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2016
Wednesday 11 May Chapel, St John’s Beaumont 6:30
with The Queen’s Six, and the Chapel Choir of St John’s
Music by Balfour Gardiner, Mendelssohn, and the first performance of The Water of Tyne (arr.)
Saturday 24 September Blue Remembered Hills St Thomas’ Church, Penkhull 2:30 (for the Penkhull Festival)
with Ben Alden tenor
Settings of A E Housman, including On Wenlock Edge (Vaughan Williams), The Land of Lost Content (Ireland) and songs by Butterworth and C W Orr
2015
Saturday 16 May The Glasgow Art Club 6.00
with Ralph McDonald baritone
Private event, members only. Music by Cole Porter and others
Wednesday 15 July Peterborough Cathedral 1.15 time tbc
with James Bowman counter tenor
Music by Purcell, and from the English Cathedral repertoire
Thursday 16 July Waterperry House, Oxfordshire 12.30 and 3.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
Two recitals of English music by Purcell and others
Saturday 22 August St Mary’s Church, Wallingford, Oxford time tbc
with James Bowman counter tenor
English Song
Friday 4 September Big School Room, Salisbury Cathedral School time tbc
with James Bowman counter tenor
Private event for the Friends of Sarum Consort
2014
Tuesday 11 February The Chapel, St John’s Beaumont, Old Windsor 6.00
Premieres of There was a Boy bedded in bracken and The Orange Poem
Performed by EXAUDI
Saturday 15 March Christ Church, Cheltenham 7.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
English music for the Holst Birthplace Museum
Saturday 20 September St Thomas’ Church, Penkhull, Staffordshire 2.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
English music for the Penkhull Festival
Saturday 20 September St Thomas’ Church, Penkhull, Staffordshire 2.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
English music for the Penkhull Festival
Saturday 25 October Glazunov Hall, The Rimsky-Korsakov St Petersburg State Conservatory, Russia 7.00
with Ben Alden tenor, Stephen Burrows counter tenor
Music by Purcell and Britten, including Winter Words, for the XVI International Conservatory Week Festival
Sunday 26 October White Hall, Sheremetev Palace, St Petersburg, Russia 7.00
with Ben Alden tenor, Stephen Burrows counter tenor
Music by Purcell and Britten, including Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, for the XVI International Conservatory Week Festival
Saturday 20 December The Chapel, University of Chichester 12.00 noon
with James Bowman counter tenor
2013
Saturday 9 February The Menuhin Hall, The Yehudi Menuhin School
Recording for NMC with Ben Alden tenor and Michael Chance counter tenor
Songs by Joseph Phibbs
Thursday 14 February The Hoy Theatre, St John’s Beaumont, Old Windsor 7.00
with Ben Alden tenor, Suzanne Evans viola, Benedict McGonigal treble
‘Music for St Valentine’, by Britten (Canticle II: ‘Abraham and Isaac’), Quilter and Vaughan Williams
Friday 8 March Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace 7.45
in aid of the Choral Foundation
with James Bowman counter tenor and the Choristers of the Hampton Court Chapel Royal
Music by Purcell, Vaughan Williams and Britten
Saturday 5 October Holy Trinity Church, Regent Road, Leicester 7.30
Choral workshop and recital for Leicester Chorale
with James Bowman counter tenor
Sunday 20 October Holywell Music Room, Oxford 8.00
For the Oxford Lieder Festival, in celebration of Britten’s 100th anniversary year
with James Bowman counter tenor
Sunday 10 November Bray Parish Church, Berkshire 4.30 and 6.30
Britten: Noye’s Fludde
with Music at Bray / Opera East
Friday 22 November 1901 Arts Club, 7 Exton Street, London SE1 7.30
‘Innocence and Experience’ : songs by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf and Britten
with Alexander Learmonth baritone
Friday 29 November Brighton Unitarian Church, New Road, Brighton 7.30
Charity concert in aid of Bhopal
with James Bowman counter tenor
2012
Saturday 17 March
Recording with Ben Alden tenor
Music by Britten from On This Island and Winter Words
