Nov
23
to 27 Nov

The Kirker Music Festival in Madeira

The Kirker Music Festival in Madeira

with the Sacconi Quartet, Melvyn Tan (piano), Simon Rowland-Jones (viola)

Music Programme

23 November: 
Sacconi Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in C major, Op.33 No.33, 'The Bird'
Schubert: String Quartet No.14 in D minor, D.810

24 November: 
Melvyn Tan, piano
Beethoven: Sonata No.31 in A-flat major, Op.110
Debussy: A selection of pieces from Images Book II
Chopin: Sonata No.3 in B minor, Op.58

25 November: 
Sacconi Quartet & Simon Rowland-Jones, viola
Turina: ‘The Bullfighter’s prayer’, Op.34
Walton: String Quartet in A minor
Mozart: String Quintet in D major, K 593

26 November: 
Sacconi Quartet & Melvyn Tan, piano
Britten: ‘Holiday Diary’, Op.5
Ravel: Jeux d'eau, M.30
Beethoven: String Quartet No.13 in B flat major, Op.130

27 November: 
Sacconi Quartet, Simon Rowland-Jones, viola, & Melvyn Tan, piano
Brahms: String Quintet No. 1 in F major, Op.88
Dvořák: Piano Quintet No.2 in A major, Op.81

Full details at the Kirker Holidays site

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Oct
10
7:30 pm19:30

Through Silence to Sound

  • Little Missenden Church - St John the Baptist, Bucks, HP7 0RA (map)
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Through Silence to Sound

with Kate Kennedy (author)

Pieces by Bach and a specially commissioned work by Cheryl Frances-Hoad interspersed with cello tales from musician-author Kate Kennedy's book 'A Journey Through Silence to Sound’.

Tickets are available here.

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Oct
4
2:00 pm14:00

Sacconi Residency Weekend – What The Trees Know

  • 14 Kingsnorth Gardens, Folkestone CT20 2QW (map)
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Sacconi Residency Weekend – What The Trees Know

with the Sacconi Quartet

WHAT THE TREES KNOW – A celebration of trees through music, art and storytelling directed by Alise Kirtley and performed by the Sacconi Quartet.

Meet at the Weeping Ash in Kingsnorth Gardens, w3w:///overtones.fidgeting.composer

Full details can be found here.

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Oct
3
5:30 pm17:30

Sacconi Residency Weekend – LOST

  • The Loft Studio, 9-17 Sandgate Rd, Folkestone CT20 1SB (map)
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Sacconi Residency Weekend – LOST

with the Sacconi Quartet

LOST is a new performance work by Terry Smith, created with the Sacconi Quartet, composer/ sound designer Ian Dearden and performers Zoë Glen, Katrina Binks and Henry Uniacke.

Built around Bach’s The Art of Fugue, LOST brings four musicians and three performers into a shared system of repetition, duration and change.

Music and movement are constructed from short sequences governed by a simple set of instructions. These sequences loop, overlap and move in and out of sync, with changes in speed, volume, intensity and silence.

As the sequences repeat, things begin to shift and disappear.

Full details can be found here.

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Oct
2
6:00 pm18:00

Sacconi Residency Weekend – The Big Music Draw

  • Docker Brewery & Taproom, acre estate, Unit C, Five, Folkestone CT19 5DS (map)
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Sacconi Residency Weekend – The Big Music Draw

with the Sacconi Quartet

THE BIG MUSIC DRAW – Come and join a fully led art group with local artist Shane Record in response to a range of music performed by the Sacconi Quartet.

Beer, Music, Pizza and Art – what more could you ask for?!

Ticket Prices
Free event, no booking required – please note this event takes place in a brewery and taproom open to the general public, where the atmosphere is relaxed and potentially noisy!

Full details can be found here.

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Jul
22
7:30 pm19:30

Fishguard Music Festival

  • Bethel Baptist Church, Fishguard, SA65 9LD (map)
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Fishguard Music Festival

with Fenella Humphreys (violin)

Bartók: Hungarian Folk Melodies for Violin and Cello, ​​Sz 53
Benjamin Godard: Aubade for Violin and Cello, Op 133
J S Bach: Solo or Partita for Violin
Sibelius: 'Water Droplets' for Violin and Cello, JS 216
J S Bach: Cello Suite No.2 in D minor, BWV 1008
Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello, M 73

Full details at the Fishguard Music Festival website.

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Jul
10
3:00 pm15:00

Buxton International Festival

  • St John's Church, 6 St John’s Road, Buxton SK17 6XN (map)
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Buxton International Festival

with the Sacconi Quartet

Mozart: String Quartet in C, K.465, ‘Dissonance’
Freya Waley-Cohen: Dances, Hymns and Songs for Friendship, written for the Sacconi Quartet on their 25th anniversary
Smetana: String Quartet No 1 in E minor, ‘From My Life’

Full details at the Buxton International Festival website.

