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EXPERIENCE A GREAT FLAUTIST IN THE MAKING!

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Opus Theatre are delighted to welcome Hastings’ own outstanding flAutist, Daisy Noton, to her first appearance at the theatre as a solo artist on 10thNovember.

She will be accompanied by the well-known pianist Anne Marshall, who teaches at the Royal Academy of Music. They will be playing a varied programme of works for the flute and piano, from the 18th century to the present day.

Daisy is just 15 but has already had extensive orchestral experience. She was a member of the National Children’s Orchestra for six years, travelling all around the country to play in prestigious concert halls. She has played under the baton of Ed Gardner with the Barbican Young Orchestra, and. is currently a member of the National Youth Orchestra, with whom she played at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall earlier this year under Sir George Benjamin. Other concerts with the NYO this year included “Unleashed” at the Royal Festival Hall, and performing Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” at the Barbican with Sir Mark Elder conducting.
Her forthcoming concert at Opus promises to showcase her outstanding technique, musicality and feeling for the beauties of the classical flute repertoire.
Saturday 10th November 7.30pm at Opus Theatre, 24 Cambridge Road Hastings TN34 1DJ.
Tickets only £10 from www.opustheatre.co.uk, Hastings Information Centre, or on the door.

Brighton Philharmonic 2018-19 Season

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The Brighton Phil at Brighton Dome

The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra is pleased to present their exciting new season of Sunday afternoon concerts at Brighton Dome, when they will be joined by an array of talented musicians including Freddy Kempf & Steven Osborne (piano), Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), Thomas Carroll (cello) and Ben Gernon (conductor), to name but a few.

To open the season on Sunday 14 October, Conductor Laureate Barry Wordsworth and Brighton Festival Chorus present a feast of glorious music by Elgar, Parry, Handel & Shostakovich. Brighton Festival Chorus celebrate their 50th anniversary this year and they recently recorded a number of Elgar’s works for choir and orchestra with and Barry Wordsworth, including some of those to be performed at this concert.

The concert opens in celebratory style with Shostakovich’s lively Festive Overture and Handel’s choral masterpiece Zadok the Priest.

Parry’s From Death to Life – a symphonic poem for orchestra in two connected movements – was a 1914 Brighton Festival commission and portrays the composer’s personal reaction to World War One and the spiritual triumph of life over death.

Elgar’s concert overture Cockaigne is a musical evocation of the streets of London in Edwardian times, whilst Great is the Lord is a beautiful setting of Psalm 48 and O Hearken Thou was written in 1911 for the Coronation of King George V. Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands was inspired by a family holiday and Elgar’s wife Alice adapted local songs for the choral text, giving them sub-titles in recollection of favourite places visited during the holiday.

Full details of all eight concerts, including the extremely popular New Year’s Eve Viennese Gala, can be found at: www.brightonphil.org.uk

Tickets (£12.50-£39.50 – 50% student/U18 discount) are available from Brighton Dome Ticket Office (01273) 709709 www.brightondome.org

International Composer Festival 2018

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PASSION

Grand Opening Concert

The International Composers Festival opens with the very best in beautiful, melodic music, carefully chosen from hundreds of entries, performed in the presence of  most of the composers, who are travelling from all corners of the globe to attend

With the International Composers Festival Orchestra and guest soloists:

Sergio Puccini (guitar) Sarah Thurlow (clarinet) Jane Gordon (violin) Katerina Mina (soprano) Andrew Gill (trumpet)

7 pm Friday 21st September
Opus Theatre, Hastings
Tickets £15 in advance £18 at the door
Free for under 18’s
Includes welcome drink

 

Small Is Beautiful

Music that Moves The Spirit

Chamber concert

Solo instrumentalists and small ensembles with several world premieres

10.30 Saturday 22nd September
De La Warr Pavilion
£12 in advance £15 at the door
Free for under 18’s –  Students  18 -25 £10

 

BRIGHTON FILM QUARTET -SOUNDSCAPE

One Beautiful Cinematic Journey 

A mesmerising blend of cinematic music and ambient soundtrack by Brighton composer Penny Loosemore,  performed by her string, piano and clarinet quartet, set to big screen visuals by 15 international filmmakers.

1.30 Saturday 22nd September
De La Warr Pavilion
£10 in advance £12 at the door
Free for under 18s  – Students 18 -25 £5

 

Camera, Sound Play

Thrilling Music from Films, television and computer games with International Festival Orchestra and guest soloists including Oliver Poole (piano) Justin Pearson (cello) Sunny Li (piano)

Includes music from  La La Land and  Harry Potter plus computer game Oure

Enjoy the power of live music with a big orchestra.

