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MILNGAVIE Music Club's 68th season yet again features some of the world's finest musicians in its international concert series which consists of six performances in the town.
During 2009/2010 the club pays special tribute to the great tradition of Czech music, in honour of the 50th anniversary of the death of Bohuslav Martinu, one of the 20th century's most individual composers.
All concerts include masterpieces by Czech composers such as Dvorak and Janacek alongside a rich mix of chamber music from around the world.
In the last show of the season there will be a piano trio commissioned by the club from Bearsden composer Malcolm Lindsay, whose scores for TV and cinema have earned him a national reputation.
The series opens in October with a concert by the leading Czech string quartet, the Wihan Quartet, whose members this season celebrate 25 years playing together. Their all-Czech programme includes works by Janacek, Smetana and Dvorak. The outstanding young British pianist, Tom Poster, winner of the 2007 Scottish International piano competition, gives a piano recital in November, the centrepiece of which is Chopin's great B minor Sonata.
Hoot, winners of a coveted Tunnell Trust Award in 2008, and a formidably talented duo, perform a fascinating range of colourful music for flute and harp in December and in January, the brilliant young Armenian violinist Ani Batikian, is partnered by well-known Scotland-based pianist Gusztv Feny to give a recital which includes works by Beethoven and Martinu.
The multiple prizewinning Doric String Quartet, now established as one of the outstanding young quartets of its generation, will perform in February. Its programme includes the second of Jancek's intensely personal quartets and Schubert's beautiful Rosamunde Quartet.
Phoenix, an exciting new ensemble drawn from principal players in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, will perform in March. As a piano trio it will be doing the first performance of a newly commissioned work by Malcolm Lindsay and conclude its programme with Dvorak's well loved Piano Trio in F minor ('Dumky').
You are welcome to go and listen to music in a warm and friendly atmosphere, to meet the musicians, and enjoy a glass of wine at the interval. Concerts take place in Cairns Church, Milngavie or in Milngavie Town Hall, on Friday evenings at 7.30pm. Single tickets cost 10 for adults, 5 for students and school children get in for free, they are available from The Iron Chef, 5 Mugdock Road, Milngavie or at the venue on the night of a concert.
Subscription tickets to the whole series bring large concessions, phone 0141 942 3102, or e-mail enquiries@milngaviemusic.org.
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