Big Band Fun...

Simon Marsh is back here again at Wiltshire Music Centre, this time with one of the South Wests leading Big Bands GBH Big Band. That's Gorgeous Big Horns Big Band to you and me. This band features some of the finest jazz musicians in the country including Simon Marsh, Nick Malcolm and Dale Hambridge. Director of GBH Big Band is the formidable trumpet player and conductor, Mike Daniels. This should be a showstopper of a gig - not to be missed!

The Doric String Quartet

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The Doric's Schumann: Strings Quartets is the first recording ever to be chosen as disk of the month in both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine.

Described by Gramophone Magazine as 'one of the finest young string quartets' the Doric String Quartet has received glowing responses from audiences and critics across the globe. Here at Wiltshire Music Centre we have a huge following for the Doric's which started 10 years ago when they were promoted by the Young Artists Fund, celebrating their 10th residency here in 2012.

Amongst their numerous awards include 1st prize at the 2008 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan,  2nd prize at the Premio Paolo Borciani International String Quartet Competition in Italy and the Ensemble Prize at the Festpiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany. The Quartet was represented by Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) from 2006-2010.

Highlights of their 2012/13 season have included returns to the Berlin Konzerthaus and Amsterdam Concertgebouw, as well as recitals at the Stockholm Konzerthaus and in Prague, Denmark, Norway, Poland and Israel. The Quartet will undertake its third US tour in November with concerts in Washington DC, New York State and Pennsylvania and returns later in the season for three concerts at the Vancouver Recital Society and an exciting performance at the Wigmore Hall on 28th April 2013.

In 2009 the Doric String Quartet’s  first CD was released to critical acclaim on the Wigmore Live label and was chosen as Editor’s Choice in Gramophone: “The Doric’s Haydn sparkles with wit on their impressive [and] very auspicious recording debut”. Since 2010 the Quartet has recorded exclusively for Chandos Records. The complete Korngold String Quartets was released in September 2010 and featured as a Critic’s Choice disc in Gramophone, and they released string quartets by Walton in Spring 2011 which was similarly enthusiastically received by the press and nominated for a 2011 Gramophone Award. The Quartet’s most    recent release, of the Schumann String Quartets, was named as CD of the Month in Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine and was shortlisted for a 2012 Gramophone Award. The Quartet’s next record Schubert’s ‘Rosamunde’ and ‘Death and the Maiden’ quartets was released in September 2012. Future releases will include works by Chausson, Brett Dean, Bartók and Haydn.

Hot jazz was to be heard at Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon, with the formidable duo Jason Yarde and Andrew McCormack. They were here to jam with Wiltshire Youth Jazz Orchestra, headed by Mike Daniels, conductor and trumpet player extraordinaire. An amazing experience for WYJO with powerful and evocative music making.