Music Around Plymouth
Concert Season Autumn - Winter 2016-7
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Plymouth Music Accord Activities include
• Helping raise the profile of musical activity generally • Concert Experience – funding tickets for schoolchildren to experience live music • Tuition Project – funding instrumental or vocal tuition in schools, which cannot always be afforded by everyone • Young Musicians’ Internships - enabling keen musicians to rehearse and perform with an established orchestra or choir • Young Musicians’ Platform - helping talented young people to set out on a musical career
PMA Members include music lovers from the general public and local organisations - including local orchestras, choirs, chamber groups, folk groups, performers and venues, whose events are listed in this diary.
Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary
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——————— SEPTEMBER ————— Wednesday September 7 at 7.30 pm in the Hall for Cornwall, Truro Saturday September 3 at 7 pm at Mount Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra , Edgcumbe Park, Barnpool (access from 4.30 conductor David Hill, with Jack Liebeck - violin pm) Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1 Proms on the Peninsula with guest orchestra Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Plymouth Symphony Orchestra Elgar: Enigma Variations Ending with a spectacular firework display Tickets from 01872 262466 Tickets £15 (under 10s free) in advance only from Plymouth Tourist Information Centre, Friday September 9 at 7.30pm at All Saints Barbican 01752 306330; Kerry’s Music Plymouth Church, Malborough, near Salcombe. 01752 227120 Divertimento String Quartet In aid of forces charities The Grand Tour’ Join DSQ on their travels around the world of music, including works by Saturday September 3 at 7 pm at The Holiday Beethoven, Schubert, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Inn, Plymouth Walton, Folk Songs from Brazil and China. Carlton Swing Band Tickets £12. Students 18 years & under £1 from Strictly Come Dancing Dinner-Dance Divertimento or at the door. The ticket includes a Tickets from The Chancel, St Andrews Street- FREE glass of wine. 01752 226264 or Muriel 01752/795757 Wednesday September 14 at 1pm at the Duke of Sunday September 4 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Road, Plymouth British Legion Club, Plymouth Jeanie Moore MVO - 23rd International Concert Plymouth Jazz Club Series Martin Dale Quartet with Roger Marks Alice Vickery - singer, with Mark Smith - Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members keyboard accompaniment £7, Full-Time Students £5) from Box Office B A Plymouth Music Accord Concert Tickets £10 from Box Office C Wednesday September 7 at 7.30 pm at Liskeard Public Hall Liskeard Concert Series Rebekka Hartmann - violin with Margarita Oganesjan - piano Tickets: £12.50 (under 18's & Students free)
2 Autumn 2016 Friday September 16 at 7.30 pm at Newton Sunday September 18 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Abbot British Legion Club Plymouth Chamber Ensemble of London , director Peter Plymouth Jazz Club Fisher The Pedigree Jazz Band Richard Mudge: Concerto Grosso Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Clive Jenkins: Pastorale & Allegro £7, Full-Time Students £5) from Box Office B Peter Fisher: Variations on Widecombe Fair in the Style of Paganini Saturday September 24 John Ireland arr. Parlett: Cavatina and Bagatelle Plymouth & District Organists' Association Benjamin Britten: Simple Symphony Visit to Mid Devon (Okehampton area/Crediton) Andrew M Wilson: Tavy Dance Suite Details from [email protected] Edward Elgar.Serenade A Newton Abbot and District Society of Arts Sunday September 25 at 5 pm at The House, concert Plymouth University sponsored by the Estate of the late Albert Nutty Music of Motions and Presence Federico Visi - researcher, composer, electric Saturday September 17 at 7 pm at Plymouth