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© Wendover Music
reg charity no: 1072921
president : Ian Partridge CBE
Wendover Music was started in 1995, as an arts development project from St Mary's Church Wendover and the people of Wendover in partnership with Aylesbury Vale Leisure Services. There are four concerts each year, in April, May, June and July, with artists of both national and international acclaim. Concerts take place at St Mary's Church, Wendover, well known for its superb natural acoustics and recently (and wonderfully) refurbished.
April 13th 2013, 7.30pmSTEPHEN
HOUGH
[piano]  Romantic
and virtuoso works by Chopin, Schumann, Brahms and Stephen Hough himself.
Named by The Economist as one of 20 Living Polymaths, British pianist Stephen Hough is a rare renaissance man of our time. Over the course of a long and distinguished career as one of the world's leading concert pianists, he has also excelled as a writer and composer. He combines an exceptional facility and tonal palette with a uniquely inquisitive musical personality, and his musical achievements have resulted in many awards and accolades for his concerts and a discography of more than 50 recordings.
May 18th 2013, 7.30pm THE BRODSKY
QUARTET
 The
'Wheel of 4Tunes': popular string quartets chosen by chance by the
players and audience. Since its formation in 1972 the Brodsky Quartet has performed over 2000 concerts on the major stages of the world and released more than 50 recordings. A natural curiosity and insatiable desire to explore has propelled the group in many artistic directions and continues to ensure them not only a place at the very forefront of the international chamber music scene but also a rich and varied musical existence. Their energy and craftsmanship have attracted numerous awards and accolades worldwide, while ongoing educational work provides a vehicle for passing on experience and staying in touch with the next generation.
June 08th 2013, 7.30pmTASMIN LITTLE
[violin] MARTIN ROSCOE [piano]  The
programme includes much loved sonatas by Mozart, Faure, Ravel and
Franck. Tasmin has played with many of the world's greatest orchestras in a career that has taken her to every continent. In addition to her regular solo performances, she has played and directed orchestras such as the Royal Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, London Mozart Players, English Chamber Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber, European Union Chamber Orchestra and Britten Sinfonia. Tasmin remains ever popular and in 2011 made her seventeenth appearance at the BBC Proms. Last year Tasmin was appointed an OBE in the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours List, for services to music.
July 06th 2013, 7.30pmTHE HILLIARD
ENSEMBLE
[vocal ensemble]  Highlights
of 40 years of music making with choral favourites from across the
ages. Unrivalled for its formidable reputation in the fields of both early and new music, The Hilliard is one of the world's finest vocal chamber groups. Its distinctive style and highly developed musicianship engage the listener as much in medieval and renaissance repertoire as in works specially written by living composers.
season
tickets and individual concert tickets
will be available from 04th February 2013Tickets will be available from the following :- Wendover Tourist
OfficeAylesbury Tourist
Information OfficePrinces Risborough
Tourist Information Office
Our generous
programme sponsor this year is Alistair Moir from Wendover
Financial Ltd, SMP House, South Street, Wendover, HP22
6EF. Please call in for advice on investments, mortgages and pensions.Authorized and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.  Please visit the Wendover Financial web site, or call on (01296) 620533.
This
year's Annual General Meeting took place on Saturday 02nd March
2012, 7.30pm. at St Mary's Church, Wendover. Following the
formal business, a musical recital was given by various brass groups
from Aylesbury Music Centre; nibbles, wine and chit chat followed.
local
web links with a musical interest.
The beautiful parish church of St Mary's has been at the centre of community life in Wendover since the thirteenth century. Today it continues to be a place where music, beauty, faith and life meet and take the heritage of the past to future generations. It has been recently refurbished. Please visit the St Mary's Church web site. |
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For further details of each concert or of the season's concerts, please
ring (01296) 615753.
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POETRY
EXTRA |
Saturday, April 27th 2013, 7.30pm at St Mary's ChurchJOHN HEGLEY, MICHAEL HOROVITZ & GEORGE CHOPPING
tickets £10 (£1 children), available from Wendover Clock Tower (Tourist Centre) or (01296) 615753
JOHN HEGLEY cut his teeth on the streets of Hull and London in the 1970s
and 1980s and fronted The Popticians, with whom he recorded for John Peel.
He is a frequent performer on stage, TV and radio, has published ten books
of verse and prose pieces, two CDs and one mug, and is an extremely popular
Edinburgh Festival regular. He is noted for his exploration of such diverse
topics as dog hair, potatoes, and the misery of life.
GEORGE CHOPPING is customer focused, hard working, honest and flexible
in his approach to duties. He has a full driving license adorned with
endorsements, a Welcome Host Certificate, seven GCSE's at grade C, congenital
heart disease, Crohn's Disease and at times very low self esteem. His
first collection, Living With Crohn's, was published recently.
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JAZZ
EXTRA |
Saturday October 19th 2013, 7.30pm at St Mary's ChurchCHRISTIAN GARRICK & JOHN ETHERIDGE
tickets £10 (£1 children), available from Wendover Clock Tower (Tourist Centre) or (01296) 615753
CHRIS
GARRICK is the world's leading jazz violinist and is at home on the
South Bank as a soloist or in a seedy jazz club; Nigel Kennedy is his
biggest fan. With John Etheridge, who tours as a duo regularly with
classical guitarist John WIlliams and who played with Stephane Grappelli
for five years in the 1970s, they recreate the famous Grappelli and
Django Reinhardt sound as well as performing their own compositions.
20th March 2013