Music Around Plymouth
Concert Season Spring - Summer 2016
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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 adult orchestra or choir • Young Musicians’ Platform - helping talented youngsters 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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———————— MARCH —————— Sunday March 6 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH Friday March 4 at 7.30 pm at St. John's Church, Plymouth Jazz Club Totnes - Totnes Rotary Club The Carlton Big Band , leader Elaine Davies Plymouth Area Police Choir Music by Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Duke For details contact 01752 406995 Ellington & more.
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Saturday March 5 at 7.30 pm at The House, £7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B Plymouth University
Chamber Music Concert Wednesday March 9 at 1pm at the Duke of The Atlantic Connection : Pierre-Emmanuel Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Road, Plymouth Largeron & Lindsay Braga - violins, Andrew Jeanie Moore MVO - 23rd International Concert Gillett - viola, Jane Pirie - cello Series Dvorák: String quartet Op.96 No.12, American Pete Oxley & Nick Meier - Jazz Guitar Duo ,Desmond: Take Five (arranged for string Tickets £10 from Box Office E quartet), Copland: Hoe Down, from Rodeo (arr. for string trio), Bologne: String quartet Op.1 No.4 Wednesday March 9 at 7.30 pm at Melvin Hall, in C minor, Villa-Lobos: String quartet No.1 Mount Kelly, Tavistock W099, Piazzola: Libertango (arranged for string Mount Kelly Concert Society quartet) Mishka Rushdie Momen - Piano Tickets £10, £8 Friends of Peninsula Arts, SPiA, Programme to include Mozart: Fantasia in C Artory, from Box Office A minor, Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy
Tickets - £13; acc. children free - 01822 813130 Saturday March 5 at 7.30 pm in St. Mary's
Church, Totnes Friday March 11 at 7.30 pm at St Werburgh's Consortium5 : Emily Bloom, Kathryn Corrigan, Church, Wembury Oonagh Lee, Gail Macleod, Roselyn Maynard The Martin Dale Trio playing jazz As our Sweet Cords and Discords Mixed Be Tickets £10 from Pamela Pinder 01752 863304 Works by Dowland, Coperario, Byrd and or Carol Steel 01752 862602 Gibbons, played on an array of different sized Fundraising concert for Plymouth Music Accord recorders
Tickets £12 ( £5 for students & under 18s) from Saturday March 12 at 10 am (registration) and 6 the Dartington Box office 01803 47070, online at pm (performance) at Saltash Wesley Church www.dartington.org or on the door. East Cornwall Bach Choir A Totnes Early Music Society concert Open singing Workshop - Mozart: Requiem
2 Spring 2016 Saturday March 12 at 10.30 am starting at St. Wednesday March 16 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Mary's Church, Laira, Plymouth Guildhall Plymouth & District Organists' Association Plymouth Symphony Orchestra , conductor visit and at 2 pm Central Methodist Church, Anne Kimber, with Daniel Lebhardt - piano Plymouth Sibelius: Karelia Overture, Rachmaninov: Piano Contact [email protected], Concerto no. 2, Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4 tel: 01822 833728 Tickets: Balcony £17 (concession £15) Ground floor £15.50 (concession £13.50) child/ student Saturday March 12 at 7.30 pm at the Minster £5, at the door or from Kerry’s Music, 51 Church of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth Ebrington Street, Plymouth PL4 9AA, Tel:01752 Spring Choral Classics 227120 and www.wegottickets.co.uk University of Plymouth Choral Society & Orchestra , conductor Simon Ible, with Candida Thursday March 17 at 7.30 pm at the Minster Frankham, soprano Church of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth excerpts from the choral classics including Plymouth University Orchestra , conductor Handel: Messiah, Vivaldi: Gloria, Mozart: Rupert Bond, with Kris Emmett - organ Requiem and Vespers, Fauré: Requiem and Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony in C major (last Cantique de Jean Racine, Purcell : Dido and two movements), Debussy: Petite Suite, Aeneas, Bach : Jesu, Joy of Man’s desiring Chabrier: España, Ravel : Pavane pour une PLUS Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in A minor infante défunte Tickets: £15, £13 Friends of Peninsula Arts from and works for String Orchestra, Brass and Wind Box Office A Admission free
