Stonegrove Serenade January 2023

Stonegrove Serenade – Music for the Community

EHRS is delighted to present Stonegrove Serenade, a series of concerts at EHRS. On every third Tuesday of the month, please join us for music featuring up and coming classical musicians.

Audiences and musicians alike have praised Stonegrove Serenade’s fantastic acoustics, intimate concert setting and warm welcome and attendees have been bowled over with the standard of talent the series has attracted. Café 118 has delighted customers with its fresh and tasty homemade food. Some of the comments we have received is that its ‘an oasis of calm’ and ‘it doesn’t matter if you’re on your own, there is always someone friendly to sit with’.
Stonegrove Serenade and Café 118 are run by volunteers with support from EHRS and Simply Scrumptious Catering. We pay our talented musicians – high calibre students and graduates of The Royal College of Music – providing work for them, as well as an opportunity for audiences to enjoy a very reasonably priced meal, concert and company. We are grateful for everyone’s donations on the door and some generous extra donations which enable us to continue to book musicians. All funds raised go into the provision of Stonegrove Serenade and Café 118 and not to other synagogue purposes.

Tuesday 17 January, 13:00
Returning to it’s usually lunchtime slot, January’s Stonegrove Serenade Concert will see our first solo piano recital, with talented young pianist William Bracken of The Guildhall School of Music coming to perform.
William Bracken was born on the Wirral into a musical family and began playing the piano at the age of four. By the age of twelve he had been accepted onto the Pianoman scholarship scheme studying in London. In 2017 he was awarded a scholarship to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he is currently in his final year of postgraduate studies with profs. Ronan O’Hora and Martin Roscoe. William has had the opportunity to perform recitals and concertos in many major UK venues such as Barbican Hall, Philharmonic Hall Liverpool, LSO St. Lukes. In 2019 made his solo radio debut in a concert of works by German composer Detlev Glanert and in May 2023 he will be giving his debut recital at the Wigmore Hall as a recipient of the Guildhall Wigmore Recital prize.

Concert Programme:
Beethoven: sonata in F major op. 54 ~ Liszt: Ballade no. 2 in B minor S.171
Mozart: Sonata in F major k533/494 ~ Chopin: Scherzo no. 4 op. 54

We invite you to enjoy a light lunch in our pop up cafe before the concert. ‘Cafe 118’ will be open 12:00. The café will re-open after the concert with drinks, cakes and a chat. Please note when booking if you will be using the café.

All are welcome. Admission is free, suggested donation £5.

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