The Adderbury Ensemble brings together some of the UK’s top musicians to perform the world’s finest chamber music…

Spring/Summer 2019 Concerts

We’ll add more dates to the current season as they’re confirmed. Watch this space!

May 2019

Adderbury Ensemble Quartet

19:30, Friday May 17, 2019 at Chipping Norton Town Hall

  • Mozart: String Quartet no 19 in C major, K 465 (“Dissonance”)
  • Beethoven: String Quartet no 12 in E flat major, op 127

Adderbury Ensemble (directed by Martyn Jackson)

19:00, Sunday May 19 at Adderbury Parish Church

  • Mozart: String Quintet no 4 in G minor, K 516
  • Beethoven: String Quartet no 12 in E flat major, op 127

Adderbury Ensemble Quartet (directed by Martyn Jackson) with Viv McLean (piano)

19:30, Saturday May 25, 2019 at the Radcliffe Centre, Buckingham

  • Beethoven: Piano Sonata no 14, op 27 no 2 (“Moonlight”)
  • Schubert: Piano Trio no 1 in B flat major, op 99, D 898

June 2019

Adderbury Ensemble (directed by David Le Page) with Viv McLean (piano)

19:30, Thursday June 6, 2019 at Stratford-upon-Avon Town Hall

  • Dvořák: String Quartet no 12 in F major, op 96 (“American”)
  • Schumann: Piano Quintet in E flat major, op 44

Adderbury Ensemble Quartet

19:30, Thursday June 20, 2019 at Chipping Norton Town Hall

  • Ravel: String Quartet in F major
  • Schubert: String Quartet no 14 in D minor, D 810 (“Death and the Maiden”)

Adderbury Ensemble

19:30, Friday June 21, 2019 at the Radcliffe Centre, Buckingham

  • Ravel: String Quartet in F major
  • Schubert: String Quartet no 14 in D minor, D 810 (“Death and the Maiden”)

Adderbury Ensemble

11:15, Sunday June 23 at the Holywell Music Room, Oxford

  • Mozart: String Quintet no 4 in G minor, K 516
  • Vaughan Williams: Phantasy Quintet

July 2019

Adderbury Ensemble (directed by David Le Page) with Viv McLean (piano)

19:30, Thursday July 4, 2019 at Stratford-upon-Avon Town Hall

  • Mozart: String Quartet no 17 in B flat major, K 458 (“The Hunt”)
  • Dvořák: Piano Quintet no 2 in A major, op 81, B 155

Adderbury Ensemble with Fiona Cross (clarinet)

19:00, Sunday July 7 at Adderbury Parish Church

  • Mendelssohn: String Quartet no 2 in A minor, op 13
  • Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op 115

Adderbury Ensemble Quartet

19:30, Saturday July 13, 2019 at Chipping Norton Town Hall

  • Mozart: String Quartet no 21 in D major, K575
  • Brahms: String Quartet no 2 in A minor, op 51 no 2

Adderbury Ensemble with Viv McLean (piano)

19:30, Friday July 19, 2019 at the Radcliffe Centre, Buckingham

  • Beethoven: Piano Sonata no 31 in A flat major, op 110
  • Brahms: Piano Quartet no 1 in G minor, op 25

Concert Venues

Adderbury

Church of St Mary the Virgin (Map)
Mill Lane
Adderbury
Banbury
OX17 3LP

Tickets for Chamber Group Concerts

  • £15.00 adults.
  • £12.00 Friends of Music in Adderbury (adults) and full-time students up to age 25.
  • Children under the age of 18 are admitted free if accompanied by an adult. (No admission for children under the age of 5.)

Tickets for Chamber Orchestra Concerts (nine players or more)

  • £18.00 adults
  • £15.00 Friends of Music in Adderbury (adults) and full-time students up to age 25.
  • Children under the age of 18 are admitted free if accompanied by an adult. (No admission for children under the age of 5.)

