DIARY

British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference 

Thursday 4th January 2024, Oxford

Programme: "Then I play'd upon the Harpsichord" with soprano Claire Ward

Stoke Newington Early Music Festival & Sutton House Music Society

Sunday 21st January 2024

6pm, The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London, N16 9ES

Programme: "Full of the Highland Humours"

Music in Pinner

Saturday 17th February, 2024

1pm, Pinner Parish Church

Programme: "A Curious Collection" - Bach, Telemann, Handel and more

Shropshire Music Trust

Friday 15th March 2024

7.30pm, St Alkmunds Church, Shrewbury

Programme: "Handel in the Strand"

Amersham Concert Club

Saturday 16th March 2024

7.30pm, Amersham Free Church, Woodside Road

Programme: "Handel in the Strand"

Catstrand, New Galloway

Friday 22nd March 2024 - Concert

Saturday 23rd March 2024 - Playing Sessions

Programme: A Gift for your Garden

Music in Ayr

Saturday 23rd March 2024 

7.30pm. Alloway Church Hall, Ayr, KA7 4PQ

Programme: "Full of the Highland Humours"

St Magnus Festival

Both at 1pm at St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney

Tuesday 25th June

Programme: Full of the Highland Humours

Wednesday 26th June

Programme: A Gift for your Garden

Buxton Festival

Monday 15th July 2024 

11.15am, Assembly Rooms, Buxton

Programme: Handel in the Strand

Music at Paxton

Tuesday 23rd July 2024

7.30pm, Paxton House, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 1SZ

Programme: Handel in the Strand

London Chamber Music Society

Sunday 20th October 2024

6pm, Kings Place, London 

Programme: "The Scots Musical Museum" with soprano Harriet Burns

Relive a musical evening in 18th century Edinburgh, where fashions combined the best of the Italian Baroque with the soaring melodies and dance rhythms of traditional Scottish music.

Music at Duffield

14th January 2023

7.30pm, St. Alkmund's Church, Church Drive, Duffield

Programme: "Full of the Highland Humours"

Cambridge Early Music Festival

25th January 2023

6pm, St Catharine's College Chapel, Cambridge 

Burns Night Concert: "Full of the Highland Humours"

Waltham Forest Music Society

24th March 2023

7.30pm, All Saints Church Hall, Highams Park, E4

Programme: "Full of the Highland Humours"

Gloucester Music Society

16th April 2023

3pm, Ivor Gurney Hall, Pitt Street, Gloucester GL1 2BH

Programme: "From Caledonia to the Capital" 

Leighton Buzzard Music Society

22nd April 2023

7.30pm, St. Barnabas’s Church, Leighton Buzzard

"From Caledonia to the Capital" 

City Music Foundation Gala Concert

14th June, 2023

7pm, The Great Hall, Barts Heritage

Programme: "900 Years of Music and Medicine". As City Music Foundation 2021 artists, we will be performing as part of this cabaret-style entertainment exploring a miscellany of connections between medical practice, doctors and music, and including three new commissions specially for this event which celebrates 900 years since the founding of Barts Hospital. The evening, which will raise funds for City Music Foundation and Barts Heritage, will portray doctors both real and fictional and tell medical anecdotes through history with both gravity and humour. This musical anthology will be woven together by CMF Patron and actor Simon Callow into a unique narrative, and we will hear music from 18 CMF Artists.

Oxford Festival of the Arts

2nd July 2023

2.30pm, Trinity College, Oxford

 “A Gift for your Garden”

Buxton International Festival

10th July (2pm), 14th July (7.15pm), 21st July (7.15pm) 2023

Pavilion Arts Centre

Handel's Orlando with the Liberata Collective

Lichfield Festival

11th July 2023 

7pm, The Hub at St Mary’s Market Square

Handel's Orlando with the Liberata Collective 

Rye Arts Festival

17th September 2023

7.30pm, St Mary's Church

Programme: Tempesta di Mare with City Music Foundation Tenor Richard Robbins

Kingston Chamber Concerts

7th October 2023

7.30pm, All Saints Church, Kingston

“Handel on the Strand”

Stour Valley Arts and Music

8th October 2023

4pm, St Mary's Church, Stratford-St-Mary, CO7 6LS

"Handel on the Strand"

Temple Music Foundation

13th October 2023

6.30pm, Temple Church, London

“Celestial Music did the Gods Inspire”, the launch event of the Hesperi Voices, celebrates the ‘Battle of the Organs’ at London’s Temple Church. In partnership with the Temple Music Foundation, and made possible by a grant from the Continuo Foundation, we’ll present a sparkling programme of music by the winning organists, Henry Purcell and John Blow, weaved around Charles Burney’s historical narrative of the battle itself. Highlights include selections from Purcell’s posthumous works, published by his widow Frances at Temple Change, and Blow’s rarely performed verse anthems, performed by twelve singers and an expanded band of musicians.

Brighton Early Music Festival

14th October 2023

1pm, Friends Meeting House, Brighton

" A New Dawn"

The inaugural Malcolm Rose Memorial Concert in memory of Lewes-based  harpsichord maker, supplier and tuner Malcolm Rose. Mary-Jannet Leith and Thomas Allery from Ensemble Hesperi perform early baroque gems for recorder and harpsichord including music by Byrd, Playford, Froberger and more.

