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Chamber Music at Brighton Dome’s Sunday Concerts

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From Beethoven to Scottish Folk Music, Brighton Dome’s Coffee Concerts feature a diverse programme played by talent from across the country at Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts.

The monthly events bring ensembles of award-winning musicians to University of Sussex’s Falmer arts hub with relaxed Sunday morning concerts. The programme, in association with Strings Attached, includes artists new to the series as well as familiar faces, such as Brighton Dome Associate Artists the Heath Quartet.

Through the CAVATINA Chamber Music Trust, there are a limited number of advance free tickets to young people aged 8-25. Brighton Dome is delighted to work with the scheme with the aim to develop the next generation of music lovers. Savings can also be made by buying full or half season tickets, offering the opportunity to enjoy the whole series at the best value.

Mithras Trio came together in 2017 while studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. In the last two years they have won the 67th Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition and the Cavatina Intercollegiate Chamber Music Competition 2019. The piano trio open the series this Autumn on 20 Oct with Mozart, Fauré, Helen Grime and Beethoven.

In 2013 the Heath Quartet became the first ensemble in 15 years to win the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society’s Young Artists Award and since then have been earning a reputation as one of the most exciting British chamber groups performing today. The group made its Brighton Festival debut in 2010 and have graced the stage of Brighton Dome on numerous occasions.

The Endymion Horn Trio celebrate the group’s 40th anniversary this year. The ensemble was formed in 1979 and have retained most of its original players including some of the best chamber musicians in Europe such as Mark van de Wiel, Melinda Maxwell and founder of the Chineke! Foundation, Chi-chi Nwanoku MBE.

On 23 Feb, Wigmore Hall regulars the Castalian Quartet take to the stage performing Schumann, Janá?ek and Brahms, with their ‘abundant mega talent in works great and small’ (The Arts Desk, 2018). The string quartet look forward to its return to Wigmore Hall for a Brahms and Schumann cycle this season and in 2020 it will give its Carnegie Hall debut.

The Maxwell String Quartet bring a strong connection to their Scottish folk music heritage on 8 Dec. As well as performing live concerts, the award-winning quartet is often featured in BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Scotland broadcasts and can be found regularly giving workshops and playing for schools and children.

The Coffee Concert series ends with a final performance on 22 Mar in a concert with previous BBC New Generation Artists, Aronowitz Ensemble, playing Schubert, Beethoven and Elgar. In 2008, the ensemble made its BBC Proms debut and has since returned for further performances at the Proms.

 

All Coffee Concerts, 11am
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts
University of Sussex
Gardner Centre Road, Brighton, East Sussex
BN1 9RA

£18.50 (£16 concessions) Full season tickets 6 concerts: £99 (£84 concessions) Half-season tickets 3 concerts (Oct–Dec or Jan–Mar): £49.50 (£42 concessions) Ages 8 – 25 FREE

 

Sun 20 Oct 2019

Mithras Trio
Mozart Piano Trio in C major K 548
Fauré Piano Trio in D minor Op 120
Helen Grime Three Whistler Miniatures
Beethoven Piano Trio in D major Op 70 No 1 ‘The Ghost’

 

Sun 17 Nov 2019

Endymion Horn Trio
Brahms Horn Trio in E flat major Op 40
Beethoven Violin Sonata No 5 in F major Op 24
Beethoven Horn Sonata in F major Op 17

 

Sun 8 Dec 2019

Maxwell Quartet
Haydn String Quartet Op 74 No 1
Roukens Visions at Sea
Scottish Folk Music
Schubert String Quartet in D minor ‘Death & the Maiden’

 

Sun 26 Jan 2020

Heath Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet Op 18 No 3
Brahms String Quartet Op 51 No 2
Beethoven String Quartet Op 59 ‘Razumovsky’ No 3

 

Sun 23 Feb 2020

Castalian Quartet
Schumann String Quartet in F major Op 41 No 2
Janacek String Quartet No 1 in E minor ‘Kreutzer Sonata’
Brahms String Quartet No 3 in B flat major Op 67

 

Sun 22 Mar 2020

Aronowitz Ensemble
Tom Poster, piano
Magnus Johnston and Marije Johnston, violins
Tom Hankey, viola
Pierre Doumenge, cello
Schubert String Trio in B flat major D 471
Beethoven Piano Trio in C minor Op 1 No 3
Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op 84

 

THE TELLING – LIVE AT THE OPUS THEATRE

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Blurring the boundaries of what a concert is, distinctive medieval group The Telling brings you intimate “concert-theatre” pieces to transport you back to the Middle Ages through ballads, music, poetry and story-telling.

The Telling has a growing reputation for intimate, staged concerts to bring medieval music off the page and reach wider audiences. We create a different concert experience, combining ballads and upbeat instrumental dances with narrative, readings or film. We often perform some numbers while moving around the audience and using lighting and/or candlelight.

A new show charts the secret life and love of the instinctively creative Countess Beatriz of Dia, as she channels dark personal experiences into impassioned song.

