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| Exeter Bach Society will perform Bach's 'Christmas Oratorio' St David's Church, Exeter Saturday 3 December ('Cellos Hilary Boxer, Ruth Lass, Double Bass Imogen Fernando) |
Exeter Bach Society
St David's Church Exeter
Saturday 3 December 7.30pm
Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio
Conductor: Nicholas Marshall
Orchestra Leader: Anna Cockroft
Soprano: Raphaela Papadakis
Mezzo-Soprano: Juliet Curnow
Tenor: Thomas Hobbs
Bass: Julian Rippon
Tickets: £15 (student £7.50)
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
Roger Churchward: 01392 468867
www.exeterbachsociety.org.uk
A Concert for AdventBuckfast Abbey
Saturday 3 Dec 7.30pm
Antiphon Choir
Director: Matthew Cann
Fantastic programme, including:
Gabriel Jackson: 'I look from afar'
Thomas Tallis: Videte Miraculum
Morten Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium
Henryk Gorecki: Totas Tuas
Eric Whitacre: Lux Arumque
Tickets: £16 (advance £14)
Info: antiphonvox@gmail.com
Exeter Chamber Choir
The Great Barn Higher Ashton
Saturday 3 December 7.30pm
'A Concert of Seasonal Music'
Admission Free retiring collection
Tasty Music
'The Corn Barn' Cullumpton
Sunday 4 Decmber 4pm
'Festive Flute'
Flute: Ruth Molins (née Ruth Avis!)
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
Tickets: £5
Contact Yta Batchelor 01884 32107
Music for Advent and Christmas
James Wyatt Music Room, Powderham Castle
Tuesday 6 December 7.30pm
Choristers and Gentlemen of Exeter Cathedral
Director: Andrew Millington
Tickets: £14 Box: 01626 890243
Exeter Chamber Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Tuesday 6 December 7.30pm
'A Service of Christmas Music and Readings'
Admission Free retiring collection
Lunchtime Recital of Piano and Clarinet
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 7 December 12.30pm
Piano: Frances Waters
Clarinet: Kevin Hurst
Admission Free, retiring collection
Tasty Music
Bicton College Music Room
Wednesday 7 December 12.30pm
'Festive Flute'
Flute: Ruth Avis
'Cello: Hilary Boxer
Tickets: £10 (includes lunch and wine)
College Reception: 01395 562300
Exeter Choral Society
St James Church Exeter
Wednesday 7 December 7.30pm
JOSEPH HAYDN: 'CREATION'
Musical Director: Laurence Blyth
Organist: David Davies
Soprano: Harriet Jones
Tenor: David Webb
Bass: John Hobbs
Tickets: £10 (students £5)
Box Office: 01392 832474
Exeter University Choral Society
Mint Methodist Church (Fore Street, Exeter)
Wednesday 7 December 7.30pm
WINTER CONCERT
Conductor: Richard Gonski
(Conducted Brahms Requiem at Totnes 11 Sept - link)
Lutoslawksi: Mi Parti
Mozart: Flute & Harp Concerto
Flute: Marta Soffker
Harp: Oliver Ritchie
(both played in last week's Brahms Requiem - link)
Shostakovich: Symphony No 11 in G minor
Tickets: £6 (Students £4 Music Card Holders £3)
(special offer: 5 tickets for the price of 4)
Info/Reservations: contact Rebecca Pennar
(rdp206@exeter.ac.uk) or tickets on the door
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Exeter University Great Hall
Thursday 8 December 7.30pm
Conductor: Kirill Karabits
Piano: Simon Trpčeski
PETRUSHKA
Ivan Karabits: Concerto for Orchestra No 2
Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2
Stravinsky: Petrushka
Tickets: £11.50 - £35.00
Exeter Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
Music on the Edge
Topsham Art Room (8a The Strand)
Friday 9 December 6pm
MUSIC FOR ADVENT
French & English carols
Extracts from Bach's Christmas Oratorio
Music of Henry Purcell
Flutes: Susie Hodder-Williams
Soprano Sax / Bass Clarinet; Chris Caldwell
Violin / Double Bass: Emma Welton
Tickets: £10 at door - but booking essential:
theartroom@eclipse.co.uk
Music and Art - see the latest exhibition: "FIVE"
Valerie Barden, Dinah Hayes, Joss Kingnorth,
Jane Price, Kate Westbrook.
