St Catherine's will be hosting an Organ Recital by Claudia Grinnell, who in the summer will take up the post of Director of Music at Edmunsbury Cathedral. The programme will include works by Josef Rheinberger, Grace-Evangeline Mason, Dietrich Buxtehude, Ghislaine Reece-Trapp and Richard Rodgers (arr. Grinnell). Join on Tuesday 30th April at 4.30pm in the Prep School Hall, no booking required.

Grace-Evangeline Mason Midnight Spires 
Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D Major, Op 20 No 4 
Ludvig van Beethoven String Quartet No 3 in D Major, Op 18 No 3 
Dmitri Shostakovich Two Pieces for String Quartet, Op36a

One of the most internationally renowned Finnish composers, Kalevi Aho wrote his brand-new work as a commission for the cellist Jonathan Roozeman and the 2015 winner of the Jean Sibelius Violin Competition Christel Lee. The concerto of two equal soloists hearkens to the light, virtuosic, and first and foremost danceable world of the Baroque era. The same can be said of Ludwig van Beethoven’sseventh, the composer’s most fast-paced and perhaps most entertaining symphony. The young British composer Grace-Evangeline Mason’s breakthrough work The Imagined Forest, which delighted audiences at the BBC Proms Festival, exudes English country romanticism.

The 2024 Cathedral Organ Recital Series welcomes first-rate organists to play Truro’s acclaimed Father Willis Organ. This week we welcome Joel Colyer. This recital will be live-streamed on the Truro Cathedral page at 13:10 and their youtube channel. The programme includes; David Bednall - Fanfare Processional (5')William Byrd - The Queenes Alman (3'), Percy Whitlock - Reflections (15') i - After An Old French Air ii - Pazienza iii - Dolcezza, Herbert Howells - Lambert's Clavichord (6') i - Lambert's Fireside iii - Hughes' Ballet iv - Wortham's Grounde, Grace-Evangeline Mason - Light, Revealing (5'), and Kenneth Leighton - Paean (5').

St Helens Sinfonietta presents: The Apollo Saxophone Quartet

The groundbreaking Apollo Saxophone Quartet has been at the forefront of the British contemporary music scene for over 35 years. The ensemble has made the largest single contribution to the saxophone quartet repertoire in the UK, commissioning and premiering over 100 works, ranging from quartets to concerti and film scores, as well as numerous creative collaborations with poets, dancers, multimedia and strings. In this concert they will perform recently commissioned works including Grace-Evangeline Mason’s ‘In the Fragrant Air’ ahead of their new album release on May 1st.

In his 150th anniversary year, of Holst St. Martin-in-the-Fields favourites the Carice Singers present an evening of Holst’s masterly choral music, including the Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, and in tribute to Holst’s lifelong commitment to new music, they interweave it with recent works inspired by the same sense of the limitless, including ‘Stars Above, Earth Below’ by Grace-Evangeline Mason.

Samuel Barber String Quartet in B Minor Op 11
Grace-Evangeline Mason Midnight Spires
Ludvig van Beethoven String Quartet No 3 in D Major, Op 18 No 3

All are welcome to join us in the Cathedral or via Live Stream

Sung by the Lay Clerks
Responses: Sharpe
Psalm: 47
Canticles: Turner in E
Anthem: Walker I will lift up mine eyes
Hymn: NEH 137
Voluntary: Grace Evangeline Mason Light, Revealing

Marie Lloyd director
Michal Oren conductor
RCM Wind Ensemble

In celebration of RCM Green Week, the RCM Wind Ensemble performs a nature-inspired programme by exciting contemporary composers. Amongst an eclectic number of works is Ruth Gipps' programmatic Seascape, thought to be inspired by a trip to the coastal town of Broadstairs.

Also on the programme is Grace-Evangeline Mason’s The Water Garden, inspired by Amy Lowell’s poem Chinoiseries, which describes an idealistic landscape of 'crimson peonies', and 'tinkling pagodas', juxtaposed with mystery and unease.

The concert culminates in Mark Simpson's volcanic Geysir, with its pulsing background and lyrical clarinet, horn and oboe eruptions.

Grace-Evangeline Mason Midnight Spires
Joseph Haydn String Quartet in D Major, Op 20 No 4
Ludvig van Beethoven String Quartet No 3 in D Major, Op 18 No 3

CHORAL EVENSONG

with Emily Long (Clare) | oboe

VOLUNTARY Grace-Evangeline Mason Light, Revealing
INTROIT Ēriks Ešenvalds Stars
RESPONSES Piccolo
PSALM 2 (Peasgood)
READINGS Deuteronomy XV: 1–11; John XII: 1–8 CANTICLES Tavener Collegium Regale
ANTHEM John Rutter (Clare 1964)

The Lord is my Shepherd

PREACHER The Rev’d Nell Whiscombe (Clare 2009) HYMNS 459 (Crimond), 425 (Eisenach) VOLUNTARY Ian Hunt Toccata Giocosa

This Principal Feast Day of the church is also known as Candlemas or - in the Book of Common Prayer - The Purification of Saint Mary the Virgin. It occurs on 2 February and recalls the occasion when the 40-day old baby Jesus was taken to the Temple in Jerusalem so that Mary and Joseph could give thanksgiving for his safe delivery and Mary’s recovery from childbirth.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 2: CANDLEMAS

6:00PM PROCESSION & SOLEMN MASS

• Prelude: Light, Revealing Grace-Evangeline Mason

• Mass: Missa Secunda Hassler

• Motet: Nunc Dimittis G. Holst

• Hymns: BB 36, 156, BB 24, 44

• Postlude: Lumen ad Revelationem Guilmant

Peterhouse college, Cambridge are delighted to be holding a series of recitals throughout Lent Term to showcase their newly renovated organ. Claudia Grinnell is the guest organist for this recital.  

