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May 2013
16th/ 17th May 19:00pm
- Royal Academy Opera
- Royal Academy of Music Sinfonia
- Iain Ledingham conductor (Purcell)
- Lionel Friend conductor (Maxwell Davies)
- John Ramster director
- Purcell Dido and Aeneas
- Peter Maxwell Davies The Lighthouse
May 2nd 2013
- 2nd May 8.00 pm
- Royal Academy of Music - Duke's Hall
- Academy Student Union Orchestra
- Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie
- Shostakovich Festive Overture
- Conducted by James Murray
Come and see Academy students, past and present, joined on stage by some of our illustrious teaching staff, including principals of the top London orchestras, perform an epic programme
May/2013
- Wednesday, 1st May, 6:00pm
Bartholdy Quartet
- Arensky Quartet
Lukas Hank (violin)
Joe Bronstein (viola)
Laura Hammonds (cello)
Kei Takumi piano
Sam Watts jazz piano
Louis van der Westhuizen and Laurence Ungless double bass
Programme to include:
Dowland arr. Joanna MacGregor Lute Songs: Forlorn Hope Fancy; Mr Dowland’s Midnight; Can She Excuse
Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, op.57
Academy jazz and classical players collaborate to trace a line from Dowland’s late-night, bluesy melancholy to Shostakovich’s penetratingly dark and virtuosic Piano Quintet.
April/2013
- 29th April, 13:00pm
- St Martin within Ludgate
- Violinist: Nicole Crespo
- Pianist: Chad Vindin
- Programme:
- Schinntke: Suite in Old Style
- Minue
- Fugue
- Prokofiev: Sonata no2 in D Major op94a
- Sarasate : Zigeunerweisen
http://www.stmartin-within-ludgate.org.uk/public/events.php
March/2013
Arensky String Quartet
Nicole Crespo O'Donoghue (violin),
Lukas Hank (violin),
Joe Bronstein (viola),
Laura Hammonds (cello)
Lukas Hank (violin),
Joe Bronstein (viola),
Laura Hammonds (cello)
- 27th March, --:-- pm, Weymouth (UK)
- (programme details to be published)
- 22nd March, 13:00 pm, The Salvation Army Regent Hall, 275 Oxford Street, London W1C 2DJ (opposite BHS)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, KV 465 , nicknamed "Dissonance"
- Edvard Grieg, String quartet in G minor, Opus 27
11th March, 19:30, LONDON'S ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB,
The Anglo-Spanish Society flagship Gala Dinner, with guest of honour the Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson
The Anglo-Spanish Society flagship Gala Dinner, with guest of honour the Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson
Academy Symphony Orchestra
- 1st March, 19:30 pm, Royal Academy of Music, Duke's Hall
- Academy Symphony Orchestra
- Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor
- Messiaen Les offrandes oubliées
- Grigorios Giamougiannis new work (world premiere)
- Ravel Rapsodie espagnole
- Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, op.35
February/2013
Arensky String Quartet
Nicole Crespo O'Donoghue (violin), Lukas Hank (violin), Joe Bronstein (viola), Laura Hammonds (cello)
Arensky String Quartet
- 13th February, 17:05 pm. Royal Academy of Music, Henry Wood Room
- Edvard Grieg, String quartet in G minor, Opus 27, (4 movs)
Academy Concert Orchestra
- 1st February, 1:05 pm, Royal Academy of Music, Duke's Hall
- Academy Concert Orchestra
- Edward Gardner conductor
- Elgar Symphony no.1 in A flat, op.55
Edward Gardner, President of the Academy’s Alumni Network and Music Director of English National Opera, makes a welcome return to the Academy to conduct the Concert Orchestra in a performance of Elgar’s evocative and highly dramatic First Symphony.
January/2013
Solo recital
- Thursday 3rd January 2013
- Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, 369 Fulham Road
London SW10 9NH, LONDON (U.K.)
December/2012
Christmas event
Christmas Music in the GPO, Dublin, Ireland
- As Nicole has done in the last few years, she will join again Noel Carroll in the GPO Christmas week live lunchtime concerts.
- This year 2.012 celebrates the 21st year of traditon for many Dubliners and tourists visiting and listening to the wonderful Christmas Music and Carols played live in this wonderfull historical building.
