Penrith Music Club

24/12/2024

Congratulations and good luck to Pavel Haas Quartet who came and gave a stunning concert for us in November 2022!!

24/12/2024

The Cumbria Opera Festival 2025 will be ten days of Operas, Concerts, and Education Workshops throughout the most beautiful area of Britain. Following the Cumbria Opera Group's Opera Festivals in 2021 and 2023, both critically-acclaimed by international publications, the 2025 Festival will be even m...

24/12/2024

Merry Christmas to you all 🎉🎵🎄🥳

There will be a change of performers for our New Year concert on Monday 13th January.

Due to the unfortunate withdrawal of Jeremias Fliedl (cello) and Callum McLachlan (piano), we will welcome Pei-Jee Ng( cello) and Chiao-Ying Chang ( piano) instead.

We are very grateful to Pei-Jee and Chiao -Ying for performing the similar programme to the one Jeremias and Callum were to play.

Programme :
Beethoven : Sonata for Cello and Piano No.5 in D major, Op.102/2

Faure : Elegie

Debussy : Sonata for cello and piano

-interval- ☕️ 🍪

Vaughan Williams : Six Studies in English Folksong

Bruch : Kol Nidrei

Brahms : Sonata for cello and piano no.1 in e minor

Australian cellist Pei-Jee has been Principal Cello of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra since 2022 after being Co-Principal Cello of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for 5 years.

Taiwanese-British pianist Chiao-Ying is a top prize-winner at the Leeds International Piano Competition, ARD Munich, AXA Dublin and Taiwan International Piano Competitions. Pei-Jee and Chiao-Ying performed together for some years.

We really look forward to welcoming them and celebrating New Year with you all! Please bring your family and friends.

Once again we wish you all a Merry Christmas 🥳🎄and a Happy and Healthy New Year ! 🎉🥂

13/11/2024

13/11/2024

🎶 Tickets are on sale now for our Carols by Candlelight Concerts featuring our combined Cathedral Choirs! 🎶

Every Christmas our choirs join forces for the annual Christmas Concert; this year our boy and girl choristers, Consort and Lay Clerks will be singing Carols by Candlelight - the perfect pre-Christmas musical treat, including favourite carols both classic and modern in a magnificent setting!

📅 Thursday 19 December and Friday 20 December
⏰ both 7.30pm
➡ Please visit www.carlislecathedral.org.uk/tickets to purchase your tickets, priced at £8 - £15.

We'll see you there! 🎶

13/11/2024

Come and join us next Monday 18th November. We are thrilled to welcome virtuoso clarinettist Sarah Williamson and Sam Haywood (piano). Look at the gorgeous programme. It will be another fabulous evening in Penrith! Not to be missed!! 😍🎉

Finzi : five bagatelles op. 23
Poulenc : clarinet sonata FP184
Weber : Grand Duo Concertanto

☕️ Interval 🍪

Schumann : Fantasiestüke
Brahms : Sonata in E flat
Gershwin : 3 Preludes

https://penrithmusicclub.com/

05/11/2024

Next Sunday, 10 Nov, we’re joined by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and soloist Ning Feng (pictured) for an afternoon performance that includes Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Rachmaninov’s powerful Symphony No.2 plus incredibly atmospheric music from Ethel Smyth’s opera ‘The Wreckers’.

Full details: https://betterboxoffice.co.uk/westmorland-hall/whats-on/mendelssohn-s-violin-concerto

01/11/2024

Lovely way to spend Saturday autumn evening in Keswick!!
Penrith Music Club members, don’t forget bring your club member card with you for £5 discount at the door when you buy the ticket.

30/10/2024

🎵 Our Next Concert 🎵

Monday 18th November at 7:30pm

We are looking forward to welcoming Sarah Williamson, a virtuoso clarinettist and Sam Haywood, internationally acclaimed pianist and composer.
Come and join us to enjoy their gorgeous programme !!

https://penrithmusicclub.com/

30/10/2024

CUMBRIAN SINGERS! 👀 We’re looking for you!

We’re holding a Come & Sing event in Our Lady & St Michael's church Workington on Saturday 30th November (rehearsal) and Sunday 1st December (Advent Service)

No joining fee
No audition
JUST TURN UP AND SING!

