Bristol Ensemble

The Walled Garden Concerts
2022-06-19 14:00 - 16:00 (Europe/London) | Somerset
Mozart Divertimento in D
Elgar Serenade for Strings
Albinoni Oboe Concerto
Vivaldi Summer from the Four Seasons
Piazzolla Summer from the Four Seasons
Join us in the Walled Garden of the stunning Belmont Estate for an afternoon of open-air music and food in the summer sun.
Located just a stone’s throw from Bristol in the North Somerset countryside, discover the idyllic setting of Belmont Estate and soak up the atmosphere all afternoon with street food including wood-fired pizza and plenty of wine, local organic cider, soft drinks and Bristol-brewed beers on offer.
Music comes from Bristol Ensemble, comprised of experienced professional musicians who under the direction of artistic director and violinist Roger Huckle will serenade and delight with pieces by Mozart, Elgar and Vivaldi, joined by Oboe soloist Imogen Triner.
The perfect chance to gather with friends and family for a unique, relaxed outdoor concert experience.
Ticket price includes admission, with food and drink sold separately.
Ages: All ages, under 18s accompanied by an adult
Event times
Gates open: 12 noon
Music starts: 2pm
Finish: 4pm
Presented by Bristol Beacon in partnership with Belmont Estate

Voices for Life: Stardust Oratorio
2022-06-16 19:30 - 20:30 | Somerset
Jools Scott and Sue Curtis Stardust Oratorio
Directed by Francis Faux
Jon Monie presenter
Following the hugely successful 2021 premiere of Stardust, Voices for Life returns to take you on this musical journey through space written by Jools Scott and Sue Curtis.
200 local primary school children will perform accompanied by the Bristol Ensemble, narrated by Jon Monie and directed by Francis Faux.
The concert will include the premiere of We Are Every Child, a new Voices for Life commission written by Francis Faux and Jamila Gavin in celebration of the Queen’s Jubilee.
“The musical arrangement was excellent – first class. We were delighted to be able to support this event. To see the children take part in such a wonderful concert in such a great venue must have been a real treat for all. Well done on a great job!” The Roper Family Trust, 2021
Tickets from Bath Box Office

Tea-Time Concert
2022-06-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Christ Church, Newmarket Road, Nailsworth, GL6 0DQ, United Kingdom
Roger Huckle violin
Paul Israel piano
Beethoven Sonate for Violin and Piano No.5 ‘Spring’
Liszt Sonetto 104 del Petrarca S.161
Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel
Gershwin Three Preludes
Monti Csárdás
A programme of music for solo violin and piano ranging from Beethoven’s zesty ‘Spring’ sonata to Pärt’s hypnotic Spiegel im Spiegel and Gershwin’s bluesy Three Preludes. Tickets £10 on the door.

Bristol Choral Society: Schubert
2022-06-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Schubert Mass in A flat
Mendelssohn Hebrides Overture
Bristol Choral Society
Bristol Ensemble
Imogen Russell soprano
Angharad Lyddon alto
Thomas Elwin tenor
Thyemba Mvula bass
Hilary Campbell conductor
Michael Butterworth organ
This summer concert with Bristol Choral Society and Hilary Campbell will be an unforgettable experience. Schubert wrote such wonderful music for singers, and this is a rare chance to hear his Mass in A flat. It’s a beautiful piece, full of heart and awash with melodies. On this occasion it is coupled with another lyrical, romantic piece of orchestral music which will be more familiar to some – Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture. You will be singing to yourself as you step outside Bristol Cathedral, into a warm June evening.

