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Wednesday 13th September 2011, 7.30 pm THE CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET Free to Merlin members. £17.50, £10 to non-Merlin members. Full details of Merlin membership can be found on page ????????? (wherever you locate text above) The Carducci Quartet is recognised as one of today’s most successful young string quartets. Based in the UK, the quartet holds residencies at Cardiff University and Dean Close School and is visiting quartet in residence at Trinity College of Music in London, Repton School and the Cork School of Music in Ireland. Regulars at London’s Wigmore Hall, they perform throughout the UK, including their own festival in Highnam, Gloucestershire. Quartet K421 W.A. Mozart Quartet Op 80 (F minor) Felix Mendelssohn Quartet No. 12 (American) Antonín Dvořák ‘ . . . playing of constant variety, a masterclass in unanimity of musical purpose.’ The Strad Thursday 13th October 2011, 7.30 pm THE BERKELEY ENSEMBLE Free to Merlin members. £17.50, £10 to non-Merlin members. The Berkeley Ensemble was formed by eight outstanding young musicians who met as members of the Southbank Sinfonia. Finalists in the 2009 Royal Over-Seas League competition, the ensemble takes its name from two outstanding British composers of the last 100 years and champions British works alongside mainstream repertoire. Serenata in vano Carl Neilsen Trio Ernö Dohnání Till Eulenspiegel Richard Strauss Septet Op 20 Ludwig van Beethoven ‘ . . . they never fail to captivate their audience’ Simon Oliver, Southbank Sinfonia Tuesday 8th November 2011, 7.30pm SIMON BAILEY (Bass-baritone) Free to Merlin members. £17.50, £10 to non-Merlin members. Born in Lincoln, Simon read music at Clare College Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar, and went on to study under Neil Howlett at the RNCM. At the 1999 Rossini Opera Festival Academy in Pesaro he was heard by a talent scout from the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala and this led to an audition in Milan and a two-year contract in the studio, beginning in January 2000. In this intense period Simon sang Schaunard in the Zeffirelli production of La Bohéme and Lakai in Ariadne auf Naxos under the direction of Giuseppe Sinopoli. July 2002 brought a new challenge both professionally and culturally with a move to Frankfurt am Main, Germany, as house bass-baritone at the Oper Frankfurt. Simon will sing songs by Schubert, Mahler and Brahms.
Frankfurter-Allgemeine Zeitung Sunday 27th November 201, 2.30 pm MERLIN IN PARTNESHIP WITH THE CARDIFF PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA All tickets £20, £10. Reserved seating in operation. Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra performs a programme of music for the silver screen, including Miklós Rózsa’s score for the epic Ben-Hur, Nino Rota’s The Godfather and Maurice Jarre’s unforgettable Lawrence of Arabia. Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra performed its inaugural concert in 1982 and next year celebrates its 30th anniversary. Since 1994 CPO has performed regularly throughout South Wales, including St David’s Hall, Cardiff and the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea. ‘ . . . the CPO, confident and assured in every section, revelled in the music.’ South Wales Echo, 23 June 2008. Monday 23rd January 2012, 7.30pm DANIEL DE BORAH (PIANO) Free to Merlin members. £17.50, £10 to non-Merlin members. A return visit to Monmouth for this acclaimed and versatile pianist after his successful and rewarding first visit in 2008. In the last two years Australian-born Daniel has appeared at the Barbican with the RPO and his Australian performing schedule has included the Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra Symphony Orchestras. Daniel’s programme for this visit includes well-known works by Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the rather less-well-known Franck Prelude, Chorale and Fugue on an Original Theme. ‘Audiences can hope to hear lots more of this thoughtful and intelligent pianist.’ Sydney Morning Herald Tuesday 14th February 2012, 7.30pm JAMES TURNBULL (OBOE) AND ELIZABETH BURGESS (PIANO) Free to Merlin members. £17.50, £10 to non-Merlin members. Rising young Oboist James Turnbull presents an all-French programme in his first visit to Monmouth. A graduate in Music from both Oxford University and the Royal Academy of Music, James is committed to the creation of new repertoire for the oboe and has worked extensively with Michael Berkeley, John Woolrich and Tansy Davies, releasing their music recently on disc. L’Art du Hautbois Introduction and Polonaise Adolphe Deslandes Sonata for Oboe and Piano Henri Dutilleux Sonata Op. 166 Camille Saint-Saëns Sonata for Oboe and Piano Francis Poulenc Rapsodie pour Cor Anglais Claude Debussy ‘These wonderful evocations of mood were superlatively interpreted by James Turnbull’ Trossinger Zietungen, Germany. Thursday 29th March 2012, 7.30pm KATHERINE JENKINSON (‘CELLO) AND ALISON FARR (PIANO) Free to Merlin members. £17.50, £10 to non-Merlin members. As a duo Katherine Jenkinson and Alison Farr have worked together for over ten years, performing at the Wigmore Hall, Fairfeild Hall, St. Martin-in-the Fields and the Southbank Centre. Individually and together they have gained awards including The Worshipful Company of Musicians, The Countess of Munster Music Scheme bursary and the Musicians’ Benevelent Fund. They devote much of their time to chamber music and Katherine tours extensively with the Aquinas Piano Trio and the Allegri String Quartet. ‘ . . .these grand performers mastered the style with awe-inspiring understanding . . . Ely Times Thursday 3rd May 2012, 7.30pm THE CHOIR OF GLOUCESTER CATHEDRAL Adrian Partington, Conductor, Ashley Grote, Organist Free to Merlin members. £17.50, £10 to non-Merlin members. The internationally renowned choir of Gloucester Cathedral, under the baton of Adrian Partington makes its first appearance in Monmouth under the banner of the Merlin Music Society. The choir will present a programme of large and small-scale works, both accompanied and unaccompanied, some of which will be part of the Cathedral repertoire and some which will stand well outside it.
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