Husband-and-wife duo Alex and Alison Davies will give a concert of music for organ, piano and saxophone will be playing in Sidbury for the first time. The concert, on Sunday, 14th June at 3.00pm, will take place in St Giles’ Church. Alison will be playing the alto and soprano saxophones, and Alex will be playing the organ and piano. The concert opens with Marcello’s Oboe Concerto in C minor – which Alison will be playing on the alto saxophone – and continues with movements from Mendelssohn’s Sonata No.1 in F minor and Handel’s Organ Concerto in D minor. Marcel Dupré’s [...]

PAPAGENA... ...is an a cappella vocal group set up to explore the wealth of music from medieval times to the present day written specifically for female voices. No props, microphones or gimmicks, just five stunning voices form Papagena. The singers are all classically trained and include amongst their number a conductor, saxophonist, composer, opera and oratorio soloists. But the group’s programming defies pigeonholing; Papagena juxtaposes  classical repertoire with traditional folk, medieval and contemporary music to create programmes that can span nine centuries, from 12th century abbess Hildegard of Bingen to Joni Mitchell, from Byzantine hymns to lilting Celtic ballads to Norwegian [...]

Emma Abbate on the piano & Evva Mizerska on cello More information coming soon

Biographies Robert Plane - Clarinet Robert Plane won the Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition in London in 1992 and has since enjoyed a career encompassing solo and chamber work, as well as holding the principal clarinet positions of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He is a successful recording artist and is particularly highly regarded for his solo recordings for Naxos. His account of Finzi’s Clarinet Concerto won Classic CD Magazine’s ‘Best Concerto Recording’ Award and was selected as BBC Radio 3’s recommended version in ‘Building a Library’, whilst his recording [...]

David Davies was brought up in a small quarrying town in Snowdonia, North Wales, and has enjoyed a somewhat unusual career. Drawn by music at an early age, David was educated bilingually up to the age of 16 and, following a chance meeting with Alastair Sampson, organist at Eton College, he won a sixth form scholarship to Eton. He was awarded additionally a Music Scholarship there, together with prizes in performance, and, after two very rewarding years, David gained the organ scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford. In addition to accompanying the College Chapel Choir, and touring with them to Japan and the USA, he began to train as a choral and orchestral conductor.

‘Ensemble Convergences’ was created by Romain Leleu and brings the world-famous trumpeter together with a string quintet comprised of France’s finest players. A first half of Baroque music and a second half of Latin American, film music classics and other contemporary works will demonstrate how they break down barriers of style and period. After extensive tours of Europe, and recently of Canada and the USA, we are excited to welcome them to Stockland.