Sat 15th April Dixie Mix jazz band. Music of Louis Armstrong.

Sat 20th May François PINEAU-BENOIS (Paris) – violin, Alexander KARPEYEV (London) – piano. “The Voices of Exile” – Russian emigrés Music. Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Gretchaninoff.

Sat 3rd June Bruce VOGT (Canada) – Piano recital. Chopin, Schubert.

Friday 9th June – SILENT MOVIE NIGHT with Bruce VOGT, piano (at St.Nicholas Church, Swafield).

Sun 2nd July VILLAGE FETE at Swafield Hall. Mel Stevens and The Classics, David Burns and The Boathouse Blues Band, jazz band Hans And His Friends.

Sun 9th July Maria KONOSHENKO (Helsinki), mezzo-soprano. Cabaret – Tango – Foxtrot (at St.Nicholas Church, Swafield).

Sat 29th July The FIDELIO trio (BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, Sky Arts). Haydn – Gypsy, Ravel – Trio, Dvorak – Dumky. Concert dedicated to cellist Roy Abrams (1929 – 2019), who started Trunch Concerts in 1997.

Sat 2nd Sept NORWICH BAROQUE Chamber Players. “Secrets of Norfolk’s Royal Shipwreck” – Baroque music treasures. Purcell, Locke, Lawes.

Sat 14th October The PANTALOONS theatre. Comedy of Errors.

Sat 9th December VIVA VOCE SINGERS. Candlelight Christmas Concert. 

BRUCE VOGT – PIANO RECITAL

Franz SCHUBERT, Frédéric CHOPIN

Saturday 3 June 2023, 7.30pm, St. Botolph’s Church, TRUNCH

Bruce Vogt, one of Canada’s finest pianists, has received praise internationally for his mesmerizing performances, inspiring audiences across Canada and abroad.  He has given recitals across Europe, as a soloist and with chamber ensembles, in London, Paris and Prague, as well as in venues in Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania. Fifteens times he visited to Japan with his tours. He has also performed and taught in China.

The Times writes: ‘Rare grandeur…I was mesmerized by Vogt’s sheer control’. Le Républicain writes: ‘the audience was literally enraptured’.

In addition to his career as a soloist and chamber musician, Vogt is Professor at the University of Victoria. Because he sees teaching and working with young pianists and teachers as an important commitment, he leads master classes and workshops and adjudicates for festivals.

In recent years, he has received many invitations in Canada and abroad to indulge another of his passions – improvising accompaniments to great films of the silent era.  He has played for and lectured on films by Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Griffith, Murnau and others. 

PROGRAMME: Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Six Mazurkas;

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): 12 German Dances,  Rondo in A Major, Sonata in C Major (‘Reliquie’).

The concert will take  place in  St. Botolph’s Church in Trunch.
With a licensed bar. It’s good practice to wear face masks, except when you are eating or drinking.  
The number of places is limited. Pre-booking only. Tickets – £15.

Tickets are available by phone 01692 402 624 or at The Crown at Trunch – cash only (Front Street, Trunch, North Walsham NR28 0AH).

All proceeds will be donated to Trunch and Swafield Church restoration projects.

SILENT MOVIE NIGHT
with Bruce VOGT, piano 

Friday 9 June 2023, 7pm, St. Nicholas Church, Swafield

Bringing Chopin or Schubert to life, in famed concert halls around the world, is nothing new for Canadian pianist Bruce Vogt. But Vogt’s alter ego brings different classics to life – namely silent films on the silver screen. Bruce Vogt is an avid fan of silent movies, which he calls “one of the true golden ages of film.”
“Silent movies aren’t meant to be silent. They had music when they were made and usually had scores if they were of a more ambitious nature. I remember, when I was studying music in London,  just improvising for my student friends when we were watching old movies and then after they would pass the hat. Whatever the poor students could come up with, that’s how I got paid. I imagine I got about $20 or $30.” Seeing this opportunity to earn a few extra bucks, Vogt convinced the London Public Library to host a pair of movie nights during his last couple years on campus. 

After graduating, Vogt continued his education in England, before returning to Canada. He began his successful academic and concert pianist career in Victoria in 1980.
His silent movies improv days went silent until 2000 when Vogt was asked by a friend at a conservatory in Paris, France, to accompany a couple of Chaplin films as part of a year-end celebration for the students. The students loved it. Vogt was reenergized and soon performed similar shows in Germany, England and Japan. 
“For the films, I’m pretty lazy. I don’t plan a score,” said Vogt, adding the performance is a much lighter feel than playing highly disciplined concerts. “The way I prepare is I make sure I know the film so well that I know exactly when to come in. I’m doing it for the first time every time I play, but I know the films very well. I’d stare at them (films) with great intent and have learned to play without taking my eyes off the movie. (by Paul Mayne, Western News)

Programme – TBC

The show will take  place in  St. Nicholas Church in Swafield.
With a licensed bar. It’s good practice to wear face masks, except when you are eating or drinking.  
The number of places is limited. Pre-booking only. Tickets – £10.

Tickets are available by phone 01692 402 624 or at The Crown at Trunch – cash only (Front Street, Trunch, North Walsham NR28 0AH).

MARIA KONOSHENKO, mezzo-soprano

CABARET – TANGO – FOXTROT

SUNDAY 9 July 2023, 7.30pm, St. Nicholas Church, SWAFIELD 

Maria Konoshenko, the Russian born mezzo-soprano, performed in Norfolk many times, she is very well known to the audience of Trunch Concerts. In  spring 2022 Maria raised her voice against Putin’s aggression in Ukraine and performed at “Songs for Ukraine” fundraising concert in Trunch (video below).

