Forthcoming Concerts
Season 2024/25 – For Past Concerts Click HERE
Saturday 25 January 2025 at 7.30 pm
Audimax of TU Dortmund University, Vogelpothsweg 87
Wind Band of TU Dortmund University, Conductor: Constantin Hesselmann
Programme includes Suite from Things to Come
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Thursday 30 January 2025 at 1 pm
St Mary’s Parish Church, Vicarage Road, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 9DH
Talland String Quartet (RNCM)
Programme includes String Quartet in A
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Tuesday 4 February 2025 at 7 pm
Lobe Block, Böttgerstraße 16, 13357 Berlin, Germany
Eva Zalenga (soprano), Adam Ambarzumjan (clarinet), Doriana Tchakarova (piano), Victoria Wong (violin) and Till Schuler (cello)
Programme includes Two Nursery Rhymes
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Saturday 22 February 2025 at 7.30 pm
City Hall, Queen Victoria Square, Carr Lane, Hull, HU1 3RQ
Hull Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Simon Chalk
Programme includes three movements from Checkmate
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Wednesday 26 February 2025 at 7.30 pm
Royal Concert Hall, Theatre Square, Nottingham, NG1 5ND
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: John Wilson, Presenter: Stephen Johnson
Programme includes Metamorphic Variations, The March from Things to Come and the Overture to Miracle in the Gorbals
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Saturday 1 March 2025
Marmen Quartet, Ajaz Begus (clarinet)
Programme to include Clarinet Quintet
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Saturday 1 March 2025 at 7.30 pm
St John’s Church, Waterloo, 73 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8TY
Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra
Programme includes A Colour Symphony
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Saturday 15 March 2025 at 3 pm
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London SW7 2AP
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Stephen Bell
Programme includes The March from Things to Come
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Friday 21 March 2025 at 7.30 pm
Flavel Arts Centre Hall, Dartmouth
Mark Bebbington (Piano)
Programme includes Masks
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Sunday 23 March 2025 at 2 pm
Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana USA
Orion Rapp (Oboe), Freimann Quartet
Programme includes Oboe Quintet
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Tuesday 25 March 2025 at 7.30 pm
St Mary’s, Barnes, Church Road, London SW13 9HL
Roderick Williams (Baritone), Andrew West (Piano)
Programme includes Siege (Seven American Poems)
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Thursday 27 March 2025 from 10.15 am to 7 pm
Recital Hall, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
Performances and talks marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Arthur Bliss on 27 March 1975.
Mark Bebbington, David Aspin, Robert Markham, Chu-Yu Yang, Rebecca Watson, Bianca Vancea.
Programme includes Triptych, Viola Sonata, Violin Concerto, Piano Quartet, Two Nursery Rhymes.
£20 is the price of a ticket for the whole day, prices for individual sessions are as follows:
£5 morning (10:15 – 12:30)
£10 afternoon (1:15 – 4:00)
£10 evening (7 pm)
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Friday 28 March 2025 at 7.30 pm
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, 200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR
Roderick Williams (Baritone), Andrew West (Piano)
Programme includes Siege (Seven American Poems)
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Saturday 29 March 2025 at 7.30 pm
Royal Hall, Ripon Road, Harrogate, HG1 2SY
Harrogate Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Bryan Western
Lily Dai (cello)
Programme includes Cello Concerto
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Sunday 6 April 2025 at 7.30 pm
Howard Assembly Rooms, 32 New Briggate, Leeds LS1 6NU
Roderick Williams (Baritone), Andrew West (Piano)
Programme includes Siege (Seven American Poems)
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Sunday 6 April 2025 at 3 pm
St Luke’s Church, Victoria Rd, Chesterton, Cambridge CB4 3DZ
CSD Brass, Conductor: Chris Lawrence
Programme includes Fanfare Homage to Shakespeare
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Tuesday 8 April 2025 at 7.30 pm
Wigmore Hall, Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Roderick Williams (Baritone), Andrew West (Piano)
Programme includes Siege (Seven American Poems)
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Saturday 12 April 2025 at 7.30 pm
St Laurence’s Church, 2 College Street, Ludlow SY8 1AN
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo), Brett Dean (viola), Iain Burnside (piano).
Programme includes Two Nursery Rhymes
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Wednesday 16 April 2025 at 7.30 pm
Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace, London SW1X 9DQ
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Conductor: Martin Brabbins
Mark Bebbington (Piano)
Programme includes Piano Concerto
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Saturday 3 May 2025 at 12 noon
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Leamington Spa, CV32 4AA
Mark Bebbington (piano)
Programme to include Masks and Triptych
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Sunday 4 May 2025 at 12 noon
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Leamington Spa, CV32 4AA
Roderick Williams (Baritone), Andrew West (Piano)
Programme includes Siege (Seven American Poems)
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Sunday 4 May 2025 at 7 pm
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Leamington Spa, CV32 4AA
Carducci String Quartet, Emma Johnson (clarinet)
Programme to include Clarinet Quintet
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Monday 5 May 2025 at 7 pm
Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Leamington Spa, CV32 4AA
Simon Callaghan (Piano), Sacconi Quartet
Programme to include Piano Quartet
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Thursday 8 May 2025 at 7.30 pm
Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, London CV32 4AA
London Chorus, New London Orchestra, Conductor: Ron Corp
Programme to include Morning Heroes
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Saturday 10 May 2025 at 7 pm
St Barnabas Church,
Ealing Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: John Gibbons
Programme includes A Colour Symphony
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Friday 23 May 2025
Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-upon Thames OX10 7HH
Raphael Wallfisch (Cello), BBC Concert Orchestra, Conductor: Martin Yates
Programme includes Cello Concerto
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Saturday 24 May 2025 at 1.30 pm
Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-upon Thames OX10 7HH
Ben Alden (tenor), Andrew Plant (piano)
Programme includes Simples
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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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Tuesday 24 June 2025
St Nicholas Church, High Bradfield, South Yorkshire S6 6LG
Mark Bebbington (piano), Rebeca Omordia (piano) and Chu Yu Yang (violin)
Programme to include Masks, Violin Sonata, Suite for Piano (1925)
Further details follow in due course.
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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Monday 7 July 2025
Library Theatre, Luton Music Club
Chu Yu Yang (Violin), Eric McElroy (Piano)
Programme includes Sonata for Piano and Violin
Further details follow in due course.
Monday 21 July 2025
Wesley Centre, Oxford Street, Harrogate HG1 1PP.
Maxime Despax (viola), Christopher Atkinson (piano)
Programme to include Viola Sonata
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Saturday 26 July 2025
Carducci String Quartet, Emma Johnson (clarinet)
Programme to include music by Bliss
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Monday 28 July 2025
Mark Bebbington (piano)
Programme to include music by Bliss
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Wednesday 30 July 2025
Rebecca Hardwick (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Ruairi Bowen (tenor), Malachy Frame (baritone)
Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Conductor: Adrian Partington
Programme to include Mary of Magdala
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Saturday 2 August 2025
National Youth String Orchestra, Conductor: Damian Iorio
Programme to include music by Bliss
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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
Programme includes Elegiac Sonnet
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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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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 Tripytch, 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)
Further details follow in due course.
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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