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 2009-2010 season is our 47th and includes, as usual, a wide variety of chamber music, ranging from the early to the contemporary.

Highlights of the season are Psappha on 15 January and the Maggini Quartet on 5th February.

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

Forthcoming in the 2009-2010 Season

Mark Bebbington Mark Bebbington piano

at 8pm on Friday 26 February

Ivor Gurney Sehnsucht
The Sea
Prelude in D Flat
Howard Ferguson Piano Sonata in F minor
John Ireland Sarnia An Island Sequence
Frank Bridge Piano Sonata

Full details of 2009-2010 season   ·   Concert diary   ·   Ticket prices

Dates for Next Season

(some programmes still to be finalised)

2010
8 October Rivoli String Quartet
29 October Timothy Orpen clarinet, Gemma Rosefield cello
and Simon Lepper piano
19 November Leon McCawley piano
3 December London Harpsichord Ensemble
 
2011
14 January t.b.a.
4 February Royal String Quartet
25 February Boult String Quartet
(Quartet in Residence at Birmingham Conservatoire)
with Chen Chen piano
25 March Atrium String Quartet

Funding

Funding problems in 2007-2008 and subsequent seasons have meant a sharp decrease in our reserves. This makes it more difficult to plan ahead. We continue to seek additional sources of funding.

We are grateful to the Elmley Foundation for the funding which they have provided to support the current season.

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 2008. Unfortunately we had to abandon this commission due to lack of funding.

However, in the 2008-2009 season, thanks to funding from Arts Council England, we were able to commission Morgan to write a new work for string quartet called Dances on a Ground, which was performed by the Smith Quartet on 27 February 2009.

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.

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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