Forthcoming concerts

Saturday 13 February 2010

Choral Evensong

The Choir of St Paul's Cathedral
Andrew Carwood, conductor

Responses: Spicer
Introit: Notre Père - Duruflé
Canticles: Jesus Service - Mathias
Psalm: 139
Anthem: Deus portus pacis - Cecilia McDowall
Hymn 114

Saturday 20 February 2010

Lunchtime Recital

Michel Sedgwick, trumpet, Guy Llewellyn, horn,
Christopher Lawrence, tuba


Programme to include works by:
Trygve Madsen: Divertimento for Horn, Tuba and Piano Op.43
Cecilia McDowall: The Night Trumpeter
Paul Dukas: Villanelle
Trygve Madsen: The Mysterious Barricades II (Op.82)

Sunday 28 February 2010

Fluitkwartet

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall Hotfoot

Saturday 6 March 2010

Vocal Sensations

Royal Scottish National Orchestra, members of the RSNO Chorus and massed choirs from North East Scotland
David Danzmayr, conductor (RSNO assistant conductor)

Orff: O Fortuna from Carmina Burana
Parry: Blest Pair of Sirens
Cecilia McDowall: After the Rain (premiere)
Verdi: Va pensiero from Nabucco
Verdi: Gloria all'Egitto, ad Iside from Aida

Come and enjoy a wonderful hour-long performance of some of the greatest vocal music ever written. Performed by the RSNO Chorus together with local singers and accompanied by the RSNO, this is sure to be an uplifting and fitting conclusion to the Orchestra’s week in the Aberdeen area.

A suitable job for a woman

The Meljon Singers
Janette Ruocco, conductor

programme to include works by:
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Regina
Libby Larsen
Miriam Mackie
Janette Ruocco
Judith Weir

Saturday 13 March 2010

Fluitkwartet Confour

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Hotfoot

Bushey Symphony Orchestra 35th Anniversary Season

Anna Beryl, cello
Hannah Marcinowicz, saxophone
Choir of Parmiter's School, Garston
Bushey Symphony Orchestra
George Vass, conductor

Mozart: Symphony No 32 in G, K318
Tarik O'Regan: And there was a great calm
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 33
Michael Torke: Saxophone Concerto
Cecilia McDowall: Lonely Hearts
Bizet: Suite - Jeux d'Enfants

Friday 19 March 2010

Con Anima
Paul Mealor, conductor

programme to include:
music by Orlando Gibbons
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Regina, Ave Maria, Regina Caeli

Sunday 21 March 2010

City of Canterbury Chamber Choir
George Vass conductor
Edward Kemp-Luck organ

William Walton: Jubilate Deo
Tarik O’Regan: Two Motets from 'Sequence from St Wulfstan'
Cecilia McDowall: Ad lucem: a canticle of light
Gerald Finzi: Lo, the full final Sacrifice, Op 26
Benjamin Britten: Festival Te Deum, Op 32
Rihards Dubra: Hail, Queen of Heaven
John Rutter: Ave Maria
Gabriel Jackson: Song (I gaze upon you)
Edward Elgar: Give unto the Lord, Op 74

Oakham Chamber Choir
Peter Davis, conductor

Mozart Requiem
programme also to include:
Philip Moore: Bonhoeffer motets
Cecilia McDowall Ave maris stella

Thursday 25 March 2010

Bude Music Society

English Piano Trio

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: The Colour of Blossoms

London Concord Singers,
Malcolm Cottle, conductor

Meyerbeer: Psalm 91
Cecilia McDowall: I know that my redeemer liveth Cecilia McDowall: Deus qui claro lumine
Romuald Twardowski: O Salutaris Hostia
Romuald Twardowski: Lauda Sion
Weelkes: When David heard
Tomkins: When David Heard
Ramsey: When David Heard
Eric Whitacre: When David heard
Kodály: Jésus és a Kufárok (Jesus and the Traders)

Thursday 15 April 2010

Leith Hill Musical Festival 2010

Leith Hill Music Festival
The first day of the 2010 Festival features Division 2 choirs (Buckland and Betchworth, Mickleham, Shalford, Beare Green and Newdigate) under the direction of Festival Conductor Brian Kay

Schubert: Mass in C
Handel: The King Shall Rejoice
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Maris Stella

Music in the Village

Lendvai String Trio

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Cliff Fall (world premiere)

Saturday 17 April 2010

Concordia Voices and
Ensemble Adastra
Neil Ferris, conductor

Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella
Peteris Vasks: Pater noster
Handel: Dixit dominus

Sunday 18 April 2010

Afternoon concert

Peter Fisher (vln) and Peter Hewitt (pno)

programme to include:
Mozart: Sonata K304
Cecilia McDowall: Strange violin, are you following me?
Brahms: Op 100

Saturday 8 May 2010

Ambleside and District Choral Society
Fiona Weakley, soprano
Anne-Marie Kerr, contralto
South Cumbria Ensemble
Wendy Cann, leader
John Cooper Green, conductor

Handel: Foundling Hospital Anthem
(including the "Hallelujah" chorus)
Cecilia McDowall: Magnificat
Cecilia McDowall: Ave Maris Stella
Vivaldi: Gloria

Tuesday 18 May 2010

Lendvai String Trio

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Cliff Fall (second performance)

Saturday 19 June 2010

Epsom Choral Society
Robin Kimber conductor
Marion Lea accompanist

Will Todd: Mass in Blue
Lauridsen: Nocturnes
Cecilia McDowall: Fancy of Folk Songs
John Rutter: Madrigals

Sunday 7 February 2010

Afternoon Concert

Haruko Motohashi, violin, Masachi Nishiyama, piano

Elgar: Idylle Op.4 No.1
Elgar: Pastourelle Op.4 No.2
Elgar: Virelai Op.4 No.3
Cecilia McDowall: Strange Violin, are you following me?
Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.4 Op.23 in A minor
Handel: Violin Sonata No.5 in G minor Op.1 No.10
Schubert: Rondo Brilliante

Thursday 28 January 2010

Lunchtime concert

Sheida Davis (cello) Helen Reid (piano)

programme to include:
Beethoven, Prokofiev, Martinu and
Cecilia McDowall: Falling Angels

Wednesday 27 January 2010

Lunchtime concert

Sheida Davis (cello) Helen Reid (piano)

programme to include:
Beethoven, Prokofiev, Martinu and
Cecilia McDowall: Falling Angels

Sunday 24 January 2010

When Poetry Sings

Colorado Conductor's Chorus
Lawrence Kaptein, conductor
Grace Asquith, accompanist

Mendelssohn: Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt
Cecilia McDowall: Regina caeli
Handel: Haste thee, nymph (L’Allegro)
Aaron Copland: Lark
Morten Lauridsen: Mid-Winter Songs
Ned Rorem: Tears (From an Unknown Past)
Antonio Estevez: Mata del anima sola

Newark Brass Festival 2010

Michael Buchanan (trombone) Helen Reid (piano)

programme to include the premiere of:
Cecilia McDowall: Skerry and Fjord
(a Newark Brass Festival commission for Michael Buchanan, the overall winner of the Newark Brass Festival 2009)
Newark Town Band with Paul Archibald
Trio D'art: Paul Archibald (trumpet) John Kenny (trombone) Helen Reid (piano)

John Reeman: Four Miniatures for trumpet, trombone and piano
Cecilia McDowall: Le temps viendra

The programme will be hosted by Judy Theobold from BBC Radio Lincolnshire

Blenheim Concerts (first of the new season)

Quintabile, brass quintet

programme to include:
Tylman Susato arr John Iveson: Renaissance Dances
Werner Pirchner: L'Homme au marteau dans la poche
George Frederick Handel: arr Walter BarnesLargo from Xerses
Kerry Turner: Ricochet for Brass Quintet
Malcolm Arnold: Quintet For Brass Op.73
Cecilia McDowall: Bells in the Air
Joseph Horovitz: Music Hall Suite
Lou Pollack arr Paul Nagle:That's a Plenty!

Saturday 23 January 2010

Postponed:
John Aley, trumpet, Martha Fischer, piano

The programme features:
Giuseppe Tartini: Sonata for piccolo trumpet and harpsichord
Robert Russell Bennett: Rose Variations for trumpet and piano
Cecilia McDowall: Framed for trumpet and piano (American premiere)
John Stevens: Sonata for trumpet and piano

When Poetry Sings

Colorado Conductor's Chorus
Lawrence Kaptein, conductor
Grace Asquith, accompanist

Mendelssohn: Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt
Cecilia McDowall: Regina caeli
Handel: Haste thee, nymph (L’Allegro)
Aaron Copland: Lark
Morten Lauridsen: Mid-Winter Songs
Ned Rorem: Tears (From an Unknown Past)
Antonio Estevez: Mata del anima sola (1916-88)

The Colorado Conductors’ Chorus was founded in the Fall of 2008 by an enthusiastic group of Denver-area choral professionals interested in rehearsing and performing quality choral music at a high artistic level.

