SOME PREVIOUS CONCERTS
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The programme for the concert on 12 April 2008 at St Clements, Boscombe was:
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Norway |
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The
programme for the concert on 1 March 2008 included: |
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| "Egmont" Overture, Opus 84. | Beethoven |  |
| Piano Concerto, Opus 64. Soloist - Penelope Roskell, celebrated international artist and Professor of Piano at the Trinity College of Music. | Schumann | |
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| 8th Symphony, Opus 88. | Dvořák |
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Penelope Roskell
Penelope Roskell has performed as soloist at major concert halls throughout Britain, including the Barbican Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room. She has also travelled widely throughout the world, playing in over thirty countries in Western and Eastern Europe, the United States, Africa, Asia, and the Middle and Far East.
She won second prize in the National Piano Concerto Competition and in 1988 won first prize in the British Contemporary Piano Competition, which resulted in the offer of over fifty engagements, including eight recitals in Hans Werner Henze’s festivals in Munich and Montepulciano.
Her numerous broadcasts have included programmes for BBC Radio, W.F.M.T. Radio in Chicago and Hong Kong radio and British, Polish and Greek television. She has a particular affinity with the concertos of Mozart, Schumann and Shostakovich, and has played Mozart Concertos with numerous orchestras, including the London Mozart Players at the Barbican Concert Hall, the two piano concerto with Peter Donohoe and a tour with Sir Simon Rattle. She has also played both Shostakovich Concertos in the Queen Elizabeth Hall with the Docklands Sinfonietta. She will play the Schumann Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra in April 2008.
Penelope Roskell is Artistic Director of the Sutton House Music Sosiety, where she performs regularly. She is a committed chamber musician and has played with many distinguished artists. She currently plays regularly with the Fitzwilliam Quartet and is a founder member of Meridian, which includes Wissam Boustany, Andrew Knights, Joan-Enric Lluna, Stephen Stirling and Sarah Burnett. She has recorded for Virgin records with Aquarius. She also has an interest in contemporary dance, and her work with dance companies has included a season of solo performances of Mozart and Scott Joplin with Twyla Tharp at Sadlers Wells.
Alongside her performing career, she is Professor of Piano at Trinity College of Music, as well as visiting artist at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. She has also taught regular classes for postgraduates at the Royal Academy of Music. Her book, the Art of Piano Fingering, is published by London College of Music, and she has recently completed a DVD/video on “Yoga for Musicians”. She is a frequent guest speaker at conferences and at music conservatoires. From 2000 to 2002 she was Director of the European Piano Teachers Association Piano Pedagogy Course.
Pewnelope is also playing the Schumann Concerto with the Westbourne Orchestra in St. Ambroses Church in Westbourne on Sunday 14th September at 3pm.
The Programme for the concert on 1 December, 2007 in the Gillingham Methodist Church included:
| Overture Iolanthe | Sullivan |  |
| Selection - Lieutenant Kijé | Prokofiev | |
| Capriccio Italien | Tchaikovsky | |
Interval |
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| Organ concerto No 1 | Guilmant |
The programme for the concert on 14th July 2007
