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Our 2024-25 Season
Godalming Baptist Church, Queen Street GU7 1BA
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Future Dates for your diary….
September 14 – Rising Stars Concert
Young and talented students from Purcell School will be the stars of our opening concert this season.
Shlomi Shahaf (violin), Phoebe Papandrea (piano) and Yoko Afi (cello) will be accompanied by Staff Pianist Deborah Shah. Programme details to be published soon. Concert starts at 7.00pm
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October 12th – Kyan String Quartet
Joseph Haydn-String Quartet Op. 76 No.6 in E flat major
Bela Bartok String Quartet No. 3 Sz. 85
Caroline Shaw – Entr’Acte
Claude Debussy – String Quartet in G minor, op 10
Established in 2020, the award-winning Kyan Quartet brings together four exceptional musicians from the United Kingdom, the United States, China, and France.
The quartet enjoys a busy and vibrant career, having performed across Europe and Asia. Recent highlights include winning the Richmond Concert Society String Ensemble Award at the 2024 Royal Over-Seas League competition, and undertaking a three-week tour throughout China. As upcoming Tunnell Trust award holders, the quartet will tour across Scotland in February 2025. The Kyans are looking forward to their residency at this year’s South Downs Summer Music International Festival. They have held residencies with the Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, the European String Teachers Association, and the Borromeo Music Festival. Recent collaborations include guitar quintets with Ahmed Dickinson at Wigmore Hall, and Mendelssohn’s famed famed Octet with the Carducci Quartet.
In the past year, the quartet have won places on prestigious courses, including Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland’s 68th International Chamber Music Campus, and Chamber Studio’s inaugural Hans Keller Forum. Through these they have received coaching from Heime Müller, John Myerscough, Richard Ireland, the Kuss Quartet, Alasdair Beatson and Péter Nagy. The quartet continues to be mentored by Ying Xue of the Doric Quartet. They have also been coached by members of the Carducci, Chilingirian, Heath, London Haydn, and Piatti Quartets. The quartet are proud members of Le Dimore del Quartetto.
Widening musical participation and access is central to the quartet’s artistic mission. They are Live Music Now artists, sharing their love of participatory music-making in care homes and SEND schools. The quartet are looking forward to giving masterclasses and working with young composers at the Junior Royal Academy of Music. As the 2022/23 fellows of the Open Academy/Wigmore Hall Learning Programme, they appeared regularly on the Wigmore Hall stage and in community settings, sharing music with families, young children, and those living with dementia. A particular highlight was leading workshops across six primary schools in Tower Hamlets, in partnership with Spitalfields Music. The Kyans are excited to return to Wigmore this October to perform a low stimulus concert as part of the organisation’s Imagine Series.
The Kyan Quartet pride themselves on championing new music. They have given Wigmore premieres of commissioned pieces by Florence Anna Maunders and Zhenyan Li, and performed Symphony for String Quartet and Forest by Jacob Fitzgerald at the 2022 Timber Festival, featuring 200 school children singing alongside the quartet. The Kyans collaborated with Cem Güven to record his 2023 quartet Atmospheric Manipulations, and will feature on Ben Nobuto’s upcoming debut album.
https://kyanquartet.com/
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November 2nd – Portuguese Concert
Now a feature in our calendar, the ever entertaining countertenor João Paolo Ferreira returns with his wonderful and captivating renditions of Baroque arias and Classical Spanish/Portuguese songs; accompanied by Guy Murgatroyd on Piano and the brilliant Fado Duo, Giorgio Serci and Pedro Velasco.
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Chamber Music Festival
November 30th and December 7th
30th Nov – Lisson Piano Trio
7th December – Bodman String Quartet
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Baroque Festival 2025
Thursday January 9th –
The Purcell School Baroque Ensemble
Saturday January 11th – Morning concerts TBC
Gala Concert 7.00pm with
The London Conservatoires Ensembles and Singers
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February 8th – Harp and Violin Duo
Isabel Eberhardt (harp) and Anna Zaffagni (violin)
March 8th – Guitar Quartet from RCM
April 5th – Piano and Violin Duo
May 3rd – Flute and Piano Duo
Daniel Shao (flute) and Simon Callaghan (piano)
Opera Festival 2025
June 14th and 28th
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We are grateful to
HSH Dr Donatus, Prince of Hohenzollern
for generously sponsoring our Baroque Festival 2024
and to
George and Daphne Burnett
for generously sponsoring our Chamber Music Festival 2024
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For concerts in Farnham organised by TBS (CIO) please visit this website
http://www.tilbach.org.uk
For concerts in Guildford, organised by
HennesseyBrown Music please visit this website
https://www.hennesseybrownmusic.com/concerts