Valentina Seferinova - Engagements

Engagements - 2018

Sunday 25th November - 3:30pm, Friends of Sidholme Music Room, Sidholme Hotel,
Elysian Fields, Sidmouth, Devon, EX10 8UJ

A Sunday afternoon recital with Baritone Alex Poulton

And some solo piano with myself.

War Embers: A Treasury of Song and Solo Piano

Programme:

Vaughan Williams	Linden Lea.
Fararr	Silent Noon.
Somervell	On the idle hill of summer.

Tchaikovsky	Troika (November) - from 'The Seasons Op.37'.
	О, если б ты могла хоть на единый миг (Oh, if only you could) - from '6 Romances Op.38'.
	Nur Wer die Sehnsucht Kennt ('None but the lonely heart') - from 'Romances Op.6'.

Fauré	Les berceaux.
Poulenc	Lune d’avril (la courte paille).
Debussy	Noel des Enfants.

Debussy	Clair de Lune.

Somervell	Into my heart an air that kills.
Butterworth	The lads in their hundreds.
Butterworth	Is my team ploughing?.

Novello	Keep The Home Fires Burning.
	And Her Mother Came too.

Free Entry : Retiring Collection in aid of

Music Room Restoration Fund

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Completed Engagements - 2018

Saturday 19th May - 7:30pm St. Peters Church, The Square, Petersfield, Hants, GU32 3HS Evening Recital with Mikhail Lezdkan and friends
*MYSTICAL VISIONS* Myself (Piano) Mikhail Lezdkan ('Cello) Oliver Nelson (Violin) Rob Blanken (Clarinet) Angela Zanders (Piano) Alexia Mankovskaya (Soