Last Season

The creative and dynamic wind quintet

Cara Houghton flute
Isaac Prince clarinet
Bruce Parris bassoon
Helena Mackie oboe
Alex Ross horn

A programme of accessible yet engaging music, including a mix of well-known and lesser-known composers (both male and female!)

Programme

The internationally renowned trio

Martino Tirimo piano
Ben Sayevich violin
Daniel Veis cello

Programme
Beethoven - Piano Trio in E flat Op.70 No.2
Shostakovich - Piano Trio No 1 Op 8
Smetana – Trio in G minor Op

Muriel Oberhofer violin
Julian Chan piano

Muriel is a brilliant, prizewinning Swiss violinist who has recently completed her advanced studies with distinction at the Royal academy of Music.

Programme
Sibelius - Five Pieces Op 81
Schumann - Sonata in D minor for Violin & Piano,
Debussy - Sonata for Violin & Piano
Beethoven - Sonata in G for Violin & Piano, Op 96

Frederico Paixão flute
Milo Harper harp

Two outstanding young artists sponsored by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

A mix of major pieces and smaller items, interspersing solo and duos, all around a theme of storytelling and programmatic music.

Programme
Cras - Suite en Duo
Boulanger - Nocturne et Cortège
Debussy - Syrinx
Murray Schafer - Ariadne’s Dream
Coleridge-Taylor - Deep River
Price - Adoration
Tournier - Danse du Moujik
Gluck - Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Fauré - Sicilienne from Pelléas et Mélisande
Grant Still - Summerland
Honegger - Danse de la Chèvre
Alwyn - Naiades Fantasy Sonata

A piano recital by Victor Lim, another winner of Making Music's Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, who performs a programme of music inspired by literature and will also be reading out some of that literature.

Programme

• Franz Schubert ~ Impromptu in B flat major, Op.142 No.3 
• Amy Beach ~ By the Still Waters 
• Claude Debussy ~ Suite Bergamasque, L.75
• Robert Schumann ~ Kreisleriana, Op 16

Making Music Selected Artists 2019-2020

• Kate Suthers, Cassi Hamilton violins
• Matt Maguire viola
• Antonio Novais cello

"Great control and dynamic subtlety" The Strad

Programme

• Fanny Hensel (née Mendelssohn)  ~ Quartet
• Anton Webern ~ Langsamer Satz
• Caroline Shaw ~ Punctum
• Joseph Haydn ~ Quartet in F, Op 50 No5

The renowned bassoon viruoso

• Laurence Perkins

with

Programme includes

• Ralph Vaughan Williams ~ Studies in English Folksong
• William Hurlestone ~ Sonata in F
• Paul Reade ~ Catalonia
• Edward Elgar ~ Romance, Op 62

The welcome return of the superb guitarist

Laura Snowden