Concert Run-Down from the Start of April

Romano Viazzani and Bethany Jameson
in 'The Accordionist' at the Bikeshed Exeter

London calling:


Vérité Theatre Productions
New End Theatre, Hampstead
Tue-Sun 5-24 April
7pm (Tue-Sat) 3pm (Sat & Sun)
'The Accordionist'
Soprano Bethany Jameson
Accordionist Romano Viazzani
following a run at the Bikeshed Theatre Exeter
Tue-Sat 1-5 March
(Which was outstanding!)
Tickets: £14 Box: 0870 033 2733
www.offwestendtheatres.co.uk

Hear Romano on MySpace
Bethany's blog
Photographs by James Marshall

Update: All the songs and music from 'The Accordionist' are available on CD
              Send £10 +£2 p&p to:
              Bethany Jameson
              45 Jumpers road
              CHRISTCHURCH
              Dorset
              BH23 2JS
              New material will be going to MySpace or Bethany's website


     And here in Devon:


Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts
Glenorchy Church Exmouth
Wednesday 6 April 12.30pm
Soprano: Val Howels
Baritone: John Brindley
Admission Free


-     Soprano Val Howels
        with pianist Frances Waters
        on 24 November last year




Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Exeter Cathedral Thursday 7 April 7.30pm

Nationalist Stirrings

Sibelius: Karelia Suite

Schumann: Piano Concerto

Dvořák: Symphony No 6

Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes

Piano Soloist: John Lill

Tickets: £9.50-£29 Box: 665885

http://www.bsolive.com/concerts/listings/concertdetails.htm?concertid=160541

Counterpoint
Exeter Cathedral Saturday 9 April 7.30pm
J. S. Bach: The Saint John Passion BWV 245
Divertimento Ensemble
Leader Brenda Willoughby
Conductor: David Acres

Evangelist (Tenor): Christopher Watson

Christus (Bass): Stuart Young

Soprano: Mary Bevan
Counter Tenor: Jonathan Peter Kenny
Tenor: Greg Tassell
Tickets: £12-18
Phoenix box office: 667080
purchase.tickets.com
http://www.counterpoint.org.uk/concerts.html

Opera Gala Concert
The Music Room Aeolian Court Chudleigh
Saturday 9 April 7.30pm
Soprano: Suzanne Manuell                   SOLD OUT
Tenor: Anando Mukerjee
Piano: Johathan Watts
Tickets: £20 Box: 01626 859333
Proceeds to The Dartington Hall Trust

Dartington Community Choir
Great Hall Dartington
Sunday 10 April 7.30pm

Spring Concert

Haydn: De Deum in C, Nelson Mass

Tickets £14 (student £5) Box 01803 847070

http://www.dartington.org/arts/dart-comm-choir

http://www.dartington-community-choir.co.uk/

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Exeter Cathedral Monday 11 April 7.30pm

Exeter Festival Chorus

Conductor: Nigel Perrin

Handel's Messiah

Soprano: Sarah Tynan

Counter-Tenor: David Allsopp

Tenor: Thomas Hobbs

Bass: Janathan Lamalu

Tickets: 665885  http://www.bsolive.com/concerts/listings/concertdetails.htm?concertid=166111

Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts

Glenorchy Church Exmouth

Wednesday 13 April 12.30pm

The Courtenay Players

Judith Belam

Angela Chapman,

Janet Drake-Law

Cath Palmer-Wills

Admission Free

The Courtenay Players    -

Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra

Exeter Cathedral

Thursday 14 April 7.30pm

Elgar: Sea Pictures

Mezzo-Soprano Alison Kettlewell

-   Mezzo-Soprano Alison Kettlewell

Mahler: Symphony No 2 "Resurrection"

Soprano Catherine Hamilton,
Mezzo-Soprano Alison Kettlewell

with the Exeter Music Group Singers

Conductor: Marion Wood, Leader Clare Smith (q.v.)

Tickets: £8-15 Phoenix: 667080

http://www.emgsymphonyorchestra.org/tickets.html

Soprano Catherine Hamilton      -

Take a look at these remarkable photographs taken by local photographer Nigel Cheffers-Heard at the Marion Wood's rehearsal of Mahlers 'Resurrection' Symphony with the Exeter Music Group Symphony Orchestra last Thursday - ! ! !

