venue to rehearse and most likely would be driving back after the concert and getting [...]
Christmas Concert in Hornchurch, Essex
On Wednesday we returned to Langtons House in Hornchurch, Essex to give an evening concert of Christmas string quartet music. We first played here two years ago and had such a warm response from the audience that we were greatly looking forward to this year’s performance. We began with the beautiful Basque carol ‘The Angel [...]
String Orchestra Carols for the West Shore Chorale
Back in the summer, I was contacted by a gentleman called John Drotleff who was interested in whether any of the string quartet carol arrangements might be available for full string orchestra. John is the director of the ‘West Shore Chorale’, – a group from Ohio who perform concerts with a choir and orchestra. I [...]
Concert at St. Giles Church, Cheddington
Last night, we returned to play our fourth annual Christmas concert at St. Giles Church in Cheddington. Although we regularly play a hand picked selection of original carol arrangements from our two albums, as many audience members attend every year, it’s always important to keep the concerts varied and new pieces of music are frequently arranged especially [...]
Christmas Concert at St. Giles Church, Cheddington
It hardly seems long ago that we were rehearsing for our annual Christmas concert at St. Giles Church in Cheddington and already it’s only a couple of weeks until the next one. As before, we’ll be performing some hand picked carols from our two albums ‘I Saw Three Ships and other carols’ and ‘It Came [...]
Concert at St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church, Cranfield
On Saturday evening, we were delighted to return once again to give a concert at St. Peter and St. Paul’s Church in Cranfield. This time, the theme of the evening was ‘Music of the Movies’, with the light and entertaining programme consisting of well known classical pieces that have been prominently featured in film soundtracks. [...]
Concert at the Normanton Church Museum, Rutland
On Saturday the 27th of October, Emma (Viola) and myself will be giving our first concert at the Normanton Church Museum (formerly known as St. Matthew’s Church) on Rutland Water. The Church itself is one of Rutland’s most famous landmarks and is situated on the shore of Rutland Water, which is now owned by Anglian Water. [...]
Traveller’s Tales at St. Nicholas, Cuddington
On Saturday, we were delighted to return to play a concert at the beautiful Church of St. Nicholas in Cuddington – a village on the border of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. We have played two concerts in this Church previously – one entitled ‘an A to Z of music’ and a second one at Christmas, including [...]
