Alan Jacobs, our Honorary Treasurer for many years, in fact since 2013, had been suffering from pancreatic cancer which was diagnosed in October and rapidly took hold. He died peacefully on January 11th and his family were with him. He was for all those years a constantly dependable and always humorous member of the Committee […]
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We invite all our current and future members to our AGM which will take place Sunday, 5 October 6:15pm at St. John‘s in Keswick before the Handels Players Concert
Our season Brochure for the 2025-2026 season is now live and can be downloaded from our website. This does include the membership form for the 2025-2026 season if you would like to sign up for a season ticket.
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The first details of our 2025 – 2026 season have now been published on our website. Brochures (including membership forms) will be uploaded shortly.
Our 2024-25 season is coming to a close with our next concert on 5 April in St. John’s Church in Keswick. The programme for our 2025-26 season is going to be announced in the next couple of weeks. Please note that for the 2025-26 season ALL concerts will move to a Sunday evening.
2023-24 Season – Our 6th and final concert of the Season Concert, at Theatre by the Lake on June 12th 7.30pm – Songs of Summer Love – A Wild Arts Opera Evening, with music selected and arranged by Orlando Jopling and story and direction by James Hurley. A truly operatic extravaganza: Leonora and her long-term partner, Taddeo, are
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The 2nd concert of our mini Autumn/Winter season, given by Lara Melda, piano, was an absorbing and thrilling evening (see The Concert Reviews Page), and we look forward to hearing Imogen Cooper in the New Year. In February our soon to-be-announced Spring/Summer season of 3 concerts will begin, ending with a glorious evening of opera
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On October 28th The Alkyona String Quartet opened our 2023-24 season with a really inspiring concert of Purcell, Haydn, Britten and two new works by Dobrinka Tabakova and Jessie Montgomery. The audience loved it! See the review page for a review of this concert. The next concert in this series will be given on November
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Good news! The 2023-24 season will begin on Saturday October 28th at St. John’s Church Keswick. Before the concert at 6pm we will hold the AGM for 2022-23 to which all Members are warmly invited. The Alkyona String Quartet’s concert will include music by Haydn, Purcell and Britten. Our Steinway piano will be heard
The 3 last concerts of the 2022-2023 season were at Theatre by the Lake on March 14th – Bella Tromba – 5 trombones, May 9th, the Brompton String Quartet and June 6th, PIVA the Renaissance Collective in their programme Measure for Measure – see the review page for more details. As last year, our attempts
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