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Our missionMusic at Matrix is a series of concerts organised by Rossella Rubini at Matrix Arts Centre. Matrix is an arts educational charity which provides a warm and friendly environment for children and adults to explore the arts. Founded by Lindsay MacKenzie and George Taylor in 1989, the school has been providing a refreshing musical start to hundreds of students.
This concert series aims to enrich and broaden the cultural activities available to the local community, and to foster students’ engagement with music by exposing them to high-calibre, professional musicians. The beautifully simple and intimate concert room, along with our new reception area, makes Matrix Arts Centre a music venue worth visiting. Our wish is also to support the music profession at large, ensuring performers receive appropriate remuneration for their work, reflecting their perseverance, passion and dedication.
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Our Calendar - save the Sundays!23rd September 2018: Captain Digorie Piper and his Merry Medieval Pirates, an event for children4th November: Aura Trio (string trio with piano)3rd February 2019: Louisa Fuller and Charlotte Brennand (violin and piano)31st March: Hanna Hipp and Emma Abbate (mezzo soprano and piano)19th May: Cecilia Le Poer Power and Amadou Diagne
Subscribe Early Bird season ticket: four concerts for £38 (full price £51). This offer is valid until Thursday 1st November. Please note the children's event Captain Digorie and his Piper is not part of the subscription.
Please order all season tickets by emailing Rossella: [email protected]
Student concessions can be ordered in advance through Rossella and paid for on the door.
Tickets for individual concerts will be available at eventbrite.co.uk - enter 'Music at Matrix' in the search box once on the site. You can also request to be added to our mailing list by contacting Rossella directly, or by completing the form available at the concerts. We will keep you updated and may have occasional offers.
Refreshments are served at all events.
MUSIC AT MATRIX CONCERT SERIES 2019
SEASON GUIDE
Where we areMatrix Arts Centre 15-17 The NurserySutton Courtenay OX14 4UA
Our post code takes you directly to The Nursery. Matrix is the long white building on the left hand side of the first courtyard.
Please park in either of the two entrance courtyards.Didcot Parkway is the nearest train station.
4th November 20187pm
Aura Trio Simona Foglietta - violinMaria Antonietta Gramegna - cello
Anna Rosaria Valanzuolo - piano
Postcards from Italy
The well established string ensemble brings us to Italy through the Trio in Eb Major by Donizetti and the exuberant Trio in A by Ricordi. Other suggestive images of their own country are projected through Aus Italien op.105 by Sternberg, who let us smell the air in Venice, touch the brio in Naples and admire the Alps.
(Post) Romanticism in music
The violin and piano duet plays some of the celebrated classics from the violin repertoire such as Brahms’ Sonata in G Major no.1, Elgar’s Chansons op. 15 and as well as Frank Bridge’s Three pieces. Interestingly, the programme also includes music by three female composers: Clara Schumann, Rebecca Clarke and Lili Boulanger.
Folklore
This well-recognised duet explores folk songs from different European countries, amazingly arranged as classical music compositions by four artists: Poulenc, Britten, Pizzetti and de Falla. The duet has recently launched their first CD, comprising pieces by Pizzetti.
19th May 2019 7pm
Duet
Cecilia Le Poer Power - voiceAmadou Diagne - voice and rhythms
Welcome to Music at MatrixFollowing the success of our 2018 series which marked the re-launch of Music at Matrix, we are pleased to offer a greater variety of music genres in the 2019 series. We have classical music ensembles and a special fusion of folk and ethnic styles.
The season kicks off in September with an interactive event for younger listeners.
The autumn brings an Italian string trio, followed by a violin and piano duet in the winter. Spring will be celebrated with another ensemble (mezzo soprano and piano), and towards the summer we will welcome a creative duet which combines original and British folk songs with African rhythms and instruments.
We look forward to welcoming you to some, if not all of our events.
Rossella Rubini, Artistic Director
Captain Digorie Piper and his Merry Medieval Pirates
This is an interactive performance for children, with storytelling and audience participation. The ensemble will introduce the instruments of the Tudor period and perform music by Antony Holborne and Thomas Forde. You are invited to come suitably attired for life at sea as a Sea-Dog pirate, and be prepared to dance, sing and be merry!
23rd September 20183pm
Mr Simpson’s Little Consort
3rd February 20197pm
Duet Louisa Fuller - violinCharlotte Brennand - piano
31st March 20197pm
Duet Hanna Hipp - mezzo sopranoEmma Abbate - piano
Music across continents
This concert will include a selection of original songs as well as original interpretations of folk songs from the British Isles - all with an African twist. Our musicians will take us through shifting atmospheres, ballads and toe-tappers. A rich programme of music by two very accomplished musicians with music spanning across two continents.