Sweet Music

Saturday 26th March 2011 at 7.30 pm
N.B. at Barn Hill Methodist Church, Stamford

Kate Osborne flute
James Risdon recorder and clarinet
Takashi Kikuchi viola
with Fergus Black piano

A delightful programme of mainly 18th and 19th century chamber music for combinations of flute, viola, recorder, clarinet and piano. Music will include Mozart’s trio inspired by a bowling alley, a Trio Sonata by Frederick the Great’s private flute teacher and music by the ‘Paganini of the Recorder’ as well as much much more...

Tickets from Stamford Arts Centre 01780 763203 – or at the door
£9.50 (£8 concessions) : accompanied children free!

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Come-and-Sing Royal Wedding Music

to celebrate the wedding of
His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine Middleton

Saturday 30th April at Barn Hill Methodist Church, Stamford
Rehearsal 2.00 - 4.30 pm • Afternoon Tea 4.30-5.30 pm (included) Performance at 5.30 pm
Tickets for Singers £10 (including scores and tea)
(Singers: once you have your ticket, please collect your music from the Stamford Arts Centre Box Office).
Audience tickets £10 (including tea) all from Stamford Arts Centre 01780 763203

Wagner Bridal Chorus (from Lohengrin)
Handel Wedding Anthem (Sing unto God, Ye Kingdoms, HWV 263)
premiered at the wedding of Frederick, Prince of Wales, to Augusta, Princess of Saxe-Gotha.
Albert, Prince Consort Jubilate
Parry I was Glad
and other solo items (all scores supplied)

Helen Didsbury Soprano • Louise Laprun Alto
Giles Turner Tenor • Alasdair Baker Baritone
Paul Parsons Organ • Fergus Black Conductor

Jakob Lindberg lute

Friday 6th May 2011 at 7.30 pm

Swedish lutenist Jakob Lindberg, the noted recording and concert artist, performs a programme of solo lute music by Dowland, Bach and Weiss in the Burghley Chapel at St Martin’s Church. Jakob Lindberg has made numerous pioneering recordings, many of which present a wide range of music on CD for the first time. He is Professor of Lute at the Royal College of Music in London. It is particularly through his live solo performances that he has become known as one of the finest lutenists in the world today.

Tickets from Stamford Arts Centre 01780 763203 – or at the door
Tickets: £12.50 (£10 for non-view seats)

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August 3rd

Marc Murray Director of Music at St Botolph's Boston and Director of Peterborough Opera

Marc Murray moved to the United Kingdom in May 2010 to take up the post of Director of Music at St Botolph’s Church (The Stump) in Lincolnshire and was more recently appointed Director of Peterborough Opera as well. Since his arrival in the UK he has play accompanied several musicians including Lesley Garrett at ‘The Stump’, Cantemus Choir, Music for a while, amongst others.

Marc was born and educated in Cape Town, South Africa studying piano and organ at the University of Cape Town’s College of Music and was a winner of the Leslie Arnold Award and the Metroplitan Methodist Church Organ Prize. He hold holds several teaching and performing qualifications from amongst others, UNISA, Trinity College of Music, London and the Royal College of Organists.

From 1990 he was Organist and Director of Music at St Saviour’s Church, Claremont. In 2001 he formed The Magnificats Chamber Choir, a group which has performed to great acclaim in Cape Town and beyond. He often acted as assistant choir trainer for the Philharmonia Choir of Cape Town and also accompanied the choir for a couple of their concerts to the UK in 2001. He has recorded extensively as an accompanist for the South African Broadcasting Corporation.

He served on the Music Committee of the Department of Education’s (DOE) School Enrichment programme and was vocal coach and accompanist to the DOE’s National Youth Choir. He has been involved in the DOE’s Choir Eisteddfod programme since its inception in 2001 as accompanist, adjudicator, choir trainer to thousands of learners, vocal coach, trainer of both conductors and adjudicators. Marc also served as accompanist and coach to the Matthew Singers in Port Elizabeth and the choirs of the Amy Biehl Foundation in Cape Town.

For some time, Marc worked as both Acting and Assistant Chorus Master to Cape Town Opera, where has prepared the chorus for several productions, including Andre Chenier, La Traviata (Verdi), Nabucco (Verdi), Carmen (Bizet), Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) and Showboat (Kern) etc and has toured as accompanist and conductor for CTO’s early visits to Sweden.

He worked extensively in the training of choirs and conductors from previously disadvantaged communities and adjudicated at most of the choir competitions held in South Africa.

As an organist, he has given recitals and played in concerts throughout South Africa, as well as the USA, Germany, Sweden, and the UK including solo recitals in Westminster Abbey and St Paul’s Cathedral London.

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August 10th

John Dillistone
Organist at All Saints' Church and St Mary's Church, Huntingdon

John Dillistone successfully combines distinguished careers in Fine art and Music. Born in Brighton in 1939, he studied and qualified in Art in Brighton and Leeds Colleges of Art. Teacher, Painter and Lecturer, he retired as director of art at The Leys school, Cambridge in 1999.

