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Paul Lewis Calidore Quartet Amatis Trio Emma Johnson and Friends Pavel Kolesnikov Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason Iain Simcock Van Kuijk Quartet

malvern-concert-club.co.uk MALVERN CONCERT CLUB 118th Season 118TH SEASON AT A GLANCE 2020-21 2020 Ever since its first concert on 31 October 1903,Malvern 24 September Paul Lewis Concert Club has been a cornerstone of musical life in 5 November Calidore Quartet Worcestershire. It was founded by Sir Edward Elgar, and 26 November Amatis Trio the Club’s first Secretary (for over 38 years) was his close 2021 friend the local architect Arthur Troyte Griffith, whom Elgar 21 January Emma Johnson and Friends had immortalised in Variation No. VII, Troyte, in his Enigma Variations. The Club continued to run through two World 14 February Pavel Kolesnikov Wars without a break. 18 March Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason 9 April Iain Simcock Now, for its 118th Season, Malvern Concert Club is proud 29 April Van Kuijk Quartet to continue that tradition of bringing the best chamber music to this part of the country, with a roster of British and international musicians, both established performers and Concerts in italics are daytime concerts, promising newcomers. not part of Subscription Series Although we’re called a ‘Club’, anyone can join - and anyone can attend concerts without joining. Besides their high quality, our concerts offer excellent value for money. Single BEETHOVEN tickets are available to non-members, but membership of FINAL DATES FROM OUR 1770 Malvern Concert Club offers six concerts for less than the 117TH SEASON, 2019-2020 price of four. Do join us! 2502020

Friday 17 April 2020, 10.30 for 11.15am, Elmslie House, Malvern Ruisi Quartet Purcell, Beethoven COFFEE & CAKE CONCERT £15, Students £9 (including coffee and cake) from malvern-concert-club.co.uk or Bryan Ratcliff 07970 569293; The President of Malvern Concert Club no booking fee is the eminent baritone and composer Roderick Williams obe Thursday 30 April 2020, 7.30pm, Malvern Theatres New London Chamber Ensemble Beethoven, Nielsen, Poulenc, Mozart £21.50, Students £6 plus 12% booking fee BEETHOVEN from malvern-theatres.co.uk or Malvern Theatres Box Office 1770 In 2020, the musical world is Wednesday 10 June 2020, 7.30pm, Malvern Theatres celebrating the 250th anniversary of 2502020 (postponed from 23 January) the birth of . violin, Martin Roscoe Malvern Concert Club continues to mark this with Beethoven Sonatas for violin and piano Nos. 8, 3, 9 Beethoven’s compositions featuring in our concerts £21.50, Students £6 plus 12% booking fee on 24 September and 26 November 2020. from malvern-theatres.co.uk or Malvern Theatres Box Office

2 3 Thursday 24 September 2020 7.30pm Thursday 5 November 2020 7.30pm Paul Lewis piano Calidore