guitar, Lara Jones - saxophone, Marco Frattini - Unitarian Church, Notte Street. drummer, percussionist Sarah Deere-Jones , director of Cornwall Harp Using the body movements of performers, this Centre series of compositions captures the gestures of 'The Magic of Celtic Harp’. Haunting songs and musicians playing acoustic and electronic dazzling instrumentals from across Celtic Britain instruments using motion sensors. Adding a new and the world. dimension to the performance, their movements Tickets £8 on door or in advance from generate new sounds and affect the timbre of www.hazeltreetherapies.co.uk their instruments in real time. Admission free Saturday September 17 at 7.30 pm at St. Mary's Church, High Street, Totnes Wednesday September 28 at 1.10 pm at St The Bach Players : Nicolette Moonen violin, Andrew's Minster Church, Plymouth Reiko Ichise viola da gamba & Lynda Sayce Elaine Davies - sax & Fraser Weekes - guitar theorbo Admission free; lunch available beforehand Pour le Souper du Roi Music by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and Friday September 30 at 7.30 pm at Landulph Marin Marais Memorial Hall, Cornwall Tickets for non-TEMS members: £12, students & Landulph Festival of Music and the Arts under 18s £5 from Dartington Box Office 01803 Flash Jack 847070, online at Dartington or on the door. A fun evening of ‘Sea Songs, Shanties & Songs Totnes Early Music Society of Love, Lust & Loose living’ featuring local celebrity Gideon Barrett Sunday September 18 at 1.30 pm and at 3 pm at Tickets £15 from 01782 841598 Plymouth Unitarian Church, Notte Street. Harp workshops led by Sarah Deere-Jones , ———————— OCTOBER —————— director of Cornwall Harp Centre. A unique Saturday October 1 at Meade King Hall, opportunity to 'have a go' at playing the harp in Plymouth College, PL4 6RN (all day event) small groups - instruments provided. Plymouth Philharmonic Choir present Tickets £10. Early booking advised from Brian Kay Choral Workshop www.hazeltreetherapies.co.uk Sing Bob Chilcott's Dances of Time and Great
Choruses from Great Oratorios Tickets £18 from www.plymouthphilchoir.org.uk
3 Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary Saturday October 1 at 7.30 pm at Liskeard Saturday October 8 at 7.30 pm at Landulph Public Hall Memorial Hall, Cornwall Liskeard Concert Series Landulph Festival of Music and the Arts Suzanne Manuell - soprano, Alison Kettlewell Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman Folk - mezzo, Anthony Seddon - piano Evening Scenes and melodies from the world of Opera Tickets £15 from 01782 841598 and Operetta. Tickets: £12.50 (under 18's & Students free) Saturday October 8 at 7.30 pm at Newton St. Cyres Saturday October 1 at 7.30 pm at Buckfast Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir Abbey Voces - Renaissance Choral Music Saturday October 8 Nunc Dimittis: a farewell to Europe through Plymouth & District Organists' Association Renaissance choral music. Visit to Exeter: St Michael & All Angels’ Church, Free entry; retiring collection Mount Dinham and Exeter Cathedral Details from [email protected] Saturday October 1 at Kingsand Canoryon Lowen Sunday October 9 at 4pm at St Margaret’s Details from Jenny Hart, 01759 320683 Church, Topsham Divertimento String Quartet Sunday October 2 at 6 pm at Landulph Memorial Schubert: Quartettsatz, Prokofiev: String Quartet Hall, Cornwall no 2, Schumann: String Quartet no 1. Landulph Festival of Music and the Arts Tickets £12 on the door, £10 in advance from Philippa Mo - violin & Branimir Pusticki - The Topsham Bookshop, 27 Fore St, Topsham cello (half or Retorica) 01392-877895, Under-18s free Tickets £20 from 01782 841598 Saturday October 15 at 3pm at Lustleigh Village Sunday October 2 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Hall British Legion Club Plymouth Divertimento String Quartet Plymouth Jazz Club Programme as above The Sopranos Tickets £10 from Lustleigh Dairy, Will Carnell Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members 