Monday 30 April 2012

Concerts from the Start of May - 2012!

The Sixteen
Director of Music
Harry Christophers
choir website
The Sixteen (Choral Pilgrimage)
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 2 May 7.30pm
THE EARTH RESOUNDS
(Franco-Flemish renaissance music)
Josquin des Prez (1500):
'Preater Rerum Serium'
'O virgo Prudensissima'
'Huc Me Sydereo'
Antoine Brumel (1500):
'Missa Et Ecce Terrae' (Earthquake Mass)
 - 'Gloria' & 'Sanctus'
Orlande de Lassus (1560):
Magnificat super 'Preater rerum Serium'
'Aurora Lucis Rutilat'
'Timor et Tremor'
Magnificat Octavi Toni Super 'Aurora Lusic Rutilat'
Tickets: £12-26
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
National Centre for Early Music 01904 658338
Concert CD sales

Sebastian Pope as Ernest Pringle
in 'Alas Poor Fred'
OwlGlass Theatre, 2-5 May

OwlGlass Theatre
The Hourglass Inn, Exeter
Wednesday 2 - Saturday 5 May
 8pm
FRENZY FOR TWO  
(and the same to you)
- a snail/tortoise confusion leads to all-out war -
by Eugene Ionesco (translation, Donald Watson)
Assistant Director: Sorrel Meechan
Director: Sebastian Pope ('He')
'She': Charlott Reinhold
Tickets: £9 from Hourglass: 01392 258722





Chris Gradwell: tenor sax
Chris Gradwell and Friends
The Blue Ball Inn Sidford
Sunday 6 May 7.30pm (Doors open 6.45)
LE JAZZ
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Clarinets/Saxophones: Chris Gradwell
Guitar: Andrew Barratt
Double Bass: Mike Thorn
Tickets: £8
07583 796855 - glyn.holford@sky.co.uk






Caerphilly Ladies' Choir
Caerphilly Ladies' Choir
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Monday 7 May 1.15pm
T. Price: Y Delyn Aur
Henry Geehl: Ar Hyd y Nos
Sherri Porterfield: Luadate Dominum
Martin Shaw: With a Voice of Singing
Howard Goodall: The Lord is my Shepherd
John Rutter: the Lord Bless You & Keep You
Arwel Hughes: Tydi y Rhoddaist
John Rutter: For the Beauty of the Earth
Admission: FREE (retiring collection)

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Anthony Hewlett
will cycle from
Land's End to John O'Groats
The Olympianist
Exeter Cathedral Green / Chapter House
Friday 11 May outdoor 3.30pm | indoor 7.30pm
Pianist and long-distance cyclist: Anthony Hewlett
Ludwig van Beethoven: Moonlight & Pathetique Sonatas
Franz Schubert: Improptu in E flat
Frederic Chopin: Fantasie-Impromptu
Sergei Rachmaninov: Prelude in G minor
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 2
Taster recital on the Green: admission FREE
Chapter House Concert: Tickets: £12 (student £5)
Exeter Cathedral Shop: 01392 271354
The Olympianist Website



The Callino String Quartet
Tom Hankey: Violin
Sarah McMahon: 'Cello
Rebecca Jones: Viola
Sarah Sexton: Violin
Honiton Festival
Cotleigh Parish Church
Thursday 10 May:
Reception, 6.15pm - Concert, 7.30pm
THE CALLINO STRING QUARTET
Joseph Haydn: Quartet Opus 76 No 3 ('Emperor')
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F (1903)
Franz Schubert: Quartet in Dm (Death + Maiden)
Tickets
: £17.50 (£12 concert only)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716
Callino Quartet Website
'Callino' = 'Cailíní ó Chois tSúire'
(girls from Tipperary)







Honiton Festival
St Paul's Church Honiton
Saturday 12 May 7.30pm
JAZZ WITH JACQUI DANKWORTH
(Daughter of Dame Cleo Lane & Sir John Dankworth)
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716

"One of the classiest acts in British Jazz":
Jacqui Dankworth


East Devon Choral Society
at Exeter Cathedral
for Peter Milmer's Requiem
East Devon Choral Society
St George's Church Tiverton
Saturday 12 May 7.30pm
SPRING CONCERT
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Tickets: £10 available on the door
Book with Sue North: 01884 253494










