2024/25 Concerts
Tuesday, 1st October at 7.30pm
Royal Northern Sinfonia
A very welcome and long-overdue return by the RNS to our concert series. 11 members of the orchestra join us in Hexham this evening, and what a great programme they’re bringing with them! Schubert’s much-loved Octet is nearly an hour of gloriously melodic music for wind and strings. The ensemble also play Debussy’s Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp and the sunny, outgoing Nonet by Arnold Bax, an English romantic composer whose music deserves to be much better known.
Tuesday, 22nd October at 7.30pm
Ryan Corbett
Ryan Corbett is an extraordinary accordionist hailed by the composer, Sir James MacMillan, as ‘one of the most astonishing and surprising newcomers in Scottish music’. The winner of many awards, he played for HM King Charles III at his Scottish coronation service and is a BBC New Generation Artist. His programme tonight includes his own arrangements of music by Liszt, Bach and Tchaikovsky, and music written specially for classical accordion. He may change the way you think about the accordion!
Tuesday, 26th November at 7.30pm
Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman
Winner of the BBC Young Musician competition in 2012 at the age of 15 and now one of the leading cellists of her generation, Laura van der Heijden has been hailed as a ‘superstar cellist’ by The Times. The pianist, Jâms Coleman, whose playing has been praised by BBC Music Magazine as ‘outstanding’ and as having ‘exquisite touch’, joins her this evening for a fascinating programme of music from composers as varied as Fauré, Britten, Takemitsu and Florence Price.
Sunday, 2nd February at 3.00pm
Goldscheider Horn Trio
A very special event as three great musicians – the horn player, Ben Goldscheider (principal horn with Daniel Barenboim’s acclaimed West-Eastern Divan Orchestra), Benjamin Baker on violin and Huw Watkins on piano – team up to perform one of the most celebrated works in the chamber repertoire, Brahms’s Horn Trio, and a piece written as a companion for it, the Horn Trio of Ligeti. They also play a short piece for violin and piano by Watkins, a celebrated composer in his own right.
Tuesday, 18th March at 7.30pm
Lumas Winds
You may have been lucky enough to hear Lumas Winds play as Young Artists in Residence at the 2021 Corbridge Chamber Music Festival. They are now winners of the Mixed Ensemble prize at the 2023 Royal Over-Seas League Music Competition and were this year named Britten Pears Young Artists in Aldeburgh. They are definitely ‘one to watch’ (BBC Radio 3). Their varied programme for us includes music by Mozart, Barber, Nielsen and Oliver Knussen.
Friday, 25th April at 7.30pm
Heath Quartet
We’re delighted that the Heath Quartet have found the time in their busy schedule – including an American tour, appearances in London’s Wigmore Hall and at the Brighton and Three Choirs festivals – to come to Hexham for our season finale. Firm favourites with audiences in the North-East, they bring with them a programme of music by Haydn, Britten and Dvořák, whose popular tenth quartet is known for its seamless blend of classical style and Bohemian folk – and a rollicking last movement!
Programme
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