at the Methodist Church, Chandler's Ford, was
Overture, Die Fledermaus |
J Strauss |
The Little Suite |
Malcolm Arnold |
Double Flute Concerto |
Cimarosa |
| Soloists:
Sarah Radcliffe and Brenda Clerici |
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| INTERVAL |
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Symphonic Suite, Scheherazade |
Rimski-Korsakov |
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Die Fledermaus
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The programme at the concert on 19th May 2007
at St John's Church, Boscombe was
Overture Nabucco |
Verdi |
Suite in E flat |
Holst |
Oboe Concerto No. 2 |
Vaughan- Williams |
Oboe
soloist: James Baker |
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Symphonic Variations |
Dvořák |
Carmen, Suites 1 &
2 |
Bizet |
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The programme for the concert on 14th April, 2007
at St Luke's Church, Winton was:
Land of The
Mountain and The Flood |
Hamish MacCunn |
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Saxo Rhapsody |
Eric Coates |
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Carnival of the Animals
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Saint-Saens |
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Symphony No. 1 |
Sibelius |
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SOLOISTS
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The programme for our concert on 3 March 2007 was:
| Peer Gynt Suite | Edvard Grieg |
| Peter and the Wolf Narrator Sue Newgarth | Sergei Prokofief |
INTERVAL |
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| My Fair Lady Selection | Lerner and Loewe |
| The Entertainer | Scott Joplin |
| "The Nutcracker" Ballet Suite | Piotr Ilich Tchaikowsky |
The programme for our concert on 3 February 2007 was:
| Three Dances from the opera "The Bartered Bride" | Smetana |
| Suite "Karelia" | Sibelius |
Masques et Bergamasques |
Fauré, arr'd Kerry Camden |
Interval |
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| March - "The Stars and Stripes Forever" | Sousa |
| Harold in Italy Viola Soloist: Simon McCabe |
Hector Berlioz |
Cartoon of Berlioz from www.hberlioz.com
The programme for the concert on 11 November 2006 in All Saints Church, Southbourne, was:
| Overture, Orpheus in the Underworld | Jacques Offenbach |
| Finlandia | Jean Sibelius |
| Fantasia on Greensleeves | Ralph Vaughan-Williams |
| Bolero | Maurice Ravel |
| Symphony No. 3 (Organ ) | Camille Saint-Saëns |
The programme for the Concert on 14 October 2006 was:
| Prelude, Hänsel and Gretel | Engelbert Humperdinck |
| *Suite - "English Folk Songs" | R. Vaughan Williams |
| Trumpet Concerto | Joseph Haydn |
| Symphony No. 5 | Dmitri Shostakovich |
There was a small but appreciative audience.
The programme for the concert on July 9 2006 was:
THE MAGIC OF THE MUSICALS
Soloists:
Julie Vivienne - Soprano.
Stephen Ridout - Tenor.
Sue Newgarth - Soprano.
John Turner - Baritone
Music played included Oklahoma Selection, People will Say We're in Love, The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, This is my Beloved, Stranger in Paradise, Some Day my Heart Will Awake, Girls Were Made to Love and Kiss, The Cat Duet, Gondoliers Suite, Some Enchanted Evening, The Carousel Waltz, Gendarmes Duet, If I loved You, Nessum Dorma, All the Things You Are, Sound of Music Selection, Edelweiss, I Could Have Danced All Night, Romance and Waltz from the Merry Widow, June is Bisting Out all over, and You'll never Walk Alone. Musical arrangements by Sam Newgarth and Frank Leprince
There was a large and enthusiastic audience so there would be good sized benefits to the two worthy charities.