Solo soprano Catherine Hamilton and conductor Marion Wood

Leader Clare Smith

Woodwind and . . .

Brass! (Tony Hindley 2nd from left)

I once had a whim, and I had to obey it ...

The extraordinary voice of Catherine Hamilton

A very important member
of the orchestra

Edward Scull: Marimba

The Helen Foundation
5th Anniversary Concert

St Peter's Church Shaldon
Friday 15 April 7.30pm

Romance of the Marimba

Marimba: Edward Scull

Exeter Chamber Choir: Andrew Daldorph

Monteverdi, Lauridsen, Gorecki, Daldorph

Tickets: £10 Box: 01626 872308

contact@thehelenfoundation.org.uk

http://www.exeterchamberchoir.co.uk/Forthcoming_Concerts.htm

http://www.shaldon-devon.co.uk/Leisure_&_Events.html

Newton Abbot and District Society of Arts (nadsa)

Courtenay Centre Newton Abbot Friday 15 April 7.30pm

Heath Quartet

Mozart: Quartet No 9

Britten: String Quartet No 1                                                       CANCELLED

Dvořák: String Quartet in E flat

Tickets: £14 (students £2)

Opus Classical (Exeter Guildhall) 214044

Newton Abbot and District Society of Arts (nadsa)

Courtenay Centre Newton Abbot Friday 15 April 7.30pm

Fitzwilliam String Quartet

Violins: Lucy Russel, Jonathan Sparey

Viola: Alan George  'Cello: Heather Tuach

Barber: String Quartet Op 11

Shostakovitch: String Quartet No 11

Mozart: String Quartet No 17 (The Hunt)

Delius: Late Swallows

Works by Grainger and Dvořák

Tickets: £14 (students £2)

Opus Classical (Exeter Guildhall) 214044

Ottery St Mary Choral Society
Ottery St Mary Parish Church
Saturday 16 April 7.30pm
Mozart: Mass in C minor
J. S. Bach: Magnificat
Mezzo Soprano: Carolyn Harries

The Torbay Singers

St Matthias Church Torquay

Saturday 16 April 7.30pm

Torbay Singers Chamber Orchestra

Conductor: Tina Guthrie

Divertimento

Leader: Brenda Willoughby

Soprano: Héloïse West

Mezzo Soprano: Louise Mott

Tenor: Rupert Charlesworth

Baritone Alex Poulton

Handel: Coronation Anthems

Mozart: Coronation Mass

Tickets: £10 (U16 free)

Box: 01803 867872

St Peter's Singers

Exeter Cathedral Palm Sunday 17 April 5pm

Service of Music for Palm Sunday

Solo Soprano: Mary O'Shea

(An Anglican service, not a concert)

-   Soprano Mary O'Shea



Music on the Edge (q.v.)

The Art Room Topsham
Sunday 17 April 6pm

Chris Caldwell
Clarinets/Saxaphones

Susie Hodder-Williams
Flutes/Marimba

Rich Bolton
Guitar/'Cello

(Artwork: Benedict Rubbra
12 March -24 April)

Tickets: £10 including wine (U21 free)

Box: 0795 292 3318
(booking recommended)

BRING YOUR OWN
FOLDING CHAIR!

http://www.theartroomtopsham.co.uk/

www.musicontheedge.com

Heard about this one?
??? Handel's Messiah at St Margaret's Topsham Sunday 17 April. No details. Contact Tony Yeates.



Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts

Glenorchy Church Exmouth

Wednesday 20 April 12.30pm

Josephine Pickering 

Frances Waters

Piano Duets

Admission Free

Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts
Glenorchy Church Exmouth

Wednesday 27 April 12.30pm

Alex West

Piano and Organ

Admission Free

St Boniface Concert Society

Crediton Parish Church Thursday 28 April 7.30pm

Alexander Sitkovetsky: Violin

Qian Wu: Piano

Brahms: Sonatas 2 & 3

Grieg: Sonata No 3

Prokofiev: Sonata No 1

Season Ticket (5 concerts) £50

Tickets: £12 (child £6)

Box: Opus Classical (Exeter Guildhall) 214044

http://www.bonifaceconcerts.co.uk/april.html

Ballet Black

Northcott Theatre Exeter

Friday and Saturday 29/30 April 7.30pm

Henri Oguike: 'Da Gamba'

Antonia Franceschi: 'Shift, Trip ... Catch'

Will Tuckett: 'Orpheus'

Tickets: £10-18 (Concessions 1/2 price)

http://www.exeternorthcott.co.uk/ballet_black  493493

http://www.balletblack.co.uk/history.html

-      Chantelle Gotobed

         and Jazmon Voss

         performing Da Gamba

         by Henri Oguike

Clyst Valley Choral Society
& St David's Singers
St Margaret's Church Topsham:
Saturday 30 April 7.30pm
Holy Trinity Chruch Exmouth:
Sunday 1 May 3pm
Mendelssohn: Elijah
Conductor: Paul Stock
Soprano: Janet MacDonald
Mezzo Soprano: Carolyn Harries
Tenor: Christopher Hunt
Bass: Julian Rippon
Organist: Mark Perry
Tickets: £8 (advance £7)
from Joel Segal Books 877895
http://www.clystvalleychoral.org.uk/

Glenorchy Lunchtime Concerts

Glenorchy Church Exmouth

Wednesday 4 May12.30pm

Piano: Joyce Clarke

Baldassare Galuppi: Sonata in B flat
(early 18th Century Venetian composer,
born on the island of Burano)
Brahms: Intermezzo in A op118 no 2
Chopin: Impromptu No. 1 Op. 29
Chopin: Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66
Harold Noble: Chanson d'Amour
Mendelssohn:Venetian Gondola Song
                      in F sharp minor Op. 30 No. 6
Mendelssohn: Rondo Capriccioso in E Op. 14
Admission Free

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra 

Exeter Cathedral Thursday 5 May 7.30pm

A Festival of the Ukraine
Mussorgsky: St John's Night on Bare Mountain
                     Pictures at an Exhibition
Lizst: Mazeppa
Reinhold Glière: Concerto for Coloratura Soprano & Orchestra

Conductor: Kirill Karabits            Soprano: Ailish Tynan     -

http://www.bsolive.com/concerts/listings/concertdetails.htm?concertid=160875

'1769 Organ Restoration Fund'
James Wyatt Music Room, Powderham Castle
Friday 6 May 7.30pm
Music for Flute, Strings and Organ
Flute: Judith Hall  Organ: George Pratt
Divertimento:
Violin: Mary Eade  Viola: Andrew Gillett
'Cello: Vicky Evans
Mozart: 2 Quartets for Flute & Strings
Reger: Serenade for Flute & Strings
Panufnik: 'Homage to Chopin'
Dvořák: Five Bagatelles for Harmonium & Strings
(on the Bryce Seede organ, naturally)
Tickets: £14  Box: 01626 890243

East Devon Choral Society

Conductor of  'Gerontius'
and Director of Exeter Chamber Choir
Andrew Daldorph

Exeter Chamber Choir
St Paul's Church Tiverton
Saturday 7 May 7.30pm
Sir Edward Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius

Full symphony orchestra
conducted by Andrew Daldorph

Mezzo-Soprano: Frances Bourne
Tenor: Iain Milne
Bass: James Arthur
Tickets: Main Aisle £15, other £10 (U16 £6)
EDCS Box Office: 01884 840054
Tiverton Information Centre 01884 255827
Details: 01884 253494
http://www.exeterchamberchoir.co.uk/Forthcoming_Concerts.htm

EXMOUTH Choral Society and Orchestra
Holy Trinity Church Exmouth Saturday 7 May 7.30pm
Haydn Creation
Conductor: Laurence Blyth
http://www.exmouthchoralsociety.org.uk/concerts.html



EXETER Choral Society and Orchestra
St James's Church Exeter Wednesday 11 May 7.30 pm
C. P. E. Bach: Magnificat
Haydn: Missa Sancti Nicolai
Soprano: Harriet Jones
Counter-Tenor: Jake Arditti
Tenor: David Webb
Bass: Matthew Cann
Conductor: Laurence Blyth
Tickets: £9 (U16 free)  Box: 832474
http://www.exeterchoral.co.uk/