Saturday March 12 at 7.30 pm at Carnglaze Friday March 18 at 7.30 pm at the University of Caverns, St. Neot, Cornwall Plymouth Sherwell Centre Canoryon Lowen (choir) & Dalla (folk group) Student Composers' Concert with St. Neot School singers The focus of this year's concert will be neo- Nick Hart: 'A Story of Cornwall' classical, film and modern music. It is a A new work merging contemporary choral reflection on modernity and music styles. The singing with innovative folk music forged from programme will feature new music from the county’s great traditions Plymouth University BA (Hons) Music students Tickets £11.50, concessions £8.50 from including final year composers. www.carnglaze.com tel 01579 320251 Admission free
Sunday March 13 at 6.30 pm at St Friday March 18 at 7.30 pm at Holy Cross Bartholomew's Church, Yealmpton Church, Newton Ferrers The Lupridge Singers Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir Stainer: Crucifixion John Rutter: Requiem Vaughan Williams: 5 Mystical songs. Tickets £12 on the door, £10 in advance from Friday March 18 at 7.30 pm at St. Andrew's Yealmpton Post Offfice, Yealmpton Stores, Church, Plymouth Tubbs Pharmacy, Newton Ferrers or Pickles of Plymouth Area Police Choir - Shekinah Modbury. Mission Details from Bob Sheldrake, 01752 406995 Sunday March 13 at 6pm at St Peter’s Church, Plymouth Saturday March 19 at 7.30 pm at St. Michael Plymouth Phoenix Chorale as guest choir and All Angels Church, Cornwood The Passion – an exploration in sound and Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir vision using images and the music of Steiner's John Rutter – Requiem Crucifixion. Admission free - details from Box Office C
3 Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary Saturday March 19 at 7.15 pm at Buckfast ———————— APRIL —————— Abbey Saturday April 2 at 7.30 pm at Menheniot Church South West Chamber Choir , director Stephen Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir Trahair, organist David Crocker Concert with Torpoint Ladies The Secrets of our Hearts
Songs of lamentation for the eve of Holy Week Sunday April 3 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British with viol ensemble and chamber organ Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH Purcell: Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary, Plymouth Jazz Club Tallis: Lamentations and anthems by Tomkins, Fifty Shades of Jazz, quintet featuring leading Desprez, Gesualdo, Gibbons and Greene. UK pianist Craig Milverton, Plymouth's own Free entry with a retiring collection at the door Martin Dale on saxes & vocalist Petra Brown.
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Saturday March 19 at 7.30 pm at Mount Gould £7, Full-Time Students £5) Box Office B Methodist Church, Faringdon Road, Plymouth
City of Plymouth Concert Band Wednesday April 6 at 7 pm at The Wharf Arts MGM to MGM Concert Centre, Tavistock A concert of melodies from past MGM films Live Broadcast from the Royal Opera House
Giselle Sunday March 20 at 7.30 pm at The Royal Tickets £13 from Box Office D British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth
PL6 5DH Friday April 8 at 2 pm at St. Budeaux Methodist Plymouth Jazz Club Church Frenchmen Street Jazz Band Plymouth Clarion Choir Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B Friday April 8 at 7.30 pm at Liskeard Town Hall
Plymouth Area Police Choir - Richard Collins Sunday March 20 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth For details contact Bob Sheldrake, 01752 Guildhall 406995 Plymouth Philharmonic Choir , conductor
Christopher Fletcher, Soloists: Susanna Sunday April 10 at 4 pm at The Wharf Arts Fairbairn – soprano, Laura Trayhurn – mezzo, Centre, Tavistock Richard Rowntree – tenor, Andrew Mayor – Live Broadcast from the Bolshoi Theatre baritone, Mark Boocock – bass Don Quixote J S Bach: St John Passion (in English) Tickets £12 from Box Office D Tickets £19 at the door (if available);
Child/student £5; £17 in advance from 01822 Monday April 11 at 2 pm at The Wharf Arts 853791 & www.wegottickets.com Centre, Tavistock
