An evening of fiery, even diabolical music conducted and introduced by Ben Crick. Haydn's 'Fire Symphony' is the core work alongside music by Gluck, JC Bach, Boccherini and Mozart. Expect a concert of passion and romance featuring symphonies, songs sung by soprano Charlotte Hoather, and a devilish dance.
Read MoreThe Christmas Elf
Seasonal opera for all the family
Stanley & Aubrey Burton Theatre, Leeds
- Sat, 21 Dec 2019, 2:00 pm
- Sat, 21 Dec 2019, 7:00 pm
Northern Opera Group and Skipton Camerata join forces this Christmas for this rare opportunity to experience the most wonderful and festive of operas! Featuring animations from illustrator Sophia Watts, Hans Pfitzner's The Christmas Elf is performed in English and is suitable for the whole family.
Read MoreBen Crick directs the Clothworkers' Consort of Leeds and Skipton Camerata in Handel's ever-popular Messiah, joined by a formidable line up of soloists including the return of the young multi-talented soprano Peyee Chen.
Read MoreThree brand new short operas plus a Yorkshire take on Rossini's The Barber of Seville make up this sharing event in Bradford's most exciting arts venue.
Read MoreThe Farthest Shore
with Bradford Festival Choral Society
Bradford Grammar School
- Sat, 23 Nov 2019, 7:30 pm
Bradford Festival Choral Society and Thomas Leech perform a brilliant musical drama by Paul Mealor (whose music was performed at Prince William's wedding) alongside John Rutter's Gloria.
Read MoreRory Wainwright Johnston conducts an all-Mozart concert featuring his 'Turkish' violin concerto with soloist Sophie Rosa, and his late great Requiem.
Read MoreTwo international soloists - Maya Meron on viola and Camerata's own Sebastian Mueller on violin - perform Mozart's exquisite Sinfonia Concertante in a concert featuring two classical symphonies: Schubert's youthful Fifth and the 'Prague' Symphony by Mozart.
Read MoreBen Crick and a formidable line up of professional singers and instrumentalists delivers what we believe is the first ever performance in Skipton of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion, considered by many to be the greatest of all choral masterpieces.
Read MoreAlan Eost conducts two funereal masterpieces in Sheffield's magnificent cathedral: Mozart's Requiem and Handel's The Ways of Zion.
Read MoreHandel's perennial masterpiece Messiah is performed by Skipton Camerata, a line up of international soloists and Leeds University's celebrated chamber choir, The Clothworkers' Consort.
Read MoreHandel's perennial masterpiece Messiah is performed by Skipton Camerata, a line up of international soloists and Leeds University's celebrated chamber choir, The Clothworkers' Consort.
Read MoreJoin the Skipton Building Society Camerata's brass ensemble for an hour long festive celebration of all things Christmas. The group will be joined by a choir made up of local school pupils and an international soloist to mark this festive time with an unashamedly Yorkshire bias!
Read MoreThe Battle of the Ancre
Original 1916 film with live orchestral music
Skipton Town Hall
- Fri, 09 Nov 2018, 7:30 pm
Laura Rossi's music for the 1916 film The Battle of the Ancre is played live by Skipton Camerata in a concert that also features music by Bach and Elgar.
Read MoreThe third of this year's music + dinner events presents two major cello works by Debussy and Brahms performed by Camerata's principal cellist Doug Badger and his long time collaborator, pianist Matthew Kam.
Read MorePaired here with Haydn's Military Symphony, a full performance of Beethoven's Seventh follows a dramatisation of the story and events the symphony using diaries, letters and contemporary accounts.
Read MoreSongs by Debussy and his contemporaries are performed by mezzo soprano Hannah Mason and pianist Chris Pulleyn in the second of this year's music + dinner events.
Read MoreBen Crick and Skipton Building Society Camerata return to the Grassington Festival with acclaimed soprano, Peyee Chen and prize winning concert violinist, Sophie Rosa in the fantastic surroundings of Bolton Abbey Priory for this exciting all-Mozart programme.
Read MoreCafé Culture
Milsom/Collingwood/Gooing Trio
Hettie's Café & Bistro, Skipton
- Wed, 06 Jun 2018, 7:30 pm
The first of this year's music + dinner events features the Milsom/Collingwood/Gooing Trio performing music by Debussy and Fauré.
