St John’s Smith Square Festival
A Poets’s Love – Schumann and Mendelssohn

Saturday 27th June

St John’s Smith Square, London

11.00am

James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano) Ellie Fagg (violin) Louisa Tuck (cello)

Felix Mendelssohn – Lieder
Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Trio in D minor Op.49

1.05pm

Carolyn Sampson (soprano) James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Robert Schumann – Myrten Op.25

3.30pm

Carolyn Sampson (soprano) James Gilchrist (tenor) Louisa Tuck (cello) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Robert Schumann – Tanzlied, In der Nacht (duets)
Robert Schumann – Jasminenstrauch, Die Blume der Ergebung, Schneeglöckchen, Meine Rose
Robert Schumann – Three Romances for Cello and Piano
Robert Schumann – Liederkreis Op.24

7.30pm

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano) Tom Norris, Ellie Fagg (violins), Philip Dukes (viola) Louisa Tuck (cello)

Robert Schumann – Adagio and Allegro Op.70
Robert Schumann – Fantasiestücke Op.12
Robert Schumann – Piano Quintet Op.44
Robert Schumann – Dichterliebe Op.48

www.sjss.org.uk/whats-on
Box office: 020 7222 1061

St John’s Smith Square Festival
A Poets’s Love – Schumann and Mendelssohn

Friday 26th June, 7.30pm

St John’s Smith Square, London

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano) Tom Norris, Ellie Fagg, Laurent Quenelle, Julia Rumley (violins) Philip Dukes, Fiona Winning (violas), Louisa Tuck (cello) Alix Scott (bass)

Robert Schumann – Piano Quartet Op.47
Robert Schumann – Liederkreis Op.39
Mendelsoohn – Octet Op.20

www.sjss.org.uk/whats-on
Box office: 020 7222 1061

Anna curates second festival at St John’s Smith Square on 26th and 27th June

Schumann and Mendelssohn Lieder and Chamber Music

Wednesday 24th June, 4pm

Grandhotel Petersberg, Königswinter/Bonn, Germany

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

George Butterworth – A Shropshire Lad
Ivor Gurney – In Flanders, By a Bierside
John Ireland – Blow out you bugles, Spring Sorrow

Franz Schubert – Die Schone Mullerin

www.martinrandall.com

Saturday 20th June, 7.30pm

St Matthew’s Church, Lower Summerlands, Exeter, EX1 2LJ

Tom Norris and Ellie Fagg (violin & viola) Louisa Tuck (cello) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Mendelssohn – Piano Trio in D minor Op.49
Schumann – Piano Quartet Op.47

www.friendsofbuburi.com

Thursday 11th June, 7pm

Old Chapel, St John’s School, Leatherhead, Epsom Road, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 8SP

Philip Dukes (viola) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Robert Schumann – Adagio and Allegro
Benjamin Britten – Lachcrymae
Rebecca Clarke – Passacaglia
John Ireland – Amberley Wild Brooks
Franz Schubert – Arpeggione Sonata

www.stjohnsleatherhead.co.uk/schoolevents
01372 231529

Saturday 6th June 2015, 9pm

The Sage, Saint Mary’s Square, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead NE8 2JR

James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
with the Royal Northern Sinfonia Ensemble

Warlock – The Curlew
Ireland – Fantasy Sonata
Vaughan Williams – On Wenlock Edge

www.sagegateshead.com
Box office: 0191 443 4661

Friday 5th June 2015, 7.30pm

St Mary’s Church, Richmond, North Yorkshire

James Gilchrist (tenor), Anna Tilbrook (piano)
with the Royal Northern Sinfonia Ensemble

