Monday 25 February 2013

A thrilling week of music ahead in Exeter/Devon Tuesday 26 February-Tuesday 5 March

Richard Alston
The Return of
Richard Alston Dance Company
Exeter Northcott Theatre
Tue/Wed 26/27 February 7.30pm
NEW BALLET TO CLASSIC THEMES
"Madcap" (Bang on a Can All-Stars - NY)
"Buzzing Round the Hunnisuccle" (Jo Kondo)
- 'Isthmus' = rapid light rhythms
- 'Hunnisuccle' = calm hushed chords
"The Devil in the Detail" (Scott Joplin)
- 'Maple Leaf Rag' &' The Entertainer'
Tickets: £10.50-£18.50 (student £8)
Northcott Box Office 01392 493493
Northcott website  Richard Alston website




piano: Michèle Banting
baritone: Iain McDonald
Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 27 February 12.30am
PIANO & BARITONE
piano: Michèle Banting
baritone: Iain McDonald
Admission FREE









Griselda Sanderson
Nyckelharpa
Villages in Action
The Red Lion Shobrooke
Wednesday 27 February 7.30pm
AN EVENING OF BLUES
Violin: Amadou Diagne
Nyckelharpa: Griselda Sanderson
Tickets: £6
details Leslie Hampson 01363 775468
Amadou & Griselda's Facebook page








Marion Wood conducts
Exeter Music Group
Symphony Orchestra
EMG Symphony Orchestra
St Peter's School, Exeter
Thursday 28 February 7.30pm
for the SPRING CONCERT
Celebrating Russian Music
(Exeter Cathedral - Thursday 25 April 7.30pm)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Sergei Rachmaninov: Die Toteninsel
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: 5th Symphony
All are welcome - especially school groups!
Orchestra website







James MacMillan

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Exeter University Great Hall
Thursday 28 February 7.30pm
EASTER FESTIVAL
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto 4
Richard Wagner: Parsifal Good Friday Music
James MacMillan: The World's Ransoming
conductor: James Macmillan
Piano soloist: Juho Pohjonen

Pre-Concert Talk 6.40-7.10pm
Juho Pohjonen
(Andrew Burn in the Peter Chalk Centre)

Tickets: £12-36
Exeter Phoenix Box Office: 01392 667080
book online

BSO website









Dartington Community Choir
Dartington Community Choir
Studio 6, Dartington Space
Saturday 2 March 9.30am-5.30pm
& Dartington Great Hall
Sunday 3 March 9.30am-5.30pm
BACH'S ST MATTHEW PASSION
- a weekend workshop -
conductor: Jonathan Watts
160 voice choir & full orchestra
Price: £45
Information and booking:
workshop@dartington-community-choir.co.uk





Alex Blanchard conducts
the University Clarinet Choir
(Christmas 2012)
Exeter University Clarinet Choir
Mary Harris Memorial Chapel
Exeter University Streatham Campus
Saturday 2 March 4pm
A joint Spring Concert with
The Peninsula Clarinet Choir
Conductor: Alex Blanchard
Tickets: £2






Marimba: Edward Scull


Isca Orchestra & Edward Scull
Sidmouth Parish Church
Saturday 2 March 7.30pm
Conductor: Roger Hendy
Ludwig van Beethoven: 'Egmont' Overture
Antonin Dvořák: Slavonic Dances
Eric Ewazen: Concerto for Marimba & Strings
(Special Guest: Edward Scull - marimba)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No 7
Tickets: £12/£10 (student £5)
advance booking: 01395 514516
Isca Website






St David's Church, Exeter
Exeter Chamber Choir
St David's Church Exeter
Saturday 2 March 7.30pm
PRAISE AND GLORY
Antonio Vivaldi: 'Gloria'
George F Handel: 'Dixit Dominus'
Johannes S Bach: Viola da Gamba
Sonata in G minor (Andrew Gillett)
String orchestra with oboe & trumpet
Conductor: Andrew Daldorph
Tickets: £12 (student £6 child FREE)
Keith Wainwright: 01404 813014
online booking form
Choir website






Exeter Contemporary Sounds
Emma Welton, Julie Hill,
Andrew Gillett, Jane Pirie

Nonclassical
Knightley Hall, Streatham Drive
Exeter University Campus
Sunday 3 March 1pm
EXETER CONTEMPORARY SOUNDS
(see 'Buried Treasure' June 2012)
Steve Reich: Diff'rent Trains
- AN OPEN WORKSHOP
Bring your own instruments and join:
Violins: Julie Hill & Emma Welton
Viola: Andrew Gillett
'Cello: Jane Pyrie
Tickets: £5 - for workshop and
evening performance (see below - 8pm)
details: Emma Welton 01392 257066
emma.welton@phonecoop.coop
Exeter Contemporary Sounds blog






Rachel Smith & Schola Exe
Schola Exe
Exeter Cathedral Quire
Sunday 3 March 2pm
mixed 40 minute recital with the
Cathedral Choir Choral Scholars
Admission: FREE
retiring collection

Schola Exe website



Orlando Jopling
'Cello Pilgimage
St Michael & All Angels Alphington
Sunday 3 March 6pm
'cello: Orlando Jopling
[Oralndo has now given over 75 recitals of Bach's Suites for solo 'cello around the country, thrilling his audiences and halping to raise £55,000 for restoration of their churches. He has been invited to play at St Michael's in aid of the Reordering Appeal, aas the facilities of this lovely mediaeval church badly need updating.
He is musical director fo the 140-year-old Royal Orchestral Society in London and has also conducted the English Chamber Orchestra both in the recording studio and on the concert platform, London Mozart PlayersIrish Chamber Orchestra and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has conducted over 25 opera productions and co-founded Stanley Hall Opera and contemporary opera specialist 'Tête à Tête'.]

J S Bach: D & G major 'Cello Suites
John Barber: 'Cello Songs
Doors open 5.45pm
Wine and refreshments provided
Tickets: £8 (2 tickets £15)
Juliet Meadowcroft 01392 490963
meadowcroft42@btinternet.com







Exeter Contemporary Sounds
Emma Welton, Julie Hill,
Andrew Gillett, Jane Pirie
Nonclassical
Exeter Bikeshed Theatre
Sunday 3 March 8pm
EXETER CONTEMPORARY SOUNDS
(see 'Buried Treasure' June 2012)
Steve Reich: Diff'rent Trains
Violins: Julie Hill & Emma Welton
Viola: Andrew Gillett
'Cello: Jane Pyrie
DJ sets by Michael Brailey
Tickets: £5
details: Emma Welton 01392 257066

emma.welton@phonecoop.coop
Exeter Contemporary Sounds blog








Coffee House Players
City Gate Cellar Bar
Tuesday-Saturday 5-9 March 7.30pm
'PRIME' (based on 'Delicatessen')
Tickets: £5 from 'Eventbrite'
Coffee House Players Facebook page

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