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| Flautist Ruth Molins Recital at St Stephen's Church Thursday 16 August 1pm (photo Chris Avis) |
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| David Sawyer |
The Chill Acoustic
Gallery 36, Denmark Road Exeter
Sunday 22 July 3pm
David Sawyer: 'Elektrokord'
(Based on African thumb piano)
Electric guitar and viola
Tony Plato: Percussion
Details to follow at Gallery 36
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| Somerset Chamber Choir |
Wells Cathedral Somerset
Saturday 28 July 7pm
J S Bach: Nun danket alle Gott
CPE Bach: Magnificat
W A Mozart: Mass in C Minor
Tickets: Front Nave - £28/25
Rear Nave - £20/18
Side aisles, unreserved - £14/10
child/student - half-price (not online)
Box Office: Taunton Tourist Info
01823 336344 or on-line (+75p ea.)
Choir Website
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| Rowland Molony |
Blue Ball Inn, Sidford
Sunday 29 July 7.30pm
WORDS, POETRY & SONG
Clarinet/Sax: Chris Gradwell
Keyboard: Andrew Daldorph
Words: Rowland Molony, Kairen Hooker
Tickets: £8 Box: 07583 796855
glyn.holford@sky.com
Chris Gradwell Website
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| Music on the Edge Susie Hodder-Williams Emma Welton Chris Caldwell |
(sponsored by 'The Art Room' Topsham)
Riversmeet Cottage, Topsham
(far end of the Goat Walk)
Sunday 29 July 6.30pm
Haydn, Bach & Rameau in the open air
Flute, Gamelan: Susie Hodder-Williams
Clarinets, Saxophones: Chris Caldwell
Violin, Double Bass: Emma Welton
Tickets: £10 (advance booking essential)
Contact Deborah Wood
theartroom@eclipse.co.uk
The Art Room website
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| Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin |
Ham Marquee Sidmouth
Friday 3 August
Show of Hands, with
Miranda Sykes and
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
Info: 01395 577592
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| See below . . . |
Antiphon
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| Matthew Cann conducts 'Antiphon' at Buckfast Abbey |
Saturday 4 August 7.15pm
Dedication to the Virgin Mary
Director: Matthew Cann
John Tavener, Arvo Pärt,
Domenico Gabrielli,
Matthew Cann
'Magnificat', 'Ave Maria'.
'Tota Pulchra Es, Maria'
(You're absolutely lovely, Mary!)
Tickets: £10 (advance £8)
antiphonvox@gmail.com
(or SAE to Matthew Cann
38 Miller Way
Exminster
EX6 8TH)
Remembrance Concert
(Howells' Requiem)
Saturday 10 November
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Buckland Abbey, Yelverton
Saturday-Sunday 11-12 August
10.30am-5.30pm both days
WEEKEND FESTIVAL OF THEATRE
Saturday: Rise of the House of Lancaster
(Richard II, Henry IV 1 & 2, & Henry V)
Sunday: The Wars of the Roses
(Henry VI 1, 2 & 3, & Richard III)
A Century of History in Eight Plays!
Admission to Buckland Abbey:
Adult: £8 Child: £4
(family & group discounts available)
Admission to Gardens only:
Adult: £4 Child: £2
National Trust Members - no charge
Shakespearean theatre
and other living history activities -
including dramatic battle re-enactments
No extra charge!
Organ Recital
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 15 August 7.30pm
Organist Emeritus,
Exeter Cathedral: Paul Morgan
Fior Peeters: Toccata, Fugue and Hymn
on 'Ave Maris Stella' op28
Ludwig van Beethoven: Adagio in F
for mechanical organ
J S Bach: Fantasia & Fugue in Gm 542
Sir William Harris: 4 Short Pieces (Prelude)
Sir William Walton: 'Orb and Sceptre'
Harvey Grace: 10 Compositions (Resurgam)
Maurice Duruflé: Scherzo op2
Louis Vierne: 24 Pièces in Style Libre (Lied)
Alexandre Guilmant: Sonata No 1 (Final)
Tickets: £7 (student £3 U18 FREE)
Exeter Cathedral Shop: 01392 271354
There are 2 more recitals - 29 Aug & 5 Sept
St Stephen's Project - Lunchtime Concerts
St Stephen's Church Exeter High Street
Thursday 16 August 1pm
(Fundraising lunch 12 noon)
Flute: Ruth Molins (nee Avis)
Piano: James Keefe
Dave Heath Out of the Cool
Hear Ruth on 'Classical Journey' 14th August
Organ Concert to Celebrate the Centenary
of the Society of Our Lady of Lourdes
Church of St Cyr & St Julitta
Newton St Cyres
Thursday 16 August 7.30pm
Organist: Naoko Maeda
Jeremiah Clarke: Prince of Denmark's March
J S Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Schubler Chorale:
"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
"Meine Seele erhebt den Herren"
"Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter"
G F Handel: "Xerxes" - Largo
Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata No 1 in F minor
Louis-James-Alfred Lefébure-Wély: Sortie in B flat
W A Mozart: Andante in F K.616
Richard Unfreid: arrangement of 'Amazing Grace'
Naoko Maeda: Arr. of 'Sakura Sakura' (cherry blossom)
Louis Victor Jules Vierne: Final from Symphony No 1
Admission: £5 on the door
Two further recitals on Friday 17 August:
Exeter Cathedral: 9am
St David's Church Exeter: 4pm
Chris Gradwell and Friends
Blue Ball Inn, Sidford
Sunday 19 August 7.30pm
MUSIC DECO
Clarinet/Sax: Chris Gradwell
Keyboard: Andrew Daldorph
Soprano: Kate Walker
Tickets: £8 Box: 07583 796855
glyn.holford@sky.com
Chris Gradwell Website
Music@St. Paul's
Luchtime Concerts
St Paul's Church Honiton
Tuesday 21 August 1pm
CHRISTOPHER KENT
(resident organist at Bowood House Wilts
and authority on the Bryce-Seede Organ
at Powderham Castle - visited with his
St Nicholas Consort on Friday 18 May)
Organ Recital
Light Lunch (from 12.00) £4.50
Concert (1.00 - 2.00) £5.50
Pantaloons Theatre Company
Killerton House Gardens
Tuesday 21 August 7pm
Oscar Wilde:
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Tickets: £15 (child £10)
Pre-show supper: £12.50
01392 881345 book online
Show of Hands
Exeter Phoenix
Wednesday 22 August 8pm
guitar/voice: Steve Knightley
violin/voice: Phil Beer
double bass: Miranda Sykes
ROYAL ALBERT HALL REVUE SHOW
supported by:
The Urban Soul Orchestra
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
Tickets: £17
Exeter Phoenix Box Office
01392 667080
seetickets (10% booking fee)
Mittwoch aus Licht
Argyle Works Birmingham
Wednesday 22 - Saturday 25 August 4pm
Birmingham Opera Company will perform
the world premier of
Karlheinz Stockhausen's 6 hour Opera
(one of seven - one for each day of the week)
Part of the London 2012 Festival
Director: Graham Vick
Director of Music: Kathinka Pasveer
Part 1 - Welt-Parlament: Ex Cathedra
(Musical Director Jeffrey Skidmore)
Features coloratura soprano Elizabeth Drury
as 'Temporary President'
Part 2 - Orchester-Finalisten
Part 3 - Helikopter-Streichquartett
The Elysian String Quartet
and 'Grasshoppers' Helicopter display team
Part 4 - Michaelion: London Voices
(Musical Director Terry Edwards)
SOLD OUT !