November/2012
Royal Academy Opera: La vera costanza
- 19th, 22nd,23rd and 26th November, 07:00 pm
- Royal Academy Opera
- Royal Academy Sinfonia
- Trevor Pinnock conductor
- Jamie Hayes director
- Programme Information: Haydn La vera costanza, Hob.XXVIII:8
SOLO Recital (violin & piano)
- 16th November St. BRIDE'S Church, Fleet St., LONDON (U.k.)
- Shostakovich, Romance from the "Gadfly"
- J. Brahms, Sonata no3 in D minor Op.108
SOLO Recital
- 4th November HARVEY NICHOLS,
- Grand Avenue,
- THE AVENUES, KUWAIT (KW)
October/2012
Philharmonia Orchestra
- ELGAR ‘THE DREAM OF GERONTIUS’
- Smith Square Autumn Festival 10th-14th OCT,
- Saturday, 13 October, 2012 - 19:30 In aid of The Three Choirs Festival
- Programme Information: ElgarThe Dream of Gerontius
Academy Concert Orchestra
- 12th October, 1:05pm, Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music Academy
- Jac van Steen conductor
- Weber Overture to Der Freischütz
- Dvorák Symphony no.8 in G, op.88
Melos Sinfonia
- 04th October, 08:00 pm, Rosslyn Hill Chapel, Pilgrims Place, London (UK)
- Oliver Zeffman, conductor
September/2012
SALIERI String Quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
- 29th September, 20:00 pm, Shine London 2012, Shine Cancer Research, , LONDON (U.K.) as part oftheir marathon "entertainment"
SOLO Recital (violin & piano)
- 17th June, 15:00 pm, The FOUNDLING Museum, Bloomsbury, LONDON (U.K.)
- W.A. Mozart, sonata in G major k301
- Manuel de Falla, Spanish Dance
- Ludwig van Beethoven, violin sonata op30 no3
- Franz Schubert, Serenade
- Vittorio Monti, Czardas
May/2011
- 11th May, 1:05 pm, Royal Academy of Music Academy, Duke's Hall
- Academy Concert Orchestra
- Semyon Bychkov conductor
- Mahler Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor
Semyon Bychkov, in his new position as Otto Klemperer Chair of Conducting at the Academy, conducts the Academy Concert Orchestra in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. For tickets check the Academy’s Box Office.
- 15th March, 19:30pm, St. John’s, Smith Square Church, London
- Paganini, violin concerto no1
- Shostakovich, chamber symphony op110
The United Strings of Europe and the International Organization for Migration host a concert to raise funds for European victims of human trafficking.
Festival MusicaSète
- UNITED STRINGS OF EUROPE
- 10th March, 20:30pm, Eglise Saint Louis à Sète (France)
- Paganini, violin concerto no1
- Shostakovich, chamber symphony op110
- 11 March, 17:00pm, Eglise Saint Louis à Sète (France)
- Mozart, Requiem
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- 7th March, 1:05pm, Royal Academy of Music Academy, Duke's Hall
- Academy Concert Orchestra
- Sir Mark Elder conductor
- Clifton Harrison viola
- Berlioz Harold en Italie, op.16
For tickets check the Academy’s Box Office.
ORCHESTRAL CANVAS
- 2nd March, 1:05pm, Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music Academy
- Christopher Austin conductor
Free, no tickets required
February/2012
- 7th February - SOLO RECITAL, Concert for Children - Music in Community Project, LONDON (U.K.) (programme details to be published)
January/2012
- 27th January - Academy Symphony Orchestra, 7:30pm Duke's Hall
- Yan Pascal Tortelier conductor
- Breffni O’Byrne new work (world premiere)
- Schumann Symphony no.3 in E flat, op.97, ‘Rhenish’
- Hindemith Kammermusik no.1 with Finale 1921, op.24 no.1
- Strauss Symphonic Fantasy on Die Frau ohne Schatten, op.65
November/2011
SOLO Recital (violin & piano) and piano Trio
SOLO Recital (violin & piano)
- 17th November ST. MARY's Church, Aylesbury 12:45
St Mary's Square
Aylesbury
Bucks http://www.aylesburyvaledc.gov.uk/events/details/3536/
SOLO Recital (violin & piano)
- 08th November St. BRIDE'S Church, Fleet St., LONDON (U.k.) (programme details to be published)
- 4th November, 1:05 pm, Academy Concert Orchestra, Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music Academy
- Trevor Pinnock conductor
- Programme to include: Mendelsshon: Overture, Scherzo and Nocturne from Midsummer's night dream, Rossini: Bel raggio lusinghier from Semiramide, Schubert: Symphony no.5 in B flat, D.485
St Johns Hospice, LONDON (U.K.), supporting violin solo performance
- for residents and relatives only.