Friday 22 January 2010

Haydn Reloaded

Matthew Schellhorn, piano

performs miniatures on Haydn’s name by Debussy, Widor, d'Indy, Dukas, Ravel, Hahn,
and
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Tim Watts, Michael Zev Gordon, Jeremy Thurlow, Colin Riley, Cecilia McDowall, plus Haydn

Thursday 24 December 2009

Christmas Eve

Canterbury Choir
Garmon Ashby, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est
with brass quintet, percussion and organ

Christmas Eve

St Philp's Singers
Garmon Ashby, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est
with brass quintet, percussion and organ

Tuesday 22 December 2009

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Monday 21 December 2009

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Sunday 20 December 2009

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Saturday 19 December 2009

Family Christmas Concert

Congleton Choral Society
Polyphonic Brass
Nicholas Concannon, conductor

Christus Natus Est - A Cantata for Christmas - programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est, a cantata for Christmas
Extracts from Messiah
Community carols for audience and choir

Christmas Concert

Renaissance Voices
Harold Stover, conductor

This year’s program features music from the Renaissance by Byrd, Palestrina, and Guerrero; 20th Century English classics by Vaughan Williams, Howells, and Parry; the Maine premiere of a new work by Cecilia McDowall: Regina caeli; traditional carols and, of course, seasonal readings shared by members of Renaissance Voices.

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Arnside Choral Society
Tracie Penwarden, soprano
Ian Allan, conductor

programme to include:
Bob Chilcott: A Little Jazz Mass
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est

Christmas by Candlelight

Surrey Brass
Levon Parikian, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

a festive programme of seasonal music, words and song.

Epworth Choir Charity Christmas Concert

Epworth Choir
Katherine Dienes-Williams, guest conductor (Organist and Master of the Choristers, Guildford Cathedral),
organ and brass

programme to include:
Carols Old and New, featuring
John Rutter: Jesus Child,
Joy to the World
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est a cantata for Christmas)

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale
Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Friday 18 December 2009

Home for the Holidays

Phoenix Chorale, Charles Bruffy, conductor
Sonoran Brass Quintet

programme to include:
Ola Gjeilo: Alleluia; O Magnum Mysterium (premiere)
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Arvo Pärt: Seven Magnificat Antiphons
and Christmas carols

Monday 14 December 2009

Taunton’s College Choir, Community Choir and Orchestra
Jane Higgins, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella

Sunday 13 December 2009

Montrose & Distrct Choral Society
Ralph Jamieson, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est, a cantata for Christmas

Saturday 12 December 2009

Christmas Concert 2009

Sittingbourne Orpheus Choral Society
Andrew Lowen, conductor

For 2009 our Christmas Concert will be accompanied by a brass group. It will contain our usual mix of favourites and audience carols (including Andrew's arrangement of Bob Chilcott's Nova Nova); and this year will include works for a children's choir (Cecilia McDowall's Christmas Cantata, Christus Natus Est, and John Rutter's Donkey Carol).

This Worldes Joie

St Albans Chamber Choir
John Gibbons, conductor

Mendelssohn: Im Advent
Nicholas Hare: Welcome Redemption's Dawn
Arnold Bax: This Worldes Joie
Richard Pygott (died 1552): Quid petis, 0 fili?
Arnold Bax: I sing of a maiden that is makeless
John Gibbons: Angel's Message
Cecilia McDowall: Annunciation
Paul Spicer: How love bleeds (Four Carols for Dark Times)
Silent night arr. John Gibbons

Glenrothes Choral Society Christmas Concert

Glenrothes Choral Society

Christmas music old and new. Includes -
Pergolesi: Magnificat
Cecilia McDowall: Christus Natus Est
Durante and many more old favourites.

