Join us for Howdenshire Music's fifth lunchtime concert of the year featuring the award-winning Trio Kagura! Kanako Mizuno (piano) Pijus Jonuas (violin) Yuuki Bouterey-Ishido (cello) Programme Haydn Piano Trio No. 44 in E major, Hob. XV/28 Arvo Prt Mozart-Adagio Ravel Piano Trio in A minor Trio Kagura is an exciting new Manchester-based piano trio. The name Kagura is taken from the Japanese word for ritual music and dance that is performed to bring joy and peace to the community. The trio has recently been selected for the prestigious 2024-25 Britten Pears Young Artist Programme. Kanako Mizunois a winner of the Tokyo Piano Competition and numerous other international competitions. She obtained her BMus from the Toho Gakuen School of Music before moving to the UK, where she gained a scholarship to study at the Royal Northern College of Music. She graduated with a Professional Diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in 2020. Pijus Jonuas is a Lithuanian violinist from Vilnius. A keen chamber musician and teacher, he studied at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and at the Royal Northern College of Music. Pijus has collaborated with such artists as Magnus Johnston, Guy Johnston, John Ryan and Timothy Ridout. In 2019 Pijus joined the Elmore Quartet and in 2021 was appointed as a Junior Fellow in chamber music with the Elmore Quartet at The Royal Northern College of Music. Yuuki Bouterey-Ishido is a New Zealand-born cellist and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music. He has performed at major festivals around the world and has toured Europe extensively over three years as a member of the Menuhin Academy Soloists under the direction of Maxim Vengerov. He was the winner of the 2018 Sir John Barbirolli Cello Prize and has recently been appointed as Sub-Principal Cello of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. +++PLEASE NOTE+++ Advance booking for this concert is optional but recommended. For concert and general enquiries, please email [email protected] or telephone Steven Goulden on 07743 448123.

Join us for Howdenshire Music's sixth lunchtime concert of the year, featuring BBC New Generation Artist Hugh Cutting and award-winning pianist George Ireland! "The fast-rising countertenor Hugh Cutting undoubtedly has an exceptional voice: lustrous and rounded, with power in reserve and immaculate intonation" The Times Spectacular, sensitive and vivid accompaniment The Latest Programme: MORPHEUS Burgon This Lunar Beauty Cavalli Erne e solinghe cime from La Calisto Purcell One charming night from The Fairy Queen Britten My gentle Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream Howells Goddess of Night Britten I know a bank from A Midsummer Night's Dream Schubert Erlknig Rodney Bennett 'Baby baby from Songs Before Sleep Britten This is thy negligence from A Midsummer Night's Dream Debussy Chansons de Bilitis Rodney Bennett Dream Songs Bolcom Song of Black Max Hugh Cutting is a graduate of the Royal College of Music where he was a member of the International Opera Studio. On graduating, he was awarded the Tagore Gold Medal, presented by King Charles III. In the autumn of 2021, Hugh became the first countertenor to win the Kathleen Ferrier Award and to become a BBC New Generation Artist (2022-24). During his first professional season in 2022/23 Hugh made his debut at Opernhaus Zrich singing Monteverdi, made his debut at Wigmore Hall, and sang Bach's St Matthew Passion at Carnegie Hall with Bernard Labadie and the Orchestra of St. Luke's, marking his U.S. debut. In the 2024/25 season he makes his debut at La Scala Milan singing Corindo in Cesti's Orontea, makes his U.S. opera debut in the title role of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, his Australian debut singing Tolomeo in Giulio Cesare for Pinchgut Opera and Unulfo in Handel's Rodelinda at the Garsington Festival. George Ireland is in demand as a recital partner with some of the finest singers of his generation. From a working-class, non-musical home, he began to play the piano from scratch, self-taught at the age of 14. He is now 29 and recently graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Music. George accompanied soprano Oksana Lepskas winning recitals at the 2022 National Mozart Competition in London, and the Kathleen Ferrier Award-winning recitals of countertenor Hugh Cutting and soprano Jessica Cale in 2021 and 2020. With Hugh Cutting he has enjoyed live performances on Radio 3s In Tune, recording at BBCs Maida Vale Studios, a greatly-acclaimed recital at the Brighton Festival and a recital on the harpsichord at the Theatre Grvin in Paris. +++PLEASE NOTE+++ Advance booking for this concert is optional but recommended. For concert and general enquiries, please email [email protected] or telephone Steven Goulden on 07743 448123.

