Friday 13 January 1.10 pm
Barber Lunchtime Lecture-Recital
Kenneth Hamilton piano
‘At the piano with Brahms’
Kenneth Hamilton discusses Brahms’s distinctive keyboard style with his usual level of contagious enthusiasm and performs the composer’s most characteristically Romantic piano piece, the Sonata in F minor, op. 5.
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Friday 20 January 1.10 pm
Barber Lunchtime Concert
Jayson Gillham piano
Winner of the 2011 Brant International Piano Competition, Jayson Gillham hails from the rural town of Dalby in Southern Queensland. He made his US début in May 2010 at Steinway Hall (New York), performs regularly at the Wigmore Hall and has appeared as soloist with the London Philharmonic and the major Australian orchestras. In June 2011 he performed for the first time in China, playing two Mozart concertos with the Wuhan Philharmonic Orchestra.
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Friday 27 January 1.10 pm
Barber Lunchtime Concert
Rosa Campos Fernandez clarinet
Pei Chun Liao piano
Montsalvatge
Self-paráfrasis
Brahms
Sonata in F minor, op. 120, no. 1
Mozart
Fantasie in D minor, K. 397
Horovitz
Sonata for clarinet and piano
Hallé Orchestra clarinettist Rosa Campos Fernandez and the pianist Pei Chun Liao met as students at the Birmingham Conservatoire in 2001. They have recently toured Taiwan and played at several venues in England, including The Forge (London) and the Sandbach (Cheshire) and Sallow Tree (Manchester) concert series. In addition to core repertory for clarinet and piano they play works by lesser-known Spanish and Taiwanese composers.
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Friday 3 February 1.10 pm
Barber Lunchtime Concert
Birmingham University Singers
Colin Timms conductor
In this, his final BUS concert, Colin Timms presents a programme of favourite madrigals by Bennet, Wilbye, Monteverdi and Lotti, and beautiful part-songs by Brahms.
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Friday 10 February 1.10 pm
Barber Lunchtime Concert
University Music Scholars
An opportunity to hear talented University of Birmingham students (from outside the Music Department) who have been awarded scholarships to continue their instrumental or vocal study.
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Tuesday 14 February 1.10 pm
Barber Lunchtime Concert
‘When Love’s Soft Passion’
18th-Century Music of Love, Passion and Desire
Kate Browton soprano, Oonagh Lee recorders and baroque oboe, Ibi Aziz viola da gamba, Masumi Yamamoto harpsichord
Handel
Mi palpita Il cor
Blavet
Sonata in D minor, op. 2 no. 2 (‘La Vibray’)
Scarlatti
Ardo, è ver, per te d’amore
Pepusch
When love’s soft passion
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Friday 17 February 1.10 pm
Barber Lunchtime Concert
Holly Cook flute/ethnic flutes
Yukiko Shinohara piano
Programme to include:
Anne Boyd
Bali Moods No. 1
Liebermann
Sonata for flute and piano, op. 23
Traditional Chinese
Moonlight over Spring River
Ian Clarke
Orange Dawn
Music Department alumna Holly Cook was appointed Richard Carne Junior Fellow at Trinity College of Music in September 2011. In this capacity she is continuing her research into ethnically inspired works for the flute, alto flute and bass flute, and commissioning and performing specialist music for these instruments.
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Friday 24 February 1.10 pm
Barber Lunchtime Concert
Early Music Ensembles
The Music Department’s Centre for Early Music Performance and Research presents a selection soloists and instrumental ensembles performing music from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque periods.
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Friday 2 March 1.10 pm
Barber Lunchtime Concert
University Chamber Orchestra
Sophie Williamson, Jack Lovell conductors
Elgar
Serenade for Strings
Beethoven
Overture ‘Egmont’
Haydn
Symphony No. 67
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Friday 9 March 1.10 pm
Barber Lunchtime Lecture-Recital
Andrew Kirkman violin
with David Quigley piano
‘From Paris to New York: Ravel and Gershwin for Violin and Piano’
Professor Andrew Kirkman, the new Head of the University’s Department of Music, gives his first public lecture-recital in the Barber with the international concert pianist David Quigley.
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Friday 16 March 1.10 pm
Final Year Recitalists
Jack Anscomb piano
Laura Hudson flute
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
Friday 23 March 1.10 pm
Final Year Recitalists
Becky Copping voice
Clare Potter saxophone
The Barber Concert Hall
Admission FREE
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