TASMIN LITTLE (Violin) PIERS LANE (Piano)Saturday October 5th 2019 at 7.30 p.m.

London Conchord Ensemble is one of Europe’s leading chamber ensembles. Their imaginative programming and charismatic performance style have won them many accolades over the years, and they celebrated their 10th anniversary with a BBC Chamber Music Prom at Cadogan Hall. The group has made frequent broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and American National Public Radio. Highlights of recent seasons include performances at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Dusseldorf Tonhalle, Brussels Palais des Beaux Arts, Library of Congress in Washington D.C., and tours of Germany, France, America and New Zealand.

London Conchord Ensemble enjoys regular collaborations with guest artists and their concerts in the Schleswig Holstein, Windsor, Newbury, Winchester and Chelsea festivals have included Dame Felicity Lott, Robin Tritschler, Toby Spence, Susan Bickley, Andrew Kennedy, James Gilchrist and Katherine Broderick.

One of Conchord’s strong interests is setting chamber music within a larger artistic context and its project ‘The Rhythm of Silence’ combines the writing of Virgina Woolf with Britten’s Phantasy Op. 2 in a striking performance piece. The work which received 5-Star reviews is a co-commission of Rathfinny Vineyard and the Charleston Literary Festival and was premiered at Charleston with Juliet Stevenson in the role of Virginia Woolf.

London Conchord ensemble-in-residence at Champs Hill, Sussex, where the group has recorded much of its discography. Their double disc sets of Bach and the complete chamber works of Francis Poulenc have been released to great critical acclaim. They have also recorded on the Sanctuary Classics/ASV, Black Box and Quartz labels.

LONDON MOZART PLAYERS Sunday February 2nd 2020 at 3.00 p.m.

Welcome to International Classical Concerts at Vinehall

CASTALIAN STRING QUARTET Saturday November 30th 2019 at 7.30 p.m.

VINEHALL INTERNATIONAL CONCERTS BOOKING FORMPlease complete as required. Bookings can be made by post, phone or email during the season.

A FULL SEASON TICKET provides one seat at each of the seven concerts. The SIX CONCERT OPTION and the FIVE CONCERT OPTION allow you to select six or five different concerts of your choice. SINGLE TICKETS may also be booked for all concerts. Please indicate your choice on the form overleaf. Complimentary refreshments are served at each concert.

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The distinguished violinist Tasmin Little OBE sends the following message:

“ I am delighted be returning to Vinehall to start your new season, which will also be my final one as a performer. There are many wonderful artists to be seen and heard at Vinehall; ranging from the exceptional pianist Ingrid Fliter, to the wonderful London Mozart Players and talented young performers such as the Castalian Quartet. With London Conchord, the a capella group Apollo5 and the Bennewitz Quartet with Finghin Collins there will be many treats for the audience. Piers Lane and I very much look forward to meeting you again in October and I wish the Vinehall International Concert Series every success in its 31st season.”

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BENNEWITZ STRING QUARTETFINGHIN COLLINS (Piano)

Saturday June 6th 2020 at 7.30 p.m.

APOLLO5Saturday March 7th 2020 at 7.30 p.m.

INGRID FLITERSaturday May 2nd 2020 at 7.30 p.m.

Concertgoers are very welcome to picnic in the grounds before the concert and complimentary Pimms will be served at 6.40pm.

LONDON CONCHORDSaturday November 9th 2019 at 7.30 p.m.

Saint-Saëns ‘Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs’ Op.79 Respighi Adoration of the Magi arr. Pailthorpe Reicha Quintet for Winds Op. 88 in E flatPoulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat K. 452

Brahms Sonatensatz Schubert Sonatina No. 1 in D majorYork Bowen Sonata for Violin and PianoClara Schumann 3 Romances Op. 22Brahms Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Piano in D minor

In 2018 the Castalian Quartet received the prestigious inaugural Merito String Quartet Award & Valentin Erben Prize and won a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award. This season the Quartet give debut concerts in North America (Phillips Collection Washington D.C. and Lincoln Center New York), the Salle Bourgie in Montreal, Vancouver Recital Society, Konzerthaus Vienna, Theatre d’Orleons, Louvre in Paris, Flagey in Brussels and Lucerne. They appear regularly at Wigmore Hall in the main series and return to the Aldeburgh Festival and Saffron Hall.