Lunchtime Lecture Tuesday March 22 at 2pm at St. Budeaux Adrienne Hesketh: Devon’s Composers Methodist Church Tickets: £5 on the door Plymouth Clarion Choir
Wednesday April 13 at 1pm at the Duke of Wednesday March 23 at 7.30 pm at Ridgway Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Road, Plymouth Methodist Church, Plympton Jeanie Moore MVO - 23rd International Concert Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir Series John Rutter: Requiem Sehyogue Aulakh - Percussionist Details tba Sehyogue, a recent graduate of PMA’s Young Musicians’ Platform, will be playing the Marimba Tickets £10 from Box Office E
4 Spring 2016 Saturday April 16 at 7.30 pm in St. Mary's Sunday April 17 at 8 pm at St Eustachius’s Church, Totnes Church, Tavistock Musica Domestica : Kate Semmens - soprano, Stannary Brass Band Concert with guests the Steven Devine - keyboard, Matthew Truscott - Kingsmen violin, Rebecca Truscott - cello Tickets £10 on the door or £8 in advance from Tragic Heroines Box Office D. Tickets £12 ( £5 for students & under 18s) from Part of the Tavistock Festival the Dartington Box office 01803 847070, online at www.dartington.org or on the door. Tuesday April 19 at 1.00 pm at St Eustachius’s A Totnes Early Music Society concert in Church, Tavistock association with The Arts at Dartington. Organ Recital by Dr Sean Sweeney retiring collection to help defray costs Saturday April 16 at St Peter’s Church, Part of the Tavistock Festival Wyndham Square, Plymouth Plymouth Phoenix Chorale , Director: Marcus Wednesday April 20 at 7.30 pm at Melvin Hall, Alleyne Mount Kelly, Tavistock Mozart Choral Workshop Mount Kelly Concert Society 9.30am registration, informal concert at 3.15pm Matthew Scott - Clarinet, and Christine Zerafa (no charge to listen) - Piano Tickets £15 per participant (+optional £3 for light Brahms: Sonata No. 2, Sarasate: Carmen lunch) from Box Office C Fantasy Tickets - £13; accompanied children free of Saturday April 16 at 7.30 pm at St Luke’s charge, from 01822 813130; Email: Church, Buckfastleigh [email protected] Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir with Barnstaple Part of the Tavistock Festival MVC Thursday April 21 at 1.00 pm at St Eustachius’ Saturday April 16 at 7.30 pm at Buckfast Abbey Church, Tavistock Voces Elisabeth Holman - violin & Andrew Wilson - Renaissance music for the Easter season piano Admission free, retiring collection retiring collection to help defray costs Part of the Tavistock Festival Saturday April 16 at 7.30 pm at St Eustachius’s Church, Tavistock Thursday April 21 at 7.30 pm at the Tavy Club, Concert by Canoryon Lowen Tavistock Tickets £10 on the door or £8 in advance from Folk evening with Tavy Tars and friends, Box Office D including Gypsy Train retiring collection to help defray costs Saturday April 16 in Torquay (tbc) Part of the Tavistock Festival Plymouth & District Organists' Association visit to St Matthias Church and St John’s Church Friday April 22 at 8 pm at The Wharf Arts (tbc) Centre, Tavistock Contact [email protected], Limelight Night - visiting bands tel: 01822 833728 Tickets from £4 from Box Office D Part of the Tavistock Festival Sunday April 17 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH Friday April 22 at 6pm at The Mezzanine, Plymouth Jazz Club Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University Kevin Grenfell’s Jazz Giants, special guest Paul Words & Music Festival Launch Harrison. Founder, Suzanne Sparrow and Peninsula Arts Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Director of Music, Simon Ible introduce the 2016 £7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B festival. Free
5 Spring 2016 Friday April 22 at 7 pm at Lower Lecture Sunday April 24 at 2 pm at the Lower Lecture Theatre, Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University Theatre, Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University Peter Hinds, Associate Professor of English , Scurvy Songs from Shakespeare Plymouth University Local composer Clive Jenkins talks about his Talk: ‘Sounds, and sweet airs’: Shakespeare’s three new Shakespeare songs: words and music Pugging Song, A Scurvy Tune & Freedom, Hey- Free day!
