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At Concerts for Craswall, we believe the music we promote has the power to inspire, challenge, move and uplift and that everyone, including young people, deserves the opportunity to experience transformational performances. We therefore invite families (2 adults and 2 children under 18 years) to join us for our 2025 concert season.
Featuring internationally renowned artists and ‘rising star’ performers in six concerts featuring an impressive array of strings, piano, voice, and woodwind, as well as , we’ll be kicking off the celebrations in March with the exciting Wind Quintet, Ensemble Renard.
As we move into the summer months, our first ever Festival Weekend sees us host three amazing performances at the historic Dore Abbey, Herefordshire. First up on Friday June 27th, the talented British duo of Cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist Jâms Coleman with a programme of music by Debussy, Franck, Clarke and Bonis.
Following on Saturday June 28th is a concert with internationally acclaimed solo clarinettist, recording artist, composer and lecturer Emma Johnson with the thrilling Gildas Quartet for an evening of music by Glazunov, Shostakovitch, Mozart and Emma Johnson herself.
And finally a Sunday afternnoon concert on June 29th with the internationally acclaimed Trio Lalique. Each already an outstanding virtuoso in their own right, cellist Julia Morneweg joins forces with the outstanding pianist and RCM piano professor Ilya Kondratiev and two-time Diapason d’Or-winning violinist Yuri Kalnits to form this dynamic and innovative ensemble. They’ll be performing pieces by Beethoven, Bernstein and Ravel.
Recently featured on BBC Radio 3, Sunday August 10th sees the brilliant young Early Music group Ensemble Hesperi together with talented British soprano Claire Ward. Their programme “The Fund for Decay’d Musicians” celebrates the founding and the eighteenth-century history of this remarkable organisation.
The season come to a close on 11th October with the vibrant, award-winning saxophone-accordion pairing The Mikeleiz-Zucci Duo. Their 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!