Maidstone Area Arts Council
Forthcoming Events
Spring 2012
MUSIC
MAIDSTONE CHORAL UNION
Friday 6 January 7.30pm United Reformed Church, Week St, Maidstone
A Celebration of Twelfth Night
Traditional Carols and Readings
With opportunities for all to join in (your last chance to sing carols until next Christmas!) Entrance is free but there will be a retiring collection.
Mince pies and mulled wine available afterwards.
www.maidstonechoralunion.org.uk
SUTTON VALENCE MUSIC SOCIETY
Sunday 15 January at 3.00pm Groves Hall at Sutton Valence School
38th Season of Professional Chamber Concerts featuring award-winning musicians Bacchus Piano Trio Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor Brahms: Piano Trio No. 1 in B major Tickets at door £10 (under 18s free) includes tea with home-made cakes Contact: Hilary Northcroft 01233 756672 or via website: suttonvalencemusicsociety.com
EAST MALLING RESEARCH STATION MUSIC CLUB
Thursday 26 January at Bradbourne House (ME19 6DZ) at 8pm
Milos Milivojevik (accordion)
The amazing Milos returns with works by Scarlatti, Mendelssohn, Paganini, Sarasate, Wieniawski, Grieg and Eastern European Folk Music.
Tickets at the Door: £10, children free. Information only 01732 843129
MAIDSTONE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Saturday 4 February 7.30pm at Mote Hall
Conductor: Brian Wright Soloist: Ben Hancox
Vaughan Willams: Overture, The Wasps
Nielsen: Violin Concerto Sibelius: Symphony No.1
MSO welcome back Kentish bred Ben Hancox for his third visit to play Nielsoen’s delightful neo-classic Violin Concerto. Sibelius’s tense and broodingly original 1st Symphony nevertheless owes much to the Russina heritage, particularly to the symphonies of Tchaikovsky. The concert starts with one of the best known short pieces by Vaughan Williams, his splendidly descriptive overture The Wasps
Tickets £23.00, £19.00 and £10.00 from 01622 735830 (Mem Sec)
0845 1552277 (Leisure Centre) or www.mso.org.uk (SatNav ME15 7RN)
EAST MALLING RESEARCH STATION MUSIC CLUB
Tuesday 21 February at Bradbourne House (ME19 6DZ) at 8pm
Louise Jones Trio
Virtuoso violinist Louise with Tom Wraith (cello) and Carl Joseph (piano) will perform Mendelssohn’s Dm Trio, Brahms’ Gm Hungarian Dance, Zigeunerweisen by Sarasate, Passacaglia by Halvorsen and more.
Tickets at the Door: £10, children free. Information only 01732 843129.
SUTTON VALENCE MUSIC SOCIETY
Sunday 26 February at 3pm Groves Hall at Sutton Valence School
In Accord Harriet Mackenzie (violin) and Milos Milivojevic (classical accordion) Programme to include Piazzolla: Cafe1930 Bach: Sonata in G major for violin and continuo Tickets at door £10 (under 18s free) includes tea with home-made cakes. Contact: Hilary Northcroft 01233 756672 or via website: suttonvalencemusicsociety.com
EAST MALLING RESEARCH STATION MUSIC CLUB
Tuesday 6 March at Bradbourne House (ME19 6DZ) at 8pm
Tyrants and Lovers: Elaine Tate (soprano) and Alex Ashworth (baritone) will introduce some of the most extreme protagonists of opera and song including characters painted by Monteverdi, Tchaikovsky Britten and Weir
Tickets at the Door: £10, children free. Information only 01732 843129.
SUTTON VALENCE MUSIC SOCIETY
Friday 23 March at 7.30pm Groves Hall, Sutton Valence School
English Music for Voice and Guitar
Thomas Hobbs (tenor) and Gary Ryan (classical guitar) Programme to include Downland, Britten and Berkeley Tickets at door £10 (under 18s free) Contact: Hilary Northcroft 01233 756672 or via website: suttonvalencemusicsociety.com
MAIDSTONE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Saturday 24 March 7.30pm at Mote Hall
Conductor: Brian Wright Soloist: Tamsin Waley-Cohen
Weber: Overture, Euryanthe
Delius: On hearing the first cuckoo in spring
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
Schumann: Symphony No.1 “Spring”
A concert to herald the Spring. Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto has a wonderful spring-like freshness and we welcome a fine prize-winning young soloist in Tamsin Waley-Cohen. Weber’s Euryanthe Overture tells a tale of burgeoning love. Schumann originally gave the movements of his dynamic Spring Concerto some charmingly descriptive titles, while Delius’s title for his little tone poem says it all.
Tickets £23.00, £19.00 and £10.00 from 01622 735830 (Mem Sec)
0845 1552277 (Leisure Centre) or www.mso.org.uk (SatNav ME15 7RN)
EAST MALLING RESEARCH STATION MUSIC CLUB
Tuesday 27 March at Bradbourne House (ME19 6DZ) at 8pm
Medway String Quartet
Lead by Penny Howard with Robin Morrish,
Susan Skone-James and Danny Kingshill, they will play quartets
by Mozart ( in D K575) and Schubert (in G Op161),
interspersed by Purcell Fantasias
Tickets at the Door: £10, children free. Information only 01732 843129.
