Events from the start of April 2013

Director:

Sorrel Meechan

OwlGlass Theatre Productions
The Hourglass, Melbourne St, Exeter
Tue 2 - Sat 6 April 7.30pm
Harold Pinter: "The Caretaker"
Director: Sorrel Meechan
Aston: Al Wadlan
Mick: Ben Simpson
Davies: Sebastian Pope
Tickets: £12 (advance £10)
From the Hourglass
01392 258722

Ruth Molins &
Rebecca Willson
(photo Cecil Hatfield)

Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 3 April 12.30am
ANOTHER COUNTRY
Piano: Rebecca Willson
Flute: Ruth Molins
Béla Bartók, arr. Paul Arna:
'Suite Paysanne Hongroise'
Anne Boyd: Bali Moods

Admission FREE

Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 10 April 12.30am
Piano: Roger Stevenson
Baritone: Martin Shaw
Admission FREE

HIlary Boxer

Hilary Boxer
Lympstone Church
Sunday 14 April 4pm
BACH 'CELLO SUITES
A one hour recital:
Suite No 1 in G major
Suite No 3 in C major
Tickets: £7
Booking: Lympstone Post Office
01395 268180
(Whole series - 4 concerts
14 Apr, 12 May, 16 Jun, 7 Jul
£21 - from the Post Office)
Lympstone Entertainments
('Classical Journey' feature)

Bass: Mike Thorne  Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Clarinet: Chris Gradwell  Guitar: Andrew Barrett

Chris Gradwell and Friends
Blue Ball Sidford
Sunday 14 April 7.30pm
"LE JAZZ"
Reservations:
Info: Chris Gradwell 01297 22228
glyn.holford@sky.com
chrisgradwellinbeer@gmail.com
"Chris Gradwell Musician" website

Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 17 April 12.30am
Piano: Jill Govier
Admission FREE

Jonathan Watts

Devon Baroque
St Mary's Church Totnes
Saturday 20 April 7.30pm
CATCH THE CORELLI CONNECTION
(celebrating Arcangelo Corelli's 300th birthday)
conductor: Jonathan Watts
Tickets: £12 (child £5)
Totnes Early Music Society

Antiphon Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 20 April 7.30pm
MISSA PAPAE MARCELLI
and other Latin/English motets
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Thomas Tallis, Orlando Gibbons
Tickets: £15 (advance £10)
from Buckfast Abbey Gift Shop
antiphonvox@gmail.com
or SAE to:
38 Miller Way
Exminster
EX6 8TH
Antiphon page on Buckfast website
Antiphon Facebook page

Collyton Grammar School
Senior Choir

Colyton Grammar School
Senior Choir
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 20 April 7.30pm
Handel's "MESSIAH"
170 voice choir
20 piece orchestra
Conductor: David House
Soprano: Jo Carpenter
Counter-Tenor: Tom Williams
Tenor Stephen Jeffes
Baritone: Daniel Rudge
Tickets: Reserved £15 (concession £10)
Unreserved £10 (concession £7)
Box Office: 01297 552327
finance@colytongrammar.devon.sch.uk
Headteacher, Paul Evans' blog
Music Department webpage

Taunton Sinfonietta

Taunton Sinfonietta
St James' Church Taunton
Saturday 20 April 7.30pm
ALL THE B's - SIMPLY BRILLIANT!
William Boyce: "Symphony No 2 in A"
Johann Sebastian Bach: "Em Violin Sonata"
Ludwig van Beethoven: "Quartet"

Sir Benjamin Britten: "Simple Symphony"

"Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings"
Tickets: £15 (student £5) on the door or
Taunton Tourist Information: 01823 336344
Sinfonietta concerts webpage

David Davies

Exeter & District Organists Association
St Margaret's Church Topsham
Saturday 20 April 7.30pm
CONCERT OF CHORAL AND ORGAN MUSIC
St Margaret's Church Choir
Conductor: Tony Yeates
George Frederic Handel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Herbert Howells
John Rutter 
Organist: David Davies
Tickets: £5 (child FREE)
Details: Contact Tony Yeates: 01392 875276

