Thursday 20 June 2013 - 7.30pm Bodenham Parish Church, HR1 3JX

Johann Sebastian Bach: An English Pilgrimage Thomas Bowes plays Unaccompanied Violin Partitas & Sonatas by J.S. Bach

“In everything he played, Bowes revealed an exacting and deeply felt musicianship.” (Los Angeles Times)

Tickets: Adults £9.50, Children Free. Available from: The Pidgeon House, Bodenham HR1 3JX Tel: 07775 680191 The Outback, 19a Church Street, Hereford HR1 2LR Tel: 01432 275063 or on the door All proceeds in aid of Bodenham Parish Church On Thursday 20th June 2013 at 7.30 pm the virtuoso violinist, Tom Bowes, will be playing Bach’s music for solo violin at Bodenham Parish Church in Herefordshire. The concert is part of a tour during May and June that involves 50 recitals in different parish churches around the country.

This pilgrimage is taking Tom from St Nicholas Church, Tresmeer in Cornwall to St Andrew’s in Fife. He will be playing in Bristol, Royal Wootton Bassett, Folkestone, , Ely, Huddersfield, Glasgow and many other places, both remote and crowded. Bodenham has the great good fortune and privilege to be part of this extraordinary venture.

Tom comments: “This cycle of three sonatas and three partitas written by Bach at Cöthen in 1720 is one of the supreme virtuosic and spiritual achievements of Western classical music. For any violinist they are touchstone works. They offer an intense focus on the miracle of Bach’s creativity: six profound works flowing naturally from one another in a kind of arch, all based on the paradox of an unaccompanied melody instrument making complete music.”

Here are some reactions to Tom’s concert at St Mary & All Saints Church in Bingham, Nottingham on 22nd May: “Fabulous evening. It was an “Wonderful stuff. Not many awesome experience and a real concerts where I just want it to privilege to be there.” carry on.” Freelance Consultant IT manager

“Fantastic concert last night!” “Perhaps the most enjoyable Violinist/Instrumental concert I have ever attended.” Administrator Organist “One of those concerts which makes you want to go home and practise more … or give up!” Violinist

Thomas Bowes joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1985 and a year later the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. In 1987 he gave his debut London recital and between 1988 and 1992 was the founding leader of the Maggini String Quartet. In 1989 he was invited to become the leader of the , London’s oldest established chamber orchestra, making his BBC Proms debut with them and Jane Glover in 1991. Although he is now mainly a solo player – his CD of the Walton and Barber violin concertos is simply stunning - he still works as a guest leader with the LSO, Philharmonia, RPO, , SCO, BBC Symphony Orchestra, CBSO and, in France, L’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. He plays a 1659 Nicolo Amati violin.