 

7pm Saturday 22nd September
De La Warr Pavilion
£15 in advance £18 at the door
Free for under 18’s

 

Total piano

 East meets West

Informal conversation and performance

with International piano stars

Oliver Poole and Sunny Li together with

Festival’s Artistic Director Polo Piatti discussing the

art of improvisation and composing

Music, Q and A and performances by Sunni Li and Oliver Poole

10.30 Sunday 23rd
De La Warr Pavilion
Tickets:  £12 in advance £15 at the door
including coffee and cake
Free for under 18’s Students 18-25 £10

 

Dancing Around The World

A concert for the whole family with Dance and live music

Including premiere of The Crane’s Wife, a specially commissioned ballet composed by Nobuya Monta based on a Japanese fairy story choreographed by Masu Uesugi and performed by her ballet company coming especially from Japan.

Plus six specially commissioned  symphonic dances from around the globe with the International Composers Festival orchestra , choreographed and performed by local dance schools

4pm Sunday 23rd September
De La Warr Pavilion
£12 in advance £15 at the door
Free under 18’s Students 18-25 £10

 

Tickets available from
Opus Theatre concert Friday 21st September
Hastings Tourist Information Centre
www.composersfestival.com

 

All other concerts at the De La Warr Pavilion
De La Warr Ticket office and online www.dlwp.com
www.composersfestival.com

 

Festival  VIP passes to all 6 concerts at both venues £60
(a minimum saving of £15)
Hastings Tourist Information CentreDe La Warr Ticket Office
www.dlwp.com  www.composersfestival.com

 

Please Note: Under 16’s must be accompanied by a paying adult

Hastings Philharmonic’s New Season

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2018/2019 Season

We are thrilled to announce our new season with so many exciting concerts and events. Thank you for supporting us last season and we hope to have fulfilled your expectations. If you were a Hastings Philharmonic Friend/Advertiser we will soon be sending you an invitation to our Friends event which will happen in September. If you weren’t a friend last season become a Bronze Friend for £250 and have access to all concerts. No need to book, after you become a member all you need to do is show up. Please note that our first concert this season, in collaboration with Rye Festival, is not part of our Hastings Season therefore you would need to buy tickets separately.

To become a member please write to info@hastingsphilharmonic.com and we will guide you through.
The three highlights of the season are Handel’s Messiah in November, Carmina Burana in April and the final of the Atatürk Composition Competition which was organized by the Hastings Philharmonic in a concert that will include Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture and Stravisky’s Firebird 1919 Suite.

Our Hastings Season Opening Concert will happen on Friday 12th October with the 2018 winner of the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition Roman Kosyakov playing Brahms monumental second piano concerto. We hope to see you there.

Explore our 2018/2019 season HERE and start booking your tickets

 

International Composers’ Festival 2018

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PASSION

The International Composers Festival Grand Opening Concert With Exciting Music You’ve Never Heard.

The 4th International Composers Festival, opens with music carefully chosen for its quality, passion and variety, performed by international musicians in the presence of famous and up-and-coming composers coming from all corners of the world, including Mexico, Qatar, USA, Japan, Finland, Italy, Spain, Australia and Argentina.

Experience orchestral music at its most passionate and get that rare autograph from the artists! 

OPUS THEATRE

FRIDAY 21st SEPTEMBER 2018 – 7pm

 
www.composersfestival.com

Tickets £15 (VIP Passes for Six Concerts £60) from Hastings Information Centre (Breeds Place, Hastings TN34 3UY) or online at: www.opustheatre.co.uk

 

St Nicolas Church, Pevensey

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Free lunchtime Spanish Guitar recital by Richard Bowen at St Nicolas, Pevensey

Eastbourne-based classical guitarist Richard Bowen will be giving a recital at St Nicolas, Pevensey at 1pm on Thursday 26 July. He will play a selection of pieces by renowned Spanish composers Albeniz, Tarrega, Cardoso and Sor, as well as transcriptions of tunes originally composed by JS Bach for the lute and cello. There is no admission charge, but a retiring collection will be taken to contribute to the cost of maintaining the newly restored church building. Tea, coffee, wine and soft drinks will be available before the concert.

Churchwarden Simon Sargent commented “We are very pleased to welcome Richard Bowen to St Nicolas for our first guitar concert in recent years; the instrument should be well-suited to our excellent acoustics. We are also very grateful to Richard for generously offering to perform for the benefit of the church. Now that the building has been so beautifully restored, regular fundraising is essential to maintain it in good condition.”

Richard Bowen gained an ATCL Performance Diploma at Trinity College of Music in London in 2010. He studied Classical Guitar with the internationally recognised Segovia prize-winner, Paul Gregory, and won two categories in the Brighton Competitive Music Festival on Classical Guitar in the late 1980s.

Prior to undertaking classical studies, Richard spent three years at the Leeds College of Music, studying Jazz Guitar. He has worked all over the world in this capacity, and has backed many famous faces. For two years, he was the guitarist with the Frankie Vaughan Orchestra. He has done sessions on guitar for BBC television, and for individual singers, and performed in West End shows.  He is also active on the local jazz scene.

Richard’s classical work has been mostly for local music societies and churches such as The Chapel Royal, Brighton, St Nicholas, Brighton, St Leonard’s Seaford, and St Mary’s Eastbourne, where he was a festival artist in 2016.

