Friends of the Painted Church

The Running of the Deer: Granta Chorale bring Christmas to The Painted Church with their annual concert of seasonal music featuring carols old and new, including music by Poulenc, Rutter, Warlock, Weir and many more. The concert will première the winning entry in their Carol Competition, setting The Refugee Carol, a newly commissioned poem by Moyra Tourlamain. Doors will open at 6:30 pm, and the bar will have mulled wine and mince pies before the concert and during the half hour interval. There will be a retiring collecting for Jimmy’s, a community-based charity providing both support and housing to people who are rough sleeping. More on Granta Chorale here: www.grantachorale.org.uk

Flutes, Virtuosity and Belcanto The much anticipated return to The Painted Church of virtuoso flautists Claudi Arimany and Eduard Sánchez, accompanied by Pedro José Rodríguez, piano. The programme will include works by Mozart, Verdi and Rossini

Early and Contemporary works for solo recorder, with piano accompaniment for one piece, including CP Bach' s Flute sonata in A minor, and works by Giovanni Bassano, Fumiharu Yoshimine, GP Telemann, Dani Howard, Paul Leenhouts and Norman Fulton. Mika Curson is a final-year music student at Jesus College. She is heavily involved in Cambridge’s student performance scene as both a recorder player and cellist and was previously a choral scholar in Jesus College Choir. Mika is currently Co-President of Jesus College Music Society and Orchestral Representative for the Cambridge University Opera Society. John Zhang is a third-year music student and senior organ scholar of St Catharine's College. His formative musical years were spent at the Junior Royal Academy of Music, and he has had organ scholarships at various places – he started out in St. Giles Cripplegate, spent his sixth form at Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal, St. James’ Palace and his gap year at Liverpool Cathedral.

Shirley Turner, violin; Peter Mallinson, viola; Lynn Arnold, piano Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Ah, vous dirai-je maman John Alexander - Soft Rains (world premiere) Thomas Dunhill - Phantasy

Accorde Chamber Choir - Andrew Foxley, conductor "A Parliament of Poets" A choral celebration of words by English and American poets. The third concert of October Fest 2024 sees the return of Accorde Chamber Choir.

Rosie was one of the players with Britten Sinfonia at last years' Opus 1 Showcase concert for new composers, and we quickly took the oppportunity to book her for this October Fest recital, where she will be playing: Twelve Waltzes for Solo Double Bass, by Domenico Dragonetti

Launching October Fest 2024 The Mitchison Ensemble return with a programme featuring 'one of the miracles of nineteenth-century music', Mendelssohn's String Octet in E-flat major. The programme will also include two works by Paula Muldoon: Ciaccona Opus 8 number 1, and Waiting Opus 8 number 2