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29th March 2025: Ensemble Renard
Saturday March 29th at 5pm
St Michael’s Church, Michaelchurch Escley HR2 0JS
For our first concert of the 2025 season, we explore the wind repertoire for chamber music with Ensemble Renard.
Founded in 2018 by musicians and friends from the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School. A wind quintet at its core, Ensemble Renard puts on exciting and varied performances for audiences of all types and backgrounds. The group carefully curate compelling and contrasting programmes tailored to each audience, aiming to take repertoire rarely given the light of day to audiences from London to the Hebrides and beyond.
Further details below.
27th June 2025: Laura van der Heijden and Jâms Coleman
Friday June 27th at 7pm
Dore Abbey, Abbeydore HR2 0AA
Our first ever Festival Weekend kicks off in grand style with a performance by the acclaimed British cellist Laura van der Heijden and thrilling Welsh pianist Jâms Coleman.
Music by Debussy, Franck, Clarke and Bonis.
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10th August 2025: Ensemble Hesperi with soprano Claire Ward
Sunday August 10th at 3.30pm
St Michael’s Church, Michaelchurch Escley HR2 0JS
For our popular Young Artist Concert this season, we celebrate the founding and history of The Royal Society of Musicians with the innovative London-based Early Music group Ensemble Hesperi and soprano Claire Ward.
The music in their programme “The Fund for Decay’d Musicians” celebrates the founding and the eighteenth-century history of this remarkable organisation, featuring works by subscribing composers, all of whom worked in London’s thriving theatres and pleasure gardens. Weaved amongst the music itself will be fascinating stories from the Royal Society’s archives about the men, women and children who received support from the fund in its early years.
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11th October 2025: The Mikeleiz-Zucci Duo
Saturday October 11th at 5pm
St Michael’s Church, Michaelchurch Escley HR2 0JS
Bringing our 2025 season to a rousing finale are the vibrant, award-winning saxophone-accordion pairing The Mikeleiz-Zucci Duo. Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi and Spanish accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade’s repertoire spans everything from reimagined traditional works to modern repertoire and improvisation, all vividly rendered by the unique combination of saxophone and accordion.
This programme is inspired by dance music from different eras and cultures, from the courts of 16th century France to folk inflected Scottish music; from Eastern European traditional music to nuevo tango. Expect music by Bach to Bartok, Ravel to Piazzola!
Further details below.