Forthcoming Events
5 March 2012 (Monday)
7pm Banqueting House, Whitehall, London SW1
Clavichord and fortepiano recital by Susan Alexander-Max
For information, see the Banqueting House website
9-11 March 2012
AMUZ, Antwerp
inPRIMETIME, a series of clavichord events.
Recitals by Spányi, Verhelst and Van Delft, and a public masterclass with Spányi.
13 March 2012 (Tuesday) A joint BCS/British Harpsichord Society event
6.30pm Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB
Recital by Terence Charlston: "A Choice Collection": English clavichord and harpsichord music in the 17th century
Music by Blow, Byrd, Bryne, Draghi and Purcell, played on clavichord and harpsichord. Early booking essential. Tickets are £9 (students £5). Telephone the Handel House on 020 7399 1953 for credit-card booking.
28 April 2012 (Saturday) A BCS event
3pm Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1 3AT
Recital by Linda Nicholson, playing 18th-century clavichords by Lundborg and Hass
Tickets are £15 full-price, £12 for BCS members and concessions; students free. On-line booking, with a small booking surcharge, is available now on www.wegottickets.com. To book by post (no charge), please send a cheque in sterling payable to ‘British Clavichord Society’ to Judith Wardman (BCS), 26A Church Lane, London N8 7BU. Allow 14 days for tickets to be posted to you.
1 May, 2012 (Tuesday)
12 noon Hatchlands Park, near Guildford
Clavichord recital by Menno van Delft
More details will become available here
17–20 May 2012 (Thursday–Sunday)
Bad Köstritz, Germany
Part 4 of the German Clavichord Society’s J. S. Bach Festival
More information is on the German Clavichord Society’s website
31 May 2012 (Thursday) An event sponsored by BCS
7.30 pm The Workshop, English's Passage, Lewes
The Musical Pleasure Garden: Keyboard Music from 17th Century Germany
A clavichord recital by Paul Simmonds
Tickets
£12 to include a glass of wine, £10 for BCS members and workshop concert season ticket holders.
For tickets, email info@theworkshopseries.co.uk or ring 01306 627 332.
1–4 June 2012 ( Friday–Monday)
West Dean College, near Chichester
Performing 17th century music on the clavichord
A course taught by Paul Simmonds. Details and booking information available here.
23 June 2012 (Saturday) A BCS event
4pm (time to be confirmed) Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW
Clavichord recital by Marcia Hadjimarkos
The recital will follow the BCS 2012 Annual General Meeting, and is open to all. Further details will follow on this website.
27 June 2012 (Wednesday)
8pm Wokingham Town Hall, Market Place, Wokingham, Berks, RG40 1AS
Clavichord recital by Richard Smith
A programme of North European keyboard music. Tickets (price £12.50) can be bought at Wokingham Library, Denmark Street, Wokingham during opening hours or on-line at www.wegottickets.com. For further information, see www.liturgicalmusic.co.uk/Wokingham/index.shtml
late September 2012
Finchcocks Musical Museum, Goudhurst, Kent, TN17 1HH
Finchcocks Festival open weekend events, including a clavichord recital sponsored by the BCS
4–7 September 2013 (Wednesday–Saturday)
Magnano, Italy
Eleventh International Clavichord Symposium
For details follow the Symposium link on the Musica Antiqua Magnano page
Archive
24 January 2011 (Tuesday)
7.30 pm Bristol Music Club
Concert including keyboard music and songs with clavichord.
11–13 November 2011 (Friday-Sunday)
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
International Early Music Festival and Exhibition
Details available from the Early Music Shop
5 November (Saturday)
St Giles’ Church, Barbican, London
RCO London Organ Forum - the organist at home: exploring the pedal harpsichord
with Dalibor Miklavčič and John Kitchen.
For more information telephone 05600 767208 or e-mail simon.williams@rco.org.uk or hparryridout@gmail.com.
30 October 2011 (Sunday)
4pm Concert-gallery Pianofort’ino, Basel, Switzerland
Clavichord recital by Sally Fortino: Clavichord music from Leipzig
30 October 2011 (Sunday)
5pm Abbey Church Schoenenwerd, Canton Solothurn, Switzerland
Clavichord recital by Paul Simmonds: Frische Clavier-Früchte: 17th-century German music
29 October 2011 (Saturday) A BCS event
2.15 and 4.15pm Oxford Quaker Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW
Robert Woolley playing Book 1 of Bach’s Das Wohltemperierte Clavier complete in two separate recitals.
Tickets: £18 (concessions £15) for both recitals; £10 (conc. £8) for each recital when booked separately.
20 October 2011 (Thursday)
6.30-7.30pm Handel House, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB
Perilous Toye (New compositions for solo amplified clavichord and ensemble with Olie Brice on Contrabass, Leon Michener on Clavichord and electronics, and ’mystery guest’ vocalist. )
29 September 2011 (Thursday)
5.15 pm Museum of Instruments, The Royal College of Music
The poetic and musical origins of the German Lied
Songs by Gellert sung by Norbert Meyn and accompanied on the RCM Dolmetsch clavichord by Terence Charlston. Admission is free, but tickets are required.
6-10 September 2011 (Tuesday - Saturday)
Magnano, Italy
Tenth International Clavichord Symposium.
Friday, 22 July
3.30pm Palace Hotel, Palace Road, Buxton
Clavichord recital by Julian Perkins: Book 2 of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier
7 July 2011 (Thursday) A BCS event (for BCS members only).
2.30 - 6.pm London SW4
Visit to Linda Nicholson’s instrument collection
Information about the collection.
1-3 July 2011 (Friday-Sunday)
Edinburgh
Conference on Historical Keyboard Music
27 May 2011 (Friday)
7.45 - 8.45pm Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG
Free Clavichord recital by Peter Sykes.
25 May 2011 (Wednesday)
12.00 noon. Hatchlands Park
Clavichord recital by Peter Sykes.
21 May 2011 (Saturday) A BCS event. The recital is open to all, admission free.
2.15 and 4pm Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT
BCS AGM
The 16th BCS AGM (2.15), followed at 4pm by a clavichord recital given by Peter Sykes.
J.S. Bach, W.F Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Beethoven.
12 March 2011 (Saturday)
7.30pm The Workshop, Lewes
Recital: German Music for the Clavichord by Miklós Spányi
8 February 2011 (Tuesday) A joint BCS and BHS event
6.30pm Handel House Museum, 25 Brook Street, London W1K 4HB
Handel in the Attic
Julian Perkins, clavichord and harpsichord: A joint event with the British Harpsichord Society.
20 November 2010 (Saturday) A BCS event
2.15 - 5.30 Garden Room, Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, London W1K 2PA
A BCS Clavichord Afternoon
At 3.45, a recital by David Griffel of Spanish music from Cabezón to Cabanilles, preceded by an illustrated talk on clavichord recordings by Garry Broughton (2.15) and an introduction to the recital by John Collins (3pm).
5 June 2010 (Saturday) A BCS event
4pm: Quaker Meeting House,43 St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LW
Clavichord Recital by Susan Alexander-Max
The BCS AGM at 2.15pm was followed at 4pm by a clavichord recital, open to all, given by Susan Alexander-Max. The programme included J. S. Bach’s English Suite No. 2 in A minor, and the Sixth Sonata, in C minor, from J. C. Bach’s Op. 5 set, which Susan Alexander-Max has just recorded for Naxos.
updated 17 December 2011
