Wolfson College Cambridge

Concert Diary

Choir performing at the 2011 Garden Party Bursar playing alpenhorn Garden Party 2011

Wolfson College Music Society provides a wide range of concerts throughout the year. A regular lunchtime concert series is held on Saturdays at 1.30pm in the Lee Hall, and the Music Society also organizes the Michaelmas and Lent term concerts. These give performance opportunities to the choir, and to talented Wolfson soloists and ensembles.

Lent Term concert 2009 rehearsal conducted by Roger Briscoe

Lent Term 2012

Saturday 21 January- Lunchtime Concert
1.30pm, Lee Hall

Maiko Mori (piano) - programme includes Scarlatti, Ireland, Liszt, Rachmaninov and Gershwin

Friday 3 February - Music & Madeira
7.15 for 7.30pm, for dinner in Hall; concert begins 9.00pm in Lee Hall.
Shelley Katz (piano)
The programme includes: Haydn's Sonata in D major, Hob:XVI/37, Mozart's Sonata in B flat major, K. 570 and Beethoven's Sonata op.57 Appassionata
Please refer to the Term Notices for details of the booking options for this event.
The recital is free; dinner and dessert must be booked and are charged separately.

Tuesday 7 February - College Service
6.15pm, Lee Hall

The College Choir provides musical accompaniment for the termly ecumenical College Service.

Saturday 11 February - Lunchtime Concert
1.30pm, Lee Hall

Andrew Goldman (piano)
Fundraising concert for Wolfson Choir's tour to Greece in July

Saturday 18 February - Lunchtime Concert
1.30pm, Lee Hall

Junior Prime Brass - from Monteverdi and Mozart to swing classics
Conductor: Christopher Lawrence

Sunday 26 February - The Symphanova Project
7.30pm, Fitzwilliam College Auditorium

An evening of opera and operetta featuring Wolfson College Choir, Fitzwilliam Chapel Choir and Herstmonceaux Castle Choir
Conductor: Dr Shelley Katz
Soloists: Diana Gilchrist (soprano) and Lynette Alcántara (mezzo soprano)
Fitzwilliam College website

Saturday 3 March - Lunchtime Concert
1.30pm, Lee Hall

Jane Bevan (flute), Philippa Jones (>cello), Maurice Hodges (piano)
Programme to include Haydn, Debussy and Piazzolla

Tuesday 6 March - Wolfson Chamber Singers
11.00am, University Centre

Performance for he Newcomers and Visiting Scholars' coffee morning

Saturday 10 March - Lunchtime Concert
1.30pm, Lee Hall

Anton Lukoszevieze (cello), Christopher Green-Armytage (piano)
Programme to include Fauré, Pergolesi, Chopin and Beethoven

Sunday 18 March - Bach St John Passion
7.30pm, St Mark's Church

The combined choirs of Wolfson College and St Mark’s Church with orchestra
Conductor: Graham Walker
Evangelist: Dan Auchincloss
Jesus: Ben Oakley
Sopranos: Helen-Jane Howells and Emma Hopegood
Alto: Lynette Alcántara
Tenor: Matt Sandy
Pilatus: Charles Jones
Tickets available from the Porters’ Lodge from late February, or on the door

Easter Term 2012

Saturday 5 May - Lunchtime Concert
1.30pm, Lee Hall

James Westbrook - Guitar Extravaganza

Tuesday 15 May - College Service
6.15pm, Lee Hall

The College Choir provides musical accompaniment for the termly ecumenical College Service.

Saturday 19 May - Lunchtime Concert
1.30pm, Lee Hall

Patrick Hemmerle (piano)

Tuesday 22 May - Music & Madeira
7.15 for 7.30pm, for dinner in Hall; concert begins 9.00pm in Lee Hall.
Artist TBC
Please refer to the Term Notices for details of the booking options for this event.
The recital is free; dinner and dessert must be booked and are charged separately.

Sunday 27 May - University Sermon
11.15am, Great St Mary's Church

Music provided by Wolfson College Choir

Saturday 2 June - Lunchtime Concert
1.30pm, Lee Hall

Kyoko Murai and Taro Takeuchi (programme TBC)

Sunday 17 June - College Garden Party
3.00pm, East Court & Lee Hall

The College Choir will perform a selection of summer music to entertain Garden Party guests.

Sunday 17 June - The Mary Bevan Recital
7.30pm, Lee Hall

Given by prize-winners of the CUMS Concerto Competition 2012

Monday 16 to Friday 20 July - Wolfson Choir Tour - Thessaloniki, Greece
Performances at ISME 30th World Conference