Solem Quartet – 28th September 2019 at the Acorn Centre
The first concert of the Inverurie Music 2019 – 2020 Season is fast approaching and starts with the Solem Quartet. Winner of the 2014 Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Competition, the Solem Quartet was formed in 2011 at the University of Manchester. The quartet takes its name from the university’s motto “arduus ad solem”, meaning “striving towards the sun”.
Find out more about the Solem Quartet and hear some of their music at their excellent website here.
Duo B!z’art – Piano Duo – Town Hall, Inverurie – Saturday 26th October 2019
The second concert of the season is the Duo B!z’art piano duo which will fill the Town Hall in Inverurie with wonderful piano sounds. The duo are André Roe and Geoffrey Baptiste and as their website says
Playing the piano with 4 hands, we use 20 fingers of 2 musicians sharing the 88 keys of a piano. This gives a very special show, where our hands can twirl on the keyboard with great virtuosity.’
This concert is part of the
Find out more about these artists at their website here and click on the YouTube video below to hear some of their music.
Tim Kliphuis Trio – Friday 22nd November 2019 (8pm) at the Acorn Centre, Inverurie
Award-winning Dutch violinist Tim Kliphuis has created a brand new style that embraces classical, gypsy jazz and folk. Find out more about his music here.
The Tim Kliphuis Trio will perform an exhilarating programme at the Acorn Centre on Friday 22nd November 2019.
In 2015, The Tim Kliphuis Trio (Nigel Clark, guitar and Roy Percy, double bass) premiered Vivaldi-based ‘Reflecting the Seasons’ which was recorded on Sony Classical in 2016; and ‘Brandenburg’, based on Bach.
The concert programme includes music from ‘Reflecting the Seasons’ and from ‘Brandenburg’, as well as works by Gabriel Fauré, Clement Wells, Richard Strauss.
The programme will also feature Astor’s Dream (‘Astor’ being Ástor Piazzolla) by Tim Kliphuis – see below for a version for a larger group.
Additional concert – JKL Duo (Flute and Guitar) at the Acorn Centre, Inverurie on Sunday 12th January 2020 (3pm)
Inverurie Music and the North East Classical Guitar Society have joined forces again to bring this extra concert to Inverurie in the New Year.
The programme looks delightful and features
John Anderson, My Jo – Robert Burns
Three Movements from the Musique Populaire Brasilienne – Celso Machado
Mouvements Perpetueles – Francis Poulenc
Danse de la Chèvre – Arthur Honegger (Flute Solo)
Syrinx – Claude Debussy (Flute Solo)
Scottish Lute Pieces (Guitar Solo)
History of Tango – Astor Piazzolla
Fundraising House Recital – 24th January 2020 at Leggat House
Next in the Inverurie Music concert series – Pure Brass – Saturday 22nd February 2020 at 8pm – St Mary’s Episcopal Church, Inverurie
The award winning Pure Brass is a vibrant, young and well established brass quintet that perform regularly to critical acclaim. Formed in 2006 at the Royal Conseratoire of Scotland the group has quickly become a prominent ensemble within the Scottish chamber music scene. Pure Brass is part of the Live Music Now! Scheme and are past recipients of the June Emerson Launchpad Prize.
The concert programme comprises
Die Bankelsangerleider
Fancies Toyes and Dreames
Gough Brass Quintet
Urlicht from Mahler 2
Bach Fugue on G minor
Bach Vivaldi Concerto in D
Barber Adagio for Strings
Maxwell Geddes Dances of the Scottish Court
Mascagni Intermezzo
Putting on the Ritz
Mexican Folk Medley
Misty
Bugler’s Holiday
Sadly the season from March onwards was curtailed by the onset of the Coronavirus Pandemic
CONCERT CANCELLED – Maharaj Degavino Duo (flute and piano) – Thursday 19th March 2020 – Inverurie Town Hall (8pm)
THE NEXT CONCERT, WHICH WAS DUE TO BE HELD ON THURSDAY 19TH MARCH 2020, HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 SITUATION.
MORE INFORMATION WILL FOLLOW ABOUT REFUNDS FOR SUBSCRIBERS AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY BOUGHT TICKETS.
APRIL CONCERT CANCELLED
The concert due to be given by Lana Trotovšek and Maria Canyigueral on 17th April 2020 is cancelled.
As you probably anticipated, the concert season has now come to an end due to the government restrictions put in place to manage the coronavirus situation.
The concert due to be given by Lana Trotovšek and Maria Canyigueral on 17th April 2020 is cancelled.
If you have subscribed to the concert season, you are eligible for a refund of £15 per subscriber (i.e. one third of the cost of the subscription) as two of the six concerts have been cancelled. Please contact Ian Clark (Treasurer) at clarkzian@icloud.com to provide your bank details to enable the refund to be made directly to you by bank transfer.
Alternatively, if you would like to support the Inverurie Music Award Scheme for young musicians, you can opt for this money, or part of it, to be transferred to the Award Scheme fund for 2020. All contributions to the fund will be gratefully received.
It’s such a shame that Lana and Maria will not be coming to Inverurie to give their concert next month. Both are very disappointed not to be performing in Inverurie as they enjoy visiting this part of the world. Hopefully they will be able to return before too long.
Meanwhile you can support the artists and enjoy some beautiful music by clicking on these links and sharing them with others.
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