Saturday 5 May St Andrew’s Church, Belchamp St Paul, Essex 7.00
with James Bowman counter tenor
Music by Dowland, Handel, Purcell, Britten and others
Sunday 3 June The Silk Hall, Radley College 11.00 (for the English Music Festival)
with Philip Lancaster baritone
Finzi: To a Poet, Howells: Peacock Pie, songs by Gurney, Ireland and others
Saturday 22 September St Thomas’ Church, Penkhull 2.30 (for the Penkhull Festival)
with Ben Alden tenor
Britten: Winter Words, Joseph Phibbs (Three Songs – premiere) and songs by Roger Quilter
Friday 5 October Parish Church of SS. Peter & Paul, Aldeburgh 7.30
(for the William Alwyn Festival)
with James Bowman counter tenor, John Turner recorder, Dot Linell lute
Music by Alwyn, Britten, Peter Dickinson, Joseph Phibbs, Martin Shaw (premiere) and others
Saturday 27 October Church of St Michael & All Angels, Bedford Park, London 7.30
(English Music Festival concert)
with Philip Lancaster baritone
Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring; Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel; songs by Elgar, Gurney, Howells and Warlock
Thursday 22 November The Hoy Theatre, St John’s Beaumont, Old Windsor 7.00
A Recital for St Cecilia
with James Bowman counter tenor
English Song from Dowland to Britten
2011
6 January St Martin-in-the-Fields, London 7.30
James Bowman counter tenor and London Octave
Music by Bach, Handel; and a small premiere: Caleno custure me arr. AMP
19 March Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh 3.00 & 5.30
The Tailor of Gloucester – a production for young people. Music realized and arranged by Andrew Plant
with Jubilee Opera, and Sam Wilson percussion
9 April Parish Church of SS. Peter & Paul, Aldeburgh 7.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
Music by Purcell, Handel, Grainger, Britten, and others
25 June Ely Cathedral 7.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
James’s recollections of his time as a chorister at Ely, with his personal choice of music by Britten, Handel, Howells, Purcell, Vaughan Williams and others, together with a new work written for the occasion by Arthur Wills.
9 July Framlingham College 7.30
Carmina Burana (Orff) and The Rio Grande (Lambert)
with Jonathan Rutherford piano and the Phoenix Singers
12 August Radovljica Manor, Radovljica, Slovenia 7.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
for the Radovljica Festival
Music by Dowland, Purcell, Handel, Grainger, Britten, and others
17 September 1901 Arts Club, Waterloo 3.00 and 4.00
with Alexander Learmonth baritone
for Open House London
29 October Wilmslow Parish Churchm Cheshire 2.00
A Concert for James Bowman at 70
with James Bowman counter tenor, Nicholas Clapton counter tenor, and James Gilchrist tenor; Emma Kirkby soprano, Richard Simpson oboe, John Turner and Laura Robinson recorders, Ian Thompson harpsichord, Heather Bills cello, Manchester Chamber Ensemble, Richard Howarth dir
Music by Blow, Britten (two world premieres), Dowland, Steele, Vaughan Williams and others
2010
6 February Lichfield Cathedral 7.30
with James Bowman counter tenor and the Cathedral Choir
Music by Britten, Butterworth, Gurney, Howells and Vaughan Williams
15 May St Andrew’s Church, Churchdown, Gloucester 3.30
for the Ivor Gurney Society
with Philip Lancaster baritone
Howells: Peacock Pie and songs by Gurney, Ireland and Graham Peel, including rare items and two first performances
11 June St Mary & St Edward Parish Church, Barrow Gurney, Bristol 7.30
for the Barrow Gurney Festival
with James Bowman counter tenor
Music by Purcell, Handel and twentieth-century English composers
24 June Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park 7.30
with Stephen Burrows counter tenor
Finzi: Let us Garlands Bring and songs by Purcell, Vaughan Williams and Warlock
26 June Le Bois des Moutiers, Varengeville-sur-Mer, France 8.00
with James Bowman counter tenor
Music by Purcell, Handel and twentieth-century English composers
9 July St Andrew’s Church, Brigstock, Northamptonshire 7.30
with James Laing counter tenor
Music by Dowland, Bach, Handel, Jake Heggie and others
