Abbey Chamber Concerts are a series of chamber concerts by top-quality local musicians on one Sunday each month, 3.00 – 4.00pm at St Nicolas church, Abingdon OX14 3HF.
Free tea and coffee and an opportunity to talk to the musicians, after each concert. Tickets £10 (£9 concessions – OAP/students), accompanied children free. Available from this website, at door, from 07775 904626, from the performers. Support local musicians! Support the arts in Abingdon!
Abbey Chamber Concerts 2019
3 February Scordatura Women’s Music Collective ‘Celebrating Clara’
Clara Schumann Piano Trio in G minor
Cecilia McDowall Cavatina at Midnight
Fanny Mendelssohn Fantasia
Clara Schumann Selected songs arr. clarinet
Poppy Beddoe Clarinet, Claudia Fuller Violin, Rachel Watson Cello, Thomas Ang Piano
3 March Georgina Malcolm soprano sings Schumann Frauenliebe Und Leben and other pieces. Accompanied on the piano by Duncan Honeybourne
7 April ACE trio
Mendelssohn piano trio in C minor, Beethoven piano trio op 76 no 2
Andrew Blankfield
Emma Chamberlain
Claire Parkin
12 May Pavlova Winds with Malcolm Pearce piano
Masterpieces for piano and winds
Gordon Jacob sextet, Beethoven quintet
9 June Radcliffe String ensemble
Mendelssohn Octet
Jacqui Miles, Martin Reed, Diana Hinds, Laura Tonbridge violin
Evelyn Sanderson, Catherine Coldstream viola
Emma Chamberlain, Zoe Reed Sanderson cello
7 July Pavlova Winds and Radcliffe Strings
Brahms Serenade no 1 for wind and string nonet
1 Sept to be confirmed
13 Oct Diana Hinds piano
Schubert’s great, late Sonata in A, D959, and Janacek “In the Mist”
3 Nov Jacqui Johnson, Anita D’Attellis
Saint Saëns Sonata for cello and piano, no 1, in C minor
Debussy Sonata for cello and piano in D minor
15 Dec Music arranged for 15 winds. Conductor Robin O’Neill (Philharmonia)
To include Bartok Maygar suite no 1, and Debussy Preludes
forthcoming concerts
‘Celebrating Clara Schumann’
Scordatura Women’s Music Collective is a mixed chamber ensemble dedicated to performing music written by women. Our repertoire reaches back to the 16th century, and also encompasses contemporary and world music. We are committed to promoting music written by women which has been unfairly neglected; to support and perform current composers; and to inspire the next generation of women to compose.
Schumann Frauenliebe Und Leben
Georgina Malcolm soprano sings Schumann Frauenliebe Und Leben and other pieces.
Accompanied on the piano by Duncan Honeybourne
Mendelssohn and Beethoven piano trios
Mendelssohn piano trio in C minor, Beethoven piano trio op 76 no 2
Masterpieces for piano and winds
Gordon Jacob sextet for piano and winds, composed 1956 in memoriam Aubrey Brain
Beethoven quintet for piano and winds
Brahms Serenade no 1 for wind and string nonet
Brahms Serenade no 1 for wind and string nonet
Schubert piano Sonata, Janacek ‘In the Mist’
Schubert’s great, late Sonata in A, D959
Janacek “In the Mist”
Saint Saens and Debussy cello sonatas
Saint Saëns Sonata for cello and piano, no 1, in C minor
Debussy Sonata for cello and piano in D minor