William Carter (theorbo)
directed by Alina Ibragimova
Dartington 23 February 2012
Academy of Ancient Music
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 12 May 7.45pm
AYRES FOR THE THEATRE
Theatre Music by Henry Purcell:
1688: 'Dido & Aeneas'
1690: 'The Gordian Knot Untied'
1691: 'Three Single Songs':
 - "Hark! The Echoing Air"
 - "If Music Be the Food of Love"
 - "From Rosy Bowers"
1692: 'The Faerie Queen'
1694: 'The Married Beau'
Director (& theorbo): William Carter
Ensemble of Eleven Baroque Instruments
Soprano: Elin Manahan Thomas
Tickets: Nave £25 (front) £18 (rear)
Soprano Elin Manahan Thomas
At Dartington for
'A Celebration of Handel'
with the Orchestra of the Age
of Enlightenment 29 May 2012
unreserved aisle seats: £10
from Exeter Cathedral Shop: 01392 271354
Exeter Cathedral Online Booking
Academy Website













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Saint Davids Players - Auditions!
Kalendar Hall, South Street, Exeter
Sunday 13 May 2pm
for PRINCESS IDA (Gilbert & Sullivan)
to be performed at the Barnfield Theatre
Tuesday 9th - Saturday 13th October
Audition pieces at St Davids Players website
(follow 'Rehearsals & Auditions')
stdavidsplayers@hotmail.com





Phil Beer
Hockworthy Village Hall
Sunday 13th May
Bar opens: 6.45pm - Performance: 7.30pm
Tickets: £10
Val 01823 673268
Louise 01823 673025
louise@red-elephant.co.uk
to join our mailing list of future events






The Exeter Singers

Exeter Singers
St Mary's Church Ideford
Sunday 13 May 7.45pm
unaccompanied singing
directed by Tony Yates
Renaissance, Romantic, Modern
Folk, Jazz and Classic Songs
Tickets: £5 on the door
Box Office: 01626 852954



English Piano Trio
Justin Pearson
Jane Faulkner
Timothy Ravenscroft
St Boniface Concert Society
Holy Cross Church Crediton
Wednesday 16 May 7.30pm
ENGLISH PIANO TRIO
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in C HOb. XV:21
Robert Schumann: Piano Trio No 1 in D minor Opus 63
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio No 7 in B flat ('Archduke')
Piano: Timothy Ravenscroft
Violin: Jane Faulkner
'Cello: Justin Pearson
Tickets: £10 (child FREE)
Mrs Isolde Summers: 01363 773472
society website



Organ restoration expert
Christopher Kent
Saint Nicholas Consort
James Wyatt Music Room,
Powderham Castle
Friday 18 May 7.30pm
Music by 18th Century Composers
Soprano: Rachel Gilliam
Oboe: Belinda Paul
Viola da Gamba: Lesley Shrigley Jones
Harpsichord & Organ: Christopher Kent
Tickets: £14 - but free to the first ten
                         full-time students to book
                         (& ½-price for the next 10)
Box Office: 01626 890243
Castle Website


The Brent Singers - from South Brent!  (website)
The Brent Singers
Plympton Ridgeway Chamber Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 19 May 7.00 for 7.30pm
Sir Edward Elgar:
"The Dream of Gerontius"
Conductor: Trefor Farrow
Organist: Jonathan Watts
Gerontius: Matthew Oakes
Priest: John Bowden
Angel: Cheryl Stead
Tickets: £10 (U16 FREE)


Conductor: David Acres
Counterpoint Choir
website
Counterpoint Choir
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 19 May 7.30pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
Morten Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna
Ola Gjeilo: Sanctus

Director of Music: David Acres
Organist: David Davies
Tickets: £12 (advance £10)
proceeds to Choristers Bursary Fund
David Acres: 01392 490398
CounterpointVox@aol.com



Piano Recital:

Melvyn Tan

Honiton Festival
St Paul's Church Honiton
Saturday 19 May 7.30pm
MELVYN TAN PIANO
W A Mozart: Piano Sonata in B flat K333
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestucke Opus 12
Frederic Chopin: Piano Sonata No 3 in Bm Opus 58
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716





Exeter Philharmonic Choir
Conductor: Andrew Millington
choir website




Exeter Philharmonic Choir
Exeter Sinfonietta
Exeter Cathedral
Thursday 24 May 7.30pm
HAYDN'S CREATION
Choir Director: Andrew Millington
Sinfonietta Leader: Richard Studt
Soprano: Eleanor Briggs
Tenor: Thomas Faulkner
Bass: Peter Wilman
Tickets: Nave - £19/£16
Side Aisle (unreserved) - £11
(Supper club £40)
book on-line