25 September St Thomas’ Church, Penkhull, Staffordshire 3.00
for the Penkhull Festival
with Stephen Burrows counter tenor
Finzi: Let us Garlands Bring and songs by Purcell, Vaughan Williams and Warlock
23 October St John-at-Hampstead Parish Church 7.30
Martindale Sidwell Memorial Recital
with James Bowman counter tenor
English Song from Dowland to Britten
30 October The Chapel, Merton College, Oxford 8.00
with James Bowman counter tenor
English Song from Dowland to Britten
13 November Snape Maltings, Suffolk 7.15
for SingOut2010
with Sam Wilson percussion, Libby Purves narrator, massed choirs from Suffolk, Peter Nardone cond
Joseph Phibbs: Shadows of Sleep; Tom Rose: Mikros; Jana Rowland: Dialogue with the Sea (premieres)
20 November St Peter & St Paul Parish Church, Aldeburgh 5.00 & 7.30
with Andrew Staples tenor, Britten–Pears Chamber Choir, Jubilee Opera chorus and orchestra, Steuart Bedford cond
Britten: Saint Nicolas — in celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sir Peter Pears
24 November Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park 7.30
with Ben Alden tenor and Amelia Halsey viola
Vaughan Williams: Four Hymns and songs by Quilter and Britten
30 November St John’s, Smith Square 7.30
Christmas Concert for The Children’s Trust, Tadworth
with Ana-Maria Rincon soprano, Rupert Johnston horn, Max Mosley trumpet, Amici Ensemble, school choirs, Laurence Cummings cond
Music by Handel, Parry, Whitacre and others
2009
4 April Hall One, King’s Place, London 7.30
The NMC Songbook: A Recipe
with James Bowman counter tenor
Premières of Haiku by Bláar Kindsdottir and The Moon’s Funeral by Joseph Phibbs
4 April Hall One, King’s Place, London 8.45
The NMC Songbook: True Standards Advanced
with Daniel Norman tenor and Iain Burnside piano
Première of Easter Zunday by Sadie Harrison and Colin Matthews’ arrangement of a Galliard by Morley
25 May Dorchester Abbey, Dorchester-on-Thames 11.00
for the English Music Festival
with James Bowman counter tenor
including the première of White in the Moon by Tom Rose
and music by Britten, Butterworth, Andrew Gant, Joseph Phibbs, Giles Swayne and Simon Whiteley
20 June St James the Less, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent 7.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
24 July St Mary’s Church, Reigate 7.30
for Reigate Summer Music
with James Bowman counter tenor
29 September Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park 7.00
for the Windsor Festival in aid of the Royal Chapel
with James Bowman counter tenor
14 November Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk 5.00 & 7.30
Britten: The Little Sweep
with Jubilee Opera
15 November Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk 3.00 & 5.30
Britten: The Little Sweep
with Jubilee Opera
2008
20 February Hertford College, Oxford 6.30
Tracing the threads: perspectives on ‘The Turn of the Screw’
Pre-performance talk for Oxford Opera Company
18 April Westonbirt School, Tetbury 7.30
Wind of the Western Sea: an evening of English song
with James Bowman counter tenor and Andrew Swait treble
6 May The Chapel, Keble College, Oxford 6.00
with James Bowman counter tenor
including the première of Simon Whiteley’s Drop, drop slow tears
26 May Dorchester Abbey 11.00 a.m.
English Music Festival
with James Bowman counter tenor and Andrew Swait treble
including world premières of four early Britten songs: Chamber Music V (Goldenhair), Diaphenia, The Owl, Witches’ Song
27 July Schloss Dennenlohe, Bavaria 6.00
Brahms: Deutsche Volkslieder
with Andrew Swait treble
21 and 27 August Hall 1, King’s Place, London
Premiere recordings for the NMC Songbook
with James Bowman counter tenor, Sam Harris and Andrew Swait trebles
Music by Peter Maxwell Davies, Blár Kindsdottir, James MacMillan and Joseph Phibbs
18 September Windsor Parish Church 7.00
Illustrations for The History of Music by James Naughtie for the Windsor Festival
with James Naughtie and Quintessential Voices
Music by Palestrina, Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Vaughan Williams