MAIDSTONE CHORAL UNION
Saturday 31 March at 7.30pm All Saints Church, Maidstone
Mozart: Concert Arias, Requiem, Sacred Pieces
Our Spring concert is performed in All Saints Church in order to
give our performance of Mozart’s sublime Requiem
an appropriate space to be heard.
All seats (Unreserved) £10.00 Children and Students £5.00
www.maidstonechoralunion.org.uk
BEARSTED CHORAL SOCIETY (41st SEASON)
Saturday 31 March 7.30pm Holy Cross Church, Church Lane, Bearsted
Spring Concert
Stainer: Crucifixion; Britten: Te Deum; Handel: O Praise the Lord
Conductor: Peter Ashley; Organ: Martin Hogben
Tickets £8 & £4 (students) by post from 01634 666730 or website,
or in person from Music Matters
114 Week Street Maidstone (the end near the station)
or at the door on the night.
Please arrive early to choose your seats.
SUTTON VALENCE CHORAL SOCIETY
Sunday 22 April at All Saints Church, Ulcombe ME17 1DN at 7.30pm
Haydn Creation with The Beresford Sinfonia
Conductor Bryan Gipps Tickets £10 (Children & students £5)
www.suttonvalencechoral.co.uk Contact Jeremy Cross 01622842269
SUTTON VALENCE MUSIC SOCIETY
Friday 27 April Groves Hall at Sutton Valence School at 7.30pm
Grier Piano Trio Programme
to include Beethoven, Schumann, Ravel and Schubert Tickets at door £10 (under 18s free) Contact: Hilary Northcroft 01233 756672 or via website: suttonvalencemusicsociety.com
EAST MALLING RESEARCH STATION MUSIC CLUB
Thursday 10 May at Bradbourne House (ME19 6DZ) at 8pm
Phillip Dyson (piano)
Phillip returns for the 25th time to play some of the best known works by Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, Joplin and Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue).
Tickets at the Door: £10, children free. Information only 01732 843129.
MAIDSTONE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Saturday 19 May 7.30pm at Mote Hall
Conductor: Brian Wright Soloist: Maurizio Baglini
Debussy: Fêtes/Nocturnes
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 Elgar: Symphony No.1
The superb Italian pianist Maurizio Baglini returns in Beethoven’s magnificent 3rd Concerto. Our starter is the evocative Fêtes, the second of Debussy’s Trois Nocturnes. We end our season with the glories of Elgar’s 1st Symphony. Often described as the musical epitome of Edwardian England, Elgar wrote of it being written with ‘love, a wide experience of human life, and a massive hope for the future’
Tickets £23.00, £19.00 and £10.00 from 01622 735830 (Mem Sec)
0845 1552277 (Leisure Centre) or www.mso.org.uk (SatNav ME15 7RN)
DRAMA
Willington Players
24th – 28th April at 7.30pm Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone
The Shop at Sly Corner
This famous thriller by Edward Percy opened in 1945 at the St. Martin’s Theatre in London (where Agatha Christie’s long-lived hit The Mousetrap now resides) and ran for over 800 performances.
However, unlike The Mousetrap and other similar whodunits, one of Percy’s best plays offers a rather more subtle form of thriller.) Descius Heiss is a French expatriate who runs a shrewd business in an antiques shop in South London.
His chief aim is to provide happiness and security for his gifted daughter Margaret who has been brought up in complete ignorance of her father’s involvement in a black market of buying and selling stolen jewels. His even more sinister past is discovered by his shop assistant who begins to blackmail Descius.
How will he deal with the pressure of blackmail and with the fear that his daughter may discover the truth? Percy keeps us guessing right to the end! Tickets £10.00 (concessions £8.50, except Tuesday & Wednesday as Charity Nights) available from the Hazlitt Box Office on 01622 758611 or via www.hazlittartscentre.co.uk
FILM
MAIDSTONE FILM SOCIETY ~ 63rd SEASON
Internationally acclaimed films shown on a full screen, including
Cinemascope. All are shown on DVD. The films all start at 8:00pm on
Mondays in the Hazlitt Theatre Complex
16th January Four Lions (UK)
30th January Biutiful (Spain)
6th February L’amacouer (Heartbreaker) Fra)
20th February Another Year (UK)
19th March The Illusionist (USA)
4th April Double Indemnity (USA)
(preceded by the AGM)
Full membership for all 12 films is Single £24.00; Couples £42.00 Concessionary £19.00. Guests £3.50 Membership Secretary:
Francois-Yves Belver 01622 672307
(or contact the Hazlitt Theatre box office 01622 758611)
Full film details www.maidstone-film-society.org.uk
ARTS
THE PILGRIMS WAY ARTISTS
Friday 18 May – Sunday 27 May in Lenham Tithe Barn.
Open daily 10am – 6pm.
15th Annual Exhibition in the Medieval Tithe Barn at Lenham
Private View Thursday 17 May 6pm - 9pm. Artists Demo evening Wednesday 23 May 6:30 - 9pm. Members Craft Show and Sale Saturday 26 May. Featured Artist is our popular animal Sculptor - Marie Prett (of the Singing Soul Gallery in Cranbrook) Over 300 works in every medium, including sculpture and pottery, are planned to be displayed in this magnificent venue.
Admission and Car Parking free.
Click here to return to the front page