St Stephen's Project - Lunchtime Concerts
St Stephen's Church Exeter High Street
Thursday 23 August 1pm
(Fundraising lunch 12 noon)
Piano: Matthew Wright
(Dr Wright is Senior Lecturer in
Classics and Ancient History at Exeter University
and has just returned from a year as
Blegen Fellow at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie)
Totnes Music Now
St Mary's Church Totnes (2.30pm)
Soundart Studio Dartington Hall (6pm)
Friday 24 August
A New Composition by Sam Richards
Totnes Improvisers Orchestra and Friends
Admission FREE
email: leechwellsam@googlemail.com
Steve Gordon's Exeter Guitar Ensemble
Exeter Phoenix
Saturday 25 August
Sir Edward Elgar: Serenade for Strings
(Arranged Alison Smith & Ivan Andrews)
Gerald Garcia, Mark Ashford, Mark Eden,
Helen Sanderson, Chris Stell - and David Cottam
Details to follow at esgmusic
The Pressenda Ensemble
at Totnes Festival
St John's Church Totnes
Sunday 26 August 3pm
SUNDAY SERENADE CONCERT
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F
J S Bach: Fugue in B minor (on a theme
of Corelli) Double Violin Concerto
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony 12
Percy Grainger: songs from UK & Ireland
Astor Piazzolla: Autumn in Beunos Aire
Director of Music: Malcolm Latcham
(founder Academy of St Martin in the Fields)
joined in the double concerto by
violinist Catherine Hayek
Hosts: Divertimento Entertainments
Tickets: £12 (student/child FREE)
Box Office 01803 863677
enquiries@divertimento.uk.com
Totnes TIC 01803 863168
- stay in the area for the opening of:
Dartington Outdoor Film Festival 2012
Tennis Court, Dartington Space
Sunday 26 - Wednesday 29 August 8.30pm
Sunday: Some Like it Hot
Monday: Prometheus
Tuesday: North by Northwest
Wednesday: The Dark Knight Rises
Tickets: £7.75/6.50 (student £5.25 U18 £4)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Dartington website
N.B. because of this year's excessive rain, the screen has been moved to the 'tennis courts' at Dartington Space - just 100yds from the Tilt Yard - Rain on the night? Simply move next door to the luxury of the Barn Theatre! (read details)
Organ Recital
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 29 August 7.30pm
Director of Music,
Gloucester Cathedral: Adrian Partington
J S Bach: Prelude & Fugue in Am 543
Orlando Gibbons: Fantasia for Double Organ
Gustav Merkel: Sonata No 8 in B minor
Henri Mulet: Exquisses Byzantines (Vitrail, Rosace)
Patrick Gowers: Toccata and Fugue
Henri Mulet: Carillon Sortie
Tickets: £7 (student £3 U18 FREE)
Exeter Cathedral Shop: 01392 271354
Jemma Webb
Memorial Variety Concert
Reed Hall Exeter University
Friday 31 August 7.30pm
Featuring local artists, including
new pairing: guitarist Clive Betts
and flautist Martha Soffker
Guitar: Isaac Albeniz 'Chants d'Espagna'
Guitar & Flute:
Astor Piazzolla 'Histoire du Tango'
Jacques Ibert 'Entr'acte'
(from Pedro Calderón's
'El Médico de su Honra)
They will discuss the concert on
'Classical Journey' Tue 21 Aug
Tickets: £5 - in aid of the Eve Appeal
Booking/Further Details (or to take part):
Sylvia Costigan 07914 617877
(Ellen Milford: 07872067673)
(Other performers in the Eve Appeal concert include: Katherine & Marina Kostigan, James Tomlinson, Luke Friend, Lauren Ross, Molly Emmerson - all performers under twenty five)
The Society of Strange and
Ancient Instruments
at Totnes Festival
St Mary's Church Totnes
Saturday 1 September 7.30-9.30pm
THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS
trad: 'Blessed be the Maid Marie'
Mateio Fecha: 'Rui, Rui,chui'
Thoinot Arbeau: 'Belle qui tiens ma vie'
François Francoeur: Rondeau
trad: Joseph and the Angel Oxford
anon: 'Lullay, lullay - als I lay on Yoolis Nigh'
trad: 'When righteous Joseph wedded was'
John Playford: Doves Figary
Sarum Chant (Salisbury 15th Century):
A solis ortus cardine
The Play of Daniel (Beauvais 13th Century):
Angelus admonebit Abacue prophetam
Cantiga de Santa Maria
(Galician-Portugese 13th Century)
Cantiga 131: En tamanna colta non pode seer
Arcangelo Corelli: La Follia
trad: The Three Ravens
trad: Devil Stick the Minister
trad: The Devil in a Bush
trad: The devil's Dream
Cantiga 115: Con seu ben sempre ven
trad: Buillo, pran ton tamborin!
trad: Pease Branle
trad: Candlestick Branle
voice, renaissance guitar, oud: Clara Sanabras
hurdy gurdy, nyckelharpa,
hardanger violin: Clare Salaman
harps & percussion: Joy Smith
basses: Peter McCarthy
(FULL DETAILS!)
Hosts: Totnes Early Music Society
Tickets: £12 (student/U18 £5)
Non-TEMS members (only), pay at the door.
Further enquiries/membership:
Chair: Jill Tomalin 01803 849414 email
Mem Sec: Jasper Solomon 01803 868883 email
TEMS membership webpage
Chris Gradwell and Friends
Blue Ball Inn, Sidford
Sunday 2 September 7.30pm
LE JAZZ
Clarinet/Sax: Chris Gradwell
Keyboard: Andrew Daldorph
Guitar: Andrew Barrett
Double Bass: Mike Thorn
Tickets: £8 Box: 07583 796855
glyn.holford@sky.com
Chris Gradwell Website
Musical Premiere
Station Theatre, Hayling Island (Hampshire)
Tuesday 4 - Saturday 8 September 7.45pm
OOPS for Theatre Productions
(original productions for . . . )
present 'For the Love of Undine'
by Chris and Alex Poulton
(Baritone Alex Poulton performed
'Opera through the Ages' with
Wing Wing Lam at St Mary Arches
on 19 October last year - and
Schubert's 'Winterreise' on 23 November
accompanied by Andrew Daldorph
Tickets: £10
Box Office: 02392 718718
Mobile: 07946 740958
Station Theatre website
oopsfortheatre website
Organ Recital
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 5 September 7.30pm
Assistant Director of Music,
Exeter Cathedral: David Davies
programme TBA
Tickets: £7 (student £3 U18 FREE)
Exeter Cathedral Shop: 01392 271354
Appassionata Guitar and Flute Duo
Temple Church Budleigh (EX9 6NN)
Wednesday 5 September 7.30pm
(repeated Shaldon, 7 Sept - see below)
Guitar: Alex Knight
Flute: Suki Trussler
Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Albeniz, Scarlatti,
Granados, Faure, Ibert, Dompierre and
Piazzolla among others.
Tickets: £10
Budleigh Salterton TIC: 01395 445275
Alex Knight: 01364 644400 / 07896 438242
or wegottickets
St Boniface Concert Society
Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton
Thursday 6 September 7.30pm
SERENATA
John Dowland
Peter Philips
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Georg Philipp Telemann
George Frederic Handel
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tickets: £10 (children FREE)
Info: Mrs Isolde Summers 01363 773472
Appassionata Guitar and Flute Duo
St Peter's Church, Shaldon (TQ14 0ET)
Friday 7 September 8-10pm
Doors open 7.30, interval with refreshments
(repeat of Budleigh, 5 Sept - see above)
Guitar: Alex Knight
Flute: Suki Trussler
Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Albeniz, Scarlatti,
Granados, Faure, Ibert, Dompierre and
Piazzolla among others.
Tickets: £10
Alex Knight: 01364 644400 / 07896 438242
or wegottickets
David Sawyer and the Chill Acoustic
Arthaven@redearth Gallery Bickleigh
Friday 7 September 6-9pm
Exhibition in Memory of Daphne Cartwright
with music by 'The Chill Acoustic'
who played at Gallery 36 on Sunday 22 July
Exhibition continues 8-22 September
11am-5.30pm on weekdays, -6pm weekends
Work by 9 artists - including Daphne Cartwright
Information: telephone Steve 07989 343121
email: steve@redearth-art.com
Redearth website
Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra
St Peter's School Exeter
Friday-Sunday 7-9 September
Full rehearsal of Mahler's Symphony VIII
Hymn: Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Creator Spirit)
Scherzo: (closing scene of Goethe's Faust)
Final rehearsal - Friday 14 September
Conductor: Marion Wood
Leader: Clare Smith
(Performance: Great Hall, 16 September)
Info: Carol Galton
cgalton@gmail.com 01392 410660
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
St Margaret's Church Topsham
Tuesday 11 September 7.30pm
CHORAL WORKSHOP & RECITAL
(invitation from soprano Josie Walledge)
Featuring the music of:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Francis Poulenc,
Charles Villiers Stanford
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Choral Director: James Burton
Tickets: £10 (includes a glass of wine!)
