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The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival at Hambleden
“FROM MY LIFE”
Part of the The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival 2025
Add to my Calendar 18-09-2025 19:30 18-09-2025 21:30 36 The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival at Hambleden The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival, celebrating its 15th anniversary, takes us on a special journey across five concerts featuring music written by some of our most intrepid musical explorers. Music that looks back to its national roots as well as being inspired by travel and adventure. The Festival, which was hailed by The Guardian newspaper as “One of the top ten classical music events of 2021” was the creation of Founder and Artistic Director, violist Lawrence Power. Lawrence Power was recently feted by the New York Times as "A Musician on a Mission to Make Us Pay Attention to the Viola" . He makes time in his incredibly busy career as an international soloist to return to the area where he was born and brought up to present these five concerts over three days with the most fantastic chamber music. St Mary the Virgin Church, Henley-on-Thames DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Mary the Virgin Church
Hambleden
Hambleden
Henley-on-Thames
Oxfordshire
RG9 6RT
England
Programme
George Enescu – Konzertstück for Viola and Piano
Bedřich Smetana – String Quartet no.1 in E minor 'From my life', JB 1:105
~ Interval ~
Béla Bartók – Duos for 2 violins, BB 104: selection
Josef Suk – Piano Quintet, Op.8
Performers
Lawrence Power – violin / viola
Benjamin Marquise-Gilmore – violin / Leader
Simon Crawford-Phillips – piano / keyboards
Annabelle Meare – violin
John Myerscough – cello
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Programme Note
The West Wycombe Chamber Music Festival, celebrating its 15th anniversary, takes us on a special journey across five concerts featuring music written by some of our most intrepid musical explorers. Music that looks back to its national roots as well as being inspired by travel and adventure.
The Festival, which was hailed by The Guardian newspaper as “One of the top ten classical music events of 2021” was the creation of Founder and Artistic Director, violist Lawrence Power.
Lawrence Power was recently feted by the New York Times as "A Musician on a Mission to Make Us Pay Attention to the Viola" .
He makes time in his incredibly busy career as an international soloist to return to the area where he was born and brought up to present these five concerts over three days with the most fantastic chamber music.
