Juliette Roos violin
Katherine Yoon violin
Yumi Fujise viola
Eliza Millett cello

Programme:
Haydn — String Quartet in D major, Op. 50 no. 6 'The Frog'
Britten — Three Divertimenti
Bartók — String Quartet no.5

This concert takes place at St Christopher’s Church, St Christopher's Green, Haslemere, GU27 1DD.

Tickets are available to purchase via the Tickets page.

First Prize and Commission Prize winners at the Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition 2023, the Kleio Quartet are quickly establishing themselves as an internationally-recognised quartet.

Described by Alina Ibragimova as "a wonderfully dedicated group of musicians who bring assuredness and freshness to everything they play”, they formed at the Seiji Ozawa International Chamber Academy in 2019 and consist of individually acclaimed musicians Juliette Roos, Katherine Yoon, Yume Fujise and Eliza Millett.

The Kleio Quartet have performed in major international venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Victoria Hall, Cadogan Hall, Royal Festival Hall, the DR Koncerthuset, the Black Diamond in Copenhagen and many others.

The Kleio Quartet is particularly grateful to have received support and mentorship from Eckart Runge and Alina Ibragimova as well as from John Myerscough thanks to ChamberStudio's Mentorship Scheme. They have also received coaching from world-renowned chamber musicians Sadao Harada, Nobuko Imai, Pamela Frank, Simon Rowland-Jones, György Kurtàg and Oliver Wille.

This season they have held a Residency at Snape Maltings' Britten-Pears Festival in Aldeburgh and look forward to a series of residencies hosted by the Strijkkwartet Biënnale Amsterdam from 2023-2025 and at ProQuartet - Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre for the season 2023/24. They are delighted to have been selected both for the Tunnell Trust’s Music Club Awards Scheme 2022/23 and as Kirckman Concert Society Young Artists for 2023/24. They have also been selected to join the MERITA platform from 2023-2025.

The Kleio Quartet are City Music Foundation Artists and are grateful for the ongoing support of Le Dimore del Quartetto.

Programme:
Schubert — 4 Impromptus, Op. 90
Beethoven — Sonata no.23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"

This concert takes place at Hindhead Music Centre, Hindhead, GU26 6BA.

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Praised for her “sparkling, crystal-clear passage-work” (Classical Music Daily) and imagination, Hungarian-British pianist Renata Konyicska has been described as a “true international talent” and her playing as a “triumph of musicianship” (Stratford Herald).

She has played solo and chamber music concerts in festivals such as IMS Prussia Cove, Nuits Classiques Megeve, Festival de Piano Classique Biarritz, Encuentro de Musica y Academia de Santander, Internationale Sommerakademie der ISA Reichenau and Liszt Week Esztergom, where she has been a regular artist since its launch.

Drawn to music early on Renata was introduced to piano at the age of 5. Her talent was supported by her family who had not had musicians before. Soon after she was admitted to the School for Exceptional Young Talents at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, in the class of Zsuzsa Esztó. She continued her studies with László Baranyay, Rita Wagner and Márta Gulyás at the same institute and attained her Bachelors degree with highest honours. She moved to London to study with Pascal Nemirovski at the Royal Academy of Music where  she graduated with her Masters degree.  In 2018 she received her  Advanced Postgraduate Diploma at the Birmingham Conservatoire.

She has won first prize in a number of international piano competitions, including Zlatko Grgosevic in Croatia, Cittá di Gorizia in Italy, Smetana in the Czech Republic. She was the winner of the inaugural Talent Support Competition at Liszt Academy in Budapest.

Elisabeth Paul alto
Tom Lilburn alto
Nicholas Madden tenor
Dominic Bland tenor
Andrew Thompson baritone/bass
Simon Whiteley baritone/bass

English Carol, arr. Damian Eley — Once in Royal David’s City
William Byrd — Hodie Christus natus est
Philip Ledger — King Jesus hath a garden
Richard Rodney Bennett — Out of your sleep
John Tavener — The Lamb
Tom Lehrer, arr. Stephen Carleston — The Masochism Tango
Tom Lehrer, arr. Daniel Brittain — The Vatican Rag
Franz Gruber, arr. Keith Roberts — Silent night
James Lord Pierpont, arr. Keith Roberts — Jingle Bells
Mel Tormé, arr. Peter Knight — The Christmas Song
Martin/Blane, arr. Bob Chilcott — Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Menken/Zippel, arr. Ana Krstajic — A star is born
Berryman/Buckland/Champion/Martin, arr. Simon Whiteley — Viva la vida
Horn/Downes/Woolley, arr. David Pogue — Video killed the radio star
Taupin/Page/Lambert/Wolf, arr. Louis Marlowe — We built this city on rock and roll
Bernard/Smith, arr. Paul Ayres — Winter Wonderland
Carey/Afanasieff, arr. Miguel Esteban — All I want for Christmas is you
Nelson/Rollins, arr. Jim Clements — Frosty the Snowman

This concert takes place at St Christopher’s Church, St Christopher's Green, Haslemere, GU27 1DD.