The Programme for our concert on 17 March 2006 in the Tregonwell Hall for the Rotarians included:
Egmont Overture
Beethoven
Sea Songs Fantasia
Wood
Danny Boy and other songs
Crown Imperial March
Walton
Jazz Suite No 2
Shostakovich
Last Night of Proms Items
various
The Programme at our concert on 12 November 2005, in the Methodist Church, Gillingham included:
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Description |
Composer |
| Festival Overture | Johannes Brahms |
| Soirées Musicales | Rossini arranged Benjamin Britton |
| Chanson de Matin | Chanson de Matin |
| Symphony No. 3 (Organ) | Camille Saint-Saëns |
The
Programme played at our concert on
15 October 2005, in the Punshon Memorial Church, Bournemouth included:
| Overture "Pique Dame" | Franz von Suppé |
| Song to the Moon (Rusalka) | Antonín Dvořák |
| Spiel auf Deiner Geige | Stolz |
| Intermezzo (Cavaleria Rusticano) | Mascagni |
| Vissa D'rte (Tosca) | Puccini |
| If I loved you (Carousel) | Rodgers |
| Swedish Rhapsody | Hugo Alfén |
| Symphony No 9 "New World" | Antonín Dvořák |
Featuring the superb Swedish soprano from the coaching staff of the Royal Opera
Sonja Nerdrum
The concert on Sunday 10th July 2005 in St Saviour's Church, Brockemhurst, included:
| Overture; The Corsair | Berlioz |
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Chanson de Matin |
Elgar |
Song
to the Moon (from "Rusalka")
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Dvorak |
| Caro nome (from "Rigoletto") | Verdi |
| Vissi D'Arte (from "Tosca") | Puccini |
| Laughing Song (from "Die Fledermaus") | Srauss |
| Ballet Music - Coppelia | Delibes |
| Dance of the Tumblers | Rimski-Korsakov |
AND, FROM THE LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS, |
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| Jerusalem | Parry |
| Fantasia on British Sea Songs | Wood |
| Rule Britannia | Arne |
| Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 | Elgar |
Featuring that scintillating sopranoJULIE VIVIENNE |
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AUDIENCE AND ORCHESTRA MEMBERS AT INTERVAL
Violin Concerto Mendelssohn
SOLOIST: Simon Hewitt Jones
Peter and the Wolf Prokofiev
The programme for our concert on Saturday April 2005, in Sturminster Newton High School was:
| Overture to Incidental Music to Hamlet | Tchaikovsky |
| Waltz from Serenade for Strings | Tchaikovsky |
| Oboe Concerto in C | Mozart |
Soloist |
Jane Othen |
| Symphony No. 2 | Sibelius |
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The programme for our concert on Saturday 5th March 2005, in St Mark's Church, Talbot Village was:
| ...then the great wave hit the land... | Robert Steadman | ,
| Overture Leonora No.3 | Beethoven |
| Night on a Bare Mountain | Mussorksky |
| Wand of Youth | Elgar |
| Hungarian March from Damnation of Faust |
Berlioz |
| Kol Nidrei CELLO SOLOIST James Olsen |
Bruch |
| L'Arlésienne | Bizet |
The
Programme for our concert on Saturday 4th December 2004 in St Mary's Church
in Poole was:
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Overture, Rienzi |
Wagner |
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Selection of Best Loved Songs |
Various |
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St. Antony Chorale |
Brahms/Haydn |
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Overture, "Russlan and Ludmilla" |
Glinka |
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Three Dances from "The Bartered Bride" |
Smetana |
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Motet, Exutate Jubilate |
Mozart |
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Orchestral Selection of Christmas Carols |
Arranged S Newgarth |
The
Programme we played in the Punshon Church on 16th October 2004 included:
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Overture, Barber of Seville |
Rossini |
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Piano Concerto |
Grieg |
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Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka |
Johann Strauss Jr |
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Thunder and Lightning Polka |
Johann Strauss Jr |
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Pizzicato Polka |
Johann and Joseph Strauss |
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No 2 Jazz Suite |
Shostakovich |
There was
a good sized audience and the performance was enthusiastically applauded.
The soloist, Samantha Ward, gave a fine rendering of the Grieg Piano
Concerto. Samantha is now in her third year at the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama, where she won a scholarship to study with the senior professor, Joan
Havill. Since making her concert début in 2000 as a result of winning the
Chetham's concert auditions, Samantha has been offered concerto appearances
with several orchestras throughout the UK and Europe. She has also taken part
in several international master-classes. Whilst still at Chetham's, Samamtha
appeared on HTV Wales, S4C and Granada Television as well as on Classic FM and
in Classical Music magazine in 2003. She has won the John Ireland Piano
Award and the Making Music Award for Young Concert Artists, giving her a London
début at the Wigmore Hall in 2005. Engagements in 2004 include performances of
Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, Beethoven's Emperor Concerto and
Gershwin's F major Concerto.
Samantha Ward
The concert was for the
benefit of the National Children's Homes, which helps children and families in
Bournemouth.