The Heritage Centre, Macclesfield
Saturday 9th February 2019
The Northern Chamber Orchestra will be joined by guest lutenist Matthew Wadsworth for their concert at Macclesfield’s Heritage Centre on Saturday 9th February.
He plays a concerto written for the theorbo by Stephen Goss, which Wadsworth himself commissioned and premiered in 2018.
The piece is the first concerto ever written for this 17th century lute-like instrument, and will allow the audience to hear this early music instrument in a modern context.
Matthew Wadsworth studied lute at London’s Royal Academy of Music and then spent a year at the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague in the Netherlands.
Working in Britain, Europe and North America as a soloist and chamber musician, he has appeared at most major concert halls and festivals and can often be heard on the radio, both in live performance and recordings.
Alongside this work, the Northern Chamber Orchestra will also perform two towering works of genius, Bartók’s magnificent Divertimento for Strings from 1939 (his last composition in Europe before fleeing to the United States prior to World War II) and a piece sure to put a smile on any face with its bouncy confidence: the third of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.
Formed in the late 1960s, the Northern Chamber Orchestra is one of the country’s top chamber orchestras.
The orchestra holds its main concert season in Macclesfield’s Heritage Centre and performs regularly in Buxton and other venues around the North of England.
Tickets for the concert in Macclesfield are available now from the Northern Chamber Orchestra website and start at £16.
For more information, visit www.ncorch.co.uk.
