2025

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Monday 24th March, 8pm

FACE Auditorium, McGill University, Montréal

McGill Beethoven Orchestra

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Saturday 22nd February

Grisey: Talea

Holywell Music Room, Oxford

Mad Song

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Friday 21st February

Grisey: Talea

Mad Song

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Saturday January 25th, 8pm

FACE Auditorium, McGill University, Montréal

McGill Beethoven Orchestra

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2024

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Monday 4th November, 8pm

Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye Suite, M. 60

FACE Auditorium, McGill University, Montréal

McGill Beethoven Orchestra

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11th August, 8pm

Murail: Treize Couleurs du soleil couchant

Ives, arr. Balch: Central Park in the Dark

Balch: Country Radio

Netzwerk Seilerei, Frankfurt am Main

Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Modern Young Ensemble Academy

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8th August, 7.30pm

Grisey: Talea

Französisch-Reformierte Kirche, Offenbach

Mad Song

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6th August, 7.30pm

Murail: Treize Couleurs du soleil couchant

Ensemble Modern Akademie, Frankfurt am Main

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Friday 5th July, 8pm

Clyne: Just As They Are

Mayo: Very little perhaps nothing

Murail: Treize Couleurs du soleil couchant

St John the Baptist Church, Barnet

Mad Song

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Monday 1st July, 7.30pm

Clyne: Just As They Are

Mayo: Very little perhaps nothing

Murail: Treize Couleurs du soleil couchant

Manoukian Music Centre, London

Mad Song

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Wednesday 17th April, 8.45pm

Rachmaninoff, Vocalise, Op. 34

Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24

Dvorak, 'Going Home'

Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, Montréal

Members of McGill Symphony Orchestra & Galilei Uajenenisa Njembo

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Thursday 28th March, 8pm

Benjamin Lavastre, Mapping

Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, Montréal

McGill Percussion Ensemble

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Monday 25th March, 8pm

Felix Mendelssohn, Die Hebriden, Op. 26

Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, Montréal

McGill Beethoven Orchestra

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Wednesday 24th January, 8pm

Mozart, Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter'

Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, Montréal

McGill Symphony Orchestra

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2023

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Thursday 23rd November, 8pm

Rob Hao, Commedia

Helen Grime, Seven Pierrot Miniatures

Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire

Mad Song & Rebekah Jones

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Monday 13th November, 7.30pm

Pollack Hall, Schulich School of Music, Montréal

Beethoven, Symphony No. 3

McGill Beethoven Orchestra

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Friday 14th July, 8pm

St John the Baptist Church, High Barnet

Rob Hao, Commedia

Helen Grime, Seven Pierrot Miniatures

Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire

Mad Song & Rebekah Jones

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Friday 3rd July, 7.30pm

St John the Baptist Church, High Barnet

Carol J. Jones, chrysalis

Lili Boulanger, Two pieces from Trois Morceaux

Grace Williams, Sea Sketches

Josef Suk, Serenade

The New London Orchestra

part of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival

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Wednesday 17th May, 1.15pm

St Pancras Parish Church

Ballance, Lord I am not worthy

Choir of St Pancras Church, Chris Batchelor

part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

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Friday 12th May, 7.30pm

St Pancras Parish Church

Ballance, Kyrie from Missa Brevis pro Baccalarius

LFCCM Festival Singers, Soloists of The Sarum Consort, Alastair Carey

part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

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Thursday 4th May, 7.30pm

Sophie's Barn, Chacombe

Schoenberg arr. Ballance/Crowley, Sechs kleine Stücke, Op. 19

Helen Grime, Seven Pierrot Miniatures

Schoenberg arr. Webern, Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9

Mad Song

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Saturday 1st April, 2.30pm

St Peter's Church, Hereford

Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56

Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 4 K. 495

Haydn, Symphony No. 104 Hob. I: 104

Hereford Symphony Orchestra and Zoe Tweed

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Wednesday 29th March, 1pm

St Olave's Church, Hart Street

Schoenberg arr. Ballance/Crowley, Sechs kleine Stücke, Op. 19

Helen Grime, Seven Pierrot MIniatures

Schoenberg arr. Webern, Kammersymphonie No. 1, Op. 9

Mad Song

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Friday 3rd February, 7.30pm

St Saviour's Wendell Park

Anna Clyne, Just As They Are

Judith Weir, Blue-Green Hill

Richard Causton, Phoenix

Mad Song

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2022

Friday 2nd December, 1.15pm

St Saviour's Church, Pimlico

Anna Clyne, Just As They Are

Judith Weir, Blue-Green Hill

Richard Causton, Phoenix

Mad Song

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Thursday 27th October – Tuesday 1st November

