Ticket Prices Committee Members £8.00 Chairman: Nicola Harries, 157 High Street, Ongar CM5 9JD Senior Citizen Members £7.50 Email: [email protected] Tel: 01277 363909 Guests £10.00 Vice-Chairman and Treasurer: Peter Jackson, White House, Senior Citizen Guests £9.50 Noon’s Folly, Newmarket Road, Royston, Herts SG8 7NG ONGAR Children and Students £2.00 Tel: 01763 248342 How to Join Secretary and Competition Administrator: Janet Pope, White House, Noon’s Folly, Newmarket Road, Royston, Herts SG8 7NG MUSIC Annual membership of Ongar Music Club is £10. This gives free entry Email: [email protected] Tel: 01763 248342 to the September concert and reductions on the main concerts as Membership Secretary & Sponsorship: Barbara Szymanek, shown above. 31 Green Walk, Marden Ash, Ongar CM5 9HR Tel: 07729 905812 CLUB Email: [email protected] Season Ticket (FOUNDED 1975) Young Music Makers: Catherine Jennings, The Moat House, All the events marked are covered by a season ticket (not Church Street, Blackmore, Ingatestone CM4 0RN Tel: 01277 821078 Glyndebourne or Young Music Makers) which also includes £10 membership. Music Advisers and Events Planners: Joanna Smith and President: John Lill C.B.E. Roderick Elms, 23 Bethell Avenue, Cranbrook, Ilford IG1 4UX Standard Season Ticket £65 Email: [email protected] Senior Citizen Season Ticket £60 Publicity Officer: Barrie Hall, Corbetts House, Norwood End, Fyfield, Ongar CM5 0RW Tel. & Fax: 01277 899337 Full details from the Membership Secretary, Barbara Szymanek. (See back page for address and phone number) John Harrop, 115 Longfields, Marden Ash, Ongar CM5 9DE Tel: 01277 364255 Booking Agents Brian Lawrence, 5 Wolmers Hey, Great Waltham, Chelmsford CM3 1DA Tel: 01245 361998 Highway Travel, High Street, Ongar – 01277 362353 Janet Pope – 01763 248342 Rosalie Ritson, 70 Longshots Close, Broomfield, Chelmsford CM1 7DX (Please note that, once purchased, tickets may not be returned Tel: 01245 442135 or refunded, except in the case of a cancelled performance) Ongar Jazz Club If you would like a copy of the Jazz Club brochure, please contact Essex Young Musician of the Year Howard Nicholson, Culpeper, Queen Street, Fyfield, Ongar CM5 0RY The John Lill Awards Tel: 01277 899504 This major event attracts many of the county’s finest musicians Artists who have performed for the Club include: up to the age of 25. The winner receives £650, the Trophy and a Dame Janet Baker • Dame Eva Turner • The Lord Menuhin recital for the Club. Prize money amounts to more than £1,600, Sir Peter Pears • John Lill • Alberni String Quartet • Richard Baker placing the competition among the foremost in the country. Belcea String Quartet • Carlos Bonell • Benjamin Grosvenor Entry forms for competitors from Janet Pope (Tel: 01763 248342). Steven Isserlis • Stephen Kovacevich • Anthony Marwood Full information and entry form will be available on the website: www.ongarmusicclub.org.uk Concert Venue Budworth Hall High Street A414 to An Appeal for Sponsorship Chelmsford Chipping Ongar Ongar Music Club receives no Arts funding. Keeping ticket prices low Essex CM5 9JG is only possible through the generosity of our sponsors, including: The Four B164 Estate of Marie Korf BEM Wantz A113 to Ongar Thirty-Fifth Season Nicola Harries, Solicitor to Fyfield Car Park Library James Dace & Son Ltd. and Dunmow A414 to and numerous anonymous private donors. North 2009 - 2010 Weald Epping Car Park We welcome sponsorship, either generally to keep ticket prices down, Harlow or specifically to fund one of the Essex Young Musician prizes. M11 & M25 Budworth INCLUDING THE 27TH Please contact Barbara Szymanek (07729 905812). Hall ESSEX YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR Mailing List Ongar Music Club is affiliated to Ongar Community Association, COMPETITION The Music Club has a free mailing list. If you would like your name and is a member of Making Music. added, send your name and address to the Membership Secretary Registered Charity No. 273185 Barbara Szymanek (07729 905812). www.ongarmusicclub.org.uk Sunday 6th December at 3pm Sunday 28th March at 3pm ONGAR MUSIC CLUB Young Music Makers 1 Young Music Makers 2 Programme 2009-2010 Each season the Club offers a platform to (See 6th December) schoolchildren of all ages and abilities in Concerts take place in the Budworth Hall three afternoon concerts. The experience of Friday 23rd April at 8pm except Saturday 31st October. playing in public to a friendly audience is an Essex Young Musician of the Year 2009 There is plenty of parking space. important element in building confidence. Joanna Marie Skillett (soprano) • Melanie Jones (piano) Refreshments during concert intervals are