Rhyl
Music
Club
1947
President: Llyr Williams
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Bangor, Pritchard Jones Hall, concert at 7.30 (Monday Sep 5th) but there will be a talk at perhaps 6.30 or thereabouts. Free entry.
Mary Hofman, violin, and Richard Ormrod, piano.
The concert includes a new work from the CD by Rhian Samuel (who wrote a composition for our own Beethoven)
PLEASE consider attending if you are free – ask me for more details (stephen.leeder1@hotmail.com) Lift may be available as well
25-26 FEBRUARY Sophia Rahman returns to Rhyl to teach several young musicians. Our Young Musicians are usually at Grade 8, but may have taken their diploma. On Tuesday we will have several sessions through the afternoon with an emphasis more on the music and...
We hope to invite the Sirenian Singers at a later date, perhaps in the 2024-25 Season.
Owing to illness the choir is postponed Instead I have arranged, just today when I heard the news, for French pianist Patrick Hemmerle to visit us You can easily find his website Programme is most attractive 4 Chopin Ballades followed by 4 opera transcriptions......
Final concert next season (March 13th) features Ellis Thomas, piano, and Denis Lavin, narrator. Aspects of the complex life of Franz Liszt, the inveterate traveller,inventor of the modern piano recital, composer who started off a Romantic but at the end was forward...
Alicja studies at Chethams and goes to RCM in the autumn She has performed as a Young Musician at our Club She is working towards a music career and our Club is delighted to invite her to assist Alex Karpeyev in this illustrated talk She will perform Prokofiev 2nd...
Alex Karpeyev talks about a Prokofiev Sonata (no 2) and music by Deshevov (Rails) and Liadov Young Musician from Chethams, Alicja Kojder, will perform the music. Alicja will attend the Royal College of Music next year Fairly informal and questions welcomed This...
Annemarie Federle returns to Rhyl on January 11th but this time with a trio When I first heard Annemarie last season it was immediately apparent that she was a musician of the highest calibre I offered her another concert on the spot. Now she has 2 new appointments...
Last night from Lara Melda. There are pianists I have no interest in because they are either merely technical wizards or the way they maul the music is not for me. Lara Melda has the technical ability for sure but it is put in the service of the music. Her Chopin...
Congratulations to the final 5 (not forgetting the rest) for great concerto finals. No weak performances on sunday night. We have the BBC overall winner next Wednesday 19th, Lara Melda, a special pianist. Afterr Christmas we have Annemarie Federle for her second visit...
Last night Mary Hofman and Richard Ormrod performed these pieces in Bangor along with 2 further new works. This time I heard the works properly instead of from behind the stage where I was page-turning - loved them, In case you were wondering - the violin sound...