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I'll be playing principal harp with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra glissing in the new year with some James Bond classics. Details HERE 
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It's that time of the year again to cuddle up with your loved ones and come and see one of the best family shows in the country! Performances around the country - with multiple shows each day. but BOOK EARLY - these sell out!! Don't miss out, these are fantastic shows for all the family. As well as the classic SNOWMAN with film, there are various other films we do depending on venues. Tchaikovsky Nutcracker, The Donkey or The Bear and the Piano. Details HERE 02/12/2019 1:30pm
Derby The Riverside Centre (Schools Only. Plus The Nutcracker) 02/12/2019 6:30pm Derby The Riverside Centre (Plus The Nutcracker) 03/12/2019 10:45am Derby The Riverside Centre (Relaxed performance for special schools. Plus The Nutcracker) 03/12/2019 1:30pm Derby The Riverside Centre (Schools Only. Plus The Nutcracker) 04/12/2019 1:30pm Chesterfield Winding Wheel (Schools only. Plus The Nutcracker) 04/12/2019 6:30pm Chesterfield Winding Wheel (plus The Nutcracker) 06/12/2019 1:30pm Salisbury Cathedral (plus The Bear and the Piano) 06/12/2019 4:00pm Salisbury Cathedral (plus The Bear and the Piano) 06/12/2019 7:00pm Salisbury Cathedral (plus The Bear and the Piano) 07/12/2019 2:00pm Coventry Cathedral (plus A Donkey's Tale) 07/12/2019 4:30pm Coventry Cathedral (plus A Donkey's Tale) 10/12/2019 11:00am Buxton Octagon (Relaxed performance for special schools. Plus The Nutcracker) 10/12/2019 1:30pm Buxton Octagon (Schools Only. Plus The Nutcracker) 10/12/2019 6:30pm Buxton Octagon (plus The Nutcracker) 11/12/2019 1:30pm Beverley Minster (plus A Donkey's Tale) 11/12/2019 4:30pm Beverley Minster (plus A Donkey's Tale) 11/12/2019 7:00pm Beverley Minster (plus A Donkey's Tale) 12/12/2019 2:00pm Salford The Lighthouse (Relaxed performance for ForHousing tenants, community volunteers, staff members, family & friends. Plus The Nutcracker) 12/12/2019 6:30pm Salford The Lighthouse (Relaxed performance for ForHousing tenants, community volunteers, staff members, family & friends. Plus The Nutcracker) 14/12/2019 1:00pm Winchester Cathedral (plus A Donkey's Tale) 14/12/2019 3:00pm Winchester Cathedral (plus A Donkey's Tale) 14/12/2019 7:15pm Winchester Cathedral (plus A Donkey's Tale) 18/12/2019 1:30pm Bradford St. George's Hall (plus The Bear and the Piano) 18/12/2019 6:30pm Bradford St. George's Hall (plus The Bear and the Piano) 20/12/2019 3:00pm Chester Cathedral (plus The Nutcracker) 20/12/2019 7:30pm Chester Cathedral (plus The Nutcracker) 21/12/2019 11:30am Chester Cathedral (plus The Nutcracker) 21/12/2019 2:00pm Chester Cathedral (plus The Nutcracker) 21/12/2019 5:45pm Chester Cathedral (plus The Nutcracker) 21/12/2019 8:00pm Chester Cathedral (plus The Nutcracker) 27/12/2019 2:00pm Lichfield Cathedral (plus A Donkey's Tale) 27/12/2019 4:00pm Lichfield Cathedral (plus A Donkey's Tale) 27/12/2019 7:00pm Lichfield Cathedral (plus A Donkey's Tale) 28/12/2019 5:00pm Liverpool Cathedral (plus A Donkey's Tale) 28/12/2019 7:30pm Liverpool Cathedral (plus A Donkey's Tale) 30/12/2019 1:30pm Ely Cathedral (plus The Bear and the Piano) 30/12/2019 4:00pm Ely Cathedral (plus The Bear and the Piano) 30/12/2019 7:00pm Ely Cathedral (plus The Bear and the Piano) Vaughan-Williams epic Sea Symphony and Five mystical Songs with the Sheffield Oratorio Chorus.
Sheffield Cathedral Details HERE I'm delighted to be playing the chamber version of Faure Requiem - this time at St Mary's Church Nantwich.
Tickets available on the door. I'm playing 2nd harp with the Halle Orchestra in some beautiful French Music by Debussy & Ravel.
Details HERE I'm absolutely thrilled to be performing a solo lever harp recital at the Perth Harp Festival in Western Australia on Friday 4th October at 12.45-1.30pm at WAAPA. Tickets are available for just the concert as well as for the whole festival.  I'm also giving a workshop on the Friday afternoon as part of the festival.
