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OCTAGON MUSIC SOCIETY

The Society is a Registered Charity 280531 and is affiliated to Making Music –

the National Federation of Music Societies

The Octagon Music Society is part of the CAVATINA Ticket scheme and offers young people FREE tickets, subsidised by the CAVATINA CHAMBER MUSIC TRUST. Any child or young person under 26 can gain FREE entry just by signing the form at the front ticket table.

ARTISTS APPEARING 2016-2017

9 October 2016 at 4.00pm CASTALIAN STRING QUARTET 27 November 2016 at 4.00pm TASMIN LITTLE (violin) 5 February 2017 at 4.00pm ANNA HUNTLEY (mezzo soprano) JAMES BAILLIEU (piano) 12 March 2017 at 4.00pm AURORA TRIO (flute, viola, harp) 23 April 2017 at 4.00pm MISHKA RUSHDIE MOMEN (piano)

Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust

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The Clarendon Muse Watford Grammar School for Boys

70 Rickmansworth Road, Watford WD18 7JA

(Entrance in Shepherds Road WD18 7HX)

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OCTAGON MUSIC 2016 - 2017

The Clarendon Muse 70 Rickmansworth Road Watford WD18 7JA

Octagon Music, in its 37th season, presents one of the widest ranges of chamber music concerts offered by any Music Society. Our aim is to present a broad spectrum of music played by top class artists and we have built a reputation for choosing young performers of great promise who have gone on to distinguished careers. We encourage our audiences to be adventurous in their musical tastes so we hope the programme offers something for everybody and the opportunity to try something new. The Clarendon Muse is ideal for chamber music, with excellent acoustics - “the best north of the Wigmore Hall”. There are ample parking facilities and level access.

Photo: Kaupo Kippas

Photo: Benjamin Eolavega

Sunday 9 October 2016 at 4.00pm

CASTALIAN STRING QUARTET Siri Simonen (violin) Daniel Roberts (violin)

Charlotte Bonneton (viola) Christopher Graves (cello)

Mozart: Quartet in E flat K. 428 Thomas Adès: The Four Quarters (2010) Bartok: Quartet No 6

Since their impressive concert for us in 2012, the Quartet has scaled fresh heights, leading to First Prize in the 2015 Lyon International

Chamber Music Competition. They have gone on to study with an array of distinguished musicians, and been praised for their ‘richly romantic energy and passion’ (The Strad).

Sunday 27 November 2016 at 4.00pm

TASMIN LITTLE (violin) “The Naked Violin”

Telemann: Allegro Paul Patterson: Luslawice Variations Bach: Chaconne from the D minor Partita; Movements from E major Partita Albeniz arr. Jennings/Little: “Leyenda” Ysaye: Ballade

Tasmin Little is well known as one of the finest violinists of her generation. She made her Proms debut in 1990 and has since been a frequent and popular soloist there. Her concert is designed to show the huge range of styles and expression that a single unadorned violin can produce.

Sunday 5 February 2017 at 4.00pm

ANNA HUNTLEY (mezzo soprano)

JAMES BAILLIEU (piano)

Programme to include: Songs by Rossini, Schumann, Kurt Weill, Flanders and Swann, and Noel Coward. Described in the Guardian ‘as a fast rising British talent’, Anna won a major prize at the prestigious Das Lied competition in Berlin in 2011. Since then she has undertaken major roles with English National Opera. She now has an international career as a lieder singer and has formed a close artistic partnership with the highly regarded pianist James Baillieu.

Sunday 12 March 2017 at 4.00pm

AURORA TRIO Emma Halnan (flute), Joe Bronstein (viola),

Heather Wrighton (harp)

Bax: Elegiac Trio Bissill: Twisted Elegy Beethoven: Serenade, Op.25 Debussy: Syrinx (solo flute) R. R. Bennett: Sonata after Syrinx Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp Jongen: Danse Lente Krouse: Tri Chairde All alumni of the Royal Academy of Music, they are now holders of a RAM Chamber Music Fellowship, and are Concordia Foundation Artists and members of the Live Music Now scheme. Emma whilst at the Purcell School won the woodwind section of the BBC Young Musician of the Year. Sunday 23 April 2017 at 4.00pm

MISHKA RUSHDIE MOMEN (piano) (Supported by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust)

Mozart: Fantasia in C minor, K. 475 Messiaen: Nos 11 and 13 Vingt Regards Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy D.760 Janacek: In the Mists Schumann: Geistervariationen Beethoven: Sonata No. 28 in A major Op.101 A former student with both the legendary Alfred Brendel and Richard Goode, the latter said of her ‘...it is the purity and depth of her musical feeling that impresses me most’. In addition to the First Prize at the 2014 Dudley International Piano Competition, she has been a winner at the Cologne, Dublin and Academie Ravel Competitions.

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The Octagon Music Society is a Registered Charity- Promoting the Art of Music

The right is reserved to change artistsand programmes without notice if necessary.

Photo: Paul Mitchell