September 2024

 

Freddie Crowley (back row centre)
and his 'CORVUS CONSORT'
Whiddon Autumn Festival 2024
Chagford, Moretonhampstead,
Gidleigh, Throwleigh,
Drewesteignton
Wednesday 18 September
    - Sunday 22 September

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Celebrating The Earth

St Michael's Church Chagford

Thursday 12 September 5.30pm

'GLORIOUS OAK'

Compère: William Todd-Jones

Harp: Elizabeth Jane Baldry

Dramatist: Tom Fynn

A programme of Folklore,

Poetry & Harp Music.

Project to create the world's largest

Oak Tree Table in Pigwiggen Wood

[Next Event: Thursday 24 October]

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Coffee & Music

Southernhay Church

Saturday 14 September 10.30am

SOPRANO RECITAL

Piano: John Draisey

Soprano: Melanie Mehta

Admission FREE

Retiring Collection

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Exeter Friends Meeting House

Saturday 14 September 7.30pm

POETRY & MUSIC FOR WORLD PEACE

MC: James Turner

Tickets: £5

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Exeter Symphony Orchestra

Exeter Cathedral

Saturday 14 September 7pm

ABF80 CONCERT

[Army Benevolent Fund 1944]

Compère: David Fitzgerald

Conductor: Arturo Serna

Leader: Clare Marchant

Harp: Elizabeth Jane Baldry

Piano: Timothy Noon

Soprano: Davina Hastings

Antonín Dvořák: Slavonic Dances

Sir Edward Elgar: 'Nimrod'

John Philip Sousa: 'Washington Post'

Sir Edward Elgar: 'Pomp & Circumstance' I

Tickets: Back Seats £10 Rear Nave £15

Mid Nave £25 Front Nave £35 VIP £65

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Lunchtime Concert

Exeter Central Library

Sunday 15 September 1pm

'365 YEARS OF PURCELL'

Soprano: Melanie Mehta

Mezzo-Soprano: Iryna Ilnytska

Baritone: Lee Andreae

Piano: John Draisey

'Dido & Aeneas': Act I

'King Arthur': "What Power art Thou?"

'The Faery Queen': "Hark, Hark!"

'Dido & Aeneas': "When I'm Laid in Earth"

'The Indian Queen': "From Love's Sickness"

Six Duets from the 'Orpheus Britannicus'

"Let us Wander not Unseen" (The Indian Queen)

"Lost is my Quiet Forever"

"My Dearest, My Fairest" (Pausanius, the Betrayer)

"Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying" (King Arthur)

"Two Daughters of this Aged Stream" (King Arthur)

"Sound the Trumpet" (Come Ye Sons of Art)

Admission FREE - Retiring Collection

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Exeter Science Choir

Mary Harris Chapel

Tuesday 17 September 7.30pm

OPEN REHEARSAL

& TASTER SESSION

Red Supergiants, The Moon,

The Solar System, Black Holes

ALL WELCOME

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Whiddon Autumn Festival

Chagford, Moreton, Gidleigh, Drewe

Wed 18 - Sun 22 September

FOURTH ANNUAL FESTIVAL

Freddie Crowley & 'Corvus Consort'

WAF Children's Choir

(Chagford, Moreton, N/S Tawton, Exbourne)

Charlotte Bowden & Matthew McKinney

Festival String Quartet & Solem Quartet

Harry Baker & Athena Octavia

Vocalist Alice Zawadzki

Composer-in-Residence: Sun Keting

Lucas DeRungs Sextet & Immy Churchill

Learning & Engagement: George Cook

SPECIAL EXTRA CONCERT

St Michael's Church Chagford

Monday 11 November 6pm & 8pm

'BACH & BEYOND'

Piano: Harry Baker

'Cello: Sheku Kanneh-Mason

7-CONCERT PASS SOLD OUT

Individual Tickets: 

whiddonautumnfestival.co.uk/events

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St Michael's Church Chagford

Wednesday 18 September 7pm

'CHANSON PERPÉTUELLE'

(An Evening of Song)

Piano: Harry Baker

Festival String Quartet

Soprano: Charlotte Bowden

Ernest Chausson: 'Chanson Perpétuelle'

