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Canterbury Music Club Concert Sunday 15th December at 3pm

2/12/2019

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​Just a reminder that the Canterbury Music Club have very kindly offered free admission to their next concert at the Collier Ferguson Room at the University of Kent on Sunday 15th December at 3pm.

This is a recital by Elysium Brass. Elysium Brass were the Guildhall winners of the June Emerson Wind Music Launchpad Competition 2015 and have since been fortunate to be guest artists at festivals in Girona, Spain, Stogumber Norway Sutton Coldfield and Leicester. 

If you plan to attend please remember to take your Whitstable Music Society Membership card which will allow you free admission when shown.  For more information please click on the links below:


Canterbury Music Club
Colyer-Fergusson Hall

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Concert - Saturday 30th November 2019 at ​7:30pm

25/11/2019

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Nicholas Mogg (baritone) & Jâms Coleman (piano)

Our last concert in 2019 is this coming Saturday when the baritone Nicholas Mogg will be giving a recital of songs by Ivor Gurney, Roger Quilter, Frank Bridge, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert and others, accompanied by the pianist Jams Coleman.

Winner of the 2017 Royal Over-Seas League Singers Section, Nicholas Mogg has recently completed his studies on the Opera Course at the Royal Academy of Music where he studied with Mark Wildman and Iain Ledingham, having previously read music at Clare College, Cambridge where he was a choral scholar. In 2018, he received a Young Artist Development Award through the Glyndebourne New Generation Programme, supporting his time at the National Opera Studio. In September 2019, he joins the International Opera Studio at the Staatsoper Hamburg.

Jâms Coleman is a pianist who enjoys a rich and varied musical life performing as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist. He finds it inspiring and fascinating to collaborate with different musicians and values the rewards of this process.
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As a vocal accompanist, he enjoys collaborating with many singers and his engagements include recitals with Ailish Tynan, James Gilchrist, Sir John Tomlinson, Robert Murray, Nicholas Mulroy, Robert Murray, Andrew Kennedy, Nicholas Mogg and Katie Stevenson at festivals such as the Leeds and Oxford Lieder Festivals.

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Concert - Saturday 26th October 2019 at ​7:30pm

9/9/2019

 

Hiroaki Takenouchi (Piano)

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Our next concert will be on Saturday 26th October at the usual time and place.

Sadly Lara Melda tripped and broke her ankle a couple of weeks ago and is currently out of action but we have been able to secure the wonderful pianist Hiroaki Takenouchi to take her place. We wish Lara a speedy recovery and hope that perhaps she might be able to come and play for us next season instead.

Hiro has offered us a wonderful programme including Mozart, Beethoven (Pathetique), Chopin and the Schubert Wanderer Fantasy.

He has appeared on many concert platforms including the Wigmore Hall, Tokyo Opera, The South Bank Centre, Bath, Cheltenham and Salzburg Festivals and given numerous recitals in the UK, Austria, Switzerland, Japan, Portugal, Italy and Canada. Heralded by The Times as “just the sort of champion the newest of new music needs”, while being praised as “impeccable in his pianism and unfailing in his idiomatic grasp” by Gramophone, Hiro's curiosity and a natural penchant for integrity makes his playing and vast repertoire unique amongst his generation of pianists. His love for the music of classical masters – particularly Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Chopin – sits side by side with his passion for the music of Medtner, lesser-known British composers such as Sterndale Bennett and Parry, and the contemporary repertoire.

This is a great opportunity to see and hear one of the most interesting and remarkable pianists of his day so I do hope you will put this date in your diary and I look forward to seeing you there. Tickets are available via our website or on the ticket desk at the concert.


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A New Season Begins! - Saturday 28th September 2019

9/9/2019

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Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch

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World renown Piano Trio to visit Whitstable.
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Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch which comprises three of the most outstanding chamber musicians in Europe are to playing at the Whitstable Music Society on Saturday 28th Sept 2019. This is the first concert of our new season and not to be missed.

The Trio was founded in 2009 and comprises three of the finest international instrumentalists performing today. 
Playing chamber music together at the Pablo Casals Prades Festival Hagai Shaham and Raphael Wallfisch recognised an immediate musical synergy. Arnon Erez joined them for trio concerts in Lucerne and the Netherlands later that year and the Trio Shaham Erez Wallfisch was established.
 
As a soloist Hagai Shaham has performed with the world’s leading orchestras, including the English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and BBC Philharmonic.

Born in 1965, Arnon Erez is one of Israel’s leading pianists and an outstanding chamber musician. He has won several international competitions, including first prize at the Francois Shapira competition and has performed in major festivals and concert halls around the world, 

Raphael Wallfisch was born in London into a family of distinguished musicians, his mother the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch and his father the pianist Peter Wallfisch. At the age of twenty-four he won the Gaspar Cassado International Cello Competition in Florence. Since then he has enjoyed a worldwide career playing with the world’s greatest orchestras. 

Whitstable Music Society Chairman John Walker said “This is the Trio’s second visit to Whitstable. They first played here in April 2018 and were so well received that they have been invited to give a further recital “by popular demand.”

The Trio will play a programme of piano trios by Beethoven, Brahms and Grieg.


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Join the team

25/6/2019

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We hope you might consider helping us at Whitstable Music Society

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Our committee normally meets about five times a year at the relaxed Whitstable setting of one of our trustees and these meetings usually last no longer than about two hours.

​We do now need some additional help to support our good work because there are currently of 6 of us but reducing to 5 due to one of our very long serving committee members standing down for family reasons. 

Volunteering as a Whitstable Music Society committee member is an enjoyable experience. ​​

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Most of us have been with the society for many years but it being a voluntary role of course no one is tied for longer than they wish to contribute. A professional musical background is absolutely not needed, just a copious enthusiasm for chamber music being the prerequisite. 

Without a meaningful committee the society and of course our concerts will cease to exist. So we are currently looking for two people who are keen to do a modest amount of worthy volunteering, perhaps to fill some gaps since recently retiring or from someone who has not yet reached this milestone, with a willingness to help see our concerts at the Whitstable Music Society survive and prosper. 

Initially, without any commitment, you will be invited to be an observer and introduce yourself at one of our informal committee meetings. It would then be a mutual decision if we each wished anything more of each other. So if you are interested and would like to talk about the opportunities listed below we will be very pleased to hear from you.
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​Social Media Promotion

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We are looking for someone who has a greater knowledge and skill than the committee currently possesses to help with our Social Media as we do need to keep abreast of this to spread the good word of the Whitstable Music Society. The principal purpose will be the use social media to communicate with our members (season ticket holders), our occasional audience visitors, and of course potential first time visitors. 
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​Our hope is that you will be experienced enough elevate the appeal of chamber music at Whitstable Music Society to help reach a new and more diverse audience through the use of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and perhaps other social media means too.

​Fundraising and Sponsorship

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We are also looking for someone to support the charitable fundraising which Gill Smyth has managed for many years with Margaret Crawley.  Gill will be continuing to lead this but is looking forward for someone new to help her into the future. 

Sufficient incoming funds is most important to the continued survival of our charity as currently each concert costs more to host than we receive from season ticket & ticket sales for any particular performance.  You would help oversee the fundraising functions of the society, especially developing some more donors and sponsors for each new season. 
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Our target for sponsorship is in the order of about £5,000 each year but rest assured that this is very much a team effort and supported by Gill’s current contacts who we hope will continue to show their generosity. 

Enthusiasm and willingness to help promote the message and goals of our charity is the most important part of this role but obviously some previous fundraising experience, no matter how modest, would be advantageous.

​Find out more . . .

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Hoping that you are still interested? Find out more, without commitment, by clicking this button to send Gill Smyth a brief message or better still ring her on 01227 277227
Get in touch, let's talk >

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