Concerts in 2005 - St Peter's Church, Nottingham, England

Concerts in 2006

Wednesday 13th December 2006

St Peter's Church, 7.30pm
Winterreise – Schubert
Howard Wong (baritone)
Philip Collin (piano)

Saturday 28th October

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
Jessica Melly (soprano), Anna Williams (oboe)
Tim Shephard (cello), Peter Siepmann (organ)
A programme of baroque chamber music including the sprightly Concerto for Oboe in d minor by Alessandro Marcello, one of Vivaldi's cello sonatas, a selection of Handel's ravishing soprano arias and music for soprano and oboe from JS Bach's St Luke Passion.

Saturday 21st October

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
As part of a weekend festival commemorating the bicentenary of local hymn writer Henry Kirk White and the centenary of the English Hymnal, this concert will be all about hymns. Expect some audience participation (if you want to) as well as choral and organ music based on or around hymn tunes.

Saturday 14th October

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
Wills Morgan (tenor)
Philip Collin (piano)
To celebrate Black History month, Wills Morgan – who has recently been playing the role of “Diaper Man” in the hugely popular Jerry Springer: The Opera – will be performing music by black composers including Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Harrison Leslie Adams.

Saturday 7th October

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
William Burn (bass-baritone)
Philip Collin (piano)
William Burn makes a welcome return to the Coffee Break Concerts and will be performing songs by Duparc, Vaughan Williams and Quilter as well as Martin Dalby’s Songs from the Chinese and one of Schumann’s greatest song cycles, Liedkreiss (Opus 39).

Saturday 22nd July

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
Jean Andrews (soprano)
Corinne Lang (contralto)
A programme of English and French song with well-known arias evoking the moods and landscapes of summer and summery climes, with piano accompaniment.

Saturday 15th July

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
Philip Collin (piano)
Peter Siepmann (organ)
Philip Collin will be performing a selection of piano music including Brahms’s Klavierstücke and pieces by Bach, Hindemith and Debussy. By popular demand, he will be joined by Peter Siepmann for another performance of Flor Peeters’ Concerto for Organ and Piano.

Saturday 8th July

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
Howard Wong (baritone)
Philip Collin (piano)
After the hugely successful Nottingham Finzi Festival back in March, renowned baritone Howard Wong makes a welcome return to Nottingham. He will be performing Vaughan Williams’s hugely popular Five Mystical Songs, Britten’s extraordinary song cycle, Songs and Proverbs of William Blake and Butterworth’s Bredon Hill and other songs.

Saturday 1st July

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
The Choir of St Peter's, Nottingham
The Choir of St Peter’s will be warming up for their summer tour of Ireland with a concert of sacred music punctuated by bursts of organ music. The programme will include Fauré’s Requiem and, to celebrate their patronal festival, Palestrina’s Tu es Petrus.

Saturday 11th March 2006

St Peter's Church, 11.00am
English Song Workshop
Howard Wong, winner of the 2002 English Singers and Speakers Song Competition, will be giving two masterclass-style song workshops to local singers, assisted by Philip Collin. The second workshop will feature more experienced singers of all ages.
Part of the Nottingham Finzi Festival and in association with Arts Council England.

Friday 10th March 2006

St Peter's Church, 2.00pm
English Song Workshop
Howard Wong, winner of the 2002 English Singers and Speakers Song Competition, will be giving two masterclass-style song workshops to local singers, assisted by Philip Collin. The first workshop will be for young singers from schools and colleges in the area.
Part of the Nottingham Finzi Festival and in association with Arts Council England.

Saturday 18th February 2006

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
Viva Voce
Viva Voce, the university of Nottingham's chamber choir, under the direction of Peter Siepmann, are joined by string players from the university to perform a sprightly programme of choral music including works by Purcell and Monteverdi, settings of English folk songs and Haydn's charming 'Little Organ Mass'.

Saturday 11th February 2006

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
Alice De Ville (mezzo-soprano)
Philip Collin (piano)
Alice De Ville will be performing a programme of English, German and French songs, including Jonathan Dove’s Five Am’rous sighs and one of Robert Schumann’s last song cycles, Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart.

Saturday 4th February 2006

Coffee Break Concert
St Peter's Church, 11.00am
Nottingham Baroque Soloists
Polly Jackman (soprano), Robert Waters (alto), Jonathan Stork (tenor), William Burn (bass) and Peter Siepmann (organ) will present two of the cantatas composed by Bach for the Thomaskirche in Leipzig: BWV 21 Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis and BWV 54 Widerstehe doch der Sünde.

Concerts in previous years

2005 concerts
2004 concerts

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