June 2024

Exeter Chamber Choir
'A Summer's Garland'
St James' Church Exeter Friday 21 June
St Thomas' Church Thorverton Tuesday 25 June

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Coffee Concert

Southernhay Church

Saturday 1 June 11am

FRENCH CLASSICS

Soprano: Anna Townhill

.  .  .  .  .  . Olga Obertas

Mezzo-Soprano: Iryna Ilnytska

Tenor: Michael Smith

Baritone: Lee Andreae

Piano: Richard Lucas

Admission FREE

Retiring Collection

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Globe Concerts

St Margaret's Topsham

Saturday 8 June 7pm

THE TRUMPETS SHALL SOUND!

Music for trumpet ensembles by:

Johann Ernst Altenburg

Heinrich Ignatz Franz Biber

Geoffrey Burgon

Charles Edmund Rubbra

Sir Michael Tippett

Richard Wagner

Sir William Walton

Stanley Wilson

with additional music for voice & organ

Georg Friderick Handel

Johann Sebastian Bach

Geoffrey Burgon

Tickets: £11 (concession £8)

Box Office: 01392 665938

exetercornexchange.co.uk

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Red Earth Opera & Orchestra

South Devon Singers Choir

1. Pavilions Theatre Teignmouth

. . Saturday 8 June 7pm

2. Chudleigh Parish Church

. . Sunday 9 June 7pm

REGINA! TRIUMPH

OBSESSION TRAGEDY

- Two operas permiered 299 years apart

dealing with universal themes of

love, loss and war

Henry Purcell: 'Dido & Aeneas'

David Haines: 'Armadadrama 

Musical Director: Jane Anderson-Brown

Mezzo Soprano: Grace Lovelass

.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  Iryna Ilnytska

Tenor: Ceri Davies

Teignmouth Tickets: £8-£12

01626 249049

pavilionsteignmouth.org.uk

Chudleigh Tickets: £5-£15

07790 889790

ticketsource.co.uk/southdevonsingers

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Haldon Quartet

St Mary's Stoke Gabriel

Saturday 8 June 7.30pm

SCHUBERT, SHAW &

FANNY MENDELSSOHN

Violin: Lindsay Braga, Mandy Britton

Viola: Andrew Gillett

'Cello: Rebecca Allnatt

Franz Schubert: Quartet in Gm D173

Caroline Shaw: "Plan and Elevate"

Fanny Mendelssohn: Quartet in Em

Grins Hans: 'Jasspodspolska' (Banquet Polska)

Bjørn Sverre Kristensen: 'Halling' Dance

Danish String Quartet Arrangements

Tickets: £9 (U18 FREE)

Manage Tickets:

tickettailor.com/events/theviolinden/1274273

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Pinhoe

Performance
Postponed

until
Autumn

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Lunchtime Concerts

St Margaret's Topsham

Wednesday 12 June 1.15pm

'ASPECTS OF LOVE'

Soprano: Olga Obertas

Mezzo Soprano: Iryna Ilnytska

Piano: John Draisey

Arias and Duets by

Giovanni Paisiello

Giuseppe Giordano

Henry Purcell

Georges Bizet

Giacomo Puccini

Jacques Offenbach . . .

Admission FREE

Retiring Collection

(towards the Ukrainian Volunteers)

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Lunchtime Concerts

Tavistock Parish Church

Saturday 15 June 12.30pm

MOZART & ROSSINI

Soprano: Olga Obertas

Mezzo-Soprano: Iryna Ilnytska

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:

- 'Le Nozze di Figaro'

- 'Don Giovanni'

- 'Cosi fan Tutte'

- 'La Clemenza di Tito'

Gioachino Rossini:

- 'Il Barbiere di Siviglia'

- 'La Cenerentola'
- 'Tancredi'

plus piano pieces and vocal duets

Admission FREE

Retiring Collection

towards the Ukrainian Volunteers

and the Nalwanza School in Uganda

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Joe Levy

Southernhay Church

Saturday 15 June 7.30pm

A RURAL HISTORY OF . . .

Countertenor: Joe Levy

Piano: Peter Adcock

Tickets: £12

ticketsource.co.uk/Joe-Levy-music

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Exeter Bach Choir

St Margaret's Topsham

Saturday 15 June 7.30pm

'A NIGHT AT THE OPERA'

Musical Director Jonathan Lucas Wood

Soprano: Aimee Presswood

Tenor: Jonathan Lucas Wood

Bass: Tim Mirfin

Piano & Organ: David Davies

Tickets: £15 (advance £12)

(student/U18 1/2 price U16 FREE)

exeterbachchoir.co.uk

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Staircase Opera

Downes House Crediton

Saturday 15 June 7.30pm

SUMMER OPERA AT DOWNES

Bring picnics and chairs!