Henleaze Concert Society: Summer Serenade
2022-06-11 19:30 - 21:30 | Trinity-Henleaze URC, Waterford Road, Bristol, BS9 4BT, United Kingdom
Roger Huckle violin
Paul Israel piano
Beethoven Sonate for Violin and Piano No.5 ‘Spring’
Liszt Sonetto 104 del Petrarca S.161
Arvo Pärt Spiegel im Spiegel
Gershwin Three Preludes
Monti Csárdás
Pre-concert talk with David Bednall at 6.45pm
A programme of music for solo violin and piano ranging from Beethoven’s zesty ‘Spring’ sonata to Pärt’s hypnotic Spiegel im Spiegel and Gershwin’s bluesy Three Preludes.
Tickets
Season ticket for six series concerts £75 including membership
Annual Society Membership £12
Tickets for members £13.50
Tickets for non members £16.50
Under 25 year olds £5
How to book
Buy tickets now
Tickets are available from Opus 13 music shop, by telephone on 0117 923 0164, and from the shop at St Michael’s Hill, Bristol. Card payments accepted. The shop is open from 9am to 5.30pm, Monday to Saturday.
Tickets are also on sale at Henleaze Post Office.
You can also book by sending a cheque payable to Henleaze Concert Society, covering note and SAE to 2 Saville Mews, Kingsdown Parade, Bristol BS6 5UL
Season Tickets and Annual Society Membership
Season tickets are only £75 including Society Membership and admission to all six concerts from September to July. Alternatively, becoming a member of Henleaze Concert Society for £12 entitles you to book tickets for individual concerts at the members’ discounted rate. Season tickets and membership are available to buy by post by returning the Ticket Order Form with your payment and a stamped addressed envelope.

University of Bristol lunchtime concert
2022-06-08 13:15 - 14:00 | Somerset
Bristol Ensemble
Emma Tring soprano
John Pickard conductor
John Pickard Verlaine Songs (premiere)
Anthony Payne The Undiscover’d Country
Lim Kang Ning Hues (premiere)
Bristol Ensemble performs new works by John Pickard and Lim Kang Ning as part of the University of Bristol’s lunchtime concert series. The programme also features Anthony Payne’s work of 2010, inspired by words in the most famous monologue from Shakespeare’s Hamlet: ‘Death, the undiscover’d country from whose bourne no traveller returns’. Free entry, retiring collection.

Sadie Harrison recording
2022-05-23 09:00 - 15:00 | Somerset

Taunton School
2022-05-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Mozart Clarinet Quintet
Dvorak Piano Quintet No.2 in A
Bristol Ensemble’s professional musicians perform Dvorak’s Piano Quintet together with Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet. One of the master composer’s best-loved works, it was written to showcase the clarinet’s beautiful tone and lyrical quality.

Exultate Singers: Mass in B minor
2022-05-14 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
Exultate Singers
Bristol Ensemble
August Hebbert – soprano
Martha McLorinan – alto
Bradley Smith – tenor
Peter Harvey – bass
David Ogden – conductor
Bach – Mass in B minor
Bach’s crowning achievement expresses the full range of human emotions from intense sadness to great joy and zest for life.
Exceptional Baroque-specialist soloists join the choir for to perform “the greatest work of art of all times and all peoples.”
Tickets £14 to £28 for adults, half price for students in full time education and under 18s, available from St George’s Bristol box office online and on 0845 40 24 001

Henleaze Concert Society: American Connections
2022-05-14 19:30 - 21:30 | Trinity-Henleaze URC, Waterford Road, Bristol, BS9 4BT, United Kingdom
Barber Adagio for String Quartet
Gershwin Concerto in F
Mozart Piano Concerto No.11 in F, K413
Viv McLean piano
Pre-concert talk with David Bednall at 6.45pm
We’re delighted to welcome back the virtuoso pianist Viv Mc
Lean, a firm favourite in Henleaze Concert Society’s seasons of concerts. In this programme, postponed from 2020, he’ll be performing Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F, a jazzy, optimistic, richly-textured work packed full of fabulous tunes and toe-tapping rhythms. It was commissioned by Walter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony Orchestra, the day after he had heard the premiere of Rhapsody in Blue. By contrast, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.11 in F is as delicate, elegant and heartrendingly beautiful as you’d expect. Completing the American connection is Barber’s passionate Adagio, in its original version for string quartet.
Tickets
Season ticket for six series concerts £75 including membership
Annual Society Membership £12
Tickets for members £13.50
Tickets for non members £16.50
Under 25 year olds £5
How to book
Buy tickets now
Tickets are available from Opus 13 music shop, by telephone on 0117 923 0164, and from the shop at St Michael’s Hill, Bristol. Card payments accepted. The shop is open from 9am to 5.30pm, Monday to Saturday.
Tickets are also on sale at Henleaze Post Office.
You can also book by sending a cheque payable to Henleaze Concert Society, covering note and SAE to 2 Saville Mews, Kingsdown Parade, Bristol BS6 5UL
Season Tickets and Annual Society Membership
Season tickets are only £75 including Society Membership and admission to all six concerts from September to July. Alternatively, becoming a member of Henleaze Concert Society for £12 entitles you to book tickets for individual concerts at the members’ discounted rate. Season tickets and membership are available to buy by post by returning the Ticket Order Form with your payment and a stamped addressed envelope.