'Cello: Tim Lowe - Piano: James Baillieu


Honiton Festival
St Paul's Church Honiton
Friday 25 May 1pm
'CELLO & PIANO:
TIM LOWE & JAMES BAILLIEU
Felix Mendelssohn: Variations Concertante Opus 17
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for 'Cello & Piano in C Op 102/1
Antonin Dvořák: Romance
Camille Saint-Saëns: 'C
ello Sonata No 1 in C minor
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716


Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra and Choir
at the final rehearsal of Mahler's Second Symphony (14th April 2011)
(Photography: Nigel Cheffers-Heard)

Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra
St Peters School Exeter Friday 25 May - Sunday 27 May
Rehearsal of Mahler's Eighth Symphony (First Movement) - workshops
EXPERIENCED SINGERS INVITED TO PARTICIPATE

May 25th/26th/27th – 1st movement July 6th/7th/8th – 2nd movement 

September 7th/8th/9th Full work September 14th/16th - Final rehearsal and concert

Booking Fee: £30 (includes scores) - use contact form for details/application


Exeter Contemporary Sounds
Emma Welton: Violin
Julie Hill: Violin
Andrew Gillett: Viola
Jane Pirie: 'Cello

(photo: Simon Belshaw)

Back There on Earth
Exeter Phoenix Theatre
Sunday 27 May 8pm
(Open Rehearsal 3pm)
Exeter Contemporary Sounds:
Violins: Julie Hill, Emma Welton
Viola: Andrew Gillett
'Cello: Jane Pirie
Simon Belshaw: "Between the Moon & the Earth"
Steve Reich: "Different Trains"
(3 string quartets - 2 recorded)
Paul Whitty: "Bury Your Love Like Treasure"
Tickets: £10 (open rehearsal, admission free)
Box Office: 01392 667080
Book Online

Cygnet New Theatre Company
Cygnet Director
Louisa Wilde
Cygnet New Theatre Friars Gate Exeter
Tuesday 29 May - Friday 1 June 7.30pm
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
William Shakespeare's play - with roles reversed
Director: Louisa Wilde
Tickets: £8/£6
Box Office: 01392 277189
Tourist Info, Dix's Field: 01392 665885
Cygnet Theatre Website
To be performed at Edinburgh Fringe Festival
(Sweet Grassmarket, Mon 13 - Fri 24 Aug)
Details: 0131 2433596

Marie Langrishe
Honiton Festival
St Paul's Church Honiton
Thursday 31 May 7.30pm
EUROPEAN UNION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Director & Violin: Hans-Peter Hofmann
Violin Soloists: Marie Langrishe & Andrew Harvey
J S Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins in Dm
W A Mozart: Divertimento K138
Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin in Dm
Peter Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716



Counterpoint Choir



Counterpoint Choir
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 19 May 7.30pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Requeim"
(posthumous: Franz Xaver Süssmayr)
Morten Lauridsen: "Lux Aeterna"
Ol Gjeilo: "Sanctus"
Director: David Acres
Organist: David Davies
Tickets: £12 (advance booking £10)
Box Office: 01392 490398
Exeter Cathedral Shop
CounterpointVox@aol.com

Ballet Theatre UK

Exeter Barnfield Theatre
Friday 2 June 2.30 & 7.30pm
SLEEPING BEAUTY
Tickets: £15 (child £11)
Box Office 01392  270891
Barnfield Website






Music Deco

Chris Gradwell and Friends
The Blue Ball Inn Sidford
Sunday 3 June 7.30pm (Doors open 6.45)
MUSIC DECO
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Clarinets/Saxophones: Chris Gradwell
Soprano: Kate Walker
Tickets: £8
07583 796855 - glyn.holford@sky.co.uk





Dartington Community Choir
Director of Music
Jonathan Watts
Dartington Community Choir
Dartington Great Hall
Sunday 10 June 7.30pm
AN EVENING OF FRENCH MUSIC
Gabriel Fauré: 'Pavanne', 'Messe Basse'
'Cantique de Jean Racine'
Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles Gounod
Director of Music: Jonathan Watts
Tickets: £14 (student/U16 £5)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Dartington Hall Website

Voces at Buckfast Abbey
Voces Renaissance Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 16 June 7.30-8.45pm
(between Vespers & Compline)
PALESTRINA vs LASSUS
(Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina &
Orlande de Lassus both died 1594
- Palestrina 2 Feb, Lassus 14 June)
Admission & Parking FREE

Looking ahead . . .


