Music Around Plymouth
Concert Season
Spring - Summer 2016
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Plymouth Music Accord Activities include
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Helping raise the profile of musical activity generally
Concert Experience – funding tickets for schoolchildren to
experience live music
Tuition Project – funding instrumental or vocal tuition in schools,
which cannot always be afforded by everyone
Young Musicians’ Internships - enabling keen musicians to
rehearse and perform with an adult orchestra or choir
Young Musicians’ Platform - helping talented youngsters to set out
on a musical career
PMA Members include music lovers from the general public and local
organisations - including local orchestras, choirs, chamber groups, folk
groups, performers and venues, whose events are listed in this diary.
Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary
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e-mail [email protected]
Sunday March 6 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British
Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Plymouth Jazz Club
The Carlton Big Band, leader Elaine Davies
Music by Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Duke
Ellington & more.
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B
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Friday March 4 at 7.30 pm at St. John's Church,
Totnes - Totnes Rotary Club
Plymouth Area Police Choir
For details contact 01752 406995
Saturday March 5 at 7.30 pm at The House,
Plymouth University
Chamber Music Concert
The Atlantic Connection: Pierre-Emmanuel
Largeron & Lindsay Braga - violins, Andrew
Gillett - viola, Jane Pirie - cello
Dvorák: String quartet Op.96 No.12, American
,Desmond: Take Five (arranged for string
quartet), Copland: Hoe Down, from Rodeo (arr.
for string trio), Bologne: String quartet Op.1 No.4
in C minor, Villa-Lobos: String quartet No.1
W099, Piazzola: Libertango (arranged for string
quartet)
Tickets £10, £8 Friends of Peninsula Arts, SPiA,
Artory, from Box Office A
Wednesday March 9 at 1pm at the Duke of
Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Road, Plymouth
Jeanie Moore MVO - 23rd International Concert
Series
Pete Oxley & Nick Meier - Jazz Guitar Duo
Tickets £10 from Box Office E
Wednesday March 9 at 7.30 pm at Melvin Hall,
Mount Kelly, Tavistock
Mount Kelly Concert Society
Mishka Rushdie Momen - Piano
Programme to include Mozart: Fantasia in C
minor, Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy
Tickets - £13; acc. children free - 01822 813130
Saturday March 5 at 7.30 pm in St. Mary's
Church, Totnes
Consortium5: Emily Bloom, Kathryn Corrigan,
Oonagh Lee, Gail Macleod, Roselyn Maynard
As our Sweet Cords and Discords Mixed Be
Works by Dowland, Coperario, Byrd and
Gibbons, played on an array of different sized
recorders
Tickets £12 ( £5 for students & under 18s) from
the Dartington Box office 01803 47070, online at
www.dartington.org or on the door.
A Totnes Early Music Society concert
Friday March 11 at 7.30 pm at St Werburgh's
Church, Wembury
The Martin Dale Trio playing jazz
Tickets £10 from Pamela Pinder 01752 863304
or Carol Steel 01752 862602
Fundraising concert for Plymouth Music Accord
Saturday March 12 at 10 am (registration) and 6
pm (performance) at Saltash Wesley Church
East Cornwall Bach Choir
Open singing Workshop - Mozart: Requiem
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Wednesday March 16 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth
Guildhall
Plymouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Anne Kimber, with Daniel Lebhardt - piano
Sibelius: Karelia Overture, Rachmaninov: Piano
Concerto no. 2, Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4
Tickets: Balcony £17 (concession £15) Ground
floor £15.50 (concession £13.50) child/ student
£5, at the door or from Kerry’s Music, 51
Ebrington Street, Plymouth PL4 9AA, Tel:01752
227120 and www.wegottickets.co.uk
Saturday March 12 at 10.30 am starting at St.
