The Honeymead Ensemble
Honeymead Festival 2012
Thursday April 19th - Exeter Cathedral -
for the Third Millennium Fund
Friday April 20th - St Michael's Church, Dulverton -
in support of Calvert Trust and D & S Hunt Club
Saturday April 21st - St Mary's Church, Taunton -
in support of Go Commando and in association with Taunton School
Tamsin continues her role as Artistic Director and this year has created a terrific piano trio with Tom Poster, piano, and Bartholomew LaFollette, cello
The programme for each concert will include two of the great masterpieces of the repertoire:-
Schumann - F major piano trio
Beethoven - Archduke piano trio
All concerts will be at 7.30 p.m.
The Honeymead Ensemble was created in 2007 by Tamsin Waley-Cohen, its artistic director. It brings together a group of young professional musicians to live and work together for a week of intense musical participation and preparation. They are based for the week at Honeymead, Tamsin's family's farm, in the centre of Exmoor.
This annual Festival of chamber music provides the musicians with an exceptional opportunity to study and explore in depth outstanding works in the chamber music repertoire while away from outside pressures.
The week concludes with three concerts in Devon and Somerset which are organised by and for the benefit of local charities. In 2007 they were organised with the Two Moors Festival, in whose October concerts Tamsin has frequently performed and Tamsin was joined by violinst Eyal Kless, violist Jon Thorne and pianist Leon McCauley. From 2008 the concerts have been organised independently in aid of local charities.
In 2010 and 2011 Ashfords solicitors have generously supported and sponsored the Honeymead Ensemble concerts.
In 2011 the Honeymead Ensemble will further develop its performances after this initial week by participating in other Festivals during the summer and autumn, beginning with the Budleigh Salterton Festival on 25th July 2011.
The week is supported by Honeymead Arts Trust, whose own fund-raising enables it to meet the cost of the musicians being together for the week, so that the proceeds of the tickets sold for the concerts they perform at the end of their week goes entirely to benefit of good causes in Devon and Somerset . Honeymead Arts Trust also makes donations to other music and theatre charities.
Honeymead Arts Trust.
Registered office: Honeymead, Simonsbath, Somerset TA24 7JX
Company no: 06292627 Charity No: 1121787
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 14,15,16 April 2011- 7.30 p.m.
Thursday 14th -St Mary's Church, Taunton, in aid of Go Commando, a charity supporting the Royal Marines, their families and dependants.
Friday 15th - Assembly Rooms, South Molton, in aid of Calvert Trust, an adventure activity centre for people with disabilities, and D &S Hunt Club
Saturday 16th - Cathedral Quire, Exeter, in aid of the Cathedral's Third Millennium Fund.
We are delighted that for 2011 all three concerts are supported by Ashfords, Solicitors.
The Honeymead Ensemble 2011 Programme combines two of the richest and most romantic works of the string chamber music repertoire. For the first time, in our fifth year, we have a string sextet - 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos - who will play two very substantial Romantic works.
The Brahms G major sextet, completed in 1865 and largely written at his summer retreat soon after he had bade farewell to his erstwhile fiancee, brilliantly shows how he used the classical models to create extraordinarily emotional and heartfelt music.
Schoenberg's Verklarte Nacht ,translated as Transfigured Night, is based on Richard Dehmel's poem which tells the story of a couple walking through the forest on a moonlit night, the woman revealing her secret that she is carrying a stranger's child. Composed in 1899 it is a High Romantic work; the morality of the poem and the music are both far ahead of their time, and the long single movement is tremendously powerful and moving.
The performers are all successful and rising young professionals, and we are confident that this year's music will be as exciting and moving as any we have yet heard from the Ensemble. They are:-
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (Founder and Artistic Director)
Emma Parker
violin
Alfredo Zamarra (he was a member of the 2009 ensemble)
Eniko Magyar
viola
Gemma Rosefield (she was a member of the 2010 ensemble)
Philip Higham
cello
Full ticket arrangements to follow - but please SAVE THE DATE now.
15th – 17th April 2010
St.Mary Magdalene Church,Taunton
In aid of St Margaret’s Somerset Hospice.
Assembly Rooms, South Molton,
In aid of D & S S H and The Calvert Trust
Chapter House,Cathedral Square, Exeter
In aid of Exeter Cathedral Third Millennium Fund
Violins – Tamsin Waley-Cohen
and Vlad Maistorovici
Viola – Joel Waterman
Cellos – Thomas Carroll and Gemma Rosefield
Halvorsen/Handel Passacaglia
Glazunov Quintet in A major opus 39
Schubert String Quintet in C major D.965
23rd – 25th April 2009
Assembly Rooms, South Molton
In aid of D & S S H and Air Ambulance
St.Mary Magdalene Church, Taunton
In aid of St.Margaret’s Somerset Hospice
St.James’s Church, Exeter
In aid of Exeter Leukaemia Fund
Violins – Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Alena Baeva
Violas – Sarah-Jane Bradley and Alfredo Zamarra
Cello – Richard Harwood
Mozart G Minor String Quintet
Mendelssohn B flat String Quintet
Brahms F Major String Quintet, op 88
10th – 12th April 2008
St.Mary Magdalene Church, Taunton
In aid of St.Margaret’s Somerset Hospice
Hatherleigh Community Centre
In aid of Exeter Leukaemia Fund
St.George’s Church, Dunster
In aid of D & S S H and Air Ambulance
Violins – Tamsin Waley-Cohen and Eyal Kless
Viola – Guy Ben-Zioni
Cellos – Adrian Brendel and John Myerscough
Beethoven Trio in C Minor op 9 no 3
Ravel Sonata for Violin and Cello
Schubert Cello Quintet