Downes Piano Concerto
Saturday 26 June 2010
Coventry Cathedral
Music Director: Anthony Bradbury
Soloist: Duncan Honeybourne
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5
Walton - Henry V Suite
Downes - Piano Concerto
Strings in the Springtime
Saturday 1 May 2010
St George's Church, Edgbaston, 7.30 pm
Conductor: Lee Armstrong
Soloist: Paula Downes
Leader: Anna Downes
Ireland: Concertino Pastorale
Downes: Songs of Love
Finzi: Romance Op. 10
Glière: Octet Op. 5
Tickets £8 (£6 concessions) available from ceemusic@hotmail.com,
by calling 07734 256268, or on the door
New Beginnings: A Russian Spring
Sunday 21 February 2010 , 7.30 pm
Artrix Theatre, Bromsgrove
Conductor: Anthony Bradbury
Soloist: Tony Bridgewater
Leader: Anna Downes
Shostakovich - Festive Overture
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10
Tony Bridgewater - Piano Concerto No. 2
Tickets £10 (£8 concessions).
An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan
Charity Concert for Birmingham Children's Hospital, presented by CEE with Sarah Cotterill and Friends
Sunday 4 October, 7.30 pm
Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham
Conductor: Anthony Bradbury
Featuring Favourites from The Mikado, Ruddigore, HMS Pinafore and Iolanthe
Tickets £12.50 (£10 concessions). Book in advance from merciamusicians@mail.com or by calling 07967 728588, or buy your tickets at the door.
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CEE Concerto Competition Prizewinner's Concert
Sunday 28 June 2009, 7.30 pm
Kidderminster Town Hall
Conductor: Anthony Bradbury
Soloist: Sarah Sew
Elgar - Violin Concerto
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5
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Spring Concert
Saturday 2 May 2009, 7.30 pm
St George's Church, Edgbaston
Conductor: Peter Marks
Dvorak - Scherzo Capriccioso
Bridgewater - String Quartet
Martinu - Oboe Concerto (soloist - Lesley Knowles)
Brahms - Sympony No. 1
St George's Day 2009
Saturday 25 April 2009, 1.30 pm
Victoria Square, Birmingham
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 (From The New World)
Town Hall Connections
Sunday 1st March 2009, 7.30 pm
Birmingham Town Hall
Soloist: Duncan Honeybourne
Sibelius - Finlandia
Downes - Piano Concerto No. 1 - World Premiere
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 (From The New World)
ADVENT AWAKE! A Festival Concert
for Advent Sunday
with Rolleston Choral Society and Needwood Singers
Sunday 30th November 2008, 7 pm
in Burton-upon-Trent Town Hall
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Music Director: Anthony Bradbury
Soloists: Sarah Cotterill (Soprano), Penelope Appleyard (Soprano), Christine Cairns (Contralto), Stephen Davis (Tenor), Robert John Edwards (Baritone)
Parry - I Was Glad
Joubert - Torches
Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves
Vaughan Williams - Serenade to Music
Vaughan Williams - Hodie
Pastoral Moods
Sunday 22nd June 2008, 7.30 pm
Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham
Conductor: James Cunningham
Leader: Anna Downes
Delius - Brigg Fair
Simon Pratt - Transformations
Arnold - Tam O'Shanter (Overture)
Walton - Orb and Sceptre
Beethoven - Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'
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Strings in the Springtime
Sunday 27th April 2008, 8.00 pm
St George's Church, Edgbaston
Conductor: Lee Armstrong
Elgar - Serenade for Strings
Janacek - Suite for Strings
Warren - Concertino for String Quartet and Strings
Shostakovich - Suite for Strings Op. 6a
Awakenings: First Love
Sunday 24th February 2008
Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham
Tenor solo: Jonathan Finney
Soprano solo: Sarah Estill
Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
Puccini - Act I Finale from Madama Butterfly
Wagner - Overture to Tannhäuser
Wagner - Brünnhilde and Siegfried's Love Duet and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (from Götterdämmerung)
Gernon - Resurrectio Magus
Read the Birmingham Post's review of this concert...
Life's Journey
A Concert in Support of Cruse Bereavement Care
Sunday 4th November 2007, 7.30 pm
Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham
Soloist: Margaret Newman
Soprano solo: Sarah Cotterill
Chopin - Ballade No. 3 and Nocturne in F
Wagner - Siegfried's Rhine Journey (from Götterdämmerung)
Strauss - Death and Transfiguration
Strauss - Four Last Songs
'From Russia... With Love'
Saturday 24th June 2007, 7.30 pm
Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham
Conductor: Anthony BradburySoloist: Juliet Allen
Williams - Celebration: In Praise of Midland Youth
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1
Prokofiev - Excerpts from Romeo and Juliet
Autumn Concert 2006
Sunday 12th November 2006, 7.30 pm
Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham
Conductor: Daniele Rosina
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Louis Clark - Scherzo
Berlioz - Symphony Fantastique