Mary's Church, Laira, Plymouth
Plymouth & District Organists' Association
visit and at 2 pm Central Methodist Church,
Plymouth
Contact [email protected],
tel: 01822 833728
Saturday March 12 at 7.30 pm at the Minster
Church of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth
Spring Choral Classics
University of Plymouth Choral Society &
Orchestra, conductor Simon Ible, with Candida
Frankham, soprano
excerpts from the choral classics including
Handel: Messiah, Vivaldi: Gloria, Mozart:
Requiem and Vespers, Fauré: Requiem and
Cantique de Jean Racine, Purcell : Dido and
Aeneas, Bach : Jesu, Joy of Man’s desiring
PLUS Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in A minor
Tickets: £15, £13 Friends of Peninsula Arts from
Box Office A
Thursday March 17 at 7.30 pm at the Minster
Church of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth
Plymouth University Orchestra, conductor
Rupert Bond, with Kris Emmett - organ
Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony in C major (last
two movements), Debussy: Petite Suite,
Chabrier: España, Ravel : Pavane pour une
infante défunte
and works for String Orchestra, Brass and Wind
Admission free
Saturday March 12 at 7.30 pm at Carnglaze
Caverns, St. Neot, Cornwall
Canoryon Lowen (choir) & Dalla (folk group)
with St. Neot School singers
Nick Hart: 'A Story of Cornwall'
A new work merging contemporary choral
singing with innovative folk music forged from
the county’s great traditions
Tickets £11.50, concessions £8.50 from
www.carnglaze.com tel 01579 320251
Friday March 18 at 7.30 pm at the University of
Plymouth Sherwell Centre
Student Composers' Concert
The focus of this year's concert will be neoclassical, film and modern music. It is a
reflection on modernity and music styles. The
programme will feature new music from
Plymouth University BA (Hons) Music students
including final year composers.
Admission free
Sunday March 13 at 6.30 pm at St
Bartholomew's Church, Yealmpton
The Lupridge Singers
Stainer: Crucifixion
Vaughan Williams: 5 Mystical songs.
Tickets £12 on the door, £10 in advance from
Yealmpton Post Offfice, Yealmpton Stores,
Tubbs Pharmacy, Newton Ferrers or Pickles of
Modbury.
Friday March 18 at 7.30 pm at Holy Cross
Church, Newton Ferrers
Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir
John Rutter: Requiem
Friday March 18 at 7.30 pm at St. Andrew's
Church, Plymouth
Plymouth Area Police Choir - Shekinah
Mission
Details from Bob Sheldrake, 01752 406995
Sunday March 13 at 6pm at St Peter’s Church,
Plymouth
Plymouth Phoenix Chorale as guest choir
The Passion – an exploration in sound and
vision using images and the music of Steiner's
Crucifixion. Admission free - details from Box
Office C
Saturday March 19 at 7.30 pm at St. Michael
and All Angels Church, Cornwood
Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir
John Rutter – Requiem
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Saturday March 19 at 7.15 pm at Buckfast
Abbey
South West Chamber Choir, director Stephen
Trahair, organist David Crocker
The Secrets of our Hearts
Songs of lamentation for the eve of Holy Week
with viol ensemble and chamber organ
Purcell: Funeral Sentences for Queen Mary,
Tallis: Lamentations and anthems by Tomkins,
Desprez, Gesualdo, Gibbons and Greene.
Free entry with a retiring collection at the door
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Saturday April 2 at 7.30 pm at Menheniot Church
Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir
Concert with Torpoint Ladies
Sunday April 3 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British
Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Plymouth Jazz Club
Fifty Shades of Jazz, quintet featuring leading
UK pianist Craig Milverton, Plymouth's own
Martin Dale on saxes & vocalist Petra Brown.
