FOUR talented young musicians who live in or have connections with Warminster are taking part in concerts to raise funds for the historic Athenaeum theatre, on 26th and 27th September. The concert has been put together to showcase some of the talented artists who started their careers at the Ath and who now wish to…
WILTSHIRE Music Centre at Bradford-on-Avon has reopened after nearly six months, with a programme of concerts from classical to jazz to folk. In July the centre launched a £60,000 Community Fundraising Appeal to help to reopen the venue for an autumn and winter programme that puts the community centre stage. With the closure affecting more…
SHEKU Kanneh-Mason, the brilliant cellist who won the BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2016, is coming to Wells Cathedral to give two concerts on Wednesday 16th September, accompanied by members of the Fantasia Orchestra, with conductor Tom Fetherstonhaugh. The programme will include Dvorak’s beautiful Cello Concerto in B Minor, a selection of Dvorak’s…
THE Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra has returned to the concert stage at Poole’s Lighthouse arts with 12 socially distanced concerts, continuing to 16th December. Audiences will be able to experience the concerts live online and, it is hoped, to attend events in the hall, as the government guidance on Covid-19 restrictions continues to evolve. Meanwhile, a…
THERE was disappointment on 6th August when Purbeck International Chamber Music Festival announced that the Beethoven concerts scheduled for 4th and 5th September had been cancelled. The statement from the festival said “Unfortunately, on 31st July the Government postponed the planned re-commencement of indoor concerts and this has left us with no choice but to…
LOVERS of chamber music and fans of Concerts in the West, the organisation which brings rising stars of the chamber music scene to venues in Dorset, Somerset and Devon, can enjoy a series of concerts online, from 20th August to 22nd October. Concerts in the West founder and director Catherine Maddocks describes the project as…
COMPOSER Elliott Park, a music teacher at Sherborne School, has a new work being broadcast on YouTube as part of the Isolation Songbook project, from St Pancras Clock Tower in London on Wednesday 29th July. The Clock Tower live broadcast features mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston and baritone Michael Craddock, with Alex Soares on Piano. During the…
SADLER’S Wells will be streaming the Pina Bausch adaptation of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring for the whole month of July, raising funds for the north London theatre. Dancing at Dusk, starting at noon on Wednesday 1st July, was filmed on the beach at Toubab Dialaw, Senegal, just before the world moved into lockdown. It…
INVISIBLE Music, a live event created by Platform 4, associate artists at Poole’s Lighthouse centre for the arts, has been transformed into a digital piece, blending film and soundscape to create an immersive and intimate meditation on hearing loss. The work explores the sensation of losing your hearing. Platform 4 hopes that the digital world…
SALISBURY Cathedral has launched a special 2020 community project, inviting people to take part in the virtual premiere of The Salisbury Anthem, an online choral event marking the 800th anniversary of the founding of Salisbury Cathedral. The Salisbury Anthem is a song for the Cathedral and the city of Salisbury and the aim, says a…