Forthcoming Concerts
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Season 2024/25 – For Past Concerts Click HERE
Friday 30 May 2025 at 1 pm
Huntingdon Hall, Deansway, Worcester WR1 2ES
April Frederick (soprano), Eric McElroy (piano)
Programme includes Simples, The Hare and The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
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Tuesday 3 June 2025 at 3.30 pm
Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
Jinhe Huang (viola), Robert Markham (piano)
Programme includes Viola Sonata
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Sunday 8 June 2025 at 11.30 am
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford OX1 3SB
Simon Callaghan (piano), Sacconi Quartet
Programme includes Piano Quartet
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Sunday 8 June 2025 at 2.30 pm
Malvern Theatre, Grange Road, Malvern WR14 3HB
Black Dyke Band, Conductor: Nicholas Childs
Programme to include Checkmate (Suite), arr Ball and Things to Come (Suite) arr Ball
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Saturday 14 June 2025 at 6 pm
Trinity Church, St. John Sub Castro, Abinger Place, Lewes, BN7 2QA
Matthew Hunt (clarinet), Alasdair Beatson (piano)
Programme includes Pastoral for clarinet & piano
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Saturday 21 June 2025 at 7.30 pm
Royal Hall, Ripon Road, Harrogate, HG1 2SY
Harrogate Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Bryan Western
Programme includes Suite from Things to Come
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Saturday 21 June 2025 at 7.30 pm
St John the Baptist Church, Middle Street, Beeston, NG9 1BJ
Nottingham Chamber Singers, Nottingham Classical Players , Conductors: Angela Kay, Rachel Parkes
Programme includes Pastoral (Lie strewn the White Flocks)
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Sunday 22 June 2025 at 4.30 pm
St Andrew’s Church, 5 St Andrew Street, Holborn, London EC4A 3AF
Elgar Sinfonia of London, Conductor: Adrian Brown
Programme to include Introduction and Allegro
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Sunday 22 June 2025 at 6 pm
Temple Speech Room, Lawrence Sherrif street, Rugby CV22 5EJ
Bliss Sinfonia, Conductor: Richard Tanner
Programme to include Welcome the Queen
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Tuesday 24 June 2025 at 7.30 pm
St Nicholas Church, High Bradfield, South Yorkshire S6 6LG
Mark Bebbington (piano), Rebeca Omordia (piano) and Chu Yu Yang (violin)
Programme includes Masks, Violin Sonata, Suite for Piano (1925)
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Tuesday 24 June 2025 at 7.30 pm
Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road, Ripon HG4 1QT
Tim Harper (organ)
Programme includes A Colour Symphony arr organ Tim Harper
Further details follow in due course.
Thursday 26 June 2025 at 7.30 pm
Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, Edinburgh EH1 2EA
Capella Edina, Conductor: Luis Schmidt
Programme includes Edinburgh Overture
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Saturday 29 June 2025 at 3 pm
Saffron Hall, Audley End Road, Saffron Walden CB11 4UH
Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra
Programme includes A Colour Symphony
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Friday 4 July 2025 at 7.30 pm
Église Saint-Martin, 50150 Sourdeval
Jennifer Stinton (flute), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Robin Ireland (viola), Joseph Spooner (cello), Alain Hervé (oboe)
Programme includes Conversations
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Saturday 5 July 2025 at 7.30 pm
Chateau Chaulieu, 50150 Chaulieu
Jennifer Stinton (flute), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Robin Ireland (viola), Joseph Spooner (cello), Alain Hervé (oboe)
Programme includes Conversations
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Monday 7 July 2025 at 7.30 pm
St Mary’s Church, Church Street, Luton LU1 3JF
Chu Yu Yang (violin), Eric McElroy (piano)
Programme includes Sonata for Piano and Violin
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Saturday 12 July 2025 at 7 pm
Lichfield Cathedral, 19A The Close, Lichfield WS13 7LD
Black Dyke Band, Conductor: Nicholas Childs
Programme includes Checkmate (four Dances), arr Ball and Adam Zero (Suite), arr Childs
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Saturday 13 July 2025 at 3 pm
The Bacon Theatre, Hatherley Road, Cheltenham GL51 6EP
Flowers Band, Musical Director: Paul Holland
Programme includes Kenilworth
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Friday 18 July 2025 at 6.45 pm
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London SW7 2AP
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Sacari Oramo
Programme includes Birthday Fanfare for Sir Henry Wood
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Saturday 19 July 2025 at 8 pm
Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road, Ripon HG4 1QT
Orchestra of Opera North, Conductor: Tom Fetherstonehaugh
Timothy Ridout (viola)
Programme includes the first performance of The Viola Concerto (Philip Wilby’s orchestration of the Viola Sonata)
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Sunday 20 July 2025
Ripon Cathedral, Minster Road, Ripon HG4 1QT
Tim Harper (organ)
Programme includes Red (AColour Symphony) arr organ Tim Harper
Further details follow in due course.
