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Amersham Free Church
Woodside Road
Amersham
Buckinghamshire
HP6 6AJ
England
Programme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concerto no.13 in C major, K.415/387b
Ernest Bloch – Concerto Grosso no.1: 4th movement, Fugue
Antonio Vivaldi – Concerto for 4 violins in B minor, Op.3 no.10
George Frideric Handel – Concerto Grosso in C minor, Op.6 no.8 (HWV 326)
Igor Stravinsky – Concerto in D 'Basel'
Performers
Sam Laughton – Conductor / piano
Chiltern Camerata
Programme Note
Website http://www.chiltern-camerata.org.uk
The first concert in our 2015/16 season – our 20th season - is given over entirely to concertos, in which in which the members of the orchestra will combine as players and soloists.
Group tickets available at reduced rate of £8 – ring 01494 883112
Tickets are available from any of the following (there is no booking fee):
Tourist Information Offices in:
High Wycombe (Main Library);
Marlow (Institute Road);
Princes Risborough.
Music Shops:
The Record Shop, 37 Hill Avenue, Amersham
Perfect Pitch, 72, The Broadway, Chesham;
Rosehill Instruments, 64 London End, Beaconsfield;
Strings of Penn, Elm Road, Penn.
From the Hon. Secretary, Dick Morbey:
01494 883112 or richard.morbey@gmail.com
And on the door on the evening of the performance subject to availability.
The Chiltern Camerata
Formed in 1996, the Chiltern Camerata is an amateur string orchestra for adults which performs in the High Wycombe area. We are a non-profit organisation.
Our players include music professionals and advanced amateurs. Our objective is to share the enjoyment of music-making and to bring a wide range of music to our audiences. We stage three concerts per year and provide an opportunity for soloists to perform with an orchestra; we also raise money for charity. Often we combine with wind players, choirs and others to offer a wider range of music than the typical string repertoire. Recent performances have included the Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings in November 2013, Richard Strauss’s ‘Metamorphosen’ given in Autumn 2014 and the B Minor Mass in March 2015.
Sam Laughton (Conductor and soloist)
Sam Laughton has been The Chiltern Camerata’s Director of Music since 2009. Whilst reading music at Cambridge University, he developed his instrumental, conducting, and organisational skills as organ scholar of Sidney Sussex College. He now lives in a partly-restored old farmhouse in Speen, Buckinghamshire and somehow juggles his vital role as a father of four with busy careers as a barrister and a semi-professional musician. He is devoted to conducting and organising music camps at Pigotts, and is the musical director of The Elysian Singers of London, a leading chamber choir with whom he has made frequent appearances on radio and television, and made a number of acclaimed commercial recordings, the Trinity Camerata and the Craswall Players. He has also worked with Oxford Sinfonia, Orchestra of the City, Kew Sinfonia, Crendon Chamber Orchestra, Oxford Philomusica, ENO Baylis and Garsington Opera.
