Season’s Programme – 2009/ 2010

Friday 4 September at 7.30 pm
Annual General Meeting and Concert
With Poetry Readings

Following the AGM (small hall), we welcome musicians from Lochgilphead High School who will present an informal concert with a varied programme.

Poetry readings by MAAA members will also be included

Saturday 12 September at 7.30 pm
“NAKED OPERA” (ABCT)
Alison Barton (mezzo-soprano) with David Finlay (piano)

Alison and David will present a wide variety of music – from different centuries – opera arias, lieder, folk songs and show tunes.

Piano solos will mark the breaks from one section to the next.

Friday 25 September at 7.30 pm
DRAMA — “On the Black Hill” —
Adapted from the novel by Bruce Chatwin

The AJTC Theatre Company from Guildford, Surrey are presenting this play by Charles Way. Set in Wales on their family farm, “The Vision” is an award winning tale of the remarkable lives of twin brothers.
It throws extraordinary light on the values of changing times through war and peace, and spans almost the whole of the last century.

Their final years are dominated by one question – Who will inherit the farm?

Sunday 11 October at 7.30 pm
THE FUJITA PIANO TRIO           (MAAA)
Arisa (violin), Honoka (cello), Megumi (piano)

MAAA is delighted to welcome this famous Trio from Japan, who have been playing chamber music together since early childhood and who have performed in concert halls all over the world.
Programme:- Haydn – Trio in G – “Gypsy Rondo”
Schubert Trio in B flat – D898
Mozart – Trio on C – K548
Shostakovich – Trio in E minor Op.67

Saturday 24 October at 7.30 pm     (MAAA)
(Venue – Lochgilphead Parish Church)
“THE TIM KLIPHUIS TRIO”
Jazz fiddle, guitar and double bass

Tim’s virtuoso fiddle is joined by Nigel Clark, premier Scottish guitarist and Roy Percy, master of the double bass.
Together they present a ”swingy, zingy mix” (Glasgow Herald) that’s fresh and new and sure to appeal to everyone, with many surprising references to the classical repertoire.

A most welcome return visit!

Friday 13 November at 7.30 pm
(Venue – Campus Hall)
“THE SCOTTISH DANCE THEATRE”
Lecture Demonstration

A welcome return visit from the world famous Dundee base Scottish Dance group between their visits to China and the USA!
These modern dance performers, the UK’s undisputed leaders, exhibit amazing fitness, agility and artistic creativity, and their Lecture/Demonstration will offer a unique insight into the SDT’s current productions.
On Saturday morning, the Group will hold a Workshop for dancers from Lochgilphead and Oban Resource Centres.

Sunday 15 November at 7.30 pm         (ABCT)
TOM POSTER (Oxford and London)
Piano rectal

Tom Poster was winner of the First Prize at the 2007 Scottish International Competition having been, 7 years earlier, winner of the keyboard section of the “BBC Young Musician of the Year”. Since then, his diverse and rapidly developing career as concerto soloist, recitalist and chamber musician has led him to a range of major international venues, and MAAA is delighted to welcome this outstanding young musician.
Tom’s programme is based round the double theme of Song and Dance and includes music by Mozart, Bartok, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Stravinsky.

2010

Saturday 16 January at 7.30 pm               (MAAA)
MORAY WELSH (cello) and JONATHAN PAPP (piano)

Moray Welsh has had a most distinguished career as soloist and in chamber music and, as Principal cellist of the London Symphony Orchestra, he has often been heard at home and abroad as soloist in works such as the Elgar, Brahms Double and Beethoven Triple Concertos etc.
For his MAAA recital, with accompanist of many years’ standing, Jonathan Papp, Moray will include Sonatas by Handel, Fauré and Beethoven, as well as music by M.A.Turnage.

Saturday 13 February at 7.30 pm   (ABCT)
(Venue — The Council Chamber, Kilmory)
THE ROXBURGH QUARTET

Uli Fenner (Lübeck), Sharleen Harshenin (Vancouver), Feargus Hetherington and Helen Duncan (both Edinburgh) have had a long held musical friendship and since forming the Roxburgh Quartet in 2005, have played string quartets throughout Europe.
For their ABCT tour, they will play four great works – Beethoven, Shostakovich, Dvorak and the Mendelssohn Quartet (Op. 13 no.2 in A minor).

Saturday 13 March at 7.30 pm             (ABCT)
“THE SCOTTISH FLUTE TRIO”
Ruth Morley, Laura Bailie and Janet Larson

Since 1994, the Trio has performed at many leading Festivals and aims “to present all kinds of new music in all kinds of ways”. Over and over again, they have proved that contemporary music concerts can be attractive, exciting and great good fun to listen to.
- “A slick and polished performance. What impressed most was the diverse colours and textures the flautists produced and the quality of the commissioned works” – (Classical Music Magazine)

Saturday 10 April at 7.30 pm                 (MAAA)
“SWING 2010” with Dick Lee (clarinet and sax.) John Russell and
Stephen Coutts (guitars) and Roy Percy (double bass)

“Swing 2010” need little introduction. For the last 30 years, audiences have warmed to their easy going presentation and the verve, musicality and good humour of their jazz.
This year, they feature the music of the great Belgian guitarist Django Reinhardt, tracing his career through his music, and comparing it with examples of contemporary American Jazz by the likes of Count Basie and Fats Waller.
Great entertainment and John Russell introduces each item.

Friday 30 April at 7.30 pm (MAAA)
THE MAAA ANNUAL GALA EVENING

Instrumental music of all kinds plus songs and poetry.
The Gala, with many young prizewinners from the Mid Argyll Music Festival, always proves popular and provides an enjoyable final night of entertainment.

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