Maria currently lives in Finland and works at the University of Helsinki. She is not only a wonderful singer, but also a linguist and in this concert she will sing her favourite cabaret style music in English, German, French, Spanish and Russian. Maria loves to perform the music of many different styles including Baroque, music of C20, Traditional slavic songs, Jazz and even African folk music.

 

The concert will take  place in  St. Nicholas Church in Swafield.
With a licensed bar. It’s good practice to wear face masks, except when you are eating or drinking.  
The number of places is limited. Pre-booking only. Tickets – £15.

Tickets are available by phone 01692 402 624 or at The Crown at Trunch – cash only (Front Street, Trunch, North Walsham NR28 0AH).

All proceeds will be donated to Trunch and Swafield Church restoration projects.

The FIDELIO TRIO

Haydn ‘Gypsy’, Ravel ‘Trio’, Dvořak ‘Dumky’

Saturday 29 July 2023, 7.30pm, St. Botolph’s Church, TRUNCH

Concert dedicated to Roy Abrams (1929 – 2019), who started Trunch Concerts in 1997

The …’virtuosic Fidelio Trio’… (Sunday Times) are Darragh Morgan (violin), Tim Gill (cello) and Mary Dullea (piano). Shortlisted for the 2016 Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards, The Fidelio Trio broadcast regularly on BBC Radio 3, RTÉ Lyric FM, WQXR, and have been featured on a Sky Arts documentary.

Since their debut at London’s Southbank Centre, The Fidelio Trio have regularly appeared at the Wigmore Hall and Kings Place, at festivals including Spitalfields, Cheltenham, St. Magnus and Huddersfield. In Ireland they regularly perform at National Concert Hall, Dublin, Kilkenny Festival and Belfast Festival as well as Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre, Beijing Modern Music Festival, Hong Kong Chamber Music Society, Singapore, Bangkok, Porto, Paris, Venice, Florence, Johannesburg, Harare, New York City, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Bosto

‘…delicacy and flow are the watchwords across the album, as you hear again in the Fauré Trio, whose first movement’s expertly moulded super-long lines are a study in sustained tension….one to savour’ – Gramophone

Their extensive discography includes most recently a Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice of Chamber Music by E J Moeran, a composer with whom they are closely associated and the release of premiere recordings on Mode Records of music by Gerald Barry.  Other releases include 2 French albums of Ravel and Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Chausson and Satie; Philip Glass Head On & Pendulum on Orange Mountain; Korngold and Schoenberg (Verklärte Nacht arr. Steuermann) for Naxos; the complete Michael Nyman Piano Trios for MN Records. Their previous release of French Piano Trios for Resonus was also a Gramophone Magazine Editor’s Choice.

The Fidelio Trio have given masterclasses at Peabody Conservatory, Curtis Institute, NYU, Central Conservatory Beijing, and Stellenbosch Conservatorium South Africa. They have been artists-in-residence at St. Patrick’s College Dublin City University, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, the State University of New York, SUNY and Tufts University, Boston.

The concert will take  place in  St. Botolph’s Church in Trunch.
With a licensed bar. It’s good practice to wear face masks, except when you are eating or drinking.  
The number of places is limited. Pre-booking only. Tickets – £15.

Tickets are available by phone 01692 402 624 or at The Crown at Trunch – cash only (Front Street, Trunch, North Walsham NR28 0AH).

All proceeds will be donated to Trunch and Swafield Church restoration projects.

Musical Treasures of the 17th century: Secrets of Norfolk’s Royal Shipwreck

NORWICH BAROQUE CHAMBER PLAYERS

Saturday 2 September 2023, 7.30pm, St. Botolph’s Church, TRUNCH

This concert celebrates the extraordinary find of the HMS Gloucester in Norfolk, a famous warship that sank near the Great Yarmouth coast in 1682, creating political ripples that shaped the nation we live in today. 

This very exiting programme is designed as a musical companion to the upcoming exhibition on the Gloucester at the Norwich Castle Museum – which will be open at the same time as the concert in Trunch – and with the help of the exhibition’s curators, Prof. Claire Jowitt and Dr. Benjamin Redding of the UEA.

James Stuart, Duke of York and Albany survived the ship’s sinking – to become King James II and VII in 1685. It was an important ‘almost’ moment in British political history: a royal shipwreck causing the very near-death of the Catholic heir to the Protestant throne at a time of great political and religious tension.

The programme would have two parts: an exquisite selection of consort music that would have been played aboard the Gloucester and similar ships in the 17th century (Purcell, Locke, Lawes), and a suite from Matthew Locke’s incidental music to Shakespeare’s Tempest.

The concert will take  place in  St. Botolph’s Church in Trunch.
With a licensed bar. It’s good practice to wear face masks, except when you are eating or drinking.  
The number of places is limited. Pre-booking only. Tickets – £15.

Tickets are available by phone 01692 402 624 or at The Crown at Trunch – cash only (Front Street, Trunch, North Walsham NR28 0AH).

All proceeds will be donated to Trunch and Swafield Church restoration projects.

All event proceeds will continue to be donated to Trunch and Swafield Church restoration projects. 
The Church and community would like to thank both the audiences and the performers for their generosity. Since 1998 the concerts have raised about £40,000 towards these projects. Thanks too to the dynamic Trunch Village Society for its support for publicity.

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