Monday 21 July 2025
Wesley Centre, Oxford Street, Harrogate HG1 1PP
Maxime Despax (viola), Christopher Atkinson (piano)
Programme includes Viola Sonata
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Saturday 26 July 2025 at 3.30 pm
St Francis Xavier’s Church, 19 Broad St, Hereford HR4 9AP
Carducci String Quartet, Emma Johnson (clarinet)
Programme includes Clarinet Quintet
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Monday 28 July 2025 at 11.15 am
Holy Trinity Church, 164 Whitecross Road, Hereford HR4 0DH
Mark Bebbington (piano), Irene Loh (piano)
Programme includes Masks, Fun and Games (for three hands) from Adam Zero, Triptych
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Wednesday 30 July 2025 at 11.30 am
Holy Trinity Church, 164 Whitecross Road, Hereford HR4 0DH
James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Programme includes The Hare, This Night, The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
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Wednesday 30 July 2025 at 6.30 pm
National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret’s Church, York YO1 9TL
Chu Yu Yang (violin), Eric McElroy (piano)
Programme includes Violin Sonata
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Wednesday 30 July 2025 at 7.30 pm
Hereford Cathedral, 5 College Cloisters, Cathedral Close, Hereford HR1 2NG
Rebecca Hardwick (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Michael Bell (tenor), Malachy Frame (baritone)
Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Conductor: Adrian Partington
Programme to include Mary of Magdala
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Saturday 2 August 2025 at 2.45 pm
Leominster Priory, Church Street, Leominster, HR6 8NH
National Youth String Orchestra, Conductor: Damian Iorio
Programme to include Music for Strings
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Saturday 9 August 2025 at 7.30 pm
St John The Baptist Church, Vicarage Lane, Knaresborough HG5 9AE
Matthew Secombe (baritone), Rebecca Watson (piano)
Programme includes Seven American Poems, Thunderstorms, This Night, Leisure, Simples
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Sunday 10 August 2025 at 10.30 am
St John The Baptist Church, Vicarage Lane, Knaresborough HG5 9AE
David Salter (organ)
Programme includes Sovereign’s Fanfare, Fanfare for the Bride and Wedding Fanfare arr organ Basil Ramsey
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Monday 11 August 2025 at 7 pm
Church of Our Lady St Mary, South Creake, New Rd, Fakenham NR21 9LX
Robert Plane (clarinet), Ensemble 360
Programme includes Clarinet Quintet
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Saturday 16 August 2025 at 7 pm
St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth
Mark Bebbington (piano)
Programme includes Masks
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Tuesday 19 August 2025 at 7 pm
Marquee Welburn
Programme includes Clarinet Quintet
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Friday 22 August 2025 at 7 pm
Marquee Welburn
James Gilchrist (tenor)
Programme includes Elegiac Sonnet
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Saturday 23 August 2025 at 7.30 pm
Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape Suffolk IP17 1SP
Flowers Band, Musical Director: Paul Holland
Programme includes Kenilworth
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Sunday 31 August 2025 at 7.30 pm
St Cuthbert’s Church, 5 Lothian Rd, Edinburgh EH1 2EP
Scottish Sinfonia, Conductor: Neil Mantle
Programme includes A Colour Symphony
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Season 2025/26
Friday 7 September 2025 at 7.30 pm
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London SW7 2AP
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Lawrence Kilsby (tenor), BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Sacari Oramo
Programme includes The Beatitudes
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Thursday 11 September 2025 at 7.30 pm
St Andrew’s Church, Market Place, Colyton, Exeter EX24 6JS
Simon Callaghan (piano), Sacconi Quartet
Programme includes Piano Quartet
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Saturday/Sunday 13/14 September 2025
The Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse
Competing bands: Audley Brass, Cockerton Silver, Diggle, Foss Dyke, Freckleton, Glastonbury Brass, Granite City Brass, Kidlington Concert Brass, Michelmersh Silver, Newtongrange Silver, Parc & Dare, Old Silkstone, Raunds Temperance, Ripon City, Roche Brass, Thundersley Brass, Tyldesley, Tylorstown, Unite the Union.
