SUNDAY SUNDOWN CONCERTS
Join us for our Sunday Sundown series. All concerts are at 6:00pm and have free admission with a retiring collection for the musicians unless otherwise specified. See below for the current schedule, and also heathstreet.live. At Heath Street Baptist Church - see map and get directions.
Sunday 27 October 2024 at 6:00pm
Musikverein:
Revolutionary Drawing Room and Andrew Skidmore
The Revolutionary Drawing Room is that rare group, a string quartet that performs late 18th- and 19th-century repertoire with a sound derived from the beauty and flexibility of gut strings. The political upheavals of the time were matched by a breathless pace of change and the forging of new styles, forms and tastes both in the music and in the instruments used.
"...a formidable quartet, whose virtuosity is matched by their insightful attention to every detail." Early Music Review
Programme
- F Schubert - Quartetsatz, D.703
- F Schubert - Quintet in C major, D. 956
Free admission with a collection for the musicians. You can reserve a seat here.
Sunday 3 November at 6:00pm
BachBeerTelemann:
Istante Collective and Hilary Cronin (soprano)
Bach Cantata BWV 84 and music by Telemann.
Also part of the Baroquestock BachBeer...? concert series.
Tickets available here.
Sunday 10 November 2024 at 6:00pm
Only Overtures!:
OAE Experience Ensemble
Join them on a musical tour around the Holy Roman Empire. Musicians from the Ann and Peter Law OAE Experience Scheme explore the Ouverture Suite, one of the most popular forms of Baroque entertainment, showcasing dance music through a kaleidoscope of instrumental combinations. Hear music by Bach alongside his more famous contemporary, Telemann, plus fascinating pieces by Fasch and Graupner, including a most unusual line-up of soloists featuring two chalumeaux, two horns, and four timpani drums!
Free admission with a collection for the musicians. You can reserve a seat here.
Sunday 17 November 2024 at 6:00pm
Bs&Bees:
Zarek
Music by Bach and Buxtehude with a decisive nod towards a world that inspires and sustains us.
The harmony of the beehive, the geometry of the honey-comb, and the vibrational dance is mirrored in the counterpoint and melodic invention of two composers whose cross- pollination led to the flowering of a style which defines German music of the High Baroque.
Free admission with a collection for the musicians. You can reserve a seat here.
Sunday 8 December 2024 at 6:00pm
Andrea Di Biase’s Oltremare Quartet
Oltremare is an Italian word meaning "oversea". The band plays on the differences of Andrea Di Biase's two musical worlds divided by the sea: one is rooted in his native Italy with the melodic and poetic approach of Italian masters such as Nino Rota and the band's first pianist Antonio Zambrini; the other is rooted in UK, his country of adoption, with the harmonic and rhythmic intuitions of British artists such as Kenny Wheeler, who invited Andrea to play with his Trio in the late part of his career.
Andrea's idea of building a bridge between two sides of the sea is reflected in the choice of surrounding himself with the most refined British improvisers: the inventiveness of star pianist Ivo Neame, the unpredictability of virtuoso saxophonist Michael Chillingworth and the blistering energy of Gogo Penguin's drummer Jon Scott.
Oltremare Quartet’s first album Uncommon Nonsense was released by one of the finest UK Jazz labels: Babel Records. The band will premiere a new repertoire they are about to record for their second album.
- Michael Chillingworth - Sax
- Ivo Neame - Piano
- Andrea Di Biase - Double Bass
- Jon Scott - Drums
Free admission with a collection for the musicians. You can reserve a seat here.
Sunday 15 December 2024 at 6:00pm
The Infant - A Jazz Suite For Christmas:
Tim Boniface Quartet
A leader of his own ensembles and collaborator with many renowned jazz musicians on the UK scene, Tim Boniface is in high demand as a performer and educator, and is also a respected composer whose imaginatively conceived jazz suites The Infant and The Eight Words have received critical acclaim and are regularly performed around the UK by Tim's quartet. His latest work, Psalter: Themes for Peace, was premiered at St Alban's Cathedral in January 2024.
Free admission with a collection for the musicians. You can reserve a seat here.
"Tim Boniface’s The Infant offers an original, deep and joyful exploration of Christmas, taking inspiration from the characters in the Christmas stories from Luke’s Gospel."
The Jazz Journal
Tim is also the Chaplain at Girton College, University of Cambridge, where he regularly partners with James Pearson (Artistic Director of Ronnie Scotts, London and Musician in Residence at Girton). He is the artistic director of Girton Jazz, a unique programme of public concerts and student workshops at the College.
Tim runs the regular Sunday Sessions at The Lab in Cambridge, which draws in an array of top UK jazz names for intimate performances, and is regularly found leading a trio in the University Arms Hotel. He works with the Cambridge University Centre for Music Performance as well as teaching privately. He helps to direct St Pauls ArtsFest in Cambridge, and is a published theologian.