Schubert Sonata for Piano No.18 in G, D.894 Jeffrey Myers violin Ryan Meehan violin Beethoven 33 Variations in C on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op.120 Jeremy Berry Estelle Choi Haydn String Quartet in C, Op.20, No.2 Paul Lewis is internationally regarded as one of the leading musicians Barber String Quartet in B minor, Op.11 of his generation. His cycles of core piano works by Beethoven Schubert String Quartet in G, No.15, D.887 and Schubert have received unanimous critical and public acclaim worldwide and consolidated his reputation as one of the world’s The Calidore String Quartet was founded at the Colburn School in Los foremost interpreters of the central European classical repertoire. His Angeles in 2010. Within two years, the quartet had won major prizes in numerous awards have included the Royal Philharmonic Society’s virtually all the major US chamber music competitions, including the Instrumentalist of the Year, two Edison awards, three Gramophone Fischoff, Coleman, Chesapeake and Yellow Springs competitions, and it awards, the Diapason d’Or de l’Année, the Preis der deutschen captured top prizes at the 2012 ARD International Music Competition in Schallplattenkritik, the Premio Internazionale Accademia Musicale Munich and the International Chamber Music Competition, Hamburg. Chigiana, and the South Bank Show Classical Music award. He was As a passionate supporter of music education, the Calidore String appointed CBE in 2016. Quartet is committed to mentoring and educating young musicians, He works regularly as soloist with the world’s great orchestras, students, and audiences. The Calidore serves as Quartet-in-Residence including the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago at the University of Delaware and the University of Toronto. It has Symphony, London Symphony, London Philharmonic, Bavarian conducted master classes and residencies at Princeton, Stanford, the Radio Symphony, NHK Symphony, New York Philharmonic and University of Michigan, the Colburn School, Stony Brook University, LA Philharmonic. He became the first person to play a complete UCLA, and Mercer University. Beethoven piano concerto cycle in a single season at the BBC Proms Recipient of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2017 Lincoln in 2010. Center Award for Emerging Artists, the Calidore String Quartet first Paul Lewis studied with Joan Havill at the Guildhall School of made international headlines as winner of the $100,000 Grand Music and Drama in London before going on to study privately Prize of the 2016 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition. The quartet was with Alfred Brendel. He is Co-Artistic Director of Midsummer Music, the first North American ensemble to win the Borletti-Buitoni Trust an annual chamber music festival held in Buckinghamshire and a Fellowship. They were BBC New Generation Artists and are currently in regular performer at the annual Chipping Campden Festival. We residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Bowers are delighted to welcome him back to Malvern to play the Diabelli Program. Variations in this year of Beethoven celebrations. In the 2019-20 season, the Calidore String Quartet celebrated both its 10th anniversary and the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth ‘There are many prized recordings of the Beethoven sonatas from past by presenting cycles of his string quartets at the Colburn School in masters and current artists. But if I had to recommend a single complete Los Angeles and the Universities of Buffalo, Toronto and Delaware. In set, I would suggest Mr Lewis’s distinguished recordings.’ Europe, they performed Beethoven quartets in Antwerp, Dresden, and (Anthony Tommasini, New York Times) at the Rheingau Musik Festival.