Amersham

Dr Challoners High School For Girls (Map)
Cokes Lane
Little Chalfont
Amersham
HP7 9QB

Amersham Music Club

Buckingham

The Radcliffe Centre (Map)
Church Street
Buckingham
MK18 1EG

Tickets: £15.00 (£12.00 for mailing list subscribers and £5.00 for students). Available at the door or call 07711 606996 to reserve.

Chipping Norton

Chipping Norton, Town Hall (Map)
The Guildhall
Chipping Norton
OX7 5NJ

Tickets: £15.00 (£12.00 for mailing list subscribers and £5.00 for students). Available at the door or call 07711 606996 to reserve.

Deddington

Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul (Map)
Church Street
Deddington
BANBURY
OX15 0SA

Tickets for Chamber Group Concerts

  • £15.00 adults.
  • £12.00 Friends of Music in Adderbury (adults) and full-time students up to age 25.
  • Children under the age of 18 are admitted free if accompanied by an adult. (No admission for children under the age of 5.)

Tickets for Chamber Orchestra Concerts (nine players or more)

  • £18.00 adults
  • £15.00 Friends of Music in Adderbury (adults) and full-time students up to age 25.
  • Children under the age of 18 are admitted free if accompanied by an adult. (No admission for children under the age of 5.)

King’s Sutton

St Peter and St Paul Church (Map)
The Square
King’s Sutton
Banbury
OX17 3RQ

Tickets: £15.00 (£12.00 for mailing list subscribers and £5.00 for students). Available at the door or call 07711 606996 to reserve.

Milton Keynes

St Michael’s Church (Map)
Kents Hill
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA

Admission Free.

Oxford, Holywell

Holywell Music Room (Map)
Holywell Street
Oxford
OX1 3SD

Tickets: £12.00 Adults and £6.00 Children 11-17

Oxford, St John the Evangelist

St John the Evangelist (Map)
Iffley Road
Oxford
OX4 1EH

Tickets: £15.00 Adults and £5.00 Students

Perivale

St Mary’s Church (Map)
Perivale Lane
Perivale
Greenford
UB6 8SS

Admission free with retiring collection. No tickets issued beforehand.

Events at St Mary’s, Perivale

Priors Marston

Moravian Chapel (Map)
Keys Lane
Priors Marston
Southam
CV47 7SA

Advance reservations (call 07711 511043 or email martinpye@icloud.com): two tickets for £30.00. Admission at the door: £20.00. Intermission: Wine & nibbles. (Fundraiser for St Leonard’s Church Tower Fund.)

Stratford-upon-Avon

Stratford upon Avon Town Hall (Map)
1 Sheep Street
Stratford-upon-Avon
CV37 6EF

Tickets: £15.00 (£12.00 for mailing list subscribers and £5.00 for students). Available at the door or call 07711 606996 to reserve.

Witney

Witney Methodist Church (Map)
40 High Street
Witney
OX28 6HG

Tickets: £15.00 (£12.00 for mailing list subscribers and £5.00 for students). Available at the door or call 07711 606996 to reserve.

CDs

Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Grainger

Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C major
Elgar: Serenade in E minor
Grainger: Irish Tune from County Derry / Molly on the Shore

Chamber Music by Veale & Crawford

Veale: String Quartet, Tryptich for Recorder & String Quartet, etc
Crawford: Elegaic Quintet for Recorder & String Quartet, etc

Mozart (Flute, Oboe & Clarinet Works)

Flute Quartet in D, K285, Quartet in F for Oboe & Strings, K370, Clarinet Quintet in A major, K581

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

La Primavera (Spring)
L’estate (Summer)
L’autunno (Autumn)
L’inverno (Winter)


Johann Sebastian Bach Concertos

Concerto for Oboe, Violin & Strings, Concerto for Viola & Strings, Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Violin & Strings, etc

Playing Baroque

Works by Handel, Telemann, Pachelbel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Albinoni and Corelli

Playing Baroque II – Concertos

Works by Telemann, Johann Sebastian Bach, Vivaldi, Quantz, Marcello and Sammartini

Music for Seven

Maurice Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro, Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, Camille Saint-Saëns Septet

Our players…

All the Adderbury Ensemble players are among the leading performers in their field. Click on the “Biography” button below each image to find out more about them.