Join us for Howdenshire Music's seventh lunchtime concert of the year. We are delighted to welcome harpist Gabriella Jones back to Howden, by popular demand, after her incredible performance for us in 2023! One of the most exciting young musicians to emerge on the concert scene in recent years The Guardian Programme Caroline Lizotte La Madone Op. 43 Judith Weir Fragile Deborah Pritchard Seraphim Hlne Breschand Minotaure Henriette Reni Deuxime Ballade Gabriella Jones is an established concert harpist with a passion for thoughtful programming and a commitment to nuanced performance. She has performed at many prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre. A graduate of Trinity Laban Conservatoire, Gabriella was the winner of the City Livery Club Music Prize 2018, the John Marson Harp Prize 2017 and fourth prize-winner at the 2023 Hong Kong International Harp Competition Gabriella has a passion for the role of the harp within the contemporary music space. She recently premiered an adaptation of Fragile by Master of the Kings Music Judith Weir CBE. A notable highlight in 2022 was a special performance of Sally Beamishs solo harp work Awuya for the composers 60th Birthday Celebration at The Royal Over-Seas League Hall. Beyond chamber music, Gabriella regularly plays the harp in orchestras across the UK, with highlights including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Glyndebourne Opera, and Opera North. +++PLEASE NOTE+++ Advance booking for this concert is optional but recommended. For concert and general enquiries, please email [email protected] or telephone Steven Goulden on 07743 448123.

Join us for an unmissable free gala afternoon concert with one of Britain's best-loved singers, Roderick Williams, and Grammy award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn! An English Winterreise Schubert's Winterreise is one of the most powerful and brilliant song cycles ever written. Here, it is interspersed with a sequence of songs by English composers including Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Quilter, Parry, Britten and Gurney, which mirror and illuminate Schubert's epic winter's journey. Programme Gute Nacht Good night The Vagabond Ralph Vaughan Williams (Stevenson) Die Wetterfahne The Weathervane Blow, blow, thou winter wind Roger Quilter (Shakespeare) Gefrorne Trnen Frozen tears Weep you no more Madeleine Dring (anon) Erstarrung Numbness At Middle-field Gate in February Gerald Finzi (Hardy) Der Lindenbaum The linden tree Linden Lea Ralph Vaughan Williams (Barnes) Wasserflut Torrent Tears, idle tears Frank Bridge (Tennyson) Auf dem Flusse On the stream Nightfall in winter Hubert Parry (Mitchell) Rckblick Backward glance On the Downs Ivor Gurney (Masefield) Irrlicht Will-o-the-wisp In the Minds Eye Gerald Finzi (Hardy) Rast Resting place Lights Out Ivor Gurney (Thomas) Frhlingstraum Springs dream A Song of Enchantment Ina Boyle (de la Mare) Einsamkeit Solitude The folly of being comforted Ivor Gurney (Yeats) INTERVAL - refreshments available Die Post The mail-coach Midnight on the Great Western Benjamin Britten (Hardy) Der greise Kopf The hoary head The Angel Roderick Williams (Blake) Die Krhe The crow Written on terrestrial things Judith Weir (Hardy) Letzte Hoffnung Last hope The too short time Gerald Finzi (Hardy) Im Dorfe In the village Come unto these yellow sands - Michael Tippett (Shakespeare) Der strmische Morgen The stormy morning The Wind and the Rain Elizabeth Maconchy (Shakespeare) Tuschung Illusion Echo - Doreen Carwithen (de la Mare) Der Wegweiser The signpost Whither must I wander? Ralph Vaughan Williams (Stevenson) Das Wirtshaus The inn In a churchyard Gerald Finzi (Hardy) Mut Courage The stormy evening Humphrey Proctor-Gregg (Stevenson) Die Nebensonnen The mock suns Waiting Both - Gerald Finzi (Hardy) Der Leiermann The hurdy-gurdy player Peace on Earth Errollyn Wallen (Wallen) Roderick Williams is one of the most sought-after baritones of his generation with a wide repertoire spanning baroque to contemporary. He enjoys relationships with all the major UK and European opera houses also performs regularly with leading conductors and orchestras throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. Festival appearances include the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Melbourne. As a recitalist he is in demand around the world and appears regularly at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw and Musikverein and at song festivals including Leeds Lieder, Oxford International Song and Ludlow English Song. Roderick Williams was awarded an OBE in June 2017 and was Artist in Residence with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra from 2020-22, Artist in Residence at the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival and Singer in Residence at Music in the Round. He was