Forthcoming Performances  Archive |
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Three Rivers Music Society, Rickmansworth | May 2010 |
Rossini - Overture to 'Italian Girl in Algiers'
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Agay - Dances
Patterson - Westerly Winds - Linden Lea
Joplin - Ragtime selection
Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee
Farkas - Hungarian Dances
Poulenc - Novelette
Dvořák - Slavonic Dance No. 8
Grieg - Morning from 'Peer Gynt'
Greaves - Beethoven's Fifth Bossanova
Hallam - Dance Suite
Gershwin - Selection of Songs |
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Preston Minster | May 2010 |
Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee
Rossini - Overture to 'Italian Girl in Algiers'
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Patterson - Westerly Winds – ‘Linden Lea’
Dvořák - Slavonic Dance No. 8
Joplin - Ragtime Selection
Grieg - Morning from ‘Peer Gynt’
Hallam - Dance Suite
Gershwin - Selection of Songs |
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Recital - Swinburne Hall, Colchester Institute | March 2010 |
Mozart - C minor Serenade
Pilss - Serenade for Winds
Devienne - Trio
Ligeti - Six Bagatelles
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite |
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Recital - Brentwood Musical Society | February 2010 |
Farkas - Hungarian Dances
Mozart - C minor Serenade
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Rossini - Overture to Italian Girl in Algiers
Devienne - Trio
Dvořák - Slavonic Dance no. 8
Grieg - Morning
Hallam - Dance Suite
Gershwin - I got Rhythm |
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Recital - Norwich and Norfolk Chamber Music Society | November 2009 |
Mozart - Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat major, K. 452
Poulenc - Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
Dukas - Sorcerer's Apprentice
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Shostakovich - Two Waltzes for Flute, Clarinet and Piano
Poulenc - Sextet for Piano and Winds |
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Lincoln & Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival |
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| Recital with Aurora Ensemble | September 2006 |
Mozart - Overture & Arias from La Clemenza di Tito for Wind Octet, K 621
Mozart - Serenade for Wind Octet in C minor, K 388 |
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| Recital with Aurora Ensemble | September 2006 |
Mozart - Overture & Arias from Don Giovanni for Wind Octet, K 527
Mozart - Divertimento for Wind Sextet in B flat major, K 270
Mozart - Serenade for Wind Octet in E flat major, K 375 |
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Classique au Vert Festival, Parc Floral, Paris |
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| Recital | August 2005 |
Ibert - Trois Pieces Breves
Barber - Summer Music
Pilss - Serenade
Patterson - Westerly Winds
Hallam - Dance Suite |
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| Recital with Ensemble Paris-Bastille |
August 2005 |
Gounod - Petite Symphonie
Françaix - Neuf Pieces Caracteristiques |
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Recital - Oxshott Village Hall, Oxshott, Surrey | June 2005 |
Handel - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Grieg - Morning from 'Peer Gynt' Suite, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Tschaikowsky - Overture to The Nutcracker Ballet
Agay - Five Dances
Joplin - Two Rags
Mozart - Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Rossini - Overture to The Italian Girl in Algiers
Borodin - Extracts from Polvetzian Dances
Hallam - Dance Suite |
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Recital - Lamberhurst, Kent |
October 2004 |
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Recital - West Road Concert Hall, Cambridge |
October 2004 |
Mozart - Quintet for Piano and Winds
Poulenc - Trio |
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Recital - Royal Academy of Music |
March 2004 |
Elliott Carter - 8 Etudes and a Fantasy (excerpts)
Lucinda Mason Brown - Thames Walk
Andrey Rubtsov - Three Moods
Aziza Sadikova - Molitva
Phil Venables - Quintet
Tim Watts - Quintet
May-kay Yau - Distant Sky |
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Recital - David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music |
October 2003 |
Rhian Samuel - Primavera
Françaix - Quartet
Barber - Summer Music
Eliott Carter - Eight Etudes and a Fantasy
Karl Pilss - Serenade |
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Chamber Music International - Purcell School, London |
August 2003 |
| Carter - Eight Etudes and a Fantasy |
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Recital - Downhill/Mussenden Temple, Northern Ireland |
June 2003 |
Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture
Barber - Summer Music
Pilss - Serenade
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Berio - Opus No. Zoo
Gershwin - Excerpts from Porgy and Bess
Albeniz - Suite Espagnole
Patterson - Comedy for Five Winds
Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee |
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Recital - Oxshott Village Hall, Oxshott, Surrey |