Friday April 22 at 7.30 pm at Launceston Central Sunday April 24 at 3pm at the Upper Lecture Methodist Church Theatre, Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University Plymouth Area Police Choir with St. Joseph's Alexander Robin Baker - baritone, Jo Choir Ramadan - piano For details contact Bob Sheldrake, 01752 Song recital of Shakespeare Songs including 406995 works by Clive Jenkins, Roxana Panufnik, Gerald Finzie and new Shakespeare songs by Saturday April 23 at 2.30 pm at United Reformed Plymouth University student composers. Church, Russell Street, Tavistock Tickets £10, £8 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA, Devon County Youth Brass Band Artory, from Box Office A r etiring collection to help defray costs Part of the Tavistock Festival Sunday April 24 at 8.00 pm at The Wharf Arts Centre, Tavistock Saturday April 23 at 7.30 pm at Minster Church All Folk’d Up of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth Tickets: from £16 from Box Office D Shakespeare Gala Concert Part of the Tavistock Festival Ten Tors Orchestra & Bath Spa University Choir , conductor Simon Ible, chorus master Monday April 25 at 12.30 pm at The Abbey Matthew Spring. with Augusta Hebbert - Chapel, Tavistock soprano, Elin Pritchard - soprano, Alexander Recital by the Mount Kelly Musicians Robin Baker - baritone Tickets £5 on the door Thomas Linley: A Lyric Ode on the Fairies, Part of the Tavistock Festival Aerial Beings and Witches of Shakespeare Thomas Arne: Nine Shakespeare Songs Monday April 25 at 7 pm at the Wharf Arts Henry Purcell: Incidental music for The Tempest Centre, Tavistock Tickets: £17, £15 Friends of Peninsula Arts Live Broadcast from the Royal Opera House &Ten Tors Orchestra, from Box Office A Lucia di Lammermoor Tickets £12 from Box Office D Saturday April 23 at 7.30 pm at Liskeard Public Hall Tuesday April 26 at 1.00 pm at St Eustachius’s East Cornwall Bach Choir Church, Tavistock Celebrating Shakespeare (or What Will Inspires) Oboe & Piano Recital by Leslie & Mary Mazur Park Saturday April 23 at 8 pm at The Wharf Arts retiring collection to help defray costs Centre, Tavistock Part of the Tavistock Festival Mad Dog McCrea Tickets: from£10 from Box Office D Tuesday April 26 at 7.30 pm at The Wharf Arts Part of the Tavistock Festival Centre, Tavistock Wurlitza presents ‘Sunrise’ with Janet Gaynor a film and live music extravaganza Tickets £6.50 from Box Office D Part of the Tavistock Festival
6 Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary Wednesday April 27 at 1 pm at St Eustachius’s Friday April 29 at 1 pm at St Eustachius’s Church, Tavistock Church, Tavistock Violin & Piano Recital by Margaret Morris & Piano Recital by Brian Chapple David Crocker retiring collection to help defray costs retiring collection to help defray costs Part of the Tavistock Festival Part of the Tavistock Festival Saturday April 30 at 1 pm at the Abbey Chapel, Wednesday April 27 at 7 pm at St Eustachius’s Tavistock Church, Tavistock recital by ‘To Music Borne’ Tavistock Sings! - a showcase of local school Tickets £5 on the door choirs, including the combined choirs giving a performance of a medley from Les Miserables Saturday April 30 at 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm at the plus items from individual schools. Denis Ball Performing Arts Centre, Mount Kelly, Tickets £2 on the door or in advance from Box Tavistock Office D Festival Supper with entertainment from Part of the Tavistock Festival Viktor Bijelovic Tickets: £30 (tables of eight - £200) from Box Wednesday April 27 at 7 pm at the Jill Craigie Office D Part of the Tavistock Festival Cinema, Plymouth University Katherine Williams, Lecturer in Music , Saturday April 30 at 7.30 pm at Theatre 1, Plymouth University Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University Talk: "Such Sweet Plunder': Or, Who's Line is it The Echoes of Ellington Big Band , led by Anyway?" Peter Long Such Sweet Thunder - Duke Katherine Williams uses Duke Ellington’s music Ellington’s twelve part suite based on the work of to explore the balance of authorial power William Shakespeare between composer, bandleader, musicians, Tickets £10, £8 Friends of PA, SPiA, Artory, improvisers and record producers. from Box Office A Free Saturday April 30 at 7.30 pm at Buckfast Abbey Thursday April 28 at 1 pm at St Eustachius’s TQ11 0EE Church, Tavistock Brent Singers , Director of Music Philip Violin & Piano Recital by Margaret Morris & Arkwright David Crocker Haydn: Creation retiring collection to help defray costs Admission Free with Retiring Collection. Details Part of the Tavistock Festival from 01752 892703