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, 2 Bradford Street, Mount Lawley details of tickets HERE Wallace & Gromit Musical Marvels with the Picture House Orchestra are doing 4 shows at the Edinburgh Festival on 15th and 16th August Shows are at the Pentland Theatre, EICC  I'll be tutoring at this year's Harp North West Festival in Cumbria presenting a couple of workshops on fun and funky extended techniques that can be achieved on lever harp for all levels of players. We will be having a go at trying out the various extended techniques in this session and then incorporating as many as we have mastered into some mixed ability ensemble pieces that I'm currently writing.  The festival runs from 26-28th July 2019 - Ambleside campus of University of Cumbria with Meinir Heulyn, Ben Creighton Griffiths, Jean Altshuler, Alice Pell, Mary Dunsford and myself.
All harp players are welcome and details are here Big shout out to Mary Dunsford who does an amazing online scheme called JaNewAry for Harps North West where she delivers online tutorials every day throughout January. This year she did a series of tutorials on my arrangements of Pure Imagination for lever harp. I have done two versions for lever harp - one with lever changes, and a more straight forward version without lever changes. I was VERY impressed with Mary's tutorials, she has a lovely manner and a charming way of explaining things! link here Playing with the Northern Chamber Orchestra during their residency with Buxton Festival - for the harp this is just the one opera this year - Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin  Lunchtime recital with Conrad Marshall at St Mary's Church Sandbach.  The third of our recitals of early classical music for flute and harp with Conrad this Summer.
St Mary's Church, SANDBACH. This concert is free, but there is a retiring collection. 12.30-1.15pm Boisvallee Sonata Donizetti Andante Sostenuto J.S. Bach Sonata in G minor Mozart Andante from Flute & Harp concerto Spohr Rondo A fusion of books with music as part of the Buxton Festival.
The first half is a talk by Philip Park, and the second half will be a flute and harp recital of Georgian music with my NCO colleague, Conrad Marshall. details here programme - Boisvallee Sonata (1st movement) Donizetti Andante Sostenuto J.S. Bach Sonata in G minor (1st Movement) Mozart Andante from Flute & Harp concerto Spohr Rondo Playing 2nd harp with the RLPO for one of my favourite pieces - Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune by Debussy
Philharmonic Hall - Liverpool details here Lunchtime recital with Conrad Marshall at St Mary's Church Nantwich  I'm delighted to be playing a recital of early classical music for flute and harp with Conrad. I usually play contemporary music in recitals, so it's a treat to be performing this programme and I'm really enjoying getting all this lovely music under my fingers. It makes a lovely contrast from all the contemporary music I'm playing this year.
This programme will be repeated during the Buxton Festival at the opening of the Pump Room and at St Mary's Church in Sandbach. St Mary's Church, Nantwich. This concert is free, but there is a retiring collection. 12.30-1.15pm details here Boisvallee Sonata Donizetti Andante Sostenuto J.S. Bach Sonata in G minor Mozart Andante from Flute & Harp concerto Spohr Rondo  I'm playing a couple of my compositions for lever harp (Celestial Spirals and Gypsy Dance) at the coffee concert as part of Glossop Festival - doors open 10.30 concert starts at 11.00 details here
Playing with the Glossop Festival Orchestra as part of the Glossop Festival
Programme to include Copland Clarinet Concerto details here Well, this is going to be lots of FUN! Wallace & Gromit Musical Marvels with the Picture House Orchestra touring across the UK brought to you by the amazing team behind The Snowman tour. Loads of dates and venues across the UK through May & June. 16th May - Buxton Opera House
17-18th May - Blackpool Pleasure Beach 19th Sheffield City Hall 20th Stoke Victoria Hall 23rd Leicester De Montford Hall 25th Liverpool Arena 26th Manchester Lowry 27th London Barbican Hall 29th Birmingham Symphony Hall 31st Bath Forum 1st June Cardiff St David's Hall 2nd Reading The Hexagon 6th Gateshead The Sage 7th Carlisle Sands Centre 8th Edinburgh Usher Hall 9th Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Multiple shows at each venue - some include modelling workshops by Aardman. Details here Playing 2nd harp with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko conducting Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.
At the Philharmonic Hall - Liverpool. Details here This is not a public event... but I will be spending the day film recording 6 new works for solo harp as part of the Psappha Composing for Harp Scheme. Four of the pieces have been written for concert harp, and two are for lever harp with effects pedals and electronics. All the pieces will be available on the Psappha YouTube channel details here  |
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