Parbold Music Lancashire

Sir Stephen Hough, piano
2024-11-30 19:45 - 22:00 UTC | Parbold Village Hall, The Green, Parbold, Lancashire, WN8 7DN, United Kingdom
One of the most distinctive artists of his generation, Sir Stephen Hough combines a distinguished career as a pianist with those of composer and writer. Named by The Economist as one of Twenty Living Polymaths, Sir Stephen was made a CBE in 2014 and was knighted in 2022.
Since taking first prize at the 1983 Naumburg Competition in New York, Sir Stephen has appeared with most of the major European, Asian and American orchestras and plays recitals regularly around the world. His appearance at the 2024 Last Night of the Proms marks his 31st appearance at the world’s largest classical music festival.
His catalogue of recordings stands at over 60 albums. Many have claimed international prizes including several Grammy nominations and the Gramophone ‘Gold Disc’ Award in 2008. Sir Stephen’s 2005 live recording of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos was the fastest selling recording in Hyperion’s history.
This is a very special opportunity to hear a master of interpretation in the intimate surroundings of Parbold’s venue. Alongside works by Chaminade, Schumann and Chopin, Sir Stephen performs one of his own compositions, his Sonatina Nostalgica.
“… a keyboard colossus … simply breathtaking.” – The Guardian
“Few living pianists manage to combine open-hearted virtuosity with so tangible and unaffected a sense of an inner world beyond the notes.” – The Arts Desk.

Kosmos Ensemble
2024-11-02 19:45 - 22:00 UTC
Kosmos Ensemble is amassing a fantastic reputation for delighting both audiences and critics, redefining the relationship between classical and world music through its groundbreaking performances.

Harriet MacKenzie, violin
Meg-Rosaleen Hamilton, viola
Miloš Milivojević, accordion

The group has won ‘Selected Artists’ by the Making Music organisation a record three times and has gathered accolades from all over the world. United by a shared passion for improvisation and world music, as well as the rigours of classical training, the three musicians are international soloists in their own right and bring individual flavour to the group. Join Harriet, Meg and Miloš to hear wild Gypsy fiddling and emotive Jewish and Greek music glide seamlessly into hot-blooded tango, alongside interpretations of Japanese, Polish and Swedish songs. They’ll add their own spin to Scottish reels, plus new arrangements with references to classical composers including Bach, Satie, Piazzolla, Ligeti, Brahms and Sarasate.

“Revelatory … brilliantly done with style.” – The Telegraph

Anna Tsybuleva, piano
2024-10-12 19:45 - 22:00 (Europe/London)
Anna Tsybuleva’s winning performance at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2015 propelled her into the spotlight, and she has been in demand on the international circuit ever since.
Anna’s early experiences were quite different from the life she now leads on the world’s greatest concert platforms. She grew up in a small village in the Caucasus mountains, where nature and the beauty of her surroundings proved a constant source of inspiration.
These beginnings have fed into her uniquely captivating performance style: drawing the listener into a private sphere of music-making, perfectly suited to Parbold’s intimate Auditorium
.For her performance in Parbold she explores the musical worlds of Rachmaninoff and Debussy, revealing the contrasts in their much-loved, and also less familiar, preludes.
“… superb pianism and intelligent musicianship.” – Gramophone Magazine

National Youth Jazz Orchestra
2024-09-14 19:45 - 22:00 UTC
Our season gets off to the liveliest of starts as we welcome members of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra to Parbold for the second time.
NYJO Latin Jazz Collective is led by Pablo Barrios at the piano, in a programme featuring Latin-inspired rhythms from Salsa to Afro-Cuban Jazz.The jazz musicians, aged from 18 to 25, have been selected from the country’s most talented young players, and are in the early stages of their professional careers.The National Youth Jazz Orchestra exists to empower and inspire young people across the UK through jazz.Its work is dedicated to creating a meeting-ground between the established and the experimental – the past, present, and future – to build bespoke artistic programmes, catering to lifelong and new jazz fans.
“… breadth, maturity and technical excellence” – The Financial Times
