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
to join our mailing list of future events



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

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