The Bute Wind Quintet is an award-winning ensemble consisting of five recent graduates of the Masters in Orchestral Performance course at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Individually, all have freelanced with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Welsh National Opera. The group is currently Artist in Residence at Cardiff Bay's popular Norwegian Church Arts Centre and fast-gaining a reputation as one of Wales’ foremost young ensembles. They have been awarded the prestigious June Emerson Wind Music Launchpad Prize this year and have performances scheduled at Anglesey’s Beaumaris Festival and Fishguard Festival of Music this summer as well as with us in Cwmdu.
Other concerts: Hay Music, The Tippet Quartet
THE TIPPETT QUARTET
Friday, May 10, 2024
7:00 PM –9:00 PM St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5EB. Doors open 6.30pm. Bar.
A welcome return to Hay Music of the Tippett Quartet in their 25th Anniversary year.
Programme
Ralph Vaughan Williams: String Quartet No. 1
Michael Tippett: String Quartet No. 5
Franz Schubert: Death and the Maiden Quartet
Tickets and full details at www.haymusic.org.
Crickhowell Music Festival
CRICKHOWELL MUSIC FESTIVAL 3RD–6TH MAY 2024
Heaven Calling
A Music Banquet that’s Heaven Sent!
Welcome to our 28th Festival! Prepare to be inspired by music that will turn your gaze heavenward. Here come some extraordinary pieces by leading C17th and C18th composers that explore the mysteries of the creator spirit and its life-affirming force.
Friday Concert £12.00
Saturday & Sunday Concerts £20.00
Monday recital including tea £10.00
Students/Under 18s free
Get tickets
Call 07816 991501
or visit Webbs of Crickhowell
Programme
Friday 3rd May at 7.30pm Clarence Hall, Crickhowell
Welsh Folk Night with VRï… “a landmark in Welsh Music” (Folk London)
Saturday 4th May at 7.30pm St. Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell
Music’s Muse
Purcell: Ode for St Cecilia’s Day: Hail bright Cecilia!
Lotti: Missa Vide Domine laborem meum (a first modern performance)
Sunday 5th May 10am, St. Catwg’s Church, Llangattock
Festival Service
To highlight the seasonal message of rebirth we welcome back our Festival soloists, choir and players to perform one of J.S. Bach’s most joyous Easter cantatas, Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß (A heart that knows Jesus is alive), heard as originally intended as part of a church service.
Sunday 5th May 7.30pm, St. Edmund’s Church, Crickhowell
Surprising Revelations!
C.P.E. Bach: Magnificat
Pergolesi: Dixit Dominus
J.S. Bach: Whitsun Cantata BWV 34, O ewiges Feuer Arvo Pärt: Veni Sancte Spiritus
Festival Baroque Orchestra
Soloists: Áine Smith and Carys Davies (soprano) Catherine King (alto), Charles Daniels (tenor), Robert Davies (bass)
Monday 6th May 3pm, Clarence Hall, Crickhowell
May Street Opera (Tea included)
Tomos Owen Jones: The Egg chamber cantata
Benjamin Britten: Canticle: Abraham and Isaac
RWCMD students/graduates concert
May 11th, 2024 7:30pm Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Students.
Students/Graduates from the RWCMD in our eagerly anticipated regular concert featuring the performers of tomorrow.
The Bute Wind Quintet
The Bute Wind Quintet is an award-winning ensemble consisting of current students and recent graduates of the Orchestral Performance master’s programme at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, several of whom are individual prize winners. The group was formed to record a performance of Malcolm Arnold’s Welsh Dances suite for the International Malcolm Arnold Festival and it was within their first year of meeting that the ensemble won the Wind Plus Chamber Prize adjudicated by James Turnbull, performing David Maslanka’s 4th Wind Quintet.
Gabriella Alberti (Flute), Sam Willsmore (Oboe), Hannah Harding (Bassoon), Nathan Barker (Horn) and Meg Davies (Clarinet) are currently Artists in Residence at the Norwegian Church Arts Centre where the Bute Wind Quintet maintains a high standard of performance across many musical styles, performing in masterclasses with Adam Walker and Ben Goldscheider.
— The Bute Wind Quintet
Programme
Hallam Selection from Dance Suite
Milhaud Cheminee du Roi Rene
McDowall Subject to the Weather
Kilar Wind Quintet
Interval
Penderecki Aria
Grovlez L’Almanach aux Images
Szervanszky Wind Quintet
Medaglia Tango from Belle Epoque in Sud-America
Artist/Maker in residence: Rebecca ‘Becky’ Way. Artist and Teacher.
Born 1967, Rebecca ‘Becky’ Way is a self-employed Welsh artist living in Chepstow, Monmouthshire. In addition to selling and exhibiting her work, she runs adult art classes and workshops in the surrounding areas on a regular basis. She is predominantly recognised for her watercolour landscapes and pastel portraits, but more recently her work has been in pen, ink, and mixed media. She has quickly become well-known for her enchanted trees and mystical landscapes, and is increasingly able to create commissioned artwork solely from her imagination.
Exhibitions I have exhibited:
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1996 Museum of Modern Art Wales, Summer Exhibition, The Tabernacle, Machynlleth,
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2022 Wales Contemporary Exhibition and competition, The Waterfront Gallery Milford Haven and Oxo Tower in London.
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2023 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition The Mall Galleries London.
https://www.rebeccawayart.com Facebook and Instagram @rebeccawayart
IWD Hero Isata Kanneh-Mason
For International Women’s Day, here are a couple of snippets to celebrate the work of pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason.
"…in great demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. She offers eclectic and interesting repertoire with recital programmes encompassing music from Haydn and Mozart via Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, Chopin and Brahms to Gershwin and beyond."
—Kanneh-Mason website.
Firstly a YouTube video of a performance of Clara Schumann’s Scherzo No.2 in C Minor. (Note: YouTube may include adverts for everyone’s benefit 🤦🏽.)
Clara Schumann’s Scherzo No.2 in C Minor
And then an episode of BBC Radio’s “Add to Playlist” programme with Isata Kanneh-Mason as a guest.
Add to Playlist with Isata Kanneh-Mason
BBC announces new classical music programming
The BBC has announced updated schedules for Radio 3 and a new TV series about Mozart. Highlights include the return of Clemency Burton-Hill, and a weekday afternoon programme Classical Live presented by Elizabeth Alker, Tom McKinney, Linton Stephens and Fiona Talkington.
Karl Jenkins birthday
Happy 80th Birthday, Sir Karl Jenkins! Born and raised in Penclawdd, Gower.
Image: St David Awards 2017, CC BY 3.0
His initial musical instruction was from his father, who was the local schoolteacher, chapel organist and choirmaster. Initially a jazz and jazz-rock musician, he played with legendary Canterbury Sound band Soft Machine.
He’s had a prodigious choral classical output, including Cantata Memoria: For the children, a response to the 1966 Aberfan disaster.
Currently BBC Radio3 Composer of the Week.
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