Highlights over the last year have included performances of the complete Haydn Op.76 Quartets at Wigmore Hall, concerts in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Heidelberger Frühling, East Neuk, Zwischentöne Festival in Engelberg, Neuchatel Chamber Music in Switzerland and Banff International Festivals. Further afield they undertook tours of China and Colombia.

The Quartet has performed widely throughout Europe as part of the Hamburg Chamber Music Series, International Musikfest Goslar, Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, Quartet affairs in Frankfurt (broadcast by NDR), French festivals in Queille and Conques, the Aldeburgh, East Neuk, North Norfolk and Peasmarsh Festivals. In 2017 they were resident at the Esbjerg international Chamber Music Festival in Denmark, Festival Musique d’Été à Suzette near Avignon and Snape Maltings. They have collaborated with Nils Mönkemeyer, Alasdair Beatson, Simon Rowland-Jones, Daniel Lebhardt and Olivier Stankiewicz, among many others.

Formed in 2011, the Castalian Quartet studied with Oliver Wille (Kuss Quartet) at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media, graduating with a Master’s degree. Awards include 3rd Prize at the 2016 Banff Quartet Competition and 1st Prize at the 2015 Lyon Chamber Music Competition. The Quartet was selected by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2016.

“The real treat of the day came in a brilliant evening recital by the excellent Castalian Quartet (*****).... their unique style – a powerful individuality of sound matched by an instinctive singularity of musical intention – lit up every single moment... A terrific programme; amazing players. The Scotsman / East Neuk Festival / June 2018

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Britten Simple Symphony Haydn Cello Concerto No 2 in D solo: Sebastian Comberti Barber Adagio for Strings Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A major

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“A stunning, beautiful sound” BBC Radio 2

“they gave everything to their audience and produced an energetic and engaging performance.” The King’s Singers

***** “bristling, youthful economy” The Observer

O Radiant DawnFrom sacred music to pastoral, folk and spiritual repertoire as well as soul, jazz and pop Apollo5 explore the human journey through birth, love, struggle for survival, the end of life and reflection. Repertoire includes works by composers such as Byrd, Pérotin, James MacMillan, Morley, Gibbons, Schuman, Finzi, Ellington, The Beatles and Freddie Mercury. The programme includes arrangements which have been written for Apollo5 and also works composed especially for the group by contemporary composers such as Alexander Levine, Fraser Wilson and Graham Lack. The British vocal ensemble Apollo5 delights audiences with versatile and engaging performances on the concert platform, singing repertoire ranging from renaissance, classical and contemporary choral music to folk, jazz and pop. They frequently perform at their home in London, The Gresham Centre. Elsewhere in London they have performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Kings Place (for the London A Cappella Festival), the Barbican, the Houses of Parliament and Wembley Arena. Last season they undertook a month-long debut tour of the USA and in 2016 they made their south Asian debut, taking part in the Taipei International Choral Festival. Over the last two years they have given performances in Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Poland and Estonia. Apollo5 is part of the VCM Foundation, and leads its innovative education programme aiming to inspire creativity through music. Working alongside vocal ensemble VOCES8 and Paul Smith the programme reaches 40,000 young people annually across the world. Apollo5 has released albums with VCM Records, including “The Spirit Like a Dove”, music by Josquin des Prez performed with the Ingenium Ensemble; “With a Song in my Heart”, an album of folk, jazz and pop; “Journey” on the Edition Peters Sounds label featuring the group with former King’s Singer Paul Phoenix. A new album, “O Radiant Dawn”, will be released in May 2019.