CLYST VALLEY CHORAL SOCIETY

Paul Stock conducts the Clyst Valley Choral Society

Janet Macdonald

Clyst Valley Choral Society
1. Lympstone Parish Church
Saturday 20 April 8pm
2. Holy Trinity Church Exmouth
Sunday 21 April 8pm
GABRIEL FAURÉ: REQUIEM
JOSEPH HAYDN: NELSON MASS
for Choir & Orchestra
Organist: Mark Perry
Conductor: Paul Stock
Soprano: Janet Macdonald
Mezzo Soprano: Moira Izzard
Tenor: Michael Graham
Bass: Peter Hale

Michael Graham

Tickets: £8 (advance £7)
Shears Café Lympstone
Holy Trinity Coffee Shop Exmouth
Exmouth Tourist Information
or 01392 271858
secretary@clystvalleychoral.org.uk
Choral Society website

Max Blass-Laker

Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 24 April 12.30am
Duncan Honeybourne (pianist)
introduces an outstanding student from
Thomas Hardye School Dorchester

Max Blass-Laker (pianist)

13 year old  who won 1st prize

in the 2012 Poole Arts Association

South of England Piano Competition

and the Two Counties Radio (2CRFM)

Andy Lee Memorial Shield

A LUNCHTIME PIANO RECITAL

Admission FREE

Marion Wood conducts
Exeter Music Group
Symphony Orchestra

EMG Symphony Orchestra
Exeter Cathedral
Thursday 25 April 7.30pm
SPRING CONCERT
Celebrating Russian Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Sergei Rachmaninov: Die Toteninsel
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 5th Symphony
Tickets: £15/£12/£10/£8 (student/U18 ½ price)
Orchestra website

Michael Graham
Cathedral
Organ Scholar,
Tenor,
Musical Director.

EXODUS
St Michaels Church Mount Dinham
Saturday 27 April 7:30pm
DOUBLE CHORAL MUSIC EVENING
Charles Villiers Stanford: "Magnificat in B flat"
(for unaccompanied double choir - 1919)
Hubert Parry: "Songs of Farewell"
(Six Songs for double choir - 1916/18)
Paul Mealor: "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal"
(a set of 4 Madrigals SATB divided - 2010)
Anthony Piccolo: "Jesus Walking on the Waves"
(Treble & Tenor & unaccompanied mixed voices - 1978)
Musical Director: Michael Graham
Sopranos: Daisy Walford, Josie Walledge
Altos: Anselm Carr-Jones, Frazer MacDiarmid
Tenors: Ed Woodhouse, Jason Bomford
Basses: Matt Cann, Julian Rippon
Tickets: £8 (student £5)
Booking 07963 931936
Exodus 'Facebook' page

Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 1 May 12.30am
Piano: Margaret Chave
Clarinet: Philip Bonser
Oboe & Voice: Alison Macdonald
Soprano: Janet Macdonald
Admission FREE

Bruton Girls School Senior Choir

Bruton Girls School Senior Choir
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 4 May 1pm
Informal Choral Concert:
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
STABAT MATER
Admission FREE
(Cathedral admission: £6/£4)
online free entry card application

Exmouth Choral Society

Laurence Blyth

Exmouth Choral Society
Holy Trinity Church Exmouth
Saturday 4 May 7.30pm
A SPRING CELEBRATION
Conductor: Laurence Blyth
Tickets: £12 (advance £10 U18 FREE)

Elizabeth Drury

Soprano

James Armitage

Countertenor

Elizabeth Drury and Friends
St Margaret's Church Topsham
Saturday 4 May 7.30pm
FROM BACH TO BRITTEN
Johann Sebastian Bach
George Frederic Handel
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sir Benjamin Britten
Soprano: Elizabeth Drury
Countertenor: James Armitage
Trumpet: Gareth Hoddinott
Organ/Piano: Jonathan Watts
Wine/fruit-juice in the interval
Tickets: £8.50 (child £3)
from The Topsham Booshop
(telephone 01392 877895)
or direct: 01392 875922

Jef Le Penven Choir
from Quimper in Brittany

Jef Le Penven Choir (Quimper, Brittany)
St David's Church, Exeter
(Changed from St Michael's Church)
Thursday 9 May 7.30pm
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Charles-François Gounod
Javier Busto
- plus other contemporary composers
Conductor: Jean-Philippe Brun

