Events

Charlie Draper and Paul Jackson present a programme of music with film, played on the earliest electronic musical instruments, the theremin and the ondes Martenot, with piano accompaniment. Programme includes:

David Ryan has curated this evening featuring performances of his recent works for voice and piano together with two pieces by the American composer Terry Jennings. The ‘threads’ of the title refers to the interconnection of poetic texts, from contemporary author Martha Kapos, to Richard Brautigan, Walt Whitman, all the way back to ancient Greek …

Mifune Tsuji and Paul Jackson, from the Mifune Tsuji Trio, perform music for violin, and piano, including JS Bach's Sonata in A major, BWV 1015, Nimrod Borenstein's Quasi una cadenza for solo violin, Michio Miyagi's Haro No Umi, Astor Piazzolla's Le Grand Tango, and the traditional Japanese song Karatachi-no-hana.

Programme Antonín Dvořák: 'Serenade', ‘Tittle-Tattle’, ‘At the Hero’s Grave’, and ‘On the Holy Mount’ from Poetic Tone Pictures, op. 85 Bedřich Smetana: ‘Friendly Landscape’, from Sketches, op. 5, no. 3 Bohuslav Martinů: ‘Columbine Dances’, from Puppets, book I Leoš Janáček: ‘The Barn Owl Has Not Flown Away’, from On an Overgrown Path Miloslav Kabeláč: Preludio …

Programme Percy Aldridge Grainger: Blithe Bells, Knight and Shepherd’s Daughter, The Merry King Cyril Scott: Lotus Land  Francis Poulenc: Novelette in C major Claude Debussy: ‘Bruyères’, from Préludes, book II, Deux Arabesques, Clair de Lune                                                                                

Haslingfield Choir performs Brahms's Liebeslieder and Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes. Conductor – Paul Jackson Piano Duet – Maurice Hodges and Thanea Hodges Soprano – Anna-Luise WagnerAlto – Ute Lepetit-ClareTenor – Simon Macarenhas-CarterBass – Alistair Bamford Speaker – Dale Savage

A concert performance of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier by Saffron Opera Group, conducted by Michael Thorne.

Drawing its inspiration from the sounds of nature,  and free from the constraints of conventional rhythm and individual pitch, Grainger's lifetime passion was free music. From an early age, he imagined music that would glide continuously across the pitch spectrum, without the need for metrical rhythms and, ultimately, without the need for a performer; the …

Join Teresa R. Balough in conversation with PGS President, Paul Jackson, at the Percy Grainger Home and Studio, for the launch of her new biography. What goes into the making of a creative genius and how can their gifts be used to help uplift humankind? These were questions that led the Australian/American pianist, composer, and …

We invite you to register for our next Third Sunday tour of the Percy Grainger Home and Studio, September 17, 2023 at 2 pm EDT. The Third Sundays program is an outreach initiative, led by volunteers, and designed to welcome diverse groups through focused, thematic tours. We are pleased to announce that Percy Grainger Society President, Dr. …

Charlie Draper and Paul Jackson present an evening of music for the earliest electronic musical instruments, the theremin, and the ondes Martenot. The concert includes well-known music by  Saint-Saëns, Rachmaninoff and Gershwin, together with original music written for the instruments, accompanied by film. The performance will be interspersed with explanations and demonstrations of these fascinating …

A lunchtime concert of folk-inspired music sung by Marina Karagianni, and accompanied by Paul Jackson. Music by Ravel, Obradors, Lavilla, Montsalvatge,and Constantinidis. Programme Fernando Obradors – Canciones clásicas españolasFélix Lavilla – Quatro canciones VascasXavier Montsalvatge – Cançó amorosa, Cinco canciones negrasMaurice Ravel – Cinq mélodies populaires grecquesIoannis Constantinidis – Three Greek folksongsHabaneras de la Costa Brava …