This course runs officially from January 24th, with the option to stay for an extra day of tutoring til 25th January. Ensembles who attend the extra day find that they get through a vast amount of ensemble repertoire and make excellent progress with that ‘settling’ time. However, the shorter course caters for those who may need to take time off work. Either way, one of the options will suit!

Friday 24th November to Monday 27th November

STANDARD: UPPER INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED

“The London Myriad Ensemble return to Benslow Music with their long-running course designed specifically for pre-formed wind ensembles. Tutors work intensively with each group on a rotational basis to ensure a broad range of input on your chosen repertoire. The aim of this unique course is to capitalize on the way an established group functions, enabling in-depth exploration of the specific ensemble and rehearsal skills that working ensembles encounter. As always, the Myriads offer some optional extras on top of their committed coaching, also offering useful advice on rehearsal technique and performance issues as well as instrument specific advice where required. Applications are welcomed from any configuration of wind or wind and piano ensembles from trios to decets. Due to popular demand, we are again offering an optional extra day for those groups who are interested in a longer course. If you have any specific requests relating to the rehearsal room that you are assigned for the course, please don’t forget to mention this on booking.

Resident: £400 Non-Resident: £305 Code: 17/359”

Please visit the Benslow Music website to book by following this link: Wind Ensembles with the London Myriads

We are delighted to return again to Benslow Music for our popular ensemble course for yet another consecutive year. The course runs officially from November 15-17th, with the option to stay for an extra day of tutoring til 18th November. Ensembles who attend the extra day find that they get through a vast amount of ensemble repetoire and make excellent progress with that ‘settling’ time. However, the shorter course caters for those who may need to take time off work. Either way, one of the options will suit!

Friday 15th November to Monday 18th November

STANDARD: UPPER INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED

“The London Myriad Ensemble return to Benslow Music with their longrunning course designed specifically for pre-formed wind ensembles. Tutors work intensively with each group on a rotational basis to ensure a broad range of input on your chosen repertoire. The aim of this unique course is to capitalize on the way an established group functions, enabling in-depth exploration of the specific ensemble and rehearsal skills that working ensembles encounter. As always, the Myriads offer some optional extras on top of their committed coaching, also offering useful advice on rehearsal technique and performance issues as well as instrument specific advice where required. Applications are welcomed from any configuration of wind or wind and piano ensembles from trios to dectets. Due to popular demand, we are again offering an optional extra day for those groups who are interested in a longer course. If you have any specific requests relating to the rehearsal room that you are assigned for the course, please don’t forget to mention this on booking.

Resident: £400 Non-Resident: £305 Code: 17/359”

Please visit the Benslow Music website to book by following this link: Wind Ensembles with the London Myriads

On Tuesday 8th October, the Myriads will be launching their debut CD, FOUR at the beautiful 1901 Arts Club. The evening will feature a performance of excerpts from the album and members of the group will be sharing their journey in making the CD and its inspiration with their guests.

There will be nibbles, a free glass of champagne, and an opportunity to meet and chat with the ensemble in the lovely 1901 lounge after the performance.

Please note that tickets will not be available to the general public until September 8th 2019

Click here for tickets and more information:

http://www.1901artsclub.com/08-oct-2019-london-myriad-four-launch.html

An evening of Music for Wind Quartet

Little Gaddesden Music Club

A concert for Little Gaddesden Music Club in the beautiful setting of Little Gaddesden House for some beautiful works for wind quartet, featuring music from our recently recorded CD, ‘FOUR.’

Programme to include works by Bridge, Rodney-Bennett, Ibert, Bozza, Francaix, Debussy and Gershwin

Stonehouse, Vicarage Road, Potten End, BERKHAMSTED HP4 2QZ

The London Myriad Ensemble will perform a full evening recital of works for trio and quartet, featuring Bozza, Rodney-Bennett, Gershwin and Mozart

Flute – Julie Groves

Oboe – Fiona Myall

Clarinet – Nadia Wilson

Bassoon – Susana Dias

The Southend Council Concert Series runs from October 2018 to June 2019 featuring 8 professional chamber music concerts

The Plaza Centre (Southend Christian Fellowship Centre),
600 Southchurch Road,
Southend-on-Sea
SS1 2PT

How to book tickets for each concert

Purchase tickets for all concerts or membership (£8 per person) using our online form.

Alternatively:

Buy on the night at the concert, please call 01702 215624 to check availability.