Contact Josie Walledge 01392 823508
josiewalledge@gmail.com
Schola Cantorum of Oxford
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 12 September 2pm
students/alumni of Oxford University
Conductor: James Burton
Charles Villiers Stanford: Latin Magnificat
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in Gm
William Byrd, Thomas Tallis,
Gustav Holst, James Burton
Admission FREE
(admission to the Cathedral is £5
senior/student 3.50 child FREE)
A year's pass for £5 with
proof of EX postcode
Visitor's Office: 01392 285983
Miracle Theatre Company
Tiverton Community Arts Centre
Thursday 13 September 7.30pm
Oscar Wilde:
'The Importance of being Earnest'
Tickets: £10 (concessions £8 U16 £6)
from Northcott Box Office:
01392 493493 or Northcott website
contact Sue North for further details:
01884 253494
Miracle Theatre Company website
Duo Teresa Carreño
Glenorchy URC Exmouth
Friday 14 September 12noon
Piano: Ana Laura Manero
'Cello: Arturo Serna
Details to follow . . .
Duo Website
Classical Journey Review
The Divertimento Piano Trio
St Mary's Church Totnes
Friday 14 September 7.30pm
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in C H15.27
Édouard Lalo: Piano Trio 1 in Cm op7
Franz Schubert: Adagio in Eь D897
("Notturno")
Bedřich Smetana: Piano Trio in Gm op15
Piano: Margaret Lynn
Violin: Mary Eade
'Cello: Vicky Evans
Tickets: £12 (student/child FREE)
Box Office: 01803 863677
enquiries@divertimento.uk.com
Totnes TIC: 01803 863168
Acoustica Festival
Exeter Phoenix / Bikeshed Theatre / Old Firehouse
Friday 14 September from 6pm
Saturday 15 September from 2pm
Countless artists, including:
Phil Henry & Hannah Martin
Exeter Acoustica Festival
Saturday 15 September
Chaturanga guitar: Phillip Henry
Violin/banjo: Hannah Martin
- who are also appearing at
Exmouth Grapevine
Sunday 14 October
(see below)
Tickets: Friday & Saturday: £16
one day only: £12
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
soon available on Phoenix website
Opera Glass
Poltimore House Broadclyst
Saturday 15 September 7.30pm
Third Autumn Opera Concert
Tickets: £10 on-line
Picture: The 2010 Opera Glass line-up
Chris Hunt, tenor
Joyce Clarke, piano
Janet Macdonald, Soprano
Claire Powell, Mezzo Soprano
Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra
Exeter University Great Hall
Sunday 16 September 5pm
Mahler's Eighth Symphony
('Symphony of a Thousand')
Director: Marion Wood
Leader: Clare Smith
EMG orchestra and choir
Tickets: check EMG website for details
Lesley Garrett &
Somerset Chamber Choir
Wells Cathedral
Saturday 22 September 7-9pm
The High Sheriff's Concert
Choristers of Wells Cathedral
Ensembles and Soloists from
Wells Cathedral School
Handel, Mozart, Franck, Brahms,
Eric Whitacre, Matthew Harris,
Gustav Holst, Vaughan Williams,
John Rutter
Tickets: £15/25/35
Wells Cathedral Shop 01749 672773
Proceeds in support of 'Crimebeat'
NONCLASSICAL
Exeter Bikeshed Theatre
Sunday 23 September 7.30pm
A special visit to celebrate year 1
GABRIEL PROKOFIEV (!!!)
Viola: Rebecca Willson
Flute: Ruth Molins
Violin: Michael Brailey
Piano: Peter Nickol
'Cello: Hannah Willson
Tickets: £5
Box Office: 01392 434169
Bikeshed Theatre website
Nonclassical website
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
St Paul's Church Honiton
Tuesday 25 September 7.30pm
SEPTEMBER SERENADE
Conductor: Maxime Tortelier
Violin Soloist: Jack Liebeck
movie score soloist - Jane Eyre 2011
and Anna Karenina - opens 7/9/12
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
- to his newborn son, 1870,
the opera comes later!
W A Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 K216
Sir Edward Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Felix Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony (4)
Tickets:
Front Nave: £15 (sold out)
Rear Nave: £13 (sold out)
Side Aisles: £11 (30 left on 20 Aug)
Unreserved seats in the 'Nathex'
(foyer behind nave) £9
Honiton TIC: 01404 43716
BSO website
Substance & Shadow Theatre
1. Blackmore Theatre, Exmouth
Thursday 27 September
2. Matthews Hall, Topsham
Sun 30 & Mon 31 September
3. City Gate, Ironbridge, Exeter
Wed 3 & Thur 4 October
(All performances 7.30pm)
Harold Pinter: The Dumb Waiter
Director: Rosie Mullin
(see also: Exeter Alternative Theatre)
writer and performer in 'Self-Centred'
by Bare Bones Theatre, Exeter Ignite.
Tickets:
Exmouth
ticket-line: 07905 761485
Tourist Information: 01392 222299
Topsham
details to follow
Exeter
details to follow
Nicholas Marshall and Friends
Temple Church Budleigh Salterton
Saturday 29 September 3pm
70th Birthday Celebrations
with Nicky's own compositions
Piano: Nicky Marshall
Soprano: Lesley-Jane Rogers
Recorder: John Turner
'Cello: Heather Bills
Harpsichord: Ian Thompson
Piano: Roger Fordham
Admission FREE (collection for
Médecins sans Frontières)
Rua Macmillan Trio
Dartington Great Hall
Thursday 4 October 8pm
Traditional Highland Music
Violin: Rua MacMillan
Guitar: Tia Files
Bodhran: Adam Brown
Supported by Devon Folk Duo
Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll
Tickets: £12 (student £5)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Dartington website
St David's Players
Exeter Barnfield Theatre
Tuesday 9 - Saturday 13 October 7.30pm
plus Saturday Matinee 2.00pm
PRINCESS IDA (or Castle Adamant)
Producer & Director of Choreography:
Susan Gunn-Johnson
Director of Music: Nicky Perry
Princess Ida: Penny Daw
King Hildebrand: Tim Hunt
Hilarion: Mark Hurford
Lady Blanche: Carolyn Harries
Scinthius: Paul Luffman
Florian: Adrian Fox
Cyril: James Dunk
Tickets: £12/14
Box Office: 01392 270891 Mon-Fri 10-4
online: Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat 2.00 Sat 7.30
The Two Moors Festival
Thursday 11 October - Sunday 21 October
Thursday 11th: All Saints' Church, Dulverton
7.30pm Pianist Martin Roscoe & the Brodsky Quartet
Friday 12th: Dunster
11am Yarn Market Hotel - talk by Alan Caig on Exeter Museum
1.30pm St George's Church - The Two Moors Festival Ensemble
7.30pm The Tythe Barn - harpsichord Christopher Bucknall & string quartet
Saturday 13th: Ashburton
11am St Lawrence's Chapel - a talk by baritone Donald Maxwell
1pm St Andrew's Church - Young Musicians Platform Competition winners (incl. Lucy Bray)
7.30pm St Andrew's Church - Festival Ensemble & mezzo Charlotte Stephenson - Kathleen Ferrier
Sunday 14th: Widecombe-in-the-Moor
11am St Pancras's Church - Holy Communion
2pm Hay Tor Car Park - flautist Harry Winstanley - musical walk to the tor
7.30pm St Pancras's Church - Baritones Donald Maxwell and Marcus Farnsworth
Monday 15th: Tiverton - Hatherleigh - Exeter
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - violinist Tai Murray 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1.30pm St John's Church Hatherleigh - flautist Karhryn Thomas & schoolchildren - Pied Piper
