For music lovers in and around Plymouth, Devon

Concert Programme for March 2012

Thursday March 1 at 8 pm at the Old Chapel, Calstock Empirical: Nathanial Facey - alto-saxophone, Lewis Wright - vibes and glockenspiel, Tom Farmer - double-bass, and Shaney Forbes - drums . Modern jazz with Cuban, African and classical influences Tickets £12 in advance, £14 on the door, £5 under 16s. FCA £11 in advance, £13 on the door.
Friday March 2 at 7.30 pm at Coronation Hall, Mary Tavy Plymouth Area Police Choir Tickets circa £5-£8 In aid of Hall funds
Friday March 2 at 7.30 pm at St John's Church, Bridgetown, Totnes Divertimento Ensemble Colin Parr - Clarinet, Mary Eade - Violin, Sarah Wormell - Violin, Andrew Gillett - Viola, Vicky Evans - Cello Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A K581 Frank Bridge: Cherry Ripe Andrew Gillett: Folk Song arrangement for string quartet Weber: Clarinet Quintet in Bb Op 34 Tickets £12, £10 concessions, children free, in advance from Totnes Tourist Information, or from Divertimento, tel: 01803 863677 enquiries@divertimento.uk.com
Saturday March 3 at 2pm at Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery Portland Square Brass: Debby Cotton - horn, Ben Dawson - trumpet, Jamie Dove - trombone, Bruce Fox - trumpet and Matthew Watkinson - tuba A selection of music from across the centuries based on exploration Admission free Part of the Scott 100 celebrations
Saturday March 3 at Liskeard Methodist Church East Cornwall Bach Choir, Conductor: Paul Ellis, Keyboard: Jonathan Delbridge Singing Workshop day G F Handel: MESSIAH Sing from 11am to 5.30 pm (registration from 10 am); to sign-up contact www.ecbc.co.uk or 01752 846102 Singing Day Tickets: £12 (adult singer) £8 (full time student) Public performance: 7pm - tickets £5 (children free)
Saturday March 3 at 7 pm at Plymouth Pavilions BBC Concert Orchestra Seth Lakeman, the Cornwall Family Orchestra & Chorus and the Devon Family Orchestra & Chorus, with the BBC Concert Orchestra, perform a new commission written specially for the Olympics, plus popular favourites like the Sorcerer's Apprentice, James Bond hits, and Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March, music from Carousel and a cinematic sing-along. Seth Lakeman and the Orchestra will play arrangements by Anne Dudley of music from Kitty Jay, Freedom Fields, & Hearts and Minds Tickets £10 (concessions available) from Pavilions Box Office, tel: 0845 146 1460 or (cheaper) online at www.plymouthpavilions.com
Sunday March 4 from sunrise to sunset in Plymouth and across the South West BBC Concert Orchestra Sound of the South West - part of Music Nation Musicians and music groups wishing to take part see www.bbc.co.uk/concertorchestra and download an application form, to be returned by Friday 3 February.
Sunday March 4 at 7.30 pm at The Matchroom Suite, 12 Newnham Road, Plympton, Plymouth PL7 4AW Plymouth Jazz Club The Elaine Davies Quartet Tickets: Visitors £7, Members £5, Students £3 at the door or contact 01752 774343
Saturday March 10 at 7.30 pm at Tavistock Parish Church, Plymouth Road, Tavistock. PL10 8AU West Devon Chorale, Director: Michael Johnson Organist: Christopher Moore Bach: Lobet den Herrn Bruckner: Ave Maria; Os Justi; Christus Factus Est Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb Poulenc: Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence Hurford: Dialogue No 1 (organ) Whitacre: Lux Aurumque; I thank you God; Hope, Faith, Life, Love Tickets: £10, ( £8 in advance), children and students £3 from admin@westdevonchorale.co.uk 01752 776479
Saturday March 10 at St. Mary's Church, Totnes Ten Tors Chamber Orchestra, conductor Simon Ible, with Rupert Enticknap - counter-tenorand Andrew Knights - oboe Italian Baroque Vivaldi: Oboe Concerto in A minor RV 461 Albinoni: Sonata à Cinque in A major Pergolesi: Concertino No.5 in E flat major Marcello: Oboe Concerto in D minor Vivaldi: Stabat Mater Tickets £12, £10 Friends of Peninsula Arts and Ten Tors Orchestra, £5 students and children. Free to PU students. Contact The Box Office: 01752 58 50 50 Email: peninsula-arts@plymouth.ac.uk
Sunday March 11 at 7.30 pm at The Matchroom Suite, 12 Newnham Road, Plympton, Plymouth PL7 4AW Plymouth Jazz Club Rod Mason's Hot Five Tickets: Visitors £10, Members £8, Students £4 at the door or contact 01752 774343
Wednesday March 14 at 7.45pm at Melvin Hall, Kelly College, Tavistock PL19 0HZ Peter Cigleris - Clarinet, Martin Cousin - piano York Bowen: Sonata Wilson: Rock Mill Variations Simon Milton: Sonata Christopher Shaw: Sonata Finzi: Bagatelles Ireland: Fantasy-Sonata Tickets £10, Concessions £8, Accompanied under 18s free On the door or from 01822 813100
