ANDREW DOWNES

Performances during 2013- 2015

 

Tuesday January 22nd 2013, 6.30pm

Recital Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire

Andrew Downes: 7 Preludes for Solo Piano

Mark Lockett (piano)

 

Tuesday February 4th 2013, 6.30pm

Selwyn College Chapel, Cambridge

(evensong service)

Andrew Downes: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Runnymede Service)

Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge

Director of Music Sarah EA MacDonald

 

Sunday February 17th 2013, 4pm

Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Petoskey, Michigan, USA

Andrew Downes: Sonata for Violin, Horn and Piano

Paul Sonner (violin)

Julie Schleif (horn)

Steve Larson (piano)

 

Wednesday April 24th 2013, 7.30pm

St John's Church, Hagley, Worcestershire

Hagley Music Festival

Andrew Downes: Concerto for Flute, Oboe and Orchestra

Diane McCreedy (flute)

Nadia Accili (oboe)

Hagley Community Orchestra

conductor Cynthia Downes

 

Sunday April 28th 2013, 8pm

Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center, Medford, Medford

(near Boston), Massachusetts, USA

Andrew Downes: Sonata for 8 Flutes

Tufts University Flute Ensemble

Conductor Nina Barwell

 

Friday May 17th 2013, 7.30pm

Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Naples Plaza

Long Beach, California, USA

Andrew Downes: Sonata for 8 Flutes

Pacific Flute Ensemble

Conductor Darrin Thaves

 

Sunday May 26th 2013, 11am

Silk Hall, Radley College, Radley, Abingdon, Oxfordshire

Andrew Downes: In Memoriam Herbert Howells

Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

(part of the English Music Festival)

 

Friday May 31st  2013, 11.40am

Lecture Room 2, Birmingham Conservatoire

Andrew Downes: Idyll, In the Gardens of Burdwan

Josh Hall (oboe), Jo Sealey (piano)

(Third year recitals)

 

Sunday June 2nd  2013, 2pm

Winchester Discovery Centre, Winchester, Hants.

Andrew Downes: The Song of the Eagle

Flautissimo’ – Southampton Flute Orchestra

Conductor Joanna Price

(British Flute Society event)

 

Monday July 8th 2013, 7pm

Histon Baptist Church, near Cambridge

Andrew Downes: ‘Piano’

Sine Nomine Youth Choir

Conducted by Paula Downes

 

Sunday September 1st 2013, 1pm

Carrs Lane Church Centre, Birmingham

Andrew Downes: Sonata for Violin and Piano

Anna Downes (violin)

Anthony Bridgewater (piano)

 

Wednesday September 11th 2013, 7.30pm

Wednesbury Museum and Art Gallery

Wednesbury, West Midlands

Andrew Downes: Sonata for Violin, Cello and Piano

(transcribed by Cynthia Downes from Sonata for Violin, Horn and Piano)

Anna Downes (violin)

Joanne Jefferis ('cello)

Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

 

Friday September 27th 2013, 7.30pm

St John’s Church, Hagley, Worcestershire

Andrew Downes: Sonata for Violin and Piano

Anna Downes (violin)

Anthony Bridgewater (piano)

 

Saturday October 5th 2013

University School of Music, Canberra, Australia

Andrew Downes: Sonata for Contrabass Flute and Piano (movements 2 and 3)

Peter Sheridan (contrabass flute)

Part of the 2013 Australian Flute Festival

 

Saturday October 26th 2013, 4pm

Menheniot Parish Church, Cornwall

Andrew Downes: ‘Jubilate’ (World Premiere)*

Paula Downes (soprano)

Callington Singers

Conductor Graham Williams

*commissioned by the Callington Singers to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the choir.

 

Saturday November 2nd  2013, 7.30pm

St James’ Church, Wollaston, Stourbridge

Andrew Downes: Sonata for 8 Flutes or Flute Choir

National Flute Orchestra (founder Margaret Lowe)

Conductor Tony Bridgewater

 

Sunday December 15th 2013, 5.30pm

Suk Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic

Andrew Downes: Sonata for Violin, Horn and Piano

Brahms Trio Prague

Xenia Dohnalova (violin)

Ondrej Vrabec (Horn)

Daniel Wiesner (piano)

 

Tuesday January 21st 2014, 7.30pm

Kimball Recital Hall, University of Nebraska,

Lincoln, Nebraska, USA

Andrew Downes: Idyll: In the Gardens of Burdwan

William McMullen (oboe)

Catherine Herbener (piano)

 

Monday April 14th 2014, 7.30pm

Herbert Lumby Room, Elgar School of Music, Worcester, UK

Andrew Downes: Sonata for Violin, Cello and Piano

(transcribed by Cynthia Downes from Sonata for Violin, Horn and Piano)

Anna Downes (violin)

Joanne Jefferis (cello)

Duncan Honeybourne (piano)

 

Friday May 22nd  2015,  7pm

St Peter’s Church, Winchcombe

Andrew Downes: Ballad of St Kenelm (premier performance) 

Paula Downes (soprano)

Central England Ensemble (leader Anna Downes)

conducted by David Trippett

*commissioned by the Francis Brett Young Society