Programme: Brahms - Scherzo in C minor from F.A.E. Sonata Clarke - Midsummer Moon Mozart - Sonata in B flat major for violin and piano, K. 454 Interval Lili Boulanger - D'un matin de printemps Faur - Andante op. 75 & Berceuse op. 16 Prt - Fratres Fanny Mendelssohn - Adagio for violin and piano H.72 Bartk - Romanian Folk Dances Fenella Humphreys, violin Emma Abbate, piano Fenella Humphreys, winner of the 2023 BBC Music Magazine Premiere Recording Award, has attracted critical admiration and audience acclaim with the grace and intensity of her remarkable performances. With her playing described in the press as alluring, unforgettable and a wonder, Fenella is one of the UKs most established and versatile violinists, having also won the 2018 BBC Music Magazine Instrumental Award. She enjoys a busy career combining chamber music with solo work, performing in the most prestigious venues around the world and is frequently broadcast on the BBC, Classic FM, Scala Radio and international radio stations. The Neapolitan pianist Emma Abbate enjoys a demanding career as a piano accompanist and chamber musician. Described as "an amazingly talented pianist" by the leading Italian magazine Musica, she has performed in duo recitals for international festivals and concert societies in Austria, Portugal, Italy, Poland and USA, and at many prestigious UK venues such as the Wigmore Hall, Southbank Centre, Royal Opera House, St Johns Smith Square, St Georges, Bristol and at the Aldeburgh Festival. She also regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and has recently presented an episode of Inside Music. Full details at https://www.wensleydaleconcertseries.co.uk/

Programme: Mozart - Sonata (tbc) Schubert - Drei Klavierstuckes Sibelius - Impromptus op.5 Khachaturian - Piano Sonata (Revised Version) Iyad Sughayer, piano Chosen as One to Watch by International Piano Magazine, Iyads debut album Khachaturian Piano Works for BIS Records was described by Gramophone as exhilarating and delivered with perfect clarity and an outstanding debut by BBC Music Magazine. Iyads second recording for BIS with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Andrew Litton was released to critical acclaim in autumn 2022. Nominated as a 2022 Rising Star Artist by Classic FM, Iyad was a prize-winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions in 2021. Full details at https://www.wensleydaleconcertseries.co.uk/

Programme: Bach - Partita in G major, BWV 829 Schubert - Impromptu in G-flat major, op. 90 no. 3 Chopin - Variations on "La ci darem la mano", op.2 Interval Rachmaninoff - Sonata #1 in D minor, op. 28 Acclaimed by the press for his charismatic, very individual and always gripping playing, Toronto-born, Berlin-based pianist Ben Cruchley is the laureate of the International Telekom Beethoven Competition in Bonn, Germany, as well as the International Grieg Competition in Norway. Full details at https://www.wensleydaleconcertseries.co.uk/

Programme: Shostakovich In Memoriam Glazunov - Interludium in Stile Antico Move 3 (from 5 Novelettes opus 15) Rachmaninov - String Quartet No.1 Romance Scherzo Weinberg - Improvisation and Romance Shostakovich - Quartet No. 11 Op. 122 Interval Shostakovich - Two Pieces for String Quartet Elegy Polka Weinberg - Aria for String Quartet Op. 9 Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 1 in C major Lucy Russell, violin Andrew Roberts, violin Alan George, viola Ursula Smith, cello The original members of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet first sat down together, at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, in October 1968 making the Fitzwilliam now one of the longest established string quartets in the world. International recognition came early for the FSQ, as the first group to record and perform all fifteen Shostakovich string quartets, drawing on the original player's personal connection with the composer. In August 1975. Benjamin Britten afterwards reported that his friend Shostakovich had told him the Fitzwilliam were his preferred performers of my quartets! Complete cycles were given in a number of major centres, including London, New York, and Montral. A new recording of the last three quartets was specially released by Linn in October 2019, to celebrate FSQ@50 year. The quartet through the years has been put at the service of diverse other composers spanning six centuries, from the mid-16th to the present day. Full details at https://www.wensleydaleconcertseries.co.uk/

Programme: William Alwyn - Sonata alla Toccata (1946) Doreen Carwithen - Sonatina (1946) Arthur Bliss - Masks (1924) John Ireland - Three Pastels (1941) Interval Chopin - Nocturne in C sharp minor op. Post Chopin - Sonata in B minor op. 58 The critical plaudits which have greeted Mark Bebbingtons performances and recordings have singled him out as a British pianist of the rarest refinement and maturity ("Bebbington is without doubt one of Britain's finest pianists." wrote Michel Fleury recently in Classica). Internationally recognised as a champion of British music, in particular, Mark has recorded extensively for the Somm label to critical acclaim, with no fewer than nine of his recent CDs awarded 5 by BBC Music Magazine. Recent CDs include three British Piano Concertos with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, an all-Gershwin album with Leon Botstein and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ('Recording of the Month' from MusicWeb International). A CD of Concertos by Grieg (including the premiere of his sketches for a Second Piano Concerto, edited by Robert Matthew- Walker) and Delius with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Jan Latham-Koenig was released in April 2018 and became 'CD of the Week' in The Times and Mail on Sunday. Full details at https://www.wensleydaleconcertseries.co.uk/

Programme: George Butterworth - A Shropshire lad (poems by A. E. Housman) Loveliest of Trees When I Was One-and-Twenty Look Not In My eyes Think No More, Lad The Lads in Their Hundreds Is My Team Ploughing? Ivor Gurney - Songs Sleep (J. Fletcher) In Flanders (F. W. Harvey) All night under the moon (W. W. Gibson) The Salley Gardens (W. B. Yeats) By a Bierside (J. Masefield) John Ireland - Two Songs (poems by Rupert Brooke) The Soldier Blow Out, You Bugles Interval George Butterworth - Love blows as the Wind Blows (poems by W. E. Henley) In the Year That's Come and Gone Life in Her Creaking Shoes Fill a Glass with Golden Wine On the Way to Kew Vaughan Williams - Songs of Travel (poems by R. L. Stephenson) The Vagabond Let Beauty Awake The Roadside Fire Youth and Love In Dreams The Infinite Shining Heavens Whither Must I Wander Bright Is the Ring of Words I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope Tenor James Gilchrist began his working life as a doctor, turning to a full-time music career in 1996. His extensive concert repertoire has seen him perform in major concert halls throughout the world with renowned conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Roger Norrington, Bernard Labadie, Harry Christophers, Harry Bicket, Masaaki Suzuki and Richard Hickox. A master of English music, he has performed Brittens Church Parables in St Petersburg, in London and at the Aldeburgh Festival, Nocturne with the NHK Symphony in Tokyo and War Requiem with the San Francisco Symphony and the National Youth Orchestra of Germany. Recent highlights have included the role of Rev. Adams in Deborah Warners award-winning production of Brittens Peter Grimes at the Teatro Real in Madrid and for his company debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as well as with Bergen Philharmonic cond. Edward Gardner at the Edinburgh International Festival, the Royal Festival Hall, Grieghallen and Den Norske Opera. Anna Tilbrook has been a regular artist at all the major concert halls and festivals since her debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1999 and frequently broadcasts for Radio 3. She has collaborated with many leading singers and instrumentalists including Lucy Crowe, James Gilchrist, Ian Bostridge, Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, Barbara Hannigan, Sir John Tomlinson, Sir Willard White, Nicholas Daniel, Michael Collins, Natalie Clein, Philip Dukes, Jack Liebeck, Chloe Hanslip, Emily Sun, Guy Johnston, Laura van der Heijden, Jess Gilliam and the Fitzwilliam, Carducci, Sacconi, Elias, Navarra and Barbirolli string quartets.She has also accompanied Jos Carreras, Angela Gheorghiu and Bryn Terfel in televised concerts. Full details at https://www.wensleydaleconcertseries.co.uk/

Programme: J.S. Bach - Arioso from the Cantata "Ich steh mit einem Fu im Grabe" in G major BWV 156 Beethoven - Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 5 Op. 102/2 Interval Prt - Spiegel im Spiegel Rachmaninoff - Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 19 G minor Jermias Fliedl, cello Callum McLachlan, piano Jeremias Fliedl is among the leading Austrian cellists of his generation. In 2024, he released his debut album "TRANSFORMATION", which was met with great acclaim among critics: "a sumptuous feast of cello timbres" (BBC Music Magazine), "brilliant" (Die Presse), "technically brilliant and with astonishing musical maturity" (Concerti), "soulful expression, marvellous legato" (Klassik Heute). The album was recorded with the Wrttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn under Emmanuel Tjeknavorian and was released by the label Berlin Classics. Born in Klagenfurt in 1999, Jeremias Fliedl's musical development was significantly influenced by Heinrich Schiff as his last student at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna after his initial training with Igor Mitrovic. He completed his bachelor's degree with Clemens Hagen at the University Mozarteum Salzburg and his master's degree with Julian Steckel at the University of Music and Theatre Munich. He received important artistic input from Daniel Mller-Schott and Michael Sanderling. He is a prizewinner of the Liezen Competition, the Svirl Competition, the Antonio Janigro Competition and also the first Austrian cellist to be awarded as a laureate at the Queen Elisabeth Competition. Jeremias Fliedl plays the "ex Gendron, Lord Speyer", a cello made by Antonio Stradivari in 1693, which is privately loaned to him. A finalist of The 18th International Robert Schumann Competition Zwickau and Semi-Finalist of the XX Santander International Piano Competition Paloma O Shea, Callum Mclachlan, 24, has been described as A born Schumann player with a magical sense of colour and extraordinary technical prowess (July 2019, London recital). He has been selected as one of the final 24 Pianists in the 21st Leeds International Piano Competition. In the last season, he made his debut in Klavier Festival Ruhr, Menton International Music Festival, Lake District Summer Music and gave the Swiss Premiere of Eric Tanguys Piano Quartet for Classeek in Aubonne, Switzerland. In 2024 he will debut with Nrnberg Staatsphilharmonie and make his Japan Recital Debut for Yamaha in Ginza Hall, Tokyo. Most recently he was a finalist of the Royal Over Seas League Piano Competition in London, and was nominated for International Classical Music Classeek Award. Full details at https://www.wensleydaleconcertseries.co.uk/