Thursday March 15 at 1pm at Sherwell United Church, North Hill, Plymouth Bethan Donaldson - Clarinet and Sarah Joseph - Piano 19th International Concert Series Debussy: Premiere : Rhapsodie John Ireland: Fantasy Sonata Schumann: Fantasiestucke Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and piano. Tickets £6.50 from Sherwell United Church (Next to Sherwell Centre) mornings only from 9.30am - 12pm Monday to Friday; Telephone: 01752 266163 or online at: www.wegottickets.com/jeaniemooremvo Bethan Donaldson is a Plymouth Music Accord Young Musicians' Platform winner
Friday March 16 at 7.30 pm at Peverell Park Methodist Church City of Plymouth Concert Band, with Mark Barnwell - guitar, Katherine Martin - vocalist, Lauren Carroll- cornet Tickets: £5.00 For details contact: 01752 223037
Friday March 16 at 7.30 pm at Stover School, Newton Abbot Rhys Matthews - percussion Music includes Matthews, Piazolla and Rimsky Korsakov Tickets £14 (NADSA members £10, Students £2) at the door or from Newton Abbot TIC or from www.nadsa.co.uk
Saturday March 17 at 11 am Plymouth & District Organists' Association visit to St Anne's Church Gunnislake, and (2.30 pm) to Stoke Climsland Parish Church. For details contact 01822 854884
Saturday March 17 at 7.30pm at Saltash Wesley Church Plymouth Clarion Choir and Rame Peninsula Male Voice Choir, with Jonathan Delbridge - organ. Tickets £6 at the door. Contact Bill Russell 01579 344690 or Daryl Jago 01752 266434
Saturday March 17 at 7.30pm at Buckfast Abbey VOCES Early English music for Lent and Holy Week: from Eton Choirbook to Byrd, taking in Tallis, Taverner, White and Tye. Free admission with retiring collection. Doors open 7pm: no reserved seats. www.voceschoral.org
Sunday March 18 at 5.30 pm at The Public Hall, Liskeard Plymouth Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Anne Kimber, Leader: Paul Mathews, with Denian Arcoleo - guitar Wagner: Overture, The Flying Dutchman De Falla: Ritual Fire Dance Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez Beethoven: Symphony No.5 Ticket details tba
Wednesday March 21 at 7.30 pm at The Guildhall, Plymouth Plymouth Symphony Orchestra, Conductor: Anne Kimber, Leader: Paul Mathews, with Craig Ogden - guitar Wagner: Overture, The Flying Dutchman De Falla: Ritual Fire Dance Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez Beethoven: Symphony No.5 Ticket details tba
Thursday March 22 at 1.10 pm at Devonport Lecture Theatre, Portland Square Building, University of Plymouth Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Group New music on the theme of exploration Admission free Part of the Scott 100 celebrations
Friday March 23 at 7.30pm at Plymouth Pavilions Joan Baez Tickets £39.50, £34.50, £32.50 from Plymouth Pavilions Box Office on 0845 146 1460 or (cheaper) from www.plymouthpavilions.com
Friday March 23 at 8pm in the Great Hall, Dartington Devon Baroque An English Banquet Meg Bragle - mezzo soprano, Elizabeth Kenny - lute, Rachel Chaplin - oboe), Margaret Faultless - violin, Andrew Skidmore - cello, Andrew Wilson-Dickson - harpsichord Thomas Campion: Now hath Flora robb’d her bowers Nicholas Lanier: Qual musico gentil Philip Rosseter: Fantasia (lute solo) William Lawes: O my Clarissa, O let me still and silent lye, Man’s life is but vain Harpsichord solo from the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book Henry Purcell: The Plaint, Bid the Virtues from Come ye sons of art, When first Amintas sued for a kiss Thomas Vincent: Sonata Op 1 No.2 in A minor (oboe solo) William Croft: Violin sonata in A major G.F. Handel: Aria con Variazioni (The Harmonious Blacksmith), Trio sonata in D minor H 831 Tickets £15, concessions £14 students £5 from Dartington Box Office 01803 847070 www.devonbaroque.co.uk
Saturday March 24 at 7.15 pm at Buckfast Abbey South West Chamber Choir Hildegard von Bingen: Spiritus sanctus vivificans C H Parry: I was glad Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei Arvo Pärt: The Beatitudes, Which was the son of… Claudio Monteverdi: Beatus Vir Francis Poulenc: Salve Regina J S Bach: Lobet den Herrn Henry Purcell (arranged by Stephen Trahair): When I am laid in earth Maurice Greene (arranged by Stephen Trahair): Thou visitest the earth Maurice Greene: Lord, let me know mine end Andrew Wilson: There is but one God Tickets £8 (students £5) at the door, or from the Abbey Bookshop from mid Feb
Saturday March 24 at 7.30pm at St Andrew's Minster Church, Plymouth University of Plymouth Choral Society & UPCS Sinfonia, Simon Ible - conductor, Lucy Hall - soprano, Ben Williamson - counter-tenor, Rupert Enticknap - counter-tenor, Alexander Robin Baker - baritone Purcell: Come ye Sons of Art Handel: Coronation Anthem 'Let thy hand be strengthened' Plus music by Thomas Arne and Maurice Greene Tickets: £12, £5 student and children
Saturday March 24 at 7.30pm at 7.30pm at Tavistock Parish Church Kelly Choral Society & Orchestra Schubert: Deutsche Messe, D.872 Wilson: Annunciation Mass Opus 150 Tickets £8, under 18s £5, on the door or from "Bookstop" Tavistock.