24 October The Britten–Pears Libary, Aldeburgh 4.00
Launch of Lord Berners: Composer, Writer, Painter, ed. Peter Dickinson
Berners: Valses Bourgeoises for piano duet
with Peter Dickinson piano
31 October Great Hall, St Andrew’s Hospital, Northampton 8.00
for the Northamptonshire Choral Foundation
with James Bowman counter tenor and Daniel Turner tenor
1 November All Saints’ Church, Weston-super-Mare 11.30 a.m.
for All Saints’ Festival
with James Bowman counter tenor
2 November The Royal Chapel, Windsor Great Park 6.30
Memorial concert for Audrey Dellow
with the Choir of The Royal Chapel
15 and 16 November St Bartholomew’s Church, Orford (5.00 and 7.30 both days)
Britten: Noye’s Fludde (fiftieth anniversary production in the original venue)
with Jubilee Opera, Steuart Bedford cond
3 December St Oswald’s Church, Durham 7.30
Recital for the Musicon concert series
preceded by masterclass in the Recital Room of the University Music School (1.30)
with James Bowman counter tenor
2007
24 February New Cottage, Overy Road, Burnham Market 7.30
Talk on Imogen Holst and Britten for the Friends of North Norfolk Music Festival
15 June St Mary & St Edward Parish Church, Barrow Gurney, Bristol 7.30
Recital for the Barrow Gurney Festival
with James Bowman counter tenor
19 June The Britten–Pears Library, Aldeburgh 12.30
Launch of Sounding Art Press and their first publication: The Turn of the Screw: visual responses to Britten’s opera by Jane Mackay, commentary by Andrew Plant
with Andrew Swait treble
28 July St Botolph’s Church, Boston, Lincolnshire 11.30 a.m.
with Jamie McDougall saxophone
13 October East Sheen Parish Church, East Sheen Avenue, Richmond, London 7.30
‘The English Song’
with James Bowman counter tenor
including the UK première of Giles Swayne’s No sad songs
20 October (7.00) and 21 October (3.00) Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
Songs by Britten and Liza Lehmann
with Stefan Holmström bass–baritone
and performances of Hans Krása’s Brundibár by Jubilee Opera, Nicholas Collon cond
2 November In Tune, Radio 3 5.15 (live broadcast)
with James Bowman counter tenor.
Music by Handel
2006
4 February Church of St John the Baptist, Loughton, Essex 7.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
14 March St Mary’s Church, Iffley, Oxford 7.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
17 March St Edmund’s Hall, Malvern College, Worcestershire 7.15
Private recital for the Musicians’ Dinner to mark the retirement of the Headmaster
with James Bowman counter tenor
25 March St Alphege Parish Church, Solihull 7.30
Gala Recital: 100th concert in series
with James Bowman counter tenor
5 April The Britten–Pears Library, Aldeburgh 2.30
Private recital for Trustees and guests. Music by Purcell, Britten and Tippett
with James Bowman counter tenor
27 May Beauchamp House, Abbey School, Church Street, Tewkesbury 12 noon.
Lecture on English Song given for the Tewkesbury Spring Festival
preceding recital given by Francis Brett baritone and Nicholas Chalmers piano
12 October In Tune, Radio 3 5.00 (live broadcast)
with James Bowman counter tenor
Music by Warlock and Vaughan Williams
14 October Blythburgh Church, Suffolk 4.00
James Bowman’s 65th birthday concert
Recital of English Song
24, 25 November, 7.00; 26 November, 3.00 Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, Suffolk
with Jubilee Opera
Richard Rodney Bennett: All the King’s Men
10 December Bray Church, Windsor, Berkshire 3.00
with the Pepys Ensemble, Oliver Gooch cond
Britten: Saint Nicolas
2005
3 September Bagshot Park, Surrey 7.30
Concert to commemorate Nelson and the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar
with Richard Baker reader, Michael George baritone, Julie Kennard soprano and Gordon Pullin tenor
in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses the Earl and Countess of Wessex
20 September St Thomas’ Church, Penkhull, Staffordshire 8.00
with James Bowman counter tenor
29 October St Swithin’s School, Winchester 7.30
Concert to commemorate Nelson and the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar
with Michael George baritone, Julie Kennard soprano, Gordon Pullin tenor and John Sargent reader
12 November St Oswald’s Church, Sowerby, Thirsk, North Yorkshire 7.30
200th concert in series
‘The Diva and the Legend’
with James Bowman counter tenor and Lynne Dawson soprano
2004
9 July St Clement’s Church, Ipswich 7.30
with James Bowman counter tenor
27 November The Chapel, The London Oratory School, Fulham 3.30
for The Academy of St Cecilia
with James Bowman counter tenor
Music by Dowland, Purcell and Handel
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