Past Artists since 2011 – 2015
Zelkova String Quartet
Artist Details Programme: Haydn Janacek Pavel Fischer I went, with John Williamson, to RNCM for a special evening and came across this quartet; you may recognise one of its members because she came to Rhyl for a summer concert with a trio. I heard her...
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Ruth Hayes, saxophone and Helen Davies, piano
Artist Details Programme: Tableaux de Provence - Paule Maurice Improvisation 1 - Ryo Noda Sonata - Heiden Asturias - Busser Saxophone Concerto - Glazounov Sonata for Soprano Saxophone - Richard Rodney Bennett Ruth is studying the saxophone with Kyle Horch...
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David Shaw, violin and William Shaw, piano
Artist Details David Shaw violin William Shaw piano The Club gave the Muriel Lewis Award to William and David following their participation in the Young Musician event and their subsequent progress fully justifies that choice. William has been studying at...
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Aisa Ijiri, piano
Artist Details Founder’s concert in memory of Michael Lewis Programme: Granados Goyescas: Quejas, o la maja y el ruisenor Manuel de Falla Fantasia Baetica Liszt Petrarch Sonnets Aisa is a Japanese pianist who has been taught recently by Andrew Ball and...
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The Welsh Chamber Orchestra
Artist Details Conductor: Anthony Hose Programme: Excerpts from Handel’s Messiah Excerpts from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio Britten – Folk Songs Mark Bowden – Christmas Fantasia Mozart – Symphony 33 Anthony Hose began playing the piano at age three and gave...
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Phoenix Piano Trio
Artist Details Sholto Kynoch Marie Macleod Jonathan Stone Mendelssohn - Trio No 2 John Ireland - Trio No. 3 Beethoven - Ghost Trio All three of tonight’s artists appear in other incarnations and you may well come across them as part of the Doric String...
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Phoenix Piano Trio
Artist Details Sholto Kynoch Marie Macleod Jonathan Stone Programme: Mendelssohn - Trio No 2 John Ireland - Trio No. 3 Beethoven - Ghost Trio All three of tonight’s artists appear in other incarnations and you may well come across them as part of the Doric...
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Llŷr Williams
Artist Details Llŷr Williams, North Wales' own internationally acclaimed pianist. Alexander Janiczek violin North Wales' own internationally acclaimed pianist joined the Austrian virtuoso in what has been described as a "perfectly attuned duo". Llŷr has...
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Lucy Hall, soprano, Gavin Roberts piano
Artist Details Lucy Hall, soprano Gavin Roberts, piano This concert is sponsored by the Oxford Lieder Festival. I visited this Festival and met Sholto Kynoch, its director, to talk about a future vocal booking. We were offered a special sponsorship for...
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Club members concert
Artist Details Baroque Recorder Group Ernie Hughes, saxophone and Donal McCarthy, piano Meinir Jones, mezzo-soprano Our music club had quite a tradition in the past of involving amateur performers and for this one-off concert we will hear from a number of...
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The Sirenian Singers – Cantorion Sirenian
Artist Details We welcome back for our Christmas concert this talented Wrexham-based choir. Their most recent competition success was at Bangor (N.I.) where they swept the board at the 2011 International Choral Festival, and their latest big...
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Wu String Quartet
Artist Details The Wu Quartet is now in demand at major music venues in both the UK and internationally. They were 2nd prize-winners at a 2012 competition in the Netherlands. The members are Qian Wu and Edward Brenton, violins, Matthew Kettle, viola, and...
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