Worcestershire Early Music

22nd October 2023

3.30pm, The Angel Centre, Angel Place, Worcester, WR1 3QM

Programme: A Gift for your Garden

The Torbay Musical Weekend

17th, 18th November 2023

The Grand Hotel, Torquay

Programme: Handel in the Strand and Outreach presentation

Temple Music Foundation

30th November 2023

7pm, Temple Church, London

Progrmame: "Thy cradle here shall glitter bright": An Advent concert with the Temple Singers

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Chawton House

Saturday 16th December 2023

4pm, Chawton House, Alton, GU34 1SJ

Pleasure for Music: a Birthday Concert for Jane Austen, with soprano Claire Ward

An enchanting evening of music-making on the occasion of Jane Austen’s birthday. Celebrating Chawton House’s recent acquisition of one of Jane’s own music books, Hesperi delves into the sound world of Regency England with a specially curated programme of music from the Austen family collection. 

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Lincoln University Concert Series

16th January 2022

"From Caledonia to the Capital" 

City Music Society

3rd February 2022

"From Caledonia to the Capital" 

Britten Pears Arts, Chamber Music Residency

11th February 2022

"Sweet and Unaffected Notes" 

St Martin-in-the-Fields

11th March 2022

Handel’s Italian London

Bishop Auckland Music Society

3rd June 2022

"From Caledonia to the Capital" 

City Music Foundation Concert

13th July 2022

“A Gift for your Garden”

Kings Lynn Festival

23rd July 2022

“Music for a Musical Coalman”

Wallace Collection, London in collaboration with City Music Foundation

2nd August 2022

“La Tempesta di Mare” with tenor Richard Robbins

Six, Fitzroy Square, London

20th August 2022

“Then I Play’d upon the Harpsichord”, a musical celebration of the life of the Georgian Queen Charlotte, supported by the Continuo Foundation and the Georgian Papers Project, now available to stream here:

https://ensemblehesperi.vhx.tv/products/then-i-play-d-upon-the-harpsichord-a-musical-evening-with-queen-charlotte   

Music in New Radnor

13th September 2022

“Full of the Highland Humours”

Britten Pears Arts

15th October 2022

Schutz 350 in collaboration with the Aldeburgh Voices

Brighton Early Music Festival

19th October 2022

Over the Sea to Skye: a programme following the story of the hit show “Outlander” with tenor Ruairi Bowen

Wighton Collection, Dundee

17th November 2022

“Full of the Highland Humours”

CatStrand, New Galloway

19th November 2022

“Full of the Highland Humours” and Community Workshops

Temple Music Foundation

1st December 2022

“Heaven and Earth in Little Space” – Bach and Schutz with the Temple Singers, Nicholas Mulroy and Ian Wilson

Scunthorpe and Lincs Music Society

2nd December 2022

“Handel in the Strand”

Berkhamsted Music Society

3rd December 2022

“Battle of the Kings”

English Music Festival

31st May 2021

“Handel’s Glorious Baroque”

Newbury Spring Festival

6th September 2021

“The Temple of Apollo”

St Mary-Le-Bow Church

17th September 2021

“From Caledonia to the Capital”, a project supported by the Continuo Foundation celebrating Scottish musicians in eighteenth-century London

Festival Alte Musik Knechtsteden

19th September 2021

“The Pheasant’s Eye” with Highland Dancer Kathleen Gilbert

CD Launch at English Music Festival

12th November 2021

“Full of the Highland Humours”

Temple Music Foundation

29th November 2021

“Dancing at the Temple of Apollo”

St James’s Piccadilly Concert Series

31st January 2020

“The Temple of Apollo: Jacobite Secrets of London”

Shropshire Music Trust

21st February 2020

“The Pheasant’s Eye”

Chiltern Arts Festival

3rd March 2020

“The Temple of Apollo: Jacobite Secrets of London”

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

18th January 2019

Music for Epiphanytide in collaboration with Worcester College, Oxford 

St Mary-Le-Bow Church

Four concerts in February 2019

Ensemble in Residence

Newcastle University Early Music Festival

21st February 2019

“The Pheasant’s Eye” with Highland Dancer Kathleen Gilbert

Three Towers Festival

27th April 2019

“The Pheasant’s Eye” with Highland Dancer Kathleen Gilbert

Lichfield Festival

9th July 2019

“The Pheasant’s Eye” with Highland Dancer Kathleen Gilbert

St Marylebone Festival

25th July 2019

“The Pheasant’s Eye” with Highland Dancer Kathleen Gilbert

Petworth Festival

31st July 2019

“The Pheasant’s Eye” with Highland Dancer Kathleen Gilbert

Totnes Early Music Society

21st September 2019

“The Pheasant’s Eye” with Highland Dancer Kathleen Gilbert

Brighton Early Music Festival

5th October 2019

Highland Dance Workshop and Ceilidh 

Brighton Early Music Festival

6th November 2019

“The Pheasant’s Eye” with Highland Dancer Kathleen Gilbert