The first solo lute recital in a Thames Concerts series, given by distinguished lutenist Elizabeth Kenny. She presents a programme of Weiss, and selections from the glorious Saizenay and Balcaress lute books.

1. Sonata for lute No 5 in G – Silvius Leopold Weiss
2. Berceuse with 7 variations, for theorbo – Nico Muhly
3. Pieces de lut du vieux Gallot, from the Saizenay manuscript for lute and theorbo – Various
4. Tunes from the Balcarres Lute Book – Various

Tickets on the door £14 (or at a discount via Ticketweb)
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The outstanding Hunter organ at St Andrew’s is put through its paces in an exciting programme of music by Bach, Mozart, Widor (5th Symphony) and others.

J.S. Bach: Toccata in F (BWV 540i)
W.A. Mozart: Three pieces from the Londoner Skizzenbuch
W.A Mozart: Fantasia in F minor/major (K594)
F. Liszt: Resignazione
C. Saint-Saens: Prelude & Fugue in B Major
H. Grace: Resurgam (Fantasy-Prelude)
J.S Bach, arr. Liszt: Introduction to Cantata 21
C.M Widor: Symphonie V (complete)

Tickets on the door £10 (or at a discount via Ticketweb)

Daniel will be leading a workshop for young student organists at St Andrew’s Church on Sunday 20th January. More details may be viewed at thamesconcerts.com.

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Venue

St Andrew’s Church,
Maple Road,
Surbiton,
KT6 4DS

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Doors open 6.45pm
Concert starts 7.30pm

How to book

• On-line or by phone at a 10% discount via www.ticketweb.uk / 08444 771 000. Audience members should bring email confirmation/I.D. to the event.
• In person: on the door at each event from 6.45pm (full price cash/cheque).
• For all concerts admission is free to under-16s and full-time students (subject to availability). I.D. will be requested. Tickets are not required.
• An individual great value season ticket gaining entry to all concerts costs just £55 and can be purchased directly from Thames Concerts info@thamesconcerts.com
• St Andrew’s Church is wheelchair accessible and accompanying carers are admitted free (carer tickets not required).
• It is not necessary to book tickets for the Farmers’ Market Day morning coffee concerts but voluntary donations are gratefully accepted.

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Distinguished international singer and teacher Alison Pearce and Thames Concerts’ Artistic Director Benjamin Costello lead a masterclass for student singers at the CornerHouse, Surbiton on Sunday 9th December. More details may be viewed at www.thamesconcerts.com

17 February 2018 at St Andrew’s Church, Surbiton

This distinguished trio closes the series.

Robert Schumann – Fantastiestücke Op. 88
Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Trio in C minor Op. 66
Frank Bridge – Piano Miniatures (selections)
Maurice Ravel – Piano Trio (1914)

7:30 PM – 9:30 PM (Doors 6:45 PM)

St Andrew’s Church, Maple Road, Surbiton KT6 4DS

Tickets on the door £15 (age 6+) or at a discount via Ticketweb

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Members of the trio will be leading a chamber music workshop for young players at the CornerHouse, Surbiton, on Sunday 18th February. More details may be viewed at www.thech.org

“His playing is virtually flawless in its technical ease, scintillating articulateness and purity of tone.” – Gramophone, on Jack Liebeck
“His tone is sweet and effortlessly expressive, his lyrical spans marked by many a tastefully judged portamento.” – Strad Magazine, on Jack Liebeck

“Walton has this gift of making us listen to, to participate in almost, his every phrase” – International Record Review, on Jamie Walton

“Jamie Walton very much follows his own star. His expression is clean and uncluttered, his musicianship unusually selfless.” – The Times

“A profoundly gifted artist….” – Gramphone, on Katya Apekisheva

“Astute colours and brilliant technique…” – The Times, on Katya Apekisheva

How to book

• On-line or by phone at a 10% discount via www.ticketweb.co.uk / 08444 771 000. Audience members should bring email confirmation/I.D. to the event.
• In person: on the door at each event from 6.45pm (full price cash/cheque).
• For all concerts admission is free to under-16s and full-time students (subject to availability). I.D. will be requested. Tickets are not required.
• An individual great value season ticket gaining entry to all concerts costs just £55 and can be purchased directly from Thames Concerts info@thamesconcerts.com
• St Andrew’s Church is wheelchair accessible and accompanying carers are admitted free (carer tickets not required).

13 Janury 2018, 7:30pm St Andrew’s Church, Surbiton
Darren Moore (trumpet)
Jeremiah Stephenson (organ)

Spellbinding music in a musical combination well-suited to the wonderful St Andrew’s Church and its excellent acoustics and organ.

