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November 2009 14  Saturday Dublin Ireland   6.30 pm; Recital with Brian O'Kane (cello). Beethoven, Janacek and Mendelssohn 12  Thursday St John, Smith Square London   1 pm; Lunchtime concert with Brian O'Kane. Beethoven, Janacek and Mendelssohn   St John's Smith Square London SW1P 3HA Box Office: 020 7222 1061 Tickets: £8 7  Saturday Highgate Concerts London   7.30 pm; Recital with Philip Higham (cello) Mendelssohn, Brahms, Schumann and Beethoven   Mendelssohn: Variations Concertantes Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in E minor Schumann: Funf Stuecke in Volkston Beethoven: Sonata No. 5 in D St Michael's Church South Grove Highgate N6 6BJ Tickets: £10 on the door; £8 in advance; £7 concessions. For tickets and more information please email highgateconcerts@yahoo.co.uk or call 020 8457 7566 October 2009 28  Wednesday St Mary's, Perivale London   7.30 pm; Recital with Brain O'Kane (cello) 22  Thursday Polish Embassy London   7 pm; Private charity recital to include works by Brahms and Chopin. 19  Monday St. Lawrence Jewry London   1 pm; Solo piano recital. Programme to include Mozart and Chopin.   St. Lawrence Jewry Gresham Street London EC2V 5AA 15  Thursday St Hilda's Music Society Oxford   7.30 pm; Recital with Philip Higham (cello)   Jacqueline de Pre Music Building St Hilda's College Cowley Place Oxford OX4 1DY September 2009 4  Friday Kings Place Festival 2009 London   12 midday; Mendelssohn: Lied ohne Worte in A-flat major for solo piano, Op. 38/6; Brahms: Three songs, Op. 71; Mendelssohn: Leid ohne Worte in D for solo cello, Op. 109; Brahms: Sonata in F for cello and piano, Op. 99 With Christoph Richte (cello) and Andrew Tortise (tenor)   Tickets: £4.50 Box office: 020 7520 1490 Kings Place 90 York Way London N1 9AG 4  Friday Kings Place Festival 2009 London   10.45 am; Schumann: Fantasiestuecke, Op. 73; Schumann: Six songs from Liederkreis, Op. 24; Mendelssohn: Cello sonata in B-flat, Op. 45. With Christoph Richter (cello) and Andrew Tortise (tenor)   Tickets: £4.50 Box office: 020 7520 1490 Kings Place 90 York Way London N1 9AG 4  Friday Kings Place Festival 2009 London   9.30 am; Mendelssohn and Bach. Bach Recitativo and Aria from St. Matthew Passion; Mendelssohn: Der Blumenkranz, Auf fluegeln des Gesanges; Mendelssohn: Variations Concertantes; Bach: Sonata in D, BWV 1028 With Christoph Richter (cello) and Andrew Tortise (tenor)   Tickets: £4.50 Box office: 020 7520 1490 Kings Place 90 York Way London N1 9AG August 2009 22  Saturday Music at 100 Princes Street Edinburgh   2 pm; 'Chopin after lunch'. A solo piano recital featuring Schubert, Schumann and Chopin.   Schubert: Impromptu No. 3 in B-flat (Book 2) Schumann: Arabeske in C, Op. 21 Chopin: Three Waltzes, Op. 34 Chopin: Prelude in D-flat, Op. 28/15 Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor Over-seas House 100 Princes Street Edinburgh 0131 225 1501 22  Saturday Music at 100 Princes Street Edinburgh   9.30 am; 'Bach for breakfast'. A mixed programme to include arias by Bach and Handel with Andrew Tortise (tenor).   Over-seas House 100 Princes Street Edinburgh 0131 225 1501 21  Friday Music at 100 Princes Street Edinburgh   4 pm; 'Mozart at Teatime'. A mixed programme to include Mozart's piano Sonata in E-flat, K. 282 and opera arias with Andrew Tortise (tenor)   Over-seas House 100 Princes Street Edinburgh 0131 225 1501 June 2009 17  Wednesday Proms at St Jude's Hampstead Garden Suburb   7.45 pm; Schumann Quintet (with the Carducci Quartet). Programme also includes string quartets by Haydn and David Matthews.   