Cécille Chaminade, Claude Debussy

Fanny Mendelssohn, Undine Smith Moore

Tenor: Matthew McKinney

Clara & Robert Schumann Gabriel Fauré

Edmund Rubra: 'Amoretti' - 5 Sonnets

Tickets: £15 (U36 £5 U26 FREE)

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St Andrew's Church Moretonhampstead

Thursday 19 September 6pm

'THRONGED WITH FLOWERS'

Director of Music: Freddie Crowley

The Corvus Consort

The WAF Children's Choir

(Learning & Engagement: George Cook)

Floral imagery in religious & popular song

with a new composition by Sun Keting

Benjamin Britten: 'Five Flower Songs'

(Première Dartington Hall 1950

- for Dorothy & Leonard Elmhirst)

Tickets: £15 (U36 £5 U26 FREE)

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Holy Trinity Church Gidleigh

Thursday 19 September 9pm

FESTIVAL COMPLINE

Festival String Quartet

Sun Keting: Instrumental Prelude

Freddie Crowley & Corvus Consort

plainchant & choral motets

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Thomas Tallis, Josef Rheinberger

An Anglican Church Service

No charge for admission

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St Mary's Church Throwleigh

Friday 20 September 11am

'THROUGH THE LANDSCAPE'

Piano: Harry Baker

Festival String Quartet

Violins: Athena Octavia & Nina Lim

Viola: Freya Hicks

'Cello: Hanna McFarlane

Ernest Bloch: 'Paysages'

Gabriel Fauré, Antonín Dvořák

Sun Keting: new work for quartet

Harry & Athena - popular songs

Vernon Duke, Jean-Luc Ponty

Tickets: £15 (U36 £5 U26 FREE)

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Holy Trinity Church Drewesteignton

Friday 20 September 6pm

'GEMS OF THE RENAISSANCE'

Freddie Crowley & Corvus Consort

Plainchant: "Ave Maris Stella"

Tomás Luis de Victoria: "Ave Maris Stella"

Diogo Dias Melgaz: "Salve Regine"

Alonso Lobo: "Versa est in Luctum"

Jean Mouton: "Nesciens Mater"

Giovanni da Palestrina: Sicut Cervus"

Sulpita Cesis: "Stabat Mater"

Hans Leo Hassler: "O Sacrum Convivium"

Pierre de la Rue: "O Salutaris Hostia"

Thomas Tallis: "Sancte Deus"

Robert Ramsey: "How are the Mighty Fallen"

Robert Parsons: "Ave Maria"

William Byrd: "Vigilate"

SOLD OUT

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The Long Room Drewesteignton

Friday 20 September 9pm

STEVE REICH & KATE BUSH

Vocalist: Alice Zawadzki

The Solem Quartet

Violins: Sahra Benyounes &William Newell

(first violin Amy Tress is on maternity leave)

Viola: Stephen Upshaw

'Cello: Stephanie Tress

Steve Reich: 'Different Trains'

Kate Bush: arrangements by William Newell

Tickets: £15 (U36 £5 U26 FREE)

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Endecott House Chagford

Saturday 21 September 10-12am

MUSIC & COFFEE MORNING

10.15: Corvus a cappella

10.45: Harry Baker piano

11.15: Sun Keting & Festival Quartet

11.45: Corvus a capella

a FREE drop-in event

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St Andrew's Church Moretonhampstead

Saturday 21 September 5pm

'A FEAST OF STRINGS'

Festival String Quartet & Solem Quartet

Claude Debussy: String Quartet

Nadia Boulanger: 'Trois Pièces'

Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E♭

Tickets: £15 (U36 £5 U26 FREE)

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Jubilee Hall Chagford

Saturday 21 September 8.30pm

FESTIVAL JAZZ NIGHT

Lukas DeRungs Sextet

& Corvus Consort

Basses & Tenors: 'WAFter Eights'

Lukas DeRungs: 'KOSMOS' Suite

with Corvus Consort

jazz standards and new songs

Vocalist: Immy Churchill

Tickets: £15 (U36 £5 U26 FREE)

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Endecott House Chagford

Sunday 22 September 11am

CHILDREN'S CONCERT

Animateur: George Cook

Piano: Harry Baker

interactive and informal

suitable for ages 2+

Tickets: £2 (U36 FREE)

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Astor's Bookshop Chagford

Sunday 22 September 12 noon

MEET THE MUSICIANS

Q&A about musical careers

Host: Freddie Crowley

a FREE drop-in event

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Endecott House Chagford

Sunday 22 September 1pm

COME & SING WORKSHOP

Leader: George Cook

participants will perform in

'The Magic of Folk Song'

NO musical ability necessary

all teaching by ear - with

sheet music if requested

All Tickets: £2

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St Michael's Church Chagford

Sunday 22 September 6pm

'THE MAGIC OF FOLK SONG'

Freddie Crowley & Corvus Consort

Gustav Holst: 'Six Choral Folksongs'

(Holst born 21 September 1874

- "Happy 150th Birthday!")

