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.