Concerts
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Concerts
Barber Concerts
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Lunchtime Concerts
The Primrose Piano Quartet
Fri 11 October 1–1.50pm
The Primrose Piano Quartet has established a reputation for superb performances and award winning recordings.
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Lunchtime Concerts CrossCurrents
The Hermes Experiment
Friday 4 October, 1-1.50pm
The Hermes Experiment is a contemporary quartet made up of harp, clarinet, voice and double bass.
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Lunchtime Concerts CrossCurrents
Siwan Rhys piano George Barton percussion
Fri 18 October, 1pm
Machine-influenced American minimalism sits next to dramatic celebrations of British legends.
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Evening Concerts
Ziyu He & Marie Hauzel
Wednesday 4 December, 7.30pm
Outstanding violinist Ziyu He, teams up with Marie Hauzel for a Barber Evening Concert featuring Stravinsky, Bartók and Saint-Säens amongst others.
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Evening Concerts
Tenebrae: Path of Miracles
Wednesday 23 October, 7.30pm
Tenebrae presents Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles, a unique and dramatic work inspired by the enduring Catholic pilgrimage to Santiago.
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Evening Concerts Piano Festival
Freddy Kempf
Wednesday 6 November, 7.30pm
Join former BBC Young Musician Freddy Kempf for a recital of Chopin.
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Evening Concerts Piano Festival
Martin Roscoe & Peter Donohoe
Wednesday 30 October, 7.30pm
Martin Roscoe returns to Birmingham International Piano Festival, performing with Peter Donohoe.
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Evening Concerts
Sestina
Wed 5 February 7.30–9.30pm
Join the dynamic Belfast based choral ensemble alongside some of the finest early music instrumentalists from Ireland and the UK in works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his relatives.
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French Fables
Thursday 7 November, 5.30pm
To mark the end of the Baudelaire Song Project at the University of Birmingham, discover legendary creatures and forces of nature in settings of songs featuring the major nineteenth-century French
poet Charles Baudelaire.
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Weekend Concerts
Music and the Hanseatic League
Saturday 16 November, 3pm
This programme investigates music from these cities including pieces by major composers such as Buxtehude, Mattheson, Keiser and Handel.
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Lunchtime Concerts
Onyx Brass
Friday 15 November, 1pm
Take time out of your day and spend a lunch hour with Onyx Brass, ‘the classiest brass ensemble in Britain’.
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Lunchtime Concerts Piano Festival
Sam Leak Trio
Friday 8 November, 1pm
We bring gospel tinged and folk inspired contemporary jazz to the piano festival in the final concert with the Sam Leak Trio.
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Lunchtime Concerts Piano Festival
Messiaen: Visions de l’Amen
Friday 1 November, 1pm
Benjamin Frith joins Department of Music PhD student Liang Shan for a rare performance of this Messiaen masterpiece.
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Lunchtime Concerts Piano Festival
Selecting a Steinway: A Concert with Conversation
Friday 25 October, 1pm
Professor Kenneth Hamilton and Steinway's Ulrich Gerhartz lift the lid on the Henry Barber Trust funded new grand piano in a lecture-recital on how to select a Steinway.
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Lunchtime Concerts
King Edward’s Schools
Friday 22 November, 1pm
With the enviable reputation of producing some of the UK’s finest young classical musicians, join King Edward’s and King Edward VI High School for Girls in their annual concert performance featuring talented young students.
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Lunchtime Concerts
Binchois Consort
Friday 29 November, 1pm
Glimpse into Antwerp’s soundscape at the same time that de Beer was producing his refined and detailed panels, the focus of an exhibition
at the Barber Institute this autumn.
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Lunchtime Concerts
A New Song
Friday 6 December, 1pm
Conjure up everyday magic with words by master poet Michael Donaghy in the Midlands premiere of acclaimed Scottish composer Martin Suckling’s The Tuning.
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Lunchtime Concerts
Boxwood and Brass: A Georgian Country House Christmas
Friday 13 December, 1pm
Praised for ‘spectacular playing’ (Early Music Today) and ‘button-bright performances’ (Gramophone), period wind ensemble Boxwood & Brass bring a taste of the elegant, presenting music that accompanied the festivities.
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CrossCurrents
CrossCurrents – Further information coming soon!
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Summer Festival of Music
Summer Festival of Music – further information coming soon!
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Evening Concerts
How to book
You can purchase tickets for Barber Evening Concerts at the reception desk in The Barber Institute of Fine Arts during normal opening hours, over the phone or online.
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