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The North Norfolk Music Festival reaches its 16th year in 2020. It was founded by Kirker’s very own Barry Cheeseman and Simon Rowland-Jones, viola player, composer, teacher and Kirker’s Director of Music. Concerts are held in the beautiful 13th century Church of Our Lady St. Mary in the peaceful village of South Creake, just five miles from the coast. We stay at Briarfields Hotel in Titchwell with wonderful views out across the marshes to the sea. We include visits to three of Norfolk’s most important houses – Holkham, Raynham and Houghton Hall.
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The Maxwell String Quartet was internationally recognised after winning First Prize in the 9th Trondheim Chamber Music Competition in 2017. They very soon started to appear in leading chamber music venues throughout the United Kingdom and Europe, with performances in Copenhagen, Stavanger and Amsterdam. The quartet is comprised of players who grew up together and who played both classical music and Scottish folk music across Scotland.
They studied with the Endellion String Quartet and have been mentored by current and former members of the Belcea Quartet, Krysztof Chorzelski and Alasdair Tait. They have a very busy performing schedule planned for the 2018/9 season with performances in Trondheim, throughout Scotland, and nine concerts on a tour of the United States. At the start of 2019, they perform at St. John’s Smith Square and at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
Melvyn Tan was born in Singapore. and came to England at a young age to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music. He has appeared as a soloist with every leading orchestra, throughout Europe and the USA. The works of Chopin have always been central to his repertoire.
10 August
8pm
Karski Quartet
This young quartet came together at the Royal Northern College of Music and are members of the European Chamber Music Academy.
Haydn: String Quartet in B minor Op.13 No.1
Mendelssohn: String Quartet in A minor Op.13
Rowland-Jones: String Quartet No.3
12 August
4.30pm
Roman Kosyakov, piano
The young Russian pianist studied in Moscow and made his debut as a soloist with an orchestra at the age of 12.
Shostakovich: Piano Sonata No.2 in B minor Op.61 No.2
Rachmaninov: Preludes
Tchaikovsky: Grand Piano Sonata in G Op.37
12 August
7pm
Maxwell Quartet
Prokofiev: String Quartet No.1 in B minor Op.50
Haydn: String Quartet in G minor Op.74 No.3
Dvořák: String Quartet in G op.106
13 August
4.30pm
Peter Mallinson and Matthias Wiesner, violas
Peter and Matthias are colleagues in the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
Two arrangements by Taylor-Cohen
Glinka: Ruslan & Ludmilla Overture
Schubert: Three Songs
Rowland-Jones: Sonata for two violas
Lionel Tertis: Variations on a passacaglia by Handel.
13 August
7.00pm
Melvyn Tan, piano.
Haydn: Sonata in E flat major No.62 HOB:XVI/52
Chopin: Four Scherzi
Messaien: Excerpts from Vingt Regards
String Quartet
The Maxwell String Quartet was internationally recognised after winning First Prize in the 9th Trondheim Chamber Music Competition in 2017. They very soon started to appear in leading chamber music venues throughout the United Kingdom and Europe, with performances in Copenhagen, Stavanger and Amsterdam. The quartet is comprised of players who grew up together and who played both classical music and Scottish folk music across Scotland.
They studied with the Endellion String Quartet and have been mentored by current and former members of the Belcea Quartet, Krysztof Chorzelski and Alasdair Tait. They have a very busy performing schedule planned for the 2018/9 season with performances in Trondheim, throughout Scotland, and nine concerts on a tour of the United States. At the start of 2019, they perform at St. John’s Smith Square and at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
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