Saturday March 24 at 8 pm in the Great Hall, Dartington Devon Baroque directed by Margaret Faultless The Golden Age of English Music G.F. Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, Concerto Grosso Opus 3 no 2 Matthew Locke: The Tempest John Dowland: Lachrimae John Blow: Suite from Venus and Adonis William Jackson: Concerto a 7 (written in Exeter 1749) Charles Avison: Concerto Grosso no.9 (after Scarlatti) William Boyce: Symphony no 4 Tickets £18, concessions £17, students £5 from Dartington Box Office 01803 847070 www.devonbaroque.co.uk
Sunday March 25 at 3pm in the Great Hall, Dartington Devon Baroque directed by Margaret Faultless Dido and Aeneas - A concert performance of Henry Purcell's opera Dido - Meg Bragle, Aeneas - Christopher Adams, Belinda - Emma Walshe, Second Woman - Amy Carson, Sailor - Gwilym Bowen, Spirit - Stephen Carter Tickets £17, concessions £16, students £5 www.devonbaroque.co.uk
Sunday March 25 at 7.30pm at The Guildhall, Royal Parade, Plymouth. PL1 1HA Plymouth Philharmonic Choir Karl Jenkins: Requiem Andrew Carter: Benedicite with Plymouth High School Junior Choir Tickets £15 in advance, £17 at the door, from Christian Literature Centre, Plymouth; The Framing Centre, 83 Hyde Park Road, Plymouth; Bookstop, Tavistock; Buckfast Post Office; Kingsbridge Information Centre; or telephone 01364 72429
Monday March 26 at 1.45pm in the Rees Centre, Plympton Plymouth Clarion Choir Concert for the Plympton Seniors Association Contact Mrs Fay Hancock, 01752 338618
Tuesday March 27 to Saturday March 31 at 7.30 pm (Saturday matinée at 2.30 pm) at Devonport Playhouse, Fore Street, Plymouth PL1 4DW Plymouth Gilbert and Sullivan Fellowship My Fair Lady (Books and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, Music by Frederick Loewe) Tickets £14, concessions Tuesday and Wednesday £12 O60 and TRAC, £6 U16 and concession Saturday matinee £6 U16.  Group discounts (10+) 50p per ticket, (20+) £1 per ticket.  Box office 01752 404971 from January 1st or on www.plymouthgilbertandsullivan.com.
Thursday March 29 to Saturday March 31 at St Neot Church PL14 6NG Canoryon Lowen Choir, Musical Director Nick Hart, Artistic Director Olwyn Foot, with soloists from the locality, including Bianca Phillips Original and new musical production - 'A Daughter's Tale' - a story of the meeting of St Neot and Prince Alfred at the court of Cornish King Doniert. For details see www.stneotmusic.com Tickets £7 and £10 - available from Sterts Theatre www.sterts.co.uk
Friday March 30 at 7.30 pm at United Free Church, Fore Street, Totnes Liam Byrne - viola da gamba and Linda Sayce - theorbo Tickets for non members on the door: £12 students and young people £5 A Totnes Early Music Society concert
Friday March 30 at 7.30 pm at Pelynt Village Church (tbc) Plymouth Area Police Choir with Porthpyra Singers Tickets circa £5-£8 In aid of Hall funds
Friday March 30 at 7.30 pm at St Peter's Church, Meavy, 7.30pm. Duo Volatus - Ruth Ballantyne -flute and Alison Smith - guitar Composers include: Bach, Granados, O'Carolan, Piazzolla. Tickets £9 Tel Mike Inman 01822 852672 Douglas Henderson 01822 855383 Clive Mc Gavin 01822 854577. www.duovolatus.com
Saturday March 31 at 7.30pm at Chagford Parish Church The Chagford Singers, conductor Christopher Fletcher Dvorak: Stabat Mater

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