His musical talents developed under the tuition of Victor Bradley, Paul Bennett and Philip Dore and he obtained his ARCO in 1997. Organist at Godmanchester parish Church from1976-1986, he researched the history of the Godmanchester organ, which was published in “The Musical Times” in July 1977. He has since gained wide recognition as an international recitalist and has recently given concerts on the Renaissance organs of Leuca and Salve in Italy. He was soloist in the Tyneside Maritime Festival at Newcastle Cathedral; and at Bourges, Troyes, Toul, Dol-de-Bretagne, Montpellier and Bordeaux Cathedrals in France, and many others including a concert tour in San Francisco (of which a CD has recently been released), New York and Washington national Cathedrals.
Grazia Salvadori, the Italian organist /composer, recently wrote “Tryptych”, a composition based on three of John’s drawings.

John played at Ely Cathedral in the centenary series of 2008 and was invited back to the Collegiale de Vernon (Paris) to give a recital celebrating their organ’s 400th anniversary in 2010.

Helmut Walcha (1907-1991) Choral prelude on “My God, my works and all I do” (No. 12, Book Four)
Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck (1562-1621)  Variations on "Soll es sein”
John Stanley (1713-1786) Voluntary Op. 5 No.4
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)   Prelude and Fugue in G Major (No.2)
Henry Thomas Smart (1813-1879)   Song for Tenor
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)   Choral Prelude on “Komm, heiliger Geist”: (Fantasia), from “The Eighteen”:BWV 651
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August 17th

Kenneth Court
Assistant Organist at St Mary's and St Martin's Stamford

Kenneth Court studied under the late Dr. Caleb Jarvis, Liverpool City Organist and Dr. J. Roland Middleton at Chester Cathedral. Ordained in 1961 he served in Yorkshire, Leicester and the Isle of Man. He was Precentor at Leicester Cathedral from 1973-6. Retiring in1998 he now serves at St Mary’s and St Martin’s here in Stamford and acts as assistant organist.

J S Bach (1665-1750) Fantasia in g major BWV 572
William Walond (1725-1770)   Introduction & Allegro
Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)   Lantana-Chanty & Salix
Herbert Howells (1892-1983)  Sarabande (from Six Pieces for Organ)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937)  Arabesque (from 24 Pieces en style libre)
Easthope Martin (1877-1937)  Evensong
Max Reger (1875-1916)  Melodia & Toccata
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August  24th

Geoffrey Spencer
Director of Music at St Mary's and St Martin's Stamford

Geoffrey Spencer studied music at Nottingham university & The London College of Music. His early years were spent as  a Church Organist/ Choir Director/ Accompanist, and head of Music at Sleaford Girl’s Grammar School. After 25 years in the Ordained Ministry of the Church of England he has recently taken early retirement and returned to his first love as Director of music at St Mary’s & St. Martin’s, Stamford.

John J Charpentier Fugue in G Minor
Healey Willan Soliloquy
Henry Coleman Prelude
Harold Darke In Green Pastures
Sydney Watson Pastorale
Eric H Thiman Finale in D Minor
John Travers Cornet Voluntary
William Boyce Diapason Movement
Fredrick H Burn Triumph March
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August  31st

Stephen Barber
Director of Music at St John's Church, Cathedral Square, Peterborough and Musical Director of the Gildenburgh Choir

Stephen Barber was born in Belfast. He read music at Cambridge University where his organ teachers were Arthur Wills and George Guest. During this time he took the FRCO diploma, gaining the Turpin Prize. He continued his organ studies with Nicholas Danby at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and during this year was also the organ student at St. Paul's Cathedral where he played regularly.

For four years he was assistant organist at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin and was also Director of Music in the Cathedral Grammar School. Moving back to England he was organist and choirmaster at All Saints' Church, Peterborough for 14 years and is now organist and choirmaster at St John’s Church, Peterborough. He has given recitals in cathedrals and churches in many parts of England and Ireland and has broadcast on both radio and television.

He was a music teacher and then Director of Music at Spalding Grammar School but is now a freelance teacher and performer.

Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654) Variations on “Ach, du feiner Reiter”
J. S. Bach (1685-1750) Prelude and Fugue in B Minor (BWV 544)
Maurice Greene (1696- 1755) Voluntary No. 1 in G
Largo
Allegro
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Sonata No 2 in C minor (Op 65/2)
Grave
Adagio
Allegro maestoso e vivace
Allegro moderato (Fugue)
Flor Peeters (1903-1986) Scherzo (from Suite Modale, Op 43)
Paul Manz (1919-2009) Aria
Félix-Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911) Final (from Symphony No 1, Op 42)
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Saturday, 24th September
Come-and-Sing Mozart Requiem & Zadok the Priest
Led by Douglas Coombes, Conductor and Composer

at Barn Hill Methodist Church, Stamford
2-5 p.m. Workshop
5-6 p.m. Teas
6 p.m. Concert

Soloists: Moira Johnston, Soprano
Jeremy Jepson, Alto
Giles Turner, Tenor
Marius Carney, Bass
Organist: Paul Parsons

Tickets: Singers’ tickets: £10 (£8 concessions) – includes score (Suessmayer/Novello) and tea
Audience tickets: £10 (£8 concessions) – includes tea and concert

Tickets: from Stamford Arts Centre: 01780 763203 or on the door

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