The university of York Music Society

Concert Series

This is the Concert Series for the Spring Term 2010. All Concerts start at 1pm in Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall. Entry is free for Music Society members and £2 for non-members. Please come along from 12:45.

Week Day Date Concert Extra Information Details
2 Friday 22/01/2010 Commencing this terms series is Becky Simpson putting on a concert of Argentinean tango music by Piazzolla.
3 Tuesday 29/01/2010 Opera Society Opera Society’s Spring Concert featuring the rising stars in the society singing a spectrum of beautiful opera.
3 Friday 26/01/2010 Composition Project Works composed as part of the recent composition project led by Bill Brooks are the feature of today’s lunchtime concert.
4 Tuesday 02/02/2010 York Big Band Get your hands clapping and toes tapping and let the York Big Band entertain you.
4 Friday 05/02/2010 Vocal Recital Today’s Lunchtime concert features Rebecca Curran performing a collection of Schubert Leide, accompanied by Prof. Peter Seymour.
5 Tuesday 09/02/2010 The Bach Actors The Bach Actors present 'Confessions of a Lovesick Cantata Criminal' : 4 dramatically-charged German cantatas recieve startling treatment. The result? 'Opera meets Sitcom'.
5 Friday 12/02/2010 The Odyssey Musical is brought to you today by Jess Morton as part of her Solo Project.
7 Tuesday 23/02/2010 Our concert today features the Eboracum String Quartet performing Debussy’s String Quartet plus music for cello and piano.
7 Friday 26/02/2010 Guy Tudor Music written in Spain and Portugal flourished throughout the Renaissance, but so much has been lost and in turn rarely performed. In this concert, brought to you by Guy Tudor, there is a chance to hear some of the lost gems of this period and experience the true beauty of it.

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8 Friday 05/03/2010 As part of her solo project Jayne Chuter presents 'Chesed'.
9 Tuesday 09/03/2010 The 'Cello Ensemble The ‘Cello Ensemble return once more with Villa-lobos’s Bachianas brasileiras No.5 and a new work by our own James Whittle.
9 Thursday 11/03/2010 The Decameron Guitar Quartet The Decameron Guitar Quartet bring a feast of guitaristic delights to the SJLCH. Please feel free to munch on them.
9 Friday 12/03/2010 The Chimera Ensemble More new music from the Music Departments own Chimera Ensemble.
10 Tuesday 16/03/2010 TWO CONCERTS At 1pm In conjunction with the two-day seminar on co-creativity jointly sponsored by the Music Department and the Orpheus Instituut (Ghent, Belgium), today's lunchtime concert presents works by Gamelan Sekar Petak, York students and alumni, and guests of the seminar
10 Tuesday 16/03/2010 Kreutzer Quartet At 4pm In their second lunchtime concert, we are pleased to welcome back the Kreutzer Quartet for another superb concert.
10 Friday 19/03/2010 Seventh Heaven Red sky at night, Seventh delight... Red sky at morning, Heaven’s calling! Seventh Heaven return with their dulcet tones to send off this term in style.

For more details on the Music Society concert series or how to apply, please email the Concert Secretary, Emily Scaglioni .

All concerts are recorded and copies are available for all performers on request. For more informations about concert recordings, please contact the Chair, Charlotte Potter

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