Diary upcoming performances

  • Friday 4th -Sunday 6th October 2024

    Folkestone Residency Weekend

    Folkestone Residency Weekend 4-6 October


    Friday 4th October

    2-5pm Decomposing Bach’s Art of Fugue - Experimental workshop with Terry Smith

    Venue: Studio 69
    69 Tontine Street
    Folkestone CT20 1JR

    Saturday 5th October

    10.30am - 6.45pm PRO-AM Event  

    With six Participants

    Bach: Double Violin Concerto 1st mvt
    Brahms: Piano Quintet 1st mvt
    Weber: Clarinet Quintet 1st mvt
    Schumann: Piano Quintet 1st mvt
    Nardini: Quartet in B flat 1st mvt

    Venue: Holy Trinity Folkestone
    Sandgate Road
    Folkestone CT20 2HQ

    Sunday 6th October

    11am - 4pm Shostakovich 8 (workshop and performance) with Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company

    Venue: The Green Room
    The Grand
    The Leas
    Folkestone CT20 2LR

  • Saturday 19th October 2024 at 7.30pm

    Welwyn Garden Concert Club

    St Francis Church, Church Road, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire AL8 6Q

    Roxanna Panufnik: Heartfelt (commissioned by the Sacconi Quartet in 2020)
    Smetana: String Quartet No. 1 From My Life
    Jessie Montgomery: Strum
    Ravel: String Quartet

    Full details at the Welwyn Garden Concert Club website.

  • Friday 25th October 2024 at 8.00pm

    Canterbury Festival

    Colyer-Fergusson Hall, Gulbenkian Arts Centre, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NB

    with Richard Navarro (vocals, instruments) and Nicholas Thurston (guitar, double bass)

    For this very special Festival programme, the quartet will complement Navarro’s songs with works by Roxanna Panufnik, Jessie Montgomery and Maurice Ravel.

    Full details at the Canterbury Festival website.

  • Wednesday 13th November 2024

    Kirker Music Festival

    The Star, High St, Alfriston, Polegate BN26 5TA

    with Simon Rowland-Jones (viola)

    11 November:
    Mendelssohn: String Quartet in F minor, Op.80 No.27
    Smetana: String Quartet No.1in E minor ‘From My Life’
    Caroline Shaw: Entr’acte
    American composer Caroline Shaw was born in 1982 and won Pullitzer for Music in 2013.
    A Haydn Quartet will be also be included in this concert.

    12 November:
    Beethoven: String Quartet in B flat major, Op.130
    The Sacconi Quartet will include a performance of the Grosse Fugue in B flat major, Op.133. Beethoven composed this quartet to include the Grosse Fugue as an integral part of the piece although it is sometimes not included or indeed played separately. Here, the Sacconi Quartet will play the piece as Beethoven intended.

    Roxanna Panufnik: Heartfelt
    Roxanna Panufnik was born in 1968 and is one of Britain’s favourite contemporary composers. Her music was included in the Coronation of King Charles. Heartfelt was commissioned and played by the Sacconi Quartet in 2020.

    13 November:
    Brahms: String Quintet in G major Op111
    Ravel: String Quartet

    Full details can be found on the Kirker Holidays website.

  • Saturday 16th November 2024 at 3.00pm

    Tippett Festival Weekend

    The Green Room, The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone CT20 2XL

    Tippett: String Quartet No. 2

    Full details at the Sounds Folkestone website.

  • Sunday 17th November 2024 at 3.00pm

    Norwich Chamber Music

    John Innes Conference Centre, Colney Lane, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7UH

    with Daniel Tong (piano)

    Roxanna Panufnik: Heartfelt
    Smetana: Quartet No.1 in E minor
    Dvorák: Piano Quintet in A, Op.81

    Full details at the Norwich Chamber Music website.

  • Wednesday 4th December 2024 at 7.30pm

    Temple Music

    Temple Church, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB

    Roxanna Panufnik: Heartfelt
    Ravel: String Quartet in F major
    Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80

    Full details at the Temple Music website.