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	Monmouth Events Calendar Displaying items 1 to 10 from 12   event date Blast Off with Dance Blast !! 05/07/2008 Event: Blast Off with Dance Blast !! Location: Borough Theatre, Abergavenny Date: 05/07/2008 Time: 7pm Description: Dance Blast Monmouthshire’s community dance organisation returns to the Borough Theatre with an exciting evening of youth dance. The evening will include performances from Dance Blast groups across the county, from Mini Blasters (4+) to My Dance Company (Monmouthshire’s Youth Dance Company) Fee: £6 (concessions £4 ) Wyastone Summer Series 2008 - Kopelman Quartet 05/07/2008 Event: Wyastone Summer Series 2008 - Kopelman Quartet Location: Wyastone Date: 05/07/2008 Time: 7.45 pm Description: with Elizaveta Kopelman piano Mikhail Kopelman & Boris Kuschnir violins, Igor Sulyga viola, Mikhail Milman cello Russian music-making at its most intense ... "The Kopelman Quartet has in abundance all the ingredients that weld together to make a great quartet ... Stunning and eloquent ... tremendous exhilaration and brilliance." The Strad Both the music of Shostakovich and his contemporary Mieczyslaw Weinberg guarantee a heightened emotional experience for audiences at the Wyastone Summer Series. Few quartets bring a greater stylistic authenticity to this music than the Kopelman Quartet, led by Mikhail Kopelman, leader of the legendary Borodin Quartet for twenty-five years. Since their formation in 2002, they have attracted extraordinary reviews, establishing them as one of the key string quartets of the present time. Fee: £15 £19 £23 This Is Our World 08/07/2008 Event: This Is Our World Location: Borough Theatre, Abergavenny Date: 08/07/2008 Time: 7pm Description: presented by Our Lady & St Michael School Year 6 pupils give a final presentation to mark their leaving. Fee: £5 (concessions £2) Disco Inferno 11/07/2008 Event: Disco Inferno Location: Borough Theatre, Abergavenny Date: 11/07/2008 Time: 7.30pm Description: From the company who brought you "Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story", come and join the party of the Summer of 1976 and accompany Jack through one HELL of a 21st birthday. Get ready to hit that dance floor and "Burn baby, Burn!!!" Fee: £8 Wyastone Summer Series 2008 - Gwilym Simcock Trio 11/07/2008 Event: Wyastone Summer Series 2008 - Gwilym Simcock Trio Location: Wyastone Date: 11/07/2008 Time: 7.45 pm Description: Gwilym Simcock piano Phil Donkin bass Martin France drums Gwilym Simcock is one of the most outstanding jazz pianists and composers of his generation. Emerging fully formed after a dazzling spell at music college, he is the most talked about jazz pianist in the UK since the early days of Django Bates. His music is engaging, exciting, melodically enthralling and wonderfully optimistic. A previous winner of the Perrier Award, BBC Jazz Awards and British Jazz Rising Star Awards 2005, he is currently a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist - the first jazz artist to be selected. The concert will include music from Gwilym Simcock’s recent album, Perception. "Gwilym’s an original. A creative genius." Chick Corea "No young musician outside the pop world has moved as fast into the upper reaches of his profession as Simcock." Observer Music Monthly Fee: £15 £19 £23 Wyastone Summer Series 2008 - John Lill 12/07/2008 Event: Wyastone Summer Series 2008 - John Lill Location: Wyastone Date: 12/07/2008 Time: 7.45 pm Description: A virtuoso at the top of his game! A feast for the eyes, ears and mind. John Lill, Britain’s best-loved pianist, returns to Wyastone to tackle fi ve great romantic masterpieces for the piano. Book now to avoid disappointment. "He is one of the greatest pianists alive today. Across the board, I do not know another pianist who could hold a candle to this magisterial keyboard player. Unsurpassed playing. An intellectual giant and mastercraftsman. Beyond words." The Glasgow Herald Bach / Busoni Chaconne in D minor (15’) Schumann Fantasy in C major (30’) Liszt Waldesrauschen (5’) Liszt Gnomenreigen (4’) Brahms Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Handel (26’) Fee: £15 £19 £23 Wyastone Summer Series 2008 - Royal Engineers Band 18/07/2008 Event: Wyastone Summer Series 2008 - Royal Engineers Band Location: Wyastone Date: 18/07/2008 Time: 7.45 pm Description: Captain Bruce Miller, director of music Bridgend Male Choir John Jenkins, musical director A night of colourful pageant One of the most spectacular events of the Summer Series given by the Band of the Royal Engineers in their colourful full regalia. For this year’s fund-raising concert for the Army Benevolent Fund, they are joined by the award-winning 90-strong Bridgend Male Choir. This concert is a firm favourite with audiences at Wyastone with a perfect blend of classical and traditional music with a few big band numbers and just a hint of swing. Fee: £15 £19 £23 Wyastone Summer Series 2008 - London Sinfonia 19/07/2008 Event: Wyastone Summer Series 2008 - London Sinfonia Location: Wyastone Date: 19/07/2008 Time: 7.45 pm Description: William Boughton conductor Nicholas Ward violin Grand Orchestral Finale A grand finale to the Summer Series conducted by its Artistic Director, William Boughton, now Music Director at New Haven Symphony Orchestra, USA. The music ranges from the mythical fairytale charm of Sibelius’ music for Pelléas and Mélisande (you’ll recognise the theme tune from The Sky at Night) to Vaughan Williams’ depiction of the timeless and serene flight of the skylark soaring over an idyllic landscape and the grandeur of Mozart’s magisterial last Symphony - the Jupiter. Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending (12’) Mozart Symphony No 41, Jupiter (30’) Sibelius Suite, Pelléas and Mélisande (23’) Dvorák Romance for Violin and Orchestra (8’) Fee: £15 £19 £23 5 Day Summer Blast 21/07/2008 Event: 5 Day Summer Blast Location: Borough Theatre, Abergavenny Date: 21/07/2008 Time: Various Description: A week of dance activity climaxes with a showing of work on Friday 25 July at 6pm Junior Blast (7-11yrs) 10-12pm Blasters (11-16yrs) 1pm - 3pm My Dance Company Mon 21 - Wed 23 & Fri 25 10am - 4pm If you are interested in taking part or would like more details about the groups including the youth company please contact Dance Blast Fee: £10 for the week Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill 01/08/2008 Event: Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill Location: Borough Theatre, Abergavenny Date: 01/08/2008 Time: 8pm Description: Irish virtuoso fiddle player and Chicago born guitarist, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill have reached almost cult status on the international music scene. Their spell-binding interpretations of Irish music are drawing an ever-increasing audience world-wide. Their music is a pure distilled art, drawing on the slow, lyrical traditions of Hayes' native East Clare, the intensity of classic blues, the elastic tonalities of jazz, as well as Cahill's innovative finger-picking style. Fee: £12 (concessions £10) 1 2
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