Friday 11 December 2009

Christmas Concert

Giggleswick School Choir
Darren Everhart, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

Thursday 10 December 2009

Giggleswick School Choir
Darren Everhart, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Christus natus est

Monday 7 December 2009

Lunchtime concert

The Backman Trio
Frida Backman, violin
Ruth Beedham, cello
Marcus Andrews, piano

John Ireland: Phantasie Trio
Cecilia McDowall: The Colour of Blossoms
Felix Mendelssohn: Trio No. 2 in C minor

Saturday 5 December 2009

Winter concert

The Addison Singers
David Wordsworth, conductor

programme to include;
Cecilia McDowall: Magnificat

Music for a Winter's Evening

Cantemus, Alan Moore, conductor

programme to include works by Poulenc, Kenneth Leighton, Schütz, Victoria, Bach, Lassus,
Cecilia McDowall, Britten and Darke

Sunday 29 November 2009

Advent Service of Lessons and Carols

Canto Deo Chamber Choir
Jonathan Brown, conductor

service to include;
Cecilia McDowall: Annunciation

Saturday 28 November 2009

Piano 40:
2 pianos, 4 pianists, 40 digits

programme to include:
Charles Camilleri: Divertimento
Edmund Joliffe: Carnival
Cecilia McDowall: Piano Forty
Andrew Peggie: Octo-Pagainni
Brian Chapple: Burlesque
Smetana: Rondo
Moscheles: Grand Duo

Advent Vigil

Canto Deo Chamber Choir
Jonathan Brown, conductor

programme to include:
Cecilia McDowall: Annunciation

Sunday 22 November 2009

Woking Concert Society

Helen Reid, piano

Alexander Skryabin: Six Preludes from Op. 11
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the Keyboard
Robert Schumann: Faschingswank aus Wien Op. 26
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata in A flat Op. 110
Claude Debussy: Nocturne; L'Île Joyeuse

Wednesday 18 November 2009

Festival of St. Cecilia, Musicians Benevolent Fund

The Choirs of St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral
Andrew Carwood, Director of Music at St Paul's Cathedral

Festival service to include the
Musicians Benevolent Fund new anthem:
Cecilia McDowall: Deus, portus pacis
(world premiere)

Tuesday 17 November 2009

Piano Trio Society

English Piano Trio

programme to include
Cecilia McDowall: The Colour of Blossoms

Sunday 15 November 2009

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Concert Choir
Philip Copeland, conductor


programme to include:
William Byrd: Haec Dies
Zoltan Kodaly: Esti dal
Vytautas Miškinis, Toivo Tuula,Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Cecilia McDowall: Regina Caeli
a diverse programme of music from five centuries and five nations

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Concert Choir
Philip Copeland, conductor

programme to include:
William Byrd: Haec Dies
Zoltan Kodaly: Esti dal
Vytautas Miškinis, Toivo Tuula,Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
Cecilia McDowall: Regina Caeli
a diverse programme of music from five centuries and five nations

Friday 13 November 2009

Derby Chamber Music

Helen Reid, piano

Janacek: In the Mists
Cecilia McDowall: Colour is the Keyboard
Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op.26 (Viennese Carnival)
Beethoven: Sonata in A flat, Op.110
Debussy: Nocturne in D flat
Debussy: L’isle Joyeuse

Thursday 12 November 2009

Chaconne Brass 25th Anniversary Concert

Chaconne Brass
Avirbhav Verma

Dowland: Lute songs (arr Chaconne and Matthew Allsop)
Emily White: Tripudium
Matthew Allsop: Shaping the Invisible, for quintet and electro-acoustic tape
Cecilia McDowall: Tango Oscuro
Jacob van Eyck (arr Torbjorn Hultmark): Doen Daphne d’over schoone Maeght
Edward Longstaff: Symphony for Brass
Torbjörn Hultmark: A Lullaby, for quintet and electro-acoustic tape (BBC Commission, World Première)
Mark Kesel: Nachna, for quintet and tabla
Torbjörn Hultmark: An Iberian Draft (after the 2nd movement of Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez)
Plus arrangements and improvisations with tabla and guitar

To be broadcast on BBC Hear and Now

Cambridge Festival

Matthew Schellhorn, piano
John McMunn, tenor
Alec Frank-Gemmill, horn

Britten: Still falls the rain, for tenor, horn and piano
Britten: Now sleeps the Crimson Petal, for tenor, horn and piano
Haydn: Variations in F minor, for piano
Jeremy Thurlow: Unbidden Visions, for tenor, horn and piano (world premiere)
Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Michael Zev Gordon, Cecilia McDowall, Colin Riley, Jeremy Thurlow, Tim Watts: Homage to Haydn, for piano (world premiere)
Mendelssohn: Selected songs for tenor and piano
Schubert: Auf dem Strom, for tenor, horn and piano

Wednesday 11 November 2009

Music for Remembrance Day

Oakham Chamber Choir
Peter Davis, conductor

programme to include:
Handel: De torrente in via bibet (Dixit Dominus)
Angus McPhee: Agnus Dei
Cecilia McDowall: Ave maris stella

