Event Category: Past

Read our news item and full details about the Festival of Young Composers. Read a review. Performance and adjudication day at the TPS Studio.Entry free. Come and see what the next generation of composers is up to! This year’s Festival of Young Composers is taking place at 10am on 4th February at the Petersfield School … Read more

Read a review. Elgar: Serenade for strings Dyson: Hierusalem Ireland: Downland Suite Rutter: Magnificat Festival chorus, with Petersfield and Rogate Choral Societies Milly Forrest, soprano Nova Foresta Classical PlayersGiles White and Phil Daish-Handy, conductors Sir George Dyson was a composer, teacher, broadcaster and author, and the driving force behind the National Federation of Music Societies … Read more

Read a review. With the National Youth Jazz Orchestra sextet. One of the giants of jazz, drummer Art Blakey with his Jazz Messengers enjoyed international celebrity and launched the careers of numerous jazz musicians from the 1950s to the 1980s. The National Youth Jazz Orchestra’s sextet draws on some of our most talented young jazz … Read more

Read a review. Robin Browning, conductorJamie Cochrane, piano (pictured) Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto no. 2 Smetana: BlaníkDvořák: Symphony no. 8 In this showpiece concert, Robin Browning conducts the Petersfield Orchestra in three classic works from eastern Europe. Smetana’s Blaník, the last of his six tone poems depicting his native Bohemia, evokes the mountain beneath which, according … Read more

Read a review. Richard Pearce will present a varied programme of pieces from much-loved Bach fugues to works by lesser-known modern French composers such as Alain and Langlais, alongside a sonata by Elgar and a chorale by César Franck. J.S. Bach – Prelude and fugue in C minor BWV 546J. Alain – Le jardin suspendu … Read more

Read a review. Award holders from the Michael Hurd Fund for Young Musicians. Free entry. Retiring collection in aid of the Michael Hurd Fund for Young Musicians. Deh vieni, non tardar – MozartCome away Come away death – QuilterFleurs – PoulencQuando m’en vo – PucciniScheidend – MendelssohnJe dis que rien ne m’epouvante – BizetMy Ship … Read more

Review: Youth triumphs again Singers and instrumentalists from local schools and youth music organisations. With a choir of around two hundred 8–11-year-olds, together with a hundred or more instrumentalists from local senior schools, the Festival’s Youth Concerts provide a focus and showcase for music-making in schools in the Petersfield area. Items for choir and combined … Read more

Review: Youth triumphs again Singers and instrumentalists from local schools and youth music organisations. With a choir of around two hundred 8–11-year-olds, together with a hundred or more instrumentalists from local senior schools, the Festival’s Youth Concerts provide a focus and showcase for music-making in schools in the Petersfield area. Items for choir and combined … Read more

Read a review. Musical director: Lucy Humphris Music including Pergolesi Stabat Mater and much more This concert in memory of Ann Pinhey, the consort’s founder and former director, will be directed by her successor Lucy Humphris, a former student at Churcher’s College and now a rising star in the world of trumpet playing. The multi-talented … Read more

Basingstoke Chamber OrchestraStephen Scotchmer, conductor Royalty of all kinds can be expected at Basingstoke Chamber Orchestra’s Family Concert, from the Queen of Sheba to Frozen’s Elsa and Anna, via Handel’s Water Music (first played in a barge on the Thames for King George 1), William Walton’s Crown Imperial march (from the coronation of Queen Elizabeth … Read more