Benjamin Britten, Simon Carrington

Harry Baker, Nathan Hames Dearden

(Nathan was 2023 composer-in-residence)

Sun Keting: composition for world première

performance by the 'Come & Sing' choir

Tickets: £15 (U36 £5 U26 FREE)

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Exeter Philharmonic Choir

St Margaret's Church Topsham

Saturday 21 September 4.30pm

A CONCERT OF ENGLISH

CHORAL MUSIC FOR SPAIN

Musical Director: Howard Ionascu

Associate Director: Stephen Tanner

A pre-tour showcase of English

sacred choral music from across

the centuries which the choir

will be performing in the Cathedrals

of Salamanca and Valladolid and

the Church of St Teresa in Ávila.

Admission FREE Donations Welcome

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Sonic Harvest Ensemble

Ashburton Arts Centre

Saturday 21 September 8pm

- - - - - 'TREES' - - - - -

A Homage to our Arboreal Friends

Composer & Director: Sam Richards

Visuals: Sybille Schiffmann

Piano: Mike McInerney

Singers: Briony Greenhill

.     .     . Jenny Osbourne

.     .     . Lucinda Guy

.     .     . Kerry Priest

Violin: Gillian Taylor

Viola: Emma Welton

'Cello: Eliza Jacobs

Flute: Jennifer Campbell

Clarinet: Chris Derrick

Saxophone: Ric White

[& Electronic Wind Instrument]

Saxophone: Andy Williamson

[& Bass Clarinet]

Percussion: Steve Day

Gongs: Roger Hall

Tickets: £15/£10/£7 according to means

wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts

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Devon Baroque

1. St Peter's Church Tiverton

. . Saturday 21 September 7.30pm

2. St Mary's Church Totnes

. . Sunday 22 September 4pm

'BAROQUE 'n' BIZARRE'

Leader: Persephone Gibbs

Harpsichord: Andrew Wilson-Dickson

J S Bach: Sinfonia from Cantata 42

G P Telemann: Overture to 'La Bizarre'

Johann Fasch: Bassoon Concerto with 2 Oboes

(Bassoon: Zoe Shevlin - Gabrieli Consort)

Heinrich Biber: 'Battalia' à 10

Jan Dismas Zelenka: Ouverture-Suite in F

- for Bassoon and Oboe

Tickets: Nave £20 Aisle £15 (U18 £5 child FREE)

ticketsource.co.uk

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Lunchtime Concert

St Margaret's Church Topsham

Wednesday 25 September 1.15pm

'ASPECTS OF LOVE'

Mezzo-Soprano: Iryna Ilnytska

Piano: John Draisey

Antonio Caldara

Geaorg Friderick Handel

Cristoph Willibald von Gluck

Gioachino Rossini

Vincenzo Bellini

& Piano Solos

Admission FREE

Retiring Collection

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Kenton Koncerts

All Saints Church Kenton

Friday 27 September 7.30pm

ABBEY BRASS QUINTET

Trumpets: Paul Thomas, Tony Hindley

French Horn: Roger Swann

Trombone: Jeremy Loysen

Tuba: Martin Cleave

Brass Classics through the ages

including works by local composers

Paul Drayton & Paul Foster

Tickets: £12 (U18 FREE)

Rachael Shearmur: 07960 103394

rachaelshearmur@gmail.com

ticketsource.co.uk/vive-la-musique

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Two Moors Festival

Lynton, South Molton, Bampton,

Dunster, Dulverton,

Thurs 3 - Sun 6 October

Okehampton, Lydford, Chagford

Ashburton, Exeter Castle

Thurs 10 - Sun 13 October

Baritone: Roderick Williams

Piano: Chrisopher Glynn

Violin: Lizzie Ball

Piano: James Pearson

Connaught Brass

Violin: Tamsin Waley-Cohen

Harpsichord: Mahan Esfahani

Carducci String Quartet

Stile Antico Early Music Choir

Palisander Recorder Quartet

Platform Winners Concert

Piano: George Xiaoyuan Fu

Violin: Henning Kraggerud

Piano: Clare Hammond

Narration: Alistair McGowan

tickets.twomoorsfestival.co.uk

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Temple of Shibboleth

Totnes Barrel House

Friday 11 October 8pm

'IN THE SHADOW'

