Upcoming musical events at and around Churchill
Lent Term 2013 Music Event Programme
Saturday 26 January | 2:30-5pm | Percussion workshop in the Music Centre
An opportunity to try playing percussion instruments under informal but experienced guidance for anybody who would like to try. We will have experts on tabla, Korean drums and drum kit to hand. Please contact Mark Miller if you are interested in participating.
Tuesday 5 February | 7:30pm | Baroque music from The Amphion Consort
Jennifer Bennett and her highly acclaimed ensemble provided a captivating recital of Spanish, Italian and South American Baroque music for us about this time last year. We are delighted to welcome the Amphion Consort back to the Recital Room for another Baroque recital.
Saturday 9 February | 8pm | Jazz in the Bar
One of Churchill's most popular musical events, Jazz in the Bar features an eclectic mix of live music from bands and individuals based at Churchill and beyond. There will also be opportunities for college members to perform their own short sets and impromptu jam sessions. Performers will include the newly-formed Saxual Healing, Cadenza, Harry Morgan and Julius Handler. To sign up to play in this relaxed and friendly environment contact the Music Sizar, Moira Cox
Saturday 16 February | 7:30pm | Modern music for harpsichord duet
Francis Knights (Director of Music at Fitzwilliam College) and Dan Tidhar return to the Recital Room with another harpsichord to complement our own two-manual Rubio. This concert is entirely devoted to music from the 20th and 21st centuries plus a spot of improvisation.
Sunday 17 February | 5:45pm | Malcolm Archer conducts the Chapel Choir
The Chapel Choir is delighted to welcome Malcolm Archer as guest conductor for the evening service. Malcolm is a prominent church musician, composer and concert organist, and is perhaps best known for his former role as Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral. This evening, he will conduct his own Anthem for Seafarers, commissioned by the Baltic Exchange in 2010. The preacher will be Revd Simon Springett, Royal Navy Chaplain.
Friday 22 February | 9pm | Postprandial piano quartets
Pianist Adella Boksenberg and her quartet present Mozart's Mozart's Piano Quartet in G minor (K\,478) and Dvorak's Piano Quartet in D major (Op 23) in an after-dinner concert in the Recital Room. Violinist Gwen Owen Richer and cellist Jon Fistein were instrumental award holders at St. Catharine's and Jesus Colleges, respectively, and viola player Isaac Nakhimovsky is a visiting Fellow at Emmanuel. Adella Boksenberg studied at the Royal Academy of Music.
Saturday 23 February | 7:30pm | Mozart's Requiem in Oxford
The Choirs of Churchill College, Cambridge and Trinity College, Oxford will perform Mozart's Requiem in full with orchestra in the Newman Room of the Catholic Chaplaincy in Oxford. The conducting will be shared by Solomon Lau (Senior Organ Scholar at Trinity) and Joe Donlan (fouth-year natural scientist and former College Choir Director at Churchill). This is the second time that the two colleges have collaborated musically, the first concert having been hosted in the Chapel at Churchill in Michaelmas 2011.
Tickets £4 or £2 on the door.
Tuesday 26 February | 7:30pm | Music Bursars' Recital
Churchill provides Music Bursaries to students to help them pursue private instrumental or vocal training. This is the first of two concerts in the Recital Room (the other being in the Easter term) at which the holders of these Bursaries perform for the rest of the College. This term's performers are Lukas Saul, Alice Harpole, Sam Ainsworth, Teddy Truneh and Emily Bacharach.
Saturday 2 March | 7:30pm | Orchestra on the Hill
This Orchestra draws players from Churchill and our neighbouring Colleges, and this term will be performing in the Dome at Murray Edwards College. Sophie Fennerty (Murray Edwards) and Joe Donlan (Churchill) will conduct Rossini's Barber of Seville overture, Vaughan Williams's Mystical Songs (soloist Adrian Ball), Bizet's L'Arlesienne Suite No.~1 and Schubert's Symphony No.~8 ('Unfinished').
Tuesday 5 March | 7:15pm | Trumpet, baritone saxophone and piano
This is a special event in the Recital Room to raise funds for Churchill Music Society by recent Churchill music graduate James Brady (trumpet/flugelhorn), current Churchill graduate music student Karys Orman (baritone saxophone) and current Trinity undergraduate Chris McMurran (piano). The three currently play together in Cambridge University Jazz Orchestra but are also keen classical musicians, and will combine both sides in this special recital. Pieces will range from Bach to original jazz compositions. This is guaranteed to be a colourful and unusual recital.
Tickets £5 or £3 on the door.
Saturday 9 March | New performers' workshop and concert
PLEASE NOTE: This event has been postponed until next term
While Churchill Music Society provides a platform for the College's most accomplished student musicians, the Society is also keen to support students who have not (yet) attained distinctions in Grade 8 on multiple instruments, or who have a less conventional musical background. This event in the Recital Room will provide an opportunity for students with relatively little performance experience to play in a friendly and informal environment, with the benefit of a 'dry run' before the concert.
Attendance at the concert will be by invitation only from the players, to make for a friendly atmosphere. Please contact Mark Miller if you are interested in participating.
Sunday 10 March | 5:45pm | Choral Evensong for the end of Lent term
Music for the term's Chapel services will end with Herbert Howells's powerful setting of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for Gloucester Cathedral (1946) and other choral gems by Rachmaninov and Purcell. The organ voluntaries will be by 20th century French organist-composer Jean Langlais.
Monday 11 March | 7:30pm | College Choir Concert in the Recital Room
First-year music undergraduate Jon Schranz takes over as Director of the College Choir for the calendar year 2013. Under Jon's baton, the Choir will sing works by Tavener, Byrd, Bortniansky, Rachmaninov and Hawkins.
Tickets £2 on the door. Free refreshments after the concert.
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Past Musical Events
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