Tickets: £8
(see 'Counterpoint' below for booking details)

Counterpoint Choir
from Exeter in Devon

Counterpoint Choir - AND
Jef Le Penven Choir (Quimper, Brittany)
Buckfast Abbey
Friday 10 May 7.30pm
Gabriel Fauré: Requiem
Maurice Duruflé/Francis Poulenc: Motets
Conductor (CP): David Acres
Conductor (JLP): Jean-Philippe Brun
Tickets: £12 (advance £10)
CounterpointVox@aol.com
David Acres: 01392 490398
Abbey Shop: 01364 645532 
Counterpoint website

East Devon Choral Society
(photo: Mike Brett)

East Devon Choral Society
Tiverton High School Sports Hall
Saturday 11 May 7.30pm
40th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT
Giuseppe Verdi:
La Forza del Destino (overture)
MESSA DA REQUIEM
La Traviata (Brindisi Chorus)
with full orchestra
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Soprano: Claire Surman
Alto: Alison Kettlewell
Tenor: Iain Milne
Bass: Samuel Evans
Tickets: reserved £15
unreserved £10 (U16 £4)
Tiverton Tourist Information Centre
01884 253494

Mellow 'Cellos
Jane Pyrie and Hilary Boxer

Tasty Music
Lympstone Church
Sunday 12 May 4pm
MELLOW 'CELLOS
Luigi Boccherini
Thomas 'Fats' Waller
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
'Cello: Jane Pyrie
A one hour recital
Tickets: £7
Booking: Lympstone Post Office
01395 268180
(Whole series - 4 concerts
14 Apr, 12 May, 16 Jun, 7 Jul
£21 - from the Post Office)
Lympstone Entertainments
('Classical Journey' feature)

A rare glimpse of the elusive
'Roverti' (Trevor Germon)
with Lucina Swain
at Exeter Uni Great Hall
(Uni Choral Soc Mahler VIII)

Roverti Productions presents:
Roverti Gallery of Modern Art
Kay House, Duryard, Exeter Uni
Wednesday 15 May 7.30pm
POEMS AT AN EXHIBITION
Poetry: Trevor Germon ('Roverti')
Plus Jazz Piano
Admission FREE
Come and join the virtual tour!
NO BOOKING NECESSARY!
(Donations to 'MIND' welcomed)

 Directions to Kay House (Click to enlarge)

Brent Singers
(from South Brent!)

Brent Singers
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 18 May 7.30pm
Karl Jenkins: Stabat Mater
J S Bach: Cantata 1 BWV 1
'Wie schön lauchtet der Morgenstern'
Conductor: Trefor Farrow
Contralto: Cheryl Stead
Organ: David Crocker
Piano: Irina Kosogova
Percussion: Rex King
Tickets: £10
Info: Ian Wiseman 01752 691780
Brent Singers' Buckfast page

Bass: Mike Thorne
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
Guitar: Andrew Barrett

Chris Gradwell and Friends
Blue Ball Sidford
Saturday 19 May 7.30pm
"LE JAZZ"
Reservations:
Info: Chris Gradwell 01297 22228
glyn.holford@sky.com
chrisgradwellinbeer@gmail.com
"Chris Gradwell Musician" website

Matthew Barley ('cello)
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 22 May 5.30pm
AROUND BRITTEN
Tickets: TBC

guitar: Jesse Molins

Exmouth Festival
Exmouth Library
Wednesday 29 May 12.30am
SILVER SUMMERTIME
(a heady mix of hot Latin & French cool)
Flutes: Ruth Molins
Guitar: Jesse Molins
Bass: Al Swainger
Tickets: TBC

Bass: Mike Thorne
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
Guitar: Andrew Barrett

Chris Gradwell and Friends
Blue Ball Sidford
Saturday 9 June 7.30pm
"LE JAZZ"
Reservations:
Info: Chris Gradwell 01297 22228
glyn.holford@sky.com
chrisgradwellinbeer@gmail.com
"Chris Gradwell Musician" website

