- Thursday 2 July
- 7.30pm
- St Mary’s Church, Beaminster, DT8 3BA
- Adults Reserved £24
- Unreserved £21
- Under 18 £2
PROGRAMME
- Beethoven Violin Sonata in A, Op.12 No.2
Fauré Les berceaux (song transcription) - Fauré Violin Sonata No.1 in A, Op.13
- Elgar Violin Sonata in E minor, Op.82
- Weinberg Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes,Op.47 No. 3
Hailed by critics and audiences alike, Japanese violinist Coco Tomita first gained recognition after winning the BBC Young Musician 2020 Strings Category. She was subsequently invited to record her debut album, ‘Origins’ with Orchid Classics, which received a succession of rave reviews from The Strad, Gramophone Magazine, BBC Music Magazine and The Guardian, among others, and was selected as ‘Disc of the month’ by Apple in April 2022. Coco has since received over 5.5 million streams on Apple Music alone and releases her follow up album ‘Echoes’ in September 2024.
Simon Callaghan performs internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, in parallel with a highly successful career as a recording artist. Simon has developed a wide following and appears on a regularbasis in the UK’s major concert halls and on tours to Asia, North America and Europe.
The playing, technically dazzling and characterful, bursts with musical intelligence Guardian