Dawlish Festival
St Peter's Church, Bridge Road, Shaldon
Thursday 21 June - Sunday 24 June
Festival Website


Exeter Little Theatre Company
Exeter Barnfield Theatre
Friday 22 June 7.30pm
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Tickets: £9/£7
Box Office 01392  270891
Barnfield Website

Torbay Singers
All Saints Church Babbacombe
Saturday 23 June
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Sir Michael Tippett: Spirituals from "A Child or Our Time"
Hubert Parry: "Blest Pair of Sirens"
Musical Director: Tina Guthrie
Details: 02803 867872
Torbay Singers Website

Tessa Gaukroger
Cygnet New Theatre Company
Poltimore House Gardens
(if raining - in the chapel)
Thur 28 June - Sat 30 June 7pm
Rosalind: Tessa Gaukroger
Celia: Lucy Theobald
Touchstone: Matthew Neighbour
Orlando: Scott Goodaire
Tickets: TBA
Cygnet website
Poltimore website


Conductor: Nigel Perrin
Exeter Festival Chorus
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 30 June 7.30pm
SUMMER EVENING AT THE ABBEY
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Johannes Brahms: "Warum ist das Licht gegeben?"
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
Conductor: Nigel Perrin
Organist: Jonathan Watts
Tickets: £12/£10 unreserved - parking FREE
Abbey Box Office: 01364 645530
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
EFC Ticket Secretary: 08456 005441
Exeter Festival Chorus Website





Soprano: Denise Kehoe
Counterpoint Choir
website
Counterpoint Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 7 July 7.30pm
THE JOURNEY FROM
MEDIAEVAL TO RENAISSANCE
Magister Petronius (Notre Dame 1200)
Magistra Hildegardis
(Bingen am Rhein 1150)
Guillaume de Machaut (Rheims 1360)
John Forest (Wells 1430)
Sheryngham (Fayrfax MS 1490)
Robert Carver (Scone 1550)
Nicholas Ludford (Westminster 1550)
Thomas Tallis (Canterbury 1550)
Christopher Tye (Ely 1560)
Tomás Luis de Victoria(Monastry of Descalzas Reales, Madrid 1600)
Thomas Tomkins (Chapel Royal 1620)
Director of Music: David Acres
Tickets: details to follow
David Acres: 01392 490398
CounterpointVox@aol.com


Bish Bash Bosh Theatre Productions
Tiverton Community Arts Theatre (TCAT)
(at Tiverton High School)

Friday 13 July 7.30pm
(Doors open 6.30pm)
Alan Kent: "The Tin Violin"

Director: John Hoggarth
Tickets: £10 available from Tues 1st May
Exeter Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
Book online at Exeter Northcott Website
Bish Bash Bosh Website


Budleigh Festival:
Friday 13 July - Saturday 21 July
(Alexandra Dariescu: 16 July)
Festival Website


East Devon Choral Society
at Exeter Cathedral
for Peter Milmer's Requiem
East Devon Choral Society
St George's Church Tiverton
Saturday 14 July 7.30pm
Andrew Daldorph: 'Jazz for Life'
- A Jazz Mass with Jazz Quintet
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Tickets: £10 on the door, or -
book with Sue North: 01884 253494








Exeter Symphony Orchestra
Flute Section
Exeter Symphony Orchestra
website
Exeter Symphony Orchestra
Southernhay United Reformed Church Exeter
Saturday 14 July 7.30pm
FLOWERS & MUSIC
Tchaikovsky: Valse des Fleurs (Nutcracker 1892)
Arthur Honegger: Pacific 231 (1923)
Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No 1 (1882)
(Horn Soloist: Jonathan Harris)
John Rutter: Suite Antique (flute & piano 1979)
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No 5 (1935)
Tickets: £10 (U18 accompanied - FREE)
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080



Somerset Chamber Choir
Wells Cathedral Somerset
Saturday 28 July 7pm
J S Bach: Nun danket alle Gott
CPE Bach: Magnificat
W A Mozart: Mass in C Minor
Box Office: Taunton Tourist Info
01823 336344
Choir Website

Duo Teresa Carreño
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 14 September 1pm
Piano: Ana Laura Manero
'Cello: Arturo Serna
Details to follow . . .
Duo Website

EMG Conductor: Marion Wood
Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra
Exeter University Great Hall
Sunday 16 September 5pm
Mahler's Eighth Symphony
('Symphony of a Thousand')
Director: Marion Wood
Leader: Clare Smith
EMG orchestra and choir
Tickets: check EMG website for details

Monday 2 April 2012

Concerts from the start of April - 2012!