Hilary Boxer & David Cottam
play Nocturnes by
Friedrich Burgmüller

Tasty Music
Lympstone Church
Sunday 16 June 4pm
SOUNDS OF (not Spain but . . .)
GERMANY & ARGENTINA
Friedrich Burgmüller
Astor Piazzolla
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
Guitar: David Cottam
A one hour recital
Tickets: £7
Booking: Lympstone Post Office
01395 268180
(Whole series - 4 concerts
14 Apr, 12 May, 16 Jun, 7 Jul
£21 - from the Post Office)
Lympstone Entertainments
('Classical Journey' feature)





Antiphon Choir
?Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 22 June
(details to follow)

The Tagore Festival
Dartington Hall
Thursday - Sunday 27-30 June
Four days of talks, workshops and music
inspired by Rabindranath Tagore
Speaker: Satish Kumar
Sarod music: Soumik Datta
Multimedia Sextet: Flux

Ola Gjeilo

Counterpoint Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 6 July 7.30pm
MYSTERIUM (Bursary Concert)
Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass
                   "O Magnum Mysterium"
                      "Ubi Caritas"
Eric Whitacre/Morten Lauridsen
Conductor: David Acres
details to be confirmed
Counterpoint website

Nigel Perrin

Exeter Festival Chorus
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 6 July 7.30pm
Felix Mendelssohn
'ELIJAH'
with choirs from Rennes & Hanau
Conductor: Nigel Perrin
Tickets: £22/£17/£12
(online booking form)

Beare Trio
Hilary Boxer
Andrew Daldorph
Chris Gradwell

Beare Trio
Lympstone Church
Sunday 7 July 4pm
CLASSICAL/BROADWAY
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cole Porter
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Clarinet/Sax: Chris Gradwell
A one hour recital
Tickets: £7
Booking: Lympstone Post Office
01395 268180
(Whole series - 4 concerts
14 Apr, 12 May, 16 Jun, 7 Jul
£21 - from the Post Office)
Lympstone Entertainments
('Classical Journey' feature)

Bass: Mike Thorne
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
Guitar: Andrew Barrett

Chris Gradwell and Friends
Blue Ball Sidford
Saturday 21 July 7.30pm
"LE JAZZ"
Reservations:
Info: Chris Gradwell 01297 22228
glyn.holford@sky.com
chrisgradwellinbeer@gmail.com
"Chris Gradwell Musician" website

Dartington International Summer School
Dartington Hall
Week 1: Sat-Sat 27 July - 3 August
Vocal Ensemble: 'Exaudi'
Sight-Singing: Rhiannon Evans
Bach on Harpsichord: Colin Booth
Early Woodwind: William Lyons
Cornett/Sackbut: Gawain Glenton/Emily White
Viol Consorts: 'Fretwork'
Balinese Gamelan: Saj Landay
African Drumming: Trevor Wiggins
Zimbabwean Mbira: Chartwell Dutiro
Song Composition: Dominic Muldowney
Jazz and improvisation: Lewis Riley
Two week course:
Baroque Orchestra Nicolette Moonen
Booking: Sophia Sheridan
sophia.sheridan@dartington.org
01803 847077 or book online

Dartington International Summer School
Dartington Hall
Week 2: Sat-Sat 3 - 10 August
Orchestral Music: Leigh O'Hara
Chamber Music: 'Barbirolli Quartet'
Vocal Ensemble: 'Stile Antico'
Sight-Singing: Rhiannon Evans
Bach on Harpsichord: Colin Booth
Mediaeval & Renaissance: 'Dufay Collective'
Folk Music: Alexis Bennett/Emily&Hazel Askew
Dirty Electronics: John Richards
Write an Opera: 'Royal Opera House'
Trumpet Trombone: David Staff/Adrian France
Two week course (continued):
Baroque Orchestra Lucy Russell
Booking: Sophia Sheridan
sophia.sheridan@dartington.org
01803 847077 or book online

Dartington International Summer School
Dartington Hall
Week 3: Sat-Sat 10 - 17 August
Mendelssohn 'Elijah': Brian Kay
Staring Orchestra: Alexander Janiczek
(and Sir Neville Marriner)
Chamber Music: 'Benhounes Quartet'
Chamber Choir: John Hancorn
Finding Your Voice: Jessica Cash
Improvisation: Daniel Pioro
Tango: Calos Morera
Tango: Laura Hansen
Aural Awareness: Shelagh Sutherland
English Strings 1651-2012: Pete Cooper
('Cello & Guitar: Richard Bolton)
Recording Techniques: Moritz Bergfeld
Two Week Course:
Advanced Composition: Johannes Maria Staud
Three Week Course:
Advanced Conducting: John Carew
(final week Piere-André Valade)
Booking: Sophia Sheridan
sophia.sheridan@dartington.org
01803 847077 or book online