7.30pm Exeter Cathedral - 'cellist Guy Johnston & Orchestra of the Swan - Haydn Cocnerto
Tuesday 16th: Tiverton - Okehampton
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - 'cellist Guy Johnson 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1.30pm All Saints' Okehampton - soprano Caroline MacPhie - Titanic Memorial
7.30pm All Saints' - flautist Kathryn Thomas & piano trio - Beethoven tribute with pre-show talk
Wednesday 17th: Tiverton - Witheridge - Tiverton
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1pm St John's Witheridge - violinist Heyeyoon Park & pianist Nareh Arghamanyan
4.30pm St John's - Richard Kay - talk about Royal portraits
7.30pm St Peter's Tiverton - Camaraderie Quartet - Book of Common Prayer 350th anniversary
Thursday 18th: Tiverton - Chagford - Tavistock
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - 'cellist Jing Zhao 'Season Ticket for Bach'
12.00pm St Michael's Chagford - David Davies/Martin Ford Psalms workshop
4.30pm St Michael's - Choral Evensong performed by workshop participants
7.30pm St Eustachius' Tavistock - The Military Wives Choir
Friday 19th: Tiverton - Simonsbath - Dunster
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - Harpist Keziah 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1.30pm St Luke's Simonsbath - Quintessence Brass Ensemble
7.30pm St George's Dunster - pianist Cédric Tiberghien Tribute to the Festival Bösendorfer grand
Saturday 20th: Withypool - North Molton - Barnstaple
11am Royal Oak Withypool - talk by Banjamin Mee on Dartmoor Zoo
1.30pm All Saints' North Molton - 4 Girls 4 Harps
7.30pm St Peter's Barnstaple - 2 guitarists John Williams & John Etheridge
Sunday 21st: All Saints' Church, Dulverton
11am Festival Eucharist (setting by Dom Gregory Murray)
1.30pm talk by Phyllida Lloyd on screening stage plays
7.30pm mezzo soprano Katarina Karnéus sings the Festival Finale
Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 10 October 12.30
Piano: Joyce Clarke
Edvard Grieg
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Frédéric Chopin
Admission FREE
Exeter Chamber Choir
St Peter's Church Shaldon
Saturday 13 October 7.30pm
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Saxophones: Chris Gradwell
Marimba: Edward Scull
Matthias Schmitt: Agnus Dei (marimba, choir)
Andrew Daldorph: 'Rise up my Love'
(voices, marimba, soprano saxophone)
Nigel Walsh (Exeter): 'In the Stillness'
6 songs for choir and piano with words by
Richard Skinner (after Julian of Norwich)
René Clausen: 'Tonight Eternity Alone'
Healey Willan: texts from 'Song of Solomon'
Tickets: details to follow
see Choir websiteproceeds in aid of The Helen Foundation
This concert will be repeated:
Tuesday 16 October 7.30pm St Stephen's Exeter
(see below)
'Counterpoint' Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 13 October 7.30pm
HANDEL'S MESSIAH
(with Divertimento String Ensemble)
Countertenor James Bowman:
Arias from Solomon, Saul, Theodora
Judas Maccabaeus
Tickets: £16 (advance £15)
01392 490398 or email:
CounterpointVox@aol.com
Counterpoint Website
Phil Henry & Hannah Martin
The Grapevine Exmouth
Sunday 14 October 8.30pm
(Doors open 7.45pm)
Chaturanga guitar: Phillip Henry
Violin/banjo: Hannah Martin
Tickets: £8 wegottickets
Exeter Chamber Choir
St Stephen's Church Exeter
Tuesday 16 October 7.30pm
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Saxophones: Chris Gradwell
Marimba: Edward Scull
Matthias Schmitt: Agnus Dei (marimba, choir)
Andrew Daldorph: 'Rise up my Love'
(voices, marimba, soprano saxophone)
Nigel Walsh: 'In the Stillness'
6 songs for choir and piano with words by
Richard Skinner (after Julian of Norwich)
René Clausen: 'Tonight Eternity Alone'
Healey Willan: texts from 'Song of Solomon'
Tickets: details to follow
see Choir website
proceeds in aid of The St Stephen's Project
This concert is a repeat of:
Saturday 13 October 7.30pm St Peter's Shaldon
(see above)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Exeter University Great Hall
Thursday 18 October 7.30pm
TCHAIKOVSKY FOUR
Conductor: Michael Francis
'Cello Soloist: Paul Watkins
Ralph Vaughan Williams:
'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'
Frederick Delius: 'Cello Concerto
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4
Pre-Show Talk at the Peter Chalk Centre
(Opposite the back of the Northcott)
for info call: 01202 644725
Tickets: TBA
Exeter Phoenix Box Office:
01392 667080 10am-8pm Mon-Sat
BSO website
Show of Hands
Exeter University Great Hall
Friday 19 October 7.30pm
guitar/voice: Steve Knightley
violin/voice: Phil Beer
double bass: Miranda Sykes
Tickets: £17
Exeter Phoenix Box Office
01392 667080
wegottickets
West Devon Chorale
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 20 October 7.15 - 8.45pm
(Between Vespers and Compline)
THE FRENCH TRADITION
(aka IN PARADISUM)
Director: Michael Johnson
Organist: Christopher Moore
Mezzo-Soprano: Heather Reynolds
Bass: Peter Bawden
'Cello: Tirke Linnemann
Maurice Duruflé: 4 Gregorian Motets
Marcel Dupré: Cortège et Litanie Op19.2
Francis Poulenc:
Quatre Motets pour un temps de pénitence
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
Tickets: £10 (advance £8 student/child £3)
wegottickets West Devon Chorale website
English Touring Opera
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Three Modern Operas - with English Lyrics
Wednesday 24 October 7.30pm
Peter Maxwell Davis: The Lighthouse
Director Ted Huffman
Conductor Richard Baker
Thursday 25 and Saturday 27 October 7.30pm
Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring
Director Christopher Rolls
Conductor Michael Rosewell
Mark Wilde, Jennifer Rhys Davies
Friday 26 October
7.30pm: Helen Chadwick 'Towards an Unknown Port'
a ten minute cycle of songs
in response to the following opera
sung by a local amateur choir
7.45pm pre-show talk
Viktor Ullmann: The Emperor of Atlantis
written with Peter Kien
in Terezin concentration camp
Producer James Conway
Accompanying Bach Cantata (in English)
'Christ lag in Todes Banden'
Tickets: £18-31
Box Office 01392 493493
Northcott website: Lighthouse/Herring/Atlantis
English Touring Opera website
'Cello Recital at Powderham Castle
James Wyatt Music Room
Friday 26 October 7.30pm
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
- works for 'cello & keyboard
- two solo 'cello suites
from the notebook of
Anna Magdalena Bach
- Errors in Anna's copy of
'Suite No 1'corrected
for the first time
(Exclusive!)
1769 Bryce-Seede organ & harpsichord:
Kapellmeister George Pratt
'Cello: Colin jackson
Tickets: £14
Call Emma (Powerham Castle office)
01626 890243 to book seats
(Students: ask if any remaining
FREE or ½-PRICE student tickets!)
