St Alfege Recitals This Week!

Recital for this week is on Thursday 25 March, 2010: Trinity College of Music Early Music vocal ensemble. 1:10pm. Free. St Alfege Church, Greenwich Church St, Greenwich, SE10

St Alfege Recital

Trinity College of Music students will be providing a vocal recital at St Alfege Church in Greenwich tomorrow, March 19, 2009. The event is free and takes place at 1.10pm at St Alfege Street Church, St. Alfege Church Street, SE10.

St Alfege Church Recitals & Concerts For August

Thursday 9 August

Catherine Leonard (piano): 1:10pm. Free.

Saturday 11 August

Aquilo Trio (flute, clarinet, piano): 1:10pm. Free.

Location: St. Alfege Church, Church Street, Greenwich, SE10

St. Alfege Church Recitals For July

Thursday 5 July

Recital: Ivan Andrews, Cello & Piano, 13:10, Free.

Friday 6 July

Recital: Acroama Duo, Flute & Guitar, 13:10, Free.

Saturday 7 July

Recital: Mary Curtis, Mezzo-Soprano, 13:10, free.

Thursday 12 July

Recital: Shiho Izuno, (Soprano) & Ryoko Homma (Piano), 13:10, free.

Thursday 19 July

Recital: Shiho Izuno (Soprano) & Heidi Pinder (Mezzo-Soprano), 13:10, free.

Thursday 26 July

Recital: Edward Renshaw, Guitar, 13:10, free

Address: St Alfege Church, Greenwich Church Street, SE10

St Alfege Church Recitals & Concerts This Week!

Monday 25 June, 19:30

Concert: Trinity College of Music students: The Muse, Soprano: Iris Korfker. Tickets: 8 pounds.

Wednesday 27 June, 19:30

Trinity: Jazz Flute and Harp. Free event.

Thursday 28 June, 13:10

Organ Recital: Benjamin Kolodziej

Wagner, Frank, Durufle, Whitlock. Free event.

Saturday 30 June 13:10

Recital: Paolo Quaglia, Soprano

Nicole Panizza and Antonio Pappano Riccio (piano). Free event.

A Lunchtime Recital at St Alfege Church

Last Thursday, Whimsy ChiChi attended a recital at St Alfege Church in Greenwich as part of Greenwich Alive festivities. What she found there was truly inspirational.

The recital was presented by students from the Trinity College of Music which is situated within Greenwich University Campus. The schedule promised a Soprano (by Kalthleen Garner- a name you may want to remember), a piano (Nazuna Takahama & Leah Wingham) and a guitar recital (Emily O'Hara) and it was all about music from Latin America and Spain. Now, it was just after midday that the event took place yet the attendance was quite impressive.

Kathleen's performance was breathtaking and she had excellent command of the pieces and the way in which they were performed. Even the angels drawn on the Church windows seemed to sway as Kathleen's voice resonated about the place. Just by looking at the faces around me, you could tell that she had nailed it.

Quite the pianist myself, I was equally impressed with the piano performance carried out by Nazuna Takahama from Japan, who just recently competed in Trinity's Chopin Piano Competition. The other pianist, Leah Wingham, still fresh in the trade, seemed to effortlessly glide through the performance. Truly impressive.

The program included Manuelle De Falla's '7 Spanish Folk Songs', Fon-Fon (a tango), Nocturne no.15 in F minor, '4 Love Madrigals' by Joaquin Rodrigo that deal with love in various guises: Betrayed, discovered and joyful.

The performance was sweet, touching and only an hour long. It was wonderful to see school children there, quietly and raptly listening to the music. This, for me, as well it seemed to those around me had been a lunch hour well spent.