Tickets: £20 (U16 FREE)

ticketsource.co.uk

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Isca Ensemble

Sidmouth Parish Church

Saturday 15 June 7.30pm

CONCERT CLASSICS

Musical Director: Roger Hendy

Leader: Antony Clements

Piano Soloist: Lucas Krupinski

Johann Strauss: 'Fledermaus' Overture

Ludwig Beethoven: Concerto V

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony IX

- 'From the New World'

(Lucas Krupinski is a Steinway Artist

and is represented by the

Ludwig van Beethoven Association

and Madam Elzbieta Penderecka.)

Tickets: £17.50 (student/U18 £5)

ticketsource.co.uk

iscaensemble.org.uk

Paragon Books: 01395 514516

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Isca Ensemble

Sidmouth Parish Church

Monday 17 June 7.30pm

SPECIAL SUMMER CLASSICAL

- - - CHAMBER CONCERT - - -

Musical Director: Roger Hendy

Anglo-Bulgarian Trio:

Violin: Joel Munday

Viola: Vanessa Hristova

Piano: Lucas Krupinski

Leoš Janáček

Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe

Alexander Scriabin

Béla Bartók

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johannes Brahms

Michael Kugel

Admission FREE

Free Tickets: roghendy@gmail.com

Paragon Books 38 High Street

(standby tickets at the door 7.15pm)

iscaensemble.org.uk

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Exeter Chamber Choir

1. St James' Church Exeter

. . Friday 21 June 7.30pm

2. St Thomas' Thorverton

. . Tuesday 25 June 7.30pm

'A SUMMER'S GARLAND'

Musical Director: Andrew Daldorph

English Madrigals:

'Fair Phyllis' 'My Bonny Lass'

'Now is the month of Maying'

'Draw on Sweet Night'

'The Silver Swan' 'Lay a Garland'

European Madrigals:

Claudio Monteverdi

Jacques Arcadelt

Juan Vasquez

Pierre Passereau

Other Songs:

Johannes Brahms

Peter Cornelius

Ralph Vaughan Williams

(Three Shakespeare Songs)

Close Harmony Arrangements:

Henry Mancini/Johnny Mercer: 'Moon River'

Harold Arlan/Yip Harburg/Billy Rose: 'It's Only a Paper Moon'

Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart: 'Blue Moon'

Tickets: £15 (advance £12 child/student FREE)

ticketsource.co.uk

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Exeter Family Orchestra

Flow Orchard (Exeter Mill Field)

[Bad Weather - Exwick Parish Hall]

Saturday 22 June 6-8pm

'THE AUBERGINES'

a musical picnic

audience performances welcome

Details: Emma Welton

emma@emmawelton.net

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Concerts by Candlelight

Exeter Cathedral

Saturday 22 June 7.30pm

THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES

featuring the cast of

West End Singers

Tickets: front £48.50 rear £43.50

boxoffice.concertsbycandlelight.com

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Devon Baroque

St John's, Bridgetown Totnes

Saturday 22 June 7.30pm

BAROQUE MUSIC FOR MIDSUMMER

Leader: Persephone Gibbs

Violins: Sharon Lindo

'Cello: Gabriel Amherst

Harpsichord: Andew Wilson-Dickson

Recorder & Oboe: Sarah Humphrys

Soprano: Rebecca Ramsey

Georg Frideric Handel:

. Sinfonia in B flat HWV 339 (1709)

. Two German arias for soprano

and obbligato instruments
‘Sweet Bird’ from L’Allegro,

. Il Penseroso ed il Moderato

‘Hush, ye pretty warbling choir’

(aria from Acis and Galatea)
. ‘Splende l’alba in oriente’

(from cantata HWV166)

Johann Christoph Pepusch:

. ‘Love frowns’

(from English Cantatas, book 2 no. 1)
William Williams:

Trio Sonata no. 6 in F: In imitation of birds
James Oswald:

‘Honeysuckle‘ and ‘Marvel of Peru’

(from Airs for the Seasons)
William Jackson:

‘Twas when the seas were roaring’

(from Twelve Songs, op. 1 no. 9)

Heinrich Biber:

