YorkConcerts
Saturday 20 April 2024 12pm
Continuo Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Dr Masumi Yamamoto leads the London Obbligato Collective in a performance of rarely heard works for harpsichord, violin and cello by Giardini, JC Bach and Abel.
Saturday 20 April 2024 2.30pm
Rising star of the Early Music scene, Mary-Jannet Leith is joined by harpsichordist Masumi Yamamoto to explore the craze for Scottish music in eighteenth-century London through the life of the Scottish composer and music publisher James Oswald.
Saturday 20 April 2024 7.30pm
University Baroque Ensemble depicts the spell cast over the London public by Italian music in a programme of concerti grossi by Arcangelo Corelli, his student Avison and that most influential of immigrant musicians, Handel.
Wednesday 24 April 2024 7.30pm
The 24 presents Howells' Requiem and Brahms' Fest und Gedenksprüche, notable for their translucent and heartfelt two-choir textures, alongside five works that bring strong responses to text.
Friday 26 April 2024 7.30pm
With a new name and a new director, University Jazz Band returns to perform the music of J Dilla, exploring the relationship between J Dilla’s innovations in hip-hop and his influence on jazz in the twentieth century.
Wednesday 1 May 2024 7.30pm
The Chimera Ensemble is joined by the University Consort of Viols for a double bill of fascinating new works, including the winner of this year’s Terry Holmes Performer-Composer Award, postgraduate student Daniel Saleeb’s melancholic work O Dowland.
Friday 3 May 2024 1pm
A unique chance to hear the extraordinary music of Giacinto Scelsi performed by Frances-Marie Uitti – a pioneering cellist and composer who worked closely with Scelsi – in collaboration with York-based musicians Catherine Laws and Loré Lixenberg.
Friday 3 May 2024 7.30pm
Legendary cellist Frances-Marie Uitti joins Catherine Laws, Loré Lixenberg and the experimental music ensemble The Assembled in an Italian programme based around Sciarrino’s extraordinary Vanitas with video projections created by Lynette Quek.
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