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5) Box Office B
Saturday March 19 at 7.30 pm at Mount Gould
Methodist Church, Faringdon Road, Plymouth
City of Plymouth Concert Band
MGM to MGM Concert
A concert of melodies from past MGM films
Wednesday April 6 at 7 pm at The Wharf Arts
Centre, Tavistock
Live Broadcast from the Royal Opera House
Giselle
Tickets £13 from Box Office D
Sunday March 20 at 7.30 pm at The Royal
British Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth
PL6 5DH
Plymouth Jazz Club
Frenchmen Street Jazz Band
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B
Friday April 8 at 2 pm at St. Budeaux Methodist
Church
Plymouth Clarion Choir
Friday April 8 at 7.30 pm at Liskeard Town Hall
Plymouth Area Police Choir - Richard Collins
For details contact Bob Sheldrake, 01752
406995
Sunday March 20 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth
Guildhall
Plymouth Philharmonic Choir, conductor
Christopher Fletcher, Soloists: Susanna
Fairbairn – soprano, Laura Trayhurn – mezzo,
Richard Rowntree – tenor, Andrew Mayor –
baritone, Mark Boocock – bass
J S Bach: St John Passion (in English)
Tickets £19 at the door (if available);
Child/student £5; £17 in advance from 01822
853791 & www.wegottickets.com
Sunday April 10 at 4 pm at The Wharf Arts
Centre, Tavistock
Live Broadcast from the Bolshoi Theatre
Don Quixote
Tickets £12 from Box Office D
Monday April 11 at 2 pm at The Wharf Arts
Centre, Tavistock
Lunchtime Lecture
Adrienne Hesketh: Devon’s Composers
Tickets: £5 on the door
Tuesday March 22 at 2pm at St. Budeaux
Methodist Church
Plymouth Clarion Choir
Wednesday April 13 at 1pm at the Duke of
Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Road, Plymouth
Jeanie Moore MVO - 23rd International Concert
Series
Sehyogue Aulakh - Percussionist
Sehyogue, a recent graduate of PMA’s Young
Musicians’ Platform, will be playing the Marimba
Tickets £10 from Box Office E
Wednesday March 23 at 7.30 pm at Ridgway
Methodist Church, Plympton
Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir
John Rutter: Requiem
Details tba
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Sunday April 17 at 8 pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Stannary Brass Band Concert with guests the
Kingsmen
Tickets £10 on the door or £8 in advance from
Box Office D.
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday April 16 at 7.30 pm in St. Mary's
Church, Totnes
Musica Domestica: Kate Semmens - soprano,
Steven Devine - keyboard, Matthew Truscott violin, Rebecca Truscott - cello
Tragic Heroines
Tickets £12 ( £5 for students & under 18s) from
the Dartington Box office 01803 847070, online
at www.dartington.org or on the door.
A Totnes Early Music Society concert in
association with The Arts at Dartington.
Tuesday April 19 at 1.00 pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Organ Recital by Dr Sean Sweeney
retiring collection to help defray costs
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday April 16 at St Peter’s Church,
Wyndham Square, Plymouth
Plymouth Phoenix Chorale, Director: Marcus
Alleyne
Mozart Choral Workshop
9.30am registration, informal concert at 3.15pm
(no charge to listen)
Tickets £15 per participant (+optional £3 for light
lunch) from Box Office C
Wednesday April 20 at 7.30 pm at Melvin Hall,
Mount Kelly, Tavistock
Mount Kelly Concert Society
Matthew Scott - Clarinet, and Christine Zerafa
- Piano
Brahms: Sonata No. 2, Sarasate: Carmen
Fantasy
Tickets - £13; accompanied children free of
charge, from 01822 813130; Email:
[email protected]
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday April 16 at 7.30 pm at St Luke’s
Church, Buckfastleigh
Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir with Barnstaple
MVC
Thursday April 21 at 1.00 pm at St Eustachius’
Church, Tavistock
Elisabeth Holman - violin & Andrew Wilson piano
retiring collection to help defray costs
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday April 16 at 7.30 pm at Buckfast Abbey
Voces
Renaissance music for the Easter season
Admission free, retiring collection
Saturday April 16 at 7.30 pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Concert by Canoryon Lowen
Tickets £10 on the door or £8 in advance from
Box Office D
Thursday April 21 at 7.30 pm at the Tavy Club,
Tavistock
Folk evening with Tavy Tars and friends,
including Gypsy Train
retiring collection to help defray costs
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday April 16 in Torquay (tbc)
Plymouth & District Organists' Association
visit to St Matthias Church and St John’s Church
(tbc)
Contact [email protected],
tel: 01822 833728
Friday April 22 at 8 pm at The Wharf Arts
Centre, Tavistock
Limelight Night - visiting bands
Tickets from £4 from Box Office D
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Sunday April 17 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British
Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Plymouth Jazz Club
Kevin Grenfell’s Jazz Giants, special guest Paul
Harrison.
