Warrington Concert Series

King George VII (with score) This piece was written upon the request of George Blakesley, a brilliant clarinet player who premiered this piece, along with the pianist Jonathan Fisher, at...

We extend our heartfelt thanks to our incredible performers, whose exceptional talent made the first Warrington Concert Series truly memorable. Our audience enjoyed original compositions, classical improvisations and emerging young talent.

Our deep gratitude also goes to our dedicated volunteers and our wonderful audience, whose presence made it all possible.

Thank you for supporting live classical and jazz music.

We look forward to bringing you more in the very near future 🎶

It's inspiring to see the brilliant range of musicians of all ages we have in Warrington! Last week, we held our first community concert, welcoming performers from 7 years old to adults. They showcased a wide variety of music, including original arrangements, jazz, classical and pop - a real display of hardwork and talent by all. 🎶

Stay tuned for video highlights, and exciting plans for our next concert are already underway.

A huge thank you to those who have generously shared their thoughts and feedback with us following our recent concerts, both via email and our survey.

It really helps us to refine and plan for future events. 🎶 It’s been wonderful to hear how much you enjoyed the music.

If you not had the chance to complete the survey yet, there’s still time to do so. it’ll take less than 5 minutes!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RVJY8Z8

That’s a wrap on our first Warrington Concert Series! We hope you’ll agree it’s been a fantastic 5 days of events, with a varied and exciting programme from some incredibly talented musicians 🎶

A huge thank you to all involved who helped us to organise the concerts and to those who attended for supporting live classical music.

If you attended one or more of our events, we’d love to hear your feedback to help us plan for our next season.

Please do share your thoughts with us, or leave us a Facebook review: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RVJY8Z8

We’re all set for our final concert of the season at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery 🎶 our audience are in for a fantastic evening of piano and clarinet music from composers such as Brahms, Liszt and Chopin - and a world debut of an original composition, ‘King George VII’ by Will Sharland performed by George Blakesley 🎶🎉

Join us this evening for an early evening special performance of classical voice repertoire with Thalie Knights and Nico De Villiers.

Doors open 6.30pm
Starts 7pm
📍Wycliffe Church, Bewsey St, Warrington

*please note Thalie will replace Jessica Hopkins who unfortunately had to stand down due to ill health*

Reserve your seat today, we’d love to you see there.

🎫https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets/p/soprano-soloist-sunday-2nd-june

Programme:

L'Étranger

Trois Chansons de Billitis – Claude Debussy
La flûte de Pan
La chevelure
Le tombeau des Naïades
The Fields are Full – Ivor Gurney
Go lovely Rose – Roger Quilter
Earth's Call – John Ireland

Shéhérazade – Maurice Ravel
Asie
La flûte enchantée
L'indifférent
*interval*

Quatre poèmes hindous — Maurice Delage
Bénarès: Naissance de Bouddha
Jeypur: Si vous pensez à elle
Lahore: Un sapin isolé
Madras: Une belle

Sea pictures – Edward Elgar
Sea Slumber Song
In Haven
Sabbath Morning at Sea
Where Corals Lie
The Swimmer

Yesterday we enjoyed a fantastic afternoon at our community concert with Warrington Piano Academy - bringing together pianists of all ages and skill levels from across our town.

The audience were treated to a wide variety of music, including jazz, film, classical, and pop, with cello, violin, voice, and French horn amongst the mix too! A huge congratulations and thank you to everyone who took part and shared their talent and hard work with us, and to our brilliantly supportive audience. 🎶🎹👏🎉

Tonight’s concert is off to a wonderful start with the brilliant Aestus Quartet 🎶

Performer update 🎶

Due to illness Jessica Hopkins has unfortunately had to cancel due to illness and is being substituted by the wonderful Thalie Knights with an exciting new programme of vocal repertoire.

Head to the comment section for the updated programme.