Warlock – The Curlew
Finzi – Interlude for Oboe and String Quartet
Ireland – Fantasy Sonata
Vaughan Williams – On Wenlock Edge

email: enquires@swalefest.org
Box office: 01748 880019

Saturday 23rd May 2015, 7pm

Glynde Place, Glynde, Lewes, East Sussex BN8 6SX

Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Philip Dukes (viola) & Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schubert – Der Rattenfanger, Trost in Tranen, Sehnsucht, Wanderers Nachtlied, Am Flusse
Schubert – Arpeggione Sonata
Ivor Gurney – An Epitaph, Black Stitchel, In Flanders, Salley Gardens, Severn Meadows
Britten – Lachrymae
Vaughan Williams – Four Hymns for tenor, viola and piano

www.glyndeplace.co.uk

Friday 15th May 2015, 6pm

Brasenose College, Oxford OX1 4AJ

James Gilchrist (tenor) and Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schumann – Liederkreis Op 24
John Ireland – Three settings of Rupert Brooke
Britten – On This Island

01865 277830

Sunday 3rd May 2015, 4pm

St Mary’s Church, Hendon, London NW4 4JT

Ellie Fagg & Tom Norris (violins), Louisa Tuck (cello) & Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Mendelssohn – Piano Trio in D minor
Romantic and a Baroque Italian Chamber Music

www.hendonstmarychoir@gmail.com
Box office: 0208 959 0207

Friday 1st May 2015, 7.30pm

Royal Pump Rooms, The Parade, Leamington CV32 4AA

Fitzwilliam String Quartet & Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Mozart – Piano Concerto in A K414
Haydn – String Quartet in F Op 77 No 2
Shostakovitch – Piano Quintet
 
www.royalspacentreandtownhall.co.uk
Box office: 01926 334418

Sunday 26th April 2015, 3pm

Dorstone (near Hay)

Fitzwilliam String Quartet & Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Grainger – Handel in the Strand
Beethoven String Quartet Op.127
Shostakovitch – Piano Quintet

www.boothbooks.co.uk
Box office: 01497 820322

Blackheath Concert Halls, 23 Lee Road, London SE3 9RQ

Ruby Hughes, Charli Baptie, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Nicky Spence, Ashley Riches, Matthew Rose, Anna Tilbrook

Songs and Arias by composers including Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Duparc, Gershwin, Bernstein, Britten

Box office: 0208 318 9758

Sunday 8th March 2015, 11am

BBC Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, London

Kitty Whately (mezzo-soprano) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Songs by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, Vaughan Williams, John Ireland

www.bbc.co.uk

Friday 30th January 2015, 7.30pm

Hinchingbrooke Performing Arts Centre, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire 

Fitzwilliam String Quartet & Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Mozart – Piano Quartet in E flat K493

Schumamn – Piano Quartet in E flat

Box office: 01480375678

Sunday 25th January 2015, 6.30pm

Kings Place, York Way, London N1 9AG

Fitzwilliam Quartet & Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Shostakovitch – Quartet No.3

Schubert – Impromptu in G flat No.3 D899

Mozart – Piano Concerto No.12 in A major K414

londonchambermusic.org.uk

Box office: 02075201490 or tickets.kingsplace.co.uk

Saturday 24th January 2015, 7.30pm

Trinity Hall College SCR, Trinity Hall, Cambridge CB2 1TJ

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schumann – Liederkreis Op.24

Mendelssohn – selected Lieder

Schubert – selected Lieder

Schumann – Dichterliebe Op.48

arts@trinhall.cam.ac.uk

Box office 01223 332550

Tuesday 20th January 2015, 7.45pm

St.Margaret’s Catholic Church, East Twickenham TW1 1RL

Lucy Crowe (soprano) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schubert – Lieder

Sibelius – Luonnatar

Berg – Sieben Fruhe Lieder

Michael Head – selected songs

Walton – A Song for the Lord Mayor’s Table

www.richmondconcerts.co.uk

Thursday 15th January 2015, 1pm

New Walk Museum, 53 New Walk, Leicester LE1 7EA

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schumann – Liederkreis Op.39