D A R T I N G T O N     T A G O R E     F E S T I V A L

Andy Sheppard: Soprano Saxophone
Kuljit Bhamra: Tabla
Andy Sheppard & Kuljut Bhamra
Dartington Great Hall
Friday 6 April 7.30pm
Saxophones & Tabla Drums
Tickets: £15 (student £10)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Full Details





Sheema Mukherjee
Sitar
Morning Raga
Dartington Great Hall
Saturday 7 April 7.30 am (!)
Sitar: Sheema Mukherjee
Tabla: Mitel Purohit
Tickets: £6 (student £3.50)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Full Details









Arun Ghosh

Clarinet
Arun Ghosh
Dartington Great Hall
Saturday 7 April 7.30pm
Arun Ghosh: South Asian Suite

Clarinet: Arun Ghosh
Vocals: Sohini Alam
Tenor Sax: Idris Rahman
Piano: Kishon Khan
Tabla: Nilesh Gulhane
Drums: Pat Ilingworth
Tickets: £15 (student £10)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Full Details






Mitel Purohit & Sheema Mukherjee

Table & Sitar

Sheema Mukherjee
Studio One, Dartington
Saturday 7 April: 10pm
Sitar & Vocals: Sheema Mukherjee
Tabla: Mitel Purohit
Kit Drum: Hamilton Lee
Guitar: Nigel Dale
Keyboard/Sax: Larry Whelam
Tickets: £8 (student £5)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Full Details

Sanju Sahai & Pandit Vishwa Prakash
Morning Raga
Dartington Great Hall
Sunday 8 April 7.30am
Tabla: Sanju Sahai
Vocals: Pandit Vishwa Prakash
Tickets: £6 (student £3.50)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Full Details




Idris & Zoe Rahman

Clarinet & Piano

Zoe & Idris Rahman
Dartington Great Hall
Sunday 8 April 8pm
Piano: Zoe Rahman
Clarinet: Idris Rahman
Ragindra Sangeet singing: Sahana Bajpaie
Sitar: Debipriya Das
Tabla: Fahmid Jahan
Tickets: £15 (student £10)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Full Details


Ranjana Gauhar
Chitrangada
Dartington Studio 31
Monday 9 April 1pmOdissi Dancer: ranjana Gauhar
Introduction: Sangeeta Bahadar -
Culture Minister & Director -
Nehru Centre
Tickets: £8 (student £5)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Full Details





Tansy Bennett: Violin
Free Violin Recital
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Saturday 14 April 1.15pm
Violin Tansy Bennett
Franz Schubert
: Sonatina No 2
J S Bach: Sonata No 3
Admission FREE - retiring collection









Dartmoor
Woodwind Duo
'Music on the Edge'
Susie Hodder-Williams
& Chris Caldwell
(flute & bass clarinet)
Photo: Chris Chapman
Music on the Edge
Spring Series 2012
The Drewe Arms, Drewsteignton
UPDATED!
Tuesday 17 April 8.30pm
(NOT Monday 16 April)
Playing by the roaring fire in the 'Long Room'
(Catch them before they go to Odessa for
  the 13th International Festival of Modern Art)
Admission: £8 (U21 Free)
Information: The Drewe Arms - 01647 281224


Bach & Byrd
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Wednesday 18 April 7.30pm
The Laurence Blyth Singers
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
William Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
J S Bach: Lobet den Herrn
J S Bach: Suite No 1
Tickets: £12 (child £5)
Exeter Cathedral Shop: 01392 271354



The Honeymead Ensemble
 Exeter Cathedral
Thursday 19 April 7.30pm
Violin: Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Piano: Tom Poster
'Cello: Bartholomew Lafollette
Complimentary Tickets available from
The 'Third Millenium Campaign' office:
01392 285974
campaign@exeter-cathedral.org.uk




Mezzo-Soprano Dorothy Ferrier
- Sings like a linnet!
A Grab Bag of Songs
Sidmouth Parish Church
Friday 20 April 12 noon
Mezzo-Soprano: Dorothy Ferrier
Piano: Dorothy Worthington
Mozart: "Voi Che Sapete"
Musgrave: "The Man-in-the-Mune"
Purcell: " Dear Pretty Youth"
Purcell: "Bess of Bedlam"
Armstrong: "Nobody KNows"
Franck: "Panis Angelicus"
Lane: "He was Beautiful"
Schumann: "He was noblest of all"
Chausson: "Le Colibri"
Sondhaim: "Green Finch & Linnet"
Wright: "And this is my beloved"
Tickets: £7 (including light lunch)
Full Details




