The Whiteknights Ensemble will be performing at Leighton Park School, Reading RG2 7ED on Sunday 9 June 2019. The concert begins at 7pm (please note earlier start time) and the programme is (more or less) as follows: Polka (Shostakovich) Déjà connu, déjà entendu for Wind Quintet (Bo Nilsson) Three Sea Shanties (Arnold) INTERVAL Pavane (Fauré) Quatuor Parisienne…
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Whiteknights Ensemble Autumn Concert 2018: 17 November, St Paul’s Wokingham
The programme for our autumn concert will feature music by Jacques Ibert, Pavel Haas, Jacob Gade, Francis Poulenc, Otto Mortensen and Norman Hallam, as follows: Ibert – Trois Pièces Brèves Haas – Wind Quintet Gade – Tango Jalousie INTERVAL Poulenc – Novelette in C Mortensen – Wind Quintet Hallam – Dance Suite The concert will…
Whiteknights Ensemble: next concert 21 July 2018 at Leighton Park, Peckover Hall
Following the success of our inaugural concert back in November 2017, the Whiteknights Ensemble is currently rehearsing for a second concert in July this year, to be held at Leighton Park, Peckover Hall. The date and venue are fixed, but we have yet to confirm other details, including the programme. It is likely, however, that…
18 November 2017: Inaugural concert of the Whiteknights Ensemble
Earlier this year some of my musical friends and I got together to form the Whiteknights Ensemble, and our inaugural concert is now only three weeks away! We’ll be performing as a wind quintet and the programme comprises works by Mozart, Ligeti, Cambini, Nielsen and Patterson. Based in Earley, Reading, the Whiteknights Ensemble takes its name…
A music practice room of one's own
The music practice rooms I used to visit on an almost daily basis are now permanently closed and out of use, and this presented me with an enormous problem: where to practise? I live in a terraced house and the walls are very thin. Not only that, but my Significant Other is an academic and he spends…