Dartington International Summer School
Dartington Hall
Week 4: Sat-Sat 17 - 24 August
Choir: Brad Cohen/Jonathan Watts
Orchestral Workshop: Richard Heason
Chamber Music: Bennewitz Quartet
Chamber Choir: Leigh O'Hara
Chamber Piano Trios: Stephen Kovacevich
Piano Duets: Juliet Edwards/John Flinders
Tea Dance: Stephen Dummer
Children's Choir: Christopher Wray
Gospel Choir: Carol Pemberton
Creative Composition: Philip Cashian
Improve your Conducting: Stephen Dummer
Junk Music: Michael Freeman
Samba: João Bosco de Oliveira
Alexander Technique:
for Instrumentalists: Peter Buckoke
for Singers: Judith Kleinman
Two Week Course (continued):
Advanced Composition: Johannes Maria Staud
Three Week Course (continued):
Advanced Conducting: John Carew
(final week Piere-André Valade)
Booking: Sophia Sheridan
sophia.sheridan@dartington.org
01803 847077 or book online

Bass: Mike Thorne
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
Guitar: Andrew Barrett

Chris Gradwell and Friends
Blue Ball Sidford
Saturday 18 August 7.30pm
"LE JAZZ"
Reservations:
Info: Chris Gradwell 01297 22228
glyn.holford@sky.com
chrisgradwellinbeer@gmail.com
"Chris Gradwell Musician" website

Dartington International Summer School
Dartington Hall
Week 5: Sat-Sat 24 - 31 August
Beethoven Mass in C: Garry Walker
Chamber Music: Heath Quartet
Chamber Wind Music: Gallimaufry Ensemble
Chamber Choir: Jeremy Walker
Brass Ensemble: Paul Archibald/Graham Lee
Wind Band: Stephen Dummer
Songs from Musicals: ?Robert Purvis
Salsa Band: João Bosco de Oliveira
Salsa Dance: Etian Antuche
Three Week Course (continued):
Advanced Conducting: Piere-André Valade
Booking: Sophia Sheridan
sophia.sheridan@dartington.org
01803 847077 or book online

The Sixteen
conducted by
Harry Christophers

The Sixteen
Exeter Cathedral
Friday 6 September 7.30pm
(pre-concert talk 7pm)
THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere Mei Deus
Giovanni Palestrina: Stabat Mater
James MacMillan: Miserere
(full programme on choir website)
Conductor: Harry Christophers
Tickets: £30/£20/£10
from the Ntaional Centre for Early Music
01904 651485  NCEM website

Bass: Mike Thorne
Piano: Andrew Daldorph
Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
Guitar: Andrew Barrett

Chris Gradwell and Friends
Blue Ball Sidford
Saturday 15 September 7.30pm
"LE JAZZ"
Reservations:
Info: Chris Gradwell 01297 22228
glyn.holford@sky.com
chrisgradwellinbeer@gmail.com
"Chris Gradwell Musician" website









Antiphon Choir
?Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 28 September
(details to follow)

James Bowman
countertenor

Counterpoint Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 26 October 7.30pm
MASTERS OF BAROQUE
George Frederick Handel
Johann Sebstian Bach
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Caldara
Countertenor: James Bowan
Dirertimento String Ensemble
Conductor: David Acres
details to be confirmed
Counterpoint website

English Touring Opera
at Buckfast Abbey

Counterpoint Choir - AND
English Touring Opera
Exeter Cathedral Choir
ISCA Voices
Exeter Cathedral
Sunday 24 November 7.30pm
George Frederick Handel:
CARMELITE VESPERS
(including "Dixit Dominus")
Conductor: David Acres
details to be confirmed
Counterpoint website




Counterpoint Choir
Exeter Cathedral
Sunurday 21 December 7.30pm
ABBEY CAROL SERVICE
Admission: FREE
(Arrive in time for a good seat!)
Counterpoint website