‘Four more individual musicians are unimaginable, yet these speak, breathe, think and feel as one.’ (The Washington Post) 4 5 Thursday 26 November 2020 7.30pm Thursday 21 January 2021 7.30pm Amatis Piano Trio Emma Johnson and Friends Lea Hausmann violin Emma Johnson Samuel Shepherd cello Matt Denton violin Michelle Fleming violin Mengjie Han piano Eoin Schmidt-Martin viola Emma Denton cello Chris West double bass Peter Francombe Beethoven Piano Trio in B flat, Op.11, Gassenhauer Trio Phil Gibbon bassoon Schumann Piano Trio No.3 in G minor, Op.110 Shostakovich Piano Trio No.1 in C minor, Op.8 Howard Ferguson Octet, Op.4 Mendelssohn Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K.581 Beethoven Septet in E flat, Op.20 The Amatis Piano Trio was founded in 2014 by German violinist Lea Hausmann, British cellist Samuel Shepherd and Dutch/Chinese pianist Emma Johnson is one of the few clarinettists to have established a Mengjie Han. busy career as a solo performer which has taken her to major European, Only weeks after forming, the Trio won the audience prize at the American and Asian venues as well as to Africa and Australasia. Emma Grachtenfestival Concours in Amsterdam which quickly led to their debut grew up in London and her career was launched when, at the age of 17, at the Royal Concertgebouw and concert engagements throughout the she won BBC Young Musician of the Year followed by the Young Concert Netherlands. Artists Auditions in New York. However, she decided to study Music and Most recently they were awarded 1st Trio at the International Joseph English at Cambridge University before embarking full time on a musical Joachim Competition in Weimar, Germany and named Dutch Classical path. Emma was also the first woman to be made an Honorary Fellow of Talent 2016. Soon afterwards, they were selected as BBC New Generation Pembroke College, Cambridge and to have her portrait painted for the Artists 2016/2018. college. She was appointed MBE in 1996. This young international trio has since emerged as one of the leading Her CD of sonatas by Brahms and Mendelssohn with John Lenehan was piano trios among the new generation, receiving enthusiastic responses described as ‘definitive…triumphant…a landmark disc’ in The Observer from audiences and critics across the UK, Europe and Asia. For the and her much admired recording of the Finzi Concerto was nominated for 2018/2019 season, they were selected as ECHO Rising Stars by the a Gramophone Award whilst Pastoral was chosen as CD of the Year by BBC European Concert Hall organisation, following their nomination by the Music Magazine. Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Konzerthaus Emma has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s leading Dortmund and the Philharmonic Cologne, which saw them perform in orchestras, in repertoire which includes all the major clarinet works as 23 of the most prestigious concert venues in Europe. well as pieces written especially for her by Sir John Dankworth, Will Todd The Amatis Piano Trio is committed to contemporary music and founded and Michael Berkeley amongst others. She has collaborated with artists the ‘Dutch Piano Trio Competition’ prize in 2015, encouraging young such as Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Dame Cleo Laine and the Takacs Quartet and composers to further the piano trio repertoire. Since 2015 they have she directs her own group, Emma Johnson and Friends, whose recent live worked intensively with Wolfgang Redik (Vienna Piano Trio) and Rainer recording of the Schubert Octet was described as ‘a winner’ by Music Web Schmidt () and are currently enrolled in the Piano Trio International. Master Studies at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. We are delighted to welcome Emma back to Malvern together with The Carducci String Quartet and her other Friends. ‘The Amatis Piano Trio is an outstanding ensemble on their way to establishing a great international career.’ (Daniel Hope, Beaux Arts Trio) 6 7 Sunday 14 February 2021 3.00pm Thursday 18 March 2021 7.30pm Pavel Kolesnikov piano Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello Schumann Kinderszenen Op.15 Beethoven Piano Sonata No.30 in E, Op.109 Isata Kanneh-Mason piano J S Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Beethoven Cello Sonata in C, Op.102, No.1 Britten Tema ‘Sacher’ Following Russian pianist Pavel Kolesnikov’s Wigmore Hall debut Bridge Cello Sonata, H.125 in January 2014, The Telegraph gave his recital a rare five-star Bridge Scherzo, H.19a, Mélodie, H.99, Spring Song, H.104 No.2 review and called it ‘one of the most memorable of such occasions London has witnessed in a while’. Since becoming Prize Laureate Britten Cello Sonata, Op.65 of the Honens Prize for Piano in 2012, Pavel has been winning Sheku Kanneh-Mason shot to fame as the winner of the 2016 BBC hearts around the world. A live recording of his prize-winning Young Musician competition, the first black musician to win the performances was released on the Honens label in March 2013, award since its launch in 1978. He then became a household name about which the BBC Music Magazine wrote ‘tremendous clarity, after being invited to perform at the 2018 wedding of the Duke unfailing musicality and considerable beauty’. His debut studio and Duchess of Sussex. Sheku continues to study cello at the Royal recording was released on the Hyperion label to critical acclaim. The Academy of Music with Hannah Roberts. He enjoys an increasingly Sunday Times described his playing on this all-Tchaikovsky disc as busy schedule of international concert performances, including having ‘affection and élan’. playing at illustrious venues such as Wigmore Hall London, Carnegie Significant recital and festival appearances resulting from Hall New York, and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris. He was the Honens Prize include Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Berlin’s appointed MBE in 2019. Konzerthaus, the Louvre, Vancouver Recital Society, La Jolla Music Isata Kanneh-Mason is a Postgraduate at The Royal Academy of Society, Spoleto Festival USA, Canada’s Ottawa ChamberFest Music, studying piano with Carole Presland, having been awarded the and Banff Summer Festival, and the United Kingdom’s Plush Gwendolyn Reiche Memorial Scholarship. Music Festival. Orchestral appearances include Russia’s National Isata was in the Piano Category Final of The BBC Young Musician Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, 2014. She has won The Royal Academy Iris Dyer Piano Prize four times Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira and Toronto Symphony Orchestra. and won the Mrs Claude Beddington Prize 2016 for outstanding Pavel was born in Siberia into a family of scientists. He studied recital results at The Royal Academy. She is also winner of The Royal both the piano and violin for ten years, before concentrating solely Academy Christian Carpenter Recital Prize 2018, the Harold Craxton on the piano. He has studied at Moscow State Conservatory with Chamber Music Prize 2018 and the Wilfred Parry (Brahms) Prize 2018 Sergey Dorensky, at London’s with Norma at The Royal Academy. Fisher and at Brussels’ Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel with Maria João She has performed around the UK and abroad, with concerto Pires, thanks to the generous support of Mr Christopher D Budden, appearances, in solo recitals and in chamber ensembles, including the RCM Scholarship Foundation and Hattori Foundation. at Wigmore Hall, The Royal Festival Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, The He returns to Malvern Concert Club following his stellar Duke’s Hall (Royal Academy), The Royal Concert Hall Nottingham, performance in 2019. in the Netherlands, the Caribbean, the Cayman Islands, Canada and Switzerland. This Sunday afternoon concert at Malvern Theatres is excluded from the six-concert subscription. Please see pages 13-15.

