Next season - Leighton Buzzard Music

SEASON 2007/2008 - PUBLIC CONCERTS
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	Saturday 22nd September 2007 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
One of the most brilliant violinists of our time. Winner of the Haverhill International Soloists Competition, 2006 Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin & Olga Sitkovestsky, piano Bach - Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin Allemande, Courante, Sarabande, Gigue, Ciacconna. Brahms - Sonata for Violin and Piano No 2 in A Major. Interval Franck - Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major Sarasate - Ziguenerweisen ________________________________________________________________________________
	Saturday 13th October 2007 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
Thomas Barber, oboe Christopher Cooper, bassoon James Southall, piano Saint-Saens - Bassoon Sonata Schumann - Three Romances Britten - Temporal Variations Vaughan Williams - Six studies in English Folksong Poulenc - Trio for Oboe, Bassoon & Piano Three outstanding young musicians sponsored by the Countess of Munster Musical Trust _______________________________________________________________________________
	Saturday 10th November 2007 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
Chris Allen, clarinet David Knight, cello Richard Heyes, piano Three talented Bedfordshire professional musicians in a programme including two of the greatest trios for the medium: Beethoven - (Op 11 in B flat) Brahms - (Op 114 in A minor) as well as solos by Schumann, Mark Horton and Alan Charlton. _______________________________________________________________________________
	Saturday 1st December 2007 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
Prestige Concert The world famous virtuoso Fine Arts Brass Ensemble Simon Lenton & Angela Whelan, trumpets Chris Parkes, horn Katy Jones, trombone Sam Elliott, tuba Bach, Vivaldi, Purcell, McCabe, Philip Wilby Malcolm Arnold, Prokofiev and Christmas Turkeys! _______________________________________________________________________________
	Saturday 26th January 2008 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
The brilliant German pianist Valentin Schiedermair Haydn - Sonata in C Beethoven - Sonata in E flat Op 81a (Les Adieux) Liszt - Transcendental Study No 10 Chopin - 24 Preludes Op 28 _______________________________________________________________________________

	Saturday 16th February 2008 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
Winner of the prestigious Alfreda Hodgson Bursary Elodie Kimmel, soprano François Salignat, piano "A Day in Springtime from Dawn to Dusk" Songs and arias by Purcell, Handel, Fauré, Ravel, Schubert, Wolf Sponsored by Making Music and the Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert artists _______________________________________________________________________________

	Saturday 8th March 2008 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
Arco Strings Leader: Celia Waterhouse Programme includes: Grieg - Holberg suite Elgar - Serenade Josef Suk - Serenade This Milton Keynes based string orchestra is rapidly gaining a fine reputation throughout the south of England _______________________________________________________________________________

	Saturday 12th April 2008 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
Prestige Concert The renowned Coull String Quartet Roger Coull & Philip Gallaway, violins Gustav Clarkson, viola Nicholas Roberts, cello "A group which gives freshness to any music it touches" (The Guardian) Prokofiev - Quartet No 1 Beethoven - Quartet Op 18 No 6 Brahms - Quartet Op 51 No 2 _______________________________________________________________________________