Full choir and sectional rehearsals led by our Director and students from the Royal Northern College of Music, which will be fun, inclusive and educational.

A service packed full of Advent music, which will feature group singing from multiple parts of the church, solos from RNCM students, organ and lots and lots of descants! 🎶

For more information see poster below and contact our Director, Vaughn, on [email protected] to sign up! 🙂

30/10/2024

Player Profile
Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton, violist with the Kosmos Ensemble

"Our ears tingled as Meg Hamilton spiralled and sobbed through a wordless Jewish prayer" The Times

We’re getting ready to welcome exciting pioneers of classical and world music, the Kosmos Ensemble to Parbold Village Hall this Saturday at 7.45pm.

Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton is a Millennium Award winning violist and violinist, and has a varied career in classical and traditional music.

She is known for her performances with She’Koyokh - hailed as the UK’s 'best klezmer and Balkan band' (Evening Standard). She’Koyokh has showcased Meg as a violinist and Balkan music specialist throughout UK and Europe on stages such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Brighton Dome, and WOMAD festivals, and the group has released four critically acclaimed studio albums worldwide.

Her musical travels have taken her through Bulgaria to music festivals in the mountains and Gabrovo to study the Gadulka. With a Finzi Trust Travel grant she studied in Romania with lautarii (Roma musicians) and renowned Moldovan Gypsy violinist Marin Bunea. She played the fiddler’s music for the Fiddler On The Roof production which was selected for a West End run.

Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton’s performances and recordings of world music are highly impressive - she has performed and recorded Yiddish song with Hilda Bronstein, Jewish pop with Oi Va Voi, Greek and Turkish songs with Cigdem Aslan, and played Ottoman Art Music with ensembles in Istanbul. She has performed Arabic vocal music with Abdul Salam Khier and Merit Ariane Stephanos, Romanian folk and Gypsy music with Monooka’s Caravan, Turkish Tango with Eylem Korkmaz, and also performed with La Tipica Contemporary Flamenco Company, Nitin Sawnhey and Talvin Singh, as well as Greek, Armenian, Kurdish, Alevi and Persian traditional music in various groups including the Nihavent Classical Turkish Ensemble.

Everything you need to know about Meg's performance with the Kosmos Ensemble at Parbold Village Hall on Saturday 2nd November, 7.45pm can be found here:
https://www.parboldmusic.org/event/kosmos-ensemble/

30/10/2024

Player Profile
Harriet Mackenzie, violinist with the Kosmos Ensemble

Next Saturday we welcome exciting pioneers of classical and world music, the Kosmos Ensemble to Parbold Village Hall.

“Searing Intensity ... A performance full of panache .... captivating” - The Strad
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Harriet Mackenzie is an internationally renowned concerto soloist and the Kosmos Ensemble’s violinist. You will have heard Harriet perform in Parbold before if you came to our amazing Classico Latino evening last season.

Harriet has made many recordings with orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, Orchestra Nova and the English Symphony Orchestra. These have all received international acclaim, including Five Stars in The Times, ‘Editor’s Choice’ in Gramophone Magazine, and a nomination for 'Recording of The Year' in Music Web International. Her CDs frequently top the recordings of the year lists: her recording of the Wall of Water violin concerto was chosen by Guy Rickards as one of his top three recordings of 2015 in Gramophone Magazine, and her recording of Christopher Gunning's concerto was chosen by Norman Lebrecht as one of his top recordings of 2016.

Harriet is an ambassador for contemporary music and enjoys creating a legacy with new works. She has performed many world premieres with music specifically written for her, including violin concertos by Robert Fokkens, Graham Coatman, Deborah Prichard and Julian Joseph. She has performed in prestigious venues such as the Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Budapest Marble Hall, Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall, and Kyiv Hall of Marble Columns.

She is also fascinated by world music styles, and composes and improvises in many different styles. Harriet was recognised for her outstanding contribution to music and made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in 2015.

Everything you need to know about Harriet’s performance with the Kosmos Ensemble at Parbold Village Hall on Saturday 2nd November, 7.45pm can be found here:
https://www.parboldmusic.org/event/kosmos-ensemble/