Upcoming Events
Concerts in 2024
Friday 30th August: Laura Lootens (guitar)
Holy Trinity Church, Weston. 7.30 pm
Rising star Laura Lootens was the winner of the Andres Segovia International Classical Guitar Competition 2022. She scored a further success when the renowned Deutsche Musikwettbewerb selected her for a scholarship; and the Special Prize of the German Musikleben Foundation. Earlier this year Laura was named as one of Classic FM’s Rising Stars, shining a light on 30 young players who are doing something very special. Laura performs for us as part of a UK summer tour.
Programme
JK Mertz, Elegie
F Chopin, Prelude Op28 No4
Nocturne Op9 No2
Valse Op64
M Ponce, Allegretto vivo : piu lento espressivo
A Barrios, Un Sueno en las floresta
Interval
I Albeniz, Asturias
G Rochberg, Excerpts from Caprice Variations
N Paganini, Romanza from the Grande Sonata
M Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Capriccio Diabolico
Musician website
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Saturday 5th October: Elmore Quartet
Holy Trinity Church, Weston. 7.30 pm
2023 Kirckman Concert Society Artists and Winners of the Tunnell Trust Awards 2021, the Elmore Quartet is a dynamic young ensemble founded in 2017 at the Royal Northern College of Music, having performed regularly across the UK at venues including Wigmore Hall, Conway Hall, the Pitville Pump Room and Oxford’s Holywell Music Room.
The Quartet launched the Elmore Chamber Music Festival, which now takes place annually in August.
Programme
Leo Geyer ‘Unfurling’
Debussy Quartet in G Minor Op.10
Beethoven Op. 59 No. 2
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Saturday 2nd November: London Central Brass
St Nicholas Church, Stevenage. 7.30 pm
Formed in 2023, London Central Brass have already claimed first prize in the Philip Jones International Brass Ensemble Competition, first prize in the Musicians' Company Brass Ensemble Competition, and the Onyx Brass Award for Creativity in Programming, which includes new and established repertoire.
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The Future
Our programming is deliberately diverse, including a mix of both popular and lesser-known classical music, sometimes familiar, sometimes challenging, but always given by outstanding performers.
Once more we are grateful to our individual supporters and also to our County Councillor, Steve Jarvis. Together our Society not only survives but continues to punch above its weight.
Tickets are £20 (Thanks to a grant from Hertfordshire County Council tickets are free for children and people in full time education). Tickets are also available on the door unless the concert is over subscribed. It is easy to book by clicking the link to TryBooking given when the concert is listed.
If you have any problems booking please give us a call or email us. Contact details below.
General Enquiries: westonconcerts@gmail.com
Phone: 01462 790327
