Concert Diary
2025
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Sunday, 12th October
Haydn Seek ?
Yuliya Rothman ~ soprano
Lesley Morris ~ alto
Amanda Bennett ~ piano
Ben Rothman ~ violin
David Brown ~ cello
This Witney-based ensemble will play music by Bach, Purcell, Mozart,
Tchaikovsky and Haydn
Concert Time: 6pm
Venue: The Pavilion at The Limes,
87 High Street, Standlake, Oxfordshire OX29 7RH.
(Directions and Parking)Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Refreshments will be served before and after the performance.
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Lesley is a local musician and directs local choirs. This ensemble has soprano and alto voices, violin, cello and piano. |
Past Events
Sunday, 23rd March
Inward Places of the Soul
Catriona Bourne - Baroque Flute
Lucinda Bourne - Bass Viol
Exuberant award-winner Catriona and her sister Lucinda will play music by Telemann, Quantz and Hotteterre and some traditional Scottish airs.
Concert at 7.00pm
Venue: United Reformed Church,
294 Banbury Road, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7ED
(opposite South Parade)
Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Tea and soft drinks will be served after the recital, which will finish by 8pm.
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Programme
Suite in E Minor Opus 2 No 4 by Hotteterre: Prelude, Allemande, Sarabande, Air, Gavotte, Branle de Village, Menuet Sonata in A minor for Bass Viol by Telemann Sonata in D major for Flute and Basso Continuo, QV1:Anh.15a, by Quantz: Adagio, Allegro, Largo, Minuetto Fantasia No. 8 for solo flute by Telemann: Largo, Spirituoso, Allegro Roslyn Castle - trad. Scottish; Katherine Ogie - trad. Scottish Sonata in E minor for Flute and Basso Continuo, TWV41:E2, by Telemann: Grave, Vivace, Cunando, Vivace Minuet in D Major A1:7 for Bass Viol by Abel J. S. Bach - Sonata for viola da gamba and keyboard in G major, BWV 1027 |
Sunday, 27th April
TÊTE à TÊTE
Diana Hands - piano
Coral Lancaster - cello
A French musical conversation between piano and cello, including sonatas by Debussy, Fauré and Poulenc’s Mélancolie.
Concert at 6.00pm
Venue: The Pavilion at The Limes,
87 High Street, Standlake, Oxfordshire OX29 7RH.
(Directions and Parking)Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Refreshments will be served before and after the performance.
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Diana Hands Diana Hands worked as a journalist on The Independent before starting her second career as a musician. She gives recitals as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles, and teaches piano in schools in Oxford and privately. Coral Lancaster Coral Lancaster studied the cello in Austraia before moving to the UK in 1997. She has a varied freelance schedule, and has toured extensively with the Philharmonia Orchestra, including at the Edinburgh Festival. She also teaches in Oxford. |
Sunday, 11th May
Indigo Road's World Tour
a cappella... and then some!
Indigo Road is a small but perfectly formed local a capella
group combining modern grooves and musical verve, arranging
pop and folk songs from around the world.
Concert at 6.00pm
Venue: The Pavilion at The Limes,
87 High Street, Standlake, Oxfordshire OX29 7RH.
(Directions and Parking)Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Bring a picnic to enjoy before and after the performance.
Tea, wine and soft drinks will be available.
Sunday, 17th August
Pavlova Wind Quintet
Peter Robertson flute, Wendy Marks oboe,
Barbara Stuart clarinet, Jenny Morgan horn, Simon Payne bassoon
Come and enjoy music for a summer evening performed by this Oxfordshire ensemble in aid of the Exuberant Trust. The programme will include the
much-loved overture to Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro.
Concert at 6pm
Venue: United Reformed Church,
294 Banbury Road, Summertown, Oxford OX2 7ED
(opposite South Parade)
Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Tea and soft drinks will be served after the recital, which will finish by 7pm.
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The Pavlova Wind Quintet was formed in 1999 by Simon Payne (bassoon) with the aim of exploring the more unusual and exciting areas of the wind quintet repertoire. Over the years it has become one of the most enterprising and high-profile ensembles in Oxfordshire.
The ensemble is named after the old Pavlova Leather Works, now the site of the estate where Simon lives, and whose owner was a big fan of the famous early 20th century ballet dancer.
The group’s impressively broad repertoire includes music in a wide variety of styles, from arrangements of light-hearted favourite tunes to the more substantial and demanding classics for wind quintet.
The group takes a delight in mixing the familiar and unfamiliar, classical and ethnic, serene and virtuosic. Pavlova have given concert tours in France and Germany (and now India) and are the regular closing event of the annual Open Doors Festival held in the prestigious Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford. In 2018 the group recorded a CD of quintet arrangements. |
Biographies
Sunday, 14th September
The Eugène Piano Trio
Sarah Verney - piano
Stephen Drew - violin
Alison Cooke - cello
will play works by Frank Bridge, Beethoven and Schubert.
Concert Time: 6pm
Venue: The Pavilion at The Limes,
87 High Street, Standlake, Oxfordshire OX29 7RH.
(Directions and Parking)Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust.
Refreshments will be served before and after the performance.
Sunday, 5th October
Ann An Eilean
Recollections and reflections of island life -
an entertainment in readings and songs Devised and presented by William Leigh Knight Performed by William Leigh Knight, Cath Hutchinson and John Collis (piano) Concert Time: 6pm Venue: The Pavilion at The Limes, 87 High Street, Standlake, Oxfordshire OX29 7RH. Entrance is free. Donations to the Exuberant Trust. Refreshments will be served before and after the performance. William and John were on the staff at Morley College in south London for many years,
and used to be regular performers at The Limes. During the pandemic, William and Cath moved to the
Hebridean island of Colonsay, where they have revived the musical life of the Colonsay kirk,
winning an award from the Royal Society of Church Music.