Bristol University Student Recordings
2022-05-09 09:00 - 15:00 | Somerset
Recording student compositions at the University of Bristol.

Bath Choral Society
2022-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Somerset
J.S. Bach Mass in B minor
Bath Choral Society
Bristol Ensemble
Ruth Provost soprano
Gwen Martin mezzo soprano
Hugh Cutting countertenor
Nick Pritchard tenor
Darren Jeffery bass
Shean Bowers conductor
Bach’s Mass in B Minor is the high point of his musical art. It combines dramatic choruses in four to eight parts and full orchestration with subtle solos where the voice is accompanied by complementary instruments.
Tickets go on sale on Monday 7 February at Bath Box Office

Passiontide Prayer in Music & Words
2022-04-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Pergolesi Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater by G B Pergolesi, sung by members of the Abbey Girls Choir with members of the Bristol Ensemble. Directed by Huw Williams.
https://www.bathabbey.org/lent-holy-week-and-easter/

St John Passion
2022-04-09 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
J.S. Bach St John Passion
Choir of Royal Holloway
Bristol Ensemble Baroque
Christopher Willoughby Evangelist
Rupert Gough Conductor
Bristol Ensemble Baroque ushers in Easter with a performance of Bach’s glorious setting of the St John Passion. Bach’s interpretation of the Passion of Christ is one of the most moving and emotive set to music. The Choir of Royal Holloway joins the period instruments of the Bristol Ensemble Baroque for what promises to be a moving rendition of this great Baroque masterpiece. The performance will be given against a backdrop of wonderful period paintings depicting the scenes of the St John Passion.

Handel's Messiah
2022-04-02 19:30 - 22:00 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
City of Bristol Choir conducted by David Ogden
Bristol Ensemble
Keri Fuge – soprano
Felicity Buckland – mezzo soprano
Gavan Ring – tenor
Alex Ashworth – bass
City of Bristol Choir joins forces with Bristol Ensemble and a fabulous line up of soloists to perform Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah, at St George’s Bristol.
The work is full of drama as it tells the story of Christ’s birth, death and resurrection through majestic and thrilling choruses, heartrending and passionate arias, and theatrical recitative, ensuring its enduring popularity.
Conductor David Ogden reinvigorates the masterpiece with the excitement and power of an 80-strong choir and a crack team of soloists who will fill St George’s Bristol with vocal fireworks, excitement and passion. Given as part of the choir’s 30th anniversary season, the performance will bring the work alive to those both new to the work and seasoned listeners.
Tickets are £18, £22, £25 and £30, available from St George’s box office online and by phone on 0845 40 24 001
Keri Fuge – soprano
Fast becoming acknowledged as being among the “future generation of superb sopranos,” Keri Fuge’s voice has been described as having “splendid clarity” and “silvery fire” that “sparkles in glittering numbers.” Her strong stage presence and ability to create “spellbinding pathos” has won her acclaim in the Baroque and mainstream concert and opera repertoire both internationally and in the UK.
Felicity Buckland – mezzo soprano
Felicity Buckland is a versatile and energetic mezzo-soprano, with a busy schedule of professional opera and concert work, educational projects and corporate and private events. She is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, went on to train on the ENO Opera Works programme and has recently appeared in ENO’s production of Philip Glass’s opera Satyagraha. She has appeared as a soloist in a wide variety of oratorios including Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man, conducted by the composer at Royal Festival Hall. She also performs and records as a professional consort and session singer, including appearing on Eric Whitacre’s Grammy Award-winning choral disc, Light and Gold.
Gavan Ring – tenor
Hailing from Cahersiveen in County Kerry, the Irish tenor Dr Gavan Ring studied at the Schola Cantorum at St Finian’s College Mullingar before reading education and music at Dublin City University. Concert highlights include performances with the London Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms and Lucerne Festival under Sir Simon Rattle, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Royal Festival Hall under Sir Mark Elder and the Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra at the Prinzregententheater under Keri Lynn-Wilson. Recital work includes regular broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and RTÉ Lyric FM plus appearances at Wigmore Hall, the Oxford Lieder Festival and the Ludlow English Song Festival collaborating. Opera highlights include leading roles at Opéra Royal de Versailles, Glyndebourne, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, Opera North, Garsington Opera, Wexford Festival Opera and Opera Holland Park.
Alex Ashworth – bass
Alex Ashworth studied at the Royal Academy of Music and has sung with opera houses including Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera. Alex sings regularly on the concert platform and has worked as a soloist for conductors including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Sir Colin Davis and Paul Mc
Creesh. Alex’s recordings include Œdipus Rex, Stravinsky, with the London Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi Vespers with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Bach’s B Minor Mass for Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists and Handel’s Giulio Cesare for Glyndebourne Festival Opera (DVD).