October/2011
- 14th October, 12:30 pm, Duke’s Hall, Royal Academy of Music Academy
- Conferment of Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music Academy Concert Orchestra
- Christian Thielemann conductor
- Strauss Don Juan, op.20
August/2011
Church of the Immaculate Conception, Ashbourne, co. Meath (Ireland),
- 28th August, Violin and piano, religious music.
July/2011
SOLO Performance with BILBAO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
W.A. Mozart, Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major
- 09th July, 20:30 Iglesia de la Purísima Concepción, GORLIZ, Bizkaia (Spain)
- 20th July, 20:00 Iglesia de Andra Mari, BAKIO, Bizkaia (Spain)
- 21st July, 20:30 Lizeo Antzokia, GERNIKA, Bizkaia (Spain)
SANTANDER (Spain), XI Encuentro de Música y Academia.
The Freixenet Encuentro Symphony Orchestra, Péter Csaba, Conductor
07th JULY -20:30 h Concierto del Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander, Teatro Concha Espina, Torrelavega
08th JULY -20:30 h Concierto de Inauguración, Sala Argenta, Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria
25th DE JULIO -20:00 h - SOLO RECITAL, violin & piano, Palacio de Sobrellano, COMILLAS
The Encounter of Music and Academy will gather in Santander renowned maestros of each instrument and outstanding young European musicians. Throughout a month professors and students will be working in the classroom and will share the stage. It is a great musical fiesta that will open with the Encounter’s Orchestra, followed by 60 concerts throughout the region of Cantabria. There will also be solo recitals, although ensemble music will prevail - either chamber or orchestral music.
07th JULY -20:30 h Concierto del Encuentro de Música y Academia de Santander, Teatro Concha Espina, Torrelavega
08th JULY -20:30 h Concierto de Inauguración, Sala Argenta, Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Egmont Overture, op.84
- Johannes Brahms, Concert Nº. 1 for piano & orchestra
- Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 4
- C. Saint-Saëns, Septet in Mi bemol Mayeur (min.01:50:00) for trompeta, piano, two violins, viola, cello and double bass
- Antonin Dvořák, "Dumky" Piano trio No. 4 in E Minor (min.10:42) for piano, violin and cello.
25th DE JULIO -20:00 h - SOLO RECITAL, violin & piano, Palacio de Sobrellano, COMILLAS
- Pablo Sarasate, Caprice Basque
- Manuel de Falla, Spanish Dance
- Ludwig van Beethoven, violin sonata
- Henryk Wieniawski, Souvenir de Mouscou
- Schubert- Mahler, 'Death and the Maiden' (La muerte y la doncella), cuartet nº 14 in Re minor, for two violins, viola and cello.
The Encounter of Music and Academy will gather in Santander renowned maestros of each instrument and outstanding young European musicians. Throughout a month professors and students will be working in the classroom and will share the stage. It is a great musical fiesta that will open with the Encounter’s Orchestra, followed by 60 concerts throughout the region of Cantabria. There will also be solo recitals, although ensemble music will prevail - either chamber or orchestral music.
Sunday Independent, Dublin (Ireland), Xmas, 19-12-2010
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Ashbourne Summer Music Series: August 16th to September 06th, 2009. The series consists of four Sunday evening concerts in August/September. The first concert on Sunday 16th August sees young Spanish violinist, Nicole Crespo O’Donoghue play a virtuoso programme of violin masterpieces, ranging from works by Falla, Sarasate and Wieniawski to the well-loved Londonderry Air in a beautiful arrangement by Kreisler. Nicole has been coming to Ashbourne every summer for years and embarks on a professional performance degree in London this autumn. Having won every major violin prize competition in her native country, this is Nicole’s first recital in Ireland. |
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Ashbourne Summer Music Series : August 16th to September 06th.
“Ashbourne Summer Music Series” is a series of concerts featuring young professional musicians and hosted by Ashbourne Church Choir in celebration of their 30 years in the parish. The four August/September concerts (two remaining at the time of posting this blog) are as follows;
A few photographs of Nicole performing from the first concert on August 16th below to set the scene …… |