 Clarinet
 William Stafford
Newton Abbot & District Society of Arts (NADSA)
Stover School Newton Abbot
Friday 20 April 7.30pm
CLARINET & PIANO:
WILLIAM STAFFORD & GARY MATTHEW
Gerald Finzi: 5 Bagatelles for Clarinet & Piano
Claude Debussy: Première Rhapsodie in B flat
Francis Poulenc: Sonata for Clarinet & Piano
John Ireland: Fantasy-Sonata for C & P in E flat
Edwin Roxborough: Wordsworth Miniatures in B flat
André Messager: Solo de Concours
Tickets: £14 (U21 students £2 !!)
Opus Classical (Exeter Guildhall Gallery) 214044
enquiries@opus-classical.com



Kathleen
Ferrier
Rebecca Smith
Coffee & Music
Broadclyst Parish Church
Saturday 21 April 10.20am
KATHLEEN FERRIER
Rebecca Smith (mezzo-soprano)
- accompanied by John Scarfe -
will sing songs made popular by
the great contralto Kathleen Ferrier
(for Kathleen's 100th birthday)
(details to follow)
Admission FREE




EMG horn section

Leader: Trevor Ives


Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 21 April 7.30pm
SPRING CONCERT
Gustav Holst: Planets Suite
Sir Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations
Conductor: Marion Wood
Leader: Clare Smith
Tickets: Front Nave £15 (sold out!)
Unreserved (NUS/U18 ½-price):
Middle Nave £12, Rear Nave £10
Side Aisles £8
Box: TIC Dix's Field: 01392 665885
or from Devon Strings Workshop
(Bartholomew St West, open 10-6 Wed-Sat)
EMG Website




Joglaresa
Totnes Early Music Society
St Mary's Church Totnes
Saturday 21 April 7.30pm
JOGLARESA
Judeo-Arabic Dance Songs
& Sephardic Wedding Songs
from the 11th & 12th Century:
Solomon ibn Gabirol of Saragossa
Moses Ibn Ezra of Granada
Rabbi Yehuda Halevi of Tudela
Abulafia of Castile
Belinda Sykes & Jeremy Avis (Voice)
Jean Kelly (Harp)
Tim Garside (Nay, Darabuka, Dulcimer)
Stuart Hall (Oud, Guitar, Kemençe)
Tickets: £12 (student £5)
Box Office (Dartington): 01803 847070
Full Details at Dartington Website
Totnes Early Music Society Website



Marisa Gupta

Piano





Jonathan Dormand

'Cello






Saint Boniface Concert Society
Holy Cross Church Crediton
Thursday 26 April 7.30pm
Piano: Marisa Gupta
'Cello: Jonathan Dormand
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata Number 5 in D major
Gabriel Faure:
Sonata Number 1 in D minor
Anton Webern:
Complete piano & 'cello works
                 (10 mins!)
Sergei Prokofiev:
Sonata in C major Opus 119
Tickets: £10 (child free)
Season Ticket: £48=5 concerts
(26 April, 16 May, 7 June,
19 July, 6 September)
(7th June: Coull Quartet
- Adult £12 Child £6)
Society Website



Music Deco
Piano Andrew Daldorph
Clarinet Chris Gradwell
Soprano Kate Walker
Music Deco
Town Hall Seaton
Thursday 26 April 7.30pm
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
Soprano: Kate Walker
(Previous concert was at
Kennaway House Sidmouth 28 Aug 2011)
Information: Chris Gradwell - 01297 22228







'Cello Soloist
-
Truls Mørk
 Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Exeter University Great Hall
Thursday 26 April 7.30pm
Stravinsky: Fireworks
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 25 K503
Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (excerpts)
'Cello: Truls Mørk
Conductor: Kirill Karabits
Tickets: £11.50-35.00
Box Office: Exeter Poenix - 013982 667080
Buy tickets online



Elizabeth Jane Baldry Jubilee Hall Chagford
Friday 27 April 7.30pm
A Douglas Fairbanks Silent Movie:
'The Thief of Baghdad' (1924)
with live harp accompaniment
composed and performed by
Elizabeth Jane Baldry
Admission £8
follow this link to book online





Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
The ISCA Ensemble
Southernhay United Reformed Church Exeter
Friday 27 April 8pm
CHAMBER CONCERT
Schubert: Octet Opus 166
Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
Information: Chris Gradwell - 01297 22228


Clyst Valley Choral Society
St Margaret's Church Topsham (Saturday 28 April 8pm)
Holy Trinity Church Exmouth (Sunday 29 April 8pm)
Soprano: Janet Macdonald
Mezzo Soprano: Kate Lees
Organist: Mark Perry
Director of Music: Paul Stock
Tickets: £8 (advance £7)
Topsham Bookshop (01392 877895)
Choral Society Website




