CITY MUSIC SOCIETY
Lunchtime Concerts
Tuesdays at 1.05 pm at Bishopsgate Institute Great Hall
230 Bishopsgate, London EC2M 4QH

     Admission to all lunchtime concerts is Free.

     The Free admission to Young Artists Series concerts is kindly sponsored by
     The Bishopsgate Foundation.

     A collection will be taken at the end of each concert at Bishopsgate to benefit
     the City Music Society.

     Seats cannot be guaranteed after 1.00pm.

     Limited standing is permitted at the discretion of the Society.

     Latecomers are only admitted during a suitable pause in the programme.

     All programmes are subject to change at short notice.

     The City Music Society reserves the right to refuse admission.

     Please note that City Music Society concerts are not suitable for children under the age of 8
     and the Society reserves the right to refuse entry to children under that age.


     The Society celebrates the extraordinary talent that abounds in the UK in its
     latest Young Artists Series [YAS]. Come and support these 'stars of the future'
     and celebrate their joyful music-making in a series of magnificent concerts.     

     We celebrate anniversaries of Samuel Barber (with a concert on his actual birthday) and Chopin.

     In collaboration with Bishopsgate Institute we are continuing pre-concert talks before some of the      Tuesday lunchtime concerts. Composer David Matthews will talk about his own music on 26th January      while broadcaster and writer Anthony Burton introduces the string quartet of Samuel Barber and the      piano trio of Maurice Ravel. The talks begin at 12.15pm and last 30 minutes. See below for details..

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19 January 2010 [FWS]

LUCY PARHAM piano

Chopin Nocturne in C minor Op 48 No 1

Chopin

Nocturne in D flat Op 27 No 2
Schumann Fantasiestücke Op 12

Schuman/Liszt

Widmung
One of the finest Schumann exponents and a Chopin interpreter of intuitive intelligence launches the bi-centenary celebrations of these two geniuses of the Romantic era.
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26 January 2010 [YAS]

WU STRING QUARTET
QIAN WU violin
MATHIEU VANBELLEN violin
MATTHEW KETTLE viola
MAGDA TIETRASZEWSKA cello

David Matthews

String Quartet No. 10 (2001)
Schubert Quartet in A minor Op. 29 D887 ('Rosamunde')

Founded in 2002 while students at Chetham's School in Manchester, the Wu Quartet has pursued its studies with the Wihan Quartet, with the Lindsay's Peter Cropper and with Gyorgy Pauk, Simon Rowland Jones and the legendary Bernard Greenhouse. For the academic year 2008/2009 they were string quartet in residence at Repton School with the Navarra Quartet. The Wu Quartet made their Purcell Room debut in October 2009, performing Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' Naxos Quartet No. 8.

Pre-concert talk at 12.15 by David Matthews interviewed by Leslie East about his Tenth String Quartet
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2 February 2010 [YAS]

FILIPCZAK PIANO TRIO
MAGDALENA FILIPCZAK violin
MATTHIJS BROERSMA cello
LUKASZ FILIPCZAK piano

Winners of the 2009 Ivan Sutton Chamber Music Prize

Rachmaninov

Trio Elegiaque No. 1 in G minor

Shostakovich

Trio in E minor Op. 67

Polish brother and sister Lukasz and Magdalena Filipczak joined forces with Vashti Hunter to win the Society's Ivan Sutton Prize in May 2009 with a dramatic performance of Shostakovich's E minor trio. Now joined by Dutch-born Matthijs Broersma these postgraduate students at the Guildhall School are beginning to fulfil engagements in the UK and Europe.

