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We are pleased to announce the following performances at The Barn Carlton
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Friday 28th May 7.30pm |
MELVYN TAN - £14 per ticket
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Melvyn Tan has lived in London since leaving his native Singapore at
an early age to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music.
His teachers have included Nadia Boulanger, Marcel Ciampi and Vlado Perlemuter.
Highlights this season include a four-concert tour to South Africa, performances
with the Wiener Akademie at Vienna’s Musikverein and the London Philharmonic
Orchestra at London’s Royal Festival Hall, recitals with fellow pianist Ronald
Brautigam at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Sage Gateshead, appearances with
the Skampa Quartet at London’s Wigmore Hall and Edinburgh’s International
Festival as well as solo recitals at the Wigmore Hall and Spitalfields Festival.
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Friday 4th June 7.30pm |
BRODOWSKI QUARTET - £14 per ticket
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First Prize Winners of the 2008 Royal Overseas League Competition,
the Brodowski Quartet are ‘the new kids on the London scene’, The Times.
The quartet members, originating from Germany, Wales, Scotland and
England are currently based in London where they are recipients of
the Richard Carne Fellowship for Chamber Ensembles at Trinity
College of Music, where last year they held the Bulldog Scholarship for String Quartet.
They are also currently ‘Associate Artists’ at the Anvil Concert
Hall in Basingstoke.
The Quartet won the Second Prize at the 2009 ‘Gaetano Zinetti’ International
Chamber Music Competition in Italy, also winning the Special Award of ‘Artists
in Residence’ for 2010. The Quartet was selected as Park Lane Group Young
Artists for 2008, giving a critically acclaimed recital at the Purcell
Room in London. In 2007 they were winners of the Val Tidone International
Chamber Music Competition in Italy and were also prize winners in the Charles Hennen International
Chamber Music Competition in the Netherlands broadcast live on Radio 4 Netherlands.
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Friday 11th June 7.30pm |
PICCADILLY DANCE ORCHESTRA - £22 per ticket
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The Piccadilly Dance Orchestra have given the Barn audiences the rich
nostalgic atmosphere of the 1920’s, 30’s and 40’s for about fourteen
years so successfully that they have become a permanent much loved
fixture. The PDO lays claim, quite rightly, to being the true successors
to the great British Dance Bands such as Geralds, Savoy Orpheaus and
Carroll Gibbons. Ambrose, Henry Roy and Lear Stone as well as the BBC
Orchestras of Jack Payne and Henry Hall.
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Friday 25th June 7.30pm |
FUJITA PIANO TRIO - £14 per ticket
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The award-winning Fujita sisters from Japan have been playing chamber
music together since early childhood. They have performed at major
London venues since their Wigmore Hall debut in 1999 and continue
to give concerts throughout the UK, in more than 100 venues.
Engagements have also taken the Trio to countries overseas including
Canada, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Romania and
Sweden, and they have won numerous awards and prizes both as a Trio
and individually. Since releasing their debut CD of Takemitsu chamber
music works on ASV label to worldwide critical acclaim, they have
since released, between them, seven CDs including Schubert,
Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Ravel, Dvorak and Smetana Piano Trios.
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Friday 2nd July 7.30pm |
DIGBY FAIRWEATHER’S HALF DOZEN - £20 per ticket
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Pollwinning cornettist Digby Fairweather’s HALF DOZEN was
first formed in l995 and worked with blues legend
GEORGE MELLY from 2003-2007 before joining blues/rock legend
PAUL JONES. Despite these auspicious guests the Half Dozen
in its own right is the brightest and most entertaining of
Britain’s new generation of jazz bands. They set out to present
a polished and entertaining jazz cabaret, spotlighting the group’s
close-harmony vocals as well as its innovative arrangements and
rosta of star soloists several of whom – including Julian
Marc Stringle (reeds) Dominic Ashworth (guitar) and Len Skeat
(bass) – are, like Digby, pollwinners in their own right.
The Half Dozen (which since its formation has played all of
Britain’s major jazz festivals and venues including regular
returns to Ronnie Scott’s) has also created a personal record
by winning the ‘Top Small Group ‘ category of the British
Jazz Awards – the ‘Jazz Oscars’ - in 2005, 2006, 2008 and
2009; four wins in the last five years! The Half Dozen’s most
recent album ‘Things ain’t what they used to be’ was Editor’s
Choice’ in Jazz Journal International and music from that album –
amongst much else- will be featured in this extra-special concert at the Barn!
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Friday 16th July 7.30pm |
HENSCHEL QUARTET - £20 per ticket
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The Henschel Quartet celebrate 15 years as one of the most dynamic chamber ensembles in the world
today. The Quartet, composed of twins, their sister and friend have recently performed for Queen Sofia
of Spain at the Royal Court in Madrid and have an invitation to perform at the Vatican. Their busy
schedule in 2009 includes two tours of the US, their 12th tour of Japan, concerts at main concert halls in
Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Madrid, Stockholm and Copenhagen. In the UK their tour includes
Dartington Summer School, the 2009 Equine String Festival and King’s Place, London. The Quartet has
just released the debut recording of Max Bruch’s String Quintet which received a 5 star review in the
Sunday Times. They are ambassadors of the charity SOS Childrens Villages & run the Seligenstadt
Festival. (www.henschel-quartett.de)
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Friday 23rd July 7.30pm |
TRIO CON BRIO COPENHAGEN - £17 per ticket
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Exuberant joy, electric musical dialogue, spacious eloquent playing,
perfect unanimity, are words that regularly describe Trio con Brio
Copenhagen, now considered one of the leading piano trios of the new
generation.
Attracting attention soon after its creation in 1999, the Trio con Brio
Copenhagen won top prizes in some of chamber music’s most important
international competitions for young ensembles, the 2002 ARD Competition
in Munich, the 2003 Premio Vittorio Gui in Florence, and the 2003
Trondheim Chamber Music Competition. In 2005, the trio was honored
with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Piano Trio Award,
which lead to concerts in twenty major concert series across the USA
including New York City’s Carnegie Hall.The trio was established at
the Vienna University of Music. They were coached by the Alban Berg
Quartet, Frans Helmerson, Mihaela Martin and Harald Schoneweg at the
Cologne University of Music and received excellent musical guidance
by Ferenc Rados in Budapest.
The today Copenhagen-based trio’s international engagements take them
to the New York’s Carnegie Hall, Concertbebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall
London, Musikhalle Hamburg, Seoul Arts Center, Bunka Kaikan Tokyo.
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Friday 6th Aug 7.30pm |
SINFONIA ARIELLA - £20 per ticket
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Sinfonia Ariella is a new professional Chamber Orchestra establishing itself in the local area of Milton Keynes. Their inaugural concert was in April 2009 and the orchestra has been praised for its excellence and high standards.
The new Sinfonia is made up of professional musicians living in the three counties and Milton Keynes. All have professional playing careers in UK and abroad. The Sinfonia Ariella is a small and flexible ensemble that performs concerts in local churches and other local venues. The musicians also work within schools, linking workshops to each concert to try to bring music to our children and youth.
The orchestra uses as many local professional players as possible. There is a wealth of professional talent in and around the three counties and Sinfonia Ariella wants to join these musicians together as one.
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