Elizabeth Jane Baldry
Exeter Picturehouse
Sunday 29 April 11am
A Chagford Filmmaking Group
Fairy Tale Movie:
'The Laidley Worm of Spindleston Heugh'
with original score
composed and directed by
Elizabeth Jane Baldry
(recorded 1st April 2012 at Jubilee Hall)
Admission £7 (child £5)
follow this link to book online


The Providence Chamber Singers
Providence University College
Manitoba, Canada
The Providence Chamber Singers
Buckfast Abbey
Sunday 29 April 3pm
Felix Mendelssohn: "Heilig, Heilig, Heilig" (Sanctus)
Anton Bruckner: "Locu Iste"
Eric Whitacre: "Lux Aurumqpe"
Sergei Rachmaninov: "Богородице Дево" (Ave Maria)
Thomas Dorsey: "Precious Lord"
Spiritual: "I Open My Mouth to the Lord"
Admission & Parking FREE

College Webpage




Sebastian Pope as Ernest Pringle
in 'Alas Poor Fred'
OwlGlass Theatre, 2-5 May
OwlGlass TheatreThe Hourglass Inn, Exeter
Wednesday 2 - Saturday 5 May
8pm
FRENZY FOR TWO 
(and the same to you)
- a snail/tortoise confusion leads to all-out war -
by Eugene Ionesco (translation, Donald Watson)
Assistant Director: Sorrel Meechan
Director: Sebastian Pope who also plays
Jordan Hoch/Michael Weitz/Doug Simpson
Charlotte Reinholdt plays
Alison Saltz/Erin Treadway/Susan Biesinger
(It's complicated!)
Tickets: £9 from Hourglass: 01392 258722




The Callino String Quartet
Tom Hankey: Violin
Sarah McMahon: 'Cello
Rebecca Jones: Viola
Sarah Sexton: Violin
Honiton Festival
Cotleigh Parish Church
Thursday 10 May:
Reception, 6.15pm - Concert, 7.30pm
THE CALLINO STRING QUARTET
Joseph Haydn: Quartet Opus 76 No 3 ('Emperor')
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F (1903)
Franz Schubert: Quartet in Dm (Death + Maiden)
Tickets
: £17.50 (£12 concert only)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716
Callino Quartet Website
'Callino' = 'Cailíní ó Chois tSúire'
(girls from Tipperary)







Honiton Festival
St Paul's Church Honiton
Saturday 12 May 7.30pm
JAZZ WITH JACQUI DANKWORTH
(Daughter of Dame Cleo Lane & Sir John Dankworth)
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716

"One of the classiest acts in British Jazz":
Jacqui Dankworth


East Devon Choral Society
at Exeter Cathedral
for Peter Milmer's Requiem
East Devon Choral Society
St George's Church Tiverton
Saturday 12 May 7.30pm
SPRING CONCERT
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Tickets: £10 available on the door
Book with Sue North: 01884 253494










William Carter (theorbo)
directed by Alina Ibragimova
Dartington 23 February 2012
Academy of Ancient Music
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 12 May 7.45pm
AYRES FOR THE THEATRE
Theatre Music by Henry Purcell:
1688: 'Dido & Aeneas'
1690: 'The Gordian Knot Untied'
1691: 'Three Single Songs':
 - "Hark! The Echoing Air"
 - "If Music Be the Food of Love"
 - "From Rosy Bowers"
1692: 'The Faerie Queen'
1694: 'The Married Beau'
Director (& theorbo): William Carter
Ensemble of Eleven Baroque Instruments
Soprano Elin Manahan Thomas
At Dartington for
'A Celebration of Handel'
with the Orchestra of the Age
of Enlightenment 29 May 2012
Soprano: Elin Manahan Thomas
Tickets: Nave £25 (front) £18 (rear)
unreserved aisle seats: £10
from Exeter Cathedral Shop: 01392 271354
Exeter Cathedral Online Booking
Academy Website













Piano Recital:

Melvyn Tan
Honiton Festival
St Paul's Church Honiton
Saturday 19 May 7.30pm
MELVYN TAN - PIANO
W A Mozart: Piano Sonata in B flat K333
Robert Schumann: Fantasiestucke Opus 12
Frederic Chopin: Piano Sonata No 3 in Bm Opus 58
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716



'Cello: Tim Lowe - Piano: James Baillieu

Honiton Festival
St Paul's Church Honiton
Friday 25 May 1pm
'CELLO & PIANO:
TIM LOWE & JAMES BAILLIEU
Felix Mendelssohn: Variations Concertante Opus 17
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for 'Cello & Piano in C Op 102/1
Antonin Dvořák: Romance
Camille Saint-Saëns: 'C
ello Sonata No 1 in C minor
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716


