Past events from 2018
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Thursday 06 December 2018 at 6.30PM
Action on Hearing Loss - Carols by Candlelight
This Endernight
Parish and Ward Church of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate, Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 3TL
Action on Hearing Loss presents their first fundraising carol service in St Botolph's. Enjoy Christmas carols and songs performed by the Addison Chamber Choir and the Deansfield Greenwich School Choir, and inspirational readings by special guests Ken Loach, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Scarlette Douglas and Mary Loudon. The festivities will continue after the service, with mulled wine and mince pies and the chance to win some exclusive Christmas prizes, such as return tickets on the Eurostar, a family ticket to Windsor Castle or four tickets to St Paul’s Cathedral.
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Friday 30 November 2018 at 5.15PM
Festal Eucharist: Andrew the Apostle
The Tale of Andrew & Wild Bells performed by the Wells Cathedral Choir
Wells Cathedral, Cathedral Green, Wells, Somerset, BA5 2UE
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Saturday 03 November 2018 at 7.30PM
Joanna Gutowska - Bach and Berkeley
Ode - In Memoriam performed by Joanna Gutowska (cello)
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3SD
Box office: Music at Oxford, Tel: 01865 244 806
J S Bach provides the starting point for a tour of repertoire for solo cello with this outstanding Polish cellist, including a performance of Michael Berkeley's 'Ode - In Memoriam'. Gaspar Cassado, a splendid Spanish virtuoso cellist of the early 20th century, is represented with his playful and lovely suite, David Matthews in elegaic mood, and Manos Charalabopoulos, a recent Royal Philharmonic Society composition prize winner, complete the programme. (Synopsis by Music at Oxford)
Photo: Joanna Gutowska by Christine Bradshaw Photography/Marine de la Loco
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Friday 26 October 2018 at 1.00PM
Cello Recital
Ode - In Memoriam performed by Joanna Gutowska (cello)
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TS
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Sunday 14 October 2018
Missa O Sacrum Convivium
Missa O Sacrum Convivium performed by the Wells Cathedral Choir & Matthew Owens (organ)
Wells Cathedral, Cathedral Green, Wells, Somerset, BA5 2UE
First performance of Michael's new Mass, 'Missa O Sacrum Convivium', performed by Matthew Owens and his splendid choir in the sublime architectural gem of Wells Cathedral.
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Thursday 04 October 2018 at 6.30PM
Catch Me If You Can at Little Venice Music Festival
St. Saviour's Church, Warwick Avenue, Little Venice, London, W9 2PT
Box office: Eventbrite
Join the Berkeley Ensemble for works written in or about childhood by Michael Berkeley and Britten. This all-British programme also features the premiere of a new work by composer Tim Watts. Conceived as a companion to Malcolm Arnold’s jazz-influenced concerto, the work is made possible through the generous support of festival donors. BBC Radio 3’s Petroc Trelawny chairs a pre-concert discussion at 6.30pm. Panelists include Tim Watts and Joe Hastings from Help Musicians UK.
Photo: Berkeley Ensemble by Nigel Luckhurst
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Tuesday 28 August 2018 at 7.45PM
Presteigne Festival Finale
Coronach performed by the Presteigne Festival Orchestra & George Vass (conductor)
St. Andrew's Church, Broad Street, Presteigne, Powys, LD8 2AF, Wales
Box office: Presteigne Festival, Tel: 01544 267800
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Tuesday 28 August 2018 at 11.00AM
Berkeley's Passions
Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, LD8 2AD, Wales
Box office: Presteigne Festival, Tel: 01544 267800
Michael Berkeley, huge supporter and long-serving President of the Presteigne Festival, shares his passions - musical and otherwise - in this hour-long conversation with conductor, pianist and publisher David Wordsworth. Favourite pieces will be played and discussed, as will Michael’s work as a composer, his time as artistic director of the Cheltenham Festival and his involvement at the House of Lords.
Photo: Michael Berkeley
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Monday 27 August 2018 at 11.30AM
Ein Celloleben
Ode - In Memoriam performed by Joanna Gutowska (cello)
St. Mary's Church, Kinnerton, LD8 2PF, Wales
Box office: Presteigne Festival, Tel: 01544 267800
Works include 'Ode - In Memoriam' by Michael Berkeley, and the world premiere of a Festival commission - 'Two Poems' by Manos Charalabopoulos.
Photo: Joanna Gutowska by Christine Bradshaw Photography/Marine de la Loco
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Sunday 26 August 2018 at 7.45PM
A Baltic Celebration
Touch Light performed by the Presteigne Festival Orchestra & George Vass (conductor)
St. Andrew's Church, Broad Street, Presteigne, Powys, LD8 2AF, Wales
Box office: Presteigne Festival, Tel: 01544 267800
Join David Wordsworth and guests for a free pre-concert talk at 7pm in the Assembly Rooms.
