Welcome to our third newsletter – designed to keep you informed about our activities, as well as other local chamber music events.
2015/16 COFFEE CONCERT SEASON
As already announced, concerts will take place at 11.00 am in the Brighton Dome Corn Exchange on:
25 October 2015 29 November 2015 20 December 2015
24 January 2016 21 February2016 27 March 2016
We are sorry that we are still unable to give the names of the performers or of their programmes. We gather the details are almost finalised. In the meantime, make sure the dates are in your diary.
If you want to relive the triumph of the final concert in the 2014/15 series, given by students of the Royal College of Music on 15 March, you can read two reviews at https://www.stringsattachedmusic.org.uk/coffee-concerts-fourth-season-2014-2015 . Choose Coffee Concerts from the menu along the top, find the concert, then click Review by… .
SURELY THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE WHO USES FACEBOOK OR TWITTER!
We still need a volunteer to advise on the use of social media in promoting the concerts, especially to young people.
Thanks to the Cavatina Chamber Music Trust, coffee concert tickets are free to those aged 12 to 25 but the message doesn’t seem to be getting through to many of them yet. Encourage any young people you know to come. Without them there is no future for chamber music.
OTHER CHAMBER MUSIC EVENTS
Booking for the Brighton Festival continues at https://brightonfestival.org . There are still some chamber music concerts to come, including the Heath Quartet at the Royal Pavilion on 18 May at 8.00pm. The concert is sold out but returns may be available. At the time of writing seats were still available for the Cavaleri Quartet, who gave the Strings Attached concert in The Old Market last September, and the Atéa Wind Quintet, both at 1.00pm in the Studio Theatre on 19 May and 21 May respectively.
Booking continues too for The Brighton Fringe, which goes on until 31 May, at www.brightonfringe.org . With so many concerts it would be invidious to pick out individual events. Just look through the music section of the Fringe programme.
Booking is also open for the Lewes Chamber Music Festival held mainly in Lewes, not surprisingly, from 12 to 14 June. This is a gem of a festival, very informal, very friendly, held over three intense days of music-making. Several things make it special among festivals. There’s the range of music, from Beethoven to Britten, from Schumann to Schoenberg; and the range of players, from international soloists to talented students. There’s something more too: a sense that this Festival isn’t about making a reputation, or competing for the most perfect performance. It’s about the joy of playing and of communicating that joy to the audience. Where else do all the players of the day support each other by enthusiastically attending each others’ concerts rather than preparing themselves for their own entrance? Book at www.leweschambermusicfestival.com or 01273 479865.
The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra’s “Brighton Connections” series of chamber concerts in the Unitarian Church at 5 pm on Sundays begins on 21 June. Concerts include work by modern Brighton composers as follows:
21 June: music by Howard Blake for cello and piano, piano trio and string trio;
5 July: Frank Bridge piano trio and Haydn’s Emperor Quartet;
19 July: Haydn and Schubert string quartets with Peter Copley’s piano quartet;
9 August: string quartets by Barry Miles and by Haydn and the suite for bassoon and string quartet by Gordon Jacobs.
Tickets are available from The Dome Box Office or at www.brightonticketshop.com .
Music by Strings Attached’s very own committee member Guy Richardson will be perfomed at three venues in June and July:
13 June: 7.30 pm in Ditchling Village Hall. Full Fathom Five is scored for tenor, chorus and piano while There Be None of Beauty’s Daughters is for unaccompanied chorus;
11 July: 7.30 pm at St Margaret’s Church, Rottingdean. Full Fathom Five again plus Where the Bee Sucks for chorus and piano;
17 July: 7.30 pm at St Luke’s Church, Queen’s Park Road, Brighton. First performance of Transforming for solo piano. Programme includes works by Albéniz, Mozart and Chopin.
Our President, Levon Chilingirian, will be leading a Music Appreciation Day at West Dean College in West Sussex on 7 June from 10.30 am to 5 pm concentrating on the Schubert quartet Death and the Maiden. For £71 you get a detailed discussion of this great quartet, movement by movement, as well as an illustrative performance of it by the Chilingirian Quartet, plus coffee, lunch and tea all in the glorious surroundings of the house and gardens at West Dean.
The Quartet will also give concerts there on 21 and 23 July.
All these events can be booked through www.westdean.org.uk or on 01243 818300.
Finally, don’t forget to check the Strings Attached chamber music calendar. It lists other chamber music concerts in Sussex, featuring both professional and amateur performers, and can be found at www.stringsattachedmusic.org.uk/calendar
Our next newsletter is planned for July and will contain details of membership renewal, as well as the programme for 2015/16.
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