8 9 Friday 9 April 2020 10.30 for 11.15am Thursday 29 April 7.30pm At Elmslie House COFFEE AND CAKE CONCERT Van Kuijk Quartet Iain Simcock harpsichord Nicolas Van Kuijk violin Sylvain Favre-Bulle violin Bach and the Dance Emmanuel François viola François Robin cello French Suite No.5 in G, BWV 816 Haydn String Quartet in F minor, Op.20, No.5 Partita No.6 in E minor, BWV 830 Shostakovich String Quartet No.10 in A flat, Op.118 French Overture, BWV 831 Mendelssohn String Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op.13 ‘It’s a fascinating journey through Bach’s evermore complex approach to Founded in 2012 in Paris, the Van Kuijk Quartet has been dance-forms’. accumulating awards for several years, contributing to its growing fame. Elected Rising Stars for the 2017/2018 season for the ECHO Iain Simcock was Organ Scholar at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle network which brings together the largest European concert halls, and Christ Church, Oxford, before being appointed Sub-Organist at the Quartet won in 2015 the first prize of the Wigmore Hall String Westminster Abbey and, for seven years, Assistant Master of Music Quartet competition with the Haydn and Beethoven prizes and at Westminster Cathedral. He was the first British prize-winner in the they were BBC New Generation Artists from 2015 to 2017. The Chartres International Organ Competition, as well as prize-winner in Quartet won the first prize and the audience prize at the Trondheim competitions in St Omer in France and Odense in Denmark. He studied International Competition and is also the HSBC Laureate of the Aix en with David Sanger in London and Jean Langlais in Paris. Provence Festival. In 1994, Iain was appointed Professor of Choral Singing at the The Van Kuijk Quartet studied at the Paris Conservatoire in the Conservatoire National in Angers, France and Organist at the Abbey Ysaye Quartet class and followed Günter Pichler’s courses at the of Saint Pierre in Solesmes, whilst continuing his solo freelance career. Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía with the support of the He performed the complete organ works of Bach in Angers in 1996, International Institute in Madrid. It also took part in master classes of recording a solo CD of highlights from the performances. He also the legendary quartets of Berg, Hagen and Artemis, and participated performed all Bach’s major harpsichord works, including the Goldberg in numerous academies: Verbier Festival, Académie Internationale de Variations on the famous Taskin harpsichord in the Russell Collection at Montréal with Michael Tree of the and André Roy, the Edinburgh Festival. the International Academy of Weikerscheim with Heime Muller and From 2001-2014 he was the Musical Director of the Académie Vocale the Vogler Quartet. de Paris, performing weekly concerts with the choir as well as concerts The Quartet has recorded an album dedicated to Mozart on in many major festivals. He was instigator of two major Radio France the Alpha Classics label, which has been hailed unanimously by programmes featuring the monks of Solesmes and the Académie international critics. Vocale, focusing on the great Solesmes tradition of the restoration of The Van Kuijk Quartet has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Champs Gregorian chant. He also worked with the opera houses in Nantes, Lyon Elysées Theatre, the Louvre Auditorium, the Vienna Musikverein, the and Bordeaux, preparing young singers for roles in Britten A Midsummer Philharmonie Berlin, in Luxembourg, Cologne, Hamburg and Paris Night’s Dream, The Turn of the Screw, Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande, and in many other international venues, including the Gulbenkian Berlioz Damnation of Faust, Mozart Magic Flute and as assistant to Jane Foundation in Lisbon, the Lincoln Center New York, Phillips Collection Glover and harpsichordist for Handel’s Jephtha. Washington DC and Salle Bourgie Montreal.

