Classical Music in Morpeth

Registered Charity No. 1048490

Kammerphilharmonie EuropaThursday 17th March 2016

Morpeth Music Society is now entering its eighth decade! The society is proud of its central role in the cultural life of Morpeth, presenting an annual series of classical concerts performed by professional artists of national and international standing. We encourage the town’s young musicians in a variety of ways such as facilitating a professional masterclass by O Duo with KEVI school. All young people of school age are warmly invited to attend MMS concerts at no charge. The society also awards an annual scholarship to fund an outstanding KEVI student’s additional music lessons.

All concerts start at 7.30pm in the Methodist Church, Howard Terrace, Morpeth.

There is full disabled access and a hearing loop system.

www.morpeth-musoc.org.uk Supported by Hardington Hogg Solicitors

‘Strictly a one-off, a complete individual, probably a genius, and the most open and honest musician it has

been my privilege to meet’ The Herald Scotland

Wolf Italian Serenade Hummel Concerto for Trumpet & Orchestra J.S. Bach Concerto for Violin BWV 1041 Mozart Divertimento in F K 138 Fauré Pavane Op. 50 Holst ‘Saint Paul’s Suite’ Op. 29 No 2

Kammerphilharmonie Europa, founded in 2006, is a chamber orchestra formed from the best European young musicians. Kammerphilharmonie has recently visited Alnwick Music Society; their concert received rave reviews. The Morpeth programme will open with Wolf’s own arrangement of his Italian Serenade for string orchestra followed by concertos highlighting trumpet and violin. Mozart’s popular Divertimento in F, Fauré ‘s Pavane and Holst’s ‘Saint Paul’s Suite’ complete the evening. We can look forward to this rare opportunity to hear a top class orchestra in Morpeth.

Supported by the Sir James Knott Trust

‘… The capacity audience was clearly delighted by the performance which was a rare chance to hear a

European classical ensemble in a small rural venue... ‘Bachtrack.com

For season tickets, please email MMS membership secretary: cunninghamaileen8@gmail.com or telephone: 01670 513369.Individual concert tickets are available from the secretary as

above, Morpeth Methodist Church, at the door on the night of the concert and from Morpeth Tourist Information Centre.

Adult season ticket ...........................................................£60.00(with the opportunity to bring one friend free to the first concert)

Adult single concert ..........................................................£14.00Student (over 18) season ticket .........................................£10.00 single concert ........................................£3.00

15th Oct 2015 Aurea Quartet string quartet12th Nov 2015 Villiers Quartet string quartet10th Dec 2015 O Duo percussion14th Jan 2016 James Gilchrist & Anna Tilbrook tenor and piano17th Mar 2016 Kammerphilharmonie Europa14th Apr 2016 Llyr Williams pianoˆ

Beethoven Sonata in G major No 25 Op. 79 Sonata in E minor No 27 Op. 90 Six Bagatelles Op. 126 Sonata in B flat major No 29 Op. 106 ‘Hammerklavier’

Morpeth Music Society is delighted to welcome back Llyr Williams for his third solo visit to Morpeth. Llyr was accompanying the local Eisteddfod by the age of nine and had completed his grade eight examination by eleven! Further training at the Royal Academy of Music completed his formal tuition and since then he has applied his formidable musical intelligence to reinterpreting an extensive piano repertoire. Currently, Llyr is undertaking a complete cycle of Beethoven piano sonatas at the Wigmore Hall. We will have the very special opportunity to hear three Beethoven sonatas finishing with the mighty ‘Hammerklavier’ as well as a late set of bagatelles.

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Aurea Quartet string quartet

Thursday 15th October 2015

Haydn Quartet in A major Op. 55 No 1 Brahms Quartet in A minor Op. 51 No 2 Webern Langsamer Satz Schumann Quartet in A major Op. 41 No 3

The opening concert of our seventy-first season features the prize winning Aurea Quartet. The Glasgow based ensemble are currently St John’s Smith Square Young Artists and also resident quartet for the 2015 Wye Valley Chamber Festival. Their programme begins with a typical later Haydn string quartet followed by a Brahms quartet with a contrasting rich and complex sound. The beautiful ‘Langsamer Satz’ (slow movement) is one of a number of such works composed in 1905 for string quartet by Webern while he was a pupil of Schoenberg. The concert concludes with the third of Schumann’s three string quartets, which is held to be the pick of the trio, all written in 1842.

Villiers Quartet string quartet

Thursday 12th November 2015

Haydn Quartet in F minor Op. 55 No 2 ‘The Razor’ Mozart Quartet in G major No 14 K 387 Borodin Quartet in D major No 2 The youthful Villiers Quartet, named after Villiers Street in Covent Garden, are the winners of the 2015 Radcliffe Chamber Music Competition and currently the Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Oxford. They have inaugurated their own VQ New Works Competition in which composers are invited to submit original pieces for string quartet. The finalists’ works are performed at a live concert in London with the winner selected by online and live audiences. We will hear a late Haydn quartet and then the almost contemporaneous Mozart K387 known as the ‘Spring’ quartet. The ensemble confirms their reputations for exploring the repertoire by choosing Borodin’s second string quartet as the finale. The melody of the third movement may be familiar from the song ‘And This Is My Beloved’ from the musical ‘Kismet’.

O Duo percussion

Thursday 10th December 2015

O Duo Bongo Fury Granados Two Spanish Dances Bach French Suite No. 5 excerpts Chopin Two Études Gillespie Night in Tunisia

‘O Duo’ will be a first for the society in bringing percussion to centre stage. Oliver Cox and Owen Gunnell formed ‘O Duo’ while both were studying at the Royal College of Music in 2000. The programme will feature a mixture of tuned (e.g. marimba) and untuned percussion performing a typical repertoire of classics and contemporary works including their own compositions. The duo also introduces their performances with characteristic style. And of course this concert will have our usual seasonal refreshments during the interval.

James Gilchrist tenorAnna Tilbrook piano

Thursday 14th January 2016

Butterworth ‘A Shropshire Lad’ Schubert ‘Die Schöne Müllerin’

Tenor James Gilchrist and pianist Anna Tilbrook will perform a recital of two contrasting song cycles. Butterworth’s ‘A Shropshire Lad’ - a setting of the A. E. Houseman poems, was written shortly before World War One in which the composer died. The Schubert is a setting of poems by Wilhelm Müller and is considered to be one of Schubert’s greatest works for voice. We are fortunate to have this opportunity of experiencing singing of such high calibre. Due to the challenging programme, the duration of this recital will be shorter than usual.

Supported by Morpeth Town Council

‘expressing emotional intensity and warm tonality…artistically and sympathetically played’

The Galloway Gazette

Supported by the Barbour Foundation and the Hadrian Trust

‘If only more quartet ensembles were so adventurous.’The Strad

Supported by the Joicey Trust

‘Phenomenal artistry...Brimming with style and panache’The Daily Telegraph

Supported by BWJ Mitford & MMS members

‘….an exceptionally fine performance on the part of both singer and pianist. Anna Tilbrook plays with a touch that seems infallibly to discover the right

balances for accompanying figures and melodic strands. For his part, Gilchrist is wonderfully skilful in leading his voice through awkward places and sensitive

in the modulation of his tones.’Gramophone

Monti CzardasO Duo Searching O Duo Junk Trunk Soler Sonata No. 84 Glass Truman Sleeps Olly Cox Signals from Space

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