Tickets are available for purchase via the Tickets page.

Based at Windsor Castle, members of The Queen's Six make up part of the Lay Clerks of St George's Chapel, whose homes lie within the Castle walls. This rare privilege demands the highest musical standards, as they sing regularly for the Royal family at both private and state occasions. In 2018, this included singing for the wedding of Prince Harry and Ms Meghan Markle, now The Duke and Duchess of Sussex; in 2021, three members of the group sang at the funeral of HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh; and in 2022, members of the group sang at the Committal part of the official funeral services for Queen Elizabeth II. Most significantly however, it is the familiarity of living and singing together in Chapel every day that lends this group its distinctive closeness and blend, as well as an irresistible informality and charm.

Individually, members of The Queen’s Six have appeared in many of the most prestigious vocal ensembles on the circuit, including The Tallis Scholars, Tenebrae and The Sixteen. Their repertoire extends far beyond the reach of the choir stalls: from austere early chant, florid Renaissance polyphony, lewd madrigals and haunting folk songs to upbeat jazz and pop arrangements.

Since 2019, the group has recorded on the Signum Classics label, releasing albums of British folk songs, Hispanic Renaissance music, and arrangements of the songs of Tom Lehrer.

In 2022, they released a recording of pop love songs, their first professional pop album.

Recent and upcoming tours include the group’s first trips to Bulgaria, Norway and Denmark, and return trips to the Baltic States, Germany and the USA. In February 2023 the group made its debut at New York City’s Town Hall. They also appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and CBS Sunday Morning, as well as articles about the group featuring in People magazine.

For more information, please visit www.thequeenssix.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Programme:
J. S. Bach — Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
Brahms — Four piano pieces, Op. 119
Beethoven — Sonata in C minor, Op. 111

This concert will take place at St Bartholomew’s Church, Haslemere, GU27 1BP.

Access to the concert is free with a retiring collection for The Hunter Day Centre for Dementia in Haslemere. Doors open for coffee at 10:30.

Tickets are available to reserve via the Tickets page.

There is as yet no known cure for Alzheimer’s and the Hunter Centre in Haslemere provides day care for those with the disease and respite for their carers. Haslemere Concerts (HHH) is bringing these professional piano recitals to support The Centre and its clients whose worlds are closing in on them in a mist of lost memories.

Described by the Telegraph as an artist with “courage and stamina and musicality in abundance” and “an ability to hold an audience in the palm of his hand” after the 23-year-old made his Wigmore Hall debut, William Bracken is in high demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist, chamber musician and teacher. William is currently continuing studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he holds a position as teaching assistant in the Centre for Creative Performance and Classical Improvisation. In January 2024 William made his Carnegie Hall debut.

This concert is kindly supported by HRTCT.

Programme:
Schubert — Wanderer Fantasy in C major, Op. 15
Ligeti — Etude no.16, Book 3 “Pour Irina”
Chopin — Nocturnes Op. 48 - C minor; F-sharp minor
Ginastera — Sonata no.1, Op.22

This concert takes place at St Bartholomew’s Church, Haslemere, GU27 1BP.

Access to the concert is free with a retiring collection for The Hunter Day Centre for Dementia in Haslemere. Doors open for coffee at 10:30.

Tickets for this concert are available to reserve via the Tickets page.

There is as yet no known cure for Alzheimer’s and the Hunter Centre in Haslemere provides day care for those with the disease and respite for their carers. Haslemere Concerts (HHH) is bringing these professional piano recitals to support The Centre and its clients whose worlds are closing in on them in a mist of lost memories.

Lithuanian pianist, Milda Daunoraite, began her piano studies at the age of six. She received her formative education at The Purcell School of Music and is currently studying with Tessa Nicholson at the Royal Academy of Music, on a full fees scholarship, where she is a recipient of the ABRSM Scholarship Award. She is supported by The Keyboard Charitable Trust, ‘SOS Talents Foundation – Michel Sogny’ and the Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation.

