Peak Music’s 2024/25 season will starting in stunning fashion in September with a concert by a duo who are wowing audiences with their virtuosity, flair and astounding innovation.
Baroque Alchemy, comprising the world’s leading recorder player, Piers Adams, and electronic keyboard wizard Lyndy Mayle are bringing baroque music into the 21st Century with a completely new take on works by famous composers. They are totally unafraid of merging apparently diverse musical styles. The audience at the Cavendish Hall on 24th September can expect Handel with a rock/synth basssline, Telemann in a cool jazz version and Bach with a dash of reggae.
A 75-year-old regular concert-goer recently commented after the duo’s performance at the Swaledale Festival: “The most stunning live concert I think I’ve ever been to. Gorgeous, funny, innovative and fun. Blown away and speechless.”
The Society’s programme continues in October with the more conventional, but equally talented and renowned Villiers Quartet. The group have presented masterclasses at home and in the USA and have featured on BBC Radio 3 and BBC TV. Their programme will include quartets by Haydn, Fung and Beethoven.
The November concert features an unusual combination of flute, viola and harp in the talented hands of the Pelleas Ensemble. Regularly praised for their compelling performance and immediate connection with audiences, they have performed extensively across the UK and have won a variety of prestigious awards. They will be performing works by a wide variety of composers, including Debussy, Prokofiev and Richard Rodney Bennett.
In the spirit of Peak Music’s mission of bringing world-class performers to local audiences, the afternoon concert on March 29th features pianist Jeneba Kanneh-Mason, fresh from her recent debut at the BBC Proms. Jeneba is much in demand for performances and recordings and has recently signed exclusively with Sony Classical for her first recital album for release in 2025. At the Cavendish Hall she will perform works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Scriabin and Prokofiev.
The season’s final concert, again in the afternoon features star violinist Lizzie Ball, who will be well known to local music lovers, on this occasion teamed with Serbian accordionist Milos Milivojevic, described in The Times as “a hurricane of imaginative invention”. He is continuously in demand internationally and has even managed an appearance on Strictly Come Dancing. The pair will perform what is bound to be a popular programme , including excerpts from Stravinsky’s The Firebird, Copland’s El Salon Mexico and the Piaf favourite, La Vie En Rose.
For more information, including tickets and membership of the Peak Music Society, go to www.peakmusic society.org.uk
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