About Thalie Knights…

Praised for her “impressive control and poise” (Early Music Today) and her “commanding stage presence”
(Planet Hugill), French bi-lingual Thalie trained with English National Opera on their distinguished Opera
Works programme (2014/15) and was a 2016 Britten-Pears Young Artist where she performed Bach
Cantatas under the guidance of tenor Mark Padmore. A finalist of the 2017 London Song Festival Lieder
competition, Thalie was personally selected by Malcolm Martineau to take part in his residential
masterclass series in Crear, Scotland, in January 2018. She is an alumna of the Royal Welsh College of
Music and Drama and is mentored by Dame Sarah Connolly.
Recent engagements include a festival debut at Buxton International Festival as
Marc'Antonio Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra, Turio Caio Fabbricio (London Early Opera) and the role of
Andronico Tamerlano (Cambridge Handel Opera Company). Piacere Il Trionfo del Tempo e del
Disginganno (Le Festival de musique du Périgord Noir), Prue The Dancing Master (The Malcolm Arnold
Festival), Hänsel Hänsel und Gretel (Trinity Orchestra and Lambeth Orchestra respectively) and a role
debut as Rose Across The Sky - a new commission for Cheltenham Music Festival which was subsequently
nominated for a Royal Philharmonic Society Award under 'Community Opera'. Thalie also sang the title
role in Handel's Agrippina and Zefka in The Diary of One Who Disappeared alongside tenor Tom Randle
(Dartington Arts Festival).
Thalie looks forward to making her 2023 Tête à Tête Opera Festival debut as soloist in The Golden Thread -
a contemporary cantata composed by Alice Beckwith for mezzo soprano and large chamber ensemble. In
2024 she will sing the title role in Zarqa al Yamama, a new commission by Australian Composer Lee
Bradshaw, conducted by Pablo Gonzalez in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
In concert, Ravel's Shéhérezade (City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra), Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (The
Whitehall Orchestra) and Rückert-Lieder (Lewes Symphony Orchestra). Thalie joined Julian Perkins in
performing a series of Handel Cantatas as part of the Cambridge Summer Music Festival, and performed a
recital series - L'étranger - with Nico de Villiers; repertoire including Ravel Shéhérezade,
Debussy Chansons de Bilitis and Delage Quatre poèmes hindous.

We’re looking forward to welcoming you to our first concert this evening!

Doors open from 7pm! Simply show your booking email on arrival 🎶

We can’t accept payments on the door but if you would like to reserve a seat and join us you can do so here: https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets

The first edition of Warrington Concert Series starts tomorrow! 🎶🎹🎻

Join us for 5 days of live classical and jazz concerts from Thursday 30th May - Monday 3rd June

What’s on:

🎶Thursday 30th May, Piano & Cello Recital
🎶Friday 31st May, An Evening of Jazz
🎶Saturday 1st June, Piano Quartet (piano and string quartet) concert
🎶Sunday 2nd June, Solo Soprano Recital
🎶Monday 3rd June, A Night at the Museum, intimate classical concert at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

Last chance to make your booking, we’d love to you there!👇

🎫 All access pass (£40) / single concerts £8 conc/£10 standard admission: https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets

Attending one (or more!) of our concerts this week? We've answered some commonly asked questions to help you prepare for your visit. 🎶

We can't wait to see you there!

Not made your booking yet? There's still time to join us.

Tickets from £5 children / £8 concessions and £10 standard: 🎫warringtonconcertseries.com

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**Final few tickets remaining**

Join us for an intimate evening of live classical music with a piano and clarinet recital at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery for the final night of the spring edition of Warrington Concert Series 🎹🎶

All are welcome so come along and enjoy works from popular composers such as Chopin and Liszt.

📅Monday, 3 June
📍 Museum & Art Gallery, Bold St,
Warrington WA1 1JG
⏰Doors open 7pm, performance starts 7.30pm

🎫concession tickets £8 / standard admission £10 https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets

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Join us for an early evening solo soprano recital on Sunday 2nd June.

In Landscapes of Love and Dreams, Jessica Hopkins (soprano) and Dr. Nico de Villiers (Deputy Head of Vocal Studies at RNCM) explore the different facets of relationships, ranging from the sometimes ill-matched lovers in Poulenc’s Fiancailles pour rire to the Symbolist explorations of Debussy’s Proses Lyriques.

All are welcome. We’d to love you see there. Standard tickets £10 / concessions £8.

📆Sunday 2nd June
📍Wycliffe URC Church, Bewsey Street, Warrington, WA2 7HZ
⏰Doors open: 6.30pm, performance begins at 7.00pm

🎫Tickets available here: https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets/p/soprano-soloist-sunday-2nd-june

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Aestus String Quartet and Jordi Bitlloch (piano) will perform an exciting (and slightly revised) programme of works from Haydn, Brahms and Schumann.

