Camerata Cumbria is presenting two concerts this month.
The north Cumbrian chamber orchestra will be at Austin Friars’ chapel in Carlisle on Thursday, September 26 and St John’s Church in Keswick on Saturday, September 28.
Both concerts start at 7.30pm and will feature a programme of music from the Baroque and Classical periods.
The orchestra will perform Telemann’s Overture Suite TWV 55:F3; Haydn’s Symphony No 22 (The Philosopher); and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No.14.
The orchestra comprises professional and amateur musicians from Cumbria and South Scotland and will feature natural, or hand horns, as would have been used at this period of musical development.
The soloist in the piano concerto is Charles Hattrell.
Charles is well known in local music circles. Educated at Ampleforth and New College, Oxford, he completed the post-graduate course in piano accompaniment at the Guildhall School of Music in London. An early venture in 1986 was Choirs for Weddings, providing small groups of professional singers to perform at functions, such as weddings and memorial services.
This led to the foundation of the New English Chamber Choir (later renamed The Chancel Singers) which gave these singers the opportunity to perform in concerts across the country. He has worked widely in Opera as repetiteur and conductor, and was also responsible for the reconstruction of a Haydn opera Le Pescatrici, previously lost in a notorious fire at Esterhazy Palace.
Charles began his career in teaching in 1997 as assistant director of music at St John’s School, Leatherhead. He was appointed as director of music at Austin Friars in Carlisle in 2000, a role from which he retired this year.
Charles said he was hoping it “would allow me more time to practice Mozart Piano Concertos and the keyboard music of JS Bach!”
Admission to the concert is free. Donations are welcome at the end of the performance.