01647 277270 or at the door. £7, Full-Time Students £5) from Box Office B Saturday October 15 at 7.30 pm at Buckfast Thursday October 6 at 7.30pm at St Mary’s Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon TQ11 0EE Church, Totnes West Devon Chorale , Director: Michael The Divertimento Piano Trio Johnson, Organ: David Robinson Piano Trios by Louise Farrenc, Saint Saens and Fauré: Requiem, Vierne: Messe Solennelle Mendelssohn Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine Tickets from Divertimento 01803 863677 or at Entry free, retiring collection the door Saturday October 15 at 7.30 pm at Landulph Friday October 7 at 7.30 pm at Powderham Memorial Hall, Cornwall Castle Landulph Festival of Music and the Arts Divertimento Piano Trio Moscow Drug Club: Blend of Cabaret / Nightclub Piano Trios by Louise Farrenc, Saint Saens and / Campfire Music Mendelssohn Original material with songs by the likes of Tickets from Powderham Castle Jacques Brel, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Bertolt Brecht and Duke Ellington Tickets £15 from 01782 841598
4 Autumn 2016 Sunday October 16 at 6 pm at Landulph Saturday October 22 at 7.30 pm at Liskeard Memorial Hall, Cornwall Public Hall Landulph Festival of Music and the Arts Liskeard Concert Series Autumn Choral Sean Shibe : Classical Guitar Concert Concert Tickets £20 from 01782 841598 Choirs including Rame Peninsular Male Voice Choir and Keltique Ladies from Looe, director Sunday October 16 at 6.30 pm at Theatre 1, Jonathan Lewsey plussome of our finest local Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University soloists Peninsula Arts Doctors’ Orchestra , conductor Varied choral singing Simon Ible Tickets: £10 (under 18's & Students free) Humperdinck: Hansel & Gretel Overture, In aid of Derriford Children’s Cancer Service Bruckner: Symphony No.4 ‘Romantic’ (1 st mov.) Williams: Superman, Smetana: Vltava Saturday October 22 at 7.30 pm at The Free admission. Parting donations in aid of Brain Watermark, Ivybridge Tumour Research welcomed. Plymouth Gilbert & Sullivan Fellowship "Iolanthe in Concert" Sunday October 16 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Tickets £10 from 01752 892220 British Legion Club Plymouth Plymouth Jazz Club Sunday October 23 at 5 pm at St John’s Church, The Black Cat Jazz Band Bridgetown, Totnes Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Divertimento String Quarte £7, Full-Time Students £5) from Box Office B Schubert: Quartettsatz, Prokofiev: String Quartet no 2, Schumann: String Quartet no 1. Wednesday October 19 at 1pm at the Duke of Tickets £12 from Divertimento or at the door. Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Road, Plymouth Jeanie Moore MVO - 23rd International Concert Wednesday October 26 at 11 am at St. Aubyn's Series Masonic Hall, Stoke, Plymouth David Watkins - harp Plymouth Clarion Choir Tickets £10 from Box Office C For the Masonic Widows Association
Friday October 21 at 2 pm at Higher St Budeaux Saturday October 29 at 7.30 pm at South Molton Church Methodist Church Plymouth Clarion Choir Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir For The Friday Fellowship Admission £1 Saturday October 29 at 7.30 pm at The Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University Saturday October 22 at 7 pm at St. Eustachius Peninsula Arts String Quartet : Pierre Church, Tavistock Emmanuel-Largon - violin, Catherine Hayek - Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir with Marazion violin, Andrew Gillett - viola, Jane Pirie - cello Apollo Male Choir Bach: Sarabande & Double, 1st Partita for solo In aid of St. Luke's Hospice violin BWV1002 Schnittke: Moz-Art à la Haydn, for 2 violins Saturday October 22 at 7.30 pm at Wembury Dvo řák: Terzetto Op.74 Parish Church Pärt: Summa, for string quartet Divertimento String Quartet Mozart: String Quartet K.458, The Hunt. Schubert: Quartettsatz, Prokofiev: String Quartet Tickets £10/£7 from Box Office A no 2, Schumann: String Quartet no 1. Ticket details tba via Divertimento Sunday October 30 at 12.30pm at The Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Rd, Plymouth Carlton Big Band Swing/jazz/Ratpack/Latin Tickets £7 Advance/£8 From Box Office D
