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The Old School Classical Club:  2011-2012 programme

For all concerts please arrive at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start

TICKET PRICES, DISCOUNTS, LOCATION

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Next Concert

Saturday, 21st January 2012. 
Wernberg Trio
at The Old School

Wernberg Trio (Maria Wernberg (violin), Jack McNeill (clarinet), 
Melissa Morris (piano).

Arrive at 7.00pm for a 7.30pm start
All tickets must be booked in advance from
The Old School office: 01579 370589
Tickets £12 each, dinner available in interval for £6.00

The Wernberg Trio was formed in October 2009 by graduates of the Birmingham Conservatoire and has performed in master classes with the Gould Trio and the Schubert Ensemble. The trio has recently given recitals as part of the Leamington Music Summer Concert Series, Chamber Music Weeks at Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham Cathedral and at the Bournville Quaker Meeting House. The Trio were finalists in the Sylvia Cleaver Chamber Music Prize in February 2010.

The programme will include Schuman's Fantasy pieces for Clarinet and Piano Op. 73, Mozart Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-minor K. 304, Brahms Sonata no. 2 in E Flat Major for Clarinet and Piano op. 120 and Mozart's Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano "Kegelstatt" K. 498.

Saturday, 18th February 2012.
Yuka Ishizuka (violin) and Nadav Hertzka (piano)

This concert is supported by the Tillett Trust

Recently featuring in the Ernest Block music competition, Yuka Ishizuka and Nadav Hertzka ill include a Grieg sonata and Saint-Saens Rondo in their programme.  

Yuka Ishizuka has made festival appearances in the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Pablo Casals Festival in France and the Perlman Music Program in New York. She has won many prizes, including first prize at the International Young Musicians Competition in Italy, the Concerto Prize and the Violin Competition at Junior Academy and the Beethoven Chamber Music Competition.

Nadav Hertzka has performed in USA, Europe and Asia at venues including the Wigmore and Carnegie halls.  He is also the winner of many international prizes including Pinault Society International Piano competition in New York.

Saturday, 14th April 2012.
Nicholas Walker (piano)

Nicholas Walker, described by the BBC Music Magazine as possessing "the flair of a full-scale virtuoso and a sparkling intelligence", studied at the Royal Academy of Music and at the Moscow Conservatoire.

Winner of the first Newport International Piano Competition, Nicholas has performed with major British Orchestras, recorded for BBC Radio 3, Cirrus, ASV, BMG Arte Nova, and Chandos, and given recitals worldwide. The first two discs of his recording of the complete Balakirev piano music for ASV received great critical acclaim, as has his recent live recording of the Liapunov Sonata on Danacord.

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Recent Concert
Saturday, 29 October 2011.  
The world famous Barbirolli Quartet played
Haydn, Delius and Beethoven in Stoke Climsland Church.  

The Barbirolli Quartet are fast rising stars. The Times has described them as “forthright, full-blooded musicians, afraid of nothing” and The Strad hailed their “superbly realised performance” and “precision of ensemble at formidable rates of energy”.

Following their selection by the European Concert Halls Organisation (ECHO) as the UK Concert Halls’ nominated ‘Rising Stars’ 09-10, the Barbirolli Quartet toured the major concert halls of Europe, culminating in their Kirckman Concert Society Award recital at the Wigmore Hall.