Purchase in advance by phone on 01702 215011 (Mon to Fri 8.45am to 5.15pm)

Purchase in advance at:-

Visitors’ Information Centre, Southend Pier (Summer season Mon to Sun 9am to 5pm) (Winter season Wed to Sun 9am to 5pm)

Allegro Music, 252 London Road, Westcliff (Mon to Sat 9am to 5.30pm, Sun 11am to 5pm)

Plaza Centre, 600 Southchurch Road, Southend (Mon to Fri 9am to 2pm

Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd June 2019

Mix and Match with the London Myriad Ensemble

“STANDARD: UPPER INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED

Building on the success of their popular course Wind Ensembles with the London Myriad Ensemble, this course welcomes individual applications from players wishing to explore new repertoire for wind chamber ensemble (with and without piano and to mix and match with other musicians in a number of different combinations. Applications will be welcomed from flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon players, along with pianists who are interested in performing repertoire for wind and piano. The course is designed for players of grade 8 standard or above and good sight reading skills are necessary as the course will focus on learning new music. There will be an informal play-through on the last afternoon so you can share your musical discoveries!

Please visit this link for booking details:Mix and Match with the London Myriads

This course runs from Friday 25th to Monday28th January 2019 with an option for a 3 day course until Sunday 27th if preferred.

STANDARD: UPPER INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED

“The London Myriad Ensemble return to Benslow Music with their longrunning course designed specifically for pre-formed wind ensembles. Tutors work intensively with each group on a rotational basis to ensure a broad range of input on your chosen repertoire. The aim of this unique course is to capitalize on the way an established group functions, enabling in-depth exploration of the specific ensemble and rehearsal skills that working ensembles encounter. As always, the Myriads offer some optional extras on top of their committed coaching, also offering useful advice on rehearsal technique and performance issues as well as instrument specific advice where required. Applications are welcomed from any configuration of wind or wind and piano ensembles from trios to dectets.”

Please visit the Benslow Music website to book by following this link

Sunday 2nd December 2018, 7.30pm (please note time change)

Venue: The Shakespeare Institute, Mason Croft, Church Street, Stratford upon Avon, CV37 6HP

The London Myriad Ensemble present a recital of works for wind trio and quartet, featuring works from their new recording: ‘FOUR’

Flute – Julie Groves

Oboe – Fiona Myall

Clarinet – Helen Bennett

Bassoon – Ashley Myall

Programme:

Eugène Bozza – Trois Pièces pour une Musique de Nuit (Wind Quartet)

Frank Bridge – Divertimenti for Wind Quartet

Jean Françaix – Quatuor

-INTERVAL-

Jacques Ibert – Deux Mouvements for Wind Quartet- MCMXXII

Malcolm Arnold – Divertimento for Wind Trio

Henri Tomasi – Concert Champêtre-Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon

Richard Rodney-Bennett – Travel Notes 2 for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet & Bassoon

Tickets:

£18 from the ticketline on 01789 740791

Venue: St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London

Time: 11am (til 12 noon)

Advance Booking: St Martin in the Fields Website

To introduce the festive season, come and enjoy two timeless children’s classics: Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and excerpts from Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals, with The Flight of the Bumblebee and some Christmas carols thrown in for good measure!

The concert is performed by international award-winning ensemble the London Myriad Ensemble, performing as wind quintet alongside the dramatic talents of actor/musician David Laughton for the narrations.

Programme to include:

Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf (arranged for woodwind quintet by by Joachim Linckelmann)
Saint-Saëns – Excerpts from Le Carnaval des animaux, ‘Carnival of the Animals’ (arranged for woodwind quintet by Bill Holcombe)
Traditional – Christmas Carols

Performers:

London Myriad Ensemble with
David Lempriere Laughton: Narration

John Landor: Director/Presenter

We are delighted to return for the third time in 2018 to Benslow Music for our popular ensemble course.

The course runs from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th November 2018, with an optional extra day until the 19th if desired.

STANDARD: UPPER INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED

“The London Myriad Ensemble return to Benslow Music with their longrunning course designed specifically for pre-formed wind ensembles. Tutors work intensively with each group on a rotational basis to ensure a broad range of input on your chosen repertoire. The aim of this unique course is to capitalize on the way an established group functions, enabling in-depth exploration of the specific ensemble and rehearsal skills that working ensembles encounter. As always, the Myriads offer some optional extras on top of their committed coaching, also offering useful advice on rehearsal technique and performance issues as well as instrument specific advice where required. Applications are welcomed from any configuration of wind or wind and piano ensembles from trios to dectets.”

Please visit the Benslow Music website to book by following this link

In October 2018, the London Myriad Ensemble (resident artists at Whitgift School Croydon), will return to give another fun-filled day of workshops and a public evening concert, featuring improvisation, narration and story-telling

7pm, Concert Hall

Whitgift School
Haling Park
South Croydon
CR2 6YT

Tickets: £5, FREE admission for Whitgift students 

*Ticket price includes a drink during the course of the evening.

