EIRA LYNN JONES – Harpist will give a concert at Boston Grammar School on 18 February 2025 at 7.30 pm. Tickets are £12 at the door or in advance from 01205 366018 or bostonconcertclub@gmail.com Students and children enter free of charge. There is plenty of parking at the entrance off Rowley Road.

BIOGRAPHY

Welsh harpist Eira Lynn Jones combines the three strands of her
illustrious career as performer, teacher and composer. Her harp adventures have taken her all over the world including: performing at the Hollywood Bowl, LA; a Recital in Reykjavik, Iceland for the Nordic Watercolour Society; playing for the then HRH Prince Charles in Spain and tours to Japan, Hong Kong and USA. She regularly works with the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and Opera North. More eclectic engagements include: recordings with the Black Dyke Brass Band and the heavy metal band Venom; accompanying Aled Jones on Songs of Praise and solo tours; directing massed harps under Dippy the Dinosaur at the Natural History Museum, London and appearing as harpist Lucinda Jane Gray in two episodes of Coronation Street. CD releases include two solo albums … from within and Forgotten Dreams which received critical acclaim. “I love the album … a diversity of music, a very accomplished technique and your heart shining through” Alan Stivell


Fragments, with flautist Anna Rosa Mari, featured on Apple Music
Classical AM Top 50 playlist. Most recently, she has recorded new works
by Martin Ellerby: Three Choral Psalms, with the Kantos Chamber
Choir, and his Concerto for Clarinet, Harp and Strings, with the Royal
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Eira is widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading harp teachers and was Head of Harp at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester for nearly 30 years. Highlights include: harp ensemble concerts at the Huddersfield International Contemporary Music Festival, broadcast on Radio 3; Artistic Director of the RNCM International Harp Weeks and leading the RNCM Young Harps Project. She has given workshops in
South Africa, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Greece and now gives private
lessons to harpists worldwide: from Newark to New Zealand!


As a composer, she is inspired by the stories around her, from medieval
tales to contemporary events. She was selected as composer for Illumine
Theatre’s audio drama Tremolo, now available on major podcast
channels. In March she collaborated with the multi-award winning dance
company, DanceSyndrome, whose members have Down’s Syndrome.
They performed her work The Sunken Forest: a retelling of the Welsh
legend, Cantre’r Gwaelod and the rising sea levels today.
www.eiralynnjones.com

PROGRAMME

MOSAICS

Au Jardin ~ Venise ~ Ping-Pong from Pour les Enfants by Alexandre Tansman

La fille aux chevaux de lin by Claude Debussy (tr. Eira Lynn Jones)

Li ndsey Dances – Steep Hill – Bolingbroke – Gibralter Point – Tattershall = The Stump by Martin Ellerby

Interlude from a Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten

Time Spinner by Esther Swift

INTERVAL

Glenlivet – trad. Scottish

Cruit Gun Cheis, Ceall Gun Aba by Mary Ann Kennedy

Epitaph XVIII: Crio! (Aberfan) for clarsach by Martin Ellerby (World Premiere)

Crepuscule by William Alwyn

Knocking by Anne Appleby

Swan LK243 by Catriona McKay

Harpicide at Midnight by Pearl Chertok

HEARTWOOD STRING QUARTET Concert on 21st January 2025 7.30 pm at Boston Grammar School PE21 6JE. Tickets are £12 at the door or in advance by contacting 01205 366018 or bostonconcertclub@gmail.com, Children and Students attend free of charge. There is plenty of parking at the entrance off Rowley Road.

The Heartwood String Quartet appear by kind permission of the Royal Northern College of Music.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Audrey Doyle violin
Bruno Robalo violin
Michaela Jones viola
Jasmine Blackshaw-Britton cello

Winners of the 2024 RNCM Hirsch Prize and 2024-2025 Chamber Studio UK Hans Keller Forum artists, the Heartwood Quartet are a Manchester-based string quartet founded in 2020 at the Royal Northern College of Music.

The quartet has been mentored by members of renowned quartets including the Elias Quartet, the Chilingirian Quartet and the Talich Quartet as well as receiving tuition as part of the European Chamber Music Academy in 2023.

Since their formation, the Heartwood Quartet have performed extensively across the UK in recitals with established concert series such as the Yorke Trust, Bury Concert Series and Buxton Opera House Concert Series as well as in chamber music festivals such as Didsbury Arts Festival and Enys Chamber Music Festival. In 2022 they enjoyed a residency with the Lake District Summer Music Festival and were pleased to be invited back for a recital in their 2024 concert series.