A Show in Two Acts

prog, jazz & folk

Leader: Billie Bottle

Vocals: Anna Batson

Flute: Viv Goodwin-Darke

Saxophone: Roz Harding

Percussion: Emma Holbrook

Tickets: £15 (advance £12/£10)

ticketweb.uk/event/temple-of-shibboleth

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Exeter Chamber Choir

Holy Cross Church Crediton

Saturday 12 October 7.30pm

'AUTUMN ALLSORTS'

Musical Director: Andrew Daldorph

Claudio Monteverdi: 'Cantate Domino'

J S Bach: "Lobet den Herr'n"

Anton Bruckner: "Locus Iste'

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.     .     .     .     .   "Os Justi"

Johannes Brahms: 'Geistliches Lied'

Josef Rheinberger: 'Abendleid'

Sergei Rachmaninov: "Богородице Дево"

Hubert Parry: "My Soul, There is a Country"

.     .     .     .    "I Know my Soul hath Power"

.     .     .     .    "Never Weather-Beaten Sail"

Nigel Walsh: "Bring Us, O Lord"

Charles Villiers Stanford: "Justorum Animae"

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.     .     .     .     .     .     .     "Beati Quorum Via"

Laura Mvula: "Sing to the Moon"

Amy Beach: "Peace I Leave with You"

and, arranged by Andrew Daldorph:

- 'Moon river'

- 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'

- 'Blue Moon'

- "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square"

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

ticketsource.co.uk

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Exeter Bach Choir

Salvation Army Temple Friars Gate

Saturday 19 October 10am-4.30pm

COME & SING 'MOZART REQUIEM'

Musical Director: Jonathan Lucas Wood

Accompanist: Sam Nickels

with Soloists from the

Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama

9.15am Registration

10.00am Warm-Up & First Session

11.20am Coffee

11.45am Second Session

1.00pm Lunch

2.00pm Third Session

3.20pm Tea

3.40-4.30pm Informal Sing-Through

with Royal Welsh College Soloists

Tickets: £22 (student £10)

Score Hire: £2 (Barenreiter)

ticketsource.co.uk/exeterbachchoir

[Mozart Requiem Concert: Saturday 2 November]

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Isca Ensemble

Exeter Cathedral

Saturday 19 October 7.30pm

JOANNA LEACH

CELEBRATION CONCERT

Musical Director: Roger Hendy

Leader: Antony Clements

Giuseppe Verdi: 'La Forza del Destino'

Antonín Dvořák: Concerto for 'Cello

('Cello: Kacper Nowak)

Hector Berlioz: 'Symphonie Fantastique'

Tickets: Aisle £12 Mid Nave £20

Front Nave £24 (student/U18 £5)

ticketsource.co.uk

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Exeter Bach Choir

St David's Church Exeter

Saturday 2 November 7.30pm

'MOZART REQUIEM'

Director of Music: John Lucas Wood

Orchestra Leader: Anna Cockroft

Soprano: Julia Featherstone

Alto: Anna Townsend

Tenor: Matthew Jeffrey

Bass: Julian Rippon

W A Mozart: "Ave Verum Corpus"

Aaron Copland: 'Appalachian Spring

Sir John Tavener: 'Song for Athene'

W A Mozart: 'Requiem in D minor'

(completed by Franz Süßmayr 1792)

Tickets: £22 (advance £20)

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ticketsource.co.uk/exeterbachchoir

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Exeter Philharmonic Choir

& The Handel Sinfony

Holy Trinity Church Exmouth

Saturday 9 November 7.30pm

HANDEL'S 'MESSIAH'

Conductor: Howard Ionascu

Soprano: Sam Cobb

Alto: Luthien Brackett

Tenor: Oscar Golden-Lee

Bass: James Geidt

Tickets £20 unreserved

Box Office: 0333 666 3366

exeterphilharmonic.org.uk