HARROW SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 10th Anniversary Year 2014 – 2024

St. John’s Church, Greenhill,

Harrow, HA1 2JE

Free admission with retiring collection

Thursday, July 11th, 2024

12:30pm Haruko Seki, piano

Field – Noctune in E minor

Chopin – Nocturne in C minor Op.48 no.1; Andante Spainato and Grand Polonaise Brilliante Op.22

Eric Coates – Bird Songs at Eventide

Liszt – Liebestraume No.3

Saint-Seans – Valse Nonchalante Op.110

Gershwin – Songbook

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

12:30pm Anjalika Bardalai, clarinet and Sergio Giro, piano

Thursday, July 25th, 2024
12:30pm Steve Law, piano

RHAPSODY IN BLUE

100th YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Gershwin –

Rhapsody in Blue (original annotated version) with recorded orchestra;

Novelette in Fourths (1919) (piano roll transcribed by Steve Law)

Poulenc – Mélancolie

Steve Law – 6 Contrasts

1. English Pastourelle
2. Clouds Approaching
3. Tokyo Subway
4. Lament
5. Romance
6. Dance Music

Thursday, August 1st, 2024

12:30pm Piano Trio

Javier Montanana, Violin, Hannah Lewis, Cello, Neil Crossland, Piano

Vivaldi (arranged by Neil Crossland) – Four Seasons for Piano Trio –

1. Spring

2. Summer

Neil Crossland – Piano Trio No.4 Op.66 ‘Fantasy Trio’

Thursday, August 8th, 2024
12:30pm Neil Crossland, piano

Vivaldi – Cum dederit from Nisi Dominus arr. Crossland

Beethoven – Sonata No 4 Op 7

Neil Crossland – Piano Suite No 2 op 65

Thursday, August 15th, 2024
Arpeggione Duo: Chris Cashian, guitar and Thomas Schoenberg, cello

Khachaturian – Adventures of Ivan

Prokofiev – Musiques d’Enfants op 65

Villa-Lobos – Children’s Suite

Chick Corea – Children’s Songs

Arepggione Duo – ⁠Jazz improvisation on ”A Child is Born” by Thad Jones, Waltz for Debbie by Bill Evans and ”God Bless the Child” by Billie Holiday and Arthur Hertzog Jnr.

Thursday, August 22nd, 2024
12:30pm Duo concert

Javier Montanana, Violin, Hannah Lewis, Cello, Neil Crossland, Piano

Neil Crossland – Violin Sonata No 2 Op 69; Cello Sonata No 2 Op 68

Thursday, August 29th, 2024
12:30pm Odinn Baldvinnson, flute and Mayumi Lida, piano

Thursday, September 5th, 2024
12:30pm Nina Kopparhed, soprano and Neil Crossland, piano

Amy Beach – Three Bowning Songs Op.44

Neil Crossland – Spellbound; Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee

Cecile Chaminade – Ecrin; Mots d’amour; L’Ete

Ethel Smythe – extracts from the opera ‘The Boatswaine’s Mate’

Thursday, September 12th, 2024
12:30pm Celia String Quartet

Dvořák – String Quartet No. 12 in F Major, Op. 96 “American Quartet”

Anthony Esland – Playing Outside

Thursday, September 19th, 2024
12:30pm London Composers’ Forum

Alison Doubleday – piano, Derek Foster – piano, Martin Jones – piano & cello, Patrick Miles – clarinet, Michael Regan – piano, Elizabeth Sharma – saxophone, Anne Sloboda – piano, Geneviève Usher – soprano, Claude Werner – saxophone

Martin Jones – English Keyboard Piece No.1

Peter Openshaw – Lucy

David Arditti – Slough

Peter Openshaw – The Healing Power of Nature

Derek Foster – October ’63: Mobile

Patrick Miles – Slow Waltz & Polka

Claude Werner – Triptych No.1 (Sunset); Fantasia

Michael Regan – Three States of Detachment

Alex Weidmann – The Feast of Cheese

Elizabeth Sharma – Water Birds; This Wondrous Place

Philip Danesfield – Airly Beacon

Alison Doubleday – May; Daylight