She has performed at venues such as Wigmore Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Musikhuset Aarhus, the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, at the EMMA World Summit of Nobel Prize Peace Laureates in Warsaw and many others. Milda’s recent performances include a recital in the Laeiszhalle Recital Hall in Hamburg, at the Deal Music & Arts Festival, at the Petworth Festival, Biarritz Piano Festival and at the Palermo Classica Festival.

Milda won the Purcell School’s Concerto Competition which gave her the opportunity to perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. She also won First Prize in the international V. Krainev Piano Competition in Kharkov, Ukraine; the ‘Jury‘ Prize in the Pianale International Academy & Competition in Germany; and First Prize in the fourth International Piano Competition in Stockholm.

This concert is kindly supported by HRTCT.

Zoë Beyers violin
Ian Watson violin
Carol Ella viola
Richard Jenkinson cello
Alex Jakeman flute

Programme:
Dvořák — String Quartet no. 12 “American”
George Hall — Hidden Butterflies
Haydn — String Quartet Op. 64 no.5 "The Lark"
Debussy — Syrinx for solo flute
Debussy — Quartet

This concert takes place at St Christopher’s Church, St Christopher's Green, Haslemere, GU27 1DD.

Tickets are available to purchase via the Tickets page.

The Dante Quartet, one of the UK’s finest ensembles, is known for its imaginative programming and impassioned performances. The Quartet was founded in 1995 and chose its name to reflect the idea of an epic journey. The Quartet has been honoured with the Royal Philharmonic Society Award for Chamber Music and has also received international awards for its recordings.

Frequently heard on Radio 3, the Quartet has appeared many times at London’s Wigmore Hall and Kings Place, and at some of the UK’s foremost festivals and music societies. Abroad, the Quartet has played in France, Germany, Holland, Spain, Switzerland, Finland, the Czech Republic, Poland and South Africa, and has twice toured Japan.

The Dante Quartet has made a series of acclaimed recordings for Hyperion, winning the BBC Music Magazine Award and the French Diapaison d’Or. The Quartet has also recorded for Signum and Toccata Records and their recording of the string quartets by Herbert Howells was released on the Naxos label in 2019. The Dante Quartet has recently recorded the eight string quartets and two quintets of C.V. Stanford on the SOMM label.

Alex Jakeman was awarded a full scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Upon graduating with the highest honours, she went on to hold positions with both the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra before taking up her current position as Principal Flute with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

Extensive touring has taken Alex throughout Europe, Canada, the US, Mexico, Australia, Russia, India, the Far East, and she can be heard on several Hollywood soundtracks such as Cinderella and The Shape of Water. She is frequently heard as a concerto soloist on Radio 3 with the BBC Philharmonic.

Programme:
Beethoven — Sonata Op. 31 no.2
Stephen Hough — Sonata no.3
Shostakovich — Selection of Preludes and Fugues
No.5
No.3
No.4
No.7
No.24

This concert takes place at St Christopher’s Church, St Christopher's Green, Haslemere, GU27 1DD.

Tickets are available to purchase via the Tickets page.

Emanuil Ivanov attracted international attention after receiving the First prize at the 2019 Ferruccio Busoni Piano Competition in Italy. This achievement was followed by concert engagements in some of the world's most prestigious halls including Teatro alla Scala in Milan and Herculessaal in Munich.

Emanuil Ivanov was born in 1998 in the town of Pazardzhik, Bulgaria. From an early age he demonstrated a keen interest and love for music. He regards the presence of symphonic music, especially that of Gustav Mahler, as tremendously influential in his musical upbringing during his childhood. He started piano lessons with Galina Daskalova in his hometown around the age of seven. He later studied in and graduated from the Bertolt Brecht language high school in Pazardzhik. Ivanov studied with renowned bulgarian pianist Atanas Kurtev from 2013 to 2018. He is currently studying on a full scholarship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire under the tutelage of Pascal Nemirovski and Anthony Hewitt.

Ivanov has won prizes in competitions such as "Alessandro Casagrande", "Scriabin-Rachmaninoff", "Liszt-Bartok", "Young virtuosos" and "Jeunesses International Music Competition Dinu Lipatti". He was also awarded the honorary Crystal Iyre and teh Young Musician of the Year Award - some of the most prestigious awards in Bulgaria. In 2022, he received the honorary Silver Medal of the London Musicians' Company and later in the same year became a recipient of the Carnwath Piano Scholarship.

His participation in masterclasses include those of Dmitri Bashkirov, Dmitri Alexeev, Sir Stephen Hough, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Peter Donohoe, etc.

