You might be interested in this concert, I’ve received the following email about it:
Hello, I’m from the Alvarez Chamber Orchestra and we giving 2 concerts at St John’s Smith Square in London on the 15th and 16th November. The season is called Northern Ayes: An Anglo-Polish Celebration. The concert on the 16th features Diana Burrell’s Flute Concerto and the soloist is Rehana Browne. She is currently a memeber of the National youth Orchestra and has recently played under the Alvarez Chamber Orchestra’s president Sir Colin Davis.
Would you be able to let your interested members know?
Many Thanks, Phillip, Orchestral Secretary
If you are within traveling distance, this might interest you:
Woodwind Orchestra Play Day
Saturday 31st January 2009, 10am – 5pm
Regent Hall, Oxford Street
Set in this magnificent Central London venue, the East London Clarinet Choir presents the second Woodwind Orchestra Play Day at the Regent Hall. Open to all orchestral woodwind instruments, the day will encompass original repertoire and popular arrangements lead by some of the country’s leading specialists including Richard Dickins, Caroline Franklyn, Paul Harris and James Rae. Come along for a chance to meet other woodwind players, make music and browse the great selection of trade stands including Clarinet Classics, Rosetti and Wood, Wind & Reed (Cambridge) who will be selling printed music, Cds, instruments, accessories and instrument repairs by their in-house technician and director Daniel Bangham.
Artistic Director: Shea Lolin
Tutors: Richard Dickins, Caroline Franklyn, Paul Harris and James Rae
Regent Hall, Oxford Street, London W1C 2DJ (nearest station: Oxford Circus)
Contact for further enquiries: playday@elclarinetchoir.co.uk
or call 01708 750 786
If you weren’t there, you missed a great course. We had so much fun (there was also lots of hard work). I haven’t got round to finding the cameras to download all of the photos yet. We took loads and some will be very funny. You won’t believe what Stephen’s fancy dress costume was!
We had the usual problems at Ovingdean – water pouring through the ceiling and this time the heating broke down – but they fixed it. The food was great, as usual. Sandy and Stephen came for Thursday to Saturday and Abbie and Gareth came on Friday until Sunday. On Saturday James Penny came along for a workshop about his new flute concerto which Gareth is playing in March 2009 for the very first time. It was exciting for everyone to see a real live composer working on a new piece with a soloist.
We also had lots of teachers in on Saturday afternoon for a meeting about the Barbican and increasing Flutewise membership and a general chat. What nice teachers they are.
I’m off to find those phtos ….