PAST EVENTS
Performers Platform - Swift Suite, Whately Hall -Free Entry
Performers Platforms are a space for amateur and student ensembles from across the UK to present their music in an informal setting to an appreciative audience. Performers Platforms will take place in the Swift Suite in Whately Hall on both Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday 1.45 - 2.25
The Bonhoeffer Recorder Group
The Bonhoeffer Recorder Group rehearse in Forest Hill, South London on Monday evenings and are tutored by Julie Dean. They hold two main concerts a year and are joined by various other groups and players from young children to adults. At these concerts they also raise money for different charities and have so far have raised over £11,400 for a wide range of courses. Players interested in joining can visit www.recordergroupslondon.co.uk for more information or to see other groups Julie runs in London
The Bonhoeffer Recorder Group
The Bonhoeffer Recorder Group rehearse in Forest Hill, South London on Monday evenings and are tutored by Julie Dean. They hold two main concerts a year and are joined by various other groups and players from young children to adults. At these concerts they also raise money for different charities and have so far have raised over £11,400 for a wide range of courses. Players interested in joining can visit www.recordergroupslondon.co.uk for more information or to see other groups Julie runs in London
Pink Noise
Pink Noise are the South West’s premier recorder ensemble. We play a wide repertoire of music, with a particular focus on modern recorder music. Since 2008 the group has performed regularly in the Bristol area, gaining a reputation for tight ensemble playing and an ability to thrill an audience. We are regularly on the programme at St
Stephen’s Church, Bristol and Holy Trinity Coventry. We have performed extensively
in the South West, and as far afield as Lewes (East Sussex), Durham and Amsterdam.
We play a mix of music from Renaissance, through Baroque, to modern classical contemporary and jazz. For a selection of our music, please visit our YouTube channel.
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PinkNoiseRQ/videos
Website: http://pinknoise.org.uk
Pink Noise: Ellen O’Gorman, Jennifer Mackerras, Timothy Lanfear
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Saturday 4.45
Consensio
Consensio are a passionate group of amateur musicians who meet in Brackley to sing anything from early music to 21st century compositions, largely a capella. This performance will centre on Thomas Tallis' 'Lamentations of Jeremeiah'.
We perform across North Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire for churches or organisations that are fund-raising.
We are currently recruiting more tenors and basses. If you are interested or able to offer a concert venue please go to consensiochoir.com.
Consensio
Consensio are a passionate group of amateur musicians who meet in Brackley to sing anything from early music to 21st century compositions, largely a capella. This performance will centre on Thomas Tallis' 'Lamentations of Jeremeiah'.
We perform across North Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire for churches or organisations that are fund-raising.
We are currently recruiting more tenors and basses. If you are interested or able to offer a concert venue please go to consensiochoir.com.
Sunday 12.20 - 1.15
National Youth Recorder Orchestra (NYRO)
Students
NYRO brings together like-minded young people to develop their recorder playing to a high level and to benefit from top professional tutors and conductors as well as giving young people the opportunity to make friends from all social backgrounds who share their interests in playing the recorder. Students from across the UK and beyond come together for Easter and Summer courses as well as recorder playing days. For Banbury Early Music Festival, some of the NYRO students will perform as soloists and in ensembles.
For more information about NYRO
www.nyro.org.uk/
Northwick Consort
The Northwick Consort is part of Northwick Early Music, a Worcester-based group of performers comprising two linked ensembles, a recorder consort and a Baroque chamber group. The Northwick Consort was founded in 2019 and has performed in Ludlow, Worcester, Stockton-on-Teme and Ross-on-Wye. At Banbury we will present music for recorder trio from across the centuries, from fifteenth-century French chansons to modern arrangements of Catalan carols. Please follow us on https://www.facebook.com/northwickearlymusic/
Sunday 3.30 - 4.45
Warriner School Baroque Ensemble
Warriner Baroque is the UK’s only award-winning state-school-led baroque ensemble. In January 2024, Warriner Baroque won both the Hoods and Maxwell Ensemble Trophies at the Rotary Club’s Banbury Young Musician of the Year. They have since been invited to perform at various internal/external events and have received training from professional baroque ensembles. Former and current students have studied at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
Trio Pictor- Junior Royal Academy of Music Students
Alma Nunez Debretzeni, Joseph Sainsbury and Hassan Marzban are recorder students at the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music. As part of the department's recorder ensemble, they have performed at various festivals across the UK, including the EMS/SRP Festival, LIFEM, and the Birmingham International Recorder Festival. As members of the JRAM Recorder Ensemble, they had the opportunity to premiere a composition by David Gordon at Cadogan Hall. They have recently formed the Pictor Trio and are looking forward to an exciting year of performing.
Trio Pictor- Junior Royal Academy of Music Students
Alma Nunez Debretzeni, Joseph Sainsbury and Hassan Marzban are recorder students at the Junior Department of the Royal Academy of Music. As part of the department's recorder ensemble, they have performed at various festivals across the UK, including the EMS/SRP Festival, LIFEM, and the Birmingham International Recorder Festival. As members of the JRAM Recorder Ensemble, they had the opportunity to premiere a composition by David Gordon at Cadogan Hall. They have recently formed the Pictor Trio and are looking forward to an exciting year of performing.
Aimée de Gruchy-Lambert
'Aimée de Gruchy-Lambert holds a Masters in both early and contemporary techniques, having studied at the Royal College of Music, London and the Malmö Academy of Music. They have enjoyed championing the recorder and its broad repertoire both in the UK and abroad. After an extensive hiatus due to chronic neurological & autoimmune conditions preventing them from playing, Aimée is in recovery and now focusing on charity and therapeutic work. They strongly believe music should be accessible to all and hope to inspire others living with similar chronic conditions not to feel limited and to embrace the healing power of music.'