Argentine pianist Ingrid Fliter has won the admiration and hearts of audiences around the world for her passionate yet thoughtful and sensitive music making played with an effortless technique. Winner of the 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, one of only a handful of pianists and the only woman to have received this honour, Ms. Fliter divides her time between North America and Europe. Recent and future highlights include orchestral engagements in Europe with Residentie, RSNO, SCO, Orchestre National de Lille, Brussels, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. In North America she appears with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood, Toronto, Vancouver, Oregon, St Louis, and elsewhere with Hong Kong, Auckland and WASO. In recital she appears at Wigmore Hall, the International Piano Series at the South Bank Centre, St Johns Smith Square, and Lisbon.

Ingrid’s two all-Chopin discs on EMI Classics are a testament to her reputation as one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Chopin today. Her recording of the complete Chopin Waltzes received five star reviews and was named the Daily Telegraph’s CD of the Week. It was chosen as Editor’s Choice in both Gramophone and Classic FM Magazine and was described in Gramophone, “Ingrid Fliter sets a new benchmark for the complete waltzes. From beginning to end, this is among the finest Chopin recordings of recent years.” (Jeremy Nicholas, Gramophone).

“Fliter plays with such grace and heartfelt sincerity… by whatever magical means, [she] touches the heart.” Gramophone

“Fliter has a natural, utterly compelling feel and flair for this music, its suppleness of pulse, its glow, its sparkle, its touching fragility and its forceful impetus.... In all respects, a remarkable disc.” Daily Telegraph, 5*

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The Bennewitz Quartet is well established as a leading international string quartet of the younger generation, with performances throughout the world in distinguished venues such as Wigmore Hall, London, the Frick Museum, New York, the Musikverein, Vienna, the Theatre du Champs-Elysees, Paris, the hall of the Conservatoire, Brussels, the Rudolfinum, Prague, and the Seoul Arts Centre. Festivals in which they have appeared include Salzburg, Lucerne, Lockenhaus and Prague Spring. Founded in 1998 at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and named after the renowned Czech violinist Antonin Bennewitz (1833-1926), the Bennewitz Quartet won numerous prizes, including the Czech Chamber Music Society Award and first prize at the Osaka and the Borciani competitions.

The Bennewitz Quartet is particularly known for its warmth, for the maturity and understanding it brings to all its repertoire and for exceptionally fine playing. Their recordings have received high praise, in particular for their “astonishingly mature and confidently balanced ensemble culture.” The quartet’s second CD of both string quartets of Smetana was called “simply phenomenal” by Klassic.com. A year later Supraphon released “Clarinet Quintets” with Ludmila Peterková and in 2012 a CD of Dvorak’s Cypresses, both the original songs and the string quartet arrangements, was released on Hänssler Classics. Their recording success continues with a CD of Dvorak’s 10th and 13th string quartets on the SWR Music label and a further planned recording of works by Ullmann, Haas, Schulhoff and Krasa.

One of Ireland’s most successful musicians, Dubliner Finghin Collins was born in 1977 and studied piano at the Royal Irish Academy of Music with John O’Conor and at the Geneva Conservatoire with Dominique Merlet. He achieved major international success by taking first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Switzerland in 1999. Since then he has developed a flourishing international career that takes him all over Europe, the United States and the Far East. Finghin has performed with many of the finest orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, and the CBSO, garnering consistent praise from critics and public alike. He has developed a close relationship with Claves Records in Switzerland, recording CDs of Schumann’s piano music (which won numerous awards including Gramophone’s Editor’s Choice in 2006), and a recording a CD of works for piano and orchestra by Charles V. Stanford. In May 2013 RTÉ lyric fm launched his recording of four Mozart piano concertos directed from the keyboard with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, while a new solo Chopin CD came out out in 2017, a co-production between RTÉ lyric fm and Claves. In 2020 a new CD of the Mozart piano quartets with Hungarian musicians Kristóf Bárati (violin), Mate Szücs (viola) and István Várdai (cello) will be released by Claves.

Winner of Classic Prague Award 2019 for the Best Chamber Music Performance of the year

The Vinehall Concert Series, now in its 31st year, continues to bring the best of both British and international musicians to East Sussex. Performances take place in a purpose-built 250 seat theatre with superb piano and intimate acoustic which is ideal for chamber music.

