Concerts in the West 2007 The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis                                Thursday 8 February 7.30pm Meeting House Arts Centre, Ilminster                        Friday 9 February 8pm Hatherleigh Community Centre, Hatherleigh            Saturday 10 February 7.30pm O Fair to see... NATHAN VALE tenor JONATHAN BEATTY piano Gerald Finzi   Oh Fair to see (song cycle) Franz Schubert   Des Fischers Liebesglück D933                                Nachstück D672                               Ganymed D544                               Wilkommen und Abschied D767 Anon  The Death of Queen Jane Benjamin Britten  Canticle I ‘My Beloved is mine and I am his’ Op40 John Ireland  Friendship in Misfortune                          The Trellis George Frideric Handel   ‘Hide thou thy hated beams’                                              ‘Waft her, angels’ from Jephtha HWV 70 Nicholas Brodszky  Be My Love Nathan Vale made his London debut in 2001 at St John's Smith Square singing Britten's Les Illuminations. He was the outright winner of the 2006 London Handel Singing Competition, where he was also awarded the Audience Prize. Nathan is the Peter Pears Scholar at the Royal College of Music and will take up a place in the Benjamin Britten Opera School this September where he will continue his studies. The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis                                Thursday 8 March 7.30pm Meeting House Arts Centre, Ilminster                        Friday 9 March 8pm Hatherleigh Community Centre, Hatherleigh            Saturday 10 March 7.30pm L’Histoire du Tango SALLY PRYCE harp JEAN KELLY harp (Lyme Regis) ADAM WALKER flute JS Bach  Sonata in E minor BWV1034 Joseph Jongen  Danse Lente, Op56 Camille Saint-Saëns  Romance Op37 B Hilse  Suite for flute and harp Gioachino Rossini  Andante con variazioni Stephen Dodgson  Duo for Flute and Harp Ástor Piazzolla  movts from: L’Histoire du Tango Café 1930 - Bordel 1900 Jean-Michel Damase  Variations ‘Early Morning’ Sally Pryce has won numerous national and international prizes including first prize in the 1999 London Harp Competition and in 1998 reached the final six in the prestigious International Harp Contest held in Israel. In 1996 she won the Marisa Robles Harp Prize in the Royal Over-Seas League Competition and was a finalist in the BBC Young Musicians Competition. The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis                                    Thursday 12 April 7.30pm Meeting House Arts Centre, Ilminster                            Friday 13 April 8pm (this concert was not held in Hatherleigh) From Beethoven to Paganini GEMMA ROSEFIELD cello NICOLA EIMER piano Ludwig Van Beethoven  Variations on Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen David Matthews  Journeying Songs Bohuslav Martinu  Variations on a Slovak Folk Song Dimitri Shostakovich  Sonata for cello and piano in D minor, Op40 Niccolo Paganini  Variations on a theme from Rossini's Moses Gemma studied for an M.Mus (Performance) at the Royal Northern College of Music, having graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with First Class Honours. Major competition successes include First Prizes in the European Music for Youth Competition in Oslo, and the Prix Academie Maurice Ravel. Described by The Strad at her Wigmore Hall debut as a “mesmerising musical treasure”, she has performed at the major London venues, including the Barbican and the South Bank. The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis                                       Thursday 10 May 7.30pm Meeting House Arts Centre, Ilminster                               Friday 11 May 8pm Hatherleigh Community Centre, Hatherleigh                   Saturday 12 May 7.30pm Jeux ALASDAIR BEATSON piano Ludwig van Beethoven  Sonata in D, op10 no3 Claude Debussy Jeux (1913) Alban Berg  Sonata op1 Aaron Copland arr. Bernstein  El Salon Mexico Franz Schubert trans. Liszt  Ständchen Robert Schumann trans. Liszt  Widmung Alasdair Beatson is in much demand as a recitalist, orchestral soloist and chamber musician, and he has been described by the Independent as 'an artist of exceptional talent and confidence'.  Alasdair studied at the Royal College of Music and at Indiana University and has played throughout Europe, Asia and North America and won the Second Prize in the China Shanghai International Piano Competition in 2003. Meeting House Arts Centre, Ilminster                           Friday 8 June 8pm Hatherleigh Community Centre                                   Saturday 9 June 7.30pm The Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis                                   Sunday 10 June 7.30pm The Musical Offering DONUM MUSICUM Elly Harrison violin Soile Pylkkonen flute Kinga Gaborjani cello Pawel Siwczak harpsichord Argangelo Corelli  Trio Sonata op2 no1 in D major George Frideric Handel  Trio sonata op5 no1 in A major Johann Sebastian Bach  Prelude from the solo cello Suite in D major The Musical Offering Trio Sonata in C minor Trio Sonata for Organ BWV 525 (transcribed for flute, violin and cello in G Major) Louise Couperin  Prelude for solo harpsichord  Jean-Philippe Rameau  Pieces de Clavecin en Concert No 1 Niccolò Jommelli  Trio Sonata in D major  Jean-Marie Leclair  Chaconne from Premier Recreation (1697-1764)      Notes about the musicians were up to date as the time of the concert.