Read MoreIn this early evening concert, Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence follows a performance by tenor Joseph Doody of Britten's visionary song cycle Les Illuminations.
Read MoreCaptured Memories
Music by Bach, Mozart & Tchaikovsky
United Reformed Church, Saltaire
- Fri, 04 May 2018, 7:30 pm
Skipton Building Society Camerata and Saltaire Art Trail come together to present a concert inspired by the humble postcard and the ways in which travel and new experiences manifest themselves in works of art.
Read MoreLitton Concert Series
Bach, Elgar, Howells & Tchaikovsky
Christ Church, Litton, Derbyshire
- Sat, 21 Apr 2018, 7:30 pm
Music for strings from across three centuries feature in this concert from the Christ Church in the Derbyshire village of Litton.
Read MoreSkipton Camerata joins forces with Sheffield Oratorio Chorus for Haydn's best known mass, the Missa in Angustiis (Mass for troubled times) or 'Nelson Mass' as it subsequently became known.
Read MoreSkipton Building Society Camerata start their 2018 residency at Skipton Town Hall with a fully staged performance of Stravinsky's The Soldier?s Tale, an incisive and darkly humourous theatre piece for a small ensemble of actors, dancers and musicians incorporating a wide range of styles and influences, from marches and waltzes, to ragtime and tango.
Read MoreJoining Ben Crick and Skipton Camerata for this year's Messiah are four nationally established soloists and the ever-versatile Clothworkers Consort of Leeds.
Read MoreString music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky and a new commission from Stephen Bradshaw explore the theme of the composer as an 'outsider' in society.
Read MoreCafé Culture
Milsom/Collingwood/Gooing Trio
Hettie's Café & Bistro, Skipton
- Wed, 15 Nov 2017, 7:30 pm
A music + dinner event featuring piano trios by Clara Schumann and Gade.
Read MoreA music + dinner event featuring Messiaen's extraordinary Quartet for the End of Time.
Read MoreCafé Culture
Sebastian Mueller & Jakob Fichert
Hettie's Café & Bistro, Skipton
- Wed, 20 Sep 2017, 7:30 pm
A music + dinner event featuring violin sonatas by Beethoven and Prokofiev.
Read MoreA music + dinner event featuring songs by Schumann and Britten.
Read MoreIce Cream: The Opera
A Bradford Festival free event
City Park, Bradford
- Sun, 30 Jul 2017, 12:00 pm
- Sun, 30 Jul 2017, 2:00 pm
- Sun, 30 Jul 2017, 4:15 pm
With words by Ian McMillan, Ice Cream: The Opera is about two warring ice cream vendor families from Yorkshire brought together through song, ice cream and love.
Read MoreChildren of the Revolution
Beethoven's Eroica & Violin Concerto
Skipton Town Hall
- Fri, 14 Jul 2017, 7:30 pm
An all-Beethoven programme featuring talented German violinist Sebastian Mueller performing the towering Violin Concerto followed by Beethoven's epoch-making Third symphony, the 'Eroica'.
Read MoreGala Concert in Bolton Abbey
Music by Mozart, Haydn & Schoenberg
Bolton Abbey Priory Church
- Sun, 18 Jun 2017, 8:00 pm
This year's visit to the Grassington Festival features a programme of music from late 18th and early 20th century Vienna, including Haydn's Cello Concerto played by Raphael Wallfisch.
Read MoreA Good Friday performance of one of the great choral masterpieces of baroque music, JS Bach's extraordinarily beautiful St John Passion.
Read MoreMozart's Requiem
with Bradford Festival Choral Society
Bradford Grammar School
- Sat, 25 Mar 2017, 7:30 pm
Haydn's magnificent Nelson Mass precedes a performance of Mozart's achingly beautiful Requiem.
Read MoreCamerata's brass provide support in this year's Cathedrals Group Choir Festival, involving 250 singers from 14 universities performing music by MacMillan and Chilcott.
Read MoreA concert of Bach, Mozart and Mendelssohn presented cabaret-style with drinks and canapes in the atmospheric setting of Skipton Castle.