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Sunday 26 August 2018 at 7.00PM
A Baltic Celebration: pre-concert talk
Assembly Rooms, Presteigne, LD8 2AD, Wales
Box office: Presteigne Festival, Tel: 01544 267800
A free pre-concert talk for 'A Baltic Celebration', which begins at 7.45pm in St. Andrew's Church. With David Wordsworth and guests.
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Thursday 09 August 2018 at 11.00AM
Lake District Summer Music with Mathilde Milwidsky and Huw Watkins
A Dark Waltz performed by Huw Watkins (piano) & Mathilde Milwidsky (violin)
Carver Church, Lake Road, Windermere, LA23 2DB
Box office: Lake District Summer Music
London-born, but of Lithuanian and Latvian lineage, Mathilde Milwidsky brings this cosmopolitan mix to her programme. A former student of old Festival friend György Pauk at the Royal Academy of Music, we bow to his Hungarian roots, and Hungary and Romania's centenary, with Bartók's Romanian folk arrangements to open, and Ravel's showpiece for Hungarian virtuoso Jelly d'Arányi to close. We also light 100 candles for Estonia, in Arvo Pärt's transcendental work. While the Lake District Festival is marking Michael Berkeley's 70th birthday, today‘s première, 'A Dark Waltz', was written as in memoriam tribute to Sir John Manduell, who would have been pleased to be remembered alongside a new work by Sally Beamish commissioned by Mathilde. (Synopsis by Lake District Summer Music)
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Sunday 05 August 2018 at 7.30PM
Lake District Summer Music with Pro Nobis Singers
Build This House performed by the Pro Nobis Singers
Ambleside Parish Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Vicarage Road, Ambleside, Cumbria
Box office: Lake District Summer Music
Pro Nobis Singers, the popular Kendal-based choir, brings a renaissance to modern programmes. This concert features a number of Festival themes plus more of its own, including Michael Berkeley's 'Build This House'. Music by Urmas Sisask and Arvo Pärt marks Estonia‘s birth as a state in 1918, in the same year as the death of Sir Hubert Parry. Australian Peter Sculthorpe‘s lullaby is for children victimised by war, and Christmas comes early for Francis Poulenc with his carol 'Morning song for the Christ Child'. (Synopsis by Lake District Summer Music)
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Friday 03 August 2018 at 7.30PM
Fieri Consort & Tim Horton at Plush Festival
Haiku 1: Birds performed by Tim Horton (piano)
Box office: Plush Festival
Six-strong vocal ensemble Fieri Consort make their Plush debut alongside pianist Tim Horton for an innovative concert that mixes early music with repertoire from the present day, including Michael Berkeley's 'Haiku'. Carlo Gesualdo was a Renaissance composer who broke harmonic rules in ways that would not be seen again until centuries later. His motets and madrigals are interwoven with short piano pieces that are equally adventurous in their own right. After the interval, Tim Horton gives a solo performance of Schubert’s alpine-inspired Piano Sonata in D major.
Photo: Tim Horton
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Wednesday 01 August 2018 at 12.00PM
Lake District Summer Music with Magnard Wind Ensemble
Re-Inventions performed by the Magnard Wind Ensemble
Carver Church, Lake Road, Windermere, LA23 2DB
Box office: Lake District Summer Music
This programme not only progresses the theme of music from 1918 states, with Haydn representing Austria and Farkas Hungary, but also looks at composers taking earlier music, be it traditional or folk (Farkas, Patterson) or baroque (Michael Berkeley), or reflecting on earlier times (Ibert, Milhaud) and giving them a fresh coat of paint... and a work itself used as inspiration – the Divertimento, or Feldpartita, ascribed to Haydn (but more likely by his pupil Pleyel) was the basis of Brahms‘s Variations on a theme of Haydn. It also introduces three composers who are features of the Lake District Festival's 2018 programming: Michael Berkeley, in celebration of his 70th birthday with a performance of 'Re-Inventions'; Stephen Dodgson; and Jean Françaix. (Synopsis by Lake District Summer Music)
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Friday 20 July 2018 at 7.00PM
Michael Berkeley 70th Birthday Concert
Oboe Quintet 'Into the Ravine' performed by Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP
Box office: Wigmore Hall, Tel: 020 7258 8200
The Wigmore Hall celebrates Michael's 70th birthday with an evening of his favourite chamber works, including the Mozart Adagio and Fugue, Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge, the Schubert Quartet Satz and the chamber version of Metamorphosen by Strauss. There will also be a short new piece commissioned by the Wigmore Hall as well as Michael's 'Into the Ravine' in memory of the painter, John Craxton.