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B
Friday April 22 at 6pm at The Mezzanine,
Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University
Words & Music Festival Launch
Founder, Suzanne Sparrow and Peninsula Arts
Director of Music, Simon Ible introduce the 2016
festival. Free
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Friday April 22 at 7 pm at Lower Lecture
Theatre, Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University
Peter Hinds, Associate Professor of English,
Plymouth University
Talk: ‘Sounds, and sweet airs’: Shakespeare’s
words and music
Free
Sunday April 24 at 2 pm at the Lower Lecture
Theatre, Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University
Scurvy Songs from Shakespeare
Local composer Clive Jenkins talks about his
three new Shakespeare songs:
Pugging Song, A Scurvy Tune & Freedom, Heyday!
Friday April 22 at 7.30 pm at Launceston Central
Methodist Church
Plymouth Area Police Choir with St. Joseph's
Choir
For details contact Bob Sheldrake, 01752
406995
Sunday April 24 at 3pm at the Upper Lecture
Theatre, Sherwell Centre, Plymouth University
Alexander Robin Baker - baritone, Jo
Ramadan - piano
Song recital of Shakespeare Songs including
works by Clive Jenkins, Roxana Panufnik,
Gerald Finzie and new Shakespeare songs by
Plymouth University student composers.
Tickets £10, £8 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA,
Artory, from Box Office A
Saturday April 23 at 2.30 pm at United Reformed
Church, Russell Street, Tavistock
Devon County Youth Brass Band
r etiring collection to help defray costs
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Sunday April 24 at 8.00 pm at The Wharf Arts
Centre, Tavistock
All Folk’d Up
Tickets: from £16 from Box Office D
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday April 23 at 7.30 pm at Minster Church
of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth
Shakespeare Gala Concert
Ten Tors Orchestra & Bath Spa University
Choir, conductor Simon Ible, chorus master
Matthew Spring. with Augusta Hebbert soprano, Elin Pritchard - soprano, Alexander
Robin Baker - baritone
Thomas Linley: A Lyric Ode on the Fairies,
Aerial Beings and Witches of Shakespeare
Thomas Arne: Nine Shakespeare Songs
Henry Purcell: Incidental music for The Tempest
Tickets: £17, £15 Friends of Peninsula Arts
&Ten Tors Orchestra, from Box Office A
Monday April 25 at 12.30 pm at The Abbey
Chapel, Tavistock
Recital by the Mount Kelly Musicians
Tickets £5 on the door
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Monday April 25 at 7 pm at the Wharf Arts
Centre, Tavistock
Live Broadcast from the Royal Opera House
Lucia di Lammermoor
Tickets £12 from Box Office D
Saturday April 23 at 7.30 pm at Liskeard Public
Hall
East Cornwall Bach Choir
Celebrating Shakespeare (or What Will Inspires)
Tuesday April 26 at 1.00 pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Oboe & Piano Recital by Leslie & Mary Mazur
Park
retiring collection to help defray costs
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday April 23 at 8 pm at The Wharf Arts
Centre, Tavistock
Mad Dog McCrea
Tickets: from£10 from Box Office D
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Tuesday April 26 at 7.30 pm at The Wharf Arts
Centre, Tavistock
Wurlitza presents ‘Sunrise’ with Janet Gaynor
a film and live music extravaganza
Tickets £6.50 from Box Office D
Part of the Tavistock Festival
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Friday April 29 at 1 pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Piano Recital by Brian Chapple
retiring collection to help defray costs
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Wednesday April 27 at 1 pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Violin & Piano Recital by Margaret Morris &
David Crocker
retiring collection to help defray costs
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday April 30 at 1 pm at the Abbey Chapel,
Tavistock
recital by ‘To Music Borne’
Tickets £5 on the door
Wednesday April 27 at 7 pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Tavistock Sings! - a showcase of local school
choirs, including the combined choirs giving a
performance of a medley from Les Miserables
plus items from individual schools.
Tickets £2 on the door or in advance from Box
Office D
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday April 30 at 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm at the
Denis Ball Performing Arts Centre, Mount Kelly,
Tavistock
Festival Supper with entertainment from
Viktor Bijelovic
Tickets: £30 (tables of eight - £200) from Box
Office D Part of the Tavistock Festival
Wednesday April 27 at 7 pm at the Jill Craigie
Cinema, Plymouth University
Katherine Williams, Lecturer in Music,
Plymouth University
Talk: "Such Sweet Plunder': Or, Who's Line is it
Anyway?"