Read MoreA perennial favourite and the traditional start to Christmas, Handel’s Messiah is as popular now as it was over two and a half centuries ago.
Read MoreAs part of this year's Grassington Festival, we present an evening of music and poetry marking the anniversary of the Great War in the beautiful surroundings of Bolton Abbey.
Read MoreCamerata principal flautist Benjamin Griffiths takes the lead part in Bach's virtuosic Orchestral Suite No 2 and is joined by Alex Rider for the Flute and Harp Concerto by Mozart.
Read MoreOn the Shoulders of Giants
Mozart, Haydn, Prokofiev & Shostakovich
Skipton Town Hall
- Sat, 13 Feb 2016, 7:30 pm
Internationally acclaimed cellist Raphael Wallfisch and rising star Alexandra Keeley are the soloists in this concert of music from 18th Century Austria and 20th Century Russia.
Read MoreOn the Shoulders of Giants
Mozart, Haydn, Prokofiev & Shostakovich
The Venue, Leeds
- Fri, 12 Feb 2016, 7:30 pm
Internationally acclaimed cellist Raphael Wallfisch and rising star Alexandra Keeley are the soloists in this concert of music from 18th Century Austria and 20th Century Russia.
Read MoreThe talented young Taiwanese soprano Peyee Chen joins the Camerata for a free bagel-filled hour of vocal and instrumental music by Bach and Mozart in the Victorian splendour of the Tiled Hall at Leeds Art Gallery.
Read MoreHandel's Messiah
with Knaresborough Choral Society
Holy Trinity Church, Knaresborough
- Sat, 12 Dec 2015, 7:30 pm
Skipton Camerata join Knaresborough Choral Society for a performance of Handel's Messiah.
Read MoreBen Crick conducts a performance of Handel's seasonal masterpiece, Messiah.
Read MoreTwo choral settings of the Magnificat by Bach father and son feature in this concert by Sheffield Oratorio Chorus and Skipton Camerata directed by Alan Eost.
Read MoreIlkley-based choir Cantores Olicanae under their conductor Tom Leech perform Vivaldi's 'Gloria' and 'The Armed Man' by popular contemporary composer Karl Jenkins.
Read MorePrize-winning violinist Jennifer Pike joins Camerata for Beethoven's monumental Violin Concerto, in a concert that includes Haydn's 'London' Symphony and Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks.
Read MoreMozart's Jupiter Symphony
plus music by Webern and Berlioz
Skipton Town Hall
- Fri, 18 Sep 2015, 7:30 pm
Ben Crick completes his survey of Mozart's final trilogy of symphonies with the 'Jupiter' and explores two composers' reworking of their own pieces.
Read MoreBradford-based choir Chordiality and their music director Peter Sherlock perform music by Mozart, Parry and Fauré.
Read MoreMozart's dramatic Symphony no.40 sets the scene for perhaps the most influential symphony ever written, Beethoven's Ninth which culminates with the choral setting of 'Ode to Joy'.
Read MoreLast Night of the Proms
at the Grassington Festival
Field Marquee, Grassington
- Wed, 24 Jun 2015, 8:00 pm
Renowned Yorkshire-born soprano Sarah Fox teams up with Ben Crick and Skipton Camerata for a Last Night of the Proms gala concert.
Read MoreThe Song of the Sea That Was
A Grassington Festival family event
Field Marquee, Grassington
- Mon, 22 Jun 2015, 6:00 pm
A family concert featuring Haydn's Toy Symphony, Prokofiev's 'Peter and the Wolf' and a new concerto by Tom Lydon for an instrument made from Yorkshire Dales limestone.
Read MoreDonohoe plays Ravel
plus music by Mendelssohn, Fauré & Butterworth
King's Hall, Ilkley
- Fri, 05 Jun 2015, 7:30 pm
International pianist Peter Donohoe is the soloist in Ravel's glittering Piano Concerto in a concert also featuring Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony and music to A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Read MoreThe great British oboist Nicholas Daniel is the soloist in Strauss's Oboe Concerto. Plus Handel's Water Music and the first of Mozart's final symphonic trilogy, his Symphony No 39.