Running 19 November - 18 December
(1-5pm Mon&Wed, 11am-5pm Sat&Sun)
www.theartroomtopsham.co.uk
The Jubilee Singers
Broadclyst Parish Church
Friday 9 December 7.45pm
Conductor: John Scarfe
Piano: Stephanie Howard
Christmas Carols by Candlelight
Admission Free retiring collection
(In aid of the Organ Fund)
Exeter Festival Chorus
Mint Methodist Church (Fore Street Exeter)
Saturday 10 December 7.30pm
CAROLSING 2011
Conductor: Nigel Perrin
Piano: Peter Adcock
Tickets: £12 Box: 08456 005 441
Exeter Phoenix: 01392 667067 (credit cards)
Nonclassical
Exeter Bikeshed Theatre
Sunday 11 December 7.30pm
Cutting edge modern music
Talented classical musicians
Piano: Rebecca Willson
Flute: Ruth Avis
Admission: £3
Dartington Community ChoirDartington Great Hall
Sunday 11 December 7.30
Baroque Orchestra
Conductor: Johathan Watts
Counter-Tenor: Nicholas Clapton
Bach: Christmas Oratorio
(parts 1 & 2 in German)
Handel: Messiah, Part 1
Tickets: £14 (student £5)
!! Contact the box office early
to join the waiting list for tickets:
01803 847070 (12.30 - 7.00 pm)
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Ensky Loosecat is Minsky the Clown |
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Monday 12 December 7.30pm
Natalya Umanska & Dream Makers Ltd
Earl Harlem
Sophie St Villier
Ensky Loosecat
Nara Taylor, Queen of the Night
Matt Pang, juggler
Tickets: £15.50 (student standby £8)
Box Office: 01392 493493
Lunchtime Recital of Piano, Soprano & Baritone
Glenorchy United Reformed Church Exmouth
Wednesday 14 December 12.30pm
Piano: Frances Waters
Soprano: Val Howels
Baritone: John Brindley
Admission Free, retiring collection
Clyst Valley Choral Society
St Nicholas Methodist Church Topsham
Wednesday 14 December 7.30pm
Conductor: Paul Stock
Exeter Philharmonic ChoirExeter Cathedral
Wed&Thu 14&15 December
CAROLS IN THE CATHEDRAL
Tickets: £5-15 (Supper Club £36)
EPC Tickets: 01392 499211
Exeter Phoenix: 01392 667080
www.exephil.org.uk
Collegium SingersChurch of St John the Baptist Wellington
Friday 16 December 7.30pm
O MAGNUM MYSTERIUM
Renaissance Music for Advent & Christmas
Celebrating the life of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Tomás Luis de Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium
Cristóbal Morales (Victoria's predecessor at the Spanish court)
Francisco Guerrero (Victoria's colleague in Spain)
Estêvão de Brito, Gaspar Fernandes (Portugese contemporaries)
Tickets: £12 (student £6 U12 Free) www.oxboffice.com
Taunton Tourist Information: 01823 336344www.collegiumsingers.org.uk
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| 'Acker' Bernard Bilk MBE |
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Friday 16 December 7.30pm
The great English clarinettist
Tickets: £20.50 Box: 01392 493493
Counterpoint Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 17 December 3pm
ABBEY CAROL SERVICE
Admission Free (Church Service)
Christmas with the Cathedral Choir
Exeter Cathedral
Saturday 17 December 7.30pm
SOLD OUT!
(see alternative concerts below
and look out for the Candlelight service
in the Cathedral - Saturday 28 January 7pm)
Jubilee Singers
Killerton House Music Room
Saturday 17 December 7pm
AN EVENING OF CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Conductor: John Scarfe
Piano: Stephanie Howard
killerton@nationaltrust.org.uk
01392 881345
East Devon Choral Society
St Peter's Church Tiverton
Saturday 17 December 7.30 pm
Josef Haydn: St Nicholas Mass
Andrew Daldorph: The Seven Joys Carol Collection
Musical Director: Andrew Daldorph
Piano & Organ: Michael Dawson
Soprano: Ellie Partridge
Alto: Lucy Bray
Tenor: Jon Schranz
Bass: Matthew Smith
Tickets: £10 (child £4)
Booking: 01884 253494
Exeter Bach Society
Church of St Michael and All Angels, Alphington
Saturday 17 December 7pm
A CHRISTMAS CONCERT IN AID OF 'SHELTERBOX'
Conductor: Nicholas Marshall
Organist: Ron Kendall
Admission Free Refreshments Free
(Collection/Donations for 'Shelterbox')
online donations: www.shelterbox.org
Phone donations: 0300 0300 500
Voces Renaissance Choir
Blessed Sacrament Chapel, Buckfast Abbey
Sunday 18 December 4pm
MASS FOR THE ORDINARIATE
William Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
Cristóbal de Morales (16th century Spain)
Francisco Guerrero ( ditto )
Admission Free (Church Service)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
& Exeter Festival Chorus
Exeter Cathedral
Monday 19 December 7.30pm
HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Conductor Nigel Perrin
Soprano: Claire Booth
Counter-Tenor: William Towers
Tenor: Nicholas Mulroy
Bass: Tim Mirfin
SOLD OUT!
(Contact Phoenix Box Office
01392 667080 to check for returns)
Exeter Chamber Choir
St Mary Arches Church Exeter
Tuesday 20 December 7.30pm
'A Concert of Christmas Music'
featuring:
Nick Cornish: Oboe & Saxophones
Todd Gibson Cornish: bassoon
(Father and son)
Tickets: £10 (in aid of the St Stephen's Project)
Box Office: 01392 851207
www.exeterchamberchoir.co.uk