5 Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary ———————— NOVEMBER —————— Saturday November 12 at 7.30pm at St. Andrew's Minster, Plymouth Tuesday November 1 at 2 pm at Colebrook Gerald Finzi: Discovering his musical passions Community Centre, Peacock Meadow, Plympton Peninsula Arts Sinfonietta , conductor Simon Plymouth Clarion Choir Ible, with Elaine Cocks - clarinet For the "C Friends" - membership £1 pa plus Boyce: Symphony No. 4 in F minor £1.50 per weekly event Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in D major
Finzi: Clarinet Concerto Friday November 4 at 7.30 pm in The Great Hall, Finzi: Romance for String Orchestra Dartington Haydn: Symphony No.44 in E minor ‘Mourning’ The Society of Strange and Antique Tickets £10/£7 from Box Office A Instruments: Clare Salaman - director, nyckelharpa, hurdy gurdy, hardanger fiddle, Sunday November 13 at 3.00pm in Dartington medieval vielle, Jeremy Avis - tenor, percussion, Great Hall cittern, Ian Harrison - pipe and tabor, voice, Devon Baroque , led by Persephone Gibbs with cornett, whistle, pipes, shawm, tambourine, Elin Manahan - soprano Alison McGilllivray - baroque cello, viola da ‘Wild Women’ gamba,Steve Player - dancer) Songs and arias from women furious, angry, Nine Dales Wonder worried and manic. Tickets £14 (students & under 18s £5) from Music by Handel, Purcell and others Dartington Box Office 01803 847070 or online at Tickets from the Dartington Box Office 01803 www.dartington.org or at the door. 847070 or online at www.dartington.org or at the Totnes Early Music Society in association with door The Arts at Dartington
Tuesday November 15 at 7 pm at Maple Court Sunday November 6 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Flats, Horn Cross Road, Plymstock PL9 9UD British Legion Club Plymouth Plymouth Clarion Choir Plymouth Jazz Club For the residents The Ronnie Jones Quartet
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Wednesday November 16 at 1pm at the Duke of £7, Full-Time Students £5) from Box Office B Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Road, Plymouth
Jeanie Moore MVO - 23rd International Concert Saturday November 9 at 6 pm at Stoke Series Climsland Church Guo Yue - flute South West Chamber Choir , with Dr Sean Tickets £10 from Box Office C Sweeney, Organ
Sacred anthems & motets and secular part- Wednesday November 16 at 7.30 pm at The songs & madrigals, including works by Vaughan House, Plymouth University Williams, Franck, Tavener, Fauré, Elgar, Sara Stowe - voice, Chris Brannick - Warlock and Poulenc percussion Tickets £7. Further information is available at A collection of contemporary classics and newly www.swcchoir.org.uk commissioned pieces, vocalist Sara Stowe and
percussionist Chris Brannick present music by Saturday November 12 at 7.30pm at Thurlestone Scelsi, Cage, Satie, Berio, the Argentinian Jorge Parish Hall Vidales’ Four Basho Haiku, Pete McGarr’s Plymouth Gilbert and Sullivan Fellowship Haunts about the Moors Murders and new present 'Iolanthe in Concert' pieces by Phil Baker and Paul Burnell for Box Office to be confirmed vibraphone and pandeiro. www.plymouthgilbertandsullivan.com Tickets £10/£7 from Box Office A
6 Autumn 2016 Friday November 18 and Saturday November 19 Sunday November 20 at 7.30 pm at The Royal at 7.30 pm at Liskeard Public Hall British Legion Club Plymouth Liskeard Concert Series Plymouth Jazz Club The Musical - A Brief History Roger Mark’s Cornish Armada Jazz Band A talented group of actor/singers and a dynamic Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members live band directed by Nic Early with Musical £7, Full-Time Students £5) from Box Office B Direction by Kate Rogers and Jonathan Lewsey Favourites from Rodgers & Hammerstein and Wednesday November 23 at 7.30 pm at Lerner & Lowe to Lloyd Webber & Rice, Plymouth Guildhall Sondheim, Minchin and Elton John Plymouth Symphony Orchestra , conductor Tickets: £10 (under 18's & Students free) Anne Kimber, with Benjamin Baker - violin Programme as for Liskeard, November 20 Friday November 18 at 7.30pm at Chagford Tickets: Balcony £17.50 (concession£15.50), Church Ground floor £16.00 (concession £14.00), The Divertimento Piano Trio Children/ students £5.00, from Kerry’s Music, 51 Piano trios by Louise Farrenc, Saint Saens and Ebrington Street, Plymouth PL4 9AA 01752 Mendelssohn 227120 Cash/cheque only or wegottickets.com Tickets from Divertimento 01803 863677 or at or on the door the door Friday November 25 at 7.30 pm at the United Saturday November 19 at 6 pm at Stoke Free Church, Totnes Climsland Church Susanne Heinrich and Jonathan Manson South West Chamber Choir , director Stephen (viols) Trahair, with Sean Sweeney - organ A Musical Melting Pot Choral music by English & French composers German composers who wrote for the viola da Sacred anthems and motets and secular gamba using an eclectic mix of European partsongs and madrigals, including works by musical styles. Vaughan Williams, Franck, Tavener, Fauré, Tickets £12 (students & under 18s £5) from Elgar, Debussy, Warlock and Poulenc Dartington Box office 01803 847070 or online at Tickets £7 www.dartington.org or at the door. Full details from South West Chamber Choir Totnes Early Music Society in association with The Arts at Dartington. Sunday November 20 at 5.30 pm at Liskeard Public Hall Friday November 25 at St. Stephen's Church, Plymouth Symphony Orchestra , conductor Saltash Anne Kimber, with Benjamin Baker - violin Plymouth Clarion Choir A Celebration in Music of Her Majesty Queen Christmas Music as part of the Craft Fair Elizabeth II’s 90 th Birthday Walton: Crown Imperial, Clive Jenkins: Majesty Saturday November 26 Carl Jenkins: Palladio for String Orchestra Plymouth & District Organists' Association Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Visit to Brooking and Totnes – William Drake Walton: The Battle Of Agincourt ( Henry V) organs Holst: Jupiter (from The Planets) Details from [email protected] Elgar: Enigma Variations Tickets £12 (concession £10) Children/ Students Saturday November 26 at 7.30 pm at The Royal £4 from the Liskeard Town Information Centre, British Legion Club Plymouth PL6 5DH Pike Street, Liskeard 01579 349148 or on the Ocean City Sound (Male harmony chorus) door. Cabaret Concert Tickets £5 at the door. Information from Roger Williams, 01752 500500
7 Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary Sunday November 27 at 12.30pm at The Duke Saturday December 3 at 7.30pm at St. Andrew's of Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Rd, Plymouth Minster, Plymouth Carlton Big Band Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir , director Jenny Swing/jazz/Ratpack/Latin George Tickets £7 Advance/£8 From Box Office D Rutter: Magnificat Sunday November 27 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Admission free - retiring collection Guildhall Part of the Devon Poppy Appeal Christmas Plymouth Philharmonic Choir , conductor Concert. Christopher Fletcher Handel: Messiah Saturday December 3 at 7.30pm at Holy Cross Howard Goodall: Eternal Light Church, Newton Ferrers Tickets £19 at the door (if available); The Lupridge Singers Child/student £5; £17 in advance from 01822 Magnificats by Vivaldi, Sammartini and Stainer 853791, The Minster Church of St Andrew, (in C), plus carols and readings. Royal Parade, Plymouth & Tickets £10 in advance or £12 on the door, from www.wegottickets.com Tubbs Pharmacy, Newton Ferrers, or any choir member. Saturday November 27 at St. Neot Church, Cornwall Advent service with Canoryon Lowen Sunday December 4 at 3 pm at the Duke of Details from Jenny Hart, 01759 320683 Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Road, Plymouth, PL1 3LG ———————— DECEMBER —————— Jeanie Moore MVO - 23rd International Concert Series 2016 - Christmas Gala Concert Friday December 2 at 7 pm at Ugborough Parish Chamber Ensemble of London, directed by Church Peter Fisher - violin Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir with Traditional (arr. Andrade): Deck the Halls Ugborough School Bach: Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring
