The National Trust Exeter and District Centre are holding their annual Christmas Concert on Tuesday 9 December at Exeter Cathedral.
The centre plays a vital role promoting the work of the charity in the local area and raises money through all kinds of events for conservation and development projects. However, the Christmas concert, which dates back to the 1970s, is the principal event in the Centre’s calendar and has raised over £15,000 in the past 10 years.
Since 2001 the concert has been performed by the pupils of Exeter School and is now also one of the highlights of...
To mark the centenary of World War One, pianist Alex Wilson will perform a musical tribute to composers whose lives were cut tragically short during the Great War at his latest concert to be held in the Mint Methodist Church, Exeter.
Profits from the concert will be donated to the British Red Cross.
The concert, entitled The Banks of Green Willow, features much loved favourites by Ravel, Bridge and Ivor Gurney, a new work by James Whittle and a series of rarely heard miniatures by composers all killed in action.
Exmouth Town Concert Band present a Patriotic Proms Concert, on Wednesday 15th October at 7.30pm at Holy Trinity Church, Exmouth.
The concert will be raising money for Exmouth & Lympstone Hospiscare, in memory of Ms Irene Holland who recently left the band a generous legacy. Director of Music Steve Grant will also select a piece of music in Ms Holland’s memory and this will be played on the night.
This promises to be a fantastic proms style evening, with the audience being treated to a selection of marches, war time favourites and rousing patriotic numbers.
On Saturday 4 October at 7.30pm a concert of glorious music for choir and brass is to take place in the Methodist Church in Sidwell Street.
The music to be performed is by Venetian composers from the 16th– 17th centuries, including Gabrieli, Schutz and Monteverdi.
In true Venetian fashion, the different ‘choirs’ of brass instruments and voices will be positioned at various points in the church, making the most of the wonderful gallery and staircases and the fantastic acoustic.
Indeed the church will become Exeter’s equivalent to St. Mark’s Basilica, Venice!
Concerts in the West present a classical baroque concert in St Stephen's Church Exeter featuring Jane Gordon (violin) and Julian Perkins (harpsichord)
Interval drinks and disabled access.
Programme:
Handel : Sonata in D J-M Leclair : Sonata (Premier Live) Corelli : Sonata No 12 in D Minor Op5 La Follia Biber : Sonata No5 in D Minor (1681) Biber L Paswsacaglia for solo violin D Scarlatti : Keyboard sonatas K8,K9 and K430 JS Bach : Sonata in E minor
Julian Perkins, established conductor and soloist will be accompanied by Jane Gordon, a highly versatile...
Families for Children’s Chief Executive Officer, Caroline Davies, will be receiving an OBE award for her services to children across the South West from the Queen at a special ceremony onFriday.
And in celebration of this great honour the charity is giving away 50 free children’s tickets to their Summer Concert to be held this Saturday (28 June).
Katey McDonald, marketing coordinator says: ”The New Egham Singers will be performing a fantastic Summer Concert to raise fund for the vital work we do in supporting our adoptive children and their families across Exeter and the...
The new pipe organ will be officially opened by the renowned International Concert Organist, David Briggs.
Briggs is Artist in Residence at St James Cathedral, Toronto and Organist Emeritus of Gloucester Cathedral. He will present a varied programme showing off the amazing new instrument in the fabulous acoustics of St Michael's.
Featuring music for Trumpet by: Vivaldi, Franceschini, Manfredini, Stanley, Clarke and Purcell. Geoff Cloke & Claude Lamon:trumpets and music by: J.S.Bach, Handel, Tallis, Burgon and Vaughan Williams.
St Margaret’s Church, Topsham
Saturday 5 July 2014
7.30pm
Programmes from The Topsham Bookshop, Fore Street, Topsham and on the door priced £6, students and children £4
