In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Bach's St Matthew Passion. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will join in with some of the choruses.

Sing & Discover workshops are for experienced choral singers, choirs, baroque instrumentalists and music lovers who wish to broaden their range, extend their experience, increase their knowledge of style and context, and who enjoy a challenge. 

Tickets £10 (+booking fee)

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In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Handel's Messiah. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will join in with some of the choruses.

Sing & Discover online workshops are for experienced choral singers, choirs, baroque instrumentalists and music lovers who wish to broaden their range, extend their experience, increase their knowledge of style and context, and who enjoy a challenge. 

Tickets £10 (+booking fee)

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Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival

Fidelio Trio
Darragh Morgan, violin
Tim Gill, cello
Mary Dullea, piano

The Fidelio Trio present the world premiere of Robert Saxton’s ‘Fantasy Pieces’ as part of their online chamber music festival. ‘Fantasy Pieces’ was commissioned by the Trio with funding from the RVW Trust.

Tickets and further details here

BCMG: Words from Abroad
Patricia Auchterlonie, voice
Ulrich Heinen, cello

A live-streamed performance of Param Vir’s 2007 cycle of four settings of Tagore poetry for soprano and cello. Part of BCMG’s Word from Abroad concert, recorded at the CBSO Centre in Birmingham. Programme note here.

Tickets £15
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In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Bach's Christmas Oratorio. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will join in with some of the choruses.

Sing & Discover online workshops are for experienced choral singers, choirs, baroque instrumentalists and music lovers who wish to broaden their range, extend their experience, increase their knowledge of style and context, and who enjoy a challenge. 

Tickets £10 (+booking fee)

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In this two-hour online video workshop, with a fifteen minute social break, conductor and singer John Hancorn and writer and broadcaster Richard Wigmore explore Purcell's semi-opera Dido and Aeneas, the story of Dido the queen of Carthage and her doomed love for Aeneas, the prince of Troy. We shall look at the music in some detail, with recorded illustrations, while participants will join in with some of the choruses.

Sing & Discover online workshops are for experienced choral singers, choirs, baroque instrumentalists and music lovers who wish to broaden their range, extend their experience, increase their knowledge of style and context, and who enjoy a challenge. 

Tickets £10

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Watch it live here

Originally due to be performed last month at The Hundred Years Gallery, this solo performance by American violist Stephen Upshaw has been reinvented for a digital audience. Included in the 30-minute programme are Georgina Bowden’s Yaban Arilar (Wild Bees) and Heather Stephenson’s Passacaglia, two new commissions specifically written for ‘Into the Ocean’ by TL alumni.

Music by: Benjamin Graves - NocturNe Instagram and Twitter : @benjaminhgraves SoundCloud: https://m.soundcloud.com/benjamingrav...

Georgina Bowden - Yaban Arilar (Wild Bees) Instagram : @georginabowdenart Website : georginabowden.com

Heather Stephenson - Passacaglia Website : https://www.heatherstephensonmusic.com/

Marc Yeats - Hyran Website : https://www.marc-yeats.com/

Jonathan Harvey - Chant

Madeleine Mitchell, violin

Clare Hammond, piano

Howells 3 Pieces 10'

Gurney May Carol; The Apple Orchard; Scherzo 9-10'

Saxton Suite c18' WP

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Ian Venables 3 Pieces 10'

MacMillan Kiss on Wood 8' 

Grace Williams Sonata 18'

Madeleine Mitchell and Clare Hammond give the world premiere performance of Robert Saxton’s Suite for violin and piano at the Three Choirs Festival. This programme also celebrates MacMillan’s 60th birthday, Gloucester composers Howells and Gurney plus three lyrical pieces by Ian Venables, who has a close association with Gurney.

Lewes Festival of Song

Blow Bugle, Blow, Set the Wild Echoes Flying

Britten: Les Illuminations and Serenade for tenor, horn and strings

Holst: St Paul’s Suite

Ed Hughes: Flint

with The Corelli Ensemble, leader Maeve Jenkinson, conductor Sian Edwards, tenor William Morgan, soprano Alison Rose, and horn player Zachary Hayward

The Lewes Festival of Song features the third performance of Ed Hughes’s Flint for 11 solo strings. Flint is inspired by the Sussex Downs and includes direct and indirect references to a Sussex folksong collected by George Butterworth in 1912.

Guest conductor Sian Edwards was a pupil of the legendary Prof. Musin at the Leningrad Conservatoire. She has an illustrious conducting career, has conducted many world premieres, and is Head of Conducting at the RAM.

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William Morgan is an ENO Harewood Artist and an avid chamber musician. He made his solo debut at ENO in Tansy Davies’ Between Worlds at the Barbican and has performed at Snape Maltings, the Oxford Lieder Festival and for Radio 3.

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Alison Rose won the 2015 Maggie Teyte Prize and a 2017 Leonard Ingrams Award.This summer she makes her Glyndebourne Festival début singing Papagena in Die Zauberflöte.

Sir John Tomlinson, bass

Rozanna Madylus, mezzo soprano

Counterpoise

John Casken: Kokoschka’s Doll

The Art of Love

Alwinton Summer Concerts

Sir John Tomlinson, bass

Rozanna Madylus, mezzo soprano

Counterpoise

John Casken: Kokoschka’s Doll

The Art of Love

Marcus Farnsworth, baritone

Libby Burgess, piano

Jonathan Clinch, organ

Robert Saxton: Chorale Prelude in memory of Oliver Knussen (world premiere)

Robert Saxton: Passacaglia on the name John McCabe

Grace Wiliams: Chamber Music

CD launch hosted by Naxos

Introduction and performance by Madeleine Mitchell and the London Chamber Ensemble

Katy Jones, trombone

Halle Orchestra

Jamie Phillips, conductor

World premiere performance of John Casken’s trombone concerto ‘Madonna of Silence’.

The performance will be broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Wednesday 6 March.

Full details here

16 Feb 2019

St Michael’s Church, Lewes

Baroque Collective Singers and The Baroque Collective

Handel and Vivaldi

http://www.thebaroquecollective.org.uk/wordpress/the-baroque-collective-singers/

14 Dec 2018

St Anne’s Church, Lewes
Baroque Collective Singers
O Magnum Mysterium: fundraising concert for Lewes Festival of Song

https://www.lewesfestivalofsong.co.uk

18th November 2018         

Winter of the World

https://lewes.co.uk/Whats_On/Winter_of_the_World/32023