This one-hour concert at Elmslie House is excluded from the six-concert subscription. ‘Van Kuijk have style, energy and a sense of risk ... these four young Please see pages 13-15. French people make music smile’. (The Guardian)

10 11 Where our concerts are held Elmslie House, 8 Avenue Road, Malvern WR14 3AG The Forum Theatre, Malvern Theatres, Grange Road, Friday 9 April 2021 at 10.30 for 11.15am Malvern WR14 3HB All Thursday evening Series Concerts

The Theatres Elmslie House was built as ‘Falston’ From their origin in 1885, Malvern Theatres have undergone in 1862 by the architect E W Elmslie many changes, and are now a modern, attractive and dynamic for his own family use. In later life centre for the performing arts. The Forum Theatre is the main the building was a school, and had auditorium for musical performance, and its flexible space associations with Elgar and Troyte Griffth. It now hosts classes, and largely tiered seating offer excellent acoustics, visibility art exhibitions and concerts, including what will be the fourth and comfort. As configured for Club concerts, the Forum of the Club’s successful Coffee and Cake Concerts, this time a accommodates about 600. All seats are unreserved. performance by Iain Simcock (harpsichord). On weekdays, the Theatres are open at 9.30am; for Sundays Seating (all unreserved) is limited to 80. The ticket price please check with Theatres. For Club concerts, doors to the includes refreshments before the concert, kindly provided by Forum Theatre open at 7.00pm. Anna Taylor, the owner of Elmslie House. Please bear in mind Refreshments that this is a family home and therefore not open at all times. Malvern Theatres offer a restaurant, Scene Bistro, and two licensed bars. Pre-concert suppers are available from 5.30pm on weekdays (malverntheatresbistro.com or 01684 567751 for details). The bars are open before and after the concerts, and interval drinks may be ordered in advance. Access Malvern Theatres welcome people with disabilities and are committed to ensuring that your visit is easy, enjoyable and straightforward. Please advise the box office if you need any special assistance. Wheelchair spaces are available in the Forum Theatre. Other areas are accessible to wheelchairs and there are WC facilities on all levels.

TRAVEL INFORMATION Car Parking Short-stay car parks in Grange Road (2) (almost next to the Theatres), the Council House (Avenue Road) and Edith Walk (2); long-stay car parks in Priory Road (2) (pedestrian access to the Theatres through Priory Park) and Victoria Road. Normal charges apply before 4pm, including Sundays. A special charge applies in ALL car parks from 4pm to 8am. There is also free on-street parking in some nearby Malvern Concert Club also organises coach visits from roads. Malvern to selected concerts by the CBSO and other Buses Bus 44 between Worcester Bus Station and Great Malvern, four an hour orchestras at Symphony Hall, Birmingham. weekday daytimes, approximately hourly Sundays and all evenings. Participation is open to all, whether Club members or not. Trains Great Malvern Station for West Midlands Railway and Great Western Railway Members will automatically receive details; non-members trains. Trains can return you to Hereford, Worcester, Birmingham (always in daytimes, usually in evenings), Oxford and London Paddington after the concert. can be added to the emailing list by contacting Simon Information correct as at 19 March 2020. Please check before travelling. Payton at [email protected]

12 13 Single Tickets for non-members Club Membership prices Series Concerts on Thursdays 7.30pm, Series Concerts on Thursdays 7.30pm, Malvern Theatres and additional concert on Sunday 14 February 2021 Price for six-concert subscription (excl. 14 February and 9 April 2021) at 3.00pm, Malvern Theatres1 Full price £77 (£75 until 2 July 2020) Students3 £15 (£13 until 2 July 2020) Full price per concert £23.50 (with booking fee2 £25.76) A Membership Subscription offers: six evening concerts for less than the price of four Students3 £6 (£6.72) a free seat for each concert for one young person under 18 4

