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Our new season begins four weeks today on the 6th October, with the welcome return of Jack McNeill (clarinet) and the Gildas String Quartet. If that isn't reason enough to raise a smile then consider a subscription to our series of concerts. A ticket bought at the door or at the Tourist Information Centre will cost you £14.00, that's £84.00 for six concerts. A season ticket will only set you back £67.00 and you'll receive a complimentary ticket to introduce a friend to any one of our concerts. Subscribers are also entitled to attend Penrith Music Club concerts at half price.
If you would like to subscribe, then send your name and contact details, together with a cheque for £67.00 to our Treasurer, Alastair Perry. You'll find his address on our Subscription/Tickets page.
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The 2016 AGM of Carlisle Music Society will take place on Thursday 7th April at 7.30pm in St Cuthbert's Church Vestry, Carlisle.
It's an AGM with bells on! The (brief) business of the meeting will be followed by drinks, nibbles and a talk by Mr Ian France ~ Chamber Music from Schubert to Schoenberg. Be interested, be entertained, be involved, be there! We welcome Trio Martinů to play for us on Wednesday 16th March. The Trio, Pavel Šafařík (violin), Jarolslav Matějka (cello) and Petr Jiříkovský (piano) formed at the Prague Conservatory in 1990. In their 2015-16 season they are celebrating 25 years of playing together and are undertaking a tour of their home country, Britain and the Netherlands.
After leaving Carlisle they will play in Birmingham and in Culzean Castle, Ayrshire, before returning to Cumbria for a concert in Ambleside on the 20th March. Programme: Beethoven Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 70 Martinů Piano Trio No. 2 in D minor Dvořák Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65 For further information, see: http://www.triomartinu.cz/en/ Please note that this concert is on a Wednesday. Same venue and time – St. Cuthbert's Church, Carlisle at 7.30pm. Today we welcome Cellist Jane Lindsay to the CMS blog.
Jane, when did you begin learning the cello and where did you begin your studies? I began learning the cello aged nine. I was originally given a violin to learn but knew instantly that I wanted to play the cello. I first learnt at my primary school but aged eleven began studying at the Junior Department of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (or the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland as it is now known). When I was fourteen, I was accepted to study at Chethams School of Music. Do you have a favourite cello work? I have many favourites sonatas - cellists are lucky to have a wealth of repertoire composed for us! One of my favourite composers has to be Brahms. His two sonatas for cello and piano are very special to me. I also love the melodic writing of Rachmaninov and Strauss. Schubert's Arpeggione sonata is one of the most divine pieces ever written - I look forward to tackling it one day. Concertos... I recently performed Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations which was a lot of fun. So many characters portrayed in one piece! When you play for us you'll be accompanied by Jennifer Hughes. When did you meet Jennifer? Jennifer and I met at the Royal College of Music when Jennifer was a Junior Fellow in Accompaniment and I was studying for my Masters degree. As performers, we clicked very quickly and have enjoyed many recitals over the past few years including Wigmore Hall and Elgar Room (Royal Albert Hall). We are also founding members of the Elysian Piano Trio with Emily Sun (violin). A sartorial question. Do you coordinate your apparel with your accompanist? We always consult on what we will wear. Not only is it aesthetically pleasing if we match (as much as we can!), but if you feel good I believe you play better! And the desert island question. If you were stranded on a desert island with a pile of musical instruments, but sadly, no cello, which instrument would you choose from the pile to help you pass the time until you are rescued – and why? If I wasn't a cellist I would love to be a pianist. I did learn piano in my younger years but somehow it just never clicked! The piano repertoire is amongst my favourite. Thank you, Jane for taking time out of your busy schedule to answer our questions. We look forward to hearing you and Jennifer play on February 11th. 2016 has just begun and we have two more concerts to look forward to in our current season, but already we are looking ahead. Here is a preview of our 2016-2017 season. October 6th, 2016 Jack McNeill returns, this time with a string quartet. October 27th Riyad Nicolas - Piano November 17th Ugnė Tiškutė - Viola (and Pianist) January 26th, 2017 Cassia String Quartet February 16th Jørgensen Trio March 9th Mauro Lo Conte - Piano
Today we welcome flautist Alena Lugovkina to the virtual sofa on the CMS blog. Alena, together with Niklas Walentin (Violin) and Pavel Timofeyevsky (Piano) will play for us on the 14th January.