Hagam Shaham violin
Arnon Erez piano
Raphael Wallfisch cello

Programme:
Mozart — Piano Trio in E major, K.542
Shostakovich — Piano Trio no.2, Op. 67
Grieg — Andante con moto, EG 116
Dvořák — Piano Trio no.4 in E minor, Op. 90, B.166 "Dumky"

This concert takes place at St Bartholomew’s Church, Haslemere, GU27 1BP.

Tickets are available for purchase via the Tickets page.

"…the performers brought a spontaneity and freshness to the music with the inventive nature of the material really shining through. Overall, this was an evening of first rate music making and the performances of the Arensky and Brahms trios were exceptionally fine.”
Seen & Heard International

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch was founded in 2009 and comprises three of the finest international instrumentalists performing today: world renowned cellist Raphael Wallfisch alongside the outstanding talents of Hagai Shaham (violin) and Arnon Erez (piano).

Since its formation, the Trio has been invited numerous times to prestigious chamber music series at venues such as London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Rotterdam De Doellen, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie.

Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch has an exclusive contract with Nimbus Records with releases to date including the Mendelssohn trios and works by Ravel, Arenski, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov. The trio's most recent release, a recording of Dvorak: Piano Trio no.3 (2023) was described in a 5 star review by BBC Music Magazine as showing "passionate engagement with the work's stirring rhetoric... beautifully nuanced."

HHH Concerts, in association with Haslemere Festival, in aid of the Meath Epilepsy Charity, Godalming

Programme:
J.S. Bach — Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

This concert takes place at St Christopher’s Church, St Christopher's Green, Haslemere, GU27 1DD.

Tickets are available for purchase via the Tickets page.

One of the world’s leading concert pianists, Angela Hewitt appears in recital and as soloist with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Asia. Her interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time.

Born in 1958 into a musical family (the daughter of the Cathedral organist and choirmaster in Ottawa, Canada), Angela began her piano studies age three, performed in public at four and a year later won her first scholarship. In her formative years, she also studied classical ballet, violin, and recorder. From 1963-73 she studied at Toronto’s Royal Conservatory of Music with Earle Moss and Myrtle Guerrero, after which she completed her Bachelor of Music in Performance at the University of Ottawa in the class of French pianist Jean-Paul Sévilla, graduating at the age of 18. She was a prizewinner in numerous piano competitions in Europe, Canada, and the USA, but it was her triumph in the 1985 Toronto International Bach Piano Competition, held in memory of Glenn Gould, that truly launched her international career.

Angela’s award-winning cycle for Hyperion Records of all the major keyboard works of Bach has been described as “one of the record glories of our age” (The Sunday Times). Begun in 1994, it culminated with her much-awaited recording of Bach’s Art of Fugue in 2014. Her extensive discography also includes solo recordings of the complete Beethoven Sonatas (she is one of very few women ever to record the complete cycle), Scarlatti, Handel, Couperin, Rameau, Haydn, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Fauré, Debussy, Chabrier, Ravel, Granados and Messiaen. She has won four Juno Awards, including one for her album of Mozart Concertos with Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra. Other concerto recordings include the complete Bach Concertos with the Australian Chamber Orchestra; the works for piano and orchestra of Schumann with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin; and Messiaen’s mammoth Turangalila Symphony with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. She is now recording the complete Mozart Piano Sonatas, and the first of three double-CD albums will be released in November 2022. A regular in the USA Billboard chart, her new album Love Songs hit the top of the specialist classical chart in the UK and stayed there for months after its release. In 2015, Angela was inducted into Gramophone Magazine’s “Hall of Fame”, reflecting her popularity with music lovers around the world.

In 2020 she was awarded two prestigious prizes: the City of Leipzig Bach Medal (being the first woman in its 17-year history to receive the award), and the Wigmore Hall Gold Medal in recognition of some 80 performances over the past 35 years in London’s most prestigious chamber music venue.

During the 2007-2008 season, Angela embarked on her Bach World Tour, performing the Well-Tempered Clavier in 21 countries on six continents. At the same time, she released a DVD entitled Bach Performance on the Piano, sharing her experience of learning and performing Bach with amateurs and professionals alike. From September 2016 to September 2022 (the end delayed two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic) she presented in major cities of the world The Bach Odyssey—performing all the keyboard works of J.S. Bach in a series of twelve marathon recitals—a huge feat which has been undertaken by very few keyboard players. After her performances of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier at the 2019 Edinburgh Festival, the critic of the London Times wrote, “…the freshness of Hewitt’s playing made it sound as though no one had played this music before.”