also one of the featured soloists at the coronation of King Charles III in 2023. As a composer he has had works premired at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the Purcell Room and on national radio. In 2016 he won Best Choral Composition at the British Composer Awards and from 2022/23 he holds the position of Composer in Association of the BBC Singers. Christopher Glynn is an award-winning pianist and accompanist, praised for his breathtaking sensitivity (Gramophone), irrepressible energy, wit and finesse (The Guardian), a perfect fusion of voice and piano (BBC Music Magazine) and as an inspired programmer (The Times). He is Artistic Director of the Ryedale Festival, programming around sixty events each year in beautiful and historic venues across North Yorkshire. Chris read music at New College, Oxford and studied piano with John Streets in France and Malcolm Martineau at the Royal Academy of Music, where he now teaches. He has made many CD recordings and is regularly heard on BBC Radio 3. An interest in bringing classical song to a wider audience led Chris to commission Jeremy Sams to create new English translations of Schuberts song cycles which have been recorded for Signum Records as well as Wolf Italian Songbook. Recent and future plans include recitals with Roderick Williams, Claire Booth and Ian Bostridge, further collaborations with Jeremy Sams (Schumann songs), CD recordings with Nicky Spence, Kathryn Rudge, Claire Booth, Roderick Williams and The Sixteen, performances at the Spitalfields, Lammermuir, Oxford Lieder, Leeds Lieder and Bath festivals, leading masterclasses for the Britten Pears School, a tour of Wolfs Italian Songbook, and embarking on a project with Rachel Podger to perform and record Mozart and Beethovens Violin Sonatas as well as many appearances at the Wigmore Hall and the Concertgebouw. +++PLEASE NOTE+++ Booking for this concert is strongly recommended. For concert and general enquiries, please email [email protected] or telephone Steven Goulden on 07743 448123.

Join us for Howdenshire Music's penultimate lunchtime concert of the year, featuring the celebrated Schiller-Humphreys piano duo! "Schiller and Humphreys have been playing together for over thirty years and it shows - their collaboration at the keyboard is beautifully synchronized right up to the last cadence" BBC Classical Review "Playing of fastidious poetry and elegance" Daily Telegraph Programme Mozart Sonata in D major, K.381 Schubert Variations on an Original Theme in A-Flat Major, D.813 Ravel 'Mother Goose' Suite Poulenc Sonata for Piano Four Hands Dvok Three Slavonic Dances Allan Schiller is widely regarded as one of the UK's finest pianists. Born in Leeds he studied initially with Fanny Waterman making his debut at the age of ten in a Mozart concerto with the Halle Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli. He rapidly established a reputation as one of the most exciting pianists of his generation with solo appearances throughout the country and concerto performances with all the major UK orchestras and the BBC Symphony Orchestras, working with a number of distinguished conductors including Sir George Solti, Bernard Haitink, Norman del Mar, Sir Malcolm Sargent and Sir Charles Mackerras. Allan has a particular reputation as a Mozart player 'par excellence'. He has made countless broadcasts for BBC Radio 3 and recorded a number of highly regarded CDs including Mozart concerti with Sir Charles Mackerras and Elgar and Bridge piano quintets with the Coull String Quartet. John Humphreys was born in Liverpool and studied with Henryk Mierowski and later with Harold Rubens at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1967 he was awarded one of four scholarships by the Austrian Government to study in Vienna and on his return to this country made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1972 with Busoni's rarely heard 'Fantasia Contrappuntistica'. Since then he has appeared throughout the country as soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. In 1975 he performed the cycle of Mozart piano sonatas in London and elsewhere and has given many performances of Bach's 'Goldberg Variations'. John was Assistant Head of Keyboard Studies at Birmingham Conservatoire until 2009. Allan and John have been playing as a piano duo since 1972 and in 2022 celebrated their 50th anniversary with appearances throughout the UK, ending with a recital at Wigmore Hall. They gave another Wigmore Hall recital in 2024 and have recorded Busoni and Schubert for Naxos. In addition to BBC Radio 3 broadcasts the duo have played throughout the UK and, recently, in Iceland. +++PLEASE NOTE+++ Advance booking for this concert is optional but recommended. For concert and general enquiries, please email [email protected] or telephone Steven Goulden on 07743 448123.