Devon Baroque
1. St George's Church, Tiverton
Saturday 3 November 7.30pm
2. Dartington Great Hall
Sunday 4 November 3pm
BACH BY ARRANGEMENT
Harpsichordist & Director of Music:
Jonathan Watts
a) a parody of Pergolesi's 'Stabat Mater'
'Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden' (Psalm 51)
soprano: Keri Fuge, alto: Nicholas Clapton
b) a transcription of Harpsichord Concerto 6
Brandenburg Concerto IV
recorders: Alan Davis & James Risdon
c) a reworking of music by Vivaldi
Harpsichord Concerto in G minor BWV 975
harpshichord: Jonathan Watts
d) from a cantata by Bartolomeo Conti
'Languet anima mea'
soprano: Keri Fuge
Tickets: £18 (student/U18 £5)
Dartington: 01803 847070 (12.30-7pm)
Appearing soon on Dartington website
Tiverton: TIC 01884 255827
wegottickets
Devon Baroque website
Exeter Bach Society
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Sunday 4 November 7pm
Director of Music: David Davies
A talk on pre-reformation church music
composer John Sheppard (1515-60)
with examples from the choir
Tickets: £10 details TBA
Exeter Bach Society website
'Voces' Renaissance Choir
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 17 November 7.30-8.45pm
(between Vespers & Compline)
VOCES 25, GABRIELI & HASSLER 400
Giovani Bavrieli & Hans Leo Hassler
both died 1612 - Voces was formed 1987
Director of Music: Martyn Warren
Parking & Admission FREE
Retiring Collection
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| Paul Morgan playing the organ at Exeter Cathedral relayed by CCTV |
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 15 August 7.30pm
Organist Emeritus,
Exeter Cathedral: Paul Morgan
Fior Peeters: Toccata, Fugue and Hymn
on 'Ave Maris Stella' op28
Ludwig van Beethoven: Adagio in F
for mechanical organ
J S Bach: Fantasia & Fugue in Gm 542
Sir William Harris: 4 Short Pieces (Prelude)
Sir William Walton: 'Orb and Sceptre'
Harvey Grace: 10 Compositions (Resurgam)
Maurice Duruflé: Scherzo op2
Louis Vierne: 24 Pièces in Style Libre (Lied)
Alexandre Guilmant: Sonata No 1 (Final)
Tickets: £7 (student £3 U18 FREE)
Exeter Cathedral Shop: 01392 271354
There are 2 more recitals - 29 Aug & 5 Sept
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| Two talented musicians James Keefe and Ruth Avis Exeter Library 25 Oct 2010 |
St Stephen's Church Exeter High Street
Thursday 16 August 1pm
(Fundraising lunch 12 noon)
Flute: Ruth Molins (nee Avis)
Piano: James Keefe
Dave Heath Out of the Cool
J. S. Bach Sonata for flute in B minor
Philippe Gaubert Sonate
Admission FREE
(fundraising ploughman's lunch £5)
Hear Ruth on 'Classical Journey' 14th August
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Naoko Maeda |
of the Society of Our Lady of Lourdes
Church of St Cyr & St Julitta
Newton St Cyres
Thursday 16 August 7.30pm
Organist: Naoko Maeda
Jeremiah Clarke: Prince of Denmark's March
J S Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Schubler Chorale:
"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
"Meine Seele erhebt den Herren"
"Kommst du nun, Jesu, vom Himmel herunter"
G F Handel: "Xerxes" - Largo
Felix Mendelssohn: Sonata No 1 in F minor
Louis-James-Alfred Lefébure-Wély: Sortie in B flat
W A Mozart: Andante in F K.616
Richard Unfreid: arrangement of 'Amazing Grace'
Naoko Maeda: Arr. of 'Sakura Sakura' (cherry blossom)
Louis Victor Jules Vierne: Final from Symphony No 1
Admission: £5 on the door
Two further recitals on Friday 17 August:
Exeter Cathedral: 9am
St David's Church Exeter: 4pm
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| Music Deco piano: Andrew Daldorph clarinet/Sax: Chris Gradwell soprano: Kate Walker |
Blue Ball Inn, Sidford
Sunday 19 August 7.30pm
MUSIC DECO
Clarinet/Sax: Chris Gradwell
Keyboard: Andrew Daldorph
Soprano: Kate Walker
Tickets: £8 Box: 07583 796855
glyn.holford@sky.com
Chris Gradwell Website
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| Christopher Kent |
Luchtime Concerts
St Paul's Church Honiton
Tuesday 21 August 1pm
CHRISTOPHER KENT
(resident organist at Bowood House Wilts
and authority on the Bryce-Seede Organ
at Powderham Castle - visited with his
St Nicholas Consort on Friday 18 May)
Organ Recital
Light Lunch (from 12.00) £4.50
Concert (1.00 - 2.00) £5.50
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| Pantaloons Theatre Company The Importance of being Earnest |
Killerton House Gardens
Tuesday 21 August 7pm
Oscar Wilde:
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Tickets: £15 (child £10)
Pre-show supper: £12.50
01392 881345 book online
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| Show of Hands Miranda Sykes Phil Beer Steve Knightley |
Exeter Phoenix
Wednesday 22 August 8pm
guitar/voice: Steve Knightley
violin/voice: Phil Beer
double bass: Miranda Sykes
ROYAL ALBERT HALL REVUE SHOW
supported by:
The Urban Soul Orchestra
Phillip Henry & Hannah Martin
Tickets: £17
Exeter Phoenix Box Office
01392 667080
seetickets (10% booking fee)
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| Counter Tenor James Armitage & Coloratura Soprano Lizzie Drury made up for 'Welt-Parlament' James is New Zealand Lizzie is Congo |
Argyle Works Birmingham
Wednesday 22 - Saturday 25 August 4pm
Birmingham Opera Company will perform
the world premier of
Karlheinz Stockhausen's 6 hour Opera
(one of seven - one for each day of the week)
Part of the London 2012 Festival
Director: Graham Vick
Director of Music: Kathinka Pasveer
Part 1 - Welt-Parlament: Ex Cathedra
(Musical Director Jeffrey Skidmore)
Features coloratura soprano Elizabeth Drury
as 'Temporary President'
Part 2 - Orchester-Finalisten
Part 3 - Helikopter-Streichquartett
The Elysian String Quartet
and 'Grasshoppers' Helicopter display team
Part 4 - Michaelion: London Voices
(Musical Director Terry Edwards)
SOLD OUT !
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| Dr Matthew Wright |
St Stephen's Church Exeter High Street
Thursday 23 August 1pm
(Fundraising lunch 12 noon)
Piano: Matthew Wright
(Dr Wright is Senior Lecturer in
Classics and Ancient History at Exeter University
and has just returned from a year as
Blegen Fellow at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie)
Admission FREE
(fundraising ploughman's lunch £5)
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| Sam Richards |
St Mary's Church Totnes (2.30pm)
Soundart Studio Dartington Hall (6pm)
Friday 24 August
A New Composition by Sam Richards
Totnes Improvisers Orchestra and Friends
Admission FREE
email: leechwellsam@googlemail.com
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| Steve Gordon |
Exeter Phoenix
Saturday 25 August
Sir Edward Elgar: Serenade for Strings
(Arranged Alison Smith & Ivan Andrews)
Gerald Garcia, Mark Ashford, Mark Eden,
Helen Sanderson, Chris Stell - and David Cottam
Details to follow at esgmusic
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| conductor: Malcolm Latcham |
at Totnes Festival
St John's Church Totnes
Sunday 26 August 3pm
SUNDAY SERENADE CONCERT
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso in F
J S Bach: Fugue in B minor (on a theme
of Corelli) Double Violin Concerto
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony 12
Percy Grainger: songs from UK & Ireland
Astor Piazzolla: Autumn in Beunos Aire
Director of Music: Malcolm Latcham
(founder Academy of St Martin in the Fields)
joined in the double concerto by
violinist Catherine Hayek
Hosts: Divertimento Entertainments
Tickets: £12 (student/child FREE)
Box Office 01803 863677
enquiries@divertimento.uk.com
Totnes TIC 01803 863168
- stay in the area for the opening of:
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| the big screen Dartington Tilt Yard |
Tennis Court, Dartington Space
Sunday 26 - Wednesday 29 August 8.30pm
Sunday: Some Like it Hot
Monday: Prometheus
Tuesday: North by Northwest
Wednesday: The Dark Knight Rises
Tickets: £7.75/6.50 (student £5.25 U18 £4)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Dartington website
N.B. because of this year's excessive rain, the screen has been moved to the 'tennis courts' at Dartington Space - just 100yds from the Tilt Yard - Rain on the night? Simply move next door to the luxury of the Barn Theatre! (read details)
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| Adrian Partington Director of Music Gloucester Cathedral |
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 29 August 7.30pm
Director of Music,
Gloucester Cathedral: Adrian Partington
J S Bach: Prelude & Fugue in Am 543
Orlando Gibbons: Fantasia for Double Organ
Gustav Merkel: Sonata No 8 in B minor
Henri Mulet: Exquisses Byzantines (Vitrail, Rosace)
Patrick Gowers: Toccata and Fugue
Henri Mulet: Carillon Sortie
Tickets: £7 (student £3 U18 FREE)
Exeter Cathedral Shop: 01392 271354
Jemma WebbMemorial Variety Concert
Reed Hall Exeter University
Friday 31 August 7.30pm
Featuring local artists, including
new pairing: guitarist Clive Betts
and flautist Martha Soffker
Guitar: Isaac Albeniz 'Chants d'Espagna'
Guitar & Flute:
Astor Piazzolla 'Histoire du Tango'
Jacques Ibert 'Entr'acte'
(from Pedro Calderón's
'El Médico de su Honra)
They will discuss the concert on
'Classical Journey' Tue 21 Aug
Tickets: £5 - in aid of the Eve Appeal
Booking/Further Details (or to take part):
Sylvia Costigan 07914 617877
(Ellen Milford: 07872067673)
(Other performers in the Eve Appeal concert include: Katherine & Marina Kostigan, James Tomlinson, Luke Friend, Lauren Ross, Molly Emmerson - all performers under twenty five)
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| The Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments - gothic harp: Joy Smith renaissance guitar: Clara Sanabras hurdy-gurdy: Clare Salaman |
Ancient Instruments
at Totnes Festival
St Mary's Church Totnes
Saturday 1 September 7.30-9.30pm
THE MINISTRY OF ANGELS
trad: 'Blessed be the Maid Marie'
Mateio Fecha: 'Rui, Rui,chui'
Thoinot Arbeau: 'Belle qui tiens ma vie'
François Francoeur: Rondeau
trad: Joseph and the Angel Oxford
anon: 'Lullay, lullay - als I lay on Yoolis Nigh'
trad: 'When righteous Joseph wedded was'
John Playford: Doves Figary
Sarum Chant (Salisbury 15th Century):
A solis ortus cardine
The Play of Daniel (Beauvais 13th Century):
Angelus admonebit Abacue prophetam
Cantiga de Santa Maria
(Galician-Portugese 13th Century)
Cantiga 131: En tamanna colta non pode seer
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| double bass: Peter McCarthy |
trad: The Three Ravens
trad: Devil Stick the Minister
trad: The Devil in a Bush
trad: The devil's Dream
Cantiga 115: Con seu ben sempre ven
trad: Buillo, pran ton tamborin!