The Round Chapel, Hackney

Louise Bertin, arr. Joshua Ballance, Le Loup-Garou

Gothic Opera

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Friday 15th July, 8pm

The Friends' Recital Hall at QE

Joan Tower, Noon Dance

Steve Reich, Double Sextet

Mad Song

part of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival

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Saturday 2nd July, 7.30pm

St John the Baptist Church, Barnet

Ailsa Dixon, Nocturnal Scherzo

Benjamin Britten, Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings

Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht

The New London Orchestra, Brenton Spiteri, Annemarie Federle

part of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival

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Saturday 25th June, 7.30pm

Leominster Priory

Schubert: Rosamunde Overture

Schumann: Cello Concerto

Bartholomew LaFollette & Hereford Symphony Orchestra

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Thursday 16th June, 7pm

Woolwich Works

Frank Denyer: Five View of the Path

Octandre Ensemble

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Friday 17th June

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Ballance: Webern's Macroharmony through the Discrete Fourier Transform

Music After 1900 Conference

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Saturday 7th May, 7pm

Cardiff University Concert Hall

Anna Semple: After Torcello

Richard Causton: Phoenix

Judith Weir: Blue-Green Hill

Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King

Benedict Nelson & Mad Song

this concert has been moved due to the COVID-19 outbreak

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Friday 11th February

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver

Ballance: Webern's Macroharmony through the Discrete Fourier Transform

part of the University of British Columbia Colloquium Series

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2021

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Saturday 27th November, 7.30pm

St John's Methodist Church, Hereford

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67

Hereford Symphony Orchestra

this concert has been moved due to the COVID-19 outbreak

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Saturday 30th October, 2.30pm

St Laurence's Church, Ludlow

Ballance: They Were Too Much Wanting To Be Loved

Emma Roberts & Gamal Khamis

part of the Ludlow English Song Weekend

this concert has been moved due to the COVID-19 outbreak

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Friday 29th October, 4pm

Ludlow Assembly Rooms

Ballance: They Were Too Much Wanting To Be Loved

Emma Roberts & Gamal Khamis

public masterclass with Rhian Samuel

part of the Ludlow English Song Weekend

this concert has been moved due to the COVID-19 outbreak

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Tuesday 14th–Thursday 16th September

University of Newcastle

Ballance: The Viennese Trichord in the Music of Anton Webern

57th Royal Musical Association Annual Conference

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Wednesday 28th–Friday 30th July

Ballance: Interval Analysis in the Music of Anton Webern

8th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology

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Thursday 22nd July, 7.30pm

St John the Baptist Church, High Barnet

Müller-Hermann: Lieder, Opp. 11 & 32

Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen,

Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie No. 1

Anita Monserrat & Mad Song

part of the High Barnet Chamber Music Festival

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Sunday 3rd July,

Ballance: Interval Analysis in the Music of Anton Webern

KVNM-RMA International Postgraduate Symposium in Music Research

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Monday 14th June, 7.30pm

City University, London

Soosan Lolavar: Girl

Bainbridge: Four Primo Levi Settings

Ian Pace: Matière: Le Palais de la mort

Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King

Georgia Mae Bishop, Benedict Nelson, & City Pierrot Ensemble

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Tuesday 27th April, 5.15pm

Ballance: Interval Analysis in the Music of Anton Webern

Oxford University Colloquium Series

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Tuesday 16th March, 6pm

Ballance & Lloyd-Owen: This Little Island of Me

Edwin Hughes & Toby Stanford

part of the Oxford Contemporary Opera Opera for One

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Thursday 28th January, 6pm

Ballance: Diptych

public masterclass with the Solem Quartet

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Friday 22nd January, 2pm

Ballance: The Viennese Trichord in the Music of Anton Webern

Joint SMI & ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference

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2020

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Saturday 28th November, 7.30pm

