Wednesday, 24th March 2010	Opening Concert. The Lyra Vocal Ensemble from St Petersburg. This group has toured Britain very successfully and receives rave reviews from previous venues.  This will be their first visit to St Mary's and we look forward to hearing their repertoire of Russian music. They write: Our concerts consist of two parts: 1st. part - sacred music of Russian Orthodox Church. It contains pieces of both our famous composers like Bortnianski, Tchaikovski, Tchesnokov, Rachmaninov, Gretchaninov and not very well-known out of Russia, but great masters of choir music. We perform also examples of our ancient church music. In the second part of the concert we sing Russian folk songs in all their variety: comic, lyric, dancing, love songs. For more details of Lyra, click on this link. We will let you have details of the programme they will sing as soon as we have this from them
Saturday, 27th March 2010	The Telemann Ensemble The Telemann Ensemble return to St Mary's. Their last concert, some years ago,  was a resounding success, and we much look forward to hearing from them again. The Telemann ensemble was founded by harpsichord player Leslie Macleod and flautist Neil Gillies in 1977 with the intention of performing works by Georg Philipp Telemann and other neglected baroque composers as well as acclaimed masters such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. Since then the ensemble has performed throughout Scotland making regular appearances at the Burrell Collection, the Kibble Palace in Glasgow and at the Millport Summer Music festival. Leslie Macleod is a member of the teaching staff at Hutchesons' Grammar School. Born and brought up in Glasgow, Leslie attended the Royal Scottish Academy of Music where he studied with Alexa Maxwell and David Lumsden. He has performed as both continuo player and soloist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Scottish Ensemble, Scaramuccia and the Scottish Early Music Consort The programme is likely to include chamber works by Telemann and Vivaldi as well as others.

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