Madeleine Dring Celebration Concert at Conway Hall, London on Sunday 22nd October 2023

Please note: This concert is in the past and has already taken place.

Madeleine Dring Celebration Concert

Add to my Calendar 22-10-2023 17:30 22-10-2023 19:30 36 Madeleine Dring Celebration Concert Confiding in her diary in 1935, twelve-year-old Madeleine Dring confessed that she ‘had wonderful ideas for a piece of music. Perhaps when I am advanced I shall be able to orchestrate it.’ This, her first ever diary entry, proved prophetic. Composer, actress, singer, and pianist — Dring (1923-77) was a multi-talented musician with a multifaceted career. A student of Ralph Vaughan Williams, she composed cabaret songs that she performed herself, wrote incidental music for the BBC, and left a significant body of chamber and piano works. Although her music is slowly becoming better-known, she is still rarely performed, and little has been done to mark her centenary in 2023. This concert offers an exciting opportunity to explore Dring’s music and life. Alongside the distinguished group of performers led by Nicholas Daniel OBE and Antonio Oyarzabal, we are delighted that award-winning writer Leah Broad, known internationally for her work on British women composers, will open the evening with a talk on Dring. "There’s no forgetting Oyarzabal’s enthralling performance, or indeed his sublime programme of piano works by women composers from Fanny Mendelssohn to Ruth Crawford Seeger. What a treat.” ★★★★★ BBC Music Magazine About the Sunday Concerts Founded in the 1880s, our chamber music concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe. Conway Hall was purpose-built in 1929 to host concerts and lectures, and they have continued here until the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains. Conway Hall, London DD/MM/YYYY

Details

Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square
Camden
London
WC1R 4RL
England

Sunday 22nd October 2023
5:30 PM

Programme

Madeleine Dring – Trio for oboe, bassoon & piano
Madeleine Dring – Idylle
Madeleine Dring – Danza Gaya
Madeleine Dring – Valse Française
Madeleine Dring – Three piece suite
Madeleine Dring – In the Still of the Night
Madeleine Dring – Tango, Sarabande, Waltz and Italian Dance
Madeleine Dring – Mazurka
Madeleine Dring – Trio for flute, oboe & piano

Performers

Tom Hancox – flute
Nicholas Daniel – oboe
Amy Harman – bassoon
Antonio Oyarzabal – Piano

Programme Note

Confiding in her diary in 1935, twelve-year-old Madeleine Dring confessed that she ‘had wonderful ideas for a piece of music. Perhaps when I am advanced I shall be able to orchestrate it.’ This, her first ever diary entry, proved prophetic. Composer, actress, singer, and pianist — Dring (1923-77) was a multi-talented musician with a multifaceted career. A student of Ralph Vaughan Williams, she composed cabaret songs that she performed herself, wrote incidental music for the BBC, and left a significant body of chamber and piano works. Although her music is slowly becoming better-known, she is still rarely performed, and little has been done to mark her centenary in 2023. This concert offers an exciting opportunity to explore Dring’s music and life. Alongside the distinguished group of performers led by Nicholas Daniel OBE and Antonio Oyarzabal, we are delighted that award-winning writer Leah Broad, known internationally for her work on British women composers, will open the evening with a talk on Dring.

"There’s no forgetting Oyarzabal’s enthralling performance, or indeed his sublime programme of piano works by women composers from Fanny Mendelssohn to Ruth Crawford Seeger. What a treat.” ★★★★★ BBC Music Magazine

About the Sunday Concerts

Founded in the 1880s, our chamber music concert series is the longest-running of its kind in Europe. Conway Hall was purpose-built in 1929 to host concerts and lectures, and they have continued here until the present day. The ethos of “affordable classical music for all” still remains.

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