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Nicholas Daniel, Matthew Hunt, Amy Harman, Olivia Gandee, Sini Simonen & Tom Poster

Name: Nicholas Daniel, Matthew Hunt, Amy Harman, Olivia Gandee, Sini Simonen & Tom Poster — The season ends with a flourish with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's magnificent Nonet
Start: 2027-03-16T19:30:00+00:00
Location: The Venue at Leeds Conservatoire

The season ends with a flourish with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's magnificent Nonet

Leeds International Concert Season

Tue 16 Mar 7.30 PM

The Venue at Leeds Conservatoire

Classical Music & Opera

On sale Wed 22 July

Tue 16 Mar

7.30 PM

On sale Wed 22 July

Programme

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quintet for piano and winds
Madeleine Dring Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano
Amy Beach Invocation (for violin, bassoon and piano)
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Nonet

Nicholas Daniel - oboe
Matthew Hunt - clarinet
Amy Harman - bassoon
Olivia Gandee - horn
Sini Simonen - violin
Tom Poster - piano

Joined by postgraduate students from the Royal Northern College of Music:
Emily O’Dell - viola
Gabriela Costa Peres - cello
Saulo da Silva Martins - double bass

The season ends with a flourish – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s joyful Quintet for piano and winds opens the evening, paired with Madeleine Dring’s sparkling Trio and Amy Beach’s expressive Invocation.

Culminating with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Nonet, a thoughtfully crafted work that weaves a sense of celebration to the final concert. This is chamber music on a grand scale that may leave you wondering why you haven’t heard it before!

This concert is part of the Leeds International Chamber Series 2026/27: In the Shadows of Giants.

About the Leeds International Chamber Series

What a privilege and a joy it is to have been asked to curate this wonderful series of concerts! My own life as a pianist has been shaped by the thrill of uncovering lesser-known repertoire – music unjustly neglected through gender discrimination, exile, or other forms of oppression. Bringing these voices to a wider audience feels not just like a pleasure, but a responsibility.

Across these six programmes sit works that have too often lived in the shadows of the ‘Greats’ of the musical canon, despite their extraordinary quality. Amy Beach, one of America’s most gifted late Romantic composers, wrote Piano Quintets and Trios of remarkable emotional breadth and intensity – music of generosity and deep expressive power. Germaine Tailleferre, the lone woman of Les Six, brings refinement, wit and a distinctive elegance that deserves far wider recognition. Ina Boyle’s visionary Irish voice, Elfrida Andrée’s barrier breaking Scandinavian clarity, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s magnificent Nonet – which brings our season to a glorious close – all sit proudly alongside much-loved masterpieces by Antonín Dvořák, Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Old favourites heard, perhaps, in a new light.

I’m especially grateful to the exceptional musicians joining us this season, not only for their artistry, but for the imagination, curiosity and passion they’ve brought to shaping these programmes. I hope these evenings will surprise, move and delight you – and perhaps leave you wondering, as I so often have, why did we have to wait so long?

Simon Callaghan
Artistic Director

Ticket prices
Standard: A £29.50, B £27.50
Over 60s: A £27.50, B £25.50
Full-time students, unwaged, LeedsCard Extra: A £15, B £14
Under 30s: £10
Under 30s tickets are available from Wed 22 July. The multibuy offer is not available for this ticket type.

Booking dates
Wed 24 June: Booking opens for previous Leeds International Chamber Series 2025/26 (Route/Root) multibuy offer customers renewing their seats
Wed 8 July: Booking opens for new multibuy offer customers
Wed 22 July: General booking opens

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