Join us for an evening of live music ​featuring all women composers.

Emilie Mayer, Faust Overture
Clara Schumann, Piano Concerto - soloist Justine Gormley
Amy Beach, Gaelic Symphony

Tickets:
Adults £12
Full time students with valid NUS card £5
Under 18s Free (Tickets must still be booked)

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Join us for a special evening of remembrance and celebration.

Watch Mark Currie’s film “Memories of Wartime” and celebrate the re-launch of Dr Jason Knowles’ book “Otley - Memories of World War Two”.

The evening will feature guest speakers and live music from a brass quintet and singer, all honouring the enduring spirit of VE Day.

Soprano: Debbie Scherer

Alto: Molly Austen

Tenor: Alison Owen-Morley

Baritone: Sarah Jobson

SaxShades was formed in 2001 by Debbie Scherer and Sarah Jobson and has existed in our current line up since 2016. With a standard saxophone quartet instrumentation of soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, SaxShades plays a wide range of music from Baroque to Rock and just about everything in between.

Catherine Strachan grew up in Aberdeen, where she benefited from a superb start to her musical education thanks to the local authority music service and local youth orchestras. Catherine studied modern and baroque cello performance with Myra Chahin and Alison McGillivray at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly RSAMD), and followed this with an MA in baroque performance practice at the University of York.

2022 MG ALBA Musician of The Year nominee Ryan Young brings new and exciting ideas to traditional Scottish music, receiving international praise for his spell-binding interpretations on the fiddle. His debut album was recorded with four time GRAMMY winner Jesse Lewis (who has worked with the likes of Bela Fleck and Yo Yo Ma) and launched at Feakle Traditional Music Festival in County Clare, accompanied by renowned guitarist, Dennis Cahill (Martin Hayes; The Gloaming).

The Bridge is Cuba’s most internationally acclaimed guitar duo. With their musical empathy, Eduardo Martín and Ahmed Dickinson transform their concerts into a vehicle that connects, incorporates and juxtaposes their different generations; and the spiritual journey that drives their thrilling yet soothing performances.

Like many other Cubans or Caribbean, they enjoy a natural sense of rhythm. The guitar is their favoured instrument, which idiomatically conveys all the melodic and rhythmic intricacies of South America's cultural diversity.

Antonia Deeley (Flute) - Mouquet sonata for flute and piano and a Schubert Lieder - Das Fischermaidchen

Lucy Kilner (Flute) - Boulanger (notcurne and potentially the cortege), plus two movements of Prokofiev

Antonia and Lucy (As a duo) - Aus Du Heimat (Doppler), Furstenau Rondeau for two flutes and piano.

Please note that the programme might be subject to last minute change.

Tom Davenport (Trombone) - Morceau Symphonique (Guilmant), Concertino (second movement, Ferdinand Davide), Romance (Axel Jorgensen)

Elizabeth Cunningham (Voice) - Music for a while (Purcell), amarilli (Caccini), Una Donna quindici (Mozart), die junge nonne (Schubert)

Freya Martinez (Piano) - No 2: Oiseaux Tristes and No 3: Une Barque sur l'ocean from Miroirs by Ravel and No 4: Cordoba and No 5: Seguidillas from Cantos de Espana by Albeniz

Please note that the programme might be subject to last minute change.

Mozart - Magic Flute Overture

Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C

Beethoven Symphony No. 5