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9 February 2010 [YAS]

ELEANOR TURNER harp

The Eric Falk Award Concert

Spohr

Variations on 'Je suis encore dans mon printemps' Op.36
Fauré Une châtelaine en sa tour
Hasselmans La Source

de Falla arr. Marcel Grandjany

Spanish Dance No.1 from the opera 'La Vida Breve'
Piazzolla Invierno Porteño; Verano Porteña (Winter and Summer)
Purcell Ground in C minor

Gershwin arr. Fell

An American in Paris and Rhapsody in Blue
Parish-Alvars Introduction, Cadenza and Rondo
Born in Essex, Eleanor Turner started learning the harp at the age of five. After studies at the Royal College of Music Junior Department she was inspired to make her career as a concert harpist and composer. She won the Royal Over-Seas League Award for Strings and Marisa Robles Harp Prize in 2002 and in 2007 Eleanor won First Prize, a £20,000 Salvi concert harp, in the European Harp Competition. She made her solo Wigmore Hall debut in October 2008.
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16 February 2010 [FWS]

ANDY PANAYI QUARTET
ANDY PANAYI saxophones & flute
MARK NIGHTINGALE trombone
STEVE BROWN drums
SIMON WOOLF bass
THE SOLAR CATS


Photo: Sarah Lever
A Gerry Mulligan inspired line-up plays originals from Panayi's Journey to the Planets suite mixed with great baritone saxophone jazz standards.
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23 February 2010 [YAS]

GUILDHALL CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

 

Beethoven

Septet in E flat Op. 20
Making a break from visits of the Guildhall School Chamber Orchestra, we welcome an elite ensemble selected by new Head of Chamber Music Alasdair Tait, playing the remarkable Beethoven Septet of 1820 for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and double bass.
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2 March 2010 [YAS]
BEN SCHOEMAN piano

Beethoven

Sonata in E flat major, Op. 27 No. 1 (Quasi una fantasia)
Chopin Impromptu Op. 36
Chopin Impromptu Op. 51

Chopin

Two Polonaises Op. 40

Chopin

Scherzo No. 2 Op. 31
Winner of the 2009 Royal Over-Seas League Annual Music Competition, South African-born Ben Schoeman continues our celebration of Chopin's 200th anniversary. After studies in Italy and winning all the major competitions in his homeland, Ben is now pursuing a very successful career.
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9 March 2010 [FWS]

SACCONI QUARTET
BEN HANCOX violin
HANNAH DAWSON violin
ROBIN ASHWELL viola
CARA BERRIDGE cello


Photo: Sussie Ahlburg

Barber

String Quartet
Dvorák Quartet in F Op. 96 (American)
On the very day of the composer's birth a century ago the brilliant Sacconis play Barber's famous and emotionally-charged Adagio from his sole quartet. Continuing the American connection they combine it with one of Dvorák's most popular works, written while he was Director of the National Conservatory in New York.
Pre-concert talk at 12.15 by Anthony Burton on Barber's String Quartet
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16 March 2010 [YAS]

ANNA PATALONG soprano
DUNCAN ROCK baritone
IAIN BURNSIDE piano

RPS Young Artist Recital
  

Songs by Duparc and Britten plus some popular operatic duets

Winners of Susan Chilcott Scholarships in 2008, Anna Patalong and Duncan Rock are joined by the pianist, broadcaster and teacher Iain Burnside in an entertaining programme of songs and duets.
 Presented with the support of the Royal Philharmonic Society
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23 March 2010 [YAS]
RCM WIND ENSEMBLE
JANET HILTON director

Mozart

Serenade in B flat for 13 wind instruments K361/370a
Janet Hilton marks her last year as Head of the Woodwind Department at the Royal College of Music with a performance of one of the most extraordinary works in the whole of Mozart's canon, let alone the wind ensemble repertoire.
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30 March 2010 [FWS]

THE FIDELIO TRIO
DARRAGH MORGAN violin
ROBIN MICHAEL cello
MARY DULLEA piano


Photo: Sophie Dennehy

Mozart

Trio in B flat K502
Hans Werner Henze Adagio, Adagio
Ravel Piano Trio
Darragh Morgan's Dublin-based piano trio is fast establishing a reputation for its fine interpretations and advocacy for contemporary music, performing extremely diverse repertoire throughout Europe, Asia and South Africa and frequently broadcasting for BBC Radio 3. Henze's short Serenade contrasts beautifully with Ravel's ravishing trio written on the eve of the Great War
Pre-concert talk at 12.15 by Anthony Burton on Ravel's Piano Trio
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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 2009
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