trad: Pease Branle
trad: Candlestick Branle
voice, renaissance guitar, oud: Clara Sanabras
hurdy gurdy, nyckelharpa,
hardanger violin: Clare Salaman
basses: Peter McCarthy
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| nyckelharpa |
Hosts: Totnes Early Music Society
Tickets: £12 (student/U18 £5)
Non-TEMS members (only), pay at the door.
Further enquiries/membership:
Chair: Jill Tomalin 01803 849414 email
Mem Sec: Jasper Solomon 01803 868883 email
TEMS membership webpage
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| Le Jazz double bass: Mike Thorn piano: Andrew Daldorph clarinet/sax: Chris Gradwell guitar: Andrew Barrett |
Blue Ball Inn, Sidford
Sunday 2 September 7.30pm
LE JAZZ
Clarinet/Sax: Chris Gradwell
Keyboard: Andrew Daldorph
Guitar: Andrew Barrett
Double Bass: Mike Thorn
Tickets: £8 Box: 07583 796855
glyn.holford@sky.com
Chris Gradwell Website
Station Theatre, Hayling Island (Hampshire)
Tuesday 4 - Saturday 8 September 7.45pm
OOPS for Theatre Productions
(original productions for . . . )
present 'For the Love of Undine'
by Chris and Alex Poulton
(Baritone Alex Poulton performed
'Opera through the Ages' with
Wing Wing Lam at St Mary Arches
on 19 October last year - and
Schubert's 'Winterreise' on 23 November
accompanied by Andrew Daldorph
Tickets: £10
Box Office: 02392 718718
Mobile: 07946 740958
Station Theatre website
oopsfortheatre website
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| David Davies |
Organ Recital
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 5 September 7.30pm
Assistant Director of Music,
Exeter Cathedral: David Davies
programme TBA
Tickets: £7 (student £3 U18 FREE)
Exeter Cathedral Shop: 01392 271354
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| Appassionata Flute: Suki Trussler Guitar: Alex Knight |
Temple Church Budleigh (EX9 6NN)
Wednesday 5 September 7.30pm
(repeated Shaldon, 7 Sept - see below)
Guitar: Alex Knight
Flute: Suki Trussler
Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Albeniz, Scarlatti,
Granados, Faure, Ibert, Dompierre and
Piazzolla among others.
Tickets: £10
Budleigh Salterton TIC: 01395 445275
Alex Knight: 01364 644400 / 07896 438242
or wegottickets
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| Serenata 'Cello: Mary Harris Harpsichord: Adrian Davis Soprano: Louise Turner Oboe/Cor Anglais: Hazel Todd |
Church of the Holy Cross, Crediton
Thursday 6 September 7.30pm
SERENATA
John Dowland
Peter Philips
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Georg Philipp Telemann
George Frederic Handel
Johann Sebastian Bach
Tickets: £10 (children FREE)
Info: Mrs Isolde Summers 01363 773472
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| Alex Knight |
St Peter's Church, Shaldon (TQ14 0ET)
Friday 7 September 8-10pm
Doors open 7.30, interval with refreshments
(repeat of Budleigh, 5 Sept - see above)
Guitar: Alex Knight
Flute: Suki Trussler
Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, Albeniz, Scarlatti,
Granados, Faure, Ibert, Dompierre and
Piazzolla among others.
Tickets: £10
Alex Knight: 01364 644400 / 07896 438242
or wegottickets
David Sawyer and the Chill AcousticArthaven@redearth Gallery Bickleigh
Friday 7 September 6-9pm
Exhibition in Memory of Daphne Cartwright
with music by 'The Chill Acoustic'
who played at Gallery 36 on Sunday 22 July
Exhibition continues 8-22 September
11am-5.30pm on weekdays, -6pm weekends
Work by 9 artists - including Daphne Cartwright
Information: telephone Steve 07989 343121
email: steve@redearth-art.com
Redearth website
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| Marion Wood Conducts the EMG Orchestra at St Peter's School |
St Peter's School Exeter
Friday-Sunday 7-9 September
Full rehearsal of Mahler's Symphony VIII
Hymn: Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Creator Spirit)
Scherzo: (closing scene of Goethe's Faust)
Final rehearsal - Friday 14 September
Conductor: Marion Wood
Leader: Clare Smith
(Performance: Great Hall, 16 September)
Info: Carol Galton
cgalton@gmail.com 01392 410660
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| James Burton Choral Director Schola Cantorum of Oxford |
St Margaret's Church Topsham
Tuesday 11 September 7.30pm
CHORAL WORKSHOP & RECITAL
(invitation from soprano Josie Walledge)
Featuring the music of:
Johann Sebastian Bach
Francis Poulenc,
Charles Villiers Stanford
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Choral Director: James Burton
Tickets: £10 (includes a glass of wine!)
Contact Josie Walledge 01392 823508
josiewalledge@gmail.com
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| James Burton conductor of Schola Cantorum of Oxford |
Exeter Cathedral
Wednesday 12 September 2pm
students/alumni of Oxford University
Conductor: James Burton
Charles Villiers Stanford: Latin Magnificat
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in Gm
William Byrd, Thomas Tallis,
Gustav Holst, James Burton
Admission FREE
(admission to the Cathedral is £5
senior/student 3.50 child FREE)
A year's pass for £5 with
proof of EX postcode
Visitor's Office: 01392 285983
Tiverton Community Arts Centre
Thursday 13 September 7.30pm
Oscar Wilde:
'The Importance of being Earnest'
Tickets: £10 (concessions £8 U16 £6)
from Northcott Box Office:
01392 493493 or Northcott website
contact Sue North for further details:
01884 253494
Miracle Theatre Company website
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| Ana Laura Manero |
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| Arturo Serna |
Duo Teresa Carreño
Glenorchy URC Exmouth
Friday 14 September 12noon
Piano: Ana Laura Manero
'Cello: Arturo Serna
Details to follow . . .
