All concerts start at 7.30pm
Thursday 4th February
NCO String Trio
Nicholas Ward, violin Richard Muncey, viola
Jennifer Langridge, cello
The Northern Chamber Orchestra will celebrate its
50th Anniversary2017/2018 season.It is one of the country’s top professional chamber orchestras and has received critical acclaim for its diverse and exciting concerts and for its many recordings. As well as being principals with the NCO, all three soloists have careers with other major orchestras including the City of London Sinfonia, the Halle and the BBC Philharmonic. The Trio’s programme will include Beethoven’s String Trio opus 9 no 1, and the delightful Divertimento K563 by Mozart .
Saturday 12th March
PIVA ~ The Grand Tour
Music and Travels in Renaissance Europe
Eric Moulder, Anne Wride, Tony Millyard,
Jude Rees, Jane Moulder
Piva takes you on a lively musical journey from England to Italy, passing en-route through France, the Netherlands and Germany. The programme includes fascinating travellers’ tales; contemporary accounts of unscrupulous inn-keepers, difficult travelling conditions and strange foreign customs.
Formed in 2002, Piva is a leading UK early music ensemble specialising in the popular dance and ballad music of the late Renaissance. Playing an array of period instruments, their fresh, innovative and energetic approach has captured the imagination of audiences wherever they perform. Multi-instrumentalists, with backgrounds in renaissance, classical, jazz and roots music, they combine their influences to create a fascinating evening’s entertainment.
Thursday 21st April
Scott Brothers Duo
“I don’t think I’ve ever met two people so talented as the Scott Brothers” - MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS 2015
Jonathan & Tom Scott present an unmissable keyboard duo extravaganza of music for piano duet and duo for piano and organ, using the instruments of St Wilfrid’s as you have never heard them before! Jonathan and Tom have a busy schedule of concerts as a duo and as soloists, and this evening’s concert has music for everyone including works by Mozart, Liszt and the ever-popular Warsaw Concerto!
Saturday 21st May
Chetham’s School of Music
Chets is based in Manchester and is the largest specialist Music school in the UK. Tonight we look forward to hearing the progress of these young musicians, and they guarantee us a memorable evening, with chamber ensembles and soloists performing with their string orchestra.
Thursday 16th June
Metropolitan Brass
Tim Barber and Matthew Palmer, trumpets
Andrew Maher, French horn
Simon Powell, trombone Ben Thomson, tuba
Metropolitan Brass Ensemble was formed in 1999 at the RNCM. The ensemble performs regularly throughout the country in a variety of festivals and venues and is a member of the music education scheme Live Music Now. Tonight’s programme will include classic music for Brass Quintet: Battle Suite (Scheidt), Bernstein (West Side Story), arrangements of traditional music, and much more.
Thursday 22nd September
Kathryn Rudge soprano & Duncan Glenday piano
Kathryn is a Radio 3 BBC New Generation Artist for 2015-2017. On the opera stage last year she appeared to high praise from the critics in the role of Dorabella in Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte for Garsington Opera, and as Rosina in English National Opera's production of Rossini’s Barber of Seville. Kathryn will sing favourite opera arias and songs ranging from Rossini to Rodgers and Hammerstein.
Thursday 20th October
Ensemble Perpetuo
Oboe: James Turnbull Violin: Anna-Liisa Bezrodny,
Viola: Rosalind Ventris Cello: James Barralet
Ensemble Perpetuo is a versatile group of musicians based in London and founded in 2013 by English oboist James Turnbull. Ensemble Perpetuo can by found performing in numerous orchestras and prestigious venues throughout the UK.
Mozart Adagio for Cor Anglais & Strings K580a
JC Bach Oboe Quartet in B flat major
Krommer Oboe Quartet No 1 in C major
CPE Bach Sonata in G minor Wq 132
Schubert String Trio in B flat D471
Mozart Oboe Quartet
Saturday 19th November
Artephis Jazz Quintet
James Girling - guitar Aaron Wood - trumpet/flugelhorn
Ali Roocroft - piano Matt Brown - drums
Alasdair Simpson - fretless/electric upright bass
RNCM Jazz Quintet Artephis has been selected as the latest beneficiary of the‘Jazz North Introduces’scheme. This season Artephis is performing at the Lancaster, Marsden, Liverpool and Scarborough Jazz Festivals and at Southport Melodic Jazz Club. An evening of easy-listening jazz featuring standards and original compositions and arrangements.
