FRIENDS OF ST LEONARD’S CHURCH, HYTHE

The Friends of St Leonard’s Church, Hythe is an independent organisation with charitable status (Registered Charity 282249) that came into being in 1981 to promote the care, restoration, preservation, repair, improvement and beautification of the Parish Church and its fabric, fittings, organ, pianos, furniture, monuments and stained glass.

For a small subscription, Friend members receive a discount on concert tickets and are eligible to vote at Annual General Meetings.

Annual Membership Individual £10 Couple £20

Life Membership Individual £75 Couple £100

See separate membership application brochure for further details or email: concert.hythe@yahoo.co.uk

CONTACT INFORMATION

Concert Manager Brinley Hughes 01303 264470brin.hughes@btinternet.com

Church Director of Music Dr Berkeley Hill 01303 265312b.hill@imperial.ac.uk

Parish Office 01303 262370

www.friendsofstleonardshythe.org.uk

TICKETSPrices (unless otherwise stated)

Evening and afternoon concerts £12Lunchtime concerts £7

Discounted prices for Friends of St Leonard’s Church(unless otherwise stated)

Evening and afternoon concerts £10Lunchtime concerts £6

Tickets available from

Brandon’s Music Shop, 55 High Street, Hythe CT21 5AD( 01303 264429), online from Friends’ website

www.friendsofstleonardshythe.org.ukand at church door prior to each concert.

Free admission to those under 18 in full-time education.

REFRESHMENTS IN CHURCHWine bar open 30 minutes before concerts and during any intervals.

Light lunches available in the church after lunchtime concerts indicated by [L].

CAR PARKINGIf using satnav to reach the church or car park use

postcode: CT21 5DN.A church car park with limited space is located

to the east of the building.

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Ticket prices [Friends]Saturday 25 February 7.30pm £15 [£13]The Darius Brubeck Quartet:Darius (son of Dave) Brubeck (piano), Matt Ridley (bass), Wesley Gibbens (drums), Dave O’Higgins (saxophone)Original music and jazz standards in addition to Dave Brubeck compositions that blend with special choral performance by Shepway Singers of Dave Brubeck’s - Four New England Pieces

Saturday 11 March 7.30pm £12 [£10]James Short (Organ Scholar, St Leonard’s Church)Works by Bruhns, Bach, Elgar, Franck, Vierne

Saturday 8 April 7.30pm £15 [£13]Dominic Alldis Trio: Dominic Alldis (piano),Andrew Cleyndert (double bass), Martin France (drums)Jazz arrangements of classical themes, folk songs, American songbook and original compositions

Saturday 22 April 7.30pm £12 [£10]‘Fiddle and Faff ’: Christine Adams & Lissie BayfordTraditional and own songs with accompaniments on violin, double bass, accordion and nyckelharpa

Saturday 29 April 7.30pm £12 [£10]Daniel Cook (Sub-Organist Westminster Abbey)Guilmant - March on a theme of HandelStanford - Sonata No 2, Op 151Duruflé - Prélude et Fugue sue le nom d’Alain, Op 7Widor - Symphonie VI, Op 42 No 1

Thursday 11 May 12 noon [L] £7 [£6]Robert Drury ‘Guitarra Romantica’

Saturday 10 June 7.30pm £21 & £15Primavera Chamber EnsembleMozart - Flute Quartet in C, K285bHaydn - Symphony No 101 in D ‘Clock’ arr. SalomonBrahms - Piano Quintet in F minor, Op 35

Thursday 22 June 12 noon [L] £7 [£6]Just2 Harp Duo: Karina & Adel WilsonInternationally acclaimed award-winning harp duo,play variety of music to include traditional, classical,Scottish, contemporary and jazz

Saturday 24 June 5.00pm £7 [£6]Verano Quintet: Ben Uden, Richard Williams, Phillip Scott Moore, Adam Young (guitarists) & Emmanuel Webb (violin)Award-winning local young musicians perform exciting repertoire from South America, Spain and elsewhere

