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

 

Li Lu

 
  Events/Diary 2009  
 


The venue for all the concerts is Jubilee Hall, Wakefield Girls' High School, Margaret Street, Wakefield.
Admission is £11 with concessions and under 16s admitted free with a paying adult.
There is a saving of £16 for a season ticket!
Free admission for a carer accompanying a disabled person.

17th October 2009
Our String Quartet this season is the
QUATUOR ARDEO from France who will play music by Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn.

21st November 2009
DAVID WRIGHT (Harpsichord) and CHRIS GRIST (Cello) perform a Handel Duo Sonata followed by music rarely heard inWakefield, two Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by J.S.Bach and the same composer's Goldberg Variations

16th January 2010
Pianist DARIUS BATTIWALLA pays a return visit toWakefield with a programme which includes the Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven and a late sonata by Schubert.

6th February 2010
In an unusual matching of instruments ANDREW BOOTH (Guitar) and the Chinese Cellist LI LU present a wide-ranging programme of music by composers from Schubert to Piazzolla.

27th February 2010
RICHARD BAYLISS (Horn), ARISA FUJITA (Violin) and SAM HAYWOOD (Piano) play music by Beethoven and Brahms.

20th March 2010
Musicians from ENSEMBLE 360 based in Sheffield bring our series of concerts to a close with the Archduke Trio by Beethoven, Mozart's Kegelstatt Trio and various 'Party Pieces'.


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