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St George's will once again participate in London's wonderful Open House Weekend! The church will be open Saturday 18th from 10.00 am - 7.00 pm and again on Sunday 19th from 12.00 md - 5.00 pm. Details will be available soon of our tours and other events. September 19 4.00 pm A special Open House London performance by St George's Ensemble -in-Residence. Formed in 2008, the Orsino Ensemble is an exciting group of London based musicians brought together by a passion for chamber music. With twelve musicians consisting of interchangeable combinations of winds, strings, piano, and harp, Orsino has proven its success in a wide variety of musical performances. The Orsino Ensemble has not only performed in recitals around the London area, but has also commissioned works in collaboration with other arts, including the Royal Ballet. Admission free - suggested donation £3
Song Cycles from Around the World Georgia Knower - soprano Prokofieff: Five Poems of Anna Akhmatova Georgia Knower graduated from the University of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Music, where she studied Music and Singing respectively. She continues to study with Nicholas Clapton and Diane Forlano. Whilst in Edinburgh, Georgia performed a number of roles including Mařenka from The Bartered Bride and Miss Wordsworth from Albert Herring. Since graduating from RAM, where she was awarded the Nan Copeland, Ernest Bucher and Toba Mann prizes, she gives regular recitals with pianists Maria Razumovskaya and Pavel Timofejevsky in and around London. Pavel Timofejevsky, pianist and composer, began his music studies at the age of six at the Gnessin Music School in Russia. In 1995 he entered the Purcell School of Music on full scholarship and won a number of prestigious awards and national competitions including the BBC Proms/Guardian Young Composer of the Year award. Pavel has given solo and chamber performances in the Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St. James’ Piccadilly, St. John’s Smith Square, St. Martin’s in the Field, Lauderdale House, and the Bishopsgate Institute. He has also performed in Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Cyprus, Calcutta (a concert broadcast live on Indian Television) and Mumbai. In September 2007, he was invited to join the ‘Live Music Now’ concert scheme and has since performed in various community venues throughout the UK. Admission free - suggested donation £3
Yung-Yee Chen - piano Bach - Partita No. 3 in A minor American pianist Yung-Yee Chen is noted for her well-rounded artistry that encompasses musical creativity and intellectual inspiration. A graduate of StanfordUniversity with honours in history and music, she takes an interdisciplinary approach to her piano playing and is interested in a diverse range of repertoire, from Bach to Boulez. She has performed extensively across California and London, and due to her enthusiasm for 20th-century music, she was invited to perform at the Schoenberg Centre in Vienna. Among her many awards, Yung-Yee was the collegiate statewide winner of California’s MTAC Solo Competition and was inducted into the selective MTAC Young Arist Guild through which she won the AMRON Award and Samuel Rodetsky Award. Admission free - suggested donation £3
Blossom St Singers The Blossom Street Singers is a dynamic vocal ensemble of highly trained professional singers, all in their twenties. The group performs a very wide range of music which is tailored to the audience or venue - from jazz and pop arrangements to close harmony to well-loved classical favourites. In December 2005, Blossom Street filmed a medley of Christmas carols for BBC2, which was broadcast during the snooker championship final; since then they have performed nationwide. The group sang to Prince Charles on ITV1 as part of his 60th birthday celebrations, and recently gave their debut in Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre as part of the Voicelab series. They have filmed for the TNT Show on Channel 4, and last October were engaged to perform Judith Weir’s Missa Del Cid at the prestigious St John’s, Smith Square. The group has recorded the Sunday Half Hour for BBC Radio 2, and have just recorded a CD of Christmas music for Union Square Music. “Such a special treat and, for me, the best birthday present imaginable. I only hope that it was fairly obvious how much I enjoyed it!” The Prince of Wales Admission free - suggested donation £3
Consortium5 Consortium5 are a vibrant and exciting young recorder quintet. Formed in 2005 when Kathryn Corrigan, Inga Maria Klaucke, Oonagh Lee, Gail Macleod and Roselyn Maynard were students at the Royal Academy of Music, they have since established themselves as one of the foremost recorder consorts of their generation and an ensemble of unique appeal to a wide range of audiences. Consortium5 present a wide range of repertoire from medieval to renaissance, baroque and contemporary music on a staggering array of instruments. A year after forming, in 2006, Consortium5 became the first ever recorder consort to win the prestigious Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for performance. In 2007 they were finalists in the Early Music Network Young Artists Competition and in October of the same year performed live on Radio 3s In Tune programme. 2007 also marked the beginning of Consortium5’s Junior Fellowship at Trinity College of Music, which was extended until 2009 through the generous support of the Joan Greenfield Trust. They are also currently resident on the Park Lane Group Young Artists Series, and made their Purcell Room debut in January 2009. Since 2005, Consortium5 have performed in numerous venues to strong critical acclaim, including the Totnes Festival, Balerno Festival, Haddington Music Society, Barber Institute, York Early Music Festival, Newcastle Early Music Festival, the Tilford Bach Festival, the Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival, the Cambridge Early Music Summer School Concert Series, St Martin in the Fields, St James Piccadilly, the Handel House and Windsor Castle. In January 2009 they premiered three specially commissioned works at the Purcell Room by composers including David Bedford. Admission free - suggested donation £3
Across Boundaries In conjunction with the October Gallery and the Bloomsbury Festival As part of the Bloomsbury Festival, the London 'Big Draw' and Black History Month, St George's & the October Gallery are staging a series of art/music workshops in October, culminating in a concert of African music and exhibition celebrating the work of our participants. Come along and be part of the fun - live art, music, an exhibition and a post concert reception! Admission free - suggested donation £3
City Lit a Capella This highly successful group, lead by dynamic Della Rhodes, returns to St George's to sing original arrangements of jazz and popular songs. Admission free - suggested donation £3
The Art of English & Japanese Songs Saori Nakazawa - soprano Popular St George's Bloomsbury soprano Saori Nakazawa sings a selection of English and Japanese folk and art songs. Admission free - suggested donation £3
Fields String Quartet This professional quartet, based in Bloomsbury, makes its first appearance at St George's. Admission free - suggested donation £3
Dangerous Liaisons–Forbidden Love Spirituoso and guest dancers Handel House Museum's Ensemble-in-Residence Spirituoso will take the audience on a moving journey through elements of art in 18th century Europe , exploring contrasting passions through music and baroque dance. Love, lust, deception, grief and joy are enacted through music and movement, uniting two characters in a forbidden love. Tickets: £9 full / £5 students
Tredici Chamber Choir G. Gabrieli - Angelus ad pastores ait Admission free - suggested donation £3
Sarah Grosvenor - soprano Awarded 2nd Prize in the Union des Femmes Artistes Musiciennes, Concours Supérieur Paris, colaratura soprano Sarah Grosvenor will sing a recital of arias and operatic excerpts in this final concert of the Sunday Recital Autumn Series. Admission free - suggested donation £3
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