the freedom to transfer your ticket to someone else On sale at Malvern Theatres Box in person or by phone no Theatres Heritage Fund contribution or booking fees. 9.30am-8.00pm, Monday-Saturday), by post or online. Malvern Theatres, Grange Road, Malvern WR14 3HB and to make joining even easier: Telephone 01684 892277 Online malvern-theatres.co.uk an Early Joining Discount of £2 per person or a Reduced Subscription for new members5 who can’t

attend all concerts: £10 reduction on subscription for each of up to three concerts you miss. Friday 9 April 2021 10.30 for 11.15 am, Elmslie House Sunday 14 February 2021 3.00pm, Malvern Theatres 3 Full price £15 Students £9 £18 (no concessions), Students3 £6 including coffee & cake and programme. No booking fee. One ticket per Member (two tickets, if purchased by Online malvern-concert-club.co.uk 2 July 2020). May be ordered from 19 March 2020, by or from Bryan Ratcliff, at Club concerts or application form (see overleaf), either simultaneously with [email protected] subscription, or separately later. or Online malvern-concert-club.co.uk On sale from 21 January 2021: availability at the door is unlikely. Strictly no admission before 10.30am. or from Bryan Ratcliff, at Club concerts from 30 April [email protected]

Friday 9 April 2021 10.30 for 11.15 am, Elmslie House Footnotes for pages 14-15 As shown opposite. There are no reductions for Club 1 Prices include a £2 contribution to Malvern Theatres Heritage Fund, applicable to all performances in the Forum and Festival Theatres. members. 2 Malvern Theatres charge a booking fee of 12% per ticket See overleaf for how to apply for Membership (as at March 2020). Members of the Theatres’ own membership schemes (except the Standby Club) are exempt from booking fees: DATA PROTECTON (GDPR) details from Theatres. By submitting an application for Membership of Malvern Concert Club (‘the 3 Age under 21 and in full-time education as at 1 September 2020. One free ticket for a teacher accompanying every five paying students. Club’), you consent to the information which you provide in the application Details from Bryan Ratcliff, Membership Secretary (see p.16). form and any other information obtained or provided as part of the application 4 Age as at 1 September 2020. The young person must be accompanied by process and during the course of your membership of the Club being used solely a Member with parental responsibility. Please obtain special ticket from for the purpose of processing your application (including payment processing) Bryan Ratcliff, Membership Secretary, on concert nights. and dealing with you as a member of the Club. This includes communicating Offer excludes concerts on 14 February and 9 April 2021. with you about Club activities and events and the fulfilment of any purchases. 5 ‘New member’ means not a member in any of Seasons 115, 116 or 117, (2017-2020). The data you provide will not be shared with any third party for marketing or commercial purposes. To comply with the requirements of the Charity Commission the information you provide may be retained for a period of time as part of the Club’s financial records, even if your membership of the Club has ceased. Your consent extends to meet this requirement.

14 15 How to apply for Membership 118th Season ONLINE 2020-21 Existing and new members can apply and pay for NEW MEMBERS’ APPLICATION FORM Side One membership online at malvern-concert-club.co.uk Please read p.16 How to apply for Membership and p.15 GDPR The exception is new members wishing to use the special offer of choosing five, four or three concerts only - you can Name/s ...... download and print an application form from the website, or else follow the procedure below. Address ...... BY APPLICATION FORM ...... EXISTING MEMBERS (as at Season 117, 2019-20) automatically receive information either by email or in their ...... Postcode ...... membership renewal packs at concerts. There is no need to complete the form in this brochure. Phone (home or mobile) ...... NEW MEMBERS Please complete both sides of the application form email ...... opposite, detach, and submit it to Bryan Ratcliff, Membership Secretary, either Tick age group in person at our membership table in the lower foyer of Enter Malvern Theatres (not Theatres Box Office) at our concerts NUMBER Student from 19 March 2020 onwards, or required Adult under 21 in box(es) as at by post to: Granary House, Upton Road, Callow End, below  1 Sept 2020 WORCESTER WR2 4TE FULL SEASON (6 evening £75 £13 According to the payment method you ticked: concerts) bought by 2 July

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