Past Concert Season 2020 – 2021

Rose has already played concertos twice in Rhyl and a solo recital in January this year to great acclaim. So it will be a great pleasure to hear her again, this time in the company of Isobel, a singer friend from their time together at Chetham's.  Rose will doubtless tire of botanical analogies such as […]

Elizaveta, from Belarus and Ana, from Romania, are currently at the Royal College of Music, where Elizaveta is studying for a Master’s degree and Ana is a junior fellow doing her Artist Diploma.. Elizaveta came to Rhyl three seasons ago with her string quartet to accompany pianists from Chetham's in Mozart concertos and guaranteed that […]

https://youtu.be/M4VqYmohl4o When Shakespeare said that all the world's a stage it is unlikely that even he thought of one nestled in a tree on a Snowdonian hillside! That is where tonight's Passacaglia is performed, in the Gwydir forest above the home of Richard and Mary.  Club members will recall composer Rhian Samuel writing a piece […]

https://youtu.be/DbLo6EHVuYI Programme: J.S.Bach: Partita No.1 L.Beethoven: Sonata in F major, Op 10 no. 2 B.Bartok: Suite Op 14 F.Chopin: Scherzo in B flat minor Ellis is a member of Rhyl Music Club and so has performed a number of times on the Town Hall concert stage including a Bach concerto with the Welsh Chamber Orchestra […]

https://youtu.be/-3xOpx7vCH8 PROGRAMME: C. P. E. Bach: Sonata in E minor L. van Beethoven: Serenade for Flute and Piano in D major, Op.41 L. van Beethoven: Sonata op. 78 T. Boehm: Grand Polonaise, Op.16 DINARA KLINTON BIOGRAPHY Listed by International Piano Magazine among “their personal pick of the most exciting and accomplished pianists under the age […]

https://youtu.be/ipuHLOAMoCE Programme: F Liszt : Les cloches de Genève F Liszt : Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este F Chopin : Nocturne Op.27-1 F Schumann : Faschingsschwank aus Wien Op. 26 Our concert organiser writes: Aisa came to the Club 7 years ago, staying with me for a couple of nights before travelling on […]

https://youtu.be/GFGa4xEzDVw Programme: John Parry - Sonata No.3 Britten - Suite for Harp Parish Alvars - Introduction Cadenza and Rondo Scarlatti Sonata K27 Folk tunes Bethan Griffiths is an award - winning harpist from N Wales. She graduated at the RCM with 1st class honours in 2017 and went on to obtain a Master of Performance […]

https://youtu.be/Wk4vjkXV6kk Chopin Nocturnes in B flat, Op. 9 No. 1 and in E flat, Op. 9 No. 2 Rachmaninov Etudes Tableaux in E flat major and G minor Op. 33 Rachmaninov Prelude in D major, Op. 23 No. 4 Chopin Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 It seems as if Lara has been […]

https://youtu.be/QBuL0Fv2iR8 “Melody Maker: Rudy Wiedoeft and the Age of the Saxophone Craze” Ring-Hager arr. Wiedoeft: Danse Hongroise            Savino/Wiedoeft: Dans L’Orient     Schulhof: - Hot-Sonate            Wiedoeft: Llewellyn Walz     Weill: Selection from Threepenny Opera        Wiedoeft: Marilyn Walzer                                   Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue The duo performed to great acclaim […]

https://youtu.be/6YkSMnIRxzE A concert from Salzburg's Mozarteum University Beethoven Archduke Trio movements 1 and 2 Brahms C minor trio movements 3 and 4 Isobel Warmelink was born in Rotterdam and has played regularly with the Concertegebouw in Europe, USA and Japan. Madeleine Doucot is a Parisian studying in Austria who is much involved in chamber music […]

https://youtu.be/eyz8eYb850o Mendelssohn: Cello sonata no 1 Dvorak: Silent Woods Brahms: Cello Sonata no 1 Bloch: Prayer from Jewish life. Our concert organiser writes: Mishka Momen visited us last season and gave us variation music featuring Robert and Clara Schumann among others. A short set of variations by Nico Muhly was revelatory at least for me. […]

https://youtu.be/0Q9Euq7Kz_s Programme: Taneyev: Prelude and Fugue, Beethoven: Sonata op. 101, Percy Grainger: A Bridal Lullaby, Mendelssohn/Liszt/Horowitz: The Wedding March. Plus a final post-meal amuse bouche from Earl Wild. Dinara was a stunningly good pianist by the age of 8 after starting studies at age 4 in Kharkiv Special School, Ukraine. She later trained in Moscow […]