Cambridge Summer Music
Spring Concerts series
Our popular series of Spring Concerts is now open for booking. This delightful prelude to the Summer Festival includes Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Chopin with internationally acclaimed pianist Richard Goode; the unusual repertoire of the wind, brass and piano quintet with the Bryna Ensemble; and two major world premieres performed by violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved.
Also featured are Dieci, Grand Finalists of the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition in 2008 and Jazz rising stars: Sam Leak’s ‘Aquarium’ Partikel Trio.
Posted by Clare Gilmour @ March 27 2012 @ 11:26pm
Book now for Music in Quiet Places series
Our series of concerts in rural settings – Music in Quiet Places – is now open for booking. Four concerts in Burwell, Trumpington, Barrington and Duxford will feature the virtuosic singing of King’s College Collegium Regale, the superb Bridge String Quartet, the Katona Twins a unique guitar duo and Joglaresa, an ensemble of outstanding international performers with voices, fiddle and harp.
Posted by Clare Gilmour @ March 10 2012 @ 11:34pm
Your generous support raised £3,600!
Many, many thanks to those of you who made donations to us via the localgiving.com website. We raised an amazing £3,600 thanks to your generosity and the matched funding provided by localgiving.
The matched funding is now all used up – but you can still make a donation to support our music and education activities. Just go to: www.localgiving.com/cambridgesummermusic. And look out for more matchfunding opportunities in the coming months!
Posted by Clare Gilmour @ March 3 2012 @ 12:30am
2012 Festival highlights revealed!
Our 2012 Festival (13 July – 4 August) will be running its own Olympic marathons this year – concerts which enable artists to stretch their musical muscles to the full!
The Festival programme will include complete performances of Bach’s Brandenburgs by the period instrument ensemble Florilegium; Debussy’s Images by Festival favourite pianist Melvyn Tan; and Bach’s Trio Sonatas played by organist Anne Page as part of a year-long cycle of 23 concerts containing all the organ works of Bach.
French music and Debussy are a strong theme for the Festival, with performances of French organ and piano music and the Debussy String Quartet.
Cambridge choral tradition is often best experienced in the English music of Parry, Walton, Elgar, Stanford – all of which can be heard at a Jubilee Concert in King’s College Chapel. Other concerts will feature the solo voices of Elin Manahan Thomas singing Bach and Handel, and Nicky Spence the songs of Ireland, Finzi and Vaughan Williams.
Other Festival highlights include the BBC’s 2004 Young Musician of the Year, violinist Nicola Benedetti, a firm favourite with audiences and critics. She will feature with two rising stars: pianist Alexei Grynyuk and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, in a programme of Stauss, Brahms and Tchaikowsky.
Posted by Clare Gilmour @ January 4 2012 @ 11:01am
Festival greeting cards
We are now offering sets of beautiful greeting cards for sale with images specially created for Cambridge Summer Recitals. The original designs are by local artists Lizanne van Essen and Simon Dolby and come in packs of six cards. At just £5 a pack including envelopes they are a bargain!
Posted by Clare Gilmour @ September 15 2011 @ 7:10pm