Clare Norburn & Ariane Prüssner voices / Joy Smith harp, percussion / Giles Lewin medieval fiddle / With Anna Demetriou as Beatriz / Nicholas Renton director /Natalie Rowland Lighting Designer

Friday 30 August –  19.30
Opus Theatre – 24 Cambridge Road – Hastings TN34 1D (Opposite ESK)
Tickets: £15, students £10, available below and at the door.

MICHAEL PENNINGTON IS SHAKESPEARE ‘SWEET WILLIAM’

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Michael Pennington, co-founder of the English Shakespeare Company, gives an astounding one-man performance, bringing the Bard of Stratford to life.

Michael Pennington is an Honorary Associate Artist of the RSC and co-founded the English Shakespeare Company with Michael Bogdanov. As well as many of the great classical parts (most recently King Lear in New York and the UK), he has appeared in leading roles in the plays of Ibsen, Chekhov and Pinter, John Osborne, Eduardo de Filippo, Howard Brenton, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, Alan Bennett, Joe Orton and David Mamet among others. Theatre includes: title roles in Hamlet, Timon of Athens and Hippolytus,  Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Angelo in Measure for Measure (RSC); Coriolanus, Macbeth, Richard II, Henry V and Leontes in The Winter’s Tale (ESC);Collaboration, Taking Sides, Archie Rice in The Entertainer, Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment (West End); Fabio in The Syndicate, Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, Solness in The Master Builder; Strider, Venice Preserv’d; and his solo shows Anton Chekhov and Sweet William (on Shakespeare).  In 2017 Michael Pennington was Dogsborough in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht at the Donmar Warehouse, and most recently played Isaak Jacobi in Fanny & Alexander at The Old Vic. Films include: Churchill at War, The Iron Lady. Television includes: Oedipus in Oedipus the King, Holmes in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Endeavour.

Saturday 31 August –  19.30 to 22.30
Opus Theatre – 24 Cambridge Road – Hastings TN34 1DJ (opposite ESK)
Tickets: £15, students £10, available below and at the door.

MICHAEL PENNINGTON IS SHAKESPEARE ‘SWEET WILLIAM’

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Michael Pennington, co-founder of the English Shakespeare Company, gives an astounding one-man performance, bringing the Bard of Stratford to life.

Michael Pennington is an Honorary Associate Artist of the RSC and co-founded the English Shakespeare Company with Michael Bogdanov. As well as many of the great classical parts (most recently King Lear in New York and the UK), he has appeared in leading roles in the plays of Ibsen, Chekhov and Pinter, John Osborne, Eduardo de Filippo, Howard Brenton, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer, Alan Bennett, Joe Orton and David Mamet among others. Theatre includes: title roles in Hamlet, Timon of Athens and Hippolytus,  Berowne in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Angelo in Measure for Measure (RSC); Coriolanus, Macbeth, Richard II, Henry V and Leontes in The Winter’s Tale (ESC);Collaboration, Taking Sides, Archie Rice in The Entertainer, Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment (West End); Fabio in The Syndicate, Antony in Antony and Cleopatra, Solness in The Master Builder; Strider, Venice Preserv’d; and his solo shows Anton Chekhov and Sweet William (on Shakespeare).  In 2017 Michael Pennington was Dogsborough in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui by Bertolt Brecht at the Donmar Warehouse, and most recently played Isaak Jacobi in Fanny & Alexander at The Old Vic. Films include: Churchill at War, The Iron Lady. Television includes: Oedipus in Oedipus the King, Holmes in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, Endeavour.

Saturday 31 August –  19.30 to 22.30
Opus Theatre – 24 Cambridge Road – Hastings TN34 1DJ (opposite ESK)
Tickets: £15, students £10, available below and at the door.

Kerry Hudson at Opus Theatre

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Hastings Litfest and the Catherine Cookson Trust are proud to announce the launch of the annual Catherine Cookson Lecture, which will celebrate the voices of working-class women writers.

The Inaugural Catherine Cookson lecture will be given by Kerry Hudson and introduced by Dr Irralie Doel.

Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before he Stole my Ma was published in 2012 by Chatto & Windus (Penguin Random House) and was the winner of the Scottish First Book Award while also being shortlisted for the Southbank Sky Arts Literature Award, Guardian First Book Award, Green Carnation Prize, Author’s Club First Novel Prize and the Polari First Book Award.

In 2018 Hudson published a work of non-fiction , Lowborn, recently serialised on Radio four. It has been described as a powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today’s Britain and ‘One of the most important books of the year’ (Guardian).

Dr Irralie Doel is the Pathway Leader for English Literature at the University of Brighton Hastings Campus, and Course Leader for single honours English at the University of Brighton Falmer Campus. Irralie also researches 20th century and contemporary literature and creative writing especially women’s writing, literature and politics.

Opus Theatre – 24 Cambridge Road (Opposite ESK)
Tickets: £7.50. Concessions, Students and Low Income FREE, but please book by clicking the link below.

A Lark on Orkney

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We don’t often publicise books from our own Larkpress but we had such a wonderful time on Orkney last month that we would be happy to share our enthusiasm.

If you would like a copy – free of charge – please contact us on

bhick1066@gmail.com