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Jul
6
7:30 pm19:30

Deal Festival

  • St George’s Deal, High Street, Deal, CT14 6ED (map)
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Deal Festival

with the Sacconi Quartet and Timothy Orpen (clarinet)

Haydn: String Quartet in C major Op.33, No.3 “The Bird”
Luke Styles: Ripples of Como
Purcell: Chacony in G minor
Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581

Full details at the Deal Festival website.

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May
20
7:30 pm19:30

Chiltern Arts

  • All Saints’ Church, The Causeway, Marlow SL7 2AA (map)
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Water is the Softest Thing

with Fenella Humphreys (violin), Eoin Schmidt-Martin (viola), James Turnbull (oboe), Alex Jennings (reader)

Sibelius: String Trio in G minor
Britten: Arethusa 6 Metamorphoses after Ovid, Op. 49
Anna Berg: Earthward, Ever Circling – String trio – UK premiere
Sibelius: Water Droplets
Coleridge-Taylor: Deep River
Schubert: String Trio in B flat
Sally Beamish: The Lone Seafarer
Mozart: Adagio for Cor Anglais and string trio
Adrian Sutton: Spring Masque
Schumann: Mondnacht plus literature and poetry readings to be announced

Full details at the Chiltern Arts website.

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May
17
3:00 pm15:00

Sacconi Chamber Music Festival

  • St Eanswythe's Church, Folkestone, CT20 1SE (map)
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Sacconi Chamber Music Festival

with the Sacconi Quartet, Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Maya Broman Crawford-Phillips (violin)

John Woolrich: ‘A Single Sound of Strings’
*Newly Commissioned by Ian Gordon (World Premiere)*
Fauré: Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115
Chausson: Concerto for Violin, Piano & String Quartet, Op. 2

Full details on the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival website.

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May
16
7:00 pm19:00

Sacconi Chamber Music Festival

  • Holy Trinity Church, Folkestone, CT20 2HQ (map)
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Sacconi Chamber Music Festival

with the Sacconi Quartet, Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Royal College of Music Chamber Orchestra

Warlock: Capriol Suite
Britten: ‘Young Apollo’, Op. 16 for piano, string quartet and string orchestra
Walton: String Quartet in A minor
Dvořák: Serenade for Strings in E major, Op. 22

Full details on the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival website.

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May
15
7:00 pm19:00

Sacconi Chamber Music Festival

  • St Eanswythe's Church, Folkestone, CT20 1SE (map)
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Sacconi Chamber Music Festival

with the Sacconi Quartet and Daniil Margulis (double bass)

Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No.3 ‘The Bird’
Freya Waley-Cohen: ‘Dances, Hymns and Songs for Friendship’ for string quartet
Dvořák: String Quintet in G major, Op.77 with double bass

Full details on the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival website.

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May
14
6:00 pm18:00

Sacconi Chamber Music Festival

  • The Green Room, The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone CT20 2XL (map)
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Sacconi Chamber Music Festival

with the Sacconi Quartet, Adrian Bradbury (cello), Anna Hashimoto (clarinet), Joseph Havlat (piano), Karen Jones (flute), Alessandro Ruisi (violin)

Harrison Birtwistle: Ookooing Bird, for piano
Louise Drewett: Isola, for piano
Colin Matthews: Gavotte and Berceuse
Isabella Gellis Bowed and Blowed
Mark-Anthony Turnage: Amelia’s March
Joseph Havlat: new piece for piano
Howard Skempton: Lullaby, for clarinet & cello
Michael Finnissy: Regen beschreiben
John Woolrich: In the Mirrors of Asleep
Tansy Davies: Proem, for cello
Hans Abrahamsen Storm and Still, for vioin
Philip Cashian: Bone Machine
Howard Skempton: Catch, for string quartet
Morgan Hayes Film Studies
Dominic Muldowney: Pierrot Pirouettes
Brett Dean: Notes from the Twittersphere, for piccolo
Thomas Ades: Berceuse from The Exterminating Angel

Full details on the Sacconi Chamber Music Festival website.

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Apr
27
7:30 pm19:30

Hoylake Chamber Concert Society

  • St Hildeburgh's Parish Church, 1 Stanley Rd, Hoylake, Wirral CH47 1HL (map)
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Hoylake Chamber Concert Society

with Emma Abbate (piano), Fenella Humphreys (violin), Gary Pomeroy (viola)

Adrian Sutton: Trio Dances for String Trio
Mozart: Piano Quartet No 2 in E-flat major, K493
Fauré: Piano Quartet in C minor, Op 15

Full details at the Hoylake Chamber Concert Society website

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