Concerts in Keswick: SEASON 2023-24
The 2023-2024 season is the 76th season of the Keswick Music Society!
The Summer Finale Concert at Theatre by the Lake on Wednesday June 12th at 7.30pm
Wednesday June 12th 7.30pm
Grand Finale - Summer Opera Evening at Theatre by the Lake
Songs of Summer Love - A Wild Arts Opera Evening
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Music selected and arranged by Orlando Jopling
Story and direction James Hurley
Leonora and her long-term partner, Taddeo, are throwing a party. But when Isabella arrives with Leonora’s secret former lover (the charismatic Lindoro) in tow, relationships are strained to the limit. Follow and feel for the two couples through their simmering complications, desperate tensions, parties, jealousies, longings for love, compromising revelations, mistaken identities, and final acceptance of reality, accompanied by a wonderful selection of the most romantic operatic arias.
. . . . and CONCERTS IN KESWICK: SEASON 2024 - 2025
We are planning a season of 6 concerts from October 2024 – April 2025 at St John's Church on Saturday evenings (programmes to be announced shortly)
October 5th
November 2nd
December 7th
February 1st 2025
March 1st
April 5thSaturday, November 25th
Lara Melda, Piano
- Beethoven - Sonata No.17 in D minor ‘The Tempest’, Op. 31 No. 2
- Liszt - Étude in D flat major, S. 144 No. 3 ‘Un Sospiro’
- Brahms - Intermezzo in A minor Capriccio in D minor
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Chopin - Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9 No. 1
Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
We are delighted to welcome the brilliant Lara Melda to Keswick. Lara is the exciting young pianist who won the BBC Young Musician 2010 competition at the age of just sixteen, performing Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in the final round. A superb interpreter of Chopin, Lara is a seriously formidable talent who displays a technique, range and virtuosity well beyond her years.
She studied at the Royal College of Music from where she graduated in 2016 with first-class honours.Her career blossomed in the UK and internationally including sold-out recitals at Wigmore Hall, before Covid caused a temporary halt, and her planned 2020 Keswick concert was cancelled. Now we are again looking forward to hearing her in Keswick.