Events marking the bicentenary of the birth of William Sterndale Bennett
Updated April 2016
January 2016
Article in Choir & Organ magazine
February
Article in the Gramophone magazine
5th
Oxford, Holywell Music Room at 7.30pm. String Quartet in G WO17. Villiers Quartet
Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm in the Weston Library Lecture Theatre
9th
Lansdowne Club, London at 7pm. Sonata in F minor Op 13. Hiroaki Takenouchi (piano)
11th
RAM Chamber Music Festival at 1.05pm. Songs Op 23
18th
RAM Chamber Music Festival at 1.05pm. Chamber Trio Op 26
19th
Cardiff University/National Museum of Wales, at 12.30pm. Fantasia in A Op 16. Olivia Sham (piano)
20th
Sheffield, Crucible Theatre at 1.30pm. Chamber Trio Op 26 with Ensemble 360
26th
RAM seminar at 2.30pm. Discussion on interactions between Mendelssohn, Piatti and WSB,
then at 6pm Sonata Duo Op 32. Olivia Sham (piano) and Job ter Haar (cello)
29th
RAM Research presentation at 6pm on WSB as student, professor and principal
March
1st
RAM Lecture-Recital at 6pm. Victorian Virtuosity. WSB and Romantic Pianism. Olivia Sham (piano)
1st
Cambridge Faculty of Music West Road Concert Hall at 1.05pm. String Quartet in G WO17,
Three Romances Op 14, first movement of Piano Sextet Op 8.performed by members of the University Instrumental Award Scheme
5th
All Saints Parish Church, Orpington at 7.30pm Overture The Naiades Op 15 and Piano Concerto No 4 Op 19. Orpington Symphony Orchestra. Raymond Lewis (conductor) with David Owen Norris (piano soloist)
19th
All Saints Church, Esher. God is a Spirit from Op 44. The Ripieno Choir. David Hansell (director)
23rd
Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon. 1pm. Sonata No 2 'The Maid of Orleans' Op 46.
Rohan Stewart-MacDonald (piano)
24th
All Souls, Langham Place, London. Queen's College Founders Day Service. Selection from Preludes and Lessons Op 33, orchestral adaptation of Romance No 2 Op 14 and The Lake from Op 10;
and the Anthem God, who madest earth and heaven WO63.
April
Article in Fine Music FM102.5, Australia magazine and on their website
Article in the Yorkshire Post and Sheffield Telegraph
Museum of Music History website as Composer of the Month
Update of WSB entry in Wikipedia with special feature status
8th
Bodleian Library, Oxford. Display Case (on show until mid June)
10th
Conway Hall, London. 6.30pm Chamber Trio Op 26 and Sonata Duo Op 32. Galos Trio.
11th
Kuwait, Colleges of Basic Education, B11, Music Department, Room F36. Lecture-Recital
Preludes and Lessons Op 33; a Practical Consideration by Dr Sana'a Alsaif
11th-16th
BBC Radio 3 Composer of the Week with Donald MacLeod
13th (The 200th Birthday)
Oxford Convocation House at 1pm. Sonata Op 46. David Owen Norris (piano) and selection of songs
from Ops 23 & 35. Mark Wilde (tenor)
13th
ClassicFM at 8pm with David Mellor
16th
Ecclesall Parish Church, Sheffield 7.30pm Songs from Ops 23 & 35, Partsongs: Come live with me WO 47
and Sweet Streams WO78; Anthems: God is a Spirit from the Woman of Samaria Op 44, In thee O Lord WO84, Lord who shall dwell in Thy tabernacle WO57, Now my God, Let, I beseech Thee WO72.
The Sterndale Singers, Robert Webb (director), David Watkin-Holmes (tenor), Jonathan Gooing (piano)
16th
Stockport Town Hall at 7.30pm Overture The May Queen Op 39.Stockport Symphony Orchestra.
Wyn Davies (conductor)
18th
RAM. Display Case (on show until end September August)
21st
Christ Church URC Marlow U3A Music Appreciation Group at 10am. Bicentenary concert Keith Bartlett (Lecturer) Robert and Ruthie Cheung (piano).
19-24th
Britannia in Bamberg Festival, Germany. Selection from songs Ops 23 & 35, and Anthem I will love thee O Lord from Sacred Cantata The Woman of Samaria Op 44
23rd
Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, nr Guildford in collaboration with the RAM. 1.30pm. A conference-festival: The Historical Pianist. Piano Sextet Op 8
May
1st
Schumann-Haus Zwickau at 5pm. Sextet Op 8 with Chamber Group from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
4th
Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, nr Guildford at 12 noon. Fantasia in A Op 16. Olivia Sham (piano)
8th
Woking HG Wells Centre at 7.30pm . Quartet in G WO17. Holywell String Quartet
11th May
Schumann-Haus, Zwickau at 5pm. Piano Sonata No 1 Op 13. Thomas Synofzik (piano)
28th
Dorchester Abbey near Oxford. English Music Festival. 5pm. Pre-concert talk by Barry Sterndale-Bennett
29th
Dorchester Abbey near Oxford. English Music Festival.7pm. Two partsongs: Come live with me WO47 and
Sweet Stream WO78, City of London Choir. Hilary Davan Wetton (conductor)
June
Article in the Journal of the British Music Society
Article in BBC Music Magazine
1st
Cobbe Collection, Hatchlands Park, nr Guildford. 12 noon Sonata Duo Op 32 Adrian Bradbury (cello) and Oliver Davies (piano)
12th June
Lindersaal Koncert Hall , Leipzig at 5pm. Sextet Op 8 with the Chamber Group from the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
12th
Ushaw College, Durham at 7.30pm. Overture The Woodnymph Op 20. Cipriani Orchestra. Lewis Wilkinson (conductor)
18th June
Schumann-Haus, Leipzig at 3.30pm. Sonata Duo Op 32. Christian Giger (cello) and Yuka Kobayashi (piano)
July
Article in BRIO, the journal of IAML(UK and Ireland)
Article in Hudobny Zivot, the Slovak music magazine by David Conway
1-4th
Pennsylvania State University. Matthay Piano Festival. Special presentation by Terry McRoberts
8th
St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Church, Holborn, London. Partsong Come live with me WO47.
Londinium Chamber Choir. Andrew Griffiths (conductor)