The recital will take place in the Peterhouse Chapel and will commence at 6.00 p.m., lasting around an hour. Tickets are free and the recitals are open to the public on a first come, first served basis but you must have a ticket to enter. We ask that attendees enter the College via the Porter's Lodge where you will need to show your ticket, and please be seated by 5.30 p.m.

Advent concert with Vokalensemble AllaBreve, directed by Nataliya Lukina

Advent concert with Vokalensemble AllaBreve, directed by Nataliya Lukina

This traditional service by candlelight is one of the highlights of the year. It is a beautiful service of music, by the Choir of King's College London, and readings reflecting on the hope that Jesus brings to our world. This service includes Grace-Evangeline Mason’s O Sapientia - setting the Latin text of this great ‘O’ antiphon (O Wisdom) for Advent, which was commissioned by Choir & Organ Magazine in partnership with the Choir of King’s College London and supported by PRS for Music.

This service is very popular, so it is repeated on three consecutive evenings, and tickets are required to attend. Tickets are free and will be available to book via Eventbrite from the end of October 2023

This traditional service by candlelight is one of the highlights of the year. It is a beautiful service of music, by the Choir of King's College London, and readings reflecting on the hope that Jesus brings to our world. This service includes Grace-Evangeline Mason’s O Sapientia - setting the Latin text of this great ‘O’ antiphon (O Wisdom) for Advent, which was commissioned by Choir & Organ Magazine in partnership with the Choir of King’s College London and supported by PRS for Music.

This service is very popular, so it is repeated on three consecutive evenings, and tickets are required to attend. Tickets are free and will be available to book via Eventbrite from the end of October 2023

This traditional service by candlelight is one of the highlights of the year. It is a beautiful service of music, by the Choir of King's College London, and readings reflecting on the hope that Jesus brings to our world. This service includes the premiere of Grace-Evangeline Mason’s O Sapientia - setting the Latin text of this great ‘O’ antiphon (O Wisdom) for Advent, which was commissioned by Choir & Organ Magazine in partnership with the Choir of King’s College London and supported by PRS for Music.

This service is very popular, so it is repeated on three consecutive evenings, and tickets are required to attend. Tickets are free and will be available to book via Eventbrite from the end of October 2023

A feast of lyrical and invigorating orchestral melodies featuring violinist Arabella Steinbacher, celebrated worldwide as one of today’s leading soloists, performing Tchaikovsky’s irresistible violin concerto.

Arabella Steinbacher is a sensational world class violinist who has gained critical acclaim across the globe for extraordinary virtuosity and exquisite tone. Originally described as unplayable, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto is one of the most popular violin concertos, famed for its virtuosity and melodic abundance. Also Featuring Restless Oceans by Anna Clyne and To Breathe Now (from Upon Weightless Wings) by Grace-Evangeline Mason, composers who are both establishing enviable reputations as the new voice in British orchestral music today; their work is both exciting, accessible, colourful and fascinating balancing perfectly with the dramatic, autumnal lyrical sounds of Beethoven’s Egmont Overture and Brahms’ St Anthony Variations (also known as Variations on a theme of Haydn).

Conductor Ilya Ram brings his energetic charisma and expressive spontaneity to the Memorial stage in a programme of Felix Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21, Grace-Evangeline Mason’s The Imagined Forest, Richard Wagner’s Entry of the Gods to Valhalla (from Das Rheingold) and Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5.

AVROTROS Friday concert

Dirigent Florian Helgath en artist-in-residence, pianist Hannes Minnaar, brengen deze onvervalste koorromantiek samen in een avontuurlijk tweeluik. De jonge Britse componiste Grace-Evangeline Mason schrijft een nieuw koorwerk, en in het spirituele slot klinkt de Mis voor dubbelkoor van Frank Martin. Het Groot Omroepkoor is gespecialiseerd in Brahms’ rijkgeschakeerde koorrepertoire, en brengt vanavond een uitgewogen selectie. Het Groot Omroepkoor duikt in dit rijke koorrepertoire.

Groot Omroepkoor
Florian Helgath conductor
Hannes Minnaar piano
Anton Spronk cello

Brahms from Four Quartette opus 92: O schöne Nacht; from Fünf Gesänge opus 104: Nachtwache nr. 1 and nr. 2; from Fantasien opus 116: Capriccio (no. 3); Three Songs opus 42; Intermezzo opus 117 no. 1; Geistliches Lied
Mason New work (Dutch premiere, commissioned work Royal Philharmonic Society with support from the RVW Foundation, and AVROTROS Friday concert)
Martin Mis for double choir

Four players and five remarkable composers, as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s Equilibrium Quartet champions neglected gems and newly-minted classics by Grace-Evangeline Mason, Elizabeth Maconchy, Florence Price and more.

Enter a world of luminous colours and evocative textures in Prokofiev’s dreamy concerto. This is a work of exceptional lyrical beauty, with solo violin soaring over the gentlest halo of orchestral sound. Sibelius evokes something timeless and epic in his First Symphony, from the desolate opening to the spectacular vista painted by the full orchestra at the climax. Young British composer Grace-Evangeline Mason invites you to journey into the forest of your imagination in her immersive new work.