Horsham Music Circle

 

 

 

 

                                      

                                 CONCERTS FOR SPRING 2025

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Saturday 15th February

St Mary's Church, Causeway  4.30pm

 

SUSSEX CHAMBER PLAYERS

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Judith Templeman, Rachel Ellis,

Adam Barker & Anna Giddey, violins

Ros Hanson-Laurent & Emily Marsden, violas

Jess Garner & Joe Giddey, cellos

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This octet of chamber players each studied at one of the major colleges of music and has subsequently made a fulfilling career. Together they are a group of like-minded musicians who enjoy chamber music but also work in a range of settings including teaching, coaching and performing. They gave a splendid performance at the Music Circle’s Vaughan Williams 150 concert in 2022 and now, to open our Spring series, are back with larger forces to play Mendelssohn’s ever popular Octet, a youthful masterpiece brimming with energy, lyricism, and ingenuity. Programmed with this wonderful work are string octet arrangements by Anna Cooper of Moskowski’s Bolero, Après Un Rêve by Fauré, Duke Ellington’s Prelude to a Kiss and the Sextet in E flat by Frank Bridge, a richly textured piece full of lush harmonies and poignant expression.  A real feast of chamber music not to be missed!

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Saturday 15th March

Causeway Barn  7.00pm

 

BAROQUE ALCHEMY

Piers Adams  -  recorders   Lyndy Mayle  -  keyboards

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An evening with a difference and one to bring baroque into the 21st century involving electronic keyboards!  International recorder player and Red Priest frontman Piers Adams, ‘the leading recorder virtuoso in the world today’  (Washington Post), joins forces with multi-talented keyboardist Lyndy Mayle in ‘Baroque Alchemy’ an extraordinary electro-baroque fusion duo. This programme has been impressing music societies throughout the country. Piers has performed for the Music Circle before with his group Red Priest. His mission, with Lyndy, is to to ‘alchemise’ baroque (and other classical) music and bring it into the 21st century, but in a way which is appealing to traditional classical audiences as well as younger, more eclectic ones. The beauty of the synth is that it can produce a wondrous range of sounds and as such it is the perfect accompaniment to the purity and natural expression of the recorder.  Piers and Lyndy re-imagine music from mediaeval and baroque masters to modern day tango and jazz.  The wizardry of the keyboard and expressive power of Piers' recorders promises a perfect blend of ancient and modern in a dazzling and moving performance.

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Saturday 10th May

St Mary’s Church, Causeway  7.00pm

 

ONYX BRASS

Niall Keatley & Alan Thomas - trumpets

  Andrew Sutton - horn

Amos Miller - trombone   David Gordon-Shute - tuba

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A resounding finish to the season is expected when acclaimed quintet Onyx Brass plays for our 83rd Anniversary concert. It celebrated its 30th anniversary last year and continues to be the leading light in establishing the brass quintet as a medium for serious chamber music, combining ‘staggering virtuosity’ (Sarah Walker, BBC Radio 3) with the entertaining and articulate style that has become the group’s trademark. Onyx has toured extensively: there are very few corners of the UK that remain unvisited! The group has also performed regularly at festivals and concert halls in the USA, Ireland, France, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Nigeria, Bermuda and Borneo to unanimous critical acclaim, acclaim that has been similarly forthcoming for its recordings.  Gramophone hail ‘some of the most thrilling chamber brass-playing of its kind’ and Record Review (R3) describing the group as a ‘wonderful, virtuosic brass quintet’. The programme ranges from Monteverdi’s Vespers, Rameau and Bach to Shostakovich, Arnold and Bernstein’s West Side Story Suite.

 

 

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Free Lunchtime Organ Recitals

given by Gerald Taylor FRCO

Unitarian Church, Worthing Road 1pm 

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TUESDAYS

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8th APRIL  &  20th MAY

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programmes to be announced shortly

 

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