Programme includes Checkmate Three Dances arr E Ball
Competing bands: Abertillery Town, Carlton Brass, Chinnor Silver, City of Cambridge, Deiniolen Silver, Dunston Silver, Ferryhill Town, Eagley, Jedforest Instrumental,
Jersey Premiere Brass, Liverpool, Middleton, Nailsworth Silver, Perthshire Brass, Porthleven Town, Shirland Welfare, South Yorkshire Police, Strata Brass, Verwood Town.
Programme includes Adam Zero Suite arr R Childs
Competing bands: Avonbank (Evesham), Barnsley Metropolitan, Betteshanger Colliery, Bideford Town, Bratton Silver, City of Wrexham, Dobcross Silver,
Ibstock Brick Brass, Flookburgh Silver, Littleport, Mid Rhondda, Oughtibridge, Pilling Jubilee Silver, Putney & Wimbledon, Renfrew Burgh, Rivington & Adlington,
St Ronan’s Silver, Swindon Brass, Thrapston Town, Trimdon Brass.
Programme includes Music for the Royal Palaces arr M Halstenson
Further details follow in due course.
Wednesday/Thursday 17/18 September 2025
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Performances marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Arthur Bliss on 27 March 1975.
Kate Romano (clarinet), Ian Buckle (piano), Pixels Ensemble
Programme includes Triptych, Pastoral (clarinet & piano), Piano Quartet, Clarinet Quintet.
April Fredrick (soprano), Eric McElroy (piano)
Programme includes Bliss songs: Simples (The Joyce Book) ,The Hare (from Three Romantic Songs), Autumn (from Ballad of the Four Seasons),
Lovelocks (from Three Romantic Songs), The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House, A Child’s Prayer, Fair is My Love (from Serenade)
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Sunday 12 October 2025 at 3 pm
Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, Edinburgh EH1 2EA
Arthur Bruce (baritone), Capella Edina, Conductor: Louis Schmidt
Programme includes A Knot of Riddles
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Friday 17 October 2025 at 7.30 pm
Sage One,The Glasshouse, St Mary’s Square, Gateshead NE8 2JR
Sinfonia of London, Conductor: John Wilson
Programme includes Music for Strings
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Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 7.30 pm
The Barbican (Hall), Silk St, Barbican, London EC2Y 8DS
Sinfonia of London, Conductor: John Wilson
Programme includes Music for Strings
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Saturday 8 November 2025
St Edmund’s Church, Lidgett Park Rd, Roundhay, Leeds LS8 1JN
David Aspin (viola), Sinfonia of Leeds, Conductor: David Greed
Programme to include the second performance of The Viola Concerto (Philip Wilby’s orchestration of the Viola Sonata)
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Sunday 23 May 2026 at 7 pm
Kulturpalast Dresden, Schloßstraße 2, Dresden, Saxony, 01067, Germany
Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Andrew Manze
Programme includes A Colour Symphony
Further details follow in due course.
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