Illuminate ensemble in residence Prism Trio and Ethel Smyth Trio US-UK exchange for Season I 2019!
Illuminate Women's Music is delighted to announce that in Season I the Boston-based piano trio Prism will be our performers in residence for our US concerts and London-based piano trio Ethel Smyth Trio will be our ensemble in residence for the UK composers. Each set of performers will be working with our composers in residence Angela Slater, Blair Boyd and Sarah Westwood as well as our Season I composers Kerensa Briggs and Laura Shipsey! These new works will be programmed alongside historical works including Morfydd Owen's 1915 piano trio which has not been performed for the last two decades in its original instrumentation!
Illuminate Women's Music 2019 seasons I is supported by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for Organisation and Ambache Charitable Trust
Illuminate Women's Music 2019 seasons I is supported by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for Organisation and Ambache Charitable Trust
UK performances August - September 2019: |
Music and Wine concert series at St Luke's
Friday 30th August 2019, 7.30pm St Luke's Church Queen's Park Road, Brighton BN2 9ZB Concert starts at 7.30pm Admission £7 Standard / £5 concessions / free for under 16s. Tickets can bought on the door. Late Music at York
Saturday 7th September 2019, 7.30pm St. Saviourgate Unitarian Chapel St. Saviourgate, York, YO1 8NQ+ Google Map Concert starts at 7.30pm Tickets: £10 – £12 Saturday 14th September 2019, 11.00 am
St Mary's Church St Mary's Place, Stafford, ST16 2AR Concert starts at 11.00am as part of St Mary's Coffee concert series Admission - Free Join us for a cuppa before and after the concert! Sunday 15th September 2019, 4.00pm
Stonevale Concert series Concert starts at 4.00pm as part of Stonevale Concert series Stonevale, Great Coxwell, Oxon, SN7 7NB Please telephone or email Lynette Stulting to reserve seats as space is limited: 01367 242437 [email protected] |
US performances March 2019: |
8th March 2019 International Women's Day!
Illuminate Women's Music first 2019 concert starts on International Women's Day, with the rest of the series continuing to shine a light on work of women composers and performers throughout the year! 8th March 2019 New School of Music Concert Hall in Cambridge, MA 8.00pm Women Composers Festival of Hartford 30th March 2019
More details to come soon! Programme will include Morfydd Owen's 1914 piano trio and new works written by Illuminate composers Sarah Westwood, Blair Boyd, Laura Shipsey, Kerensa Briggs and Angela Elizabeth Slater |
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