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October at City Music Foundation
In what is proving a jam-packed month of events, October sees our Artists presenting concerts across the city and across the country, from song to strings to brass. There is certainly something of interest for everyone!
Soprano Siân Dicker - 13th October 1pm
City Music Foundation Lunchtime Concert Series Barts Great Hall
Join soprano Siân Dicker in the beautiful space of Barts Great Hall on 13th October at 1pm for a programme comprising 5 of the finest opera, lieder and song composers from the 18th-20th centuries: Mozart, Wolf, Finzi, Boulanger and Sibelius. Siân's programme is curated around the letters and correspondences between these composers and their family and friends, between the Boulanger sisters, between Mozart and his wife Constanze, and from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Joyce Finzi after Gerald Finzi's death.
City Music Foundation is working in collaboration with Barts Heritage to bring music to the hidden gem of the North Wing. Tickets are free but limited in number and can be reserved online, though there will also be a some available on the door. We welcome cash donations on the day or online via our CAF donate page here. Please note that there will no livestream for this event.
Anna Cavaliero at Oxford Lieder Festival 8th October, 3:30-4:30pm, Online
In addition to appearances from Sian Dicker, Lotte Betts-Dean, Helen Charlston and Alex Soares at this year's Oxford Lieder Festival, Anna Cavaliero is performing alongside pianist Natalie Burch as part of a study event on Ivor Gurney’s devotion to his beloved Gloucestershire led by Dr Kate Kennedy, biographer of Gurney. Kate will be talking in particular about the Gloucestershire landscape and its influence on Gurney’s poetry and songs which and her talk will be illustrated with live performances from Anna and Natalie.
This talk helps set up the later dramatised recital from Robin Tritschler and Robert Murray which takes us through Gurney’s life using his own music. Only online tickets available!
Under the new Artistic leadership of Samir Savant, formerly of the London Handel Festival, St George’s Bristol welcomes two recent City Music Foundation Artists during October, as part of their Lunchtime Concert series.
Firstly, on October 7th, George Fu brings a dazzling programme drawing upon his debut experience at Presteigne Festival. Centered around a distinctly French core, there are works by Dutilleux, Tailleferre, Waley-Cohen, and concluding with Ravel’s luscious ‘Miroirs’. Also not to be missed is the chance to hear James B Wilson’s Water Dance, reprieved after George gave the premiere earlier this summer.
Later, on October 21st, Rosalind Ventris brings a programme of solo viola music, with two little known works by Imogen Holst and Thea Musgrave bookended by Baroque composers Telemann and JS Bach.
We are delighted to see our artists perform at this iconic venue in Bristol!
Echéa Quartet for Muzewest Concerts
Sunday 17th October 9pm
2018 City Music Foundation Artists Echéa Quartet can be heard in collaboration with Muzewest concerts based out in Vancouver on Sunday 17th October via livestream on their website. Tune in at 9pm UK time. They will be playing the premiere of Canadian composer Jared Miller’s String Quartet. The Echéa Quartet have a connection with Canada through violinist Aliayta Foon-Dancoes, who is originally from Victoria, BC.
You can hear more about their recent work in an interview with artistic director Jennifer West:
Not one, not two, but three CMF Artists performed at the wonderful Two Moors Festival last weekend in the first run of concerts held in Dartmoor. Cordelia Williams delighted audiences on the Friday evening in Widecombe-in-the-Moor, George Fu on Saturday morning with a programme of 'Birdsong' and finally Jazz Singer Nishla Smith performed some late night jazz on the Saturday in Ashburton. Read the full weekend review from David Nice here!
A4 Brass perform at St John's Smith Square
A4 present a varied programme in this lunchtime concert on Monday 25th October from Bernstein’s crowd-pleasing Overture to ‘Candide’ to the gorgeous love letter of Elgar’s Salut d’Amour. The group will also play a number of in-house arrangements from Euphonium player Chris Robertson.
More information about the event, tickets and the full programme can be found on their website. Alongside this, the ensemble had a stunning review in this month's BBC Music Magazine - congratulations!
We are pleased to hear the news that Songs and Music of the City of London has gone to print. There should be physical stock in good time for the Lord Mayor’s Show on 13th November. Pre-orders for small quantities may be placed online below with delivery estimated by end of October. Bulk purchase enquiries for quantities of 12 or greater printed copies at trade prices may be made directly to citymusic@virginmedia.com.
City Music Foundation are delighted too that the publication will dedicated to the memory of Sir Roger Gifford, late Lord Mayor, co-founder and former chairman of CMF.
The eBook version released earlier this year has been significantly updated and remains available on Amazon, Apple and Payhip.com/cityandlivery.
