A host of top quality professional musicians perform in Benslow Music Trust's annual series of concerts, bringing outstanding performances for people in Hitchin and the surrounding areas to enjoy. Many of the performers are also tutors from our various music courses giving the course members a chance to hear their tutors playing live. The concerts take place in the Peter Morrison Recital Hall at Little Benslow Hills.
For more information about all our concerts please phone 01462 459446 and look on the 'Latest News' page for up-dates and changes.
Benslow Concerts 2008
All evening concerts begin at 8pm unless otherwise stated.
Tickets are £11 / £8 (concessions). Free tickets to students when booked in advance.
Tuesday 19 February
SORREL QUARTET
Britten - Three Divertimenti
Shostakovich - Quartet No 4
Mendelssohn - Quartet in A minor, Op 13
Tuesday 26 February
Rising Stars - O DUO Oliver Cox and Owen Gunnell, percussion
Performing from memory, and communicating with immediacy and brilliance,
Owen and Oliver's performances are hugely popular with audiences of all ages.
The concert concludes with Minoru Miki's Marimba Spiritual for Marimba and lots of drums!
Friday 7 March
MAGGINI QUARTET
Beethoven - Quartet, Op 18 No 2
Ronald Corp - Quartet No 1 'The Bustard' (2008)
Mendelssohn - Quartet, Op 44 No 2
Saturday 12 April
ALBERNI STRING QUARTET
Haydn - Quartet in C Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor"
Suk - Meditation on an Old Bohemian Chorale
Beethoven - Quartet in A minor Op. 132
Saturday 17 May
CLARINET QUINTETS
David Campbell, clarinet and the Bingham String Quartet
Programme to include:
Howells - Rhapsodic Quintet
Finzi, arr. C Alexander - Five Bagatelles
Mozart - Quintet in A, K581
This concert is supported by the Connie Cottee Clarinet Quintet Fund
Tuesday 3 June
Rising Stars - AMANDINE SAVARY piano
Bach - Toccata in D Major
C.Franck - Prelude Choral et fugue
Dutilleux - 3 préludes (D'ombre et de silence, Sur un même accord, Le jeu des contraires)
Schumann - Kreisleriana op16
Saturday 28 June
COULL QUARTET
Mozart - Quartet in F, K590
Bridge - Three Idylls
Schubert - Quartet in G, D887
Thursday 24 July
A NIGHT OF JAZZ
A great evening of jazz improvised by top class performers.
Bar throughout, from 7.30pm.
Paul Eshelby and friends
Special Events
Saturday 29 March 2008, 3pm and 7.45pm
Benslow Baroque Opera Project
Gluck Orpheus and Eurydice
Queen Mother Theatre, Hitchin
Tickets from QMT: 01462 455166
Monday Afternoon Concert Series
Organised by The Friends of Benslow Music Trust
Afternoon concerts start at 3.30pm in Peter Morrison Recital Hall. Tickets are £6, including tea afterwards, available on the door only.
14 January
MUSICAL BANQUET - Dowland, Purcell et al Songbook
Adrian Boorman, Tricia McLaughlan, Malcolm Pearce
11 February
NADIA WILSON clarinet
KUMI NAKATSUGAWA piano
10 March
THE KERRY CAMDEN WIND ENSEMBLE
14 April
THE CHESTERTON TRIO
David Bass - violin, Jenifer Lynch - cello, Heli Ignatius-Fleet - piano
12 May
ANNABEL SANDERS-HEWETT recorder
9 June
AMY DE SYBEL piano
September 8th
MIDSUMMER MUSIC - string ensemble
Mendelssohn - Octet
Brahms - Sextet in B flat
October 13th
GEOFFREY PRATLEY and ANNE APPLIN - piano duo
November 10th
FRANCIS BRETT
Schubert - Winterreise
Booking details
Tickets: £11/£8 concessions (evening concerts), £6 (Monday afternoon concerts), special events as specified. Concessionary rates apply to senior citizens, the unwaged, registered disabled persons and full-time students.
Free tickets are available to students under the age of 25 (excluding Special Events, Afternoon Concerts and A Night of Jazz). These must be reserved in advance and are not available on the door. Tickets for the evening concerts and special events can be reserved in advance.
Box Office: 01462 459446, 9am and 5pm weekdays.
Email: info@benslow.org
By post: Benslow Music Trust,
Little Benslow Hills,
Benslow Lane,
Hitchin, Hertfordshire
SG4 9RB.
Specify which concerts and the number of tickets you would like. Enclose your payment and an SAE if you want the tickets to be sent to you. Cheques should be made payable to 'Benslow Music Trust'.
Reserved tickets must be paid for and collected at least 10 minutes before the start of the concert, after which time they may be re-sold. We regret that tickets purchased in advance cannot be refunded. A limited number of tickets are available on the door.
Are you on our mailing list? - if not, please ask to be added to our concert mailing list when you book your ticket and we can keep you up to date with our events.
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Please note that all information is correct at the time of the latest update. However, there may be changes to the advertised programme that are beyond our control.