West Wight Arts Association

Welcome to the West Wight Arts Association

The West Wight Arts Association has been providing entertainment in the form of classical music in the Isle of Wight for over 60 years. We put on a season of eight chamber music concerts by talented young professional and established musicians on Saturdays monthly from September to April. If you want to see what's on, see our events listed below.

Tickets

Tickets (price £10) are available from the date of the previous concert or 16 August for the September concert. Members, Associate Members and Students enjoy a discount - see Membership and Booking.

Programme for September 2011 to April 2012

All concerts start at 7.30pm at the Memorial Hall, Freshwater

Saturday 17 September 2011

Pei Jee Ng & Miyako Machida (cello & piano)

Bartók: Rhapsody No 1 for cello and piano.

Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G Minor Op 5 no 2.

Bruch: Kol Nidrei. Bridge: Sonata for cello and piano (1917).

Saturday 15 October 2011

Karim Said (piano)

Goldberg Variations with introductory talk by Karim Said.

Saturday 12 November 2011

Caroline MacPhie (Soprano) and Joseph Middleton (piano)

Songs by Bridge, Britten, Rodrigo, Strauss, Mozart, Puccini, Purcell, Gounod.

Saturday 10 December 2011

The Doric Quartet

Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op.64 No.1.

Bartók: String Quartet No.4 (1926).

Schubert: String Quartet in D minor, D.810 “Death and the Maiden”.

Saturday 14 January 2012

Samuel West (narrator) and Simon Callaghan (piano)

Bach: Partita in C minor BWV826.

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat, Op. 110.

Richard Strauss: Enoch Arden op. 38 Melodrama for Piano and Narrator on a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

Saturday 11 February 2012

Ksenija Sidorova (accordion)

Works by Bach, Schnittke’s Revis Fairy Tale and music by the famous Russian accordionist and composer Viacheslav Semionov .

Saturday 10 March 2012

Meng Yang Pan (Piano)

Mozart: Piano Sonata in G, K.283.

Schubert: Sonata in A, D.664 Op.Posth.120.

Schubert/Liszt: Song Transcriptions: Serenade and Erlking.

Debussy: Estampes- Pagodes- La soirée dans Grenade- Jardins sous la pluie.

Schumann: Symphonic Studies op.13.

Saturday 14 April 2012

The Dussek Piano Trio

Beethoven: Trio in C minor op 1 no 3.

Brahms: Trio in C major op 87.

Smetana: Trio in G minor.

Saturday 12 May 2012

AGM followed by piano recital

The short meeting will be followed by a piano recital, after which cheese and wine will be served. All members and friends are invited to attend and contributions would be appreciated to help defray the costs of the evening

Venue

All concerts are held at 7.30pm in the Memorial Hall, Freshwater, which has full facilities for the disabled.

Gift Vouchers

Gift Vouchers are redeemable against the cost of a seat at any WWAA recital in the Memorial Hall, Freshwater. They cost £10 and are available from Malcolm Tait, Wight Haven, Weston Lane, Totland IW, PO39 0HE

Steinway Grand Piano

WWAA owns a superb Steinway

grand piano purchased

with lottery funding.

Posters

If you are able to display a poster for our concerts and would be willing to do so on a regular basis please contact Doreen Dace

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