MACHYNLLTHETH MUSIC: NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 2024

Dear Friends, Concert Goers and Season Ticket Holders,

A warm welcome to the 2024/5 Season of Concerts at Y Tabernacle MOMA Machynlleth.  A big thank you to all those who have already purchased a season ticket to all five concerts and to say that it is still not too late to do so. A bargain at £55! A printable form is attached which you can hand in on the door at the first concert. (Please note we are only able to accept cheques or cash.) Otherwise, admission is £15 for each concert with 18 & under free.

Our first concert is given by members of the absolutely wonderful MELIORA COLLECTIVE on THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER AT 7.30PM.  They are really excited to return, this time as a piano trio - a debut for them. As always, they curate diverse and interesting works and this concert will be no exception!

Meera Maharaj - Flute

Meera Maharaj enjoys a diverse performing career. Her duo with pianist Dominic Degavino has enjoyed much success, featuring as Countess of Munster Recital Scheme, Tunnell Trust and Park Lane Group artists. Since 2013, she has frequently performed with guitarist James Girling, as the Meraki Duo. They recently won the II Concurs Internacional de Música Cambra Flauta & Guitarra and they were finalists in the 2019 Royal Overseas League competition (mixed ensembles category), as well as International Guitar Foundation Young Artists. She also plays with harpist, Lucy Nolan as Hathor Duo and formed her own flexi-ensemble – Meliora Collective.                        

Dan Iulian Drutac - Violin

Born in 1996 in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova, Dan-Iulian Druțac studied music since he was 7, encouraged by his father who is also a musician. By the time he was 15, he was a laureate of 20 national and international competitions. In 2013, he moved to London when he was 16 years old after being awarded a full-scholarship at the Whitgift School in the Whitgift International Music Competition. In London, Dan-Iulian studied privately with David Takeno, continuing his studies with him as a scholarship student at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He is the winner of Guildhall’s Lutine Prize and finalist of the Gold Medal 2018. Dan-Iulian has been studying with Zakhar Bron in Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía since 2021.

Dan-Iulian joined the Fitzroy Quartet in 2019 with whom has been playing since in tours throughout Scotland, as part of Tunnell Trust prize, and other concerts in the UK.

Dan-Iulian has performed alongside youth orchestras of Moldova, Romania, the UK, Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra and other orchestras. He has also taken part in masterclasses with Chloe Hanslip and many others.

Dominic Degavino - Piano

Dominic has achieved considerable competition success, including prizes at the Concours International de Piano d'Epinal in France, J.N. Hummel International Piano Competition in Slovakia, and the Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition and the Royal Over-Seas League Arts Competition in the UK. He is also a recipient of the prestigious RNCM Gold Medal. He has performed extensively as a member of both the Tillett Trust DEBUT and the Countess of Munster Trust recital schemes. We have enjoyed his accompanying on many occasions.

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                                                       PROGRAMME

Georg Philipp Telemann: Sonata for Flute and Violin TWV 40:111

Mel Bonis: Suite en Trio

Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances 

Nino Rota: Trio for Flute, Violin and Piano 

                                                                          Interval

Bohuslav Martinů: Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano 

Blaž Pucihar: Sonatine for Flute and Piano 

Dmitri Shostakovich: 5 Pieces for Two Violins and Piano 

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We look forward to welcoming you to our new new season, details of which can be found on our website; machynllethmusicclub.org

See you there

Sally Marshall and the MMC Team.

                                                CERDD MACHYNLLETH MUSIC

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NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING Wed 27th March 10.30 Tabernacle  

  NEWSLETTER MARCH 2024

Dear Friends, Season Ticket Holders and Concert Goers,

It was wonderful to hear how many of you enjoyed the last concert with Noriko Ogawa and Huw Wiggin. They were an absolute delight, gave us a wonderful evening of music and a pleasure to host. Thank you for the excellent feedback.

Our next concert is on THURSDAY 14 MARCH at 7.30pm at Y Tabernacle MOMA Machynlleth. We are absolutely thrilled to welcome back pianist Ellis Thomas who has given us many excellent recitals. He is joined by violinist Joana Rodriguez. This replaces the previously advertised Lisztomania concert which has sadly been postponed until the autumn because of illness. We are extremely grateful to Joana for stepping in at such short notice and I know it will be an equally brilliant concert!! Joana is a Portuguese violinist, recently graduated from the Guildhall school of Music and Drama. She is currently enjoying a busy freelance schedule playing with the LSO, English Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic amongst others. She is currently a fellow for the Philharmonia MMSF Instrumental Fellowship Programme 2023/24. Ellis graduated from Cambridge in 2022 with first class honours and gained the highest mark in his final recital performance. continues to perform regularly around the UK . Upcoming engagements include concertos with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Welsh Chamber Orchestra. He holds the Philharmonia’s MMSF Piano fellowship 2023/4. Programme: Schubert Sonatina in No.2 in A Major Messiaen Theme and Variations Clara Schumann Three Romances Brahms Sonata No.3 in D minor

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Please support this concert - bring friends, neighbours, family and spread the word! If we are to continue promoting concerts of this calibre we need to sell tickets!!