*Concessions: Children 16 and under, Over 60s, Students (17–25 in full-time education)

How to get to Whitgift School:

http://www.whitgift.co.uk/MainContacts.aspx

Friday 8th-Sunday 10th June 2018

Mix and Match with the London Myriad Ensemble

“STANDARD: UPPER INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED

Building on the success of their popular course Wind Ensembles with the London Myriad Ensemble, this course welcomes individual applications from players wishing to explore new repertoire for wind chamber ensemble (with and without piano and to mix and match with other musicians in a number of different combinations. Applications will be welcomed from flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon players, along with pianists who are interested in performing repertoire for wind and piano. The course is designed for players of grade 8 standard or above and good sight reading skills are necessary as the course will focus on learning new music. There will be an informal play-through on the last afternoon so you can share your musical discoveries!

Please visit this link for booking details: http://www.benslowmusic.org/?PageID=2026

St. Mary’s Church, College Road, Bromley, BR1 3QG

All American works for wind quintet including:

• Partita by Irving Fine

• Towns of Wind and Wood by Carl Schimmel

• Roaring Fork by Eric Ewazen 

• Summer Music by Samuel Barber

• Aires Tropicales by Paquito D’Rivera 

Admission: £8 (£6)/ children free
Interval refreshments

Transport:
Buses 126, 261, 314, 336 (Morgan Road
stop) link with Bromley South rail station;
limited parking near the church
Map here

We are delighted to return to Benslow Music for our popular ensemble course early in 2018.

The course runs from 16th-19th February 2018

STANDARD: UPPER INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED

“The London Myriad Ensemble return to Benslow Music with their longrunning course designed specifically for pre-formed wind ensembles. Tutors work intensively with each group on a rotational basis to ensure a broad range of input on your chosen repertoire. The aim of this unique course is to capitalize on the way an established group functions, enabling in-depth exploration of the specific ensemble and rehearsal skills that working ensembles encounter. As always, the Myriads offer some optional extras on top of their committed coaching, also offering useful advice on rehearsal technique and performance issues as well as instrument specific advice where required. Applications are welcomed from any configuration of wind or wind and piano ensembles from trios to dectets.”

Please visit the Benslow Music website to book nearer the date.

Following a very successful concert, London Composers Forum takes pride and delight in joining forces for a second time with the London Myriad Ensemble to present a concert at Lauderdale House, showcasing the music of the ten Forum composers who featured in the previous concert. The London Myriad Ensemble welcomes this second collaboration with London Composers Forum and the chance to explore the broad variety of exciting and accessible music that Forum composers have contributed.

The works in the programme range from jazz-inspired through to pastoral, humorous, festive and elegiac in character and present a fascinating cross-section of the creative mix that makes London Composers Forum a vibrant and dynamic focus for new music in the capital. This concert is supported by the RVW Trust.

London Composers Forum is open to all composers interested in composing contemporary classical music. New members are welcomed regularly.

Lauderdale House is an exceptional venue with a rich history, set in the grounds of Waterlow Park and run as an arts and education centre following a recent major refurbishment programme. Built in 1582 during the reign of Elisabeth I, the house was inherited by the Earl of Lauderdale in 1645 and visited by such notables as Charles II, Samuel Pepys and Nell Gwyn.

Venue:  Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park, London N6 5HG
Date:     Friday 9th February 2018
Time:     7.30pm
Tickets: Advance ticket £10 – call 07765 147324.
At the door £12; concession £10; under 18 free.

We are delighted to return for the third time in 2017 to Benslow Music for our popular ensemble course.

June sees our first foray into ‘MIX AND MATCH’ and November 2017 sees us returning for our usual course.

The course runs from 11th-13th November 2017

STANDARD: UPPER INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED

“The London Myriad Ensemble return to Benslow Music with their longrunning course designed specifically for pre-formed wind ensembles. Tutors work intensively with each group on a rotational basis to ensure a broad range of input on your chosen repertoire. The aim of this unique course is to capitalize on the way an established group functions, enabling in-depth exploration of the specific ensemble and rehearsal skills that working ensembles encounter. As always, the Myriads offer some optional extras on top of their committed coaching, also offering useful advice on rehearsal technique and performance issues as well as instrument specific advice where required. Applications are welcomed from any configuration of wind or wind and piano ensembles from trios to dectets.”

Please visit the Benslow Music website to book nearer the dates by following this link.

Peter and the Wolf workshop and concert at Whitgift School

Wednesday 4 October 2017

7pm, Concert Hall

Whitgift School
Haling Park
South Croydon
CR2 6YT

Tickets: £5, FREE admission for Whitgift students 

Following on from their successful Roald Dahl centenary concert last year, the London Myriads return to Whitgift school with another day of education workshops and an evening concert based around Prokoffiev’s renowned musical story, ‘Peter and the Wolf,’ along with a mix of wind quartet and quintet classics!

Come and join the LME and students from the Lower First form as they venture into the Russian countryside to visit Peter and his Grandfather along with an assorted cast of colourful animal companions!

