The Music Makers' 2019

The Music Makers' 2019 We bring locally-based musicians and audiences together for performance events throughout the year

06/09/2019

'ADVANCED STUDENTS' Friday 13th September at CCC
Piano performances by: Daniel Richards, Dodie & Robyn Bowman, Ashley Scott

An added extra - and seeking to become an annual fixture - is an 'Advanced Students' recital at CCC on Friday 13th September, at 1.10pm.

This event provides an opportunity to hear a number of talented students who have reached a high level of musical attainment. Some have performed regularly through their school years, but although this may be the first time you have heard them play, it could also be the ultimate opportunitybefore they leave for music college or studies at university, spiriting them away from the local area - though hopefully not for ever, as they will be welcome at Music Makers' events any time in the future.

The recital - making full use of the grand piano - features three 'sets' presented respectively by Daniel Richards, of Coleford, playing three piano pieces by Leos Janacek; the Exeter-based Bowman sisters, Robyn and Dodie (who appeared in Crediton last year playing folk violin duets) who return to perform piano solos and duets (Mozart and Beethoven, to Rachmaninov and Gershwin); and Ashley Scott, also from Exeter, whose keyboard improvisations will be accompanied on saxophone by tutor and mentor Roz Harding. Though based around one piano, it will be a varied, interesting - and surely memorable - programme.

A supportive audience is an essential complement to musicians in performance (!) so please consider making time for this event - next Friday lunchtime, if you are about. In all other respects this is as per our usual lunchtime events, starting at 1.10pm, with doors open at 12.45pm for refreshments. Admission is free, though donations are welcome to support the performers' travel costs etc.

The recital is presented in partnership with Crediton Congregational Church, and acknowledges the generous support of Crediton Town Council in grant-funding the Summer Music series. In addition, thanks are due to the helpful team at Stapletons chartered certified accountants (in Crediton) whose assistance enables the piano to be regularly tuned, and also to Hillbrow Residential Care Home (also of Crediton) whose sponsorship of printed programmes on the day enable these to be produced cost-free. Thanks to all.

PS You may also be interested in the following - not a Music Makers' event but . . . Staircase Opera is both excellent and entertaining, and enjoys a keen following among local devotees of intimate and rare opera works.

STAIRCASE OPERA
Do come to one of our Afternoon Opera Showcase concerts.

Sunday 15th September at 3.00 pm in Crediton Parish Church
and Sunday 22nd September at 3.00 pm in St. Margaret's Church Topsham

The company that brought you Menotti's The Consul earlier this year is presenting popular operatic scenes and arias to showcase our talented company.

Tickets are priced at £10 if bought in advance, and £12 on the door. Concessions: Under-20s students/unwaged £5. Under-12s - free. You can order and pay for your tickets online by emailing Carolyn Harries [email protected]

20/06/2019

Concert for Music in Palestine

Friday 28th June 7pm, Crediton Congregational Church
Not a Music Makers’ event, but in close partnership . . . is the ‘post-final’ event of this month’s Crediton Festival: a charity benefit concert given by Palestinian musicians in aid of youth music education programs in Palestine. The players are four post- or ex-post-graduate students of leading UK music conservatories – all with impressive performance credentials.

The programme includes piano quartets by Mozart and Mahler, plus examples of Arabic folk music. Admission £10 – or more, of course, if you want.

Local campaigner Joy Moore has worked hard to organise this event, as she did recently in presenting journalist Donald Macintyre (author of Gaza – Preparing for Dawn) to local audiences in Crediton and Shobrooke earlier this month.

All else resembles a Music Makers’ event: doors open 6.30pm for wine and soft drinks. Bowl of hot vegetarian food from Eran’s Kitchen (£5 extra) served during Interval.

Hope you can come, and help make this the success it deserves to be.

(If you can’t make it, there is a second opportunity to hear the same programme at St Michael’s Church, Mount Dinham, Exeter the following day: Saturday 29th June, 7pm.)