St Jude's Church Central Square London NW11 7AH Telephone bookings from May 26th on 020 8458 8798 May 2009 14  Thursday Lunchtime Concert St John's, Smith Square   1 pm; Recital with Victoria Simonsen (cello). Programme to include Martinu 3rd Sonata, Schumann Adagio and Allegro, Brahms Sonata in E minor.   St John's Church Smith Square London SW1P 3HA April 2009 25  Saturday Whistable Music Club Kent   7.30 pm; A recital with Victoria Simonsen (cello). Programme to include a Bach Cello Suite, Martinu 3rd Sonata, Schumann Adagio and Allegro and Brahms Sonata in E minor. 4  Saturday Prussia Cove Maestri Concert Truro   7.30 pm; An all-Mendelssohn programme to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth. Programme includes Mendelssohn's Piano Quartet in F minor (with Katharine Gowers, Thomas Riebl and David Waterman).   St John's Church Lemon Street Truro Cornwall March 2009 29  Sunday Prussia Cove Masterclasses Cornwall   29th March - 8th April, playing for the violin class at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, coached by Ferenc Rados. 28  Saturday Shostakovich Concerto Highgate, London   7.30 pm; Shostakovich Concerto NO. 2, conducted by Robert Max, with the Covent Garden Chamber Orchestra.   St Michael's Church South Grove Highgate London N6 6BJ Tickets: Adults £12; Concessions £8; Children £4. Tickets available at: www.wegotickets.com, on 020 8340 3516 or on the door. 14  Saturday Opera fundraising evening Presteigne, Wales   7.30 pm; Fundraising concert for St. Andrew's Church in Presteigne. Mixed programme of opera classics, including extracts from Bizet's Carmen. Conducted by Glyndebourne chorus master Thomas Blunt.   St. Andrew's Church Presteigne Tickets £10 (under-16s, £5) Available from the post office or on 267843 13  Friday Brunel University Uxbridge   1.10 pm; Solo piano recital with works by Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Chopin. Free admission.   Brunel University Roberts Room, Floor 3 Lecture Centre Uxbridge Middlesex UB8 3PH 01895 274000 6  Friday Links Hotel Scotland   7 pm; Dinner followed by solo piano recital.   Haydn: Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI:42; Schubert: Two Impromptus; Brahms: Intermezzi, OP. 118; Chopin: Nocturne in C minor, Three Waltzes. February 2009 28  Saturday Memorial Concert for David Sonin London   3 pm; Mixed programme including Cecilia McDowall's 'Falling Angels' with Gemma Rosefield (cello); Schubert's Impromptu No. 3 in B-flat (Book 2).   UCS School Frognal Hampstead London NW3 6XH 20  Friday Mansfield Street London   7.30 pm; Chamber music concert with Sarah Beaty (clarinet), Marie Macleod (cello)and Nadia Wijzenbaek (violin)   Ravel: Piano Trio Messaien: Quartet for the End of Time. 6  Friday Ourense Festival Spain   8.30 pm; Recital with Alison Balsom (trumpet)   Programme to include works by Francaix, Hindemith, Schumann, Enescu and de Falla. Teatro Principal Ourense 5  Thursday Ourense School Spain   8.30 pm; Solo recital   Works by Mozart, Haydn and Chopin January 2009 25  Sunday Chopin Society St. Paul's Church, Covent Garden   3.30 pm; Piano recital.   Mozart: Fantasy in D minor; Haydn: Sonata in D (Hob. XVI:42); Schubert: 2 Impromptus; Chopin: 3 Waltzes, Fantasy in F minor, Ballade No. 1 in G minor St. Paul's Church Covent Garden London WC2E 9ED Tickets: 020 8960 4027 December 2008 16  Tuesday Skipton Music Society North Yorkshire   7.30 pm; Recital with Alison Balsom (trumpet).   Works by Schedrin, Goedicke, Enescu, Hindemith, Francaix, De Falla, Gershwin. Skipton Town Hall 01756 799912 4  Thursday St. John's Church, Notting Hill London   1 pm; Recital with Fenella Humphreys (violin).   