Holy Trinity Church, Hereford

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3

Hereford Symphony Orchestra

this concert has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak

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Wednesday 18th November

Ballance: Pitch-Class Distributions in the Music of Anton Webern

Computational Humanities Research Workshop 2020

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Friday 31st July, 1.30pm

Aberystwyth Musicfest

Bach, arr. Maxwell Davies: Two Preludes & Fugues

Schoenberg, arr. Webern: Kammersymphonie No. 1

Mad Song

this concert has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak

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Friday 31st July, 11am

Aberystwyth Musicfest

Composers' Workshop

Mad Song

this concert has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak

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Thursday 7th May, 7.30pm

St James's Piccadilly

Gerhard: Libra

Mad Song

this concert has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak

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Thursday 9th April, 4pm

Leiston Abbey

Elgar: Serenade for Strings

Pro Corda Junior Course Orchestra

this concert has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak

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Monday 2nd March, 12pm

Faculty of Music, Oxford University

Ballance: Macroharmony in the Music of Anton Webern

GRACIAS (Graduate Research Seminar)

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Friday 14th February, 11am

Jacqueline du Pré Building, Oxford

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92

Masterclass with Marios Papadopoulos

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra

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Saturday 8th February, 8pm

Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge

Elgar: Sea Pictures

Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes

Williams: Sea Sketches

J. Thurlow: Light - dark - sea

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Saturday 4th January, 3pm

Leiston Abbey

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, i. Pezzo in forma di sonatina

Pro Corda Senior Course Orchestra

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2019

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Saturday 7th December

Anthony Burgess Foundation

Ballance: Manuscript Ruined by Water

No Dice Collective, Joe Chesterman-March

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Sunday 24th November, 6pm

St Pancras Church, London

Ballance: St Pancras Magnificat

Choir of St Pancras Church, Chris Batchelor

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Saturday 23rd November, 5pm

Huddersfield Town Hall

Denyer: The Fish that became the Sun

Octandre Ensemble, New London Chamber Choir, Jon Hargreaves

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Wednesday 25th September, 7.30pm

St James' Piccadilly

Ballance: Mere Ripples​

Project40 Ensemble, Michael Karcher-Young

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Tuesday 13th August, 4pm

Leiston Abbey

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Pro Corda Intermediate Course Orchestra

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Friday 2nd August, 2.30pm

Aberystwyth MusicFest

Composers' Workshop

Mad Song

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Friday 2nd August, 1.30pm

Aberystwyth MusicFest

Anna Semple: After Torcello (World Premiere)

Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King

Barney Wolstenholme & Mad Song

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Saturday 29th June, 7.30pm

Leominster Priory

Sibelius: Symphony No. 1, Op. 39

Hereford String Orchestra

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Wednesday 15th May, 3.30pm

St Pancras Church, London

Ballance: St Pancras Magnificat

Choir of St Pancras Church, Chris Batchelor

part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

This service was broadcast on BBC Radio 3, listen here

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Friday 3rd May, 5pm

Recital Room, Cambridge University Faculty of Music

Presenting 'Harmonic Syntax in Webern's Opp. 9, 10, & 11: A Digital Approach'

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Saturday 23rd March, 9pm

Chiesa Di Santa Maria Degli Angeli e San Francesco, Milan

Ballance: Lord I am not worthy

King's Voices, Ben Parry

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Saturday 16th March, 7.30pm

St James's Piccadilly, London

Ballance: The Willow Song

Ronald Corp OBE, Alexander Wells, and the New London Children's Choir

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Monday 11th March 5.30pm

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Ballance: Lord I am not worthy

King's Voices, Ben Parry

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Sunday 24th February

Chapel of Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Ballance: A Song of Humility

Chapel Choir of Emmanuel College, Peter Foggitt 

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Sunday 3rd February, 8.30pm

King's College Hall

C. Schumann: Drei Romanzen

Elgar: Symphony No. 1

King's College Symphony Orchestra

 

Sunday 27th January

Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances

Leicester Symphony Orchestra

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Saturday 5th January

Leiston Abbey

Nielsen: Kleine Suite, Op. 1: Movt. i & ii.

