Music in three dimensions
As we are surrounded more and more with recorded music, at home, at work, whilst travelling, it is easy to forget the experience of groups of people coming together to perform music live. Buxton Musical Society offers that increasingly rare opportunity on your doorstep. Join us this season as we present a variety of music performed by local and international performers aged from 8 to 80 and listen in three dimensions.
Sunday 3 November 2024 – 7.30pm
St John`s Church Buxton
Magnificent Mozart
Mozart Overture – The Magic Flute
Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Mozart Mass in C minor
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF BUXTON MUSICAL SOCIETY
MICHAEL WILLIAMS – conductor
SAM HAYES – choral director
GEORGIE MALCOLM – soprano
GEORGINA STALBOW – soprano
EMYR LLOYD JONES – tenor
BRADLEY TRAVIS – bass
Sunday 8 December 2024 – 7.00pm
St John`s Church Buxton
Messiah@80
SAM HAYES – choral director
HELEN GROVES – soprano
WILLIAM TOWERS – counter-tenor
HENRY STRUTT – tenor
MARCUS FARNSWORTH – bass
G F Handel Messiah
MICHAEL WILLIAMS – conductor
Eighty years on from the first performance of the Buxton Musical Society, we repeat the work that started us all off. This concert also celebrates the final occasion when it will be conducted by our Musical Director of 58 years, Michael Williams MBE.
This concert will support the work of Music in Hospitals and Care.
Sunday 6 April 2025 – 7.30pm
St John`s Church Buxton
The French Connection
Poulenc Sept répons des ténèbres
Boulanger Psalm 130: Du fond de l’abîme
Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in C minor (the Organ Symphony)
BUXTON MUSICAL SOCIETY
SAM HAYES – conductor
ANDREW CUMMINGS – organ
LOUISE INNES – mezzo-soprano
Lili Boulanger was the first woman to win the prestigious Prix de Rome award from the Paris Conservatoire, joining such luminaries as Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod and Claude Debussy. Her life was tragically cut short a mere five years later but her small body of work, including tonight’s dramatic setting of Psalm 130, contains many gems whose worth are only now being fully recognised. The programme also contains one of Poulenc’s three major choral works, Sept répons des ténèbres and finishes with Saint-Saëns wonderful and rousing Organ Symphony.
Sunday 8 June 2025 – 7.30pm
Buxton Musical Society Young Artist
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF BUXTON MUSICAL SOCIETY
MICHAEL WILLIAMS – conductor
Soloist from Chetham’s School of Music
Supporting choral and orchestral items
Sunday 20 July 2025 – 11.00am
Festival Mass
The Society’s annual contribution to the Buxton Chorus and Orchestra join the congregation at St John’s Church as they celebrate Eucharist with soloists from the Buxton International Festival company.
(As this is a church service admission is free. There will be a retiring collection for musical expenses in addition to the normal church offertory.)
All performances take place in St John’s Church, Buxton
Buxton Opera House Box Office: 0845 127 2190 or 01298 72190 or book online: buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
Tickets are also available from Society members and on the door before each concert in St John’s Church (limited availability)