Katherine Williams uses Duke Ellington’s music
to explore the balance of authorial power
between composer, bandleader, musicians,
improvisers and record producers.
Free
Saturday April 30 at 7.30 pm at Theatre 1,
Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
The Echoes of Ellington Big Band, led by
Peter Long Such Sweet Thunder - Duke
Ellington’s twelve part suite based on the work of
William Shakespeare
Tickets £10, £8 Friends of PA, SPiA, Artory,
from Box Office A
Saturday April 30 at 7.30 pm at Buckfast Abbey
TQ11 0EE
Brent Singers, Director of Music Philip
Arkwright
Haydn: Creation
Admission Free with Retiring Collection. Details
from 01752 892703
Thursday April 28 at 1 pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Violin & Piano Recital by Margaret Morris &
David Crocker
retiring collection to help defray costs
Part of the Tavistock Festival
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Friday April 29 at 7.30 pm at St Eustachius’
Church, Tavistock
Chamber Ensemble of London, Director Peter
Fisher, Solo dancer: Heather Rees
Henry Purcell: Dances from The Fairy Queen,
Peter Tchaikovsky: Valse des Fleurs, Clive
Jenkins: Fiddler and Dancer, Camille SaintSaëns: Danse macabre, Gioacchino Rossini: La
Danza, Emil Waldteufel: Les Patineurs, Andrew
M Wilson: Tavy Dance Suite, Clive Jenkins:
Tarte au citron, Noël Gay: Lambeth Walk
Aaron Copland: Hoe-Down from Rodeo
Tickets £15 (students £8) from Box Office D, or
on the door
Part of the Tavistock Festival and Sponsored by
Eldreds Auctioneers
Sunday May 1 at 5pm in St John’s Church,
Bridgetown, Totnes.
Divertimento String Quartet
Mozart, Shostakovich and Smetana
Tickets £12 from Divertimento 01803 863677
Sunday May 1 at 6pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Festival Evensong; choir augmented by
Canticorum
Part of the Tavistock Festival
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Saturday May 7 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth RC
Cathedral, Wyndham Street West, Plymouth,
PL1 5RZ
West Devon Chorale, Director: Michael
Johnson, with Joel Munday - violin
Rheinberger: Mass in E flat, Philips: Ascendit
Deus, Byrd: Ave Verum, Tallis: Salvator Mundi
Gibbons: O Clap Your Hands, Stanford: Motets
Holst: Nunc Dimittis, Jenkins Exsultate, Jubilate
Esenvalds O Salutaris Hostia
Tickets: £10, (£8 in advance), children and
students £3 from
[email protected] 01752 776479,
or online at
www.wegottickets.com/westdevonchorale
Sunday May 1 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British
Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Plymouth Jazz Club
The JB Jazz & Blues Band. Jazz, blues, swing,
jump-jive etc.
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B
Sunday May 1 at 7.30 pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Concert by Canticorum
retiring collection to help defray costs
Monday May 2 at 9.30 am for 10.00 am at St
Eustachius’s Church, Tavistock
Choral Workshop directed by Andrew Wilson
‘Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast’
Tickets for participants: £10; for details contact
Rosemary Turner – [email protected]
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday May 7 at 7.30 pm at the Sherwell
Centre, Plymouth University
Chamber Concert "Mediterranean"
Pierre-Emmanuel Largeron - violin, Daniel
King Smith - piano
Paganini: Caprice No.24, for solo violin
Vivaldi: Violin concerto in A minor
Geminiani: Violin Sonata in G Major
Bax: Mediterranean, for piano
Ravel: Pièce en forme de Habanera
Sarasate: Hommage à Rossini
Tickets £10, £8 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA
Artory, from Box Office A
Monday May 2 at 6.00 pm at St Eustachius’s
Church, Tavistock
Tavistock Sings! - ‘Hiawatha’s Wedding
Feast’ with Julian Jensen (tenor)
retiring collection to help defray costs
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Monday May 2 at 7.30 pm at Gallery 26, Bedford
Hotel, Tavistock
An evening of music from local youth
musicians/bands
Tickets £5 in advance from the Bedford Hotel
Reception
Part of the Tavistock Festival
Saturday May 14 at 7.30 pm at Roadford
Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir
for the South West Lakes Trust
Sunday May 15 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British
Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Plymouth Jazz Club
Brian Carrick's Algiers Stompers. Classic New
Orleans jazz