Whether you're a seasoned classical music lover or simply curious to experience something new, we invite you to come along and enjoy an evening of live music in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Saturday 1st June, 7.30pm

📍Wycliffe URC Church, Bewsey Street, Warrington, WA2 7HZ

🎫 £8 concessions / £10 standard admission.

Tickets available + full programme info available here:

Aestus String Quartet and Jordi Bitlloch (Piano) - Saturday 1st June — Warrington Concert Series Join us on Saturday evening at Warrington Concert Series for a piano quintet recital. Aestus String Quartet and Jordi Bitlloch will perform an exciting programme of works from JANÁČEK, Brahms and Schubert. Whether you're a seasoned classical music lover or simply curious, we invite you to come alo...

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Join us for an ‘Evening of Jazz’ night with the incredible piano and clarinet duo, Les Chisnall and Iain Dixon 🎶🎹

Friday 31st May, all are welcome.

If you’ve never experienced live jazz before, why not try something new or tag a friend you’d like to attend with. All of our concerts are relaxed and welcoming, we’d love to see you there!

🎫 Concession tickets £8 / standard admission £10: https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets

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Join us as part May Music Month in for 5 days of live classical and jazz concerts from Thursday 30th May - Monday 3rd June 🎶🎹🎻

What’s on:

🎶Thursday 30th May, Piano & Cello Recital
🎶Friday 31st May, An Evening of Jazz
🎶Saturday 1st June, Piano Quartet (piano and string quartet) concert
🎶Sunday 2nd June, Solo Soprano Recital
🎶Monday 3rd June, A Night at the Museum, intimate classical concert at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

Last chance to make your booking 👇

🎫 All access pass (£40) / single concerts £8 conc/£10 standard admission: https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets

The opening night of Warrington Concert Series begins next week on Thursday 30th May🎶🎼🎹

To start the event, we’re delighted to host three young prize-winning performers from - Royal Northern College of Music: Ho Chi Lam, Jakub Smola, and Juanjo Blázquez, for an evening of live piano and cello music.

With works from Beethoven, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, and more, it promises to be a fantastic evening.

Not got your ticket yet? Book here from £8/10 - all are welcome:

🎫🎶 https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets

We’d love to see you there!

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Arriving to Wycliffe Church via car for Warrington Concert Series | Classical & Jazz ? Parking outside the church is very limited! 🎶🚗

We recommend using one of the nearby car parks, which are just a short walk away. Golden Square Warrington is conveniently located and offers free parking after 4PM on Thursdays and after 6PM on other evenings. Additionally, parking is free all day on Sundays.

Alternatively the main bus station and central train station are just a few minutes walk away.🚶‍♀️

Just two weeks to go until our solo soprano recital with the wonderful Jessica Hopkins and Nico De Villiers (piano)🎶

A Buxton International Festival Young Artist for 2022 and 2023, Jessica’s opera roles include Giulia in La Scala di Seta (RNCM), Snow Maiden in The Snow Maiden (RNCM), Maria Bertram in Mansfield Park (RNCM), Cendrillon in Massenet’s Cendrillon (Bedfordshire Youth Opera), Clorinda in La Cenerentola (Aylesbury Opera), and Marianna in Il Signor Bruschino (Edinburgh Fringe).

🎫 Tickets on sale: https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets

📆Sunday 2nd June
📍Wycliffe URC Church, Bewsey Street, Warrington, WA2 7HZ
⏰Doors open: 6.30pm, performance begins at 7.00pm

Learn more about Jessica: https://jessicahopkins.co.uk

Two weeks to go! Join us as part May Music Month in for 5 days of live classical and jazz concerts from 30th May - 3rd June 🎶🎹🎻

What’s on:

🎶Thursday 30th May, Piano & Cello Recital
🎶Friday 31st May, An Evening of Jazz
🎶Saturday 1st June, Piano Quartet (piano and string quartet) concert
🎶Sunday 2nd June, Solo Soprano Recital
🎶Monday 3rd June, A Night at the Museum, intimate classical concert

🎫 All access pass (£40) / single concerts £8 conc/£10 standard admission: https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets

It’s just two weeks until our ‘Evening of Jazz’ night with the incredible piano and clarinet duo, Les Chisnall and Iain Dixon 🎶🎹

Join us Friday 31st May, all are welcome. If you’ve never experienced live jazz before, why not try something new!

🎫 Concession tickets £8 / standard admission £10.

Tickets on sale now: https://www.warringtonconcertseries.com/spring-2024-tickets