An annual series of live classical
music performances at
ST. WILFRID'S CHURCH, CHURCH LANE,
GRAPPENHALL VILLAGE,
WARRINGTON, CHESHIRE
WA4 3EP
UK
Featuring some of the top names in classical music.
St Wilfrid's church boasts a warm and very comfortable setting for concerts.
Live
at St Wilfrid's! has been presenting high quality concerts for twenty five years.
As well as encouraging young musicians, it has played host to many internationally
famous artists including Stephen Hough, Tasmin Little, Steven Isserlis, Michael Collins
Martin Roscoe, Leon McCawley, Paul Lewis and The Brodsky and Sorrel Quartets and
The Kings Singers.
It provides a varied diet of music, a decision endorsed by audience
survey and as recommended by Classic FM Magazine
Photos © Richard Connolly
All concerts start at 7.30pm
Previous concerts in 2018 season
Contact and Booking Details
How to find St Wilfrid’s Church
CHURCH LANE GRAPPENHALL WA4 3EP
From the M6 junction 20 (M56 junction 9) take the A50 towards Warrington. After
approximately a mile, turn left into Bellhouse Lane which is immediately after the
30mph speed restriction sign. Follow the lane for half a mile, over a humped back
bridge and the church is on the right. Parking facilities will be indicated.
1. Thursday 15th February 2018
Joslin Piano Trio (violin, cello, piano)
The
Joslin Trio is made up of young musicians with great credentials. Rosa Hartley
is a post-graduate student at Royal College of Music. Lucy Hoile is in her final
year at RNCM and a member of the European Youth Orchestra. Hayley Parkes was
piano finalist in the BBC Young Musicians 2014, graduated with 1st class honours
in 2016 and is now a Supported Artist with Yamaha Europe and also a public
speaker.
The
concert will include;
Beethoven Piano Trio in D Major 'Ghost'
Turina
Circulo
Dvorak Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor 'Dumky'
Piazzola Winter & Spring from '4
Estaciones'
3. Thursday 12th April 2018
National Youth Jazz Orchestra Ambassadors
National Youth Jazz
Orchestra Ambassadors website, click here
Join the
NYJO Ambassadors Sextet led by Professor of Jazz at the Royal College of Music,
trumpeter Mark Armstrong for an evening of well-loved classics from the Great
American Songbook, to include music by Gershwin, Cole Porter and Hoagy
Carmichael. The NYJO has helped launch the careers of many renowned musicians
including Amy Winehouse.
All concerts start at 7.30pm
Next and future concerts in 2018
season
6. Thursday 13th September 2018
Budapest
Café Orchestra
Budapest Café Orchestra website, click here
To buy Budapest Café Orchestra
tickets on line, click here
The Budapest Café Orchestra has won
legions of fans through its infectious and captivating performances. A small,
but impeccably formed, orchestra of just four players, the BCO combines violin,
guitar, accordion, double bass, saz & balalaika creating an awesome aural
alchemy normally only characteristic of far larger ensembles. Led by jazz violin
superstar Christian Garrick, The Budapest Café Orchestra plays traditional folk
and gypsy flavoured music from across the Balkans and Russia.
8. Thursday 15th November 2018
Red
Priest
(World’s Most Extraordinary Baroque
Quartet)
Red Priest website, click
here
To
buy Red Priest tickets on line, click here
Following the success of their programmes of Bach (‘Johann I’m
Only Dancing’) and Vivaldi (‘Carnival of the Seasons’). Red Priest will take us
on a whirlwind tour through the music of that other titan of the baroque, Georg
Frederick Handel. Their programme includes sonatas, chaconnes and virtuoso
variations, transcriptions both sublime and tempestuous and an audacious suite
drawn from his most celebrated work, The Messiah.
7. Thursday 18th October 2018
Willshire Piano Duo (4 hands 1
piano)
Willshire Piano Duo (4 hands 1
piano) website, click here
The Willshire Duo is comprised of
husband and wife team, Philippa Harrison and James Willshire. The Duo regularly
tour around the UK and abroad performing a wide variety of repertoire from
SaintSaens Carnival of the Animals and Britten’s works for two pianos, to new
commissions such as Duelogue by Rory Boyle.
