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Fenella Humphreys (violin) and Martin Roscoe (piano): Fauré 100
On the 100th anniversary of the death of Gabriel Fauré, this concert celebrates the composer’s lyrical romanticism with works from the 1870s to the 1890s, including the great first Sonata. Saint-Saëns’ own first Sonata and Ravel’s one movement Sonate Posthume complete a programme that will transport you to the magic of fin-de-siècle Paris.
29 October 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Durham Cathedral, Durham, DH1 3EH
- Music
- Music Department
In Echo: Music in a Cold Climate – sounds of Hansa Europe
This fascinating programme explores the instrumental music that passed between these ports and countries in the 16th and 17th centuries, from dances to sonatas, including Pavans inspired by John Dowland’s famous Lachrimae to elaborate music by major figures such as the German/Danish organist Dietrich Buxtehude, a precursor of Bach. In the virtuosic hands of Gawain Glenton’s In Echo, these rarely-heard gems will sparkle as brightly as they did in centuries past.
12 November 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
- Music
- Music Department
Songs from Japan
This unique concert, curated by Dr Amanda Hsieh, presents a selection of extremely beautiful early twentieth-century Japanese art songs, rarely heard in the UK. Music by composers such as Rentarō Taki, Kōsaku Yamada and Tatsunosuke Kishitani will be interwoven with European songs and operatic excerpts, just as they would have been performed in their original context.
13 November 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
- Music
- Music Department
Inventions: the harpsichord across time and borders
Inventions is a fascinating trans-national project to promote and present unusual music for solo harpsichord, drawing primarily on historical and contemporary music by female composers from Scotland, Ireland and England. Three beautiful new commissions are set alongside historical works, making links between different countries and centuries, and performed by Katarzyna Kowalik, a creative and skilled performer of both historical and contemporary keyboard music.
20 November 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham DH1 3RL
- Music
- Music Department
EXAUDI: The Mirror of Speculation
Vocal ensemble EXAUDI returns to MUSICON with a dazzling programme exploring some of the most beautiful – and strange – vocal music of the medieval period.
28 January 2025
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
- Music
- Music Department
New Music Weekend
Experience some of the hottest new music currently being made in the company of some of the UK’s leading ensembles, in a packed weekend of events.
01 March 2025 - 02 March 2025
Durham University Department of Music, Palace Green, Durham, DH1 3RL
- Music
- Music Department
Fretwork and Alexander Chance: Orlando Gibbons at 400
Orlando Gibbons, whose refined and deeply expressive works represent the pinnacle of Jacobean music, died on 5th June 1625 at the young age of 41, while travelling to Canterbury with the Chapel Royal to receive Charles I’s bride, Henrietta Maria. His untimely death was mourned across English culture, and we mark the anniversary with the first of two concerts given in Durham in 2025 by legendary viol consort Fretwork.
04 March 2025
Elvet Methodist Church,8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
- Music
- Music Department