Details
St Mary's Creative Space
St Mary's Hill
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 2DW
England
Programme
Gioachino Rossini – Italian girl in Algiers: Overture (arr. Sheen)
William Walton – Facade Suite (arr. Mason)
August Klughardt – Wind Quintet, Op.79
Antonio Vivaldi – Trio in G minor, RV103
Anton Reicha – Wind Quintet, Op.88 no.2
Performers
Maxine Willis – flute
Gwenllian Davies – oboe
Richard Bayliss – French horn
Stuart Russell – bassoon
Aurora Wind Ensemble
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Programme Note
Our Christmas Concert this season is by the reknown Aurora Ensemble visiting Chester Celebrity Concerts for the first time. The instrumental wind quintet will be playing works by Rossini, Vivaldi, Walton and others.
Prizewinners at the European chamber music competition Musique d'Ensemble held at the Paris Conservatoire in 2001, the Aurora Ensemble has performed in many major venues and festivals including the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall, Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, Cardiff's St. David's Hall and the Warwick, Thaxted, Ryedale and Petworth Festivals.
They have broadcast on ORS Television (Austria) and BBC Radio 3 for the Young Artists' Forum and were selected as one of the featured ensembles in Making Music's Concert Promoters' Network brochure for the 2005 - 2006 season.