Bromsgrove Concerts promotes high-quality chamber music concerts.

All our concerts are held on Friday evenings at 8pm in Artrix, the new arts centre in Bromsgrove.

The 2007-2008 season has now finished.

The 2008-2009 season will be our 46th and will, as usual, include a wide variety of chamber music, ranging from the early to the contemporary. The first concert is on 10th October.

Highlights of the season are the Coull Quartet with David Smith on 10th October and the Smith Quartet on 27th February.

A subscription to Bromsgrove Concerts offers very good value for money. A full price subscription costs just £78 and includes all 10 concerts - under £8 per concert. Concessions are available which make a subscription even more of a bargain (see ticket prices).

First Concerts In Our 2008-2009 Season

Coull Quartet The first concert in the season:

Coull Quartet with cellist David Smith

at 8pm on Friday 10th October

Their programme will be:

Kodaly Quartet No. 2 in D, op. 10
Beethoven Quartet in B flat, op. 18 no. 6
Schubert Quintet in C D956

This concert is a memorial to Fred Darley, who was Bromsgrove Concerts' treasurer for many years.


Ashley Wass The second concert in the season:

pianist Ashley Wass

at 8pm on Friday 14th November

His programme will be:

Beethoven Sonata in E flat, op. 31 no. 3
Bax Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor
Liszt Three Petrarch Sonnets
Franck Prélude, Choral et Fugue


Full details of 2008-2009 season   ·   Concert diary   ·   Ticket prices

Funding

Funding problems in 2007-2008 have meant a sharp decrease in our reserves. This makes it more difficult to plan ahead. We continue to seek additional sources of funding. In 2008 we have received funding from Arts Council England for a commission from Morgan Hayes and a workshop at North Bromsgrove High School by oboe and percussion duo new noise.

Our fundraisers have been searching for alternative sources of funding and we are very grateful to the following who have given us some additional support:

RVW Trust
Worcestershire County Council
Miss J B Albright's Grimley Charity

Full list of acknowledgments

Commissioning New Works

Bromsgrove Concerts has a well established record of commissioning new works. 

In the 2007-2008 season we were planning to commission a new piece for piano from Morgan Hayes which would have  been given its first performance by Stephen Gutman in his concert on 14th March. We had to abandon this commission due to lack of funding but instead Stephen included two pieces by Morgan Hayes in his programme: Puppet Theatre and Strides Book 1.

Rolf Hind's The Eye of Fire, which was commissioned by Bromsgrove Concerts for Rolf and the Duke Quartet to play at our Bartok Weekend in 2004, was broadcast on Radio 3's Hear and Now programme on 3rd February 2007. This was a recording made at the Wigmore Hall on 5th December 2006.

Bulb The 2006-2007 season's commission, Ed Bennett's For Marcel Dzama, has been recorded by the Fidelio Trio, who gave the first performance at their concert in Bromsgrove on 13th April 2007. 

It was released on the Fidelio Trio's CD Bulb: Irish Piano Trios on the NMC label on 4th February 2008.

Also on the CD are two other works which the Fidelio Trio played at their Bromsgrove concert: Donnacha Dennehy's Bulb and Deidre Gribbin's How to Make the Water Sound.

Full details can be found on the NMC website

Philip Cashian's Caprichos, which was commissioned by Bromsgrove Concerts in 2003, was broadcast on Radio 3's Hear and Now programme on 3rd November 2007.

Bromsgrove Concerts and Artrix

Artrix, the new arts centre in Bromsgrove, has been open since 2005 and we are using it for all our concerts.

This photograph of Artrix was taken on 13th April 2007 - click on it for a larger version.



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