Ely Sinfonia brings Ely Cathedral alive with music to conjure up visions of the Northern Lights at a concert at 7.30pm on Saturday 6th March. Highlight of the concert of music from the north is Sibelius’ highly evocative violin concerto, played by young, international British virtuoso Matthew Trusler. Also on the programme is the Peer Gynt suite no 1 by Norwegian composer Edward Grieg and Symphony no. 5 by Carl Nielsen, the Danish composer.

Matthew Trusler will meet children from the audience, as well as premium ticket holders and Friends of Ely Sinfonia, at a special reception in the interval.

All tickets are now available from Ely Cathedral Box Office (Tel 01353 660349, email box.office@cathedral.ely.anglican.org and online from https://tickets.elycathedral.org). Tickets are also available in person from Burrows Bookshop, High St Passage, Ely.

ENDELLION STRING QUARTET
West Road Concert Hall, 11 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP

Wednesday, 24th February 2010 (7.30 pm)
MOZART - String Quartet in D minor K. 421
BARTOK - String Quartet No. 5 Sz. 102
RAVEL - String Quartet in F

'The Endellion is arguably the finest quartet in Britain' - New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

''The Endellion Quartet's fastidious and elegant playing ... every movement delivered with energy, musical insight and a good deal of wry humour' - BBC Music Magazine

'The Endellion String Quartet captivates concertgoers with a remarkable rapport, playing to each other with a sense almost of discovery, communicating to the audience on a level of unusual intimacy' - Guardian

www.endellionquartet.com

The Choral Pilgrimage 2010 'Ceremony & Devotion - Music for the Tudors'

Internationally acclaimed choir, The Sixteen, returns to Cambridge with conductor Harry Christophers to perform inspiring music from the Tudor period's most enduring composers: William Byrd, Thomas Tallis and John Sheppard.

Saturday 13 March 7.30pm
Tickets £10 - £23 from Cambridge Arts Theatre: 01223 503 333 or online: www.ncem.co.uk

For more information on The Sixteen visit www.thesixteen.com

A Saturday afternoon classical guitar concert.
Featuring renaissance lute dances, works by Giuliani and Mertz, and twentieth century music by Smith-Brindle (England) and Leo Brouwer (Cuba).
The music includes 'El Noy de la Mare' (Spanish traditional), 'Plaisir d'Amour' (Martini), and a Johann Strauss Waltz.
Played by guitarist Timothy Christmas.
The Michaelhouse Arts Centre is next to the market square in Cambridge city centre.
Doors will open at 2.45pm, and the concert ends at 4pm.
Michaelhouse, Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1SU

Johannes Moser, cello
Paul Rivinius, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven – Cello Sonata in C major, Op.102 No.1
Benjamin Britten – Sonata for Cello and Piano in C, Op 65
Johannes Brahms – Sonata for Cello and Piano No 1 in E minor, Op 38

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German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser has been hailed by Gramophone Magazine as ‘one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists.’ He has performed with many of the world’s leading orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony, Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra, Munich Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Israel Philharmonic and Toronto Symphony. He works regularly with conductors of the highest level including Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Jurowski, Franz Welser-Mst, Christian Thielemann, Pierre Boulez, Neeme Jarvi and Paavo Jarvi.

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Ticket Prices: £25 (£10 Concessions for OAPs and University members, Free to Peterhouse and Trinity students, £5 other students) – Tickets available from Daniel Hill, the Concerts Secretary, on admin@cameratamusica.org.uk (please state the number of tickets you’d like to reserve)

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Christopher Maltman, baritone
Graham Johnson, piano

Franz Schubert – Winterreise, D911

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Winner of the Lieder Prize at the 1997 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, Christopher Maltman recently made an acclaimed debut at the Salzburg Festival in the title role of Don Giovanni. He is a regular guest at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden where he has sung Papageno (Die Zauberflte), Guglielmo (Cos fan tutte), Ramiro (L’heure espagnole), Malatesta (Don Pasquale) and he created the role of Sebastian in the world premiere of Thomas Ads’ ‘The Tempest’.

Graham Johnson is recognised as one of the world’s leading vocal accompanists. Born in Rhodesia, he came to London to study in 1967. After leaving the Royal Academy of Music his teachers included Gerald Moore and Geoffrey Parsons. In 1972 he was the official pianist at Peter Pears’ first masterclasses at The Maltings, Snape which brought him into contact with Benjamin Britten – a link which strengthened his determination to accompany.

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Ticket Prices: £25 (£10 Concessions for OAPs and University members, Free to Peterhouse and Trinity students, £5 other students) – Tickets available from Daniel Hill, the Concerts Secretary, on admin@cameratamusica.org.uk (please state the number of tickets you’d like to reserve)

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First half: Songs for voice, viola or violin, and piano

Johannes Brahms - Two songs for alto and viola
Frank Bridge - Three songs for alto and viola

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt

Jules Massenet - tbc

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Second half:

Two song-cycles for piano quintet and voice

Ralph Vaughan Williams - On Wenlock Edge

Oliver Rudland - Yorkshire Songs