Next season - Leighton Buzzard Music

	SATURDAY 20 September 2008 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
The Merchant String Quartet (BBC Symphony Orchestra) Amyn Merchant & Ruth Schulten, violins Philip Hall, viola Michael Atkinson, cello with Benedict Rogerson, cello The Merchant String Quartet was formed 2 years ago by four members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, keen to explore the quartet repertoire when their busy schedule permits! They have already performed extensively in London and the Home Counties and the Ashover Festival, Derbyshire.They have also joined forces with other members of the orchestra to perform sextets by Brahms and Schoenberg and the Mendelssohn Octet. They have given workshops at several London schools and recently gave a concert at Kingston University and coached it's music students.The quartet has been given a residency in Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church and took part in last summer's Chichester Festival to which they have been re-invited. Programme Haydn - Quartet in C, Op 33 (The Bird) Ravel - Quartet in F Schubert - Quintet in C ________________________________________________________________________________
	SATURDAY 18 October 2008 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
Adrian Ward, tenor To be announced, piano An outstanding young singer who appears under the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme. This highly prestigious and much sought-after award is made to only the most talented young professional musicians of their generation. Programme to include songs by Britten, Fauré, Schumann & Wolf _______________________________________________________________________________
	SATURDAY 15 November 2008 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
The brilliant Ukrainian pianist Sasha Grynyuk Programme will include music by Bach, Schubert and Chopin Outright winner of the 2007 Haverhill International Soloists’ Competition _______________________________________________________________________________
	SATURDAY 6 December 2008 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
Kate Lockhart, clarinet Mina Miletic, piano Programme: Lovreglio - Fantasia on Verdi’s “La Traviata” Eugene Bozza - Bucolique Poulenc - Sonata for Clarinet & Piano Alban Berg - Four Pieces Op.5 Brahms - Sonata in F minor Kate Lockhart is a winner of the much sought after Philip & Dorothy Green Award for Young Concert Artists, supported by Making Music *_______________________________________________________________________________*
	SATURDAY 31 January 2009 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
Piano Recital by IAIN FARRINGTON One of the most gifted young British pianists Programme: Britten - Early Morning Bathe (Holiday Diary) Vaughan Williams - Hymn Tune Prelude on a theme of Orlando Gibbons Walton - Five Bagatelles (arr. Farrington) 1 - Allegro assai 3 - Alla Cubana 4 - Lento 5 - Presto con slancio Elgar - Two Improvisations (transcribed Farrington) 1 - G major 2 - D minor Elgar - Concert Allegro ------------------------------------------------------ Farrington - Animal Parade Howells - Two Folk Dances: Slow Dance, Cobler's Hornpipe Walton - Popular Song Mayerl - Marigold Traditional (arr. Farrington) - Sailor's Hornpipe _______________________________________________________________________________

	SATURDAY 28 February 2009 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
THE PURCELL SCHOOL Music for wind, strings and piano by the exceptionally gifted pupils of this famous specialist music school _______________________________________________________________________________

	SATURDAY 21 March 2009 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
The World Famous VIENNA MOZART TRIO Daniel Auner, violin Diethard Auner, cello Irina Auner, piano Programme: Mozart - Trio in D minor, K 442 Beethoven - Trio in Eb, Op70 no2 Dvorak “Dumky” - Trio in E minor, Op 90 _______________________________________________________________________________

	SATURDAY 18 April 2009 at 8.00 pm at Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, Leighton Buzzard, LU7 1RX
SYMPHONIA ACADEMICA The University of Bedfordshire’s professional chamber orchestra Led by violinist Peter Bussereau Programme: Handel - Arrival of the Queen of Sheba Boyce - Symphony No2 Mendelssohn - String Symphony Sibelius - Romance Bartok - Romanian Dances Mozart - Musical Joke Haydn - “Trauer” Symphony No 44 in E minor _______________________________________________________________________________