Pro Corda Senior Course Orchestra

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2018

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Saturday 24th November, 7.30pm
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Copland: Appalachian Spring

Hereford String Orchestra

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Sunday 7th October, 8pm

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Matthias: Organ Concerto

Donal McCann & King's College Symphony Orchestra

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Tuesday 19th June, 10.15am

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge

Presenting 'A Digital Approach to Proportions: Analysing Common Practice Period Forms with music21'

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Monday 18th June, 7pm

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Strauss, R.: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

King's College Symphony Orchestra

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Saturday 26th May, 6.40pm

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Ballance: Lady, Flower of Everything

Henry Websdale

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Monday 30th April, 5.30pm

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Ballance: Lord, I am not worthy

King's Voices

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Saturday 17th March, 7.30pm

St James' Piccadilly, London

Ballance: The Willow Song

Ronald Corp OBE, Alexander Wells, and the New London Children's Choir

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Thursday 15th March, 8pm

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Wagner: Prelude to Meistersinger

Mahler: Rückert-Lieder, Helena Moore (soprano)

Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra

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Wednesday 14th March, 9pm

Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge

New Music, inc.:

Ballance: New Work

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Sunday 11th March, 8.30pm

King's College Hall

Muhly: Sentences, Joseph Zubier

King's College Symphony Orchestra

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Wednesday 28th February, 9.30pm

Chapel of Robinson College, Cambridge

New Music, inc.:

Ballance: Rose light enflamed the eastern sky

Thurlow: Ultradian rhythms

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Sunday 25th February, 8pm

King's College Hall

Berio: O King, Joseph Zubier

Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad

King, Barney Wolstenholme

King's College Contemporary Ensemble

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Saturday 3rd February, 9.30pm

Hall of King's College, Cambridge

Messiaen: Et exspecto resurrectionem

mortuorum

King's College Symphony Orchestra

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Sunday 28th January, 3.30pm

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Hymn to the Virgin: Mary, Queen of

Paradise (WP)

Henry Websdale

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Saturday 13th January, 5.30pm

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge 

Ballance: Lord, I am not worthy

King's Voices, Ben Parry

 

2017

 

Monday 27th November, 8.30pm

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Ballance: Dark Across A Darkening Sky

Joseph Zubier, Barney Wolstenholme, 

King's College Contemporary Ensemble

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Sunday 26th November, 9.30pm

Chapel of Jesus College, Cambridge

Ballance: Decision Music

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Monday 20th November, 8pm

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14

Cambridge University Symphony

Orchestra

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Saturday 18th November, 1.15pm

Chapel of Queens' College, Cambridge

Hymn to the Virgin: Lady, flower of everything (WP)

Henry Websdale

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Sunday 5th November, 9pm

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Ballance: Der Mond läuft über hohe Eichen (WP)

Moritz Grimm - Soloist

King's College Contemporary Players

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Sunday 5th November, 5.20pm

Chapel of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Ballance: Hymn to the Virgin: Of one who is so fair and bright (WP)

Henry Websdale

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Monday 6th November, 7pm

Murray Edwards College, Cambridge

&

Tuesday 31st October, 1pm

West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge

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Sunday 29th October, 9pm

King's College Hall

Françaix: Neuf pièces caractéristiques

Bernard: Divertissement

IAS Wind Dectet

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Sunday 8th October, 8pm

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

King's College Symphony Orchestra

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Thursday 24th August

Leiston Abbey

Bartok: Divertimento, Movement i.

Pro Corda Senior Course Orchestra

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Saturday 29th July

Aberystwyth Conductors' Course

Elliot, R. I.: rotten ware

The Orion Orchestra

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Monday 19th June

Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Ravel: Piano Concerto in G

Richard Gowers & King's College Symphony Orchestra

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Saturday 20th May

Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge

Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor

Julien Cohen & Cambridge University Symphony Orchestra