———————— MAY —————— Friday April 29 at 7.30 pm at St Eustachius’ Church, Tavistock Sunday May 1 at 5pm in St John’s Church, Chamber Ensemble of London , Director Peter Bridgetown, Totnes. Fisher, Solo dancer: Heather Rees Divertimento String Quartet Henry Purcell: Dances from The Fairy Queen, Mozart, Shostakovich and Smetana Peter Tchaikovsky: Valse des Fleurs, Clive Tickets £12 from Divertimento 01803 863677 Jenkins: Fiddler and Dancer, Camille Saint- Saëns: Danse macabre, Gioacchino Rossini: La Sunday May 1 at 6pm at St Eustachius’s Danza, Emil Waldteufel: Les Patineurs, Andrew Church, Tavistock M Wilson: Tavy Dance Suite, Clive Jenkins: Festival Evensong ; choir augmented by Tarte au citron, Noël Gay: Lambeth Walk Canticorum Aaron Copland: Hoe-Down from Rodeo Part of the Tavistock Festival Tickets £15 (students £8) from Box Office D, or on the door Part of the Tavistock Festival and Sponsored by Eldreds Auctioneers
7 Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary Sunday May 1 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British Saturday May 7 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth RC Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH Cathedral, Wyndham Street West, Plymouth, Plymouth Jazz Club PL1 5RZ The JB Jazz & Blues Band. Jazz, blues, swing, West Devon Chorale, Director: Michael jump-jive etc. Johnson, with Joel Munday - violin Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Rheinberger: Mass in E flat, Philips: Ascendit £7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B Deus, Byrd: Ave Verum, Tallis: Salvator Mundi Gibbons: O Clap Your Hands, Stanford: Motets Sunday May 1 at 7.30 pm at St Eustachius’s Holst: Nunc Dimittis, Jenkins Exsultate, Jubilate Church, Tavistock Esenvalds O Salutaris Hostia Concert by Canticorum Tickets: £10, (£8 in advance), children and retiring collection to help defray costs students £3 from [email protected] 01752 776479, Monday May 2 at 9.30 am for 10.00 am at St or online at Eustachius’s Church, Tavistock www.wegottickets.com/westdevonchorale Choral Workshop directed by Andrew Wilson ‘Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast’ Saturday May 7 at 7.30 pm at the Sherwell Tickets for participants: £10; for details contact Centre, Plymouth University Rosemary Turner – [email protected] Chamber Concert "Mediterranean" Part of the Tavistock Festival Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron - violin, Daniel King Smith - piano Monday May 2 at 6.00 pm at St Eustachius’s Paganini: Caprice No.24, for solo violin Church, Tavistock Vivaldi: Violin concerto in A minor Tavistock Sings! - ‘Hiawatha’s Wedding Geminiani: Violin Sonata in G Major Feast’ with Julian Jensen (tenor) Bax: Mediterranean, for piano retiring collection to help defray costs Ravel: Pièce en forme de Habanera Part of the Tavistock Festival Sarasate: Hommage à Rossini Tickets £10, £8 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA Monday May 2 at 7.30 pm at Gallery 26, Bedford Artory, from Box Office A Hotel, Tavistock An evening of music from local youth Saturday May 14 at 7.30 pm at Roadford musicians/bands Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir Tickets £5 in advance from the Bedford Hotel for the South West Lakes Trust Reception Part of the Tavistock Festival Sunday May 15 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH Wednesday May 4 at 1pm at the Duke of Plymouth Jazz Club Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Road, Plymouth Brian Carrick's Algiers Stompers. Classic New Jeanie Moore MVO - 23rd