pre covid recitals!
Tragic heroines
11th April 2019
Ancient Greece, Romantic Opera and Art Song from France and England
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Olympia Hetherington (mezzo-soprano), Annabel Molyneaux, Peter Cowdrey, Paul Molyneaux
Purcell, Mozart, Donizetti, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz; Handel, Walton, Britten, Reynaldo Hahn, Peter Cowdrey, Roderick Williams.
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Olympia Hetherington graduated from Cambridge and the Royal Northern College of Music. She made her professional debut in July 2017 at Longborough Festival (Magic Flute, Mozart), returning in 2018 (Ariadne of Naxos, Strauss). In August 2019, she will sing Suzuki in Opera Loki’s production of Madame Butterfly in France and London. She toured the UK with the Merry Opera Company’s dramatic production of Handel’s Messiah. Upcoming: Handel Dixit Dominus with the Orchestra of St John’s at the Ashmolean Museum.
colour, exuberance and exaggeration!13th June 2019
Gypsies, Celts and a World of Music
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Jubovski (Liz Cowdrey - violin, Jub - double bass, Peter Cowdrey - piano), with Annabel and Paul Molyneaux
Burns settings, Hungarian fiddle music, Rodrigo and Albéniz, and much more
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Jubovski (Liz Cowdrey, Jub, Peter Cowdrey) is a unique trio inspired by the music of Eastern European Gypsies. Blurring the boundaries between written music and improvised performance they explore how Romany performers fired the imaginations of classical composers and how classical music influenced the development of gypsy music. Jubovski also explore the roots of Celtic music (a surprisingly complicated combination of indigenous influences and Central European art music), and the many traditions that combine to produce the distinctive flavours of Spanish folk music.
Jubovski have been annual visitors to Witney Lunchtime Recitals for the last eleven years.
Click here to watch Jubovski in full flow.
Jubovski have been annual visitors to Witney Lunchtime Recitals for the last eleven years.
Click here to watch Jubovski in full flow.
let the mighty piano thunder ~ with four hands12th September 2019
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Katharine Durran (piano),
Peter Cowdrey (piano), Annabel Molyneaux (mezzo) Spectacular piano duets including Galop (Ganz), Dolly Suite (Fauré) and Jeux d'Enfants (Bizet), interspersed with Lieder, by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Strauss
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KATHARINE DURRAN has developed highly acclaimed parallel careers as soloist, exponent of new music, chamber musician and song accompanist. She gave her first concerto performance in Edinburgh at the age of 11, before studying at St Catharine's College Cambridge and at the RCM in London with Kendall Taylor and Geoffrey Parsons.
Her debut solo piano album was a much praised recording of the complete Toccatas of J.S.Bach. Tracks from her CDs have often been featured on BBC radio programmes, including Night Waves, Composer of the Week, In Tune, Midnight Oil and Private Passions.
Highlights of recent seasons have included trio concerts with former BBC Young Musicians of the Year David Pyatt and Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne, recitals with violinists Madeleine Mitchell and Gina McCormack and the complete Beethoven 'cello sonatas with Sebastian Comberti.
Other recent projects include performing late Beethoven alongside J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the commissioning of three new extended settings for mezzo and piano of the poetry of Friedrich Rückert.
Her debut solo piano album was a much praised recording of the complete Toccatas of J.S.Bach. Tracks from her CDs have often been featured on BBC radio programmes, including Night Waves, Composer of the Week, In Tune, Midnight Oil and Private Passions.
Highlights of recent seasons have included trio concerts with former BBC Young Musicians of the Year David Pyatt and Rafal Zambrzycki-Payne, recitals with violinists Madeleine Mitchell and Gina McCormack and the complete Beethoven 'cello sonatas with Sebastian Comberti.
Other recent projects include performing late Beethoven alongside J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the commissioning of three new extended settings for mezzo and piano of the poetry of Friedrich Rückert.
going for a song24th October 2019
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Jennifer Raven (flute) and Ben Reeve (trumpet), Annabel Molyneaux, Peter Cowdrey, Paul Molyneaux
Handel, Purcell, Bach, and Raven and Reeve, composed for Jenn and Ben's wedding by Cowdrey and the Molyneauxs.
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Jennifer Raven studied at the University of Bristol and Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Since then she has played and recorded in some weird and wonderful places: the Brazilian rainforest, alongside a didgeridoo player, in the sea and up a tree.
Ben Reeve was in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. One of his most special memories is playing as part of a giant samba band (painted all in gold) for the London Olympics closing ceremony.
In 2015 Jenn and Ben responded to a surge of requests for wedding music from friends by forming Fluke, a flute and ukulele duo! When they got married that August they played, instead of dancing, their first dance…
Ben Reeve was in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. One of his most special memories is playing as part of a giant samba band (painted all in gold) for the London Olympics closing ceremony.
In 2015 Jenn and Ben responded to a surge of requests for wedding music from friends by forming Fluke, a flute and ukulele duo! When they got married that August they played, instead of dancing, their first dance…
east, west and down under28th November 2019
Hammers, strings and song
Misha Vishniakov (violin, viol), Liz Cowdrey (viola), Jacqui Johnson (cello, viol), Annabel Molyneaux, Peter Cowdrey, Paul Molyneaux
Mozart piano quartet in G minor; fantasias for viols by Purcell; a string trio by Borodin; and songs by Beethoven and Brahms
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Jacqueline Johnson studied at the Victorian College of the Arts (Australia) and was a member of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, and Australian Opera and Ballet companies. Now in Oxford, she works freelance - chamber music, solo, orchestral and teaching. This year she performed Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto with Woodstock Music Society.
Liz Cowdrey Since performing internationally with world music ensemble Orbestra, Liz spreads the gypsy spirit through Jubovski trio and Cowdrey duo performances while freelancing on violin and viola. She takes music into prisons with The Oxford Concert Party, schools with Planet Birdsong, and co-leads birdsong/music walking tours in Europe with The Conference of Birds.
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Mikhail Vichniakov was born in Ukraine, studied in Kiev and Royal Academy in London. His playing career combines orchestral (including BBC Scottish, City of Oxford, Bristol Ensemble) and chamber music, and an increasing affinity with Early Music and music’s origins - hence the viol.
Like Peter and Liz, Misha met Jacqui a long time ago, and is now delighted to discover that he shares with her some of the secrets of viol passion! |