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B
Wednesday May 4 at 1pm at the Duke of
Cornwall Hotel, Millbay Road, Plymouth
Jeanie Moore MVO - 23rd International Concert
Series
52 Strings & a Bow: Peter Fisher - violin and
Dorothy Linell - Theorbo & Guitar
Music from the Renaissance to the present day from virtuosic Baroque sonatas to Neapolian
love songs
Tickets £10 from Box Office E
Tuesday May 17 to Saturday May 21 at 7.30 pm
(Sat. Mat.2.30 pm) at the Devonport Playhouse
Plymouth PL1 4DW
Plymouth Gilbert and Sullivan Fellowship,
directed by Alan Spencer with full orchestra
under the musical direction of Jane Warwick
‘Iolanthe’
Tickets £16 concessions £14 from 01752
600166 or book online:
www.plymouthgilbertandsullivan.com
Friday May 6 at 7.30 pm at the Methodist Central
Hall, Plymouth
Plymouth Area Police Choir Summer Concert
For details contact Bob Sheldrake, 01752
406995
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Saturday May 21 at 7.30 pm at Minster Church
of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth
Spring Choral Classics
University of Plymouth Choral Society &
Orchestra, conductor Simon Ible, with Robyn
Allegra Parton - soprano, Anna Harvey - mezzosoprano, Daniel Auchincloss - tenor, Peter Kirk tenor and James Oldfield - bass-baritone
Schubert: Mass no.6 in Eflat
Tickets: £15, £13 Friends of Peninsula Arts from
Box Office A
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Friday June 3 at 7.30 pm at the Methodist
Central Hall, Plymouth
Plymouth Area Police Choir Summer Concert
For details contact Bob Sheldrake, 01752
406995
Sunday June 5 at 3 pm at Holy Cross Church,
Newton Ferrers
The Lupridge Singers
A selection of opera choruses.
Tickets £8 to include cream tea, from Tubbs
Pharmacy, Newton Ferrers or Pickles of
Modbury.
Saturday May 21
Plymouth & District Organists' Association
visit to Wembury Church and Thorne House
Contact [email protected],
tel: 01822 833728
Sunday June 5 at 3 pm (venue tba) in Totnes
Devon Baroque
Europeans!
Works by Gottfried Finger, Giovanni Battista
Draghi, Johann Christoph Pepusch, Willem de
Fesch, the Purcell brothers & George Friderich
Handel.
Tuesday May 24 at 4 pm at Theatre 1, Roland
Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
Plymouth University Gamelan Orchestra &
Friends, Saj Collyer, conductor
Free
Sunday June 5 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British
Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Plymouth Jazz Club - Jazzacadabra
Mainstream/modern jazz by a Plymouth band led
by clarinettist Chris Costin. Eclectic range of
music from Cole Porter to Miles Davis.
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B
Wednesday May 25 at 7 pm at St Mary’s
Church, Botus Fleming, Near Saltash, Cornwall
Ten Tors Orchestra Chamber Ensemble
directed by Mary Eade
Summer Serenade Fundraising Concert & Buffet
Supper
Chamber music for strings: popular music by
Mozart, Shostakovich and Handel and the
famous Monti Czardas.
Tickets: £20 (includes buffet) in advance only
from Karen Ible 01752 841149. Email:
[email protected]
Saturday June 11 7.30 pm at Calstock Church
South West Chamber Choir, director Stephen
Trahair
Pastyme with Good Companye
Tudor madrigals (including works by Henry VIII,
Byrd, Dowland and Gibbons), with contemporary
works including George Shearing's Songs &
sonnets from Shakespeare, and the premiere of
local composer Helen Porter’s On watching the
tide at Blaxton Quay. Full details from South
West Chamber Choir
Thursday May 26 at 8 pm at Theatre 1, Roland
Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
Plymouth University Orchestra, conductor
Rupert Bond
Programme includes:
Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from Symphony No.5
Richard Strauss: Horn Concerto No.1
Music for strings, wind and brass ensembles
Free event, parting donation invited toward
concert costs
For information about the Orchestra
email: [email protected]
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Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary
Saturday June 18 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth
Guildhall
Plymouth Phoenix Chorale accompanied by
the Kelliwik Orchestra, Director Marcus Alleyne
'Plymouth’s Picnic Proms'
Includes Woods ‘Fantasia on British Sea Songs’
and other Proms Favourites and featuring
Rutter’s ‘Feel the Spirit’ rituals
Bring your own picnic etc..
