2010/11 season

Sunday 3 October 2010 · 3:00pm

Fitzwilliam Quartet

Founded in 1968, the Fitzwilliam first became well known through its close personal association with Dmitri Shostakovich giving the Western premières of his last three quartets. They were the first ever group to perform and record all fifteen which gained many international awards including Gramophone magazine's "Hundred Greatest-ever Recordings".

Sunday 14 November 2010 · 3:00pm

Llŷr Williams

"One of the truly great musicians of our time" Hilary Finch in The Times

Llŷr is welcomed to Worcester once more, now fresh from solo recitals of distinction at the Lucerne Festival and in the Wigmore and Carnegie Halls. His present project is a complete Beethoven Sonata cycle which is expected to rival the best available.

Sunday 12 December 2010 · 12:00pm

Concert

Midday workshop performance of The Snowman in which Victoria and Clive will be joined by a young flautist and singers from the Worcester area.

Howard Blake's narrated musical story is offered as a Christmas project. This is probably the best known of all of these narrated musical tales and includes the popular song Walking in the Air which can become a group singing activity for all concerned!

The classic seasonal tale of The Snowman is the centrepiece of Victoria and Clive's hour-long presentation for the young and the young at heart!

Sunday 12 December 2010 · 3:00pm

Victoria Curran and Clive Matthews

Victoria Curran & Clive Matthews

• Victoria Curran
• Clive Matthews

Since its formation in 2007, this duo has since established a fine reputation with concerts at the Alrewas Arts Festival, the Garrick Theatre Lichfield, Welshpool Music Club and the Riverhouse Arts Centre. They also specialise in concerts for children: Babar - the little elephant was recently given at the Garrick Theatre and they present The Snowman at Huntingdon Hall this year in a midday workshop.

Sunday 23 January 2011 · 3:00pm

Raphael Wallfisch and John York

Raphael Wallfisch & John York

• Raphael Wallfisch
• John York

With over 17 years of collaboration, their repertoire ranges from Bach to MacMillan including John's own Cello Sonata. "Whatever works to the best, most satisfying and most generous effect ... that is the Wallfisch-York style!"

Sunday 20 February 2011 · 3:00pm

Patricia Rozario OBE and Craig Ogden

Patricia Rozario OBE & Craig Ogden

• Patricia Rozario OBE
• Craig Ogden

"Patricia Rozario floats effortlessly with a voice of liquid gold" Gramophone

Her recent Spanish Songs CD was greeted with "Rozario is in her element, finely phrased and delicately nuanced, and Ogden responds with unforced vitality" BBC Music Magazine. Ogden's solo Music from the Novels of Louis de Bernieres rose to No. 10 in the classical charts and was the Daily Telegraph CD of the week stating "... this disc is pure joy".

Programme includes: Spanish Songs for voice and guitar by R. Gerhard (from 'Cantares'), F. Sor ('Five Seguidillas') and J. Rodrigo with guitar solos by I. Albeniz ('Asturias' and 'Sevilla'), F. Sor ('Introduction, Theme and Variations Op. 9') and F. M. Torroba.

Sunday 20 March 2011 · 12:00pm

Concert

Andy Watts leads a workshop for recorders, flutes, oboes and bassoons based around the music of Handel and his contemporaries for players of grade 5 standard and above.

Sunday 20 March 2011 · 3:00pm

Baroque Virtuosi

This is a new group but its artists are familiar to many of us as soloists who have delighted Cheltenham audiences in Warwick Cole's Corelli concerts and elsewhere. They are expert in the use of period instruments and in period performance styles.