A Summary of all Classical Music Events.
January 2019
Englishness in Music
What is an ‘English’ sound? What are its origins and what has in influenced its growth? It is an intriguing journey which follows a diversity of paths. From roaming minstrels to Elgar and Jacob Collier, we follow the development of organised sound created by devoted English composers. 31 January – 28 February · 10.30am–12.30pm (5 Thursdays)
Find out more »February 2019
Carmen
The Nomads in association with Rogue Opera present Bizet's Carmen - Saturday 23rd February at 7:30pm
Find out more »Elizabeth Cooney and Alison Rhind Violin/piano recital
Programme Beethoven – ‘Spring’ Sonata no.5 in F major, Op.24 for Violin and Piano Franck – Sonata in A for Violin and Piano Beethoven – Romance no.2 in F major, Op.50 Arvo Pärt – Fratres for Violin and Piano Matthew Taylor – Premiere for Violin and Piano Tickets are £15-00 if bought before date of concert from website. Children and under 26 FREE Elizabeth Cooney initially studied with Adrian Petcu in her native Cork in Ireland, and subsequently with Itzhak Rashkovsky at…
Find out more »Don Quixote THE ROYAL BALLET – DON QUIXOTE
OUR SUNDAY AFTERNOON BOROUGH HALL ENCORE: Date: Sunday 24th February 2019 Location: Cinema - Borough Hall Godalming Time: 2pm - 4.45pm approx. Doors open: 1.30pm for bar and socialising Cost: Adults £15 Concession £12.50 Children £10 Approximate running time: 2 hours 45 minutes including one interval LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP TRIUMPH IN CARLOS ACOSTA’S VIBRANT PRODUCTION OF THIS DAZZLING BALLET.
Find out more »March 2019
Family Classics
Southern Pro Musica's ever-popular annual 'Family Classics' event returns to G Live on Sunday March 3rd. There'll be FREE hands-on instrumental workshops, followed by a full SPM orchestral concert. Tickets from GLive.co.uk. Tel 01483 369350.
Find out more »Game of Bones – Junction 4 Big Band – featuring Trombone Superstar Gordon Campbell
At the Electric Theatre Friday 15th march 2019. 'Join Junction 4 Big Band and guest star, trombone superstar Gordon Campbell, for 'Game of Bones, A Journey Through the Best Music of Film and Television'.
Find out more »Italian Baroque: Guildford Chamber Choir
A programme of scintillating Italian Baroque music on Saturday 16th March in St Nicolas’ Church.
Find out more »Mirror of Perfection
THREE MASTERPIECES THAT SPAN A CENTURY OF MUSICAL WRITING Richard Blackford is one of the UK’s pre-eminent concert and media composers. ‘Mirror of Perfection’ was composed in the 1990s, and sets the delightful poetry of St Francis of Assisi in a powerful cantata of great lyrical beauty. Maurice Duruflé composed his longest and most substantial work, ‘Requiem’, at the end of World War II and, perhaps not surprisingly, he focusses his settings on rest and peace. These 20th century pieces…
Find out more »Classically French concert – Woking Symphony Orchestra
Classically French Concert Woking Symphony Orchestra on 23 March. Music by Debussy, Saint-Saëns and Franck. Roy Stratford conductor. Will Bracken piano.
Find out more »Handel: Dixit Dominus, Britten: Company of Heaven
Glorious Handel, brilliant Britten! Waverley Singers concert at St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot, Sat 23 March at 19:30
Find out more »Surrey Mozart Players with James Brawn
Following on from their very successful concert at the Menuhin Hall in 2018, the Surrey Mozart Players are delighted to be returning with conductor Edward Farmer and pianist James Brawn to continue their Beethoven piano cycle with the masterful ‘Emperor’ Concerto. The programme opens with another great Beethoven work, his Coriolanus Overture, and concludes with Bizet’s youthful and exuberant Symphony No 1. Tickets sold on behalf of Surrey Mozart Players.
Date: 23 March 2019. Time: 7:30pm. Standard Price: £19. Running time: 120 minutes.
To book tickets, please call the box office on 08700 842020
Please note: The Box Office is open for telephone bookings Monday to Friday 10am - 3pm, except Wednesday 10am - 12.30pm.Closed for lunch 12.30-1.00pm daily.
The Box Office will be open one hour before each concert commences.
Mozart Requiem
Sunday March 24th 2019 – Cranleigh Choral Society presents Mozart’s Requiem and Jonathan Willcocks’ ‘Lux Perpetua’, together with the Cranleigh School Choirs and the Merriman Concert Orchestra. To be performed at 7.30pm in the Cranleigh School Speech Hall, Horsehoe Lane, Cranleigh GU6 8QQ.
Find out more »Farnham Sinfonia
Soloist Horn player Richard Watkins. Conductor Matthew Taylor and Leader Elizabeth Cooney come together for their next exciting concert in March.
Find out more »May 2019
Clare Teal & Her Trio / Investec International Music Festival
A brand new show from jazz star and Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal - guaranteed to be an exhilarating evening of gorgeous jazz standards and contemporary classics, interspersed with Clare's trademark warm and witty story-telling.
Find out more »Celebration Concert / Investec International Music Festival
Celebrating our 10th Anniversary Season with Nicola Benedetti, the Philharmonia Orchestra under Pierre-Andre Valade, and the Sitkovetsky Trio in the WORLD PREMIERE of Charlotte Bray's specially commissioned Triple Concerto 'Germinate'.
Find out more »An American in Paris – Wu Qian, piano & Juho Pohjonen, piano
A gorgeous programme of works for 1 and 2 pianos by Gershwin, Saint-Saens, Debussy and Ravel.
Find out more »Last Night of the Spring Proms
Last Night of the Spring Proms returns to G Live on Friday May 10th with special guest, celebrated pianist Lucy Parham, performing Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto. Also with Southern Pro Musica, Guildford Choral and Tormead Junior School choir under the baton of Jonathan Willcocks. You can join in with all your 'Last Night' flag-waving favourites too! GLive.co.uk. 01483 369350. A charity concert promoted by Guildford Lions in partnership with Magimix.
Find out more »Spanish Glories of the 16th Century / Tenebrae conducted by Nigel Short
Be inspired by the 'devastatingly beautiful' singing of world-renowned choral ensemble Tenebrae in a programme of beautiful Renaissance masterpieces including Victoria's Requiem Mass.
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