Adults £12, Concessions £8, Children £2 from
Box Office C
Sunday June 12 at 5.30 pm at Sterts Theatre,
Upton Cross, nr. Liskeard
Plymouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Anne Kimber
Movie Night
John Williams: Superman, Star Wars, Jurassic
Park, Mahler: Death in Venice, Howard Shore:
Lord of the Rings, Klaus Badelt: Pirates of the
Caribbean, Hans Zimmer: Batman - The Dark
Knight Rises, Gladiator, Friedel: Terminator
Richard Rogers: Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Tickets £10, Concessions £8 Students/Children
£6 From Sterts Box Office, tel: 01579 362382 or
on the door
Saturday June 18 at 7 pm at The House,
Plymouth University
"Celestial"
Ten Tors Chamber Orchestra, conductor
Simon Ible, with Paul K Joyce synthesizers/sounds and narration, Sarah
Simmonds - soprano, Helen Porter - mezzosoprano, Billy Bottle - male voice, Will McNicol acoustic guitar, Simon James - sound, Graham
Gaunt - film/projections, Chris Watson - sound
recordist
Music by Paul K Joyce, poems by Johnnie
Douglas-Pennant
Tickets £10, £8 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA
Artory, from Box Office A
Wednesday June 15 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth
Guildhall
Plymouth Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Anne Kimber
Programme as at Sterts above
Tickets: Balcony £17 (concession £15) Ground
floor £15.50 (concession £13.50) child/ student
£5, at the door or from Kerry’s Music, 51
Ebrington Street, Plymouth PL4 9AA, Tel:01752
227120 and www.wegottickets.co.uk
Friday June 17 at 7.30 pm at Plympton St.
Maurice Church
Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir, Directed by Jenny
George
"A Summer Presentation"
The opening event of the Plympton St. Maurice
Summer Festival.
Saturday June 18 at 8.30 pm at Theatre 1,
Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
"Relic" by Katy Richardson, performed with
Imperfect Orchestra
Tickets £7, £5 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA
Artory, from Box Office A
Saturday June 18 starting at 11 am
Plymouth & District Organists' Association
visit to Visit to St Gregory’s Church, Seaton
and at 2pm to Axminster and 4pm to Beer:
Congregational Church fro the Beer Wurlitzer
and St. Michael's Church
Contact [email protected],
tel: 01822 833728
Saturday June 18 at 7 pm at St Eustachius
Church, Tavistock
Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir
Gala Concert
Sunday June 19 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British
Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Plymouth Jazz Club
Slide by Slide
Traditional/mainstream jazz from a quintet
headed Richard Leach and Kevin Grenfell
(trombone & trumpet).
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B
Saturday June 18 at 5.30 pm at Theatre 1,
Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University
"Voices" Juliet Fraser - soprano with
electronics
Christopher Fox: Magnification, Scott Mc
Laughlin: Snowflake, Michael Finnissy: Same as
we, Nicholas Peters: Scantlebury
Tickets £5, £3 Friends of Peninsula Arts SPiA
Artory, from Box Office A
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Summer 2016
Sunday July 3 at 7.30 pm at The Royal British
Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Plymouth Jazz Club
the Fraser Weekes Quartet
Mainstream jazz by some fine local musicians
led by Plymouth's popular guitarist.
