Saturday 27 April 2019, 7.30pm
SCHUBERT Rosamunde Overture
BRAHMS Violin Concerto Clare Howick
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1
Described by The Strad as “playing with beguiling warmth and affection” and by American Record Guide as “simply spectacular”, Clare Howick's CD recordings for Naxos and Dutton have received awards including 'Editor's Choice' in both Gramophone and Classical Music magazines, 'Recording of the Month' on Music Web International and 'Recommended Recording' on BBC Radio 3 Record Review. She has appeared as a concerto soloist with the Philharmonia and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and has broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Classic FM, and in Europe, the US, Canada and New Zealand.
St Mary's Church, Aylesbury, HP20 2JJ
Saturday 6 July 2019, 7.30pm
FILM MUSIC CONCERT including....
Dances With Wolves
Thunderbirds March
ET: Adventures on Earth
Harry Potter Suite
Schindlers List
Back to the Future: Suite
Star Wars Suite
Hook: The Flight to Neverland
St Mary's Church, Aylesbury, HP20 2JJ
Saturday 23rd November 2019, 7.30pm
BRAHMS Academic Festival Overture
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto Alex Lomeiko
MAHLER Symphony No. 1
Alexandra began violin lessons in New Zealand in 1996. In 2006 Alexandra moved to London where
she has been very active both as a soloist and a chamber musician, performing in many prestigious
venues, being broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and being a laureate of numerous international competitions.
She studied at the Purcell School of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal
College of Music where she was an RCM Lark Scholar supported by a Leverhulme Postgraduate
Studentship and also by an award from the Countess of Munster Trust, Hattori Foundation, Drake
Calleja Foundation and the Martin Music Scholarship Fund.
St Mary's Church, Aylesbury, HP20 2JJ
Saturday 8 February 2020, 7.30pm
SUPPE Light Cavalry Overture
DVORAK Cello Concerto Dan Brandon
SIBELIUS Symphony No. 1
Dan Brandon is a 17-year-old cellist from Epsom studying at Sutton Grammar School. He is at the Royal College of Music Junior Department (RCMJD) where he currently studies with Michal Kaznowski. He is the Principal Cellist in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and the Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra. Dan has won numerous awards in various competitions including winner of the Sutton Festival Concerto competition. At RCMJD he was runner up in the Gordon Turner competition and, most recently, finalist in the Peter Morrison Concerto Competition. He has taken part in international masterclasses with Alexander Baillie and Leonid Gorokhov. He recently performed the Dvorak Concerto in London with the Great Ormond Street Orchestra and the Saints-Saens concerto with the Leatherhead Orchestra and the Sutton Symphony Orchestra. Dan has performed a number of recitals, most recently in Shrewsbury and Poole and has been invited by RCMJD to perform a recital in Summer 2019 in the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall. Dan plays on an English cello kindly loaned by the Benslow Trust.
St Mary's Church, Aylesbury, HP20 2JJ
Saturday 25 April 2020, 7.30pm
BORODIN In the Steppes of Central Asia
SCRIABIN Piano Concerto Stephen Meakins
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6
St Mary's Church, Aylesbury, HP20 2JJ
Saturday 4 July 2020, 7.30pm
FAMILY CONCERT
PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf
PATERSON Little Red Riding Hood
St Mary's Church, Aylesbury, HP20 2JJ