Concert Diary

2025

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Sunday, 17th August

Concert Flyer



Pavlova Wind Quintet

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.


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. www.pavlovaquintet.co.uk


Biographies


Pavlova Wind Quintet Biographies


Upcoming Events




Sunday, 14th September



Music Notes

Piano Trio

Sarah Verney, Stephen Drew and Alison Cooke


Concert Time: tba

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.


More details to follow.




Sunday, 5th October



Music Notes

Sacred Music

William Knight and John Collis


Concert Time: tba

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.


More details to follow.




Sunday, 12th October



Music Notes

Soprano & alto singers with violin, cello and piano

Lesley Morris, Yuliya and Ben Rothman,

David Brown and Amanda Bennett


Concert Time: tba

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.


More details to follow.




Past Events




Sunday, 23rd March

Concert Flyer



Catriona Bourne

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.


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

Concert Flyer



Tete a Tete

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.


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

Concert Flyer



Indigo Road

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.



Indigo Road








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