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Lunchtime Programme 2011 / 2012

Friday, 16th March - 7.30 PM, St. Pauls Church
Ticket prices: £15, £13.50, £12 & £9. (£9 seats unreserved with some restricted vision)

A Romantic Russian Evening with four soloists performing arias and songs, describing young love, by Tchaikovsky and his compatriots.

The evening will include excerpts from The Queen of Spades and Eugene Onegin; including Tatyana’s famous Letter Aria, Onegin’s Aria and Lensky’s ‘Kuda Kuda’ (‘How Far Away You Seem Now’)

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The Honiton May Festival 2012

More details to follow shortly

Thursday, 10th May - 7.30 PM, Cotleigh Parish Church - reception 6.15 PM
Ticket prices: £17.50 - reception and concert; £12 – concert only

Haydn – Quartet Op.76 No. 3 "Emperor"
Ravel – String Quartet
Schubert – Quartet in D minor “Death and the Maiden”

Winners of numerous international prizes and distinctions, including second prize in the 2008 Tromp International String Quartet in the Netherlands, the Quartet was a resident quartet at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada and gave their Carnegie Hall début in March, at the invitation of the Kronos Quartet.

The Quartet takes its name from the Irish air ” Cailin cois tSuir a me” which means Girl by the River Suir.

There will be a reception at 6.15pm.

 

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Saturday, 12th May - 7.30 PM, St. Pauls Church
Ticket prices: £15, £13.50, £12 & £9. (£9 seats unreserved with some restricted vision)

“One of the classiest acts in British jazz” The Guardian

Daughter of Dame Cleo Laine and Sir John Dankworth, Jacqui’s highly acclaimed recordings to date have incorporated elements of the blues, folk and many other styles. Her latest album, “It happens quietly”, is a selection of songs with lush atmospheric orchestral accompaniments.

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Friday 18th May
6pm reception and antiques sale preview, 7pm presentation by Lars Tharp
Bearnes, Hampton & Littlewood Auction Rooms, Dowell Street, Honiton
Ticket prices: £10

Lars writes: "Some years ago, London’s Foundling Museum lent me William Hogarth’s punch bowl for my book and exhibition, Hogarth’s China. Eleven years later I became the museum’s Director.
Today, as the museum’s Hogarth Curator and ambassador, I tell the story of Thomas Coram and the 27,000 children cared for by his hospital. If you’ve not yet visited you really must: it will change the way you see things.
And that (among other things) is what I do: in my events, talks, tours and broadcasts, I examine the world through objects, images and things."

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Saturday, 19th May - 7.30 PM, St. Pauls Church
Ticket prices: £15, £13.50, £12 & £9. (£9 seats unreserved with some restricted vision)

Mozart – Piano Sonata in B flat K.333
Schumann – Fantasiestucke Op.12
Chopin - Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor , OP.58

Melvyn Tan rapidly built a formidable international reputation for his performances, and his exclusive contract with EMI Classics produced a series of groundbreaking recordings, including the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Concertos.

Giving recitals and performing concertos, 2010 tours took Melvyn to U.S.A., South Africa, Far East, Austria, Germany, Holland, Spain and France including appearances at the Edinburgh Festival, the Wigmore Hall and the Bruckner Festival in Linz.

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Friday, 25th May - 1.00 PM, St. Pauls Church
Ticket prices: £9.00 All seats are unreserved

Mendelssohn – Variations Concertante Op.17
Beethoven - Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Op.102 No.1
Dvorak – Romance
Saint- Saens – Cello Sonata No.1 in C Minor

Tim Lowe began playing the cello at the age of 5 and went on to win a major music scholarship at Eton College. He is now a Fellow at the Guildhall School of Music. Tim has won many awards and prizes including those from the Musicians Benevolent Fund, the Craxton Memorial Trust, Philharmonia Orchestra/Martin Musical Scholarship Fund, Countess of Munster Trust, ECO Duchess of Cornwall Award and the Jacqueline du Pre scholarship

 

As a chamber musician Tim has performed in many major venues including the Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room and Queen Elizabeth Hall.

 

Tim Lowe is supported by the Tillett Trust Young Artists Platform.

 

Described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘in a class of his own’ James Baillieu has been the prize-winner of the Wigmore Hall Song Competition, Das Lied International Song Competition (in both 2009 & 2011), Kathleen Ferrier and Richard Tauber Competitions.

 

Over the last year he has recorded for BBC Radio 3 with the Elias Quartet and Allan Clayton while giving solo and chamber recitals throughout Europe and further afield, collaborating with singers Jared Holt, Gerard Collett, Sir Thomas Allen, Katherine Broderick, Martene Grimson, Jacques Imbrailo, Sarah-Jane Brandon and Kishani Jayasinghe.

 

Festivals and venues have included Wigmore Hall, Festpillene i Bergen, the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Aix-en-Provence, Derry and Norfolk & Norwich Festivals.  He was selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2010.

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Thursday, 31st May - 7.30 PM, St. Pauls Church
Ticket prices: £15, £13.50, £12 & £9. (£9 seats unreserved with some restricted vision)

Bach – Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
Mozart – Divertimento K.138
Mendelssohn – Concerto in D minor for Violin
Tchaikovsky – Serenade for Strings

“The wonderful European Union Chamber Orchestra … played with beautiful, dancing transparency.” Daily Telegraph

With an envious reputation, the EUCO has performed in 73 countries. Its recent engagements in the UK having included the Bath and and Cheltenham Festivals from which it’s performance was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.

It is joined by Honiton born Marie Langrishe, winner of the Junior Violin Prize at the Royal Academy of Music who has appeared as a soloist with the RAM Symphony Orchestra and the Ten Tors Orchestra . Her piano trio recently gave a recital at the Norwegian Embassy. She is currently a pupil of Yossi Zivoni.

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