Early Slot 7.40 – 7.55 Solos First Session 8-9.00pm Ensemble (see email from Francisco about the new Prokofiev piece — please bring your part along!) Second Session 9.15-10.30pm AGM Members, please try to make it for the AGM – shape the future of your society!
Early Slot 7.30 – 7.55 Member’s Talk Cari Aplin: Luise Walker First Session 8-9.00pm Ensemble Second Session 9.15-10.00pm Solos
Early Slot 7.30 – 7.55 Solos (Optional) theme for the solos this month: Classical and Early Romantic Etude. Play an Etude by a composer like Sor, Carcassi, Carulli, Giuliani, Aguado, Diabelli, Regondi… if it says study, estudio or etude, play it! First Session 8-9.00pm Ensemble Second Session 9.15-10.00pm – Visiting Artist Short Recital […]
April 2024 society meetup: Solos with theme: A piece by a British Composer, Ensemble, Guest Speaker Stephen Goss: “The delusion of urtext”: Are we taking music too literally?
Early Slot 7.30 – 7.55 Solos (Optional) theme for the solos this month: Latin America First Session 8-9.00pm Ensemble Second Session 9.15-10.00pm Recital by rising star Luke Bartlett, IGF Young Artist 2024 and Julian Bream Trust scholar
Early Slot 7.30 – 7.55 pm – Member’s Talk Nick Regan: “The Moods of Key Signatures” First Session 8-9.00pm Ensemble Second Session 9.15-10.00pm Solos (Optional) theme for the solos this month: A modern etude (20th or 21st century). Think Villa-Lobos, Brouwer, Garcia, Nuttall…
Vince Smith: Thinking about Sight Reading, Ensemble, Solos: “The Rest of the World” Showcase: play something from Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Oceania, Polynesia, etc. — not Western Europe or Latin America)
12th September Meetup
Solo theme: “21st century compositions”
Ensemble
Guest Speaker: Arthur Keegan on his Wessex Songs project
Early Slot 7.30 – 7.55pm Solos (Optional) theme for the solos this month: Music from Spain First Session 8-9.00pm Ensemble Second Session 9.15-10.00pm – Visiting Artist lecture Visiting Artist: Paul Gregory from Maestoso Music. Paul’s talk will be: So what do you really want from a guitar? A discourse on how instruments differ […]
