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| Sunday
23rd September 2007 at 7.30 pm |
| Balsom
Ensemble Alison Balsom trumpet  The highly acclaimed trumpet player, Alison Balsom, was named Best Young British Performer at the 2006 Classical Brit Awards and was honoured with the Classic FM Listener’s Award in the September 2006 Gramophone Awards. She brings her newly formed Ensemble to play an unusually varied and delightful programme from across the centuries. |
| Sunday 14th October 2007 at 7.30
pm |
Andrew Brownell piano Andrew Brownell is a young American pianist who has won many international prizes including the silver medal at the 2006 Leeds International Piano Competition. Tonight he ranges from Bach at his most personal via powerful Chopin to exceptionally colourful and virtuosic Debussy. |
| Sunday 4th November 2007 at 7.30
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The Hermitage String Trio and Nikolai Demidenko piano **Sergey Levitin violin ** replacement for this concert Alina Ibragimova see alinaibragimova.comAlexander Zemtsov viola Leonid Gorokhov cello  Nikolai Demidenko piano  An evening of varied piano quartets and string trios performed by the distinguished UK based Russian musicians, Sergey Levitin, Associate Concertmaster of the Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Garden, Alexander Zemtsov, principal viola of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonid Gorokhov (cello) and Nikolai Demidenko (piano) who have world- wide solo careers. |
| Sunday 2nd December 2007 at 7.30
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| Fitzwilliam Quartet Lucy Russell violin Jonathan Sparey violin Alan George viola Andrew Skidmore cello with Moray Welsh cello Carolyn Sparey viola  Fitzwilliam Quartet  Moray Welsh  Carolyn Sparey The Fitzwilliam founded in 1968 by four Cambridge undergraduates, became well known through their close personal association with Dmitri Shostakovich. They are joined by the distinguished cellist, Moray Welsh, who studied with Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatoire and Carolyn Sparey, composer and principal viola of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra to play some of the most melodic and beautiful chamber music. The overture to Wagner’s The Mastersingers has been arranged by Carolyn Sparey for string quartet as a tribute to her parents, Leslie and Joan Sparey, who founded the Keswick Music Society. It was her Father’s favourite piece of music and it is fitting that the first performance should be given by the Fitzwilliam Quartet during the Diamond Jubilee Season. |
| Sunday 13th January 2008 at 7.30
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| Gould Piano Trio with Robert Plane clarinet Lucy Gould violin Sally Pendelbury cello Benjamin Frith piano   Lucy Gould Benjamin Frith  Sally Pendelbury  Robert Plane The Gould Piano Trio are one of the most exciting ensembles to emerge in recent years and were chosen as the British Rising Stars for 1998/99 season. Robert Plane enjoys a career as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral principal. Tonight, following Takemitsu’s heartbreakingly beautiful piano trio, he plays Debussy’s vivid Rapsodie, while in the second half the full ensemble performs Messiaen’s outstanding “Quartet for the End of Time”, written when he was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. |
| Sunday 24th February 2008 at 7.30
pm |
| Northern
Sinfonia
Orchestra of 30 Strings and Winds
Bradley Creswick Director/violin
Like “The Four Seasons”, “L’estro armonico” (“the harmonic whim, fancy or inspiration) is an inventive and enchanting set of concertos. The spectacle and virtuosity of Vivaldi’s colourful pieces for one, two and four violins create a drama all of their own, especially in the hands of Northern Sinfonia’s irrepressible leader Bradley Creswick and the renowned Sinfonia. They pair it with two sparkling works from the young Benjamin Britten. |
| Sunday 30th March 2008 at 7.30 pm |
| Anna
Stephany mezzo soprano Jonathan Beatty piano  Anna Stephany  Jonathan Beatty Anna Stephany is a graduate of King’s College London, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the National Opera Studio. Among her many awards are the Kathleen Ferrier Award 2005 and the GSMD Gold Medal. Her operatic roles include Proserpina/Orfeo for the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Euridice and Speranza (both Orfeo) for Opera North, Dorabella/Cosi fan tutte and Juno/Semele for British Youth Opera, Smeraldina/The Little Green Swallow, Concepción/L’heure espagnole, the title role in Ambroise Thomas’s Mignon and Marcellina/The Marriage of Figaro at the Guildhall. She sang with Glyndebourne Festival Chorus in 2002 and 2003 and has appeared as soloist with The Bach Choir, Holst Singers, Highgate Choral Society and Philharmonia Chorus. In 2007 she made her BBC Proms debut, singing Wellgunde in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung. She sang in Mozart’s Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Colin Davis as part of his 80th birthday celebrations in London and New York. Other recent engagements have included concerts with the English Chamber Orchestra under Raymond Leppard, Mozart’s Requiem with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bruckner with Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, a concert with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and a recital in Oxford with Roger Vignoles. She has given recitals as part of the New London Orchestra Recital series and the Oxford Lieder Festival, both with the pianist Jonathan Beatty. Future engagements include concerts with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and later this year she will sing Dorabella for Garsington Opera. Competitions, and a MBF Special Award and Megan Foster Prize at the Maggie Teyte Competition, as well as all the prizes for piano accompaniment at the Guildhall. He has twice participated in the Young Songmakers' masterclasses and concert, and the Britten Pears programmme in Snape. Recent performances include two Wigmore Hall recitals with Anna Stephany and Katrina Broderick, the Maggie Teyte Prizewinners' Recital in the Royal Opera House, a Bridgewater Hall recital as part of the Manchester Midday Series, regular broadcasts on the In Tune programme on BBC Radio 3, and a concert for the International Kodaly Symposium. Jonathan is a member of Kokoro, the contemporary wing of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is also much in demand as a repetiteur, working regularly with the BBC Singers, Monteverdi Choir and Philharmonia Chorus. We are grateful to the Countess of Munster Musical Trust who sponsor this concert. |
| Sunday 20th April 2008 at 7.30 pm |
| London Mozart Players Tasmin Little Director/violin soloist  London Mozart Players  Tasmin Little What better way to end our Diamond Jubilee Season than a concert given by the UK’s first chamber orchestra, and regarded as one of the finest, directed by Tasmin Little, whose exceptional musicality and exuberant personality have made her a household name This will be the third Keswick concert in the Orchestras Live Cumbria Series, funded nationally by Arts Council England and in Cumbria by a grant from Northern Rock Foundation. The music brings this Jubilee Season to a fitting celebratory conclusion. Mozart’s mischievious “Figaro” Overture is prelude to Tchaikovsky’s string Serenade – his most exuberant work and itself a deliberate tribute to Mozart and his Age – whilst Beethoven’s incomparable Violin Concerto joyfully crowns all. |