Beethoven: Spring Sonata; Part: Spiegel im Spiegel; Debussy: Sonata. St. John's Church Lansdowne Crescent Notting Hill London W11 2NN November 2008 30  Sunday Norden Farm Berkshire   7.30 pm; Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto.   St. John's Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Nigel Wilkinson. Norden Farm Centre for the Arts Altwood Road Maidenhead SL6 4PF October 2008 18  Saturday London Concertante concert Dr Challoner's High School, Amersham   Mahler piano quintet (movement). Faure piano quintet in C minor. Schubert 'Trout' quintet. 18  Saturday Little Missenden Festival Little Missenden Church   3 pm; Cello and piano recital (with Gemma Rosefield)   Works by James Francis Brown, Cecilia McDowall, Vaughan Williams and Shostakovich. Little Missenden lies between Amersham and Great Missenden. 16  Thursday Two Moors Festival Okehampton Church, Devon   3.30 pm; Beethoven's 8th Symphony, piano arrangement for four hands, to be performed with Christoph Berner. 15  Wednesday Two Moors Festival Okehampton Church, Devon   7.30 pm; Piano concertos with the London Concertante: Mozart piano concerto in A Major, K. 414, and the Intermezzo from Chopin's 2nd piano concerto in F Minor.   London Concertante's website at: http://www.londonconcertante.com 13  Monday Royal Overseas League Lunchtime Concert St James's Piccadilly   1.10; A solo recital to include works by Schubert, Schumann and Chopin 3  Friday Kings Place London   14.15 and 15.30; Concert with cellists Christoph Richter and Xenia Jankovic   Brahms Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 Webern: Klavierstucke Kings Place 90 York Way London N1 9AG Box Office: 0844 264 0321 1  Wednesday Cheltenham Music Society Cheltenham   Shostakovich Piano Quintet, op. 57.   Chamber Concert with the Carducci Quartet for the Cheltenham Music Society September 2008 14  Sunday Prussia Cove, Open Chamber Music Prussia Cove, Cornwall   International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, from 14-21 September 2008. August 2008 8  Friday Il Festival di Londra 2008 Ripatransone, Italy   9.30 pm; Recital with Andrew Tortise (tenor).   Museo Vescovile di Arte Sacra Ripatransone Italy 7  Thursday Il Festival di Londra 2008 Ripatransone, Italy   9.30 pm; Solo recital to open the festival.   Works to include Schubert and Chopin. Teatro Mercantini Ripatransone Italy 1  Friday St Martin-in-the-Fields London   Piano concertos with the London Concertante, beginning at 7.30 p.m. Mozart piano concerto in A Major, K. 414; and Chopin second piano concerto in F minor, 2nd movement.   St Martin's Lane and Trafalgar Square, London WC2. June 2008 22  Sunday Proms at St. Jude's 2008 St. Jude's Church, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London   7.45 pm; Concerto with the Southbank Sinfonia and Simon Over   Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major. St. Jude's Church Central Square Hampstead Garden Suburb London NW11 7AH 7  Saturday Woodbridge Chamber Concerts Woodbridge, Suffolk.   7.30 pm; Chamber music with the Carducci Quartet and Nathan Vale (tenor).   Vaughan Williams: Song Cycle 'On Wenlock Edge'. St. Mary's Parish Church 11 Market Hill Woodbridge IP12 4LP For tickets, contact John Treadway - 01986 798 324 April 2008 20  Sunday Alnwick Playhouse Alnwick, Northumberland   3 pm; Schubert Trout Quintet with the London Concertante.   Schubert Trout Quintet; Mozart Clarinet Quinetet; Dvorak Terzetto. 18  Friday Hull Chamber Music Middleton Hall, University of Hull   7.45 pm; Concerti by Mozart and Chopin with the London Concertante.   Mozart: Piano Concerto in A Major, K.414; Chopin: Concerto No.2 in F minor. 12  Saturday Bognor Regis Music Club Bognor Regis   7.30 pm; Recital with Gemma Rosefield (cello)   Works by Beethoven; Mendelssohn; Shostakovich and Rossini. 