Pixels Ensemble

chamber music ensemble

Thursday 15th December 2022

7.30pm Morpeth Methodist Church

Programme (on occasion, the artists may make minor changes to the published programme)

Rebecca Clarke Three movements for two violins and piano

Mozart Piano concerto No 14 in E flat major K449

Elgar Piano Quintet in A minor Op. 84

Pixels Ensemble is a versatile chamber music collective with a shared passion for performing wide ranging repertoire.  For our concert, we will meet violinists Sophie Rosa & Thelma Handy, Vicci Wardman on viola, Jonathan Aasgard on cello and pianist (& Pixels artistic director) Ian Buckle.  

The programme covers a wide range from Mozart to early 20th century Elgar and Rebecca Clarke. Clarke was one of the first women to be appointed as a professional musician – to Henry Wood’s Queen’s Hall Orchestra, and by 1925 could sell out the Wigmore Hall with a concert of her own compositions.  The Pixels’ programme is completed by Mozart’s own chamber arrangement of his piano concerto in E flat major and Elgar’s substantial piano quintet, described by its composer as running ‘gigantically and in a large mood’.

There will be free seasonal refreshments during the interval - non-alcoholic mulled wine and mince pies.

'A fabulous evening of top class music-making.’ Yorkshire Times 2020

Photos ©Helen Rae & Mark McNulty