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 

Ethel Smyth Piano Suite in E major

Claudia Fuller Violin, Rachel Watson Cello, Thomas Ang Piano

3 March     Georgina Malcolm soprano sings Schumann Frauenliebe Und Leben
Plus works for voice and piano and solo piano by Schubert, Strauss, Schumann and Clara Schumann. 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     Radcliffe Ensemble: Anna Brittain soprano, Jacqui Miles violin, Emma Chamberlain cello, Bethe Levvy  piano

Shostakovich piano trio no 1 in C minor Op 8
Haydn piano trio
Songs – Ariettes oubliees    Claude Debussy
Songs of Love and Time  Madeleine Dring

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

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