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Lunchtime Chamber Concert in Dewsbury

About the event

Part of the Kirklees Concert Season 2023/24

A series of chamber concerts featuring various artistes.

Tickets are normally £5 plus booking fee.

Please click on the link under Further Information for more details and online booking.

Contacts

Dewsbury Box Office and Town Hall Reception

Wakefield Old Road, Dewsbury, WF12 8DG

01924 324501
Town Halls Box Office

01484 225755
Huddersfield Tourist Information

High Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2TG

01484 223200

Dates and venues

  • Wednesday 13 September 2023 - 12:30pm, Opera North Flute and Harp - Orchestra of Opera North’s Principal Flute Luke O’Toole is joined by Principal Harp Céline Saout.
  • Wednesday 18 October 2023 - 12:30pm, We'll Gather Lilacs - Ellie Laugharne is joined by David Cowan in a collection of musical settings of poems and texts from around Europe, by composers ranging from Holst to Howells and Dring to Wolf.
  • Wednesday 22 November 2023 - 12:30pm, Mahler's Fourth Symphony - A chamber arrangement offers the composer’s vision of ‘The Heavenly Life’ in ecstatic clarity. Soprano Claire Lees joins the company’s Chamber Ensemble for the climactic song.
  • Wednesday 6 December 2023 - 12:30pm, University of Huddersfield Brass Band - The annual festive visit from the students of the University of Huddersfield with its combination of Christmas favourites, solo features and audience carols.
  • Wednesday 31 January 2024 - 12:30pm, Tenor, Soprano and Piano - Two Welsh artists, soprano Elin Pritchard and tenor Dafydd Jones, with a recital of songs and poems set to music accompanied by Annette Saunders.
  • Wednesday 14 February 2024 - 12:30pm, Schubert's Trout Quintet - possibly the best-known chamber piece in the world, its rippling currents come to joyful life under the bows and fingers of the Opera North Piano Quintet.
  • Wednesday 20 March 2024 - 12:30pm, Poulenc's Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombone - Players from the Orchestra of Opera North perform a programme arranged around this classic of the brass repertoire, which is packed with wit, mischief and melody.
  • Wednesday 17 April 2024 - 12:30pm, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 - The intimacy of a Dewsbury Lunchtime is a perfect setting for the timeless verve and innovation of the Third, with its revolutionary instrumentation. Musicians of the Orchestra of Opera North.
  • Wednesday 15 May 2024 - 12:30pm, The Romantic Violin - At the heart of this programme by Andrew Long, Respighi’s Violin Sonata infuses 19th-century Romanticism with glowing turn-of-the-century Impressionist colour.
  • Wednesday 19 June 2024 - 12:30pm, Brahms' Clarinet Trio - Brahms was contemplating retirement when a performance by the German clarinettist Richard Mühlfeld renewed his passion for music, and he responded with this Trio.
  • Wednesday 10 July 2024 - 12:30pm, Jasdeep Singh Degun - Indian classical music. As a soloist, Jasdeep’s extraordinary skill and spontaneity on the sitar are given full rein, underpinned by his mastery of the ancient system of raags, the equivalent of western scales.

Further information

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Themes

Music Kirklees has a culture rich in all forms of music: At a glance under Events: Concerts, shows, workshops etc relating to music of all kinds.