Midday Music

The Backman Trio
Frida Backman, violin
Ruth Beedham, cello
Marcus Andrews, piano

John Ireland: Phantasie Trio
Cecilia McDowall: The Colour of Blossoms
Felix Mendelssohn: Trio No. 2 in C minor

Wednesday 4 November 2009

Haydn Anniversary Concert

Estherhazy Singers of London
Daniel Moult, organ
Esther Jones, conductor

Haydn: Creation Mass
Cecilia McDowall: Thy voice, o Harmony, is divine (London premiere)
Motets by Bruckner and Mendelssohn

Sunday 1 November 2009

The 2009 British Horn Festival

Horns Aloud

Cecilia McDowall: new work for horn quartet, Nocturne:
1. Distance and Moon
2. Under the brim of his hat

Early evening recital

Haruko Motohashi, violin, Masachi Nishiyama, piano

Schubert: Rondo Brilliante
Cecilia McDowall: Strange Violin, are you following me?
Britten: Three pieces from the Suite op.6
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in G Major Op.96, no.10

Saturday 31 October 2009

Rebecca Rudge, soprano,
Andrew Rupp, baritone
St Albans Choral Society
Orchestra Nova
George Vass, conductor

Haydn: Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo in B flat (Kleine Orgelmesse)
Cecilia McDowall Ad Lucem - A Canticle of Light
Vasks: Dona nobis pacem
Other choral works by Mozart

Friday 30 October 2009

Rebecca Rudge, soprano,
Andrew Rupp, baritone
St Albans Choral Society
Orchestra Nova
George Vass, conductor

Haydn: Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo in B flat (Kleine Orgelmesse)
Cecilia McDowall Ad Lucem - A Canticle of Light
Vasks: Dona nobis pacem
Other choral works by Mozart

Saturday 24 October 2009

Hoddesdon Music Society

Helen Reid, piano

Scriabin: Six Preludes
Cecilia McDowall: Colour in the Keyboard Schumann: Carnival Jest
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major Debussy: L'Isle Joyeuse

Meditations

Rebecca Rudge, soprano, Andrew Rupp, baritone
St Albans Choral Society
Orchestra Nova
George Vass, conductor

Mozart: Divertimento in F, K138
Cecilia McDowall: Ad Lucem - A Canticle of Light (commissioned by Alan McGlynn for the St Albans Choral Society - world premiere).
Haydn: Missa Brevis in B flat, 'Little Organ Mass
Vasks: Dona nobis pacem
Debussy: Danse sacrée et danse profane
Finzi: In terra pax, Op 38

Sunday 18 October 2009

Canterbury Festival

City of Canterbury Chamber Choir
Edward Kemp-Luck, organ
George Vass, conductor

Bach: O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, BWV118
Tarik O’Regan: Three Motets from Sequence for St Wulfstan
Brahms: Geistliches Lied, Op 30
Cecilia McDowall: I know that my Redeemer liveth
Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden Bruckner: Three Motets (Ave Maria,Locus iste, Christus factus est)
Joe Duddell: The Realside
Mozart Motet: Ave verum corpus, K618
John McCabe: The Evening Watch
Bach: Motet: Lobet den Herrn, BWV230

Afternoon concert

Martin Smith, violin
Sarah Down, piano

Janacek: Sonata for violin and piano
Cecilia McDowall: Strange Violin
Brahms: Violin Sonata no 1 in G Major, Op.78

Saturday 17 October 2009

Little Missenden Festival of Music and the Arts

James Kreiling, piano

David Matthews: Two Dionysus Dithyrambs op94
John McCabe: Tenebrae
Cecilia McDowall: Shades of Solace; Vespers in Venice
Maurice Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit

Little Missenden Festival of Music and the Arts; still thriving in its 50th anniversary year. The 50th Festival takes place from 9th to 18th October, 2009.

Thursday 15 October 2009

80th Anniversary Season - Gloucester Music Society

Zephyr
A programme to celebrates the 70th birthday of John McCabe and the centenary of the birth of Gilbert Vinter.

Holst: Wind Quintet Op 14 in Ab major
Cecilia McDowall: Winter Music
Paul Patterson: Westerly Winds Op 84
Gilbert Vinter: Two Miniatures
John McCabe: Postcards for Wind Quintet
Malcolm Arnold: Divertimento for Flute, Oboe and Clarinet
Norman Hallam: Dance Suite