Our first concert in 2020 is on Saturday 25th January at the usual time and place. 

We are delighted to welcome the wonderful Solem Quartet with Amy Tress (Violin); William Newell (Violin); Stephen Upshaw (Viola) and Stephanie Tress (Cello).

The Solem Quartet has established itself as one of the most innovative and adventurous quartets of its time. Originally formed at the University of Manchester in 2011, the Solem Quartet takes its name from the university’s motto Arduus ad Solem – ‘striving towards the sun’.

Since winning the 2014 Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Competition the quartet has enjoyed a busy concert schedule, ranging from international tours to performances at venues including London’s Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth Halls, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester and Oxford’s Holywell Music Room. Alongside this, their groundbreaking series ‘Solem Lates’ has seen the Quartet rise to prominence as leading exponents of new music, working closely with living composers in pioneering multimedia performances. In their latest ‘Solem Lates’ project they perform the live score to screenings of Yorgos Lanthimos’s 2015 film The Lobster, in collaboration with Picturehouse Cinemas.

Their programme at Whitstable consists of Haydn's Quartet No.53 (The "Lark"), The Bartok String Quartet No.5 and the Beethoven Quartet No.12 Op.127, the first of his legendary "late quartets"- six string quartets that compromise Beethoven's final and perhaps greatest musical achievement. 

Do come and join us for this first concert of the New Year, you won't be disappointed!

​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:

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.

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.