Chris Gradwell and Friends
in the basement of Kennaway House Sidmouth
Mike Thorne, Andrew Daldorph, Chris, Andrew Barret

Chris Gradwell & Friends
Kennaway House Sidmouth
Saturday 14 May 7.30pm
Music Poetry Actors
Saxophone & Clarinet: Chris Gradwell
Keyboard: Andrew Daldorph
Guitar: Andrew Barret
Double Bass: Mike Thorne
Character Actors: Wally Cotgrave
                            Rowland Moloney
Authors: Barbara Farquaharson
              Kairen Hooker
              John Torrance
Tickets: £7  Box: 07583 796855
                            






South West Music School
Ship Studio Dartington Sunday 22 May 3pm
Young Artist Showcase: Classical Music
Haydn: Divertimento in D
Freya Hicks: Beethoven Romance No 2
Rossini String Sonata NO 2
Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintet No 1
Tickets £3 (free for students)
http://www.dartington.org/arts/young-artist-showcase-classical-music







Exeter Philharmonic Choir

Rebecca Smith Singing Elgar and Britten

Coffee and Music at Broadclyst Parish Church

Last Saturday (26 March)

Exeter Cathedral Thursday 26 May 7.30pm
Bach & Beethoven
Organist: Andrew Millington
Mezzo Soprano: Rebecca Smith
Beethoven: Mass in C
J. S. Bach: Magnificat in D
Tickets: £9,11,14,17,20 (student subtract £2)
Supper Club £40
http://www.exephil.org.uk/book-tickets

Orchestra of the Age or Enlightenment
Dartington Great Hall Sunday 29 May 3pm
Musical Director: Alison Bury
Soprano: Elin Manahan Thomas
George Frederic Handel:
Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 1
Guilio Desare: 'Da Tempesta'
Rinaldo: 'Lascia ch'io Pianga'
Alcina: 'Tonami a Vagheggiar'
Concerto Grosso Op 3 No 2
Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 7
Cantata for Soprano and Orchestra:
'Silete Venti'
Tickets: £18 (student £5) Box: 01803 847070
http://www.dartington.org/arts/oae  http://www.totnesearlymusic.org.uk/programme.html








The Piazzolla Duo
Lympstone Parish Church
Saturday 4 June
Flute: Ruth Avis
Guitar: Clive Betts
Tickets available from Sun 1 May
Lympstone PO: 01395 263928
http://www.lympstoneentertainments.co.uk/events/2011/piazzolla-duo.php


The Piazzolla Duo     -

Coffee and Music - Evening Concert
Broadclyst Parish Church
Saturday 11 June 7.30pm
Flute: Denise Deter
(distinguished flautist & teacher
Woodlawn Arts Academy,
Sterling Illinois)
Piano: John Scarfe
Admission Free
-   Flautist Denise Deter

Shaldon Festival

St Peter's Church Shaldon

Thu-Sun 16-19 June

Thu 16: English Touring Opera

Fri 17: South West Music School (q.v.)

Sat 18: Choral Workshop with Sir Neville Mariner

Piano: Peter Adcock, Organ: Jonathan Watts,

Soprano: Héloïse West, Alto Rebecca Smith (see above),

Tenor: Gitai Fisher, Bass: Julian Rippon (q.v. & q.v.)

Sun 19: Innovation Chamber Ensemble

(Strings of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra)

Shostakovich, Brahms, Mendelssohn

http://www.shaldonfestival.co.uk/

Exeter Recorder Orchestra  St James's Church Exeter Saturday 18 June 7.30pm

Denis Bloodworth: Arr. of renaissance dances                G F Handel: Concerto Grosso Op 6 No 1

William Mundy: O Mater Mundi                                    William Byrd: Ye Sacred Muses

Steve Marshall: Symphony No 4                                   http://www.pinwood.net/ero/futureconcerts.htm

(Concert repeated at United Reformed Church Dawlish Sat 16 July 7pm)