Classical Concerts in Weybridge & Cobham – An Evening of Opera
Saturday April 21st 2018 – An Evening of Classical Opera with Saira Luther, Timothy Connor & Emily Leather
Organised by: Surrey Concerts
Where: St James Church, Weybridge
Church Street,
Weybridge, Surrey KT13 8DF
Other Concerts: Monthly in both Weybridge and Cobham – see programme lower on this page.
Ticket Prices: from £13.50 in advance or from £17 on the door)
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Tickets On The Door: from £17 * subject to availability
A Cash Bar will be available
Highlights of this performance will include:
Mozart’s ‘Der Hölle Rache’ The Queen of the Night aria from The Magic Flute
Handel’s ‘V’adoro pupille’
Puccini’s ‘Un Bel Di Vedremo’ from Madame Butterfly
Saira Luther – Classical Opera Singer
Timothy Connor – Baritone
His recent operatic roles include Angelotti (Tosca) for English Touring Opera, Pulcino (Bambino) for Scottish Opera/improbable, Dulcamara cover (The Elixir of Love) for Scottish Opera, Sid (Albert Herrring), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte) Licaone (Giove in Argo), Hel Helson (Paul Bunyan) and Peter (Hänsel & Gretel) all for RCMIOS. He has worked with Lawrence Cummings, Phelim McDermott, Michael Rosewell, Nina Brazier, Peter Robinson, Bill Bankes-Jones, Liam Steel, Lliam Peterson, Blanche McIntyre, Oliver Platt and Will Kerley. He made his barbican debut in Iain Burside’s ‘A Soldier and a Maker’ and last season shared the stage with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Sir Thomas Allen as Frank in John Copley’s production of Die Fledermaus.
Emily Leather – Piano
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Programme Of Classical Concerts In Weybridge & Cobham
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Organised by: Surrey Concerts
Where: St James Church, Weybridge
Ticket Prices: from £13.50/£15/£20 in advance or from £17 on the door)
Tickets On The Door: From the Parish Hall concert reception desk at 6.30pm on the night.
More Information: Seana Davey _Harp Concert
St James Church, Weybridge
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St Andrews Church, Cobham
Tickets from £11.70/£13/£15 in advance or from £15 on the door)
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St Andrews Church, Cobham
Tickets from £13.50/£15/£20 in advance or from £17 on the door)
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St James Church, Weybridge
June 30th 2018 – Act TBC
St Andrews Church, Cobham
July 14th 2018 – Act TBC
St James Church, Weybridge
July 28th 2018 – Act TBC
St Andrews Church, Cobham
About Our Guest Musician: Tau Wey, Pianist
Born in Taiwan, Tau subsequently lived in Germany and then in England. After reading music at Cambridge, he studied with Yonty Solomon and Douglas Finch at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, and with Jacob Lateiner at Mannes College of Music in New York.
He was awarded First Prize in the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe Competition.
He gave his London debut solo recital at Blackheath Halls in 2006 and his overseas debut at the Music Forum in Taipei the following year. He has made appearances on Radio 3, at the Aldeburgh Festival and at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the BBC Proms season.
Tau is currently Head of Keyboard at Sevenoaks School and a piano tutor on the Kent International Piano Course.
After entertaining us in 2013 as a part of a two-piano duo, he pays a return visit to Esher, this time in a solo capacity, and the core of his programme will be the ever popular ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ by Mussorgsky
Programme For Tau Wey’s Concert
Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte also has a double life as an orchestral piece. It is a beautifully evocative dance in the neo-classical style, and inspired by a picture of a little dancing princess by Velazquez.
Ginastera was one of the most important Argentine composers. The Danzas Argentinas, though they do not relate to pictures and have not been orchestrated, are wonderfully descriptive pieces ideally written for the virtuosic medium of the piano.
Pictures at an Exhibition (1874)
Promenade
1 Gnome[Promenade 2]
2 The old castle[Promenade 3]
3 Tuileries (Dispute between children at play)
4 Cattle[Promenade 4]
5 Ballet of the unhatched chicks
6 “Samuel” Goldenberg and “Schmuÿle”[Promenade 5]
7 The market (the big news)
8 Catacombæ (Sepulcrum romanum)
Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (With the dead in a dead language)
9 The hut on hen’s legs (Baba-Yaga)
10 The Knight’s Gate (in the ancient capital, Kiev)
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899)
Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983)
Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 (1937)
I Dance of the old herdsman
II Dance of the beautiful maiden
Sera accepts commissions, so if you have a photo of musicians, a dancer or something else you’d like painted in her style, then please get in touch with Sera. Her contact details are on the Surrey Artists website.