International Concert Orleans jazz Series Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members 52 Strings & a Bow: Peter Fisher - violin and £7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B Dorothy Linell - Theorbo & Guitar Music from the Renaissance to the present day - Tuesday May 17 to Saturday May 21 at 7.30 pm from virtuosic Baroque sonatas to Neapolian (Sat. Mat.2.30 pm) at the Devonport Playhouse love songs Plymouth PL1 4DW Tickets £10 from Box Office E Plymouth Gilbert and Sullivan Fellowship , directed by Alan Spencer with full orchestra Friday May 6 at 7.30 pm at the Methodist Central under the musical direction of Jane Warwick Hall, Plymouth ‘Iolanthe’ Plymouth Area Police Choir Summer Concert Tickets £16 concessions £14 from 01752 For details contact Bob Sheldrake, 01752 600166 or book online: 406995 www.plymouthgilbertandsullivan.com
8 Summer 2016 Saturday May 21 at 7.30 pm at Minster Church ———————— JUNE —————— of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth Friday June 3 at 7.30 pm at the Methodist Spring Choral Classics Central Hall, Plymouth University of Plymouth Choral Society & Plymouth Area Police Choir Summer Concert Orchestra, conductor Simon Ible, with Robyn For details contact Bob Sheldrake, 01752 Allegra Parton - soprano, Anna Harvey - mezzo- 406995 soprano, Daniel Auchincloss - tenor, Peter Kirk - tenor and James Oldfield - bass-baritone Sunday June 5 at 3 pm at Holy Cross Church, Schubert: Mass no.6 in Eflat Newton Ferrers Tickets: £15, £13 Friends of Peninsula Arts from The Lupridge Singers Box Office A A selection of opera choruses.
Tickets £8 to include cream tea, from Tubbs Saturday May 21 Pharmacy, Newton Ferrers or Pickles of Plymouth & District Organists' Association Modbury. visit to Wembury Church and Thorne House
Contact [email protected], Sunday June 5 at 3 pm (venue tba) in Totnes tel: 01822 833728 Devon Baroque
Europeans! Tuesday May 24 at 4 pm at Theatre 1, Roland Works by Gottfried Finger, Giovanni Battista Levinsky Building, Plymouth University Draghi, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Willem de Plymouth University Gamelan Orchestra & Fesch, the Purcell brothers & George Friderich Friends, Saj Collyer, conductor Handel. Free
Sunday June 5 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British Wednesday May 25 at 7 pm at St Mary’s Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH Church, Botus Fleming, Near Saltash, Cornwall Plymouth Jazz Club - Jazzacadabra Ten Tors Orchestra Chamber Ensemble Mainstream/modern jazz by a Plymouth band led directed by Mary Eade by clarinettist Chris Costin. Eclectic range of Summer Serenade Fundraising Concert & Buffet music from Cole Porter to Miles Davis. Supper Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Chamber music for strings: popular music by £7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B Mozart, Shostakovich and Handel and the famous Monti Czardas. Saturday June 11 7.30 pm at Calstock Church Tickets: £20 (includes buffet) in advance only South West Chamber Choir , director Stephen from Karen Ible 01752 841149. Email: Trahair [email protected] Pastyme with Good Companye
Tudor madrigals (including works by Henry VIII, Thursday May 26 at 8 pm at Theatre 1, Roland Byrd, Dowland and Gibbons), with contemporary Levinsky Building, Plymouth University works including George Shearing's Songs & Plymouth University Orchestra , conductor sonnets from Shakespeare, and the premiere of Rupert Bond local composer Helen Porter’s On watching the Programme includes: tide at Blaxton Quay. Full details from South Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from Symphony No.5 West Chamber Choir Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No.1
Music for strings, wind and brass ensembles Free event, parting donation invited toward concert costs For information about the Orchestra email: [email protected]
