London Chamber Ensemble 1st recordings quartets CharlesWood (1866-1926) SOMM May ‘26 b.#Armagh Stanford pupil @rcmlondon.bsky.social taught @caiuscollege.bsky.social Well crafted romantic infused w Irish folk music @belfasttelegraph.co.uk Concerts @englishmusic.bsky.social @threechoirs.bsky.social

Lovely concert with great colleagues yesterday in the beautiful little St Mary’s Perivale. Mel Bonis, Dyson short pieces, Brahms Bmajor trio: youtube.com/live/vFgb5rs... We’ll be playing at Ludlow Assembly Rooms and Southend Council series later in the season.

This is fun - a medley of various tunes featured in the #BBCProms in the next week from Vivaldi to Gershwin (about 9’ in)

Good to be teaching & playing in W Wales again. A friendly course based Llandovery College, train from London 😀. Staff concert Mon 21.7 8pm in the Great Hall. All welcome. Incl Brahms, Debussy🎻 sonatas, solo piano, sax, new work cor anglais & audience @lovellandovery.bsky.social www.LMFL.org

Quel bon goût!

Arriving in rural Normandy after a long train journey from London. Lovely place to rehearse flute quartets and #Bliss Conversations for concerts #Sourdeval 4.7 & #Chaulieu 5.7 @francemusique.fr #ChamberMusic @classicalmusicdaily.com

Renowned opera singer Stuart Burrows dies at 92. I was deeply honoured to receive the Stuart Burrows Award from the Welsh Music Guild last year ‘for significant promotion of Welsh music’. RIP a great lyric tenor. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thank you. This was sold out! Julian Milford, Kirsten Jenson and I will be repeating the programme 14.9, 3pm at St Mary’s Perivale. Free admission, also live streamed st-marys-perivale.org.uk

Thank you to everyone who came to our Piano Trio concert at Leighton House, sold out! Spectacular venue, great colleagues Julian Milford, piano & Kirsten Jenson, cello; glorious music #Bonis #Dyson, #Brahms 🙏 @rbkc.gov.uk libraries #chambermusic #musicalsalons #music&art ❤️ @theartsdesk.bsky.social

Job vacancy: Lecturer in Composition (0.4) at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire @royalbirmcons.bsky.social jobs.bcu.ac.uk/en/sites/CX_...

Writer,editor,artist Justin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social has re-published his ‘First,Last,Anything’+🎶 incl. @levparikian.bsky.social @musicclerk.bsky.social I enjoyed our chat ranging from #Menuhin to the Fires & @errollynwallen.bsky.social 💿incl #BillEvans firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f...

Honoured to talk to @madeleinemitchell.bsky.social on #FirstLastAnything in Jul 2023 to discuss her superb 'Violin Conversations' album, Menuhin, and her Red Violin festivals. firstlastanything.co.uk/2025/05/20/f... Details of her ace London concert on 24 June: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/madeleine-...

Sir George Dyson 1883-1964, son of musical Yorks blacksmith, FRCO at 16, scholar @rcmlondon.bsky.social pupil Stanford & Parry, won Mendelssohn Scholarship. Was RCM Dir in WWII. Biog Paul Spicer. Hear 4 of his charming 1920s salon pieces +Brahms & Mel Bonis 24.6 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/madeleine-...

Thank you. The London Chamber Ensemble Quartet are excited for our 1st time out with the lovely ‘Highgate’ Quartet + Variations on an Irish folk tune by Charles Wood (teacher of RVW, Bliss & Tippett) which we’re recording thanks to your support. A few tkts left: www.tickettailor.com/events/salon...

For anyone who missed this, we are also offering a private view of this stunning museum before our Piano Trio concert (Bonis, Dyson, Brahms) 24th June, 6.30 followed by drinks in the adjacent café and garden www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/madeleine-...

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18 May SalonMusic N6 6.30🍷for 7: Quartet Concert+supper.“Wood: Melodic..hints of Irish folk song, a touch of Brahms, an attractive work that merits this committed and rewarding performance.” @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social @theobserveruk.bsky.social on our new album www.tickettailor.com/events/salon...

Central London - magical sunlight on the new leaf, buttercups, silvery birdsong and thanks to the cleaner air, you can smell the cow parsley.

Special Piano Trio concert Tues 24 June #LeightonHouse London W14: 6.30 Private view of museum/gallery, 7-8.15 music by Brahms, Sir George Dyson - salon pieces + Mel Bonis Soir et Matin, then join us for drinks and snacks in the café & garden www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/madeleine-...

Heartwarming msg from amateur violinist on my courses, whose wife died suddenly: “I now have a great need to get myself out and socialising. I don't know how I would have coped if I didn't have the violin.” Places still available Wales & Firenze July/Aug Pls share www.lmfl.org

Free concert Thurs 20.3, 2-3pm #Schubert Society GB, St James, Sussex Gdns W2 3UD. Schubert & Dvorak. In memory of John WS Walton 1925–2025 former President SEBRA. No tickets required; donations welcome.

Prokofiev Violin Concerto No.1, Sat 10 May 7.30, St Anne’s Limehouse E14 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drury-symp...

Concert 6.3, 6.30–7.30 University Women’s club Mayfair followed by three course dinner. Guest tickets just opened up Lovely music for #IWD25

Monet 1868

This seems a nice thing to post at this time of year - lovely little piece Howard Blake arranged for me and recorded for my Naxos album ‘Violin Conversations’ last year, filmed live by @classicfm.com at St John’s, Smith Square youtu.be/ZG14HuHum3Q?...

🔊 #NowPlaying#NowPlayingon BBC #Radio3's #NightTracks Herbert Howells, London Chamber Ensemble & Madeleine Mitchell: 🎵 String Quartet No. 3 'In Gloucestershire': 3rd mvt #BBCRadio3 #HerbertHowells #LondonChamberEnsemble #MadeleineMitchell

On #ViolinDay review of Red Violin festival Leeds, The Catholic Herald Dec/Jan: Michael White on UK première Jake Heggie & Gene Scheer ‘Intonations: Songs from the Violins of Hope’ London Chamber Ensemble Quartet, Sian Griffiths mezzo, Chloë Hanslip + Howells ‘In Gloucestershire’ from our new album.

Is there someone out there with availability for a January start and who might be looking for a Music Education Leadership role on a fixed term 12 month position? The new post holder will work with me as part of the London West Music Hub. #MusicEducation. jobs.hillingdon.gov.uk/vacancies/25...

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www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n... “stirring work,full of vitality,expertly played here by the London Chamber Ensemble..Melodic, expansive..Irish folk song & a touch of Brahms,it’s an attractive work that merits this committed & rewarding performance 🙏 @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social @theguardian.com