free. Parents or teachers who know children who would like to take part are encouraged Essex Young Musician of the Year 2009, Friday 25th September at 8pm to contact Catherine Jennings on 01277 Joanna Marie Skillett makes a much Christopher Bearman (tuba) • Joanna Smith (piano) 821078, preferably at least a month in advance. anticipated visit to the Club for her winner’s (See also 28th March and 20th June). recital, together with pianist Melanie Jones. Following a short A.G.M, runner-up in this Adults £2 Children 50p Her theme of “Romantics for Soprano” will look year’s Essex Young Musician competition, at the way in which composers explore their (free for performers) Christopher Bearman from Benfleet opens own love as well as their character’s emotions. the season with an attractive selection of Friday 18th December at 8pm £8, £10 music, including pieces by Bach and Vaughan The Stondon Singers (Christopher Tinker, conductor) Williams. A small contribution to Club funds Brentwood Brass (Shirley Parrott, director) Friday 21st May at 8pm will be appreciated, as the interval wine is The superb Stondon Singers return Keyboard Konnections III becoming expensive! to Ongar with a varied selection of Joanna Smith & Roderick Elms (piano duo) £5 (members free) choral music for Christmas time. They will The Club’s own Joanna Smith and Roderick Friday 23rd October at 8pm be joined by the versatile Brentwood Brass Elms return to close the season with an The Conservatoire Series who will also accompany some carols for evening of music for two pianos and piano Katharine Carter (flute) • Ian Richardson (piano) choir and audience alike. The interval will be duet. Their programme will include a variety accompanied by appropriate festive cheer! of attractive music from French and English An exciting new series is launched this £8, £10 composers with maybe a little garnish from season by Katharine Carter, a scholarship elsewhere to help round off the season in an student from Trinity College of Music. Principal Friday 26th February at 8pm appropriately summery manner. piccolo in Orchestra Europa since 2008, she is Blowing His Own Trumpets £8, £10 also a member of the contemporary flute Martin Hurrell (trumpet) • Elizabeth Burley (piano) ensemble Ayre. Sunday 20th June at 3pm Sub-principal trumpet of the BBC Symphony £8 (members) £10 (guests) Young Music Makers 3 Orchestra, Martin Hurrell, takes us on a (See 6th December) (see ticket prices) tour of the world of the trumpet, together Saturday 31st October at 4pm with anecdotes from his varied career - both Essex Young Musician of the Year 2010 Falstaff at Glyndebourne within an orchestra and as a soloist. He is (Twenty-seventh competition) The Club’s annual visit to Glyndebourne on tour. Members have joined by the pianist Elizabeth Burley, official Sunday 27th June had priority but some tickets may remain, and we also operate pianist for the BBC Young Musician of the Year a waiting list in case of illness. Please contact Nicola Harries on Competition and pianist to the BBC Symphony Preliminaries at 2pm £2 (members free) 01277 362332. Orchestra. Sunday 4th July (ticket & coach fare) £60.00 £8, £10 Semifinal at 2pm All-day ticket £7 £48.00 (ticket only) Final at 7.30pm (no concessions) Friday 27th November at 8pm Friday 19th March at 8pm An Evening with Percy Grainger and Friends This Club has organised the internationally-recognised competition TenStringFever Michael Round (piano) since 1984 when a high standard was set and has been maintained. Jane Miller (violin) • Terry Spooner (guitar) The upper age limit is 25 - however, the competition attracts a wide age range. Many of our winners and also runners-up have successful Versatile TenStringFever makes its first visit A welcome return to Ongar Music Club professional careers. A professional jury chooses four finalists, and to Ongar. With two successful recordings by pianist and writer Michael Round, who gave us a brilliant and highly entertaining evening two others of 18 or under who have greatly impressed them. The already available, their performances encompass Final is always a most exciting and enjoyable event. on Villa Lobos a few years ago. This season he music ranging from Boccherini, Granados and returns to discuss and play music by the colourful Entry forms for competitors from Janet Pope (Tel: 01763 248342). Sibelius to the great jazz tunes of Reinhardt and composer and pianist, Percy Grainger, together Full information and entry form will be available on the Club’s website. Shearing and on to the tangos of Piazolla. with some of his contemporaries. Closing date for entries is 31st May 2010. £8, £10 £8, £10 www.ongarmusicclub.org.uk