2 Sudley Road Bognore Regis West Sussex PO21 1EU February 2008 16  Saturday Ripley Ripley Arts Centre   8 pm; Solo piano recital   Works by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms and Chopin 24 Sundridge Avenue, Bromley, Kent BR1 2PX 2  Saturday Hull Chamber Music Middleton Hall, University of Hull   7.45 pm; Recital with the Balsom Ensemble (trumpet, violin, cello and harpsichord/piano).   Works by Bach, Purcell, Handel, Goedicke, Lindberg, de Falla and Piazzolla. January 2008 26  Saturday Whitstable Music Society Whitstable Methodist Church   7.30 pm; Recital with the London Concertante.   Faure: Piano Quartet in C minor; Schubert: Trout Quintet. Box Office: 01227 792497 19  Saturday Rochdale Music Society Gracie Field's Theatre, Rochdale   7.30 pm; Recital with the London Concertante.   Faure: Piano Quartet in C minor; Schubert: Trout Quintet. Hudson's Walk, Rochdale, OL11 5EF 18  Friday Egremont Egremont Parish Church Hall   8 pm; Recital with the London Concertante   Faure: Piano Quartet in C minor; Schubert: Trout Quintet 01946 692 178 7  Monday Purcell Room Southbank Centre, London   7.45 pm; Park Lane Group recital with Gemma Rosefield (cello)   James Francis Brown: Prospero's Isle; Cecilia McDowall: Falling Angels (world premiere); Shostakovich: Sonata, Op. 40 December 2007 1  Saturday Bournemouth Chamber Music Society Bournemouth   3 pm; Recital with the Eimer Piano Trio   Dvorak: Dumky Trio; Bridge: Phantasie Trio; Beethoven: Archduke Trio November 2007 26  Monday St.. Lawrence Jewry London   1 pm; Solo lunchtime recital   Mozart: Sonata in D Major, K.576; Chopin: Nocturne in C minor; Chopin: Ballade No. 1 in G minor Gresham Street London EC2V 5AA 17  Saturday Georgian Theatre Royal Richmond, Yorkshire   7.30 pm; Piano trio recital with Rafal Payne (violin) and Thomas Carroll (cello)   Piano trios by Frank Bridge, Ravel and Mendelssohn 13  Tuesday Fairfield Halls Croydon   1.05 pm; Trio recital with Rafal Payne (violin) and Thomas Carroll (cello).   Bridge: Phantasie-Trio; Ravel: Piano Trio 10  Saturday Stoke Climsland Cornwall   7.30 pm; Recital with Gemma Rosefield (cello)   Programme to include works by Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms 9  Friday Flavel Arts Centre Devon   7.30 pm; Recital with Gemma Rosefield (cello)   Programme to include Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms. 4  Sunday Kartause Ittingen Switzerland   11.30 am; Recital with cellist Christoph Richter   Brahms: Sonata in E minor, Op.38; Webern: Two pieces (1899), Three little pieces, Op. 11; Brahms: Sonata in F Major, Op.99 October 2007 17  Wednesday Theatre des Varietes Monaco   20.30; Recital for with cellist Thomas Carroll   Bach: Gamba Sonata No. 2 in D; Beethoven: Magic Flute Variations; Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Adagio and Allegro; Brahms: Sonata in E minor. 14  Sunday Holywell Music Room Oxford   11.15 am; Recital with cellist Thomas Carroll   Beethoven: Magic Flute Variations; Schumann: Fantasiestuecke; Brahms: Sonata in E minor 12  Friday St. Martin-in-the-Fields London   Concertos by Mozart and Chopin, with the London Concertante   Mozart Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K.414 Chopin: Concerto No. 1 in F minor 2nd movement) Trafalgar Square London WC2N 4JJ 020 7839 8362 7  Sunday Marlborough College Concert Society Series Marlborough   7.30 pm; Recital with Adrian Brendel   Works for cello and piano by Beethoven, Schubert, Enescu and Debussy Marlborough College Wiltshire SN8 1PA 6  Saturday Sidmouth Music Club Sidmouth, Devon   7.30 pm; Solo piano recital 4  Thursday Enescu Society London   7.30 