Duo Website
Classical Journey Review
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| Divertimento Piano Trio piano: Margaret Lynn violin: Mary Eade 'cello: Vicky Evans |
St Mary's Church Totnes
Friday 14 September 7.30pm
Joseph Haydn: Piano Trio in C H15.27
Édouard Lalo: Piano Trio 1 in Cm op7
Franz Schubert: Adagio in Eь D897
("Notturno")
Bedřich Smetana: Piano Trio in Gm op15
Piano: Margaret Lynn
Violin: Mary Eade
'Cello: Vicky Evans
Tickets: £12 (student/child FREE)
Box Office: 01803 863677
enquiries@divertimento.uk.com
Totnes TIC: 01803 863168
Acoustica Festival
Exeter Phoenix / Bikeshed Theatre / Old Firehouse
Friday 14 September from 6pm
Saturday 15 September from 2pm
Countless artists, including:
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| Hannah Martin & Phillip Henry |
Exeter Acoustica Festival
Saturday 15 September
Chaturanga guitar: Phillip Henry
Violin/banjo: Hannah Martin
- who are also appearing at
Exmouth Grapevine
Sunday 14 October
(see below)
Tickets: Friday & Saturday: £16
one day only: £12
Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
soon available on Phoenix website
Opera GlassPoltimore House Broadclyst
Saturday 15 September 7.30pm
Third Autumn Opera Concert
Tickets: £10 on-line
Picture: The 2010 Opera Glass line-up
Chris Hunt, tenor
Joyce Clarke, piano
Janet Macdonald, Soprano
Claire Powell, Mezzo Soprano
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| EMG Conductor: Marion Wood |
Exeter University Great Hall
Sunday 16 September 5pm
Mahler's Eighth Symphony
('Symphony of a Thousand')
Director: Marion Wood
Leader: Clare Smith
EMG orchestra and choir
Tickets: check EMG website for details
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| Lesley Garrett in concert with The Somerset Chamber Choir |
Somerset Chamber Choir
Wells Cathedral
Saturday 22 September 7-9pm
The High Sheriff's Concert
Choristers of Wells Cathedral
Ensembles and Soloists from
Wells Cathedral School
Handel, Mozart, Franck, Brahms,
Eric Whitacre, Matthew Harris,
Gustav Holst, Vaughan Williams,
John Rutter
Tickets: £15/25/35
Wells Cathedral Shop 01749 672773
Proceeds in support of 'Crimebeat'
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| Gabriel Prokofiev composer & founder of Nonclassical |
Exeter Bikeshed Theatre
Sunday 23 September 7.30pm
A special visit to celebrate year 1
GABRIEL PROKOFIEV (!!!)
Viola: Rebecca Willson
Flute: Ruth Molins
Violin: Michael Brailey
Piano: Peter Nickol
'Cello: Hannah Willson
Tickets: £5
Box Office: 01392 434169
Bikeshed Theatre website
Nonclassical website
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| conductor: Maxime Tortelier |
St Paul's Church Honiton
Tuesday 25 September 7.30pm
SEPTEMBER SERENADE
Conductor: Maxime Tortelier
Violin Soloist: Jack Liebeck
movie score soloist - Jane Eyre 2011
and Anna Karenina - opens 7/9/12
Richard Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
- to his newborn son, 1870,
the opera comes later!
W A Mozart: Violin Concerto No 3 K216
Sir Edward Elgar: Serenade for Strings
Felix Mendelssohn: Italian Symphony (4)
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| violin: Jack Liebeck |
Front Nave: £15 (sold out)
Rear Nave: £13 (sold out)
Side Aisles: £11 (30 left on 20 Aug)
Unreserved seats in the 'Nathex'
(foyer behind nave) £9
Honiton TIC: 01404 43716
BSO website
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| A rare photograph of the director Rosie Mullin taken by Nigel Cheffers-Heard at rehearsals for the Exeter Alternative Theatre production of 'Quills' by Doug Wright. Rosie's husband Midge plays Donatien, Marquis de Sade incarcerated at Charenton. Also incarcerated are a chorus of 'lunatics' (top centre: Sorrel Meechan!) far right: Rosie Mullin |
1. Blackmore Theatre, Exmouth
Thursday 27 September
2. Matthews Hall, Topsham
Sun 30 & Mon 31 September
3. City Gate, Ironbridge, Exeter
Wed 3 & Thur 4 October
(All performances 7.30pm)
Harold Pinter: The Dumb Waiter
Director: Rosie Mullin
(see also: Exeter Alternative Theatre)
writer and performer in 'Self-Centred'
by Bare Bones Theatre, Exeter Ignite.
Tickets:
Exmouth
ticket-line: 07905 761485
Tourist Information: 01392 222299
Topsham
details to follow
Exeter
details to follow
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| Nicky Marshall |
Temple Church Budleigh Salterton
Saturday 29 September 3pm
70th Birthday Celebrations
with Nicky's own compositions
Piano: Nicky Marshall
Soprano: Lesley-Jane Rogers
Recorder: John Turner
'Cello: Heather Bills
Harpsichord: Ian Thompson
Piano: Roger Fordham
Admission FREE (collection for
Médecins sans Frontières)
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| Rua Macmillan Trio bodhran: Adam Brown guitar: Tia Files violin: Rua Macmillan |
Dartington Great Hall
Thursday 4 October 8pm
Traditional Highland Music
Violin: Rua MacMillan
Guitar: Tia Files
Bodhran: Adam Brown
Supported by Devon Folk Duo
Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll
Tickets: £12 (student £5)
Box Office: 01803 847070
Dartington website
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Exeter Barnfield Theatre
Tuesday 9 - Saturday 13 October 7.30pm
plus Saturday Matinee 2.00pm
PRINCESS IDA (or Castle Adamant)
Producer & Director of Choreography:
Susan Gunn-Johnson
Director of Music: Nicky Perry
Princess Ida: Penny Daw
King Hildebrand: Tim Hunt
Hilarion: Mark Hurford
Lady Blanche: Carolyn Harries
Scinthius: Paul Luffman
Florian: Adrian Fox
Cyril: James Dunk
Tickets: £12/14
Box Office: 01392 270891 Mon-Fri 10-4
online: Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat 2.00 Sat 7.30
The Two Moors Festival
Thursday 11 October - Sunday 21 October
Thursday 11th: All Saints' Church, Dulverton
7.30pm Pianist Martin Roscoe & the Brodsky Quartet
Friday 12th: Dunster
11am Yarn Market Hotel - talk by Alan Caig on Exeter Museum
1.30pm St George's Church - The Two Moors Festival Ensemble
7.30pm The Tythe Barn - harpsichord Christopher Bucknall & string quartet
Saturday 13th: Ashburton
11am St Lawrence's Chapel - a talk by baritone Donald Maxwell
1pm St Andrew's Church - Young Musicians Platform Competition winners (incl. Lucy Bray)
7.30pm St Andrew's Church - Festival Ensemble & mezzo Charlotte Stephenson - Kathleen Ferrier
Sunday 14th: Widecombe-in-the-Moor
11am St Pancras's Church - Holy Communion
2pm Hay Tor Car Park - flautist Harry Winstanley - musical walk to the tor
7.30pm St Pancras's Church - Baritones Donald Maxwell and Marcus Farnsworth
Monday 15th: Tiverton - Hatherleigh - Exeter
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - violinist Tai Murray 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1.30pm St John's Church Hatherleigh - flautist Karhryn Thomas & schoolchildren - Pied Piper
7.30pm Exeter Cathedral - 'cellist Guy Johnston & Orchestra of the Swan - Haydn Cocnerto
Tuesday 16th: Tiverton - Okehampton
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - 'cellist Guy Johnson 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1.30pm All Saints' Okehampton - soprano Caroline MacPhie - Titanic Memorial
7.30pm All Saints' - flautist Kathryn Thomas & piano trio - Beethoven tribute with pre-show talk
Wednesday 17th: Tiverton - Witheridge - Tiverton
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - Lutenist Elizabeth Kenny 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1pm St John's Witheridge - violinist Heyeyoon Park & pianist Nareh Arghamanyan
4.30pm St John's - Richard Kay - talk about Royal portraits
7.30pm St Peter's Tiverton - Camaraderie Quartet - Book of Common Prayer 350th anniversary
Thursday 18th: Tiverton - Chagford - Tavistock
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - 'cellist Jing Zhao 'Season Ticket for Bach'
12.00pm St Michael's Chagford - David Davies/Martin Ford Psalms workshop
4.30pm St Michael's - Choral Evensong performed by workshop participants
7.30pm St Eustachius' Tavistock - The Military Wives Choir
Friday 19th: Tiverton - Simonsbath - Dunster
11.30am Tiverton Parkway Station Waiting Room - Harpist Keziah 'Season Ticket for Bach'
1.30pm St Luke's Simonsbath - Quintessence Brass Ensemble