Tickets: Non season tickets holders £15 cash on the door. 18 & under free.

Our next concert is a LUNCHTIME CONCERT SATURDAY 23 MARCH 12.00 Zoë Tweed French Horn Julian Chang Piano I am going to ask a very heartfelt plea! We have been very fortunate indeed to have concerts organised by a wonderful committee over many, many years. As with all organisations we are not getting any younger! I know it is difficult to commit and people run a mile from committees, but, if we are to continue, we do need to have a few new faces. Is there someone with good desktop skills who could do the newsletter, or be a steward, organise the marketing, organise the hospitality? It would be good to hear from you.

Contact: Sally Marshall - sallymarshallmusic@btinternet.com We look forward to welcoming you.

Sally Marshall and the MMC team  

CERDD MACHYNLLETH MUSIC

NEWSLETTER SEPTEMBER 2023

Dear Friends, Supporters and Concert Goers,

I do hope you have enjoyed the Summer, at least the sunny part and also the magnificent Machynlleth Festival 2023. Many say it was our best ever. It was both a delight and privilege to welcome everybody old and new to our incredible Concert Hall and Exhibition space and for me be part of our wonderful Festival Team.

The Music Club is now promoting the 2023/4 season in the old fashioned way and offering a SEASON TICKET for five concerts at £55. Unfortunately we have needed to  increase our price but it is exceedingly good value for the calibre concerts we are promoting. That can only be achieved by sponsorship and generous benefactors.

Individual concerts are £15 cash on the door. Under 18 free.
Also, if you would consider helping to sponsor a future concert, we would be delighted to hear from you.

By purchasing a season ticket you help to secure future seasons and enable us to plan ahead with confidence. I urge you, if you have not done so already, to please consider buying a season ticket before the first concert.

You will notice that the word “club” is now not used in our publicity. This is to ensure we welcome EVERYONE to all our concerts.

I will forward a digital version of our flyer for 2023-4 separately and attach a form below  which you can print and send to our Membership Secretary, Wendy Fuller. There are also flyers available at MOMA/Tabernacle.

There will also be a series of SHOWCASING YOUTH concerts again after the main  season which season tickets holders will be able to attend at a reduced rate.

Our first concert is given by the exciting and dazzling KOSMOS ENSEMBLE on NOVEMBER 24 7.30pm. Save the date and look forward to seeing you there.

With very best wishes,

Sally Marshall and the Machynlleth Music Team.

  NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2022

Dear Friends, Supporters and Concert Goers,

It seems a very long time ago concert halls started to open up post covid and we all tentatively joined an audience for the first time in a long while. What a joy music is and a great healer. We are delighted that we as a Club have been able to present some stunning concerts in 2022 and the wonderful musicians who came, so appreciated your welcome and enthusiasm. In my role as a Director and Trustee of The Tabernacle Trust it is also wonderful to reflect also on the vibrant exhibitions, The Machynlleth Festival, Concerts, Shows, Piano Playing on Saturday mornings, the work of The Friends of the Tabernacle, the dedicated staff, minders, volunteers and my co Directors who are all determined to make The Tabernacle thrive. All this of course does not happen without you, our audience. So I thank you all for for your support and look forward to 2023 with optimism in these difficult times.

Please bring friends, family and new neighbours to our events and spread the word!!

We will continue with our decision to present concerts on an individual basis and then reinstate a season ticket for the 2023/24 series of concerts starting in the Autumn. You may of course, still purchase individual tickets and our concerts are open to all.

Our next concert is on SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY at 7.30pm.                    John Ieuan Jones Baritone Ryan Vaughan Davies Tenor Michael Pandya Piano                                                                                                      Tickets will be on sale early in the New Year

A REMINDER that the concert on Friday December 16 with OLIVER STIMPSON has been postponed until September. He is a rising star trying to juggle A levels with performing and learning new repertoire but I can assure you, worth the wait!

More dates for your diary:

Sunday 18 December FRIENDS’ CHRISTMAS CAROLS with CHRIS DENDY and PUPILS - 3PM mulled wine ~ mince pies ~raffle. Admission Free

Wednesday 21 December MOMA MACHYNLLETH A FESTIVE FUNDRAISER with local Musicians ~ mulled wine ~ mince pies. Collection on the door (suggested donation: £10 ) Proceeds to Credu, Machynlleth Youth Club and Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust.

Save the Date: MACHYNLLETH FESTIVAL 2023 20-27 AUGUST.