Malmesbury Singers
2022-04-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Bob Chilcott Aesop’s Fables
Bob Chilcott A Little Jazz Mass
Howard Goodall Eternal Light
Malmesbury Singers
Bristol Ensemble
Charlotte Woodward soprano
Michael Burgess tenor
Tim Meunier baritone
Join Malmesbury Singers and Bristol Ensemble for an evening of contrasting English music by living composers.
Bob Chilcott has enjoyed a lifelong association with choral music, first as a chorister and choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, and as a member of the King’s Singers. Written in 2008, Aesop’s Fables is a charming and witty setting of four of the famous fables including The Hare and the Tortoise. Meanwhile, A Little Jazz Mass is probably the most performed of Chilcott’s works, and blends the traditional text of the mass with upbeat jazz rhythms and harmonies to great effect.
Howard Goodall is an Emmy, Brit and Bafta award-winning composer, best known for his TV Themes, notably to Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley. Goodall’s Eternal Light intersperses the Requiem text with settings to poetry including Mary Elizabeth Frye’s poignant poem: “Do not stand at my grave and weep”. The piece is both dramatic and lyrical, and will provide plenty of tunes for you to hum on your way home following a wonderful evening’s entertainment.
Tickets £15 for adults, £5 for students/children, plus Eventbrite fees, available from Eventbrite

Bath Minerva Choir: A Jubilee Celebration
2022-04-02 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Bath Minerva Choir
Bristol Ensemble Baroque
Join Bath Minerva Choir and Bristol Ensemble Baroque at Bath Abbey for a Jubilee Celebration as only the great Mr Handel can provide: three of his magnificent Coronation Anthems, including Zadok the Priest, the celebrated Hallelujah Chorus and the epic final chorus from Messiah, plus a selection of his most ravishing solo arias for female voice.
With Bristol Ensemble Baroque providing stylish accompaniment and two extraordinary soloists on the verge of major careers, this will be an uplifting and truly celebratory paean to Her Majesty in this, her Platinum Jubilee year.