Songs by Greig, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Poulenc, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Finzi, Gurney, Bridge

www.leicesterinternationalmusicfestival.org.uk

Box office: 01162254920

Sunday 9th November 2014, 3pm

Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass, Cumbria, CA18 1RQ

Sarah Tynan (soprano) Matthew Trusler (violin) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Handel – Arias from Xerxes and Guilio Cesare

Mozart – L’Amero from Il re Pastore

Elgar – Violin Sonata

Debussy – Songs

Debussy – Violin Sonata

Debussy – Ballade

Gounod – Je veux vivre (Romeo and Juliette)

www.rosehilltheatre.co.uk

box office: 01946 692422

Saturday 8th November 2014, 7.30pm

Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass, Cumbria, CA18 1RQ

Sarah Tynan (soprano) Matthew Trusler (violin) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Songs from Rogers and Hammerstein Carousel, Kurt Weill’s Lady in the Dark, G&S operettas, Gershwin and Heifetz arranged transcriptions of I got rhythm, The Man I love, Summertime, It ain’t necessarily so followed by a Viennese whirl with Lehar, Johann Strauss and a selection of Fritz Kreisler’s wonderful salon pieces including Liebeslied, Midnight Bells and Caprice Viennois.

www.rosehilltheatre.co.uk

box office: 01946 692422

Wednesday 5th November 2014, 7.30pm

Marryat Hall, City Square, Dundee

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Songs by Schubert, Loewe, Mendelssohn, Wolf, Grieg

Schumann – Dichterliebe

www.dundeechambermusic.org.uk

Friday 31st October 2014, 7.30pm

Kelso Old Parish Church, The Butts, Kelso, TD5 7BH

Sarah Tynan (soprano) Victoria Simmonds (mezzo-soprano) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Handel: A feast of arias and duets from operas including Xerxes, Guilio Cesare, Semele and Ariodante.

www.kelsomusicsociety.com

Friday 24th October 2014, 7.30pm

Senate House, London WC1E 7HU

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano) Ian Brown (piano)

Mozart: Sonata in D for 2 pianos K448

Songs by Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Bernstein, Ravel, Finzi

Other events happening all day. Please see:

www.themusicalbrain.org

box office: 0208 404 1327

Monday 20th October 2014, 7.30pm

Holywell Music Room, Oxford

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schubert: Songs to include: Die Forelle, Der Jungling am Bache, Meeres Stille, Am See, Erlafsee, Wie Ulfru fisch, Der Schiffer

www.oxfordlieder.co.uk

box office: 01865 305305

Saturday 11th October 2014, 7.30pm

St Cuthburt’s Church, Allendale nr Hexham

Fitzwilliam String Quartet and Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Beethoven: String Quartet in F minor Op.95

Mozart: Piano Concerto in A major K414

Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat Op.44

Box office: 01434 345071

Saturday 27th September 2014, 7.30pm

St Mary’s Church, N Bar Within, Beverley

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schumann: Liederkreis Op.24

Mendelssohn: Lieder

Schubert: Lieder

Schumann: Dichterliebe

www.beverleychambermusicfestival.org.uk

box office: 01262 678258 or www.thespabridlington.com

Tuesday 5th August 2014, 7.45pm

Great Hall, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EN

Jacqueline Shave (violin) Philip Dukes (viola) Louise Hopkins (cello) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Gabriel Faure – Piano Quartet in G minor Op.45

Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet in G minor Op.25

www.dartington.org/whats-on

box office: 01803 847070

Saturday 2nd August 2014, 7.45pm

Great Hall, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 6EN

Charles Daniels (tenor) Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Sr Baptist – Where art thou, God of Dreams

