Venue:
Churchill College Recital Room
Description:
This term's College Choir Concert will be somewhat shorter than usual and will take place relatively early in the term to make way for exams.
Confirmed items in the programme are as follows:
Calme des Nuits (Saint-Saens), conducted by Kyle Lam
English folk songs (Vaughan Williams), conducted by Joe Donlan
And so it goes (Billy Joel, arr.~Bob Chilcott), conducted by Alan Cruickshank
English madrigals by Bennet and Morley
Entrance is free and free refreshments will be provided after the concert.
Venue:
Churchill College Recital Room
Description:
Tim Fain is a highly acclaimed professional violinist. His father, Gordon, was recently an Overseas Fellow and has arranged for Tim not only to play for us at Churchill but to do so free of charge.
The recital will last about an hour.
To find out more about Tim, visit his website, www.timfain.com. His programme for us includes the following works:
Philip Glass: Selections from the Partita for solo violin (composed for Tim)
Kevin Puts (Recent Pulitzer winner): Arches
J S Bach: Partita in D minor
Venue:
The Chapel at Churchill College
Description:
To end the term on a festive note, the Chapel Choir presents a high-decibel choral evensong.
J S Bach: Prelude in B minor, BWV 544
Kedrov: The Lord's Prayer
Sanders: Preces and Responses
Stanford: Psalm 150
Murrill: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in E
Wood: O Thou, the Central Orb
Lefebure-Wely: Sortie in E-flat
Hymn tunes to include Jerusalem and Coe Fen
Venue:
Churchill College Recital Room
Description:
Martin Hughes and Philip Jenkins return to the Recital Room to complete their epic voyage through the violin and piano sonatas of Beethoven. Philip Jenkins is a distinguished solo pianist and teacher, currently based at the Guildhall School.
He was appointed a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music in 1974 and was later Head of Keyboard Studies at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama for seventeen years.
Martin Hughes is an equally accomplished violinist, and his performances have featured both in CD recordings and in BBC
radio and television productions. He was Head of Strings at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama for five years and is currently Head of Strings at the Bedford School.
The works covered in this term's recital are as follows:
Opus 30, No. 1 in A major
Opus 24 (Spring)
Opus 96 in G major
Tickets on the door for £5 (£2 for students). Free refreshments during the interval.
Venue:
Churchill College Recital Room
Description:
The Grantchester Quartet is composed of players from Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra and CUMS Symphony Orchestra, including Churchill undergraduate Alice Cane.
The Quartet's programme for this lunchtime recital includes
the Nocturne from Borodin's String Quartet No.~2 and, with pianist Peter Ford, Brahms' Piano Quintet in F minor.