*Ticket price includes a drink during the course of the evening.

http://www.whitgift.co.uk/events.aspx?SubCatID=239&PageID=683

*Concessions: Children 16 and under, Over 60s, Students (17–25 in full-time education)

How to get to Whitgift School:

http://www.whitgift.co.uk/MainContacts.aspx

This mini-festival has been running for several years now, at the residence of composer Stephen Warbeck and clarinettist Sarah Homer.

An eclectic mix of orchestral, chamber, pop, rock, folk and fun, with a range of food and home brewed cider!

10.30-17.00, £15 entry, Londonderry Farm, Nutley, TN22 3HY

New Music and a Fresh Collaboration

The London Myriad Ensemble is delighted to join forces with the London Composers Forum in presenting new music for chamber wind ensemble.

For this concert, ten members of London Composers Forum have contributed pieces for wind trio and wind quintet, many of which will receive their première performance at this event. The music ranges from jazz-inspired through to pastoral, humorous, festive and elegiac in character and presents a fascinating cross-section of the creative mix that makes London Composers Forum a vibrant group for contemporary classical music in the capital.

PLEASE FIND VENUE AND TICKET INFORMATION BY CLICKING THE LINK BELOW:

http://www.forumcomposers.org.uk/

Composers: Arditti, Openshaw, Jones, Peachey, Foster, Sharma, Holland, Regan, Taylor, Hilton

31st December 2016 at 11.30am

Mini Maestro Family Concert with the London Myriad Ensemble

On the final day of 2016, come and enjoy two timeless children’s classics: Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and excerpts from Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals, with The Flight of the Bumblebee and some Christmas carols thrown in for good measure!

The concert is performed by international award-winning ensemble the London Myriad Ensemble, performing as wind quintet alongside the dramatic talents of actor Jake Harders for the narrations.

Programme to include:

Prokofiev – Peter and the Wolf (arranged for woodwind quintet by by Joachim Linckelmann)
Saint-Saëns – Excerpts from Le Carnaval des animaux, ‘Carnival of the Animals’ (arranged for woodwind quintet by Bill Holcombe)
Traditional – Christmas Carols

To book please click this link: St Martin in the Fields events

Performers:

London Myriad Ensemble
Jake Harders Narrator
John Landor Conductor/Presenter

Jake Harders is an English actor born on Merseyside, UK who works in film, TV, radio and theatre. He trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London and at the Grotowski Center, Poland where he studied with actors from Grotowski’s Teatr Laboratories.
He has appeared in the West End and at Shakespeare’s Globe in the UK, and tours the world with British companies Cheek by Jowl and Headlong.
In 2005, he received a Commendation at the UK National Theatre’s Ian Charleson Awards for best classical actor under 30.

The Healing Power of Music – UCLH and the Concordia Foundation

Atrium Recital 11.30am – 12.30pm

(followed by Ward Visit – private event)

Catch the London Myriad Ensemble playing duos and trios for the Concordia Foundation‘s Healing Power of Music project at University College Hospital from 11.30am on Wednesday 7th December 2016.

UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre,
Huntley Street,
London WC1E 6AG

Free.

to Monday 25th January 2016 – The London Myriad Ensemble return to Benslow Music Trust for the eleventh time to coach their successful ‘Wind Ensembles with the London Myriads’ course for amateur wind chamber ensembles, featuring intensive coaching, open rehearsals, instrument specific workshops, sessions on performance practice issues and end of course concert.

www.benslow.org

13:00 

By tradition once a year the Chancellor of Exchequer kindly allows the Treasury Music Society to hold an additional special concert for Music Society members, at the Chancellor’s residence at No.11 Downing Street. Currently the Prime Minister is in residence at no. 11, with the Chancellor’s Offices on the ground and first floors.

This year, the London Myriad Ensemble are thrilled to have been invited to perform as recitalists for this special lunchtime concert in the State Drawing Room at 11 Downing Street.

www.southsidehouse.com

www.facebook.com/events/892055904220757/

The London Myriad Ensemble will be providing educational workshops as a flute, oboe and clarinet trio as part of this exciting and renowned festival, featuring some of the best classical and contemporary music in the UK in a lovely village setting in Hertfordshire.

www.sarrattfestivalofmusic.co.uk

The London Myriad Ensemble will be performing as a quartet, as the classical recitalists on this two week cruise all around Iceland and the Faroe Islands, entertaining the passengers with their all French programme of Francaix, Bozza, Poulenc and Satie, ‘Dances from all Around the World,’ film classics in their ‘From Stage to Screen’ programme as well as three other varied programmes, covering music of all eras and styles.

13th and 14th June 2015 – The London Myriad Ensemble record works for wind duo, trio and quartet by renowned British composer, Robert Keeley.

www.robertkeeley.com