Leighton Buzzard Music
Amyn Merchant & Ruth Schulten, violins
Philip Hall, viola
Michael Atkinson, cello
with Benedict Rogerson, cello
The Merchant String Quartet was formed 2 years ago by four members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, keen to explore the quartet repertoire when their busy schedule permits! They have already performed extensively in London and the Home Counties and the Ashover Festival, Derbyshire.They have also joined forces with other members of the orchestra to perform sextets by Brahms and Schoenberg and the Mendelssohn Octet. They have given workshops at several London schools and recently gave a concert at Kingston University and coached it's music students.The quartet has been given a residency in Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church and took part in last summer's Chichester Festival to which they have been re-invited.
Programme:
Haydn - Quartet in C, Op 33 (The Bird)
Ravel - Quartet in F
Schubert - Quintet in C
An outstanding young singer who appears under the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme.
This highly prestigious and much sought-after award is made to only the most talented young professional musicians of their generation.
Programme to include songs by:
Britten
Fauré
Schumann
Wolf
Outright winner of the 2007 Haverhill International Soloists’ Competition
Programme:
Schubert - Sonata in A (Deutsch 664)
Chopin - Scherzo No 4
Schumann - Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op 26
Debussy - Suite:Pour le Piano
Kate Lockhart is a winner of the much sought after Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, supported by Making Music
Programme:
Lovreglio - Fantasia on Verdi’s "La Traviata"
Eugene Bozza - Bucolique
Poulenc - Sonata for Clarinet & Piano
Alban Berg - Four Pieces Op.5
Brahms - Sonata in F minor
One of the most gifted young British pianists
Programme:
Britten - Early Morning Bathe (Holiday Diary)
Vaughan Williams - Hymn Tune Prelude on a theme of Orlando Gibbons
Walton- Five Bagatelles (arr. Farrington)
1 - Allegro assai
3 - Alla Cubana
4 - Lento
5 - Presto con slancio
Elgar - Two Improvisations (transcribed Farrington)
1 - G major
2 - D minor
Elgar - Concert Allegro
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Farrington - Animal Parade
Howells - Two Folk Dances: Slow Dance, Cobler's Hornpipe
Walton - Popular Song
Mayerl - Marigold
Traditional (arr. Farrington) - Sailor's Hornpipe
Music for wind, strings and piano by the exceptionally gifted pupils of this famous specialist music school
Elisabet Sharma, piano
Katherine Robb, violin
Charlotte Ashton, flute
Alexandra Lomeiko, violin
Charlotte Cox, bassoon
Morta Grigaliunaite, piano
Music by:
Sergei Rachmaninov
Leoš Janácek
Johann Sebastian Bach
Phillipe Gaubert
Carl Maria Von Weber
Edward Elgar
L. V. Beethoven
Daniel Auner, violin
Diethard Auner, cello
Irina Auner, piano
Programme:
Mozart - Trio in Bflat, K 502
Beethoven - Trio in Eb, Op70 no2
Dvorak "Dumky" - Trio in E minor, Op 90
Bedfordshire's own professional chamber orchestra, resident at the University of Bedfordshire.
David Beaman, Conductor
Peter Bussereau, Leader/soloist
Programme:
Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Boyce - Symphony No 2
Mozart - Violin concerto No 5 in A (soloist: Peter Bussereau)
Bartok - Romanian Dances
Barber - Adagio for Strings
Haydn - Symphony No 44 in E minor (Trauer)