Photo: Wigmore Hall, London
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Sunday 20 May 2018 at 5.00PM
Evensong
Listen, Listen, O My Child performed by the Capella Vesperale
City-Church of St. Catharina, Eindhoven, Netherlands
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Sunday 20 May 2018 at 10.00AM
London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
Magna Carta Te Deum & Wild Bells
St. Pancras Parish Church, Euston Road, London, NW1 2BA
Based at St Pancras Parish Church, London, the London Festival of Contemporary Music presents a full programme of services, concerts, recitals and talks, showcasing the very best in contemporary liturgical music for choir and organ. Beginning on 12 May, this year’s nine-day programme features concerts in London including Michael Berkeley's 'Magna Carta Te Deum' and 'Wild Bells' on 20 May, an away day in Cambridge and six new commissions.
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Tuesday 24 April 2018 at 12.10PM
Wild Bells performed by Tom Winpenny (organ)
Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St NW, Washington DC, 20005, USA
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Saturday 14 April 2018 at 12.00PM
Wild Bells performed by Tom Winpenny (organ)
Västerås Cathedral, Västra Kyrkogatan 6, Västerås, 722 15, Sweden
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Friday 06 April 2018 at 7.00PM
Guitar Magic Festival St. Petersburg
Nocturne for Two Guitars and Ensemble performed by Anatoly Izotov (guitar)
Shostakovich Philharmonic Hall, 30, Nevskiy Prospekt, St. Petersburg, 191011, Russia
During the week-long Guitar Magic Festival, St. Petersburg hosts world-famous stars of classical guitar from France, Croatia, Australia and Russia. The first performance of Nocturne for Two Guitars and Ensemble is given by Anatoly Izotov, a complete re-working and re-orchestration of the slow movement of Michael Berkeley's Double Guitar Concerto. With thanks to Roland Gallery for his editorial and guitar advice.
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Wednesday 28 March 2018 at 7.30PM
Contemporary Evenings
Concerto for Orchestra performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
BBC Hoddinott Hall, Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF10 5AL, Wales
Box office: Wales Millennium Centre, Tel: 02920 636464
As part of the 90th anniversary celebrations at BBC Hoddinott Hall, this concert looks back at works commissioned for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales over the years. The programme includes:
Michael Berkeley - Concerto for Orchestra
Mark David Boden - Clarinet Concerto
Guto Puw - Camouflage
Hoddinott - Variants for Orchestra Op.47
Sarah Lianne Lewis - There is no seeker of dreams that were
Tickets: £11-£13. Concessions, Student Tickets and Family Tickets available. BBC National Orchestra of Wales Audience Line: 0800 052 1812 (Monday-Friday). -
Saturday 17 March 2018 at 7.30PM
International Concert Series: Violin Celebrations
Veilleuse (Night Watch) performed by Madeleine Mitchell (violin)
Rudolph Steiner House Theatre, 35 Park Road, London, NW1 6XT
Box office: Eventbrite
Distinguished violinist Madeleine Mitchell celebrates the 70th birthday of Michael Berkeley and the 75th of David Matthews with the lyrical pieces from her latest album 'Violin Muse' featuring both composers, together with two of the best loved violin sonatas plus exquisite Prokofiev from her album 'Violin Songs'. She is joined by the prize-winning Russian pianist Konstantin Lapshin. There will be a short pre-concert talk in the auditorium by Michael Berkeley and David Matthews from 6.45pm until approximately 7.05pm which is open to all ticket holders for this event.
Photo: Madeleine Mitchell
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Sunday 25 February 2018 at 10.30AM
Super Flumina Babylonis in Westminster Mass
Super Flumina Babylonis performed by the Westminster Cathedral Choir & Martin Baker (conductor)
Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Cathdedral Choir performs the Motet 'Super Flumina Babylonis' by Michael Berkeley, specially commissioned by the RVW trust and conducted by Martin Baker.
Photo: Westminster Cathedral
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Wednesday 21 February 2018 at 7.30PM
Cross Currents Festival of Contemporary Music
Haiku 1: Birds performed by Clare Hammond (piano)
Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TS
‘Cross Currents’ is a new festival of contemporary music at the Barber Institute in Birmingham. This concert features 'Haiku' by Michael Berkeley and performed by Clare Hammond, together with music by Alexander Goehr and Robin Holloway.
Photo: Clare Hammond by Julie Kim