Dr John Blow – Poor Celadon, It grieves me when I see what Fate

Henry Purcell – Charon the peaceful Shade invites

Schubert – 9 Songs

Britten – 5 Songs from Winter Words

John Tavener – Songs of the Sky

www.dartington.org/whats-on

box office: 01803 847070

Thursday 17th July 2014, 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte

Schubert: Schwanengesang

www.wigmorehall.org.uk

box office: 020 7935 2141

Thursday 3rd July 2014, 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore St, London W1U 2BP

Lucy Crowe (soprano) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schubert: Der Fluss, Auf dem Wasser zu singen, An den Mond, Nacht und Traume

Sibelius: Luonnatur

Berg: Sieben Fruhe Lieder

Michael Head: Ships of Arcady, Nocturne, A Blackbird Singing, On the wings of the Wind

Folksongs from the British Isles

Walton: A Song for The Lord Mayor’s Table

www.wigmorehall.org.uk

box office: 020 7935 2141

Sunday 4th May, 2014, 4pm

St Mary’s Church, Greyhound Hill, Hendon, London NW4 4JT

Anna Tilbrook (piano) Ellie Fagg (violin) Tom Norris (viola) Eve-Marie Caravassilis (cello) Tom Goodman (double bass)

Chamber music by Handel, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Rossini

Schubert: The Trout Quintet

Box office: 0208 959 0207 or hendonstmarychoir@gmail.com

Friday 2nd May, 2014, 8pm

St Mary’s Church, Greyhound Hill, Hendon, London NW4 4JT

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Songs and Arias by Handel, Haydn, Arne and Boyce

Butterworth: Songs from A Shropshire Lad

Songs by Ivor Gurney and John Ireland

Box office: 0208 959 0207 or hendonstmarychoir@gmail.com

Tuesday 29th April, 2014

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Songs by Mendelssohn, Schumann, Loewe, Wolf

Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte

Butterworth: Songs from A Shropshire Lad

Songs by Gurney and Ireland

Wednesday 9th April, 2014

Carnegie Hall, New York, USA

Lucy Crowe (soprano) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schubert: Lieder

Sibelius: Luonnatur

Berg: Sieben Fruhe Lieder

Songs by Vaughan Williams, Gurney, Dunhill and Bridge

Folk Songs from the British Isles

Walton: A Song for The Lord Mayors Table

www.carnegiehall.org

Saturday 1st February and Sunday 2nd February 2014

St John’s, Smith Square, London SW1P 3HA

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano) Ellie Fagg and Tom Norris (violin) Francis Kefford (viola) Kate Gould and Louisa Tuck (cello) Alexandra Scott (double bass) Richard Morrison (speaker)

Saturday 1st February:

5pm – Die Schone Mullerin

7.15pm – Richard Morrison “Schubert’s Vienna”

8pm – String Quintet in C major; Sonatinas for violin and piano in D major and A minor

Sunday 2nd February:

11.30am – Winterreise

2.15pm – James Gilchrist and Richard Morrison in conversation

3pm – Trout Quintet and Fishy songs

5.30pm – Schwanengesang

For more information contact

www.sjss.org.uk

Box office: 020 7222 1061

Thursday 16th January 2014, 8pm

Pittville Pump Room, East Approach Drive, Cheltenham, GL52 3JE

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Songs by Wolf, Mendelssohn, Loewe, Liszt and Grieg

Schumann – Dichterliebe

For more information contact

www.cheltmusicsoc.co.uk

Box Office: 0844 576 2210

Wednesday 18th December 2013, 7.30pm

The Temple Church, Temple, London EC4Y 7BB

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schubert – Winterreise (broadcast live on BBC Radio 3)

For more information contact

www.templemusic.org

Box office: 020 7427 5641

Tuesday 10th December 2013, 7pm

Oriental Club, Stratford House, Stratford Place, London W1C 1ES

Harriet Mackenzie (violin) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Bach – Sonata in G major BWV 1021

