Highly acclaimed trombone quartet Bones Apart has established itself as one of the world’s leading brass chamber ensembles. With innovative concert programming and unique and inclusive education workshops, Bones Apart has delighted audiences around the world for over twenty years.
The quartet has appeared at many national and international music festivals including the Edinburgh International Festival, Cayman Arts Festival, Vilnius Festival, Music In The Round, International Belgian Brass Academy, International Trombone Festival, Lieksa Brass Festival, Royal Over-Seas League Arts and Sauerland Herbst Festival. Tours have encompassed much of Europe, the United States, Japan and the Caribbean.
Since forming in 1999, the group went on to win the prestigious Royal Over-Seas League Competition, Rio Tinto Ensemble Prize and Miller Trophy. The quartet has performed at major venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Fairfield Halls, Royal Festival Hall, St. James’s Palace, St. Martin-in-the-Fields and Symphony Hall in Birmingham.
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Jervaulx Singers was founded by Charlie Gower-Smith and Jenny Bianco. They are based in North Yorkshire and perform across the UK. The group comprises some of the country’s finest professional voices, all passionate about giving expressive, beautiful performances.
They present a wide range of repertoire, putting sacred and secular choral music alongside opera extracts and solo songs to create programmes that convey narrative whilst giving display to the group’s individual voices. The Jervaulx Singers also host an annual opera gala, semi-staging repertoire both familiar and new from across the centuries.
The ensemble have thrilled audiences since their start, and have performed at the Grassington Festival, the Swaledale Festival and the University of Leeds Concert Series.
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Critically acclaimed by the Daily Telegraph as “the classical world’s best known guitar duo”, Peter and Zoltán Katona, the Katona Twins, effortlessly transfer from strictly classical, into more popular musical genres. Their unusual style combines classical, flamenco and finger picking techniques with the energetic stage presence of lead guitarists. The wide repertoire of the duo spans from Bach to Piazzolla’s tango music and from pop, rock and jazz standards to their own compositions.
They have travelled throughout the world enthusing audiences in New York, London, Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing, Vienna, Hong Kong and in 2009 they performed live to half a million people in arenas across Europe. “The Katona Twins share not only a staggering virtuoso technique but rather eerie powers of ensemble. Identical not only in good looks, but in their playing style and charming stage manner, Peter and Zoltan know how to make a good show.” The Times
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James Pearson and his trio are well-known and extremely popular musicians with our membership. Their Oscar Peterson evening in September 2021 performed to packed audiences. James Pearson has been for many years the Artistic Director and his trio the house band at the world-famous Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. This weekend afternoon concert will be followed by wine and canapés.
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Hailed as “brilliantly fresh, unexpected and exhilarating” by The Scottish Herald, and “superb storytelling by four great communicators” by The Strad Magazine. the Maxwell Quartet is now firmly regarded as one of Britain’s finest young string quartets, with a strong connection to their folk music heritage.
The Maxwells’ debut tour of the USA in January 2019 garnered critical acclaim from the New York Times “eloquent performers who bring the same sense of charisma and sense of adventure to their programming”, and saw the group performing to sold out venues in New York, Florida, California and Washington.
The Quartet is formed of four close friends, who grew up playing folk and classical music together in youth orchestras and music schools across Scotland. The group officially began in 2010 at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where its founding members met as postgraduate students. Performing widely across Scotland, the quartet established a reputation for delighting audiences with their “unnaffected enthusiasm” (North Highland Times) and their “panache and conviction” (Strathearn Herald).
The quartet plays on violins by David Tecchler and Giovanni Batista Rogeri, a viola by J.B Vuillaume, and a cello by Francesco Ruggieri (1670), all on loan from generous benefactors. Additionally they perform on modern instruments by British makers Roger Hansell, John Dilworth, and David Rattray.
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