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B
Friday June 24 at 7.30 pm at St. Jude’s Church
Plymouth
Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir
Saturday June 25 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth
Unitarian Church, Notte St. Plymouthh
Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir
Saturday June 25 at 7 pm at Chillington
Methodist Church
Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir
Anniversary Concert
Wednesday July 6 at 2.45 pm at Plymstock URC
Day Room
Plymouth Clarion Choir
For the Good Companions
Sunday June 26 at 7 pm at St. Germans Priory
East Cornwall Bach Choir
Bach: Magnificat (tbc)
Commissioned Work
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Saturday July 9 at 7.30 pm at Rattery Village
Hall TQ10 9LD
Brent Singers, Director of Music Philip
Arkwright
Gilbert & Sullivan: HMS Pinafore
Admission by ticket only available from choir
members or ring 01752 892703
Friday July 1 at 7.30 pm at St Boniface Church,
St. Budeaux
Sir Joshua Reynolds Choir, Directed by Jenny
George
Monday July 11 at 1.45 pm at Rees Youth &
Community Centre, Mudge Way. Plympton
Plymouth Clarion Choir
Saturday July 2 from 10 am (informal
performance 5.30pm) at St Paul’s Church,
Yelverton, Devon
University of Plymouth Choral Society,
musical director Simon Ible
Singing Day Workshop
Come and sing a selection of sacred anthems,
motets and madrigals. All welcome.
Participants £14, £12 members of UPCS
For further information and an application from
contact the UPCS Secretary Jan Green
e-mail [email protected] or telephone:
01752 844899
Saturday July 16 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Central
Hall
Music of The Night Choral Foundation
Summer Concert
Tickets £10, concessions £8 from Tel 01752
365580
Tuesday July 19 at 7.30 pm at Trinity UR
Church, Hartley, Plymouth
Plymouth & District Organists' Association
Annual General Meeting and entertainment
Contact [email protected],
tel: 01822 833728
Saturday July 2 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth
Pavilions
Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir
Massed Cornish MVC Charity Concert
Friday July 22 at Tavistock Town Hall
Plymouth Jazz Club
the Fraser Weekes Quartet
Traditional Jazz. Details tba Box Office B
Sunday July 3 at 7.30 pm at Plymouth Guildhall
Plymouth Philharmonic Choir, conductor
Christopher Fletcher
John Rutter: Feel the Spirit & other anthems
Morten Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna
Tickets £19 at the door (if available);
Child/student £5; £17 in advance from 01822
853791 & www.wegottickets.com
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Plymouth Music Accord Concert Diary
Saturday July 23 from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm at
Tavistock Parish Church
Exon Festival Chorus, led by Richard
Wilberforce
Come and Sing Workshop
Brahms: German Requiem
Workshop ticket £10. Music hire £3 or bring your
own copy
Tickets available from 1 March 2016 from
Bookstop, 3 Market Street, Tavistock
Tuesday July 26 to Sunday July 31 in Tavistock
Exon Singers 50th Festival
Tuesday July 26 at 7.30 pm (Rehearsal 2.30pm)
at Tavistock Parish Church
Exon Festival Chorus & Exon Singers, led by
Richard Wilberforce
Brahms: German Requiem
Workshop ticket £10; Workshop and Concert
£20. Music hire £3 or bring your own copy
Tickets available from 1 March 2016 from
Bookstop, 3 Market Street, Tavistock
or from [email protected]
Saturday July 30 at 7.30 pm at Tavistock Parish
Church
Exon Singers 50th Anniversary Concert with
singers and conductors past and present.
President David Hill conducts
Handel: Dixit Dominus and Bach Motets, with the
Zeitgeist Chamber Orchestra. Tickets £10
(under 18 free) from outlets as for July 26.
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Sunday August 7 at 7.30 pm at Royal British
Legion Club, Tailyour Road, Plymouth PL6 5DH
Plymouth Jazz Club
The Great Western Jazz Company
Mainstream jazz by a fine Cornish band.
Tickets £9 for visitors – all welcome– (Members
£7, Full-Time Students £5). Box Office B
Plymouth Jazz Club
'Riverboat Shuffle'. Date & time tbc
A jazz cruise up the Tamar to Calstock & back.
Details to follow. Box Office B
Saturday August 20 at 7.30 pm at Stoke
Climsland Parish Church
Tamar Valley Male Voice Choir with
Launceston MVC
Box Offices
A: Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth, Roland Levinsky Building, Drake Circus, Plymouth
PL4 8AA, tel: 01752 585050, www.peninsula-arts.co.uk
B: Plymouth Jazz Club 01752 721179 www.plymouth-jazz-club.org.uk
C: Plymouth Phoenix Chorale: [email protected] or 07971 169335
D: Tavistock Wharf Arts Centre Box Office, tel: 01822 611166
E: Duke of Cornwall Hotel, 01752 275850, [email protected] or via
www.wegottickets.co.uk
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