Alina Ibragimova, violin

Eugène Ysaÿe: Sonatas for violin solo Op.27No.1 (for Joseph Szigeti) No.2 (for Jacques Thibaud) No.3 “Ballade” (for George Enescu) No.4 (for Fritz Kreisler) No.5 (for Mathieu Crickboom) No.6 (for Manuel Quiroga)

“...she is one of today’s outstanding interpreters of the most elemental music in the repertoire” Erica Jeal, The Guardian, 26 October 2012

The winner of a Classical BRIT award in 2010, Alina Ibragimova is one of the rising stars of classical music. Born in Russia in 1985, Alina Ibragimova studied at the Moscow Gnesin School before moving with her family to the UK in 1995 to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School and Royal College of Music.

Admission £15.00; £5.00 [YP/Student]Saturday 10th May at 7.45 p.m.

Photo - Sussie Ahlburg

April

Craig Ogden, guitar

Works by Domenico Scarlatti, Joaquin Turina, Isaac Albeniz, Gary Ryan and Francisco Tarrega.

“Craig Ogden... has always chosen his recitalprogrammes with wisdom, and, as a performer in the specialised realm of the classical guitar, he has opened our ears to the instrument’s breadth of repertory and to its expressive potential.” The Daily Telegraph

Australian-born guitarist Craig Ogden is one of the world’s finest classical guitarists. His many recordings have received wide acclaim and his Classic FM albums ‘The Guitarist’ and ‘Summertime’ both shot straight to number one in the UK classical chart.Craig Ogden is Principal Lecturer in Guitar at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and Visiting Lecturer at London’s Royal College of Music.

Admission £15.00; £5.00 [YP/Student]Saturday 12th April at 7.45 p.m.

March

New Orleans Wiggle Band & Marilyn Middleton“Songs from the Delta” A picture of the lifestyle of the harsh and happy times that the freed people of colour lived to the full in the Mississippi delta 100 years ago.

Marilyn Middleton is“...nothing less than stupendous!”Billy Connolly

Marilyn Middleton, born in Chicago, began singing professionally at the age of 15 and is a long-time resident of the UK. Marilyn is respected on both the jazz and folk circuits.

The members of New Orleans Wiggle Jazz Band have been involved in recreating the dance hall music, blues, spirituals and popular songs of New Orleans since their teenage years.

Admission £12.00; £5.00 [YP/Student]Saturday 8th March at 7.45 p.m.

February

Sunwook Kim, piano

“Intuitive musicianship from pianist Sunwook Kim in Chopin’s Piano Concerto No.2 filled every bar with an extraordinary sense of lyricism.”Mike Marsh, Bournemouth Echo, January 2011

Bach PartitaScriabin Sonata No.3Schubert Sonata D960

Sunwook Kim came to international recognition when he won the prestigious Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006, aged just 18, becoming the competition’s youngest winner for 40 years. Sunwook’s awards include the first prize at the 2004 Ettlingen Competition and the 2005 Clara Haskil Competition. A recording of Beethoven’s Concerto No.5 for Deutsche Gramophon and a performance of Beethoven’s Concerto No.3 at the BBC Proms are part of Sunwook’s 2013 programme of engagements.

Admission £15.00; £5.00 [YP/Student]Saturday 8th February at 7.45 p.m.

Martin Carthy

An Evening with “arguably the greatest English folk song performer and writer of them all.” Q Magazine

“For four decades, Martin Carthy’s work has immeasurably enriched the British folk heritage. He is regarded as one of the finest singers and interpreters of traditional music of the British Isles, as well as a highly influential and much-imitated guitarist.”BBC Music Website 2005

Martin Carthy is a ballad singer, a ground-breaking acoustic & electric guitarist and an authoritative interpreter of newly composed material. His settings of traditional songs with guitar have influenced a generation of artists, including Bob Dylan and Paul Simon.

Admission £12.00; £5.00 [YP/Student]Saturday 11th January at 7.45 p.m.

Photo - Hajin Ahn Photo - Tae-Uk Kang

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4.Trusler Carroll Wass TrioNovember 30th 2013 £15 £5

5.Pemberton Brass BandDecember 14th 2013 £12 £5

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Eloisa-Fleur Thom, a prize-winning violinist in demand throughout the UK, made her solo debut aged eleven. Eloisa-Fleur has played concerts in Bridgewater Hall, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Wigmore Hall and Kings Place. In August 2011, Eloisa-Fleur performed with the London Sinfonietta Academy for a BBC Proms Plus concert.

