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)

August
2nd
Ambleside Parish Church, Lake District Summer Music Festival. Fantasia in A major Op 16 and Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques Op 13 (connected by their reciprocal dedications). Andrew Brownell (piano)

5th
Ulster Hall, Belfast 7.45pm. Piano Concerto No I Op 1. Ulster Orchestra with Howard Shelly (soloist and conductor). Broadcast by BBC Radio 3 Summer Invitation series.

14th
Geelong College, Australia. 3pm. Chamber Trio Op 26. Trio Anima Mundi with Rochelle Ughetti (violin),
Noella Yan (cello) and Kenji Fujimura (piano),

20th
Husum Music Festival, Germany. Fantasia Op 16. Florian Noack (piano)

28th
Annenkirche, Dresden. Partsong: Come live with me WO47. RBS Europa Choir. Jeremy Jackman (conductor)

September
4th
Holy Trinity Anglian Church East Melbourne, Australia. 3pm. Chamber Trio Op 26. Trio Anima Mundi with Rochelle Ughetti (violin), Noella Yan (cello) and Kenji Fugimura (piano)

10th
Indian Summer in Levoca Festival, Slovakia. Minorities Church, 3pm. A choral selection

12th
Indian Summer in Levoca Festival, Slovakia. Congress Hall. 7pm. Six songs Op 35 with Jacob Vad (baritone)
and Elizabeth Nielsen (piano)

13th
Indian Summer in Levoca Festival, Slovakia. Congress Hall. 7pm. Chamber Trio Op 26 with Igor Karsko (violin), Joseph Luptak (cello) and Jonathan Powell (piano)

30th
CBSO Centre, Birmingham. 1.10pm. Chamber Trio Op 26. Trio Severn with Zoe Beyers (violin),
Powell (cello) and Robert Markham (piano)

October
2nd
Turner Sims Theatre, University of Southampton, 2.30pm-6.30pm. Sterndale Bennett Discovery Day with Belinda Williams (mezzo soprano), Mark Wilde (tenor), Kay Bircher (flute), Caroline Balding (violin), Jonathan Byers (violincello) and David Owen Norris (Broadwood Grand Pianoforte)

15th
St Peter's Church Stockbridge, Sonata No 2 Op 46, David Owen Norrie (piano).

November
Article planned to be published in Nineteenth-Century Music Review
Article planned to be published in the Journal of the Royal College of Organists

3rd
Mendelssohn Festival, Aarau, Switzerland. Overture The Naiades Op 15 and Symphony in G minor Op 43. Argovia Philharmonic Orchestra. Douglas Bostock (conductor)

2017
March
25th
URC Southernhay, Exeter Piano Concerto No 4 Op 19. Exeter Symphony Orchestra. Richard Deering (piano) Brian Northcott (conductor)
 
In addition
Illustrated lectures by Barry Sterndale-Bennett will be given to the following organisations associated with Federation of Recorded Music Societies:
Carshalton 13 October 2015, Leicester 10th November, Godalming 15th January 2016 , Sheffield 15th April, Banstead 21st April, Epsom 13th September, Croydon 16th September, Bookham 22nd September,
Kidderminster 28th October and Orpington 14th November
Also for the Friends of the London Mozart Players in Croydon on 26th September.

Details of a number of recordings to be advised later