June 2003 |
Rossini - Barber of Seville Overture
Barber - Summer Music
Pilss - Serenade
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite
Bizet - Carmen (Prelude Act I)
Berio - Opus No. Zoo
Gershwin - Excerpts from Porgy and Bess
Albeniz - Suite Espagnole
Patterson - Comedy for Five Winds
Mendelssohn - Scherzo from A Midsummer Night’s Dream |
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Recital - National Portrait Gallery |
February 2003 |
Ligeti - Six Bagatelles
Birtwistle - Five Distances
Watts - Quintet
Hindemith - Kleine Kammermusik |
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Park Lane Series - Purcell Room |
January 2003 |
Birtwistle - Five Distances
Wallfisch - Wind Quintet
Carter - Quintet for Piano and winds |
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Royal Academy of Music Series - St Martin-in-the-Fields |
October 2002 |
Janacek - Mladi
Butler - Dirty Beasts
Tim Watts - Wind Quintet (Premiere)
Dukas, arr. Farrington - The Sorcerer's Apprentice |
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English Chamber Orchestra Youth Series - Bullion Room, Hackney Empire |
October 2002 |
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Almeida Festival - Almeida Festival, Kings Cross |
June 2002 |
Berio - Ricorrenze
Birtwistle - Five Distances
Fokkens - The Truth Will Set You Free?
Woolrich - The Iron Cockerel Sings |
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RAM Kurtág Festival |
May 2002 |
Kurtág - Wind Quintet op. 2
Ben Wallfisch - Wind Quintet (Premiere) |
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Royal Academy of Music |
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| Changing Winds I |
February 2002 |
Woolrich - The Iron Cockerel Sings
Poulenc - Sonata (cl, cl)
Francaix - Divertissement
Villa-Lobos - Quartet
Fokkens - The Truth Will Set You Free? (Premiere)
Ligeti - Six Bagatelles |
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| Changing Winds II |
February 2002 |
Hindemith - Kleine Kammermusik
Fokkens - Black
Birtwistle - Five Distances
Villa-Lobos - Trio
Poulenc - Sextet |
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| Changing Winds III |
February 2002 |
Fokkens - Another Ship, Another Night (Premiere)
Villa-Lobos - Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6
Poulenc - Trio
Berio - Ricorrenze
Carter - Eight Etudes and a Fantasy
Janacek - Mladi |
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Recital - Oxshott Village Hall, Oxshott, Surrey |
June 2001 |
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Recording - June 2001 |
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 The Gallimaufry Ensemble's recording of Birtwistle's Five Distances for Five Instruments is included on the CD RAM019
This is available from the RAM.
www.ram.ac.uk
"it's very well played and persuasively shaped... this [recording] is well worth having" - Gramophone, October 2004 |
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Composer Project: 2001 |
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The Gallimaufry Ensemble was involved in an experimental research project with composer Robert Fokkens. This project was carried out as part of the Masters Degree programme in the Royal Academy of Music. Spanning over six months, the project centred on the collaboration of performers and composer in the creation of a new and innovative work for the ensemble, which exploited existing and created new sonorities during the period of experimentation. This was a pilot project for a new approach to music pedagogy where composers and performers collaborate in the creation of 21st century music.
All too often, students studying performance are isolated from those who compose until the composers have fully completed a work. Composition students tend to rally to performers only in order to check technical minutiae. Performers are often so obsessed with the way music should be played in order to remain faithful to dead composers' intentions, that they neglect the living composers. The sense of active collaboration, exploited in the past by numerous composers from Shostakovich to Nielsen, has been lost. It is no coincidence that this lack of collaboration has been accompanied by a lack of interest by performers and audiences alike in "New Music".
Working in an ensemble with a limited repertoire, we want to be involved in the creation of new music for the ensemble rather than in the arrangement of music written for other combinations to suit our requirements. It is a much more interesting and exciting process, which gives invaluable insight to all involved. We, the performers, know exactly what the composer intends, and the composer also gains much more accurate knowledge of the sonic and textural possibilities of the ensemble with which he works. We hope that, through setting up similar collaboration projects in music institutions, the young musicians of the 21st century will be involved in shaping the musical voice of our time, and will be interested in performing this music, and that the music itself will be interesting to audiences due to the insights gained by composers in the collaboration process.
Louisa Dennehy |
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