Mark Austin, a pianist and conductor, currently the Shinn Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, London enjoys a busy performing career around the UK.

Eloisa-Fleur Thom, violin & Mark Austin, piano

Admission £12.00; £5.00 [YP/Student]Saturday 14th September at 7.45 p.m.

“The Romantic Violin”Elgar Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minorKreisler Schön Rosmarin, Liebesleid, Liebesfreud...Brahms Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in D minor Massenet Meditation from Thaïs Falla Danse Espagnole

“The intense beauty of the sound, sweet and lyrical in tone, together with her graceful, musical phrasing were the distinctive pleasures of the whole concert.” Hexham Courant 2012

October

Nikolai Demidenko, piano

Admission £15.00; £5.00 [YP/Student]Saturday 12th October at 7.45 p.m.

Schubert Impromptus Op 90 D899Schubert Drei Klavierstücke D946Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor D958

Nikolai Demidenko’s passionate pianism means he is in demand worldwide. At six years of age he went to the Gnesin School of Music then The Moscow Conservatory. Nikolai was a finalist at the 1976 Montreal and 1978 Tchaikovsky Competitions. He has been resident in the United Kingdom since 1990. Frequent London recitals have included the Great Performers series, the International Piano Series and recently the London Pianoforte Series.

“Indeed, so inward and intimate was his playing at times that it felt as if we were eavesdropping on some private communion between performer and composer.” The Independent, April 2009

November

Amanda Roocroft, soprano &Joseph Middleton, piano

Admission £15.00; £5.00 [YP/Student]Saturday 2nd November at 7.45 p.m.

“Tell me the Truth about Love” A programme of 19th and 20th century song - about the course of a love affair through the eyes of a young woman. Followed by a selection of popular classics including songs from the shows and folksongs.

Amanda Roocroft has secured an international reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting singers, in opera, concert and recital. She won the 2007 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera for her performance as Jenufa with the English National Opera.

“Amanda Roocroft is at the height of her game, her voice radiating out with a power that never sacrifices any of the sensitivity that is required when lamenting lost youth and love.”Sam Smith, Londonist.com, January 2012

Joseph Middleton is a highly acclaimed specialist in the art of song accompaniment and chamber music.

Joseph Middleton “represents the crème de la crème of young British-based musical talent.” The Telegraph

Photo - Anthony Roocroft

Trusler Carroll Wass Piano Trio

Saturday 30th November at 7.45 p.m.Admission £15.00; £5.00 [YP/Student]

Beethoven Egmont Overture (arr. Thomas Carroll)Beethoven Triple Concerto (arr. Reinecke)Beethoven Symphony No. 2 (arr. Beethoven)

Matthew Trusler “We might just have an authentic though British virtuoso.” The Times

Thomas Carroll “a player of authority, passion ... full of colour and underpinned by a clear musical intelligence.” The Strad

Ashley Wass “a thoroughbred who possesses the enviable gift to turn anything he plays to pure gold.” Gramophone

The Trusler Carroll Wass Trio was officially formed at the 2012 Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival by three close friends who have collaborated in various forms over many years. The central focus of the new Trio is to create innovative projects, with a particular focus on exploring repertoire that isn’t performed every day.

Photo - Patrick Allen

Pemberton Old Wigan DW Brass Band

Saturday 14th December at 7.45 p.m.Admission £12.00; £5.00 [YP/Student]

“Christmas Truce”1914 swept ordinary people into a century of wars, but in mid-winter that same year, troops united incelebrating Christmas with their own unauthorised truce. This concert evokes a century of wars, people’s courage, humour, fortitude, comradeship and universal desire for peace and renewal that is Christmas.

Pemberton Old Wigan DW Band organisation boasts a Championship band led by Stig Maersk, a ‘B’ Band, recently promoted to the Second Section, led by Peter Ashley and a Youth Band led by John Don-Duncan. The Senior Band which is currently ranked in the top 30 in the 4barsrest.com rankings has qualified for the National Finals twice since 2009 and had numerous successes as a contesting band. The band, however, prides itself most on its innovative concerts and the three-tier organisation which serves the Wigan community.

There will be a collection at the concert for the White Poppy Appeal

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