Hello Alena. Thank you for coming today to tell us about yourself, your fellow musicians and your music. Perhaps you would tell us first of all how you met Niklas and Pavel. Since the summer of 2011 I have been taking part in the Verbier Festival, one of the very best music festivals in Europe. It is held in a little village in Switzerland, but there is an amazing concentration of world-leading instrumentalists, singers and conductors. The Festival has Symphony and Chamber orchestras, plus one youth orchestra and also has a very prestigious Academy – for soloists and chamber musicians. During the summer of 2014 the Reaching Out programme for entrepreneurs was launched there and I was one of those lucky enough to be selected. All Academy and Reaching Out musicians received an invitation to an open party one evening, where we could enjoy playing through chamber music together. I went to that party and happened to be the only woodwind player there and no music was available for flute. However, I was invited to join the piano quintet and shared the 1st violin part with a very handsome violinist who was great fun to play music with: that was Niklas. And Pavel? I did my Bachelor studies at the Royal Academy of Music, which I still consider my second home. One morning I came to the Music in Community lecture to discover that we had representatives from Live Music Now to talk about that amazing organisation. A pianist, who had studied at the Academy, gave a talk; I found it very interesting and approached him at the end to ask some questions. We discovered that we both knew about each other! I had heard a lot about Pavel from several good friends of mine, but never got to meet him until that day. We both thought it would be a great idea to one day play through something together and have a chat over a cup of coffee. Two weeks after we met and played some chamber pieces together and since then we have played lots of concerts and won several auditions together. He has become one of my best friends as well as a great chamber partner. How did the three of you come to play music together? I have played with both of them on different occasions. I felt that both Pavel and Niklas had a similar approach to rehearsing and musical ideas were so similar between the three of us that I knew I must suggest for us to play together. Definitely it was one of the best suggestions I’ve ever made! A happy beginning! The programme you are going to play for us looks very interesting. Yes, flute, violin and piano as a chamber combination is very rare, but very exciting! We thought we would play all: trios, duos, solos to allow you to experience different sound worlds. We hope you will enjoy the pieces we have chosen just as much we love playing them! And what about future engagements. Are you going to be busy in 2016? Pavel is going for a solo concert tour in South Africa straight after our trio concert tour finishes. Niklas is a real jet-setter, never in one country for more than a week. I feel so privileged that he is joining us for this tour. In Spring he will be giving a solo recital and trio concert at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint-Petersburg and will be playing the Elgar violin concerto with the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra in April, as he was awarded the Danish Critics Award in 2015. And as for me, in February I will be touring around Scotland with my wind quintet Atéa, giving 9 concerts altogether. And straight after the tour, I will be flying to the USA for a concert tour with my harpist Katherine Ventura. There I will also be giving flute masterclasses in several universities. And another event that I am very much looking forward to: Pavel and I will be giving a shared recital at the Wigmore Hall. So Winter and Spring are quite busy, but very exciting! Thank you very much, Alena, for taking time out of your busy schedule to visit us here on the CMS blog. We look forward to your concert next month. Best wishes to all three of you for 2016. In September 1963 the Beatles and the Rolling Stones performed in the Great Pop Prom at the Royal Albert Hall and André Tchaikowsky, a 28-year-old Polish composer and pianist, gave a piano recital in Carlisle for the North Cumberland Recital Club. The final item on his programme was Ravel's brilliant but unsettling Gaspard de la Nuit. The middle movement of the piece, Le Gibet, depicts the corpse of a hanged man swinging on a gibbet.
On a concert programme owned by Phyllis Simpson and recently donated along with many others to Carlisle Music Society, André Tchaikowsky wrote, 'To Miss P. C. Simpson, with the grateful remembrance of her hospitality in Carlisle.' The tragedy of Tchaikowsky's early life when he was confined in the Warsaw Ghetto and suffered the loss of his mother who died in Treblinka, returned in middle age. Sadly he was not destined to enjoy a long life of performance and composition; he died of cancer at the age of 46. In his will he left his body to medical research, but he made a stipulation regarding the future of his skull. In what some might regard as a macabre gesture he donated it to the Royal Shakespeare Company, asking that it be used as a prop on stage. The skull finally achieved fame in 2008 when it was held by David Tennant in his portrayal of Hamlet. André Tchaikowsky might have been gratified to know that a further commemoration of his skull was made by the Royal Mail in 2011 when six stamps were issued to mark the 50th anniversary of the Royal Shakespeare Company. One of the stamps featured David Tennant holding Tchaikowsky's skull. Autographed concert programmes from the North Cumberland Recital Club (1951-1966) can be viewed at the Carlisle Archives Centre. |
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