Read MoreBen Crick conducts the first performance since 1783 of the oratorio 'The Judgement of Hermes' by Philip Hayes, a contemporary of Haydn whose 'Oxford' Symphony is also featured.
Read MoreCamerata is joined by Skipton Choral Society for a performance of Bach's St John Passion in the fabulous acoustics of Christ Church, Skipton.
Read MoreBach's St John Passion
with Bakewell Choral Society
Lady Manners School, Bakewell
- Sat, 14 Mar 2015, 7:30 pm
Alan Eost directs a performance of Bach's mighty St John Passion.
Read MoreCelebrated cellist Raphael Wallfisch is soloist in Finzi's Cello Concerto in a concert also featuring Mozart's Overture to Don Giovanni and Schumann's 'Rhenish' Symphony.
Read MoreLegendary soprano Dame Emma Kirkby heads a star-studded line up of soloists for Skipton Camerata's performance of Handel's Messiah conducted by Ben Crick.
Read MoreBen Crick conducts a mighty team of solo singers, large chorus and orchestra for a performance of Mendelssohn's epic depiction of the biblical prophet Elijah.
Read MoreRemembrance Concert
English Orchestral Music marking WW1
Christ Church, Skipton
- Sat, 08 Nov 2014, 7:30 pm
To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this year's Remembrance Concert is devoted to music by some of the greatest English composers of the 20th Century.
Read MoreHarrogate Festival Finale
Beethoven, Elgar & Mendelssohn
Royal Hall, Harrogate
- Sat, 26 Jul 2014, 8:00 pm
Raphael Wallfisch plays Elgar's Cello Concerto in a programme that also features Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony.
Read MoreInternationally acclaimed violinist Tasmin Little plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with Skipton Camerata for its 10th anniversary concert.
Read MoreTwo classic Serenades for Strings - Elgar's and Dvořák's - and between them soprano Paula Sides sings Finzi's Dies Natalis ('Day of Birth').
Read MoreMozart's Requiem
with Bakewell Choral Society
Lady Manners School, Bakewell
- Sat, 05 Apr 2014, 7:30 pm
Eternally popular and profound, Mozart's Requiem is paired in this concert with Handel's anthem 'The Ways of Zion'.
Read MoreBach's St John Passion
with Sheffield Oratorio Chorus
Ecclesall Parish Church
- Sat, 29 Mar 2014, 7:30 pm
Alan Eost directs a performance of Bach's mighty St John Passion.
Read MoreA tenth anniversary performance of two Vivaldi masterpieces: the virtuosic Four Seasons and his great choral setting of the Gloria.
Read MoreA tenth anniversary performance of Vivaldi's virtuosic Four Seasons.
Read MoreA tenth anniversary performance of two Vivaldi masterpieces: the virtuosic Four Seasons and his great choral setting of the Gloria.
Read MoreA tenth anniversary performance of two Vivaldi masterpieces: the virtuosic Four Seasons and his great choral setting of the Gloria.
Read MoreA free all-Mozart performance in Leeds Railway Station for Blue Monday.
Read MoreA free all-Mozart performance in Skipton Girls' High School for Blue Monday.
Read MoreSkipton Camerata Youth Orchestra, Skipton Girls' High School Choir and Skipton Choral Society will celebrate Christmas with music by Vaughan Williams, Britten, Howells and more.
Read MoreChildren's TV star Mr Bloom brings Prokofiev's popular musical story to life as he narrates the tale of Peter's adventures in the forest.
Read MoreVivaldi, Bach & Pergolesi
with Bradford Festival Choral Society
Christ Church, Skipton
- Sat, 16 Nov 2013, 7:30 pm
Bradford Festival Choral Society and Bradford Catholic Girls' Choir join Camerata for a feast of baroque choral music.
Read MoreEcclesia joins forces with Skipton Camerata to perform Fauré's Requiem, alongside music by Bach and Schoenberg.
Read MoreBen Crick and Skipton Camerata celebrate a night at the opera with all your favourite arias and duets by the greatest operatic composers.
Read MoreZadok the Priest and other Coronation anthems by Handel and Purcell feature in this concert from Skipton's Christ Church.
Read MoreA performance of Stravinsky's iconic theatre piece, preceded with chosen compositions by the talented pupils of Humberston Academy, Grimsby.
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