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Concert at St Mary’s Church, Eaton Bray

Last Saturday, we were really delighted to return to the beautiful rural church of St Mary’s in Eaton Bray - a village about 7 miles away from home. The quartet had played there last year, giving a recital of music from various countries on a theme of ‘Travellers Tales’. This time, the concert was on [...]

Friday the 13th May - Concert in St Giles Church

On Friday, we gave our summer concert in our local village Church (St Giles, Cheddington). It was once again a real highlight of our musical year with such a warm and appreciative audience of around 70 people, many of whom are our friends and neighbours and some who come from further afield.
The theme of the [...]

Beethoven…… and His Secretary

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be giving our first coffee concert at the Red Hedgehog in Highgate on the 8th of May. The Red Hedgehog is an intimate chamber music and arts venue which is located opposite Highgate tube station in London, making it easily accessible by public transport. As this will be a [...]

New Years Day Viennese Gala Concert - Ivinghoe Church

On Saturday the 1st of January, we gave our first concert in St Mary’s Church, Ivinghoe - and appropriately for New Years Day, it was a recital of uplifting Viennese dance music. As this was the first time we’d played in Ivinghoe, even though it’s only 2 miles away from Cheddington we weren’t expecting a [...]

Friends of Torbay Music Weekend

On Sunday 21st November, we were invited to give a recital for the final evening of the 41st Friends of Torbay Music Weekend. The Friends of Torbay are a group of like minded music lovers who gather together every year at the Palace Hotel in Torquay to enjoy a series of lectures, discussions, recitals and [...]

Invitation to the Dance - A Concert

On Friday, we gave our first concert in St Mary’s Church, Haddenham. As this was also the first time we’d performed a recital in the village, it was a real unknown in many ways - we were not sure whether we’d have a large audience or just a few people along this first time. Having [...]

Travellers Tales at St Mary’s

On Saturday evening (after performing at a wedding in Hertfordshire during the afternoon), we gave our first concert in the 13th century Church of St Mary the Virgin, in Eaton Bray - Bedfordshire. The church had previously  hosted a jazz event and has a choral concert planned for later in the year, but it was [...]

A Night at the Movies….

On Friday, we gave our much anticipated concert at St Giles Church, Cheddington - entitled ‘A Night At The Movies’ featuring popular classics featured in films. As usual, we spent the whole day rehearsing hard, with two hours of music to perfect for the evening. The rest of the group arrived around 11am and we [...]

Concert at St Michael at the North Gate - 20th July 09.

On Monday we returned to the church of St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford to give a lunchtime recital as part of their ‘Music on Mondays’ concert series.
The concerts are an opportunity for ensembles and musicians to perform works of their own choice, so we chose to give the first airing to the [...]

Borodin - Nocturne from String Quartet no. 2 in D

Performed at the Church of St Michael at the North Gate, Cornmarket, Oxford - Lunchtime, 20th July 2009