CITY MUSIC SOCIETY
Early Evening Concerts
Concerts begin at 7.00 pm at Goldsmiths' Hall
Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN
(note different days)

Tickets for concerts at Goldsmiths' Hall are available only to members of the City Music Society and their guests. See Membership Details.
Interval drinks are available to all patrons as part of the ticket price.

SPECIAL OFFER!
It is now possible to attend single Goldsmiths' Hall concerts even if you are not a member. Single tickets cost £18 including a temporary membership fee of £2.

Come and try out the very special atmosphere of a City Music Society Goldsmiths' Hall concert. To apply for tickets and temporary membership contact the Ticket Secretary (details below).

Ticket prices for Goldsmiths' Hall concerts:
         Single tickets:
               £16.00  (Junior: £8.00, see below)
               (includes free interval glass of wine/soft drink)
         Series tickets:
               £39.00  (Junior: £21.00)  (3 concerts)
         Tickets for Temporary Members:
               £18 (includes temporary membership and free interval drink)

         Please note that the day of the concert varies.

         Tickets may be obtained from:
                                      Jenny Salmon
                                      Ticket Secretary
                                      206 Peckham Rye
                                      London SE22 0LU
                                      Tel. 020-8693 7546
         Tickets cannot be purchased at Goldsmiths' Hall on the night of the
         concert.
         Members should use the booking form on the separate Goldsmiths'          Hall brochure supplied in their mailing.
         New members will be sent a booking form.

 
Half-price Tickets for 8-22 year-olds in full-time education
Members of the City Music Society are invited to bring as their guests to Goldsmiths’ Hall concerts young people from 8 to 22 years of age and pay only half the cost of the adult ticket. 8-15 year-olds must be accompanied by an adult.

The City Music Society is pleased to offer JUNIOR MEMBERSHIP to anyone between the ages of 16 and 22 years of age in full-time education for a fee of £5 per year. Proof of age and/or student ID card required. Junior tickets and membership are subsidised by the CAVATINA CHAMBER MUSIC TRUST.
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18 February 2009 Wednesday)

BERNARD ROBERTS piano

Sacconi Quartet

Beethoven

Seven Bagatelles Op. 33
Beethoven Sonata in C Op. 53 ('Waldstein')
Schubert Sonata in B flat D960

Long acknowledged as one of Britain's leading pianists, Bernard Roberts is renowned as a particularly profound interpreter of Beethoven and Schubert and it is a great privilege for the Society to host him again, for the first time since a concert at Bishopsgate in 2000. He has performed at all the major British music festivals and his career has taken him to the Far East, Southern Africa, America and Europe. Highly regarded as a teacher as well as a performer, he has given many masterclasses in Germany, France and Denmark and he retains a Visiting Professorship at the Royal College of Music in London, having taught there for over forty years.

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19 March 2009 (Thursday)

ROYAL STRING QUARTET
IZABELLA SZALAJ-ZIMAK violin
ELWIRA PRZYBYLOWSKA violin
MAREK CZECH viola
MICHEL PEPOL cello

Vienna Piano Trio
Mozart Quartet in D K499
Mendelssohn Quartet in A minor Op.13
Beethoven Quartet in F Op.135
Formed at the Frederick Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, the Royal Quartet was greatly influenced by the tutelage of the Alban Berg Quartet, a relationship founded during a period of study at the Hochschule für Musik between 2001 and 2004. They have received many awards including first prize in Casala Monferrato (2000) and were selected as BBC New Generation Artists. The Quartet founded its own chamber music festival, 'Kwartesencja' - 'The Essence of the Quartet', in Warsaw in 2004. Extensive touring throughout Europe is complemented by a discography of 5 CDs including a recent one for Hyperion.
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7 April 2009 (Tuesday)
THE HANOVER BAND SOLOISTS
GARY COOPER fortepiano

Haydn in Love
Haydn Piano Trio in G Hob XXV (Gypsy Rondo)
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 12 in A K414
Haydn Piano Trio in A Hob XVIII
Mozart Piano Concerto No. 13 in C K415
Mozart arranged three piano concertos himself for string quartet and fortepiano and this programme gives a wonderful taste of the beautiful sound world of Mozart's time, performed by one of the leading period instrument ensembles. Gary Cooper plays a superb copy of a Viennese piano of about 1790 and introduces contemporary accounts of some of Haydn's activities and antics during his visit to London in that decade. Founded in 1980, the Hanover Band has established an excellent reputation for its performances and recordings of 18th and 19th century music.
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For further information about these concerts please contact
Josephine Richardson, City Music Society Administrator, Tel. 020-8542 0950

Latest update: 31 December 2008