Johannn Sebastian Bach, arr. Rondeau – Concerto nach Vivaldi in D Major BWV 972
James Mobberley – Icarus Wept (mov’ts 4, 5, 6)
Petr Eben – Okna (Windows)

John Maxwell Geddes – Resident Villain, or The Reform of Rank Bajin
Johannn Sebastian Bach, arr. Jackson – Aria Variata
Johann Sebastian Bach – Trio on Allein Gott in der Höh’sei Ehr’ BWV 676
Thierry Escaich – Tanz-Fantasie
Pietro Domenico Paradies, arr. Snell – Sicilienne

7:30 PM – 9:30 PM (Doors 6:45 PM)

St Andrew’s Church, Maple Road, Surbiton KT6 4DS

Tickets on the door £13 (age 6+) or at a discount via Ticketweb

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Darren Moore and Jeremiah Stephenson began playing together whilst studying at the Royal Academy of Music. They gave their first performance of Petr Eben’s Okna at St John’s Smith Square. Since then they have added a wide selection of music spanning over four hundred years. As well as early music they are enthusiastic about creating new works for the duo and so were delighted to perform a new work by the award winning composer David Loxley-Blount, Inflemus. Darren and Jeremiah also enjoy improvising as a duo, something that allows them to push each other musically and to learn from one another in a creative process.

One of their first recitals together was for Darren’s Masters of Music final recital in 2014, earning him a Dip.RAM for high quality of performance and artistic programming. Since then they have performed in prestigious venues including Hampton Court Palace Chapel, All Saints’ Church in Marlow, and at St Lawrence Jewry where the premier of Inflemus took place.

Much of the repertoire they have explored together has been unsurprisingly influenced by religious works of art including that of Marc Chagall. They find that the combination of instruments has such a wide range of sounds available to them that every recital can incorporate many genres and timbres including a number of different types of trumpets and the awesome range of dynamics and characters of the organ.

Future projects will include more experimentation with electronics and improvisation.

Each of them enjoy considerable success as soloists.

How to book

• On-line or by phone at a 10% discount via www.ticketweb.co.uk / 08444 771 000. Audience members should bring email confirmation/I.D. to the event.
• In person: on the door at each event from 6.45pm (full price cash/cheque).
• For all concerts admission is free to under-16s and full-time students (subject to availability). I.D. will be requested. Tickets are not required.
• An individual great value season ticket gaining entry to all concerts costs just £55 and can be purchased directly from Thames Concerts info@thamesconcerts.com
• St Andrew’s Church is wheelchair accessible and accompanying carers are admitted free (carer tickets not required).

These two BBC award-winners and leading jazz singers bring their hugely popular annual seasonal offering for this exclusive performance in the series. A show packed with winter warmers and classic songs from both the jazz and pop canons; expect 1930s New York, 1940s Xmas cinema evergreens, the gloss of Fifties Hollywood (Nat Cole, Doris Day, Eartha Kitt), the celebrated 1960s Brill Building (Carol King, James Taylor) to the darker spirits of the more contemporary writers (The Pogues, Nick Cave, Joni Mitchell).

7:30 PM – 9:30 PM (Doors 6:45 PM)

St Andrew’s Church, Maple Road, Surbiton KT6 4DS

Tickets on the door £13 (age 10+) or at a discount via Ticketweb

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Claire and Ian are also both celebrated radio broadcasters and their easy anecdotal stagecraft makes for an often hilarious, yet moving experience of great music. They have both toured the world in an array of musical formats, from their individual work with their own smaller ensembles, to performing with some of the most celebrated orchestras of the world. Tonight however, it is their twenty-year duo format that makes this such a unique and intimate show. Ian is delighted to be returning to the beautiful St Andrew’s Church in Surbiton as part of this wonderful concert series and to perform with his great friend Claire Martin in their Xmas Special.

“unmissable” The Independent
“a rare delight….simply the finest” Time Out

How to book

• On-line or by phone at a 10% discount via www.ticketweb.co.uk / 08444 771 000. Audience members should bring email confirmation/I.D. to the event.
• In person: on the door at each event from 6.45pm (full price cash/cheque).
• For all concerts admission is free to under-16s and full-time students (subject to availability). I.D. will be requested. Tickets are not required.
• An individual great value season ticket gaining entry to all concerts costs just £55 and can be purchased directly from Thames Concerts info@thamesconcerts.com
• St Andrew’s Church is wheelchair accessible and accompanying carers are admitted free (carer tickets not required).