May I wish you all a peaceful Festive Season and look forward to seeing you at our concerts. Sally Marshall and the Music Club Committee  

MACHYNLLETH MUSIC 

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 DATE OF NEXT AGM:

Wednesday 10th July 2024 in Y Tabernacl 7pm 

NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2023

Dear Friends, Supporters and Concert Goers,

I would like to wish you all a peaceful 2023 and hope we can tempt you with an exciting programme of concerts over the coming months.

Our next concert is on SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY at 7.30pm at The Tabernacle Machynlleth.

Tickets are now on sale via the MOMA website: moma.cymru, on the desk at MOMA, or by phone 01654 703355.

We are privileged to welcome three exciting young artistes who present a concert of well known arias by Mozart, Puccini, Bizet - from La Boheme to Chess - together with some wonderful Welsh Classics and much more. Please bring friends and family and enjoy a wonderful evening of music making given by these highly talented young stars who are already making a name for themselves in the field of opera

John Ieuan Jones Baritone

Ryan Vaughan Davies Tenor 

Michael Pandya Piano

With very best wishes

Sally Marshall and the MMC Committee

  NEWSLETTER AUGUST 2022

Dear All, IT’S FESTIVAL TIME!! After a highly successful mini series of concerts presented by the Music Club which I hope you were able to enjoy, we turn to the Gwyl Machynlleth Festival at The Tabernacle. This year the festival returns with an exceptional programme brought to you by Artistic Directors Dennis Jones and Julius Drake and the amazing team at MOMA. I know we are all still exercising caution after Covid but please support if you can. It is truly “A Feast of Music.” Full details are on the website: machynllethfestival.co.uk Tickets are available from the box office: 01654 703355. Enjoy!

Music Club News:  At our recent AGM we decided to continue with our “mini series” of concerts until more certain times when we will then return to our usual programme and annual subscription. I hope you will understand.

Saturday 22 October 7.30pm. The return of the wonderful Kanneh-Mason Family. Tickets and more details will be available in September.

Friday 25 November 7.30pm. The Meliora Collective. An exciting group of young musicians - we have booked all ten musicians with the help of the Garthgwynion Charities! This promises to be a really exciting evening - details to follow in September.

Friday 16 December 7.30pm. Oliver Simpson - cello. The extraordinarily talented 2021 winner of the Gregynog Young Musician. He has recently performed the Elgar Cello Concerto with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

I do have some exciting concerts up my sleeve for 2023 so watch this space! We look forward to welcoming you all again, With our very best wishes Sally Marshall Chair/Concert Organiser and the Music Club Committee M  

                                         NEWSLETTER                          JUNE 2022

Dear All,

DOMINIC DEGAVINO  PIANO

(Countess of Munster Musical Trust)

We hope you enjoyed our last two concerts. It has been a privilege to welcome musicians to our concerts at Y Tabernacl again, and thank you for making them so welcome.

For our final concert in our “mini series” we welcome back rising star, Dominic Degavino, piano. He wowed us all with his accompanying skills for the Tom Mathias concert and I am sure his afternoon recital will be no exception. You may even have heard him at the Hay Festival. A full biography can be found on our website.

I am sure this will be a wonderful afternoon of music so please spread the word and come and enjoy. Tickets are £10 on the door (cash and cheques only) and free for under 18’s.

Programme:

Beethoven                Sonata in C major  Op. 2 No. 3

Amy Beach               Five Improvisations  Op. 148

                                            Interval

Schubert                    Allegretto in C minor D. 915

Brahms                      Piano Sonata  No.3 in F minor  Op.5

Dates for your diary:

AGM.   Wednesday June 29 7.00pm Foyer Y Tabernacl.

                               NEWSLETTER                    MAY 2022  

Dear All,

Here are details and a reminder that our next concert is on FRIDAY MAY 20 7.30pm at Y Tabernacl Machynlleth. Tickets are £10 on the door and free for under 18’s. There will be a bar and the usual tea and coffee. Please note that all refreshments will be served from the bar.

We are delighted to welcome two rising stars TOM MATHIAS violin and DOMINIC DEGAVINO piano. Tom is Aberystwyth born and well known in the  area for his  excellent performances  and it is a privilege to welcome him here at Y Tabernacl. He is joined by Dominic who is making a name for himself not only as a soloist but also is also as a passionate chamber musician, accompanist and jazz player. He will be giving a recital  for us on Saturday June 11 2.00pm. Further details can be found on our website.

I know this will be a stunning and memorable evening of music. We look forward to welcoming you. Please spread the word and bring friends and family.

Programme:

Schubert        Sonata in A major

Piazzola         Histoire du Tango

Massenet       Meditation

Interval

Ysaye             Solo Sonata 6

Strauss          Sonata

Ernst               Carnival of Venice

We look forward to welcoming you,

Sally Marshall and the Music Club Committee.