SUMMER SERIES, "Celebrating 20 years of concerts"
Tickets: £14.00 each, or £12.00 each if booking three or more concerts.
Tickets from Maureen Frost, 01328 830362, davidfrost226@btinternet.com
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Friday, 9 July, 7.30pm
Bryan Ellum and Gerald Gifford, harpsichord and organ
Music for two harpsichords and organ:
Bach, Handel, Mozart, Martini, Krebs |
Bryan Ellum studied organ, piano
and harpsichord at the Royal
Academy of Music. He has performed
both as a soloist and accompanist,
and  particularly enjoys duet playing– piano, organ or harpsichord – and
working with the more unusual
combination of organ plus
saxophone / brass.
He regularly gives concerts throughout East Anglia.
Gerald Gifford pursues an
international career as an organ and
harpsichord recitalist and recording
artist, with more than 70 commercial
recordings to his credit, and is also
widely published as a musicologist.
He was a member of the professorial
staff of the Royal College of Music,
London, for thirty years.
He is Honorary Keeper of Music at
the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge,
and a Visiting Lecturer in Performance
Practice in the Music Faculty at
Cambridge University.
This concert is dedicated in memory
of Jack Burns, organist at St Mary’s
Walsingham.
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Friday, 30 July 7.30pm
Xeufei Yang, classical guitar
JS Bach, Tarrega, Chopin, Merlin, Sainz de la Maza, Jobim, Bonfa |
Born in Beijing, guitarist Xuefei
Yang is now based in the UK and
enjoys an international career. She
performs regularly throughout UK,
Europe,  Asia and North America.
Her success has led her to be invited
to many prestigious venues such as
Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall
and Queen Elizabeth Hall in London,
as well as the Philharmonie Berlin,
Musikhalle Hamburg, Concertgebouw
Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Vienna,
Auditorio Nacional de Espana,
Lincoln Center New York and the
Herbst Theatre San Francisco. In Asia
she has appeared at the National
Concert Hall Taipei, Hong Kong City
Hall, Hong Kong Cultural Center,
Esplanade Singapore, Seoul Arts
Centre and the Beijing Concert Hall.
This season sees Xuefei performing
concertos with leading orchestras
including the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber
Orchestra and Northern Sinfonia.
She gives recitals in Lisbon, Macau,
Brussels, Beijing, Seattle, San Francisco
and throughout the UK including
Kings Place London.
Xuefei Yang plays D’Addario guitar
strings on a Smallman guitar.
www.xuefeiyang.com
http://yang40degreesnorth.com
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Sunday, 8 August 7.30pm
Philippa Davies, flute, and
Eleanor Turner, harp.
JS Bach, Mozart, Piazzolla,
Alwyn, Scott, Saint-
Saëns, Debussy,
Hamilton Harty |
Philippa Davies Since her celebrated
performance of Mozart’s Concerto
in D major at the BBC Proms in 1988,
has gained an international reputation
as one of the finest flautists currently
performing. Described by critics as
a first-rate virtuoso, with exceptional
eloquence, she plays and broadcasts
throughout the world at international
festivals, whilst performing concertos
and giving master classes from China,
to the USA.
Eleanor Turner was born in Essex in
1982 and started learning the harp
at the age of five. In 1993 she began
her formal musical education at
the Royal College of Music Junior
Department, studying harp with
Daphne Boden and composition with
Dr Peter Fribbins. Eleanor gave her
solo Wigmore Hall debut in October
2008. Since then, she has given
recitals in Italy, Spain, Ireland and the
Netherlands, both as soloist and with
her harp quartet 4 Girls 4 Harps and
the tango quintet Quintettango.
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Saturday, 21 August, 7.30 pm
Susanne Heinrich, viola and
Lynda Sayce, lute & theorbo.
Johnson, Hume, Telemann,
Marais, Abel, Handel, |
 Susanne Heinrich studied at the
Meistersinger Conservatory of
Nuremberg, and at the Frankfurt State
Academy of Music, where she gained
her recital diploma with the highest
distinction.
Susanne’s recording of solo viol music
by Carl Friedrich Abel won her the
Editor’s Choice Gramophone Award
in 2008 and a Diapason d’Or.
The revised New Grove Dictionary
of Music & Musicians refers to her
as one of the ‘leading players’ of this
generation. She became administrator
to the Viola da Gamba Society of Great
Britain in 2009.
Lynda Sayce is one of the UK’s
leading lutenists, and is noted both as
a performer and as a musical scholar.
She studied at St Hugh’s College,
Oxford. She holds a PhD for her
research on the history of the theorbo.
She is principal lutenist with Ex
Cathedra, the King’s Consort and the
Musicians of the Globe. Linda appears
on more than 100 CDs and broadcasts
on radio and TV worldwide.
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Thursday, 26 August 7.30pm
Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord
Louis Couperin, Jaquet de
la Guerre, JS Bach, Handel,
Matthew Locke |
Trevor Pinnock is known worldwide
as a harpsichordist and conductor who pioneered performance on historical
instruments with his own orchestra,
The English Concert, which he
founded in 1972 and led for the next
thirty years. He now divides his time
between conducting, solo, chamber
music and educational projects.
Pinnock has chamber music tours
in the USA, Japan and Europe with
flautist Emmanuel Pahud and cellist
Jonathan Manson. Their recording of
Bach Flute Sonatas is released by EMI.
He has solo recitals throughout
the UK and Italy.
During 2006 Pinnock founded the
European Brandenburg Ensemble
to celebrate his 60th birthday. Their
recording of Bach’s Brandenburg
Concertos on the Avie label was
awarded a 2008 Gramophone prize.
The ensemble will reconvene in 2011
for performances of Bach’s
St John Passion.
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Monday, 6 September, 7.30pm
EROICA QUARTET
Peter Hanson violin
Julie Hanson violin
Vicci Wardman viola
David Watkin cello
Ravel Quartet in F major
Ravel Duo violin & cello
Debussy Quartet in G minor,
op 10
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The Eroica Quartet continues to
astonish audiences and critics with
radical interpretations of nineteenth century
music in performances across
Europe and the USA. With their
on-going research into contemporary
performance styles they are a unique
and passionate force. They have
recorded all Mendelssohn’s quartets
with Harmonia Mundi USA. Their
European concerts have included
Holland, Denmark, Germany, France
and Spain. Last year they gave a
performance of Mendelssohn’s
original octet in the Library of
Congress, Washington, and are
recording it in May.
The Eroica attack their music with
a kind of lilt and passion that can
leave the mouth gaping...Even long established
groups can shrivel next to
the Eroica Quartet
The Times
The Eroica Quartet’s heroic, questing, unsettling and magnificent performances BBC Music Magazine
Refreshingly impetuous New York
Times
Ensemble and musicianship of the highest order The Strad
What they touch seems imbued with elation Memphis USA |
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