Stroud Choral Society
2022-03-26 19:30 - 21:30 | Somerset
Stroud Choral Society
Bristol Ensemble
Julie Cooper soprano
Elisabeth Irvine mezzo soprano
Nathan Vale tenor
Alan Fairs bass
Simon Bell conductor
Bristol Ensemble joins forces with Stroud Choral Society to perform Handel’s Judas Maccabeus.
Tickets £25, £20, £10, under 18s free

Vaughan Williams and the English tradition
2022-03-25 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
Natalia Lomeiko violin
Yuri Zhislin conductor
Bristol Ensemble
Vaughan Williams Concerto Grosso
Fantasia on Greensleeves
The Lark Ascending
Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Bristol Ensemble celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of England’s greatest composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams. Their programme will include some of his most popular works, two of which have local connections.
The orchestra is joined by the renowned Russian violinist Natalia Lomeiko to perform Vaughan Williams’ treasured work, The Lark Ascending. Inspired by a George Meredith poem of the same name and always tops the Classic FM Hall of Fame, it was originally written for solo violin and piano, and first performed at Shirehampton Public Hall in 1920. Two Fantasias make up the programme, the second of which is based on a psalm tune written by Renaissance composer Thomas Tallis, and was premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral ten years before The Lark’s first outing.

Romantic Rhapsody
2022-02-14 19:30 - 21:30 | St George’s Bristol, Great George Street, Bristol, BS1 5RR, United Kingdom
Bristol Ensemble
Roger Huckle conductor/ violin
Kat Kleve soprano
Howie Michaels singer
Morricone Cinema Paradiso Love Theme
Nigel Hess Ladies in Lavender Main Theme
Einaudi Love is a mystery
Dvorak Humoresque
Shostakovich Waltz No.2Mascagni Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Fauré Après un rêve
Beethoven Für Elise
Elgar Salut d’amour
Shostakovich Romance
Jarre / Webster Doctor Zhivago – Somewhere My Love
Rota Love theme from Romeo and Juliet
Leonard Cohen Dance Me to the End of Love
Weiss /Creatore /Peretti Can’t help falling in love
Kern / Hammerstein Can’t help lovin’ dat man
Mancini / Mercer Moon River
Piazzolla Libertango
Monti Czárdás
For one night only, allow yourself to be swept off your feet for an evening of passion and drama from the world of classical and film music. Promising to be a Valentine’s Day to remember, this concert brings you outstanding romantic melodies, poignant songs and exquisite music from some of the world’s favourite romantic composers, all beautifully performed within the intimate surroundings of St George’s Bristol.
Tickets £10 / £15 / £20 / £25 plus St George’s booking fee, available online from St George’s box office and by phone on 0845 40 24 001.
A 5% St George’s Bristol booking fee applies online and over the phone. A £2 postage fee is charged where applicable.

Henleaze Concert Society: Chamber Quintets
2022-01-22 19:30 - 21:30 | Trinity-Henleaze URC, Waterford Road, Bristol, BS9 4BT, United Kingdom
Dvořák Piano Quintet No. 2 in A, Op. 81
Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A K.581
Dave Pagett clarinet
Paul Israel piano
Pre-concert talk with David Bednall at 6.45pm
Exploring music for five musicians, this programme contrasts Dvořák’s iridescent Piano Quintet with Mozart’s sublimely beautiful Clarinet Quintet, one of the most well-loved works in the chamber music repertoire. The work has been celebrated through the centuries for its exquisitely-crafted melodic lines.
In his expressive Second Piano Quintet, Dvořák creates a dazzling array of colour and texture through his imaginative scoring of the ensemble, combined with passages of pure beauty.
Tickets
Season ticket for six series concerts £75 including membership
Annual Society Membership £12
Tickets for members £13.50
Tickets for non members £16.50
Under 25 year olds £5
How to book
Buy tickets now
Tickets are available from Opus 13 music shop, by telephone on 0117 923 0164, and from the shop at St Michael’s Hill, Bristol. Card payments accepted. The shop is open from 9am to 5.30pm, Monday to Saturday.
Tickets are also on sale at Henleaze Post Office.
You can also book by sending a cheque payable to Henleaze Concert Society, covering note and SAE to 2 Saville Mews, Kingsdown Parade, Bristol BS6 5UL
Season Tickets and Annual Society Membership
Season tickets are only £75 including Society Membership and admission to all six concerts from September to July. Alternatively, becoming a member of Henleaze Concert Society for £12 entitles you to book tickets for individual concerts at the members’ discounted rate. Season tickets and membership are available to buy by post by returning the Ticket Order Form with your payment and a stamped addressed envelope.