7.30pm St George's Dunster - pianist Cédric Tiberghien Tribute to the Festival Bösendorfer grand
Saturday 20th: Withypool - North Molton - Barnstaple
11am Royal Oak Withypool - talk by Banjamin Mee on Dartmoor Zoo
1.30pm All Saints' North Molton - 4 Girls 4 Harps
7.30pm St Peter's Barnstaple - 2 guitarists John Williams & John Etheridge
Sunday 21st: All Saints' Church, Dulverton
11am Festival Eucharist (setting by Dom Gregory Murray)
1.30pm talk by Phyllida Lloyd on screening stage plays
7.30pm mezzo soprano Katarina Karnéus sings the Festival Finale
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| Joyce Clarke |
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 10 October 12.30
Piano: Joyce Clarke
Edvard Grieg
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Frédéric Chopin
Admission FREE
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| Andrew Daldorph conducts Exeter Chamber Choir St Peter's Church Shaldon (Friday 16 April 2011) |
St Peter's Church Shaldon
Saturday 13 October 7.30pm
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Saxophones: Chris Gradwell
Marimba: Edward Scull
Matthias Schmitt: Agnus Dei (marimba, choir)
Andrew Daldorph: 'Rise up my Love'
(voices, marimba, soprano saxophone)
Nigel Walsh (Exeter): 'In the Stillness'
6 songs for choir and piano with words by
Richard Skinner (after Julian of Norwich)
René Clausen: 'Tonight Eternity Alone'
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| Ed Scull with marimba - see above |
Tickets: details to follow
see Choir websiteproceeds in aid of The Helen Foundation
This concert will be repeated:
Tuesday 16 October 7.30pm St Stephen's Exeter
(see below)
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| James Bowman with Dorothy Linell |
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 13 October 7.30pm
HANDEL'S MESSIAH
(with Divertimento String Ensemble)
Countertenor James Bowman:
Arias from Solomon, Saul, Theodora
Judas Maccabaeus
Tickets: £16 (advance £15)
01392 490398 or email:
CounterpointVox@aol.com
Counterpoint Website
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| Hannah Martin & Phillip Henry |
The Grapevine Exmouth
Sunday 14 October 8.30pm
(Doors open 7.45pm)
Chaturanga guitar: Phillip Henry
Violin/banjo: Hannah Martin
Tickets: £8 wegottickets
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| Andrew Daldorph conducts Exeter Chamber Choir for the St Stephen's Project (St Mary Arches Church Exeter Tuesday 20 December 2011) |
Exeter Chamber Choir
St Stephen's Church Exeter
Tuesday 16 October 7.30pm
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Saxophones: Chris Gradwell
Marimba: Edward Scull
Matthias Schmitt: Agnus Dei (marimba, choir)
Andrew Daldorph: 'Rise up my Love'
(voices, marimba, soprano saxophone)
Nigel Walsh: 'In the Stillness'
6 songs for choir and piano with words by
Richard Skinner (after Julian of Norwich)
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| Chris Gradwell plays soprano saxophone with Andrew Daldorph ('Soarin High' at St Cyr's Tuesday 19 July 2011) |
Healey Willan: texts from 'Song of Solomon'
Tickets: details to follow
see Choir website
proceeds in aid of The St Stephen's Project
This concert is a repeat of:
Saturday 13 October 7.30pm St Peter's Shaldon
(see above)
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| Michael Francis |
Exeter University Great Hall
Thursday 18 October 7.30pm
TCHAIKOVSKY FOUR
Conductor: Michael Francis
'Cello Soloist: Paul Watkins
Ralph Vaughan Williams:
'Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis'
Frederick Delius: 'Cello Concerto
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4
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| 'cello: Paul Watkins |
(Opposite the back of the Northcott)
for info call: 01202 644725
Tickets: TBA
Exeter Phoenix Box Office:
01392 667080 10am-8pm Mon-Sat
BSO website
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| Show of Hands Miranda Sykes Phil Beer Steve Knightley |
Exeter University Great Hall
Friday 19 October 7.30pm
guitar/voice: Steve Knightley
violin/voice: Phil Beer
double bass: Miranda Sykes
Tickets: £17
Exeter Phoenix Box Office
01392 667080
wegottickets
West Devon Chorale
Buckfast Abbey
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| Michael Johnson conducts West Devon Chorale |
(Between Vespers and Compline)
THE FRENCH TRADITION
(aka IN PARADISUM)
Director: Michael Johnson
Organist: Christopher Moore
Mezzo-Soprano: Heather Reynolds
Bass: Peter Bawden
'Cello: Tirke Linnemann
Maurice Duruflé: 4 Gregorian Motets
Marcel Dupré: Cortège et Litanie Op19.2
Francis Poulenc:
Quatre Motets pour un temps de pénitence
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
Tickets: £10 (advance £8 student/child £3)
wegottickets West Devon Chorale website
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| The Lighthouse Adam Tunnicliffe is Sandy Nicholas Merryweather is Blazes Richard Mosley-Evans is Arthur |
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Three Modern Operas - with English Lyrics
Wednesday 24 October 7.30pm
Peter Maxwell Davis: The Lighthouse
Director Ted Huffman
Conductor Richard Baker
Thursday 25 and Saturday 27 October 7.30pm
Benjamin Britten: Albert Herring
Director Christopher Rolls
Conductor Michael Rosewell
Mark Wilde, Jennifer Rhys Davies
Friday 26 October
7.30pm: Helen Chadwick 'Towards an Unknown Port'
a ten minute cycle of songs
in response to the following opera
sung by a local amateur choir
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| Mark Wilde is Albert Herring |
Viktor Ullmann: The Emperor of Atlantis
written with Peter Kien
in Terezin concentration camp
Producer James Conway
Accompanying Bach Cantata (in English)
'Christ lag in Todes Banden'
Tickets: £18-31
Box Office 01392 493493
Northcott website: Lighthouse/Herring/Atlantis
English Touring Opera website
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The Powderham Castle Kapellmeister Professor George Pratt |
James Wyatt Music Room
Friday 26 October 7.30pm
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
- works for 'cello & keyboard
- two solo 'cello suites
from the notebook of
Anna Magdalena Bach
- Errors in Anna's copy of
'Suite No 1'corrected
for the first time
(Exclusive!)
1769 Bryce-Seede organ & harpsichord:
Kapellmeister George Pratt
'Cello: Colin jackson
Tickets: £14
Call Emma (Powerham Castle office)
01626 890243 to book seats
(Students: ask if any remaining
FREE or ½-PRICE student tickets!)
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| soprano:Keri Fuge |
1. St George's Church, Tiverton
Saturday 3 November 7.30pm
2. Dartington Great Hall
Sunday 4 November 3pm
BACH BY ARRANGEMENT
Harpsichordist & Director of Music:
Jonathan Watts
a) a parody of Pergolesi's 'Stabat Mater'
'Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden' (Psalm 51)
soprano: Keri Fuge, alto: Nicholas Clapton
b) a transcription of Harpsichord Concerto 6
Brandenburg Concerto IV
recorders: Alan Davis & James Risdon
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| alto: Nicholas Clapton |
Harpsichord Concerto in G minor BWV 975
harpshichord: Jonathan Watts
d) from a cantata by Bartolomeo Conti
'Languet anima mea'
soprano: Keri Fuge
Tickets: £18 (student/U18 £5)
Dartington: 01803 847070 (12.30-7pm)
Appearing soon on Dartington website
Tiverton: TIC 01884 255827
wegottickets
Devon Baroque website
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| David Davies |
Exeter Cathedral Chapter House
Sunday 4 November 7pm
Director of Music: David Davies
A talk on pre-reformation church music
composer John Sheppard (1515-60)
with examples from the choir
Tickets: £10 details TBA
Exeter Bach Society website
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| Martyn Warren |
Buckfast Abbey
Saturday 17 November 7.30-8.45pm
(between Vespers & Compline)
VOCES 25, GABRIELI & HASSLER 400
Giovani Bavrieli & Hans Leo Hassler
both died 1612 - Voces was formed 1987
Director of Music: Martyn Warren
Parking & Admission FREE
Retiring Collection
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