Conducting concertos of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven from the piano, Angela has led the Toronto Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Copenhagen Philharmonic, the Lucerne Festival Strings, the Kammerorchester Basel, the Vancouver Symphony, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Britten Sinfonia, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburg Camerata, the orchestra of RAI Torino, the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa in Japan, and in 2019 made her debut playing and conducting Bach with the Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra in Vienna’s Musikverein.

Along with performing a vast amount of the standard repertoire, Angela has also commissioned new works including two piano concertos: the Second Piano Concerto of Dominic Muldowney (premiered with the BBC Symphony in 2002); and in 2017 “Nameless Seas” by Canadian-Finnish composer Matthew Whittall (with the National Arts Centre Orchestra). Canadian composers such as Oskar Morawetz, Steven Gellman, Gary Kulesha, David McIntyre, and Patrick Cardy also wrote pieces dedicated to her. In 2010 she commissioned seven composers from around the world to write short pieces inspired by Bach which were published in a collection (along with several of her own Bach transcriptions) entitled “Angela Hewitt’s Bach Book”. In February 2022 she was presented with The Oskar Morawetz Award for Excellence in Music Performance by the Ontario Arts Council.

Described as “one of the busiest pianists on earth” by London’s Evening Standard (2005), Angela also devotes herself to nurturing new talent. Her masterclasses, both around the world and online, are hugely appreciated, and every few years she gives a week-long masterclass in Italy for gifted pianists. She was also part of Piano Six from 1994-2004: a project which took live music into the remote communities of Canada—giving concerts, masterclasses, and playing for school children across the country. Her writings on music include all the liner notes for her CD recordings as well as several book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement.

In 2005, Angela launched the Trasimeno Music Festival in the heart of Umbria, Italy of which she is Artistic Director. An annual event, it draws an international audience to stunning venues including the Castle of the Knights of Malta in Magione (near Perugia) on the shores of Lake Trasimeno. Seven concerts in seven days feature Hewitt as recitalist, chamber musician, song accompanist, and conductor, working with both established and young artists of her choosing. Involving writers and actors in the programming has been a particular pleasure for her, and she has gone on to perform with many of them elsewhere: with authors Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes in London, Vienna, and New York; and with actor Roger Allam in Venice and at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. Her recordings and live performances have featured in such films as The Tree of Life (2011), The Life Aquatic (2004), The Impassioned Eye (2003)—a documentary on Henri Cartier-Bresson—and in 2018 The Children Act (based on the novel by Ian McEwan and starring Emma Thompson).

As an Ambassador for “Orkidstra”– a Sistema-inspired social development program in Ottawa’s inner city, she brings attention to how music can bring children and young adults together through the joy of making music and learning an instrument, as well as how it teaches valuable skills such as commitment, teamwork and tolerance.

Her frequent masterclasses are hugely appreciated. When all concert activity abruptly stopped in spring 2020 due to the pandemic, Angela went online to share daily offerings of short pieces—many of which form the basis of teaching material. Her fans were thrilled, and she was happy to inspire them and stay in touch.

In July 2022 Angela was Chairman of the Jury of the prestigious International Bach Competition in Leipzig (piano category). The upcoming 2022-23 season sees her performing with orchestras in Finland, Denmark, Montreal, Ottawa, Victoria BC, Prague, Germany, and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in New York. Recitals take her to, among others, Barcelona, San Francisco, Seattle, Vienna, Amsterdam, Cambridge, Leipzig, and the famous La Fenice Opera House in Venice. She will give masterclasses for young pianists at the Royal College of Music, London, at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (Nova Scotia), at Northwestern University (Illinois) and the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota. She is also an artist-in-residence at London’s Wigmore Hall.

In 2006 Angela was awarded an OBE from Queen Elizabeth II in her 80th birthday honours. A frequent guest on BBC Radio, she was invited to be the sole live performer in the two hours of classical music broadcast on BBC Radio 3 immediately following the funeral and committal of Queen Elizabeth II on September 19, 2022. In 2015 Angela was promoted to a Companion of the Order of Canada—her country’s highest honour. She was “Artist of the Year” at the 2006 Gramophone Awards, “Instrumentalist of the Year” at the 2010 MIDEM Classical Awards at Cannes, and in 2018 received the Governor General’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Ottawa. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, has seven honorary doctorates, and is a Visiting Fellow of Peterhouse College, Cambridge.