Newsletter 108 – Strings Attached

STRINGS ATTACHED 2026-2027

Our 16th season of coffee concerts is about to begin and we look forward to welcoming you all back to the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange.

All concerts begin at 11am.

20 Sept 2026		Gildas Quartet
Frank Bridge		Three Idylls
William Alwyn		String Quartet No. 1
Benjamin Britten		String Quartet No. 3
Colin Matthews		String Quartet No. 6

Join us after the concert at the reception for Strings Attached Members and the musicians.

Future Concerts

22 Nov 2026		Omne trium perfectum
Dall’Abaco		Capriccio No.1, No.6, No.8
Kurtág		Signs, Games and Messages: Doloroso, Calmo, Sognando (Ștefan Romașcanu in memoriam) Signs, Games and Messages: …féerie d’automne…
Carl Friedrich Abel		Arpeggio in D Minor
JP von Westhoff		Imitatione delle Campane
Zbinden		La fête au village: Fanfare
Boccherini		String Trio in A Major Op.14
Penderecki		String Trio
Mozart		Divertimento in E flat Major K. 563

21 Feb 2027		Joanna MacGregor and the BPO ensemble
Beethoven		Piano Trio in C Minor Op.1 No.3
Shostakovich		Piano Trio No.1 Op.8
Brahms		Horn Trio in E flat Major Op.40

11 April 2027		Mabelle Young-Eun Park (violin), Olwen Miles (violin), Jamie Howe (viola) & TBC (cellist)
Beethoven		String Quartet No.11 in F Minor Op.95 ‘Serioso’
Haydn		String Quartet in B Minor Op.33 No.1
Bridge		String Quartet No. 4 H.188
Benjamin Britten		Three Divertimenti

TICKETS
Tickets for the 2026-2027 season are available from the Brighton Dome box office (01273 709709) or online at https://brightondome.org. Full price £27; concessions £25 (please note this now automatically includes a £2 booking fee based on new statutory guidelines from the government relating to booking fees).
Four ticket bundle £97.20; concessions £90
Free tickets for ages 8-25 are funded by Strings Attached.

MEMBERSHIP
The membership year runs from 1 August to 31 July and costs £10 per person (free for students). To renew your membership, join for the first time or after a lapse, go to the Strings Attached website where you will find the online form (https://www.stringsattachedmusic.org.uk/friends/) and information on making the payment and a donation. Please complete a form for each person.

Your subscription and any additional donation you wish to make enables us to fund free tickets to our concerts for 8-25 year olds after the suspension of the Cavatina scheme.

OTHER LOCAL CONCERTS

19 Sept Haywards Heath Music Society
1 October   Chichester Chamber Concerts
2-25 Oct   Brighton Early Music Festival
16 October     Nicholas Yonge Society
17 October   Haywards Heath Music Society
17 October   Piano Music of Ludovico Einaudi
31 Oct-1 Nov  Lewes Festival of Song

Follow the links for complete listings of lunchtime concerts at the Chapel Royal, Unitarian Church and All Saints Hove in Brighton, early afternoon concerts at St Nicholas Church, Brighton and Music & Wine Evening Concerts at St Luke’s. Information also available at https://www.stringsattachedmusic.org.uk/calendar/.

LOCAL PLAYERS DIRECTORY
The directory lists local amateur chamber musicians and is designed to help amateur chamber music players make contact with each other, be they string, piano or wind players. It is protected by a shared password. If you would like to gain access to it or make or amend an entry, please email Chris Darwin.

A specimen entry can be seen at https://www.stringsattachedmusic.org.uk/directoryintro/