International performer and teacher Alison Guill, joined by Julian Kelly, our Director of Music, leads us on a journey in English and American song from Purcell to Piaf, Shakespeare to Sondheim, on Sunday 19 November at 3.30 pm in St Anne’s Church, followed by tea and cakes in the Hall. This concert is supporting Integrated...
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MAHLER’S 4th SYMPHONY – September 3
In this season’s final concert we welcome back Finnegan Downie Dear to conduct the St. Anne’s Festival Orchestra in a performance of Mahler’s classically infused 4th Symphony, in an arrangement for chamber orchestra by Klaus Simon. We welcome Siobhan Stagg to St Anne’s to augment this powerful musical event.
PIANO FOCUS No. 3 – August 27
Internationally-renowned German concert pianist, Valentin Schiedermair, gave his debut at the sold-out Berlin Philharmonic Hall. Now based in London, we welcome him to St. Anne’s to give a recital of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
RAINFOREST JOURNEY – August 20
Drawing on instruments collected from a lifetime’s study and travel, Sue Shorter creates a hypnotic rainforest soundscape, also featuring African, Latin and Middle Eastern percussion, bamboo flute and goat bells.
AFTERNOON SONG 2 – August 13
Stephen Fort is a Bass Baritone post-graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music In Manchester. In the second instalment of Song and Lied at St. Anne’s, he presents a programme of Lied by Schubert and Strauss.
Maiastra returns to St Anne’s
On Saturday 26 August at 7.30pm a group of supremely talented young musicians, led by Arisa Fujita, the leader of the prize-winning Swiss Gemeaux Quartett, will perform one of Haydn’s last string quartets, that in G major Op. 77 No 1, a very early work by Webern, his Rondo for String Quarter (1906) and Brahms’s...
VIVALDI CONCERTO MACHINE – August 6
An opportunity to come and hear London’s most exciting up-and-coming Baroque-Meets-Psychedelic-Improv collective. The collective includes Keyboards, Violins, Flutes, Theorbo and Electric Guitar, reimagining music by Biber and Bach.
Thank you
Thank you – to everyone who helped to make our St Anne’s Day celebrations go so well. It was a fitting way in which to say farewell to Chad.
St. Anne’s Recitals JULY-SEPTEMBER 2017
July 30 AFTERNOON SONG 1 In the first of three song recitals given at St. Anne’s, Soprano Milly Forrest performs Schumann’s seminal song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben. Accompanied by Melina Karagianni, she will also present a selection of English songs by Vaughan Williams and Quilter. August 6 VIVALDI CONCERTO MACHINE An opportunity to come and...