If it's not already in your diary please make a note to come to the final concert of our current season on Saturday 29th April.

We are delighted to welcome three well known and distinguished musicians, Robin Green (Piano), Sara Trickey (Violin) and Rosie Biss (Cello) who together formed the Odysseus Piano Trio in 2015. The Trio has developed a reputation as one of the most dynamic and distinctive ensembles to emerge in recent years. and have performed in many prestigious venues including  Kings Place, The Conway Hall, Trinity Hall Cambridge, St David's Hall Cardiff and perform regularly in music festivals and for many leading chamber music societies across the UK. 

Their programme for the Whitstable Music Society concert on 29th April is:

• Mozart Piano Trio in B Flat K502
  
• Clara Schumann's Piano trio in G Minor Op.17
  
• Schubert's Trio in B Flat Major D898.

"I don't believe it!" as Victor Meldrew would have said if he had been on our mailing list and just seen the programme!

Do come and join us with your friends for what will be a memorable last concert of the season. 

A late reminder about our next concert on Saturday 25th March at St John's Church Whitstable at 7.30pm. 

We are delighted to welcome Maja Horvat (Violin) and Julia Hamos (Piano) who will be performing the Mozart Violin Sonata K301, the Schubert Fantasie in C major, the Beethoven Violin Sonata No.10 and the Schubert Sonata No.3 in A minor. Any one of these pieces would be worth coming to the concert to hear on its own, but to have all four played on the same evening is definitely not one to be missed!

Maja gave her debut performance at Wigmore Hall in 2021 as first violinist of the Brompton Quartet, of which she is a founding member and with whom she gives frequent world premieres. They won the St Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Music Competition and have collaborated with record producer Andrew Keener and many other currently active composers. She has performed with some of the world’s most prominent chamber musicians including Sir Andras Schiff, Tabea Zimmerman, Christian Tetzlaff, Vladimir Mendelssohn and Thomas Carroll. In 2019 Maja was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize for an outstanding violinist.


Pianist Julia Hamos combines her American and Hungarian roots with an adventurous spirit to explore the essence of repertoire ranging from Bach to composers living today. Instinctive artistic expression, a forward-thinking attitude, a joyful physical flexibility at the instrument, and an unyielding fascination with the music she plays makes her an artist to watch. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London with Christopher Elton and the Mannes College of Music in New York with Richard Goode, Julia studied with Sir András Schiff at the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin and is now studying at the Kronberg Academy where her studies are generously supported by the Henle Foundation. ​

We are delighted to welcome the wonderful oboist Hannah Condliffe and pianist Dominic Doutney who will be playing pieces by Britten, Debussy, Poulenc, Ravel and others.

A first class graduate of the Royal Academy of Music, Hannah is a Munster Trust Recital Artist, giving recitals across the UK. She has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Munster Trust Neil Black Prize in 2019.  Amongst her many early career highlights, she has performed as Principal Oboe with the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the orchestra of the Royal Opera House and the Philharmonia Orchestra.

Hannah is joined by her duo partner, pianist Dominic Doutney, who graduated from the Royal College of Music in 2021, receiving the prestigious Tagore Gold Medal at his graduation. Dominic has been a prize winner in many international competitions and was personally invited by Sir András Schiff to attend the Oxford Piano Festival having played for him in a highly publicised masterclass at the Royal Academy of Music. 

Hailed as “Champions of British Music” (The Observer), the Villiers Quartet has become one of the most recognised quartets in the UK for the performance of British music. The Quartet has released acclaimed recordings of works by Elgar, Delius, Peter Racine Fricker, William Sterndale Bennett, David Matthews, and most recently music by William Alwyn and Kuljit Bhamra, MBE. In 2020 they gave the world premiere of the complete 1888 Delius string quartet, featuring movements in their original versions uncovered by Professor Daniel Grimley from Oxford University.

Lara Melda rose to international prominence in 2010 when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year at the age of sixteen, performing Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 2 in the final round, with Vasily Petrenko and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Cardiff. 
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Lara is renowned and highly praised for her Chopin interpretations. A performance of Chopin's 2nd Sonata prompted this review: "Unquestionably one of the most outstanding performances of the piece I've ever heard, it evoked its yearning, energy, loneliness, lyricism, fury and gutsiness with playing of stunning precision, technical adroitness and immense, perceptive feeling."

On Saturday evening Lara will be performing an all Chopin Programme beginning with a series of seven Nocturnes followed by the Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60. After the Interval she will perform the monumental Sonata No. 3 in B minor Op. 58.

Join us for what promises to be a memorable recital.