Lumas Winds
Tuesday, 18th March 2025 – 7.30pm
Performers
A very welcome return to the Tyne Valley for Lumas Winds. They were Young Artists in Residence at the 2021 Corbridge Chamber Music Festival and now they’re back for a full recital with us in the Queen’s Hall.
Lumas have already won several awards and accolades. The Royal Over-Seas League’s Mixed Ensembles prize in 2023, a place on the 2024 Britten Pears Young Artists Programme in Aldeburgh and appointment to the 2024/25 Kirckman Concerts Young Artists scheme are just three of them. They have also recently released their first recording to much acclaim, The Naming of Birds. This ensemble is clearly going places!
The members of Lumas are committed ambassadors for wind chamber music and the rich variety of repertoire that it offers. They are also passionate advocates for works not currently in the canon but which deserve to be. You can see this in tonight’s varied programme, with Mozart and Nielsen framing performances of music by composers such as Oliver Knussen and Willam Mathias. You’ll also hear Summer Music by Samuel Barber – creator of the wonderful Adagio for Strings – and a quintet by Franz Danzi, a contemporary of Beethoven who wrote several works for wind quintet despite being a cellist!
‘Such beautiful music making…. They’re one to watch’ – BBC Radio 3 Record Review
‘Lumas Winds are an … effervescent wind quintet, lively in their performance style and enterprising in their choice of repertoire.’ – Seen and Heard International
‘This delightful evening of masterly wind playing’ – Ilkley Gazette
Programme
Mozart Overture to the Marriage of Figaro
Knussen Three Little Fantasies, op. 6A
Danzi Wind Quintet in B flat major, op. 56 no. 1
Barber Summer Music, op. 31
Mathias Wind Quintet, op. 22
Nielsen Wind Quintet, op. 43
Watch/Listen
Online recital from St Bride’s Church, London –
Playing Ravel at the 2021 Corbridge Chamber Music Festival –
Kindly supported by Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme