Penrith Music Club

14/09/2025

Roll on TOMORROW, Monday 15th!!
See you all at the concert by Leon McCawley!!

Leon McCawley will be returning to open our new season on Monday 15th September!! A wonderful programme again.
　　　　🌟NOT TO BE MISSED!! 🌟

Praised for his unfailingly communicative playing, British pianist Leon has been delighting audiences worldwide since winning, in 1993, first prize in the International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna and second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition.

Leon has been professor of piano at London’s Royal College of Music since 2008

14/09/2025

If you are in London on 16th October, come and hear Fenella Humphreys Violin and Martin Roscoe at the Wigmore Hall!

Fenella Humphreys violin; Martin Roscoe piano Felix Mendelssohn, Sally Beamish, Stravinsky and more

14/09/2025

This is not to be missed!!

Welcome to the first concert of our new season of LAKELAND SINFONIA CLASSICS. We hope that you will enjoy our new season’s musical offerings.

On Saturday 4th October 7.30pm at the Westmorland Hall in Kendal, we welcome rising star, Argentinian born, ANNA CASTRO GRINSTEIN to conduct Lakeland Sinfonia for the first time, in a wonderful programme of repertoire classics, and one rarity…
Mendelssohn’s overture “The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave)” takes us on a romantic musical voyage to the Inner Hebridean island of Staffa in dramatic fashion, riding the swell and hearing the waves crashing into Fingal’s mighty cave. A wonderful synergy of musical calm and storm.

Our ‘Local Hero’ of the piano is back in town. MARTIN ROSCOE is an all-time favourite, and is playing one of the truly great classical period concertos, Mozart’s last piano concerto in B flat, K. 595. Come, enjoy and celebrate the work of a musical master craftsman as he performs this deeply reflective work. Martin will be playing Yamaha’s flagship CFX concert grand, kindly loaned to the Society for this occasion.

The rarity is a short piece by English composer RUTH GIPPS, entitled Cringlemire Garden, Impression for String Orchestra. A pupil of Vaughan Williams and an alumna of The Royal College of Music, she was a prolific composer whose music has recently enjoyed a renaissance and is now being heard more often. Cringlemire is an imposing arts and crafts house that sits on top of a hill with sweeping views across Lake Windermere to the Langdale Pikes. Written in the pastoral idiom Gipps evokes with striking power and depth, a particular Lakeland landscape… a real rarity, and a performance in Kendal not to be missed.

BEETHOVEN’S First Symphony needs no introduction. After its revolutionary beginning of chord sequences which announces Beethoven as a musical iconoclast, settle down to this uniquely searching and bold piece in which he introduced himself to a changing musical world.

Please share this post to spread the word and support your local orchestra. Tickets available online: www.lakelandsinfonia.org.uk

13/09/2025

Valentina Wang replaces Luke Maguire as the piano accompanist at our next concert on October 14th. Luke is unable to fulfil this engagement. Valentina Wang is an Italian pianist based in London, currently in demand as a versatile collaborative pianist, chamber musician and song accompanist.
She is a recent graduate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she completed an Artist Diploma course in Piano Accompaniment.

11/09/2025

🎶 New Season, New Music! 🎶

Our 2025–26 Concert Season opens Monday 15 September with world-renowned pianist Leon McCawley — and we’re thrilled to share
the full line-up:

• 15 Sept – Leon McCawley (piano)
• 13 Oct – Cristian de Sa ( violin) & John Lenehan (piano)
• 17 Nov – Prince Bishops Brass
• 12 Jan – Quatuor Tchalik (string quartet)
• 9 Feb – Alena Walentin (flute) & Niklas Johansen (guitar)
• 16 Mar – London Handel Players (Baroque ensemble)
• 18 Apr (Sat) – RNCM Junior Musicians

🎟️ Membership: £100 (students £10) — save £30 vs individual tickets! Now payable with a card.
👉 Join or renew at our opening concert on 15 September. - please arrive early as it will be busy at the reception desk.

✨ A season of world-class music awaits — we’d love you to be part of it! ✨

https://penrithmusicclub.com/

10/09/2025

Jasdeep Singh Degun was the first British Asian musician, and the first sitar player, to receive the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Award for Best Instrumentalist. He is also the recipient of the Songlines Music Awards Best Newcomer 2023 and The Critics' Circle Music Awards 'Outstanding Achievement in Opera' 2022.
We look forward to performing his concerto, Arya, with him in Ripon Cathedral on 27th September!
Tickets on sale now via Ticketsource (www.ticketsource.co.uk/st-cecilia) and from the Little Ripon Bookshop and Harrogate Theatre.

10/09/2025

The ticket link is here: https://tockify.com/carlislecathedral/detail/1307/1759068000000

10/09/2025

Next Monday 15th 😍Not long to go until
Leon McCawley’s concert in Penrith 🎉

✨Season Opening Concert ✨
We’re thrilled to welcome back Leon McCawley, one of Britain’s foremost pianists, on Monday 15th September, 7:30pm, Penrith Methodist Church.

Programme highlights include Scarlatti, Beethoven’s mighty “Waldstein” Sonata, Chopin, and Franck’s gorgeous Prelude, Coral and Fugue.

Six years ago, Leon gave us a truly memorable performance, and we are delighted to welcome him back with another fantastic programme:

🎵 Programme
• Scarlatti: Sonata in F minor K69
• Scarlatti: Sonata in C major K159
• Beethoven: Andante favori WoO 57
• Beethoven: Sonata in C major Op. 53 “Waldstein”

Interval
• Chopin: Trois Écossaises Op. 72
• Chopin: Berceuse Op. 57
• Chopin: Barcarolle Op. 60
• Franck: Prelude, Chorale and Fugue in B minor FWV21

🎟 Tickets £20 (students £5) – available at the door, Beckside Books, or 01768 863518.

More info 👉 penrithmusicclub.com

05/09/2025

Leon McCawley returns to the Granary with a programme of Beethoven’s powerful and much-loved Waldstein sonata, masterpieces of poetic expression by Chopin, and César Franck’s mighty Prelude, Chorale and Fugue.

Praised for his unfailingly communicative playing, Leon McCawley has performed to audiences worldwide since winning first prize in the 1993 International Beethoven Piano Competition in Vienna and second prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition in the same year. He was a resident artist at Wigmore Hall in 2022 and has made 6 appearances at the BBC proms as a concerto soloist. Leon’s numerous concert performances and extensive discography have established him as a pianist of great integrity and variety. His CD of Haydn Sonatas Volume IV (SOMM Recordings) was described by International Piano as ‘one of McCawley’s finest discs to date’. McCawley’s 2024 release ‘Natural Connection’ (also for SOMM) was applauded by Gramophone as a ‘scintillatingly varied recital’, which ‘combines sensuous virtuosity, compelling charm and musical probity’.

Limited tickets remaining, head to the link below to secure yours now.



https://www.staplefordgranary.org.uk/whats-on/events/leon-mccawley-3