10/06/2019

SUMMER LUNCHTIME RECITALS
at Crediton Congregational Church

Tuesday & Wednesdays in August (13th/14th; 20th/21st; 27th/28th)
doors open 12.45pm: music 1.10-1.50pm

Still a long way off – and not part of Crediton Festival! - but here is a preview of the performers at the annual lunchtime events at CCC in August.

The first two events feature musicians familiar from the last Music Makers’ evening in May. Peter Clarke will present English piano music, including a reprise of the (c.1900) T. F. Dunhill ‘Variations’ he played in May. Woodbury Wind return with a lively programme of Russian dances.

The Obligato Quartet, featuring Rebecca Willson and friends present chamber music always with a refreshing approach. Margaret Chave is a Crediton-based pianist who accompanies the experienced vocal group, Quorum, who often give recitals around Exeter and Exmouth.

Two performers entirely new to Crediton are Rob Barnaville, guitarist, and Nina Savicevic, a young pianist from Exeter, soon to be studying under Ashley Wass at the Royal Northern College of Music.

Partnering with the Congregational Church. Supported generously by Crediton Town Council, Stapletons accountants (piano tuning) and Hillbrow Care Home (programmes)

More information to follow in due course.

Meanwhile, the second performance by international pianist Angela Hewitt at a small venue near Sandford last week was nothing less than stunning. In advance of some festival event in Italy, she played a late Beethoven sonata, much of which sounded like jazz so contrapuntal it was, two Mozart sonatas, and Ravel's Tombeau de Couperin. All entirely from memory.

Beethoven must have really hated jazz, since he waited until he was quite deaf before writing the piece.

09/05/2019

the Music Makers' #22

Evening concert on Saturday, 11th May at Crediton Congregational Church. Doors open 6.30pm, music from 7pm. Wine & refreshments, (plus hot vegetarian food from Eran's Kitchen in interval).

Robert Stephenson (flute) and Roger Stephenson (piano) play Sergei Prokofiev 'Flute & Piano Sonata' (c.1943), Peter Clarke plays Thomas Dunhill 'Sixteen Variations on an Original Theme' (c.1900), and wind octet Woodbury Wind plays arias from Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (c.18thC).

Admission £7 or 'pay-what-you-decide' All welcome!

13/04/2019

Shelley Phillips has lately released a list of fine classical recitals at Vellake, near Sandford.

The eye-catching programme includes the return of much-loved Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt on June 3rd. The capacity for these events is no more than 50 or so, so tickets will be in short supply.

Perhaps the best advice is to suggest e-mailing the Music Makers' - and I can put you in touch with the organiser

25/03/2019

Looking a bit further ahead, to August and September in fact, the Music Makers' will be organising another set of recitals, now under the title of Summer Music. ('Recitals' sounds a bit formal, maybe?) Provisionally all six of these events are now filled, with some new, some familiar soloists and ensembles.

In addition to these, we aim to develop two more lunchtime events in mid- to late September. These to be 'Advanced Students' events, with the aim of offering performance opportunities to music college students, either about to start or returning to university or music college. These two events, on successive days, will each feature three separate performances.

The later dates will probably be over a Thursday/Friday due to other commitments at CCC. As such they may be of interest to local schools too, whose younger musicians may like to see how good our student musicians have become . . .

20/03/2019

The Music Makers' is supporting a charity benefit event raising funds for the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra initiative (started 20 years ago by Daniel Barenboim with Edward Said). It is organised by Joy Moore, who lives near Crediton. The performers are visiting professionals associated with the cause of Israel-Palestinian harmony.

It will be at CCC on Friday 28th June, 7pm (to be confirmed), and repeated the following day at St Michael's church, Mount Dinham, Exeter. The programme will include Mozart's piano quartet in G minor, Mahler's piano quartet in A minor, and some Arabic folk music.

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