The quartet’s many upcoming projects for 2025 include recitals in concert series such as Solway Arts Society, Boston Concert Club and William Aston Hall Concert Series and a performance at the Royal Over-Seas League in January 2025.

PROGRAMME

Mozart: String Quartet No.15 K421

Jesse Montgomery: ‘Strum’

Interval

Beethoven: String Quartet Op59 No.1

Danish String Quartet: ‘Halling’

LAITON TRUMPET QUARTET on 17th December 2024 at 7.30 pm at Boston Grammar School PE21 6JE. Tickets are £12 at the door or in advance by contacting 01205 366018 or bostonconcertclub@gmail.com . Children and Students attend free of charge. There is ample parking at the entrance off Rowley Road.

BIOGRAPHY – LAITON TRUMPET QUARTET

The Laiton Trumpet Quartet are Grace Harman, Erin McLellan, Charlotte Nuta and Isabel Thompson who have all recently graduated from The Royal Northern College of Music. The ensemble has enjoyed success performing in several lunchtime concerts in and around Manchester and the North West. They have taken part in masterclasses, coaching and performance within the RNCM. In June 2023 and 2024 the group made it to the finals of the RNCM Philip Jones Brass Prize and were commended for their innovative and creative programme. All four members of the Quartet are based in the North West and continue to perform as soloists in ensembles, workshop leading as well as teaching. It is regretted that Isabel Thompson will be unable to perform at this concert. The Quartet are very grateful to Seb Williman for stepping in to perform with them. Seb came to the Concert Club two years ago with Rosamund Brass, playing at that December concert.

PROGRAMME

Fanfare for an Angel – James Stephenson 

Solitude – Duke Ellington arr. Murray Grieg 

Amazing Grace – John Newton arr. Andrew Reid 

The Lazy Trumpeter – Edrich Siebert 

Someday my Prince will Come – Miles Davis arr. Erik Veldkamp 

Intrada – Hansen arr. Murray Grieg 

Away in a manger – tradition arr. Peter Graham 

Chorale and Fugue – Bach arr. Henry Mancini

The Seal Lullabye – Eric Whitacre arr. Isabel Thompson 

Part 1 Encore: Tico Tico 

INTERVAL

Rockin Robin – Jackson 5 arr. Grace Harman

Georgia on my Mind – Ray Charles arr. Erin McLellan 

 Eleanor Rigby – John Lennon/Paul McCartney arr. Grace Harman 

Killer Queen – Queen arr. Grace Harman 

Someone to watch over me – George Gershwin arr. Joseph Turrin

Dynamite – Christopher Bond

The Seal Lullabye – Eric Whitacre arr. Isabel Thompson 

Basin Street Blues – Louis Armstrong arr. Grace Harman

Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Frank Sinatra arr. Grace Harman

Caprice – Bernard Fitzgerald

Encore – Jingle Bells

EMMA JOHNSON (Clarinet) & GREGORY DROTT (Piano) this Concert is in memory of the late Chairman of Boston Concert Club, Rev. Jenny Dumat. The concert will take place at the Grammar School, Boston on 19th November 2024 at 7.30 pm. Tickets are £12 in advance or at the door. Children and Students enter free of charge. To order your ticket in advance telephone 01205 366018 or email bostonconcertclub@gmail.com. There is ample parking at the entrance off Rowley Road and for this concert there will be additional parking in the lower car park, there will be someone there to help you park.

EMMA JOHNSON – Clarinet

Emma Johnson is one of the few clarinettists to have established a career as a solo performer which has taken her to venues all over the world. Emma grew up in London and her career was launched when at the age of 17 she won BBC Young Musicians in front of a TV audience of 12 million, followed by the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New York.

Johnson has made 30 recordings to date; her album English Fantasy has been streamed 5 million times on Spotify whilst Voyage and The Mozart Album both reached the top of the classical charts. She recently released a recording with Gloucester Cathedral choir of her own composition, Songs of Celebration. A passionate advocate of the clarinet as a solo instrument, Emma has commissioned new works from composers such as Sir John Dankworth, Sir Michael Berkeley and Jonathan Dove. She also enjoys giving concerts with her own group, Emma Johnson and Friends and is known for her eclectic programming which has ranged from Mozart with Sir Yehudi Menuhin to Klezmer at the Jazz Café and Jazz with Dame Cleo Laine.

