Concerts & Events

The Chagall String Quartet

This is a dinner and concert evening starting at 6.30 pm with dinner followed by the first part - intermission and dessert - final recital. £45.00 per guest includes both recital and dinner. Booking essential owing to limited seating

Dinner will be served in the dinning room and the recital will be held in the garden studio

The Chagall String Quartet

The Chagall ensemble have been delighting the Yewfield’s audience for many years

Sarah Brandwood Spencer violin, Catherine Yates violin , David Aspin viola, Simon Turner cello

Programme

Haydn: Quartet in D major op71 no2             

Schubert: Quarttsatz in c minor                  

Interval

Caroline Shaw: Plan and Elevation            

Mendelssohn Quartet in Eb op 12

The Linos Trio

This Concert is on a Tuesday

Dinner at 6.30 pm followed by the first set - intermission and dessert - 2nd Set £45.00 for the evening and supper

Multi-award winning Linos Piano Trio is known for the boundary-pushing approach to its repertoire. Founded in 2007 in London, the trio has been praised for ”slow-burning, gripping performances” (Strad) as well as “virtuosity and wit” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). The Linos musicians’ breadth of practices span historical performance to interdisciplinary experimentation and composition, all informing the immediacy and depth of their interpretation. Linos’s innovative ethos features fully at the annual Linos Festival in Cologne, as well as through their discography.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Trio Op. 97 “Archduke”

- interval -

Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante défunte (trans. Linos)

Piotr Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite (trans. Linos)

Paul Janes piano recital

This is a dinner and piano recital £40.00 to include both recital and dinner - dinner at 6.30pm followed by first set - intermission dessert then second set

Paul Janes is a graduate of both the RNCM and Manchester University, having studied on the Joint Course on an Associated Board Scholarship. He was the recipient of prestigious awards at both institutions, as well as several prizes in national and international competitions.

He now pursues a mixed ‘portfolio’ career as a teacher, performer, and examiner for ABRSM. As a performer he has a career of great versatility, encompassing solo performance, accompaniment, chamber music and orchestral work. He has performed widely in the UK and internationally, with notable performances at major venues such as Wigmore Hall, Cheltenham Festival and the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. As an orchestral pianist he works regularly with the BBC Philharmonic and the Halle, and has often featured in demanding solo roles including Stravinsky’s ‘Petrouchka’. His playing can be heard on several BBC Philharmonic recordings for Chandos, especially in works by Percy Grainger such as ‘The Warriors’. He has recently recorded instrumental works by the RNCM’s former Principal Edward Gregson (for Naxos), working with principal orchestral players from the BBC Philharmonic and Halle. As a solo pianist, Paul particularly enjoys the Viennese Classical repertoire of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the repertoire of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Programme to include Poulenc

The printmakers

We are ending our Yewfield guest house season with a lovely evening of contemporary music and dinner £45.00

Norma Winstone vocal, Nikki Iles piano, Mike Walker guitar, Mark Lockhart Saxophone and Steve Watts double bass

Led by pianist Nikki Iles – described as a “formidable UK jazz presence” by the Guardian – and starring Grammy-nominated vocalist Norma Winstone MBE alongside four of the UK’s most brilliant jazz instrumentalists, the band is fully deserving of its ‘supergroup’ reputation. Brought together by their collective love of song, The Printmakers’ music defies category and sets out to cross the boundaries that traditionally separate jazz, folk and the contemporary music world

Antonie Preat piano and Geirthudur Gudmunsdottir Cello 

This is a dinner and recital evening dinner at 6.30 pm followed by first set - Intermission and dessert - second set £45.00

Antoine Preat Piano

Described by French Radio as “One of the most gifted pianists of the young generation,” this adopted Londoner has been invited to perform in major venues such as Wigmore Hall, Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, the Petit Palais, Frederyk Chopin Institute, as well as across Europe and the United States

Geirþrúður Guðmundsdóttir Cello

has performed at venues across the world, including Carnegie Hall, the Southbank Centre, the Warsaw Philharmonic, Lincoln Center, and the Banff Centre, and appeared as soloist a with the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, among others. Her performance in Reykjavík’s Harpa Concert Hall of the six Bach Cello Suites, was hailed as “an awe-inspiring experience” (Frettabladid, Iceland).

programme to include

Jean Sibelius’s 4 Pieces, Op. 78

Jón Nordal’s ‘Pictures on Panel Wall

Edvard Grieg Cello Sonata