LATEST NEWS

June 2018:

Work continues on the Bach Violin Project, with the E Major sonata recorded in June 2018.

Plans for a new major monograph on historical performing practices are currently in progress.

The website of the CHASE project – a major resource for historical string performance – is currently being migrated to the University of Huddersfield (details forthcoming), and changes to the University of Huddersfield Research Centre has seen reformulation of HuCPeR into a new centre – ReCePP, and the setting up of a new record label via the University of Huddersfield Press – Huddersfield Historical Records – with an expected launch at the end of the summer.

One of its first releases will be David Milsom and Jonathan Gooing’s disc of Brahms sonatas (op. 120 1 and 2, op. 108), recorded with Sheffield Piano Recording engineer, James Bacon. Details to follow.

NEWS ARCHIVE

Elgar video taster

2015 recording projects now under way. Details here

EVENTS

25.10.18, St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield: Meiningen Ensemble (David Milsom violin, Jonathan Gooing, piano, George Kennaway, cello) Mendelssohn Piano trio op. 66 and Brahms Piano Trio op. 87 on period instruments.

11.10.18, St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield: Four’s Company (Amanda Babington and David Milsom baroque violins, Graham Cummings organ/harpsichord, John Bryan, bass viol) – programme of 17th-century chamber works including sonatas by Henry Purcell.

28.8. 18 – 1.9.18 University of Huddersfield: tutoring and performing as part of Leverhulme-funded Nineteenth-Century Salon summer school (a specialist 5-day series of workshops and rehearsals of historically-informed nineteenth-century chamber music performance).

5.8.18, 8.8.18, 9.8.18, Grand Bressac, Nontron, and Saint-Jean de Côle (Dordogne): Performances of sacred and secular chamber choir material with vocal octet, Voces Sacrae.

3.7.18 University of Huddersfield - 20th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music: Meiningen Ensemble and friends (David Milsom violin/viola, Emily Worthington, clarinet, George Kennaway, cello, Inja Stanovic, piano) Walter Rabl Quartet op. 1

6.6.18 Hettie’s Café, Skipton: Salon concert of Debussy Piano Trio in G Major and Fauré Piano Trio op. 120 (with Jonathan Gooing, piano, and Thomas Collingwood, cello).

26.4.18 St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield: performance (conductor) in music performed by University of Huddersfield students including Fauré Requiem.

22.3.18 St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield: performances by Four’s Company (Amanda Babington and David Milsom baroque violins, Graham Cummings organ/harpsichord, John Bryan bass viol) as part of concert shared with University of Huddersfield Early Music Ensemble and Chamber Choir.

18.1.18 St Paul's Hall, University of Huddersfield: Meiningen Ensemble and members of Boxwood and Brass - Schubert Octet D803 on period instruments.

15.11.17 Hettie’s Café, Skipton: Salon concert of Clara Schumann Piano Trio, Niels Gade Piano Trio op. 63 (with Jonathan Gooing piano and Thomas Collingwood, cello).

4.11.17 Frodlingham Parish Hall, Scunthorpe: Herbert Howells Piano Quartet and other chamber music (David Milsom, violin, Charlotte Kenyon, viola, George Kennaway, cello, Jonathan Gooing, piano).

2.11.17  St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield: Four’s Company (Amanda Babington and David Milsom baroque violins, Graham Cummings organ/harpsichord, John Bryan, bass viol) – programme of 17th-century chamber works including sonatas by Henry Purcell.

27.10.17 Lecture Recital, Birmingham City University (with Jonathan Gooing, piano); discussion and performance of ‘romances’ by Clara Schumann and Joseph Joachim and discussion of nineteenth-century performing practices; performance with Birmingham’s ‘Clara Schumann’ piano of c.1860.

EVENTS ARCHIVE

October 15th 2015 St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield
Four's Company: Orpheus Britannicus V - featuring two sonatas from the 1697 set by Henry Purcell, played on period instruments

October 29th 2015 St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield
Meiningen Ensemble: Elgar Piano Quintet - inaugural performance with Huddersfield University's newly-acquired 1897 Broadwood 7 ft 4 grand, newly and fully restored by Richard Dain

October 30th 2015, 7.30pm, Christ Church, Litton, Derbyshire - with Lara James, Jeremy Perkins and Tom Collingwood - a programme of Austro-German string chamber music of the 'classical' era, including Haydn's op. 77 no. 1 and Beethoven's op. 18 no. 4 string quartets

November 6th 2015 Sheffield Music Club, Shirley House, Psalter Lane, Sheffield
Meiningen Ensemble Trio: trios by Gade, Mendelssohn, and Schubert

December 14th 2015 St. Paul's Hall, Huddersfield: Elgar Cello Concerto and Parry Symphony No. 5 (1912)
Huddersfield University Symphony Orchestra with George Kennaway, cello, conducted by David Milsom.

April 2016 Huddersfield University "HIP Happening" Festival
Details to follow