………an afternoon with BBC Radio 3 broadcaster and musician Martin Handley with wind quintet friends(BSO Principals)!

Date: Sunday 22nd September 2024, 4pm – 5.45pm

Venue: Broadstone Methodist Church,10 Lower Blandford Road, BH18 8DP

Tickets: £15.00 in advance online; Under18 Concession £3.00 (small booking fee applies) interval refreshments

Includes a rare performance of Prokofiev’s “PETER & THE WOLF”

We are excited to present this early autumn concert and hope to appeal to a wider age audience with this programme. Even though this is not a children’s concert, it is aimed at reaching out to a young generation too so perfect for families and inspiring for young, budding musicians, actors and literary lovers as well as older musically keen audiences.

Programme:

Sergei Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf

Gustav Holst – Suite in F

Jacques Ibert – Trois pièces brèves

Malcolm Arnold – Sea Shanties

Darius Milhaud – La Cheminée du roi René

And inspiring words….

Wind Quintet:
Flute – Anna Pyne, Oboe – Edward Kay, Clarinet – Barry Deacon, Horn – Edward Lockwood, Bassoon – Tammy Thorn
This wind quintet all play together as principals of our local Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra so we are delighted to welcome them to Broadstone today and excited to hear their performance alongside Martin Handley who they regularly work with at the BSO too. The previous time they played for us was outdoors during the pandemic in 2020 when they raised funds for the BSO Benevolent fund and also in 2019 alongside David Hill on piano in a sextet recital at Lytchett Minster church.

This concert will include a guest appearance short performance of 3 of our Youth Camerata Wind chamber musicians –
Flute – Laura Jones, Clarinet – Oscar Brown, Bassoon – Oskar Dudding
– Teddy Bear’s Picnic
– Tico Tico

Lockdown memories (some good ones!)

We are most familiar with Martin Handley here for his radio 3 broadcasting, especially his Sunday morning programme which he hosted for 20 years. He is a good friend of our local BSO where he introduces many of the live streaming concerts. You will recognise his voice if you listen to radio 3 or some of the BBC London Proms!

Learn a bit more about Martin:
Martin Handley studied at Cambridge University. He worked for six years in German Opera Houses, then for Kent Opera, before joining Australian Opera as chorusmaster and conductor in 1981.

In 1984 he returned to England to become chorusmaster and conductor for English National Opera. Leaving ENO in 1990, he conducted for D’Oyly Carte, Travelling Opera, Central Festival Opera, Castleward Opera and Grange Park Opera, and was principal conductor for Crystal Clear Opera.

Abroad he has conducted in Germany, France and the U.S.A, where he led tours for London City Opera of Die Fledermaus and the Magic Flute.

In 1997, he was appointed head of music and House conductor at the Royal Opera in Copenhagen.

As Principal Conductor for Carl Rosa Opera, he conducted The Merry Widow, the Mikado, The Yeomen of the Guard, Iolanthe, Patience, HMS Pinafore and Pirates of Penzance, travelling the length and breadth of Great Britain and Ireland, as well as on world tour. 
Martin is a co-founder and music director for Tarantara Productions and he will be conducting their new production of Pirates of Penzance at Poole Lighthouse from 13th -15th February 2025. It will including mainly Glynebourne choristers with national and international singers. Not to be missed!

Martin is also a presenter for BBC Radio 3