Performance
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Flute & Piccolo Concert Dates 2026
A busy year is shaping up with flute and piccolo performances in and around Exeter. Here are some dates for your diary: Saturday 28th March – Exeter Symphony Orchestra – Smetana Vltava, Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2, Dvorak Carnival Overture, plus Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5. Southernhay United Reformed Church, Exeter. Tickets here. Saturday 18th… Continue reading
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New string quartet inspired by museum collections
Devon Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum have come together to commission new chamber works in response to objects in the museum, as part of the 2020 CoMA Festival. Anna’s commission, inspired by the case of 18th and 19th century pocket watches in the local history gallery, is timepiece. timepiece is a minimalist work… Continue reading
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Three Choirs Festival this Friday
This Friday, a special late-night meditation on the Rig Veda will take place at Gloucester Cathedral as part of the prestigious Three Choirs Festival. The concert weaves together Vedic chant with choral settings of these Hindu texts. Jean Coulthard, a student of Vaughan Williams, exults the mystery of creation, while delicate music of contemporary composers… Continue reading
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‘From Flanders’ at University of Exeter this Wednesday
On Wednesday 12 December, the accomplished University of Exeter Chapel Choir will perform From Flanders as part of their Nine Lessons and Carols at the Mary Harris Memorial Chapel. This special performance of From Flanders marks the centenary of the WWI Armistice. All are welcome at this beautiful and traditional candlelit carol service, which will be… Continue reading
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Meet the Contras
Following a call by rarescale for music for the unusual and rather exciting combination of contrabass flute, contrabass clarinet and contrabassoon, Anna’s newly-composed work Contradanza has been selected for the ‘Meet the Contras’ concert programme this Thursday. Thursday 21st June, 7:30pm ADMISSION FREE St James’ Church, Sussex Gardens, London W2 3UD (nearest station: Paddington) These three… Continue reading
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Exeter ‘living room concert’
Music by Anna Matthews and Anastassis Philippakopoulos to feature in the next Flute@37 living room concert by flautist Ruth Molins. Tickets available from Ruth’s website: https://www.ruthmolins.com/flute37.html Continue reading
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Torquay and Crediton concert performances
High quality chamber choir the Torbay Singers will be performing Anna’s music in two concerts this summer. Conductor Tina Guthrie will lead the choir and audience on a musical journey around the world. The mixed programme will include Anna’s folk-like anthem for Devon, Devon, My Home, alongside music from further afield by composers including Copland,… Continue reading
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Summer Singing Day 2016
Following the success of last year’s summer singing day, Peter Nickol and Anna Matthews are once again holding a gathering of singers in Exeter to work through some of their own choral compositions. The date is set for Saturday 3rd September. We are on the look out for keen singers in all voice parts –… Continue reading
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A Quiet Night In
A new piece by Anna will be performed at ‘A Quiet Night In’ at Exeter’s Spacex Gallery on Friday 29th January. AQNI is an Exeter new music concert series with a rapidly growing following. Curated by Emma Welton, the programme asks the audience to listen in a new way with a focus on quiet music.… Continue reading
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Christmas performances this week
Anna’s carol From Flanders, commemorating 100 years since the First World War Christmas truce, will be performed by Exeter Philharmonic Choir in two concerts at Exeter Cathedral this week. The programme will feature carols old and new and a chance for some audience participation with the classics. Wednesday 10th and 11th December, 7:30pm, tickets available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/exeterphilchoir or… Continue reading
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