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Violinist Harriet Mackenzie and pianist Nikolai Medvedev perform Stephen Dodgson’s Five Occasional Pieces and Violin Sonata No. 1 in a concert that explores and celebrates works by English Masters. The pair are going on to record a complete album of Stephen Dodgson works this summer. Nikolai Medvedev – ”a mesmerizing combination of technical mastery and emotive depth” – Berliner Morgenpost Harriet Mackenzie “A knock-out from start to finish” – Guardian Programme: English Masters Dowland – Flow my Tears & Now Oh now Eccles – Mad Lover’s Suite, Ground (Aire V) Dodgson – Five Occasional Pieces Elgar – Chanson de Nuit Dodgson – Sonata No.[...]

On the eve of the longest day of the year, London chamber choir Vivamus present a special programme which celebrates light in all its forms, from pale morning rays to gleaming stars at night including Stephen Dodgson’s three-song cycle Canticle of the Sun. Beginning with Macmillan’s O Radiant Dawn, they explore musical manifestations of sunlight with Ešenvalds Rivers of Light, Dodgson’s Canticle of the Sun, and organ solo Lumière by Demessieux. Via Saari’s Sunset they then journey through dusk to the lights of the night sky, including piano solos Moon over Westminster by Bingham and Clair de Lune by Debussy, alongside Time, an original[...]

      Programme Bb for solo clarinet (2011)  (west coast premiere) – Sean Hickey Unlocked (2023) – Jake Heggie (text Lisa Delan) 3 AM (2025) (world premiere performance) – JJ Hollingsworth (text Lisa Delan) Blue Mountain Ballads (1946) – Paul Bowles (text Tennessee Williams) Heavenly Grass Lonesome Man Cabin Sugar in the Cane Water Music for recorder and piano (1986): Prelude-Barcarolle-Hornpipe (after Henry Purcell) – Gordon Crosse Two Songs to Poems by William Alwyn for soprano and bass recorder (2009) – Gordon Crosse The Lament of the Tall Tree Wood Magic Songs (TBA) – John Ireland The Monk and[...]

Violinist Harriet Mackenzie and pianist Nikolai Medvedev perform Stephen Dodgson’s Ten Variations & Violin Sonata No. 2 in a Berlin concert which sets the works aside those of other masters, Bach, Mozart and Grieg. The duo are also going on to record a complete album of Stephen Dodgson works this summer. Nikolai Medvedev – ”a mesmerizing combination of technical mastery and emotive depth” – Berliner Morgenpost Harriet Mackenzie “A knock-out from start to finish” – Guardian Programme JS Bach – Sonata in G major BWV 1021 Stephen Dodgson – Ten Variations Mozart – Sonata in E minor , no 21, K304 Stephen Dodgson – Sonata no. 2[...]

In a second German concert, violinist Harriet Mackenzie and pianist Nikolai Medvedev perform Stephen Dodgson’s Ten Variations & Violin Sonata No. 2 in Bamberg, setting the works aside those of other masters, Bach, Mozart and Grieg. The duo are also going on to record a complete album of Stephen Dodgson works this summer. Nikolai Medvedev – ”a mesmerizing combination of technical mastery and emotive depth” – Berliner Morgenpost Harriet Mackenzie “A knock-out from start to finish” – Guardian Programme JS Bach – Sonata in G major BWV 1021 Stephen Dodgson – Ten Variations Mozart – Sonata in E minor , no 21, K304 Stephen Dodgson – Sonata no. 2[...]