Sonata Representativa for violin and continuo

Tickets: £20 (student £5 child FREE)

ticketsource.co.uk/devon-baroque

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Torbay Symphony Orchestra

1. St John's Bridgetown Totnes

. . Saturday 8 June 7.30pm

2. St Peter's Shaldon

. . Sunday 9 June 7.30pm

'JUNE 2024 SERIES'

Conductor: Richard Gonski

Leader: Chris Eastman

Gioachino Rossini:

Overture to 'Barber of Seville'

Ludwig van Beethoven:

Violin Concerto Opus 61

(Violin Soloist: Ofer Falk)

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:

Symphony VI (Pathetique) mvt 1

Tickets: £15 (U18 FREE)

torbaysymphony.org/events/june/2024

Box Office: 01803 865377

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Torbay Symphony Orchestra

Brixham Theatre

Saturday 22 June 7.30pm

CONCERT IN BRIXHAM THEATRE

Conductor: Richard Gonski

Leader: Chris Eastman

Gioachino Rossini:

Overture to 'Barber of Seville'

Ludwig van Beethoven:

Violin Concerto Opus 61

(Violin Soloist: Ofer Falk)

Giuseppe Verdi:

Overture to 'La Forza del Destino'

Johann Struass: 'The Blue Danube'

Sir Edward Elgar: 'Nimrod'

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:

Symphony VI (Pathetique) mvt 1

John Williams: 'Schindler's List'

Gabriel Fauré: 'Pavane' Opus 50

Sir Hubert Parry: 'Jerusalem'

Tickets: £15 (carers FREE)

ticketsource.co.uk

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Culm Valley Orchestra

Kentisbeare Village Hall

Sunday 23 June 3pm

'MAGICAL TALES IN MUSIC'

Musical Director: Alan Boxer

Gioachino Puccini: William Tell Overture

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker

Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre

Georg Philipp Telemann: 3 Trumpet Concerto

Admission FREE - donations welcome

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Devon Philharmonic Orchestra

Southernhay Church

Saturday 29 June 7.30pm

SUMMER CONCERT

Conductor: Benjamin Voce

Leader: Jackie Baldwin

Claude Debussy: 'Marche Écossaise'

Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dances

Vasily Kalinnikov: Symphony I

Tickets: £10 (student/U16 £5 Family £25)

ticketsoure.co.uk

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Exeter Festival Chorus

Exeter Cathedral

Saturday 6 July 7.30pm

BACH 'B MINOR MASS'

with Devon Baroque Orchestra

Musical Director: Andrea Brown

Soprano 1: Bethany Partridge

Soprano 2: Elizabeth Drury

Counter-Tenor: Benjamin Irvine-Capel

Tenor: John Uperton

Bass-Baritone: Timothy Dickinson

Tickets: front nave £30 rear nave £21

- side aisles £15 (child/student/UC 1/2)

ticketsource.co.uk

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Somerset Opera

Taunton Sinfonietta

Museum of Somerset

Wed-Fri 10-12 July 7.30pm

DIDO & AENEAS

Musical Director: Noah Mosely

Leader: Mary Eade

Stage Director: Guido Martin Brandis

Henry Purcell: 'Dido & Aeneas'

performed at the 4th century

Low Ham mosaic in the Great Hall

Tickets: £15 (3 easy access remaining)

ticketsource.co.uk

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Bel Canto Singers

St Margaret's Topsham

Wednesday 10 July 1.15pm

'AIN'T MISBEHAVIN'

Musical Director: Alan Boxer

45 mins of light choral music

John Rutter - Henry Mancini

Billy Joel - Eric Whitacre

Andrew Lloyd Webber

The Spice Girls

Admission FREE

Donations Welcome

towards The Brain Tumour Charity

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Bel Canto Singers

1. St Mary's Ottery St Mary

. . Friday 12 July 7.30pm

2. St Margaret's Topsham

. . Satruday 13 July 7.30pm

'FEEL THE SPIRIT'

Musical Director: Alan Boxer

Gabriel Fauré: 'Requiem'

John Rutter: 'Feel the Spirit'

(Seven Spirituals)

Tickets: £10 (U18 £5)

bel-canto.net

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The Exon Singers

Haldon Quartet

Bristol Brass Consort

St Eustachius Tavistock

(and Buckland Abbey Yelverton)

24-28 July 2024

56th SUMMER FESTIVAL

tickets@exonsingers.org.uk

exonsingers.org.uk

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