Welcome to Wakefield Concert Society
   
   
   
   
   
About Us
 
Founded as the Horbury Concert Society in 1964, we organise six concerts each year at Jubilee Hall, Wakefield Girls' High School (entrance in Margaret Street). We are a Registered Charity. All our artists are full time professional musicians and many have international reputations. Concerts take place on Saturday evenings commencing at 7.30pm. The venue is accessible, with interval refreshment facilities and plenty of free car parking in Margaret Street and nearby..

Development Agency for Voluntary Arts


The Galliard Wind Ensemble
 


Helen Thatcher Cellist

 
  Events/Diary 2007/2008  
 


The venue for all the concerts is Jubilee Hall, Wakefield Girls' High School, Margaret Street, Wakefield.
Admission is £10 with concessions and under 16s admitted free with a paying adult.
Free admission for a carer accompanying a disabled person.

Saturday 13 October 2007 at 7.30pm

THE GALLIARD WIND ENSEMBLE
Rossini - Overture to Italian Girl in Algiers
Haydn - Divertimento
Barber - Summer Music
Holst - Quintet in A Flat
Patterson - Comedy for Five Winds

Saturday 10 November 2007 at 7.30 pm

WARREN MAILLEY -SMITH - Piano
Beethoven - "Waldstein" Sonata
Mozart - Sonata in D
Ireland - Amberely Wild Brooks
Chopin - Waltz in A Flat with other pieces

Saturday 12 January 2008 at 7.30pm

VICTORIA DAVIES - Harp
Music and arrangements for the Harp including pieces by Handel, Parry, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Debussy, Khachaturian and many others.

Saturday 9 February 2008 at 7.30pm

TRIO FROM ENSEMBLE 360
Beethoven Clarinet Trio
Brahms Clarinet Sonata
Brahms Clarinet Trio

Saturday 1 March 2008 at 7.30pm

HELEN THATCHER
(Cello) and DARIUS BATTIWALLA (Piano)
Rachmaninov - Cello Sonata
Beethoven - Sonata in
and various solos by Rachmaninov and others

Saturday 29 March 2008 at 7.30pm

THE CARDUCCI STRING QUARTET
Mozart - Quartet K499 ("Hoffmeister")
Beethoven - Quartet Opus 59 No 2
Kurtag - Six Movements Musicaux


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