Saturday 1 July 7.30pm £12Folkestone Choral Society(Programme to be advised)

Monday 3 July 7.30pm £12 [£10]Ashford Youth Jazz Orchestra

Sunday 9 July 3.00pm £15 [£13]The Grier Trio Beethoven - Violin Sonata in A major, Op 30 No 1Brahms - Cello Sonata in E minor, Op 38Beethoven - Piano Trio in G major, Op 1 No 2

Thursday 13 July 7.30pm £15 [£13](‘JAM on the Marsh’ Festival event)David Rees-Williams Trio: David Rees-Williams (piano), Neil Francis (bass guitar), Phil Laslett (drums)Programme unites best of classical and jazz

Saturday 22 July 7.30pm £12 [£10]Snowdown Colliery Welfare Male Voice Choir& Three Valleys Male Voice Choir

Thursday 27 July 6.00pm £7 [£6]Christopher Pilgrim (countertenor)& Jonathan Pilgrim (piano)‘The Art of the Countertenor’ : featuring works by Dowland, Handel, Purcell, Bach, Howells, Vaughan Williams

Saturday 5 August 7.30pm £12 [£10]Narropera: Dorothee Jansen (soprano), Floriane Peycelon (violin), Haydn Rawstron (piano and narrator)Mozart - Così fan Tutte

Wednesday 9 August 3.00pm [donations]‘That Music Always Round Me’Poetry readings about music, followed by tea and cakes

Saturday 19 August 7.30pm £15 [£13]CUBE chamber jazz quartet: Pete Rose (clarinet), Dave Robinson (vibraphone), Jamie Moore (guitars), Lisa Pentecost (double bass and flute)Variations on themes of Mozart, Paganini, Piazzolla, Reinhardt, Ellington and others, alongside original compositions

Saturday 26 August 7.30pm £12 [£10]Sohyun Park – piano recitalBeethoven - Sonata No 26 in E flat major, Op 81a, ‘Les adieux’Liszt - Ballade No 1 in D flat major

Debussy - Préludes 1: La Cathédrale engloutie; La dance de Puck; MinstrelsDebussy - Images 1: Reflets dans l’eau; Hommage à Rameau; MouvementChopin - Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52

Saturday 16 September 7.30pm £12 [£10]Montagu Singers – vocal ensembleAnthems and songs by Tallis, Bach, Purcell and others

Sunday 24 September 3.00pm £12 [£10]Icknield Trio: Anna Le Hair (piano),Arwen Newband (violin), Sarah Boxall (cello)Beethoven - Op 70(1) ‘Ghost’Bridge - Phantasie Piano Trio in C minorDvořák - Piano Trio No 4 in E minor, Op 90 (‘Dumky’)

Saturday 7 October 7.30pm £12 [£10]‘Monteverdi 450’: Helen Bailey, Amy McEnroe (sopranos), Fiona Mackay (mezzo-soprano), Ben Thapa (tenor), Jim Clements (baritone), Dale Wills (harpsichord),plus string ensembleStaged madrigals, scenes from operas, instrumental and choral pieces

Thursday 12 October 12 noon [L]Anne Marshall (piano) & Niall O’Riordan (flute)Works by Bach, Frühling, Gaubert

Saturday 21 October 7.30pm £12 [£10]Nicholas King – organ recitalBach - Toccata & Fugue in D minor, BWV565Howells - Psalm Prelude, Set 2 No 2Reger - Sonata No2 in D minor, Op 60Archer - A Festival ToccataSchumann - Two Fugues on B-A-C-HJoubert - Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, Op 35Franck - Final, Op 21

Saturday 11 November 7.30pm £12 [£10]Shepway SingersLate Romantic composers: Finzi, Parry, Elgar, Stanford

Saturday 2 December 7.00pm [tba]Band concert (Details to be advised)

Saturday 16 December 7.30pm [retiring collection]Carols for All