Tchaikovsky – Meditation, Melodie and Scherzo

Gershwin arr Heifetz – Summertime and It ain’t necessarily so

Grieg – Wedding Day at Troldhagen

Grieg – Sonata in C minor for violin and piano

For more information contact

events@orientalclub.org.uk

Sunday 8th December 2013, 3pm

Kimmeridge Hall, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Talbot Avenue, Bournemouth BH12 5BB

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Britten – Winter Words

Schubert – Schwanengesang

For more information contact

www.bournemouthchambermusic.co.uk

Friday 22nd November 2013, 7.30pm

Wathen Hall, St Paul’s School, Lonsdale Road, London SW13 9JT

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (tenor)

Purcell – Music for a while, If music be the food of love, Solitude

Britten – Winter Words; Canticle 1: Mt Beloved is mine

Bernstein – La Bonne Cuisine

Ravel – Histoires Natrelles

Schubert – Die Forelle, Am See, Auf dem See, Meeres Stille, Auf dem Wasser zu singen, Das Fischermadchen

For more information go to www.wathenhall.com

Box Office 02087465322

Thursday 21st November 2013, 8pm

Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge 

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

THE HEART AT SEA

Faure – L’Horizon Chimerique

Britten – Seven Sonnets of Michaelangelo; On this Island; folk songs

Sally Beamish – Four songs from Hafez

Schubert – Die Forelle, Am See, Auf dem See, Meeres Stille, Auf dem Wasser zu singer, Das Fischermadchen

For more information call 01223 357851 or go to www.cammusic.co.uk

Monday 21st October, 2013, 7.30pm

All Saint’s Church, Okehampton

Caroline Macphie (soprano) Charlotte Stephenson  (mezzo soprano) Christopher Diffley (tenor) Callum Thorpe (bass baritone) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Puccini – Tosca

Verdi – Rigoletto

Gounod – Faust

Humperdinck – Hansel & Gretel

Handel – Samson

Arthur Sullivan – The Mikado

And many more well-known and lesser-known excerpts

www.thetwomoorsfestival.com

Box office 01643 831006

Thursday 17th October 2013, 9pm

Musee des Tissus, Lyon, France

Lucy Crowe (soprano) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Songs by Faure and Debussy

info@museedestissus.com

tel +33 4 78 38 42 00

Friday 26th July 2013, 7.30pm

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schubert – Winterreise

Box office: boxoffice@wigmore-hall.org.uk

Or phone: 0207 935 2141

Sunday 21st July 2013, 3pm

St Bartholomew’s Church, Church Lane, Tardebigge, B60 3AH

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Britten – Canticle No.1

Susie Self – The Goddess in the Wood

Elaine Hugh Jones – Songs of War

English Songs incl Silent Noon, Sleep, Love went a-riding

Marshall – Music in the Wood

Britten – Winter Words

For information contact song@mcgregor-smith.com

Or phone: 01527 872422

Wednesday 17th July 2013, 7.30pm

The Temple

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anneke Scott (horn) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Schubert – Schwangesang Rellstab settings

Beethoven – Sonata for Horn and Piano

Britten – Still Falls the Rain

Faure – L’Horizon Chimerique

Nicholas Marshall – Music in the Wood

Schubert – Auf dem Strom

For more information: enquiries@budleighmusicfestival.co.uk

Or phone: 01395 445275

Friday 12th July 2013, 7.30pm

St Cuthbert’s Church, Allendale nr Hexham

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Faure – L’Horizon Chimerique

Britten – Folk Songs

Ireland – Amberley Wild Brooks

English Songs including Silent Noon, Sleep, Go Lovely Rose

Schubert – Songs on the Water

Britten – On This Island

Box office: phone 01434 345071 or 01434 683582

Thursday 11th July 2013, 12noon

Buxton Festival, Pavillion Arts Centre

James Gilchrist (tenor) Anna Tilbrook (piano)

Britten – Folk Songs

Faure – L’Horizon Chimerique

Schubert – Songs on the Water

Britten – On This Island

Box office: 0845 127 2190