Phil Beer
Hockworthy Village Hall
Sunday 13th May
Bar opens: 6.45pm - Performance: 7.30pm
Tickets: £10
Val 01823 673268
Louise 01823 673025
louise@red-elephant.co.uk
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Organ restoration expert
Christopher Kent
Saint Nicholas Consort
James Wyatt Music Room,
Powderham Castle
Friday 18 May 7.30pm
Music by 18th Century Composers
Soprano: Rachel Gilliam
Oboe: Belinda Paul
Viola da Gamba: Lesley Shrigley Jones
Harpsichord & Organ: Christopher Kent
Tickets: £14 - but free to the first ten
                         full-time students to book
                         (& ½-price for the next 10)
Box Office: 01626 890243
Castle Website


The Brent Singers - from South Brent!
The Brent Singers
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 19 May 7.30pm
Sir Edward Elgar:
"The Dream of Gerontius"
(Details to Follow)




Exeter Contemporary Sounds
Emma Welton: Violin
Julie Hill: Violin
Andrew Gillett: Viola
Jane Pirie: 'Cello

Back There on Earth
Exeter Phoenix Theatre
Sunday 27 May 8pm
(Open Rehearsal 3pm)
Exeter Contemporary Sounds:
Violins: Julie Hill, Emma Welton
Viola: Andrew Gillett
'Cello: Jane Pirie
Simon Belshaw: "Between the Moon & the Earth"
Steve Reich: "Different Trains"
(3 string quartets - 2 recorded)
Paul Whitty: "Bury Your Love Like Treasure"
Tickets: £10 (open rehearsal, admission free)
Box Office: 01392 667080
Book Online


Marie Langrishe
Honiton Festival
St Paul's Church Honiton
Thursday 31 May 7.30pm
EUROPEAN UNION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Director & Violin: Hans-Peter Hofmann
Violin Soloists: Marie Langrishe & Andrew Harvey
J S Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins in Dm
W A Mozart: Divertimento K138
Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin in Dm
Peter Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
Tickets: £12-15 (£9 unreserved)
Noel Barrington Prowse: 01404 831837
Honiton Tourist Info: 01404 43716



Counterpoint Choir



Counterpoint Choir
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 19 May 7.30pm
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: "Requeim"
(posthumous: Franz Xaver Süssmayr)
Morten Lauridsen: "Lux Aeterna"
Ol Gjeilo: "Sanctus"
Director: David Acres
Organist: David Davies
Tickets: £12 (advance booking £10)
Box Office: 01392 490398
Exeter Cathedral Shop
CounterpointVox@aol.com


Looking ahead . . .


Dawlish Festival
St Peter's Church, Bridge Road, Shaldon
Thursday 21 June - Sunday 24 June
Festival Website


Torbay Singers
All Saints Church Babbacombe
Saturday 23 June
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Sir Michael Tippett: Spirituals from "A Child or Our Time"
Hubert Parry: "Blest Pair of Sirens"
Musical Director: Tina Guthrie
Details: 02803 867872
Torbay Singers Website

Bish Bash Bosh Theatre Productions
Tiverton Community Arts Theatre (TCAT)
(at Tiverton High School)

Friday 13 July 7.30pm
(Doors open 6.30pm)
Alan Kent: "The Tin Violin"

Director: John Hoggarth
Tickets: £10 available from Tues 1st May
Exeter Northcott Box Office: 01392 493493
Book online at Exeter Northcott Website
Bish Bash Bosh Website


Budleigh Festival:
Friday 13 July - Saturday 21 July
(Alexandra Dariescu: 16 July)
Festival Website


East Devon Choral Society
at Exeter Cathedral
for Peter Milmer's Requiem
East Devon Choral Society
St George's Church Tiverton
Saturday 14 July 7.30pm
Andrew Daldorph: 'Jazz for Life'
- A Jazz Mass with Jazz Quintet
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Tickets: £10 on the door, or -
book with Sue North: 01884 253494








Somerset Chamber ChoirWells Cathedral Somerset
Saturday 28 July 7pm
J S Bach: Nun danket alle Gott
CPE Bach: Magnificat
W A Mozart: Mass in C Minor
Box Office: Taunton Tourist Info
01823 336344
Choir Website

Duo Teresa Carreño
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 14 September 1pm
Piano: Ana Laura Manero
'Cello: Arturo Serna
Details to follow . . .
Duo Website