Summer Music around Sevenoaks
CODA
| Type of event: | Performance |
| Start time: | 3:00pm |
| End time: | 5:00pm |
| External website related to this event: | www.ticketsource.co.uk/codatw |
| Venue: | Rose Hill School Theatre Coniston Avenue Tunbridge Wells TN4 9SY |
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| Ticket pricing/options: | Non-member £20 8-18 years free Optional additional cash/gift aid donations to Hospice in the Weald. |
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| Description: | 
CODA Chairman Alexander Metcalfe performs a recital to raise funds for Concerts Originaux Des Amis (Charity no.286544) and Hospice in the Weald. Profits from ticket sales will be split equally between the two charities and there will be a collection bucket and Gift Aid envelopes for the Hospice if you are able to donate further to them. To celebrate the Summer Solstice, Alexander Metcalfe will present a multimedia recital of classical pieces associated with the dusk, the dead of night and the break of dawn. Performed on piano, harmonium, tanpura ad electronics. The first half will feature works by Chopin, Debussy, Britten, Messiaen, Peter Sculthorpe, Bartok, Wagner and Grieg, interpolated with Indian Ragas reflecting the stages of night. An accompanying film will mirror the timeframe projected by the pieces. Second half: R. Schumann - Fantasy Pieces Op. 12 Proceeds from the concert will be split between CODA and Hospice in the Weald. Concerts Originaux Des Amis gratefully acknowledges the support of Buss Murton Law during their October 2025-June 2026 season.“ Local lawyers for all your personal and business needs.” Concerts Originaux Des Amis gratefully acknowledges the support of The Blockley Partnership, Tunbridge Wells during their October 2025-June 2026 season. https://blockleypartnership.com SEVENOAKS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SPRING CLASSSICS on 17TH MAY at 19';30 
Tickets for our May concerts at Pamoja Hall can be obtained online at Pamoja Hall Box Office or by calling the box office on 01732 467765. Our final subscription concert of the 2025-26 season. Prokofiev: Classical Symphony Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4 (Soloist Anson Wong) Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 - the Scottish Prokofiev's Classical Symphony could be described as Haydn on steroids. It's, a wonderful concert opener - sparklingly witty, exhilarating, and with a few surprises thrown in for good measure. Blink and you'll miss it, which would be a great shame! Beethoven's sublime fourth piano concerto is innovative in two ways. It opens with just the piano, something that Rachmaninov did in this second piano concerto, written nearly a hundred years later (and performed in SSO's memorable 2025 summer concert). The other notable feature is the second movement, in which the piano seems effortlessly to subdue the orchestra. Our soloist, Anson Wong, studied in the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts from the age of nine. He has won several prizes in China and Japan, and recently won third prize, and the Beethoven Prize in the 2025 Dublin International Piano Competition. The concert concludes with one of the works in which inspiration came to Mendelssohn as a result of his travels. In the case of his third symphony the initial impetus came from a visit to Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh. The symphony has a traditional four-movement structure, although the movements are written to be played without a break. There are elements of Scottish folk music in the final movement, and also in the second movement, in which the rhythm known as the "Scotch Snap" is in evidence. The symphony as a whole is full of contrasts - wonderful music with which to finish our season! 
Saturday 27 June, 7.30pmThe Coull QuartetBeethoven, Haydn and DvorákTickets £30.00 Saturday 4 July, 7.30pmAdam Summerhayes (violin) & Murray Grainger (accordion)‘Vagabond’ – Gypsy, Tango and KlezmerTickets £25.00 This concert is sponsored by Mrs Carol Kennedy Saturday 11 July, 7.30pmNarratio String QuartetBeethoven and SchubertTickets £30.00 Saturday 18 July, 7.30pmDavid Gordon (piano)‘Americans in Paris’ – Gershwin, Bernstein, Piazzola and moreTickets £25.00 This concert is sponsored by Mrs Carol Kennedy Saturday 25 July, 7.30pmAstatine Piano TrioHaydn, Mendelssohn and BeethovenTickets £25 Saturday 1 August, 7.30pmDaniel Grimwood (piano)Music of the early Romantic periodTickets £25 Sunday 2 AugustThe Friends Champagne ReceptionKosta Popovic (cello) and Zany Denyer (piano)Beethoven, Janacek and Fanny Mendelssohn |