“The London supergroup... playing with panache, wit and discreet sensitivity in performances that are a constant joy.” Gramophone

“Each one is obviously a consummate solo artist, together, in whatever combination, their performance moved to a higher plane. The rapt attention and the complete involvement of the whole audience was obvious from start to finish.” Hawkes Bay Today, New Zealand

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The London Mozart Players, the UK’s longest established chamber orchestra, is thrilled to be celebrating its 70th birthday in 2019. Founded in 1949 by Harry Blech to delight audiences with the works of Mozart and Haydn, the orchestra is known for its unmistakable British roots. Over the last seventy years, the LMP has developed an outstanding reputation for adventurous, ambitious programming from Baroque through to genre-crossing contemporary music, and continues to build on its long history of association with many of the world’s finest artists including Sir James Galway, Dame Felicity Lott, Jane Glover, Howard Shelley, Nicola Benedetti, John Suchet and Simon Callow.

The orchestra enjoys an international reputation, touring extensively throughout Europe and the Far East, most recently Dubai and Hong Kong, and records frequently for Naxos, Chandos and Hyperion Records. The London Mozart Players regularly performs on London’s premier concert platforms, including the Royal Festival Hall, St John’s Smith Square and Cadogan Hall as well as cathedrals and other concert venues across the UK. LMP is the only professional orchestra in the UK to be managed both operationally and artistically by the players. The orchestra has enjoyed the patronage of HRH The Earl of Wessex since 1988.

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Haydn String Quartet in F, Op.77 No.2 Beethoven String Quartet in B flat, Op.18 No.6 Dvorak String Quartet in A flat, Op.105 (1895)

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Beethoven Sonata op.31 n.3 in E flatBeethoven Sonata op.31 n.2 in D minorSchumann Symphonic Etudes op. 13

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Mozart Piano Concerto in G K.414 (arr: for piano and quartet)Janáček String Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata”Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major, Op. 81

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Tasmin Little has firmly established herself as one of today’s leading international violinists. She has performed in some of the most prestigious venues of the world, including Carnegie Hall, Musikverein, Concertgebouw, Philharmonie Berlin, Vienna Konzerthaus, South Bank Centre, Barbican Centre and Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center and Suntory Hall. Her multi-award winning and varied career encompasses international concerto and recital performances, master classes, workshops and community outreach work. Tasmin’s discography and performance schedule reflect her wide-ranging repertoire and she has given numerous World Premiere performances. Tasmin’s recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto with Sir Andrew Davis, the Britten Concerto with Edward Gardner have received great critical acclaim, as have her many recordings with Martin Roscoe and Piers Lane. Tasmin Little has received numerous honours and awards for her contribution to the musical life of this nation including being appointed OBE in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Birthday Honours List in 2012, for Services to Music. In January 2019, Tasmin made the announcement that, after a long and exciting career, she has decided to pursue new directions from Summer 2020. Therefore, this concert marks her final appearance at Vinehall and one of her last as a performer.

London-based Australian pianist Piers Lane stands out as an engaging and highly versatile performer, at home equally in solo, chamber and concerto repertoire. Previous seasons saw Piers Lane perform three different concerti at Carnegie Hall, and the world premiere of Carl Vine’s Double Piano Concerto in Australia. Highlights in 2018/19 include tours of New Zealand with the New Zealand String Quartet, and of Australia with Tasmin Little, as well as three new recording projects. Five times soloist at the BBC Proms, Piers Lane’s concerto repertoire exceeds ninety works. He has recorded over sixty CDs, primarily with Hyperion Records. His most recent releases are piano concertos by Ferdinand Ries, a sonata disc with violinist Tasmin Little, and chamber works by Borodin, the ninth disc he has recorded with the Goldner String Quartet. Piers is the Artistic Director of the Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia. In the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Honours, he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia (AO).

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“The Castalian Quartet makes the simplest things we hear into the most important things we could ever want to hear.” Calgary Herald / Banff International Competition / September 2016

“Little can justly be regarded as Britain’s finest violinist” The Independent

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