pm; Recital with Adrian Brendel (cello)   Works for cello and piano by Beethoven, Schubert, Enescu and Debussy Romanian Cultural Institute 1 Belgrave Square London SW1 8PH 020 7752 0134 August 2007 17  Friday Royal Overseas League Annual Series Edinburgh Fringe Festival   4 pm; Piano works by Mozart and Haydn   Royal Overseas League Clubhouse 100 Princes Street (0131) 225 1501 16  Thursday Royal Overseas League Annual Series Edinburgh Fringe Festival   2 pm; Chopin Ballades 1 and 4   Royal Overseas League Clubhouse 100 Princes Street (0131) 225 1501 15  Wednesday Royal Overseas League Annual Series Edinburgh Fringe Festival   9.30 am; Scarlatti Sonatas; Bach Partita No. 4 in D   Royal Overseas League Clubhouse 100 Princes Street (0131) 225 1501 14  Tuesday Royal Overseas League Annual Series Edinburgh Fringe Festival   2 pm; Piano works by Chopin and Schumann   Royal Overseas League Clubhouse 100 Princes Street (0131) 225 1501 8  Wednesday Lake District Summer Music Festival Ambleside   8 pm; Recital with Christoph Richter   Brahms Sonata in E minor; Webern Two Pieces (1899); Webern Three Pieces Op.11; Mendelssohn Sonata in D Major Ambleside Parish Church Vicarage Road, Ambleside July 2007 13  Friday Cheltenham International Music Festival Cheltenham   7.30 pm; Pianist with the 'Festival Academy Ensemble'   Works by John Adams; Copland; O'Regan and Milhaud Town Hall, Imperial Square Tel: +44 1242 227979 10  Tuesday Cheltenham International Music Festival Cheltenham   4.30 pm; Recital with the Eimer Piano Trio   Bridge Piano Trio; New Work; Dvorak 'Dumky' Trio Pitville Pump Room Tel: +44 1242 227979 6  Friday Naunton Music Society Gloucestershire   7.30 pm; Recital with Alison Balsom   See 22nd June 2007 for programme St Andrew's Church, Naunton GL54 June 2007 29  Friday Bishop Auckland Music Society Co Durham   7.30 pm; Recital with Alison Balsom   See 22nd June 2007 for programme 27  Wednesday Beaminster Festival Beaminster   7.30 pm; Recital with Alison Balsom   See 22nd June 2007 for programme 22  Friday Gwyl Gregynog Festival Wales   7.30 pm; Recital with Alison Balsom   Works by Schedrin, Francaix, Bitsch, Debussy, Enescu, Torelli, Scarlatti, De Falla and Gershwin 21  Thursday Strawberry Hill Twickenham   7.15 pm; A Midsummer Evening of Chopin at Strawberry Hill   Chopin Ballade No.1 in G minor; (and other Chopin works played by a selection of pianists). Champagne reception and light buffet April 2007 15  Sunday Oxted and Limpsfield Music Society Limpsfield   7 pm; Recital with Fenella Humphreys   Works by Mozart, Sibelius, Debussy and Brahms Hazelwood School, Limpsfield 13  Friday Meeting House Arts Centre Ilminster   Recital with Gemma Rosefield   7.30 pm; Works by Beethoven, Martinu and Shostakovich East Street, Ilminster, Somerset TA19 0AN; Tel: +44 1460 55783 12  Thursday Marine Theatre Lyme Regis   7.30 pm; Recital with Gemma Rosefield   Works by Beethoven, Martinu and Shostakovich 1  Sunday Prussia Cove - International Musicians Seminar Cornwall   Playing for Gerhard Schulz's Violin Masterclasses (1st April - 11th April) March 2007 27  Tuesday Wigmore Hall London   7.30 pm; Recital with the Carducci Quartet   Mozart Piano Concerto K.414; Ravel String Quartet; Schumann Piano Quintet 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP Tel: +44 207 935 2141 21  Wednesday Rhyl Music Club Wales   7.30 pm; Recital with the Eimer Piano Trio   Trios by Haydn, Bridge and Dvorak 18  Sunday Glenilla Arts Foundation London   3 pm; Recital with the Carducci Quartet   Mozart Piano Concerto K.414; Ravel String Quartet; Schumann Piano Quintet Church of the Christian Community 34 Glenilla Road, Belsize Park View upcoming performances