Past Concert Season 2019 – 2020

Programme: William Mathias: Organ Fanfare  Anders Hillborg: Quintet  Andre Previn: Four outings for Brass Quintet  Popular and jazz items. Gwyn Owen and Pippa Scourse are both recent recipients of the Muriel Lewis Award and Merin Lleu also played for us so they are already making their mark both as individuals and as an ensemble.  A5 […]

John Lenehan piano    Joy Farrell clarinet     Caroline Dearnley cello play: Beethoven Trio Op 11  Brahms Trio Op 114   Various solo pieces                   John Lenehan gave us Silent Cinema to great acclaim last season and this time he brings two friends with equally distinguished backgrounds. Joy Farrell has been involved in many chamber […]

Programme: Clara Schumann - Variations op. 20  Chopin - Ballade no. 2 in F major  Nico Muhly - Small Variations (2019)  Robert Schumann - Ten Impromptus on a theme by Clara Wieck , op. 5  Janacek - Sonata I.X.1905  Schubert - Fantasie in C Major D. 760 “Wanderer Fantasy)  Mishka Rushdie Momen was born in […]

Another display of some of the exceptional talent to be found in North Wales, from a couple of returning YMC players, Ynyr Pritchard and Gwydion Rhys and two newcomers from N.E.Wales who are pursuing their vocal and instrumental studies. This concert forms part of the club’s “INSPIRE” youth music project and is also gratefully sponsored by Rhyl Inner […]

A musical dialogue on the life and works of Fryderyk Chopin. Alicja now lives in Northern England but she was born in Poland and so is an obvious choice for this event. She studied in Warsaw, Moscow and Manchester. While in Moscow she played for Nikolayeva, Gilels and Richter! Alicja has been involved in Chopin […]

Soloists: Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone  Louie McIver, violin  Conductor: Anthony Hose  Perform: Handel: Overture to Giulio Cesare in Egitto  Lully: Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turks   Beethoven: Marcia alla turca   Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219.  Handel:  Sinfonia   Arrival of the Queen of Sheba   Nathan James Dearden: I sleep alone (world premiere).   […]

Programme: Debussy:  Prélude á l’après-midi d’un faune  Schumann:  Violin Sonata no.1 op.105  Bernstein:  West Side Story suite  Yoshimatsu:  Fuzzy Bird sonata for alto saxophone and piano  Piazzolla:  Histoire du Tango  Gershwin:  Three Preludes. Expect another truly remarkable performance following Jonathan's top-rated virtuoso saxophone recital from two seasons ago, this time in combination with an equally talented pianist […]

Programme: Schubert: Impromptu Op. 142 no. 3  Schumann: Abegg Variations  Beethoven: Sonata Op. 109  Liszt: La Leggiereza Waldesrauchen  Debussy: Preludes Les Collines D’anacrapri La Terrasse des  audiences du clair de lune Feux D’artifice  Prokofiev: Sonate no. 2  The accomplished youngest member of the musical McLachlan clan from Chetham's who is  already making her mark by […]

A recent graduate of St John’s College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, London, counter-tenor Hamish McLaren grew up at Bodnant in the Conwy Valley. He has recently toured South America & Russia with the Monteverdi Choir. In April and June 2020 he will sing the role of Alfonso in the early Handel opera […]

Benedict Holland, violin   Catherine Yates, violin  Susie Mészáros, viola   Jennifer Langridge, cello   Programme: Haydn: Quartet op 76 no 4 ‘Sunrise’  Britten: Three Divertimenti (1933)  Mendelssohn: Quartet in D major op 44 no1.  String quartets always bring out the best of the Town Hall acoustic and the Victoria will exploit that to the full. Brimful of […]