9 Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary Sunday June 12 at 5.30 pm at Sterts Theatre, Saturday June 18 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Upton Cross, nr. Liskeard Guildhall Plymouth Symphony Orchestra , conductor Plymouth Phoenix Chorale accompanied by Anne Kimber the Kelliwik Orchestra, Director Marcus Alleyne Movie Night 'Plymouth’s Picnic Proms' John Williams: Superman, Star Wars, Jurassic Includes Woods ‘Fantasia on British Sea Songs’ Park, Mahler: Death in Venice, Howard Shore: and other Proms Favourites and featuring Lord of the Rings, Klaus Badelt: Pirates of the Rutter’s ‘Feel the Spirit’ rituals Caribbean, Hans Zimmer: Batman - The Dark Bring your own picnic etc.. Knight Rises, Gladiator, Friedel: Terminator Adults £12, Concessions £8, Children £2 from Richard Rogers: Slaughter on 10th Avenue Box Office C Tickets £10, Concessions £8 Students/Children £6 From Sterts Box Office, tel: 01579 362382 or Saturday June 18 at 7 pm at The House, on the door Plymouth University "Celestial" Wednesday June 15 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Ten Tors Chamber Orchestra , conductor Guildhall Simon Ible, with Paul K Joyce - Plymouth Symphony Orchestra , conductor synthesizers/sounds and narration, Sarah Anne Kimber Simmonds - soprano, Helen Porter - mezzo- Programme as at Sterts above soprano, Billy Bottle - male voice, Will McNicol - Tickets: Balcony £17 (concession £15) Ground acoustic guitar, Simon James - sound, Graham floor £15.50 (concession £13.50) child/ student Gaunt - film/projections, Chris Watson - sound £5, at the door or from Kerry’s Music, 51 recordist Ebrington Street, Plymouth PL4 9AA, Tel:01752 Music by Paul K Joyce, poems by Johnnie 227120 and www.wegottickets.co.uk Douglas-Pennant Tickets £10, £8 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA Friday June 17 at 7.30 pm at Plympton St. Artory, from Box Office A Maurice Church Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir , Directed by Jenny Saturday June 18 at 8.30 pm at Theatre 1, George Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University "A Summer Presentation" "Relic" by Katy Richardson, performed with The opening event of the Plympton St. Maurice Imperfect Orchestra Summer Festival. Tickets £7, £5 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA Artory, from Box Office A Saturday June 18 starting at 11 am Plymouth & District Organists' Association Saturday June 18 at 7 pm at St Eustachius visit to Visit to St Gregory’s Church, Seaton Church, Tavistock and at 2pm to Axminster and 4pm to Beer: Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir Congregational Church fro the Beer Wurlitzer Gala Concert and St. Michael's Church Contact [email protected], Sunday June 19 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British tel: 01822 833728 Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH Plymouth Jazz Club Saturday June 18 at 5.30 pm at Theatre 1, Slide by Slide Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University Traditional/mainstream jazz from a quintet "Voices" Juliet Fraser - soprano with headed Richard Leach and Kevin Grenfell electronics (trombone & trumpet). Christopher Fox: Magnification, Scott Mc Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Laughlin: Snowflake, Michael Finnissy: Same as £7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B we, Nicholas Peters: Scantlebury Tickets £5, £3 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA Artory, from Box Office A
10 Summer 2016 Friday June 24 at 7.30 pm at St. Jude’s Church Sunday July 3 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British Plymouth Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir Plymouth Jazz Club the Fraser Weekes Quartet Saturday June 25 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Mainstream jazz by some fine local musicians Unitarian Church, Notte St. Plymouthh led by Plymouth's popular guitarist. Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members £7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B Saturday June 25 at 7 pm at Chillington Methodist Church Wednesday July 6 at 2.45 pm at Plymstock URC Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir Day Room Anniversary Concert Plymouth Clarion Choir For the Good Companions Sunday June 26 at 7 pm at St. Germans Priory East Cornwall Bach Choir Saturday July 9 at 7.30 pm at Rattery Village Bach: Magnificat (tbc) Hall TQ10 9LD Commissioned Work Brent Singers , Director of Music Philip ———————— JULY —————— Arkwright Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore Friday July 1 at 7.30 pm at St Boniface Church, Admission by ticket only available from choir St. Budeaux members or ring 01752 892703 Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir , Directed by Jenny George Monday July 11 at 1.45 pm at Rees Youth & Community Centre, Mudge Way. Plympton Saturday July 2 from 10 am (informal Plymouth Clarion Choir performance 5.30pm) at St Paul’s Church, Yelverton, Devon Saturday July 16 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Central University of Plymouth Choral Society , Hall musical director Simon Ible Music of The Night Choral Foundation Singing Day Workshop Summer Concert Come and sing a selection of sacred anthems, Tickets £10, concessions £8 from Tel 01752 motets and madrigals. All welcome. 365580 Participants £14, £12 members of UPCS For further information and an application from Tuesday July 19 at 7.30 pm at Trinity UR contact the UPCS Secretary Jan Green Church, Hartley, Plymouth e-mail [email protected] or telephone: Plymouth & District Organists' Association 01752 844899 Annual General Meeting and entertainment Contact [email protected], Saturday July 2 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth tel: 01822 833728 Pavilions Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir Friday July 22 at Tavistock Town Hall Massed Cornish MVC Charity Concert Plymouth Jazz Club the Fraser Weekes Quartet Sunday July 3 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Guildhall Traditional Jazz. Details tba Box Office B Plymouth Philharmonic Choir , conductor Christopher Fletcher John Rutter: Feel the Spirit & other anthems Morten Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna Tickets £19 at the door (if available); Child/student £5; £17 in advance from 01822 853791 & www.wegottickets.com
11 Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary Saturday July 23 from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm at Saturday July 30 at 7.30 pm at Tavistock Parish Tavistock Parish Church Church Exon Festival Chorus , led by Richard Exon Singers 50th Anniversary Concert with Wilberforce singers and conductors past and present. Come and Sing Workshop President David Hill conducts Brahms: German Requiem Handel: Dixit Dominus and Bach Motets, with the Workshop ticket £10. Music hire £3 or bring your Zeitgeist Chamber Orchestra. Tickets £10 own copy (under 18 free) from outlets as for July 26. Tickets available from 1 March 2016 from ———————— AUGUST —————— Bookstop, 3 Market Street, Tavistock Sunday August 7 at 7.30 pm at Royal British Tuesday July 26 to Sunday July 31 in Tavistock Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH Exon Singers 50th Festival Plymouth Jazz Club The Great Western Jazz Company Tuesday July 26 at 7.30 pm (Rehearsal 2.30pm) Mainstream jazz by a fine Cornish band. at Tavistock Parish Church Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members Exon Festival Chorus & Exon Singers, led by £7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B Richard Wilberforce Brahms: German Requiem Plymouth Jazz Club Workshop ticket £10; Workshop and Concert 'Riverboat Shuffle'. Date & time tbc £20. Music hire £3 or bring your own copy A jazz cruise up the Tamar to Calstock & back. Tickets available from 1 March 2016 from Details to follow. Box Office B Bookstop, 3 Market Street, Tavistock or from [email protected] Saturday August 20 at 7.30 pm at Stoke Climsland Parish Church Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir with Launceston MVC
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: Plymouth Phoenix Chorale: [email protected] or 07971 169335
D: Tavistock Wharf Arts Centre Box Office, tel: 01822 611166
E: Duke of Cornwall Hotel, 01752 275850, [email protected] or via www.wegottickets.co.uk
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