Emma Johnson’s compositions and arrangements have been published by Chesters and Faber Music. Her composition for clarinet and choir, Songs of Celebration, was recently performed in Dublin, London and Tokyo and her clarinet concerto, Tree of Life, a response to the climate emergency, is touring in 2024.

In 2020 she received the Cobbett Medal from the Musicians’ Company Guild in the City of London for distinguished services to chamber music. She was honoured by the Queen with an M.B.E. in 1996.

Emma Johnson plays a clarinet made by the English instrument maker, Peter Eaton.

In her spare time, Emma likes running and birdwatching – but not necessarily at the same time!

For more details please visit www.emmajohnson.co.uk

Follow Emma on Twitter: @ClarinetEmmaJ

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PROGRAMME

Emma Johnson – Three Perspectives (Echoes – Solace – Senegal Spirit)

Schumann – Fantasiestucke Op.73 (Zart und mit Ausdruck – Rasch und mit Feuer) 

Poulenc – Clarinet Sonata

Interval

Rebecca Clarke – Impetuoso

Mozart – Larghetto and Variations K581a

Bliss – Pastoral

Bechet – Petite Fleur

Ellington – Medley

A BRIEF HISTORY OF MUSIC – 600 years of musical history in 90 minutes! With Chris Green and Sophie Matthews at Boston Grammar School on 15 October 2024 at 7.30 pm. Tickets are £12 on the door or in advance from 01205 366018 or email bostonconcertclub@gmail.com. There is plenty of parking at the entrance to the Grammar School off Rowley Road.

The latest show from acclaimed musicians Chris Green and Sophie Matthews takes in 600 years of musical history in 90 minutes! Beginning in the Middle Ages and ending up in the 20th century (and incorporating everything in between!) this fun and fast-moving show is a whistle-stop tour of Western musical history.

Featuring long forgotten songs and tunes (not to mention jokes!) Chris and Sophie paint a vibrant and vivid picture of our musical DNA, mixing the familiar and the obscure, the raucous and the reflective and the courtly and the commonplace.

The show combines the vigour of the medieval period, the musical intricacy of the Renaissance, the grandeur of the Baroque and the pomp and bombast of Victoriana. Add to that the wit of Blackadder and 1066 And All That and the stage is set for a veritable musical feast!

Complete with a bewildering array of instruments such as cittern, rauschpfeife and virginal (and that’s just the first 100 years!), “A Brief History of Music” uses tunes, songs and humour to take you on a musical journey from

which you won’t want to return!

You guys are awesome!” Bill Barclay, Director of Music at Shakespeare’s Globe

Eclectic and enjoyable… a bewildering range of instruments” English Dance and Song Magazine

CONCERTS FOR 2024/2025

  1. 15 October 2024

Chris Green and Sophie Matthews

“A Brief History of Music”

600 years of musical history in 90 minutes!

  1. 19 November 2024

Emma Johnson (cl) and Gregory Drott (p)

Clarinet and piano

This concert is in memory of our Chairman The Rev. Jennifer Dumat who died in December 2023

Proposed programme:

Emma Johnson – Three Perspectives (Echoes – Solace – Senegal Spirit)

Schumann – Fantasiestucke Op.73 (Zart und mit Ausdruck – Rasch und mit Feuer) 

Poulenc – Clarinet Sonata

Interval

Rebecca Clarke – Impetuoso

Mozart – Larghetto and Variations K581a

Bliss – Pastoral

Bechet – Petite Fleur

Ellington – Medley

  1. 17 December 2024

From RNCM

Laiton Trumpet Quartet

Proposed programme: (to come)

SJB / v3 / 7 July 2024 / p1

  1. 21 January 2025

From RNCM

Heartwood String Quartet

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Proposed programme: (to come)

  1. 18 February 2025

Eira Lynn Jones

Harp

Proposed programme: (to come)

  1. 18 March 2025

Sofia Sacco

Solo piano

Proposed programme:

D. Shostakovich – 3 Preludes and fugues op. 87

M. Clementi – Sonata op. 40 n. 2

O. Respighi – Nocturne

M. Ravel – La Valse

Interval

F. Couperin – Les Barricades Mystérieuses

L.C. Daquin – Le Coucou

J. P. Rameau – Gavotte et Six Doubles

J.S. Bach – Toccata in E minor

D. Shostakovich – 3 Preludes and Fugues op.87

SJB / v3 / 7 July 2024 / p2