He also performs at hotels for various functions where classical guitar is required, such as the Randolph in Oxford, and the Grand Hotels in Eastbourne and Brighton.

Lapwing Music Festival – August 31st to September 2nd, 2018

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The Lapwing Music Festival is a unique event celebrating its third year in 2018.
Four outstanding artists will perform in the magical setting of the Coastguard Cottages, Cuckmere Haven. This year we are expanding to a beautiful marquee with views of the cottages, the Cuckmere Valley and the cliffs of the Seven Sisters. Only 60 tickets are available for each of these incredibly intimate recitals. Profits will be donated to the Cuckmere Haven SOS campaign, which seeks to save the cottages from coastal erosion.
Lapwing has an established tradition of hosting renowned solo artists to present deeply personal recitals. Our line-up of performers this year is truly exceptional. Maya Youssef is a Syrian virtuoso instrumentalist, hailed as “the queen of the qanun”. Manu Delago is a unique and innovative performer specialising in the Swiss hang drum who appears regularly alongside Björk and Anoushka Shankar. Lea Desandre is an exquisite mezzo soprano in demand across Europe, and will be accompanied by Thomas Dunford, a “rockstar” of the lute, who will also present a concert of solo Bach from his latest album on the Alpha label.
The festival features an exclusive world-premiere screening of Manu Delago’s 30-minute film ‘Parasol Peak’, a delicious buffet lunch of local produce on Sunday with a guest speaker to-be-announced (2017’s guest speaker was David Dimbleby), and the chance to learn more about the environmental and historical significance of this stunning location from representatives of the Sussex Wildlife Trust and Cuckmere Haven SOS. We look forward to welcoming people to Cuckmere Haven to help save one of the iconic views of England.
Artists for 2018:
Maya Youssef – qanun – Friday, August 31 7:30pm
Manu Delago – hang drums – Saturday September 1, 3pm and 7:30pm
Lea Desandre (with Thomas Dunford) – mezzo soprano – Sunday September 2, 3:00pm
Thomas Dunford – lute – Sunday September 2, 7:30pm
Recital Tickets £40. All tickets include drinks and canapés.
Buffet Lunch £35 – Sunday September 2, 12:30pm, Guest Speaker TBA

Brighton Early Music Festival taps into topical theme with 2018 programme celebrating Europe

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BRIGHTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL: EUROPE – 26 OCTOBER – 11 NOVEMBER 2018

“If it’s Early Music you’re looking for, then get yourself down to Brighton”   Classic FM
Brighton Early Music Festival is bringing 700 years of music from 17 European countries to Brighton this autumn*.  Taking its inspiration from a somewhat topical theme, the 2018 Festival explores Britain’s long and often tempestuous relationship with the rest of the European continent from medieval times onwards.  Artistic Director Deborah Roberts says: “In this of all years it seems only right to celebrate and explore Britain’s relationship with Europe over the centuries, through programmes highlighting important events, collaborations and even conflicts of the past.  Some of these stories will have a striking familiarity, and we are hoping to spark stimulating discussion and a sense of exploration as well as presenting a glorious selection of music from around Europe.”
Festival highlights include music from the 13th-century Lewes Priory Breviary performed by Spanish ensemble Resonet and BREMF Community Choir (St Bartholomew’s Church, 28 October); music by Reformation Remainers Tallis and Byrd from BREMF Consort of Voices (St Bartholomew’s Church, 10 November); festive music for an 18th-century  Swedish royal wedding (St George’s Church, 2 November); and choral & orchestral music for peace by Charpentier, Handel, Purcell and Delalande to celebrate Armistice Day, with a stellar line-up of young soloists including Handel Singing Competition winnerHelen Charlston (St Martin’s Church, 11 November).  Royal Wedding soprano Elin Manahan Thomas and lutenist Elizabeth Kenny will perform songs reflecting Elizabeth I’s marriage prevarications in a ‘Game of Thrones’ (St Paul’s Church, 27 November).
Continuing the Festival’s track record of staging early operas (recently featured in BBC Four documentary Unsung Heroines presented by Danielle de Niese), the 2018 Festival includes a double bill of early Italian and English opera.  Monteverdi’s Ballo delle ingrate and Blow’s Venus and Adonis are directed by Thomas Guthrie, with a cast of some of the best young vocal talent emerging on the scene, and street dance choreographed by J P Omari(The Old Market, 6-8 November).
Strongly committed to developing and mentoring young artists, the Festival features a showcase of emerging ensembles who are part of the Festival’s Early Music Live! young artists’ scheme (St Paul’s Church, 3 November), as well as appearances by ensembles whose early careers were developed by the scheme (Fieri Consort, 9 November; Lux Musicae London, 4 November; Flauti d’echo, 10 November).
Tickets on sale from 10 September at www.bremf.org.uk or 01273 709709.  See full concert listing at www.bremf.org.uk/2018 or call 01273 833746 to join the mailing list.