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Categories Helen Dalby My postings » Arts (7) Comedy (29) Crista Ermiya Competitions (2) My postings » Film (43) Games (14) Music (124) Leon McCawley plays Rachmaninov's second concerto with the Northern Sinfonia Nightlife (1) under the baton of John Wilson, pictured (photo: Chris Christodoulou), in a Classic More on... FM concert on Sunday, March 13. The Russian composer's lushly lyrical concerto Students (4) of 1900 won widespread popularity 45 years later through the liberal use of its melodies in the classic film Brief Encounter. the Sage Gateshead Northern

One of Britain's finest pianists, Leon McCawley, is professor of piano at London's Archives Sinfonia The Cluny sunderland pianoforte Royal College of Music. In 1990 he was piano­section winner of the BBC Young society cinema brinkburn music festival music Musician of the Year and at the age of 19 won first prize in the ninth International December 2012 music monday PS3 Thomas Zehetmair Beethoven Competition in Vienna and second prize in the Leeds International Piano November 2012 Competition. March 2012 Bollywood durham cathedral Durham Gala February 2012 Theatre City Hall field music Newcastle City After studying at Newcastle College in the late 1980s Gateshead­born John Wilson September 2011 went to London's Royal College of Music and by the time of his graduation in 1995 Hall Oasis sunderland symphony orchestra July 2011 had won all the major prizes, as well as the coveted Tagore Gold Medal Xbox 360 durham singers Dylan Moran folk June 2011 for most outstanding student. Frankie Boyle Jason Byrne john wilson May 2011 After conducting several British orchestras he won acclaim as an arranger and April 2011 orchestrator for film, radio and TV, and this interest led him to begin reconstructing March 2011 orchestrations of the big MGM musicals. He conducted a BBC Proms concert of Recent Posts British film music in 2007 and a year later conducted another, this time celebrating February 2011 Look ahead: Gaming in 2013 the MGM musicals. That concert was repeated at the Sage last November with January 2011 Look back: Gaming in 2012 John conducting his own orchestra. December 2010 Review: Playstation All­Stars Battle Royale November 2010 John is now one of Northern Sinfonia's principal conductors and this Sunday's Review: Halo 4 October 2010 7.30pm programme also includes the overture to Nicolai's The Merry Wives Interview: Sports Interactive's Miles Jacobson September 2010 of Windsor, Vaughan Williams' sublime Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis and talks NUFC and FM2013 August 2010 the colourful Mother Goose Suite by Ravel. Tickets are £7.50­Â£31, tel 0191 443 Review: Football Manager 2013 4661. July 2010 Review: Nike+ Kinect Training June 2010 This Saturday, March 12, a charity concert in aid of the RNIB and the Blue Lamp Review: Sports Champions 2 May 2010 Foundation, set up by Raoul Moat victim PC David Rathband, will be held in Review: Silent Hill Downpour & HD Collection April 2010 Newcastle Civic Centre's Banqueting Suite. The evening, from 7pm, features the Tuesday Top 3 ­ Scariest levels Lemington Male Voice Choir and Stagecoach Regional Youth Choir and £10 March 2010 tickets are available from John Dixon, tel 01670 813584. February 2010 January 2010 Two choral works that are centuries apart will be performed in the Sage December 2009 Gateshead's Hall One on Thursday, March 17. The concert opens at 7.30pm with The Little Match Girl Passion, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its American November 2009 composer David Lang, now composer­in­residence at the Sage. It takes as its October 2009 inspiration themes from J S Bach's St John Passion and Hans Christian Andersen's September 2009 famous fairytale. August 2009

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The concert's second half is devoted to Haydn's rarely­performed Creation Mass ­ July 2009 so nicknamed for its controversial use of a theme from his popular oratorio The June 2009 Creation. May 2009 Simon Halsey conducts both works with the Northern Sinfonia & Chorus alongside guest soloists soprano Claire Booth, mezzo Renata Pokupic, tenor Allan Clayton April 2009 and baritone Neal Davies. Tickets are £7.50­Â£31, tel 0191 443 4661, and there is March 2009 a pre­concert talk at 6.30pm free to ticket holders. February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 Classical concert listings for the week from March 11 November 2008 FRIDAY 11/3 October 2008 September 2008 GATESHEAD: Hall Two, The Sage, 8pm, soprano Kate Royal and pianist August 2008 Christopher Glynn present The Truth About Love, songs by Schubert, Brahms, Wolf, Debussy and Britten. Tickets: £21.50, tel 0191 443 4661.

SATURDAY 12/3 Sponsored Links Ads by Google NEWCASTLE: Banqueting Suite, Civic Centre, 7pm, Lemington Male Voice Choir and Stagecoach Regional Youth Choir charity concert in aid of PC David 92Y's New Concert Rathband's Blue Lamp Foundation and the RNIB. Tickets: £10 from John Dixon, Season tel 01670 813584. New 2013­14 season announced. Subscribe SUNDAY 13/3 and save now! www.92Y.org/Concerts GATESHEAD: Hall One, 7.30pm, Classic FM concert with Northern Sinfonia, Creative Writing conductor John Wilson, perform Nicolai's The Merry Wives of Windsor Overture; Classes Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18, soloist Leon McCawley; Creative Writing for Vaughan Williams' Thomas Tallis Fantasia and Ravel's Mother Goose Suite. Entertainment. Online Tickets: £7.50­Â£26.50, tel 0191 443 4661. Degree Programs. More Info. THURSDAY 17/3 www.FullSail.edu

NEWCASTLE: King's Hall, Newcastle University, 1.10pm, A Spice of Italy, violin How To Sing ­ Really and keyboard music from 17th & 18th Century Italy performed by Simon Jones, Sing Breakthrough Method Baroque violin, and John Green, harpsichord. Admission free. Releases Your Unique Voice! Watch Free Video GATESHEAD: Hall One, The Sage, 7.30pm, Northern Sinfonia & Chorus, conductor Here Simon Halsey and guest soloists perform David Lang's The Little Match Girl TheSingingZone.com/Voice­ Passion and Haydn's Creation Mass. Tickets: £7.50­Â£31, tel 0191 443 4661. Training Pre­concert talk at 6.30pm free to ticket holders. Concert Pianos Comment (1) New and Used Pianos from Yamaha, Steinway, Tag: john wilson, Northern Sinfonia, the Sage Gateshead More. View inventory. www.faustharrisonpianos.com

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