Vivaldi: Concerto in E major, ‘Il Riposo per il Saturday December 3 at 7.30 pm at Buckfast Santissimo Natale’ RV270 Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon TQ11 0EE Handel (arr. Frackenpohl): Allegro for Strings West Devon Chorale , Director: Michael from Violin Sonata Op.1 No.3 ‘Exultation of the Johnson, Organ: David Robinson Angels’ A Concert for Advent - Seasonal Music from Ireland (arr. Palmer): The Holy Boy – solo cello: Handel, Poulenc, Rutter, Chilcott and others Peter Adams
Traditional (arr. Andrade): Good King Wenceslas Saturday December 3 in Exeter Cathedral Torelli: Christmas Concerto – Concerto a Devon Baroque , with Exeter Festival Chorus. Quattro Op.8 No.6 in forma di Pastorale per il Conductor Nigel Perrin. Santissimo Natale Bach: Christmas Oratorio Clive Jenkins: Hang High the Mistletoe!, [email protected] Mendelssohn (arr. Lane)@ Mendelssohniana
(Children’s Christmas pieces), Saturday December 3 at 7.30 pm at St Peter’s Schumann (arr. Jenkins): Knecht Ruprecht, Church, Wyndham Square, Plymouth Schubert (arr. Wilhelmj/Fisher): Ave Maria, Plymouth Phoenix Chorale , Musical Director Corelli: Concerto Grosso No.8 in G minor ‘Fatto Marcus Alleyne per la Notte di Natale’ (1712), Concert of Carols and Christmas Music Pierpont (arr. Andrade): Jingle Bells Further information 07971169335 Tickets £20 Box Office C
For further information contact Jeanie Moore Saturday December 3 at 7.30 pm at Tavistock MVO: 01752 770345 or Town Hall [email protected] Plymouth Gilbert & Sullivan Fellowship Sponsored by Gard & Co. and Walter C Parson A Musical Concert for Tavistock Lions
8 Winter 2016 Sunday December 4 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Friday December 9 at 1.15 pm at Room 015, British Legion Club Plymouth Rolle Building, Plymouth University Plymouth Jazz Club Sam Richards - piano Charlie Hearnshaw’s Munjenta Cafe Jazz: Freedom songs for solo piano Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members includes songs from The Digger Song of the £7, Full-Time Students £5) from Box Office B 17th century English revolution to Bob Marley’s Get Up, Stand Up by the way of Guantanamera Monday December 5 at 7 pm at the Sherwell from Cuba and Nkozi Sikalele. Centre, Plymouth University Admission free The Folk Dimension Plymouth University Music BA students with Friday December 9 at 7.30 pm at the Sherwell Alice Perrot and Sam Richards perform music by Centre. Plymouth University Vaughan Williams, Bartok and other 20th Jazz: Alex Lloyd Trio century composers. Material by Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus and Admission free other greats of the post World War Two progressive jazz scene. Monday December 5 at 8.30 pm at Bread & Admission free Roses, Ebrington Street, Plymouth Folk Singing with Jake Sonny Rowlinson Friday December 9 at 7 pm at St. Mary's Originally from Staffordshire, Jake Sonny Church, Callington (tbc) Rowlinson graduated from Plymouth University Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir in 2011. Anyone wanting to sing will be given a spot. Saturday December 10 at 7.30 pm at St. Admission free Andrew's Minster, Plymouth University of Plymouth Choral Society , Tuesday December 6 at 7 pm at Room 018, conductor Simon Ible Rolle Building, Plymouth University Christmas Concert World Music and Minimalism Haydn: Te Deum, Mozart: Coronation Mass Plymouth University Gamelan Orchestra , plus traditional carols for you to join in. conductor Saj Collyer, with Mike McInerney - Tickets £15/£13 from Box Office A shakuhachi Admission free Saturday December 10 at 7.30 pm at Harberton Church Tuesday December 6 at 8.30 pm at Room 018, Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir Rolle Building, Plymouth University The Recurring Music Band , director Lona Saturday December 10 at 7.30 pm at St. Kozik Petroc's Church, South Brent Classic minimalism as well as music by Brent Singers , director Philip Arkwright ensemble director Lona Kozik using visuals and Charpentier: Messe de Minuit par Noel and electronics. The programme also includes work selected carols by Philip Glass and Louise Adriessen. Admission free; retiring collection Admission free Details from 01752 892703