Come along and observe renowned British baritone Roderick Williams OBE working with four talented young singers. A fascinating insight into the behind-the-scenes workings of professional music making! Free entry booking optional. You are also welcome just to turn up. 2:30pm-3:30pm Masterclasses 3:30pm-3:45pm Break 3:45pm-4:45pm Masterclasses Roderick Williams OBE is one of the most sought-after baritones of his generation with a wide repertoire spanning baroque to contemporary. He enjoys relationships with all the major UK and European opera houses also performs regularly with leading conductors and orchestras throughout the UK, Europe, North America and Australia. Festival appearances include the BBC Proms, Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh and Melbourne. As a recitalist he is in demand around the world and appears regularly at venues including the Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw and Musikverein and at song festivals including Leeds Lieder, Oxford International Song and Ludlow English Song. Roderick Williams was awarded an OBE in June 2017 and was Artist in Residence with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra from 2020-22, Artist in Residence at the 2023 Aldeburgh Festival and Singer in Residence at Music in the Round. He was also one of the featured soloists at the coronation of King Charles III in 2023. As a composer he has had works premired at Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the Purcell Room and on national radio. In 2016 he won Best Choral Composition at the British Composer Awards and from 2022/23 he holds the position of Composer in Association of the BBC Singers. +++PLEASE NOTE+++ Booking for this free masterclass event is optional you are also welcome just to turn up. For concert and general enquiries, please email [email protected] or telephone Steven Goulden on 07743 448123.

Join us for a thrilling finale to Howdenshire Music's 2025 concert season with the Maharaj/Degavino duo! N.B. Please note change to previously advertised performers. Programme to include: Bizet/Borne Fantaisie brillante on themes from 'Carmen' Saint-Sans Romance, Op. 37 Bart Howard Fly Me to the Moon Formed in 2017, the Maharaj/Degavino duo takes great pleasure in sharing flute and piano programmes across the UK. Some particular highlights have been performances at St Martin in the Fields, St James' Church, Piccadilly and Petworth Festival. They have enjoyed performing extensively for music societies and festivals, including as former Countess of Munster Recital Scheme artists, Tunnell Trust award winners and Park Lane Group artists. Meera Maharaj and Dominic Degavino both undertook postgraduate studies in London, at the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music and Drama respectively. Initially meeting during their undergraduate years at the Royal Northern College of Music, specifically during a big band project, they realised that they both share a love of jazz. In addition to that passion, they also enjoy contemporary classical repertoire and endeavour to incorporate these interests into their recitals. They are artists on the Live Music Now Scheme, and they were 2018/19 artists on the Wigmore Hall Chamber Tots scheme. Meera Maharaj enjoys a diverse performing career. Her duo with pianist Dominic Degavino has enjoyed much success, featuring as Countess of Munster Recital Scheme, Tunnell Trust and Park Lane Group artists. Competition successes include first prize in the Royal Academy of Music Flute Competition and Dutch International Flute Competition, plus the Sussex Prize in the 2023 Royal Overseas League competition. She graduated with Distinction in her Masters, studying with Michael Cox at the Royal Academy of Music. In 2017, she graduated from the Royal Northern College of Music, studying with Wissam Boustany and Laura Jellicoe. Meera has played at the Wigmore Hall, Kings Place and Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms. She is Co-principal flute of Chineke! Orchestra and recently appeared as a concerto soloist at Queen Elizabeth Hall. www.meeramaharaj.co.uk [http://www.meeramaharaj.co.uk] Pianist Dominic Degavino studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and at the Guildhall School, London. He has performed at venues such as the Wigmore Hall and Southbank Centre, London as a Park Lane Group artist, and at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester. Concerto appearances include performances with the Manchester Camerata and RNCM Symphony Orchestra. Dominic has achieved considerable competition success, including winning the RNCM Gold Medal Competition, and prizes at the Concours International de Piano d'Epinal, J.N. Hummel International Piano Competition, and the Royal Over-Seas League Competition. He also performed across the UK as a member of the Tillett Trust DEBUT and Countess of Munster Musical Trust recital schemes. Alongside work as a soloist, he is a passionate chamber musician, accompanist, and jazz player, with ensembles including the Mithras Trio (former BBC New Generation Artists) and with flautist Meera Maharaj. www.dominicdegavino.co.uk [http://www.dominicdegavino.co.uk] +++PLEASE NOTE+++ Advance booking for this concert is optional but recommended. For concert and general enquiries, please email [email protected] or telephone Steven Goulden on 07743 448123.