Concert Season

September – December 2007

The first three events are Members’ Evenings,
though non-members can attend if they contact the
TBS Secretary (Tel: 01428 713338).

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Friday 21st September 2007 at 8pm in The Great Hall of Farnham Castle

David Parsons – Lute & Theorbo

Paul Robinson – Tenor

David (left) studied at the Royal College of Music as a pupil of Diana Poulton. Following a successful Wigmore Hall debut he has toured widely in Europe, Scandanavia and the USA. He has broadcast in London, Los Angeles, Oslo, and Munich and presented a recital of Lute music for Spanish Television. His recent CD releases have included Elizabethan Lute Music, 18th century ‘galant’ chamber music with his trio, The Haydn Lute Trio and the music of the 19th century guitar virtuoso Fernando Sor.
Paul was a Choral Scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, where he had been a boy chorister. He continued his studies at the Royal College of Music and was awarded a number of prizes including the Countess of Munster, Wolfson Foundation, Sybil Tutton and RCM Opera Scholarships. He has recorded Purcell’s Ode to St Cecilia and Mendelssohn’s version of Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Recent engagements have included recitals and concerts in London, Glasgow, Tel Aviv, Cambridge, Frankfurt, Jerusalem and Shizuoka, Japan.

Works by Dowland, Rossetter and Purcell

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Friday 19th October 2007 at 8pm in The Great Hall of Farnham Castle

Thomas Gould – Violin

John Reid – Piano

Thomas began violin lessons at the age of three; at eighteen he entered the Royal Academy of Music on a scholarship. Since graduating in 2006 he has established a busy and varied career as soloist, recitalist and orchestral leader. In May 2006 he was selected for representation by the Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT). As a Martin Musical Scholarship Fund award winner he has also appeared in recital in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Through the Countess of Munster Recital Scheme and Making Music Young Concert Artist Programme, Thomas performs regularly for music clubs and societies across the UK John read music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he gained an MPhil in musicology before taking up a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music. In recognition of his achievements, he was awarded the Queen’s Commendation for excellence by the Academy on graduating in 2004. He is a regular member of the Aurora Orchestra, and he joined the contemporary music ensemble Radius for its debut at Wigmore Hall in April 2007. John (right) began his musical education as a chorister at Salisbury cathedral and as a scholar at Charterhouse.  in 1998, he took up an organ scholarship at Clare College, Cambridge, where he read music and from where he recently gained an M.Phil in musicology.

Concert sponsored by The Countess of Munster Trust

Works by Delius, Williams, Ravel and Frank

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Friday 16th November 2007 at 8pm in The Great Hall of Farnham Castle

Diabolus in Musica

Barbara Barros – Baroque Violin

Siv Thomassen – Baroque Violin

Iason Ionnou – Baroque Cello

Erik Dippenaar – Harpsichord

The London-based period instrument ensemble Melopoetica was formed in 2003; its goals include the deliverance of exciting performances of repertoire from the late sixteenth century to the classical works of Mozart and Haydn that move and affect the audiences. It is an international and diverse ensemble, helping to bring an extraordinary input to their musical interpretation. Individually and as an ensemble the members have performed in many major venues in London and throughout Europe. For 2007 Melopoetica has been invited to play in renowned festivals and in venues in England, Sweden, Portugal, Greece, South Africa and Mozambique. The ensemble obtained the English Concert Junior Fellow title at Trinity College of Music in 2006. Barbara plays on an Amati copy made by Willbrord Crijnen, 2005, and Siv plays on a Steiner copy by the same maker, 2004. Iason's sound comes out from a Gofriller copy made by Clive Morris, 2005. Melopoetica is a term used by scholars and composers of the 17th and 18th centuries alike to describe the relationship between rhetoric and music. It derives from the Greek melos (melody) and poiesis (poetry).

Works by Biber, Barriere, Vivaldi, Castello, Locatelli and Leclair.

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Saturday 15th December 2007 at All Saints’ Church, Tilford

Carols by Candlelight

London Handel Singers

Director Laurence Cummings

3pm Concert

The London Handel Singers

joined by children from

Waverley Abbey School

and

All Saints’ Church of England School, Tilford

The concert will include special readings and

songs by the children as well as much of our

usual programme.

6.30pm Concert

London Handel Singers

Our traditional atmospheric concert heralds the

start of Christmas Celebrations.

Tickets, price £6 (children at 3pm £3) from:

The Hon Secretary on 01428 713338

or on the door.

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