Thursday December 8 at 8 pm at the Davy Main Saturday December 10 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Hall, Plymouth University Guildhall Plymouth University Orchestra The Palace Theatre Philharmonia and Chorus Sibelius: Finlandia, Arnold: Little Suite No 1 for Musical Director Marcus Alleyne Orchestra, Prokofiev: Troika from Lieutenant Enjoy the nation's favorite festive music from Kijé, Anderson: Sleigh Ride, Williams: Music Plymouth's newest award winning choir and from Harry Potter, and music for brass, strings orchestra and woodwind ensembles. Tickets £10 visit www.gopalaceplymouth.com for Admission free; parting donations welcome. details
9 Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary Saturday December 10 at 7.30 pm at St Martin's Saturday December 17at 7.30 pm at St. Petroc's Church, Liskeard Church, Bodmin Liskeard Concert Series East Cornwall Bach Choir Canoryon Lowen , musical director Nick Hart Handel: Messiah Music including classical, church music, rock ballads, spirituals and musicals - from Tallis to Saturday December 17at 7.30 pm at St Tavener, Beatles to Broadway, Tickets: £10 Eustachius Church, Tavistock (under 18's & Students free) Ten Tors Orchestra & Choir , conductor Simon Ible, with Carolyn Dobbin -, mezzo-soprano and Saturday December 10 at 7.30pm at Harewood Mary Eade - violin House, Plympton Gala Christmas Concert Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir , director Jenny Mozart: Symphony No.31 ‘Paris’, Bach: Chorales George from Sleepers Wake Handel: Arias & Choruses Annual Sell-Out Christmas Concert from ‘Messiah’, Sarasate: Zigeunerweisen for Booking essential - details tba or online solo violin & orchestra Opera arias by Mozart, Rossini & Handel and Sunday December 11 at 2pm and at 3pm in the Christmas music by John Rutter Great Hall, Cotehele Traditional carols for audience participation. South West Chamber Choir , director Stephen Tickets £17 (£5 children) from: 10752 841149 Trahair Email: [email protected] Carols & motets for Advent and Christmas Unaccompanied choral singing, ranging from Sunday December 18 at 2 pm at Cotehele ancient to contemporary. Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir National Trust entry fee applies Sunday December 18 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Tuesday December 13 at 7.30 pm at St. British Legion Club Plymouth Matthias Church, North Hill, Plymouth Plymouth Jazz Club University of Plymouth Choral Society , New Orleans Heat - Christmas party with a conductor Simon Ible highly popular and entertaining traditional jazz Plymouth University Carol Service band Free admission. Parting donations in aid of the Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Shekinah Mission welcomed. £7, Full-Time Students £5) from Box Office B
Friday December 16 at 7 pm at Riverford Farm Saturday December 31 at 8.30 pm at The Royal Shop (tbc) British Legion Club Plymouth Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir Plymouth Jazz Club New Year’s Eve Party with the ‘Enjoy Yourself’ Jazz Band - an evening Friday December 16 at 7.30pm at St. Mary's of fun & lively traditional jazz with a bar & buffet Church, Brixton, Plymouth Tickets £15 includes buffet from Box Office B Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir , director Jenny George A concert of Christmas Music
Saturday December 17at 7.30 pm at the Methodist Central Hall, Plymouth Music of the Night Choral Foundation Tickets £10 available from 01752 365580.
10 Winter 2017 ———————— JANUARY —————— Saturday February 4 at 7.30 pm at St Eustachius Church, Tavistock Friday January 6 at 7.30 pm at the Riviera Ten Tors Orchestra & Choir, conductor Simon Centre, Torquay Ible, with Leland Chen - violin Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra , Beethoven: Egmont Overture conductor Frank Zielhorst, with Soraya Mafi - Bruch: Violin Concerto soprano Haydn: Symphony No.104 ‘London’ New Year Johann Strauss Gala Tickets £17 (£5 children) from: 10752 841149 J Strauss II: Overture to The Gypsy Baron, Email: [email protected] Accelerations Waltz, Mein Herr Marquis, from Fledermaus, Voices of Spring, Thunder and Sunday February 5 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Lightning Polka, Emperor Waltz, Persian March, British Legion Club Plymouth Pleasure Train Polka, The Blue Danube Plymouth Jazz Club J Strauss I: Radetzky March Ticket prices tbd from Box Office B J Strauss II: Overture to The Gypsy Baron,Thunder and Lightning Polka, Emperor Friday February 10 at 7.30 pm at St Werburgh's Waltz, The Blue Danube Church, Wembury Ticket Details tba Martin Dale - clarinet and Gavin Martin - keyboard Sunday January 15 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Tickets £10 from Carol Steel on 01752 862602 British Legion Club Plymouth or Pamela Pinder on 01752 863304 Plymouth Jazz Club A Plymouth Music Accord promotion Ticket prices tbd from Box Office B Sunday February 12 at 3pm in The Great Hall, Sunday January 29 at 12.30pm at The Duke of Dartington Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Rd, Plymouth Devon Baroque led by Persephone Gibbs Carlton Big Band Prevailing Winds Swing/jazz/Ratpack/Latin A feast of baroque concertos featuring the exotic Tickets £7 Advance/£8 From Box Office D and virtuosic wind players of Devon Baroque, including recorder, piccolo, flute, oboe, bassoon Sunday January 29 at 4pm at the Matthews Hall, and chalumeau Topsham Music by Vivaldi, Telemann and others. Divertimento String Quartet Tickets from Dartington Box Office 01803 Tickets £12 on the door, £10 in advance from 847070, online at www.dartington.org or at the The Topsham Bookshop, 27 Fore St, Topsham door. 01392-877895, Under-18s Free
———————— FEBRUARY —————— Saturday February 18 (venue tbc) Plymouth & District Organists' Association Friday February 3 at 2pm at Kings Tamerton Annual lunch with possible members entertain Community Centre Details from [email protected] Plymouth Clarion Choir For the Fifty Plus Action Group Sunday February 19 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Tickets £2 to include food & entertainment, from British Legion Club Plymouth 01752 350498 Plymouth Jazz Club The Savannah Jazz Band Saturday February 4 at 7.30 pm at Rattery Ticket prices tbd from Box Office B Village Hall Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir For South Brent Carnival Committee
11 Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary Friday February 24 to Sunday February 26 at Saturday February 25 Plymouth University venues South West Chamber Choir , director Stephen Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival Trahair 2017 Choral Workshop with Jeremy Jackman ‘VOICES’ promoted in partnership with ICCMR Full details from South West Chamber Choir Festival Directors; Simon Ible & Eduardo Reck Miranda Sunday February 26 at 12.30pm at The Duke of A festival of new music and computer music Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Rd, Plymouth research featuring the following composers: Carlton Big Band Eduardo Reck Miranda, Alexis Kirke, Linas Swing/jazz/Ratpack/Latin Baltas, Marcelo Gimenes, Nuria Bonet, Pierre- Tickets £7 Advance/£8 From Box Office D Emmanuel Largeron With guests Beatbox & David Peretson from the Coming up in March! USA. Friday March 24 at Plymouth Guildhall Details tba Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra ,with Emma Johnson - clarinet Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Mozart: Clarinet Concerto, Sibelius: Symphony No.2
Box Offices
A: Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, tel: 01752 585050, www.peninsula-arts.co.uk
B: Plymouth Jazz Club 01752 721179 www.plymouth-jazz-club.org.uk
C: Duke of Cornwall Hotel, 01752 275850, [email protected] or via www.wegottickets.co.uk
D: Duke of Cornwall Hotel, 01752 275850, or Kerry’s Music, 51 Ebrington Street, Plymouth
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