21 October 2017, 7.30pm at St Andrew’s church, Surbiton

Westcombe Brass (brass quintet)
Joe Palmer (tuba)
Benny Vernon (trombone)
Tom Freeman-Attwood (trumpet)
Gwyn Owen (trumpet)
Ben Hulme (horn)

1. Overture, HMS Pinafore – Gilbert and Sullivan, arr. Palmer
2. Elegy, from A Downland Suite – John Ireland
3. Suite from Fitzwilliam Virginal Book – Giles Farnaby, arr. Palmer
4. Four British Traditionals – Trad., arr. Palmer
5. Music from Chaucer – Michael Berkeley
6. 3 British Folk Song Settings – Percy Grainger, arr. Palmer
7. Fanfare for Brass Quintet – Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
8. Capriol Suite – Peter Warlock, arr. Palmer
9. Selections from Enigma Variations – Sir Edward Elgar, arr. Howarth
10. A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square – Manning Sherwin, arr. Palmer

7:30 PM – 9:30 PM (Doors 6:45 PM)

St Andrew’s Church, Maple Road, Surbiton KT6 4DS

Tickets on the door £12 (age 6+) or at a discount via Ticketweb

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This year’s Thames Concerts 2017/18 Series starts with an invigorating programme of music from across the British Isles, played by this dynamic young brass quintet. We are grateful for the sponsorship of this concert by The Musicians’ Company.

Westcombe Brass are an exciting and versatile brass quintet based in London. Formed in 2010, the members met at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where they were all studying. Since then members of the group have gone on to study at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.

Individually the group are successful young professionals, appearing with ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, the English National Ballet, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Concert Orchestra, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Hanover Band, the English Concert, the Chaos Orchestra, the World Youth Orchestra, and many more.

Together they make a dynamic quintet, able to perform works and arrangements spanning hundreds of years, in a variety of different styles. The group keeps a busy diary of recitals, corporate and private events, functions, competitions and educational and outreach work.

The group are proud winners of the 2016 Worshipful Company of Musicians’ Brass Ensemble Prize, and in 2015 they reached the final of the prestigious Royal Overseas League Ensemble Competition, where they were also the highest placed brass ensemble in 2014. 2011 saw them become winners of the highly regarded Philip Jones Brass Ensemble competition.

Members of the quintet will be leading a workshop for young brass players at the CornerHouse, Surbiton, on Sunday 22nd October. More details may be viewed at www.thech.org

How to book

• On-line or by phone at a 10% discount via www.ticketweb.co.uk / 08444 771 000. Audience members should bring email confirmation/I.D. to the event.
• In person: on the door at each event from 6.45pm (full price cash/cheque).
• For all concerts admission is free to under-16s and full-time students (subject to availability). I.D. will be requested. Tickets are not required.
• An individual great value season ticket gaining entry to all concerts costs just £55 and can be purchased directly from Thames Concerts info@thamesconcerts.com
• St Andrew’s Church is wheelchair accessible and accompanying carers are admitted free (carer tickets not required).

Tansy Garrod (violin) and Mary Reid (harp)
The final concert in this year’s series sees the young Zamira Duo in a sublime programme of works for violin and harp. Taking their name from the Hebrew word meaning “good voice”, Tansy and Mary formed Zamira Duo after having been fellow students at the Royal Academy of Music for several years. In their eclectic performances they keep things as exciting as possible, pieces by living composers rubbing shoulders with popular classics alongside their own arrangements. They perform in classical concert halls, churches and anywhere that needs a “good voice” to be heard. Previous performances include Ripon Cathedral’s lunchtime series, for the Highbury’s Pub ‘Music Unwrapped’ series and at St. Peter’s Church Notting Hill. Zamira Duo also enjoy outreach work and were 2015/16 artists for Wigmore Hall’s Chamber Tots workshops.

Both Tansy and Mary enjoy flourishing successful solo careers in their own right alongside their duo activities, playing with major London orchestras and elsewhere.

Fritz Kreisler, arr. Poldini – Poupée valsante (Dancing doll)
Valeri Kikta – 1st mov’t: Metamorphoses, from Sonata for violin and harp
Ernest Bloch – Nigun
Franz Liszt – Un sospiro, from 3 Études de concert S 144
Camille Saint-Saëns – Fantaisie for violin and harp Op 124
John Williams, arr. Kanga – Theme, from Schindler’s List
David Snell – Intrada and Waltz, for violin and harp
Arvo Pärt – Spiegel im Spiegel
Jean Cras – Suite en Duo for Flute and Harp

Tickets on the door £12 (or at a discount via Ticketweb)

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How to book

• On-line or by phone at a 10% discount via www.ticketweb.co.uk / 08444 771 000. Audience members should bring email confirmation/I.D. to the event.
• In person: on the door at each event from 6.45pm (full price cash/cheque).
• For all concerts admission is free to under-16s and full-time students (subject to availability). I.D. will be requested. Tickets are not required.
• An individual great value season ticket gaining entry to all concerts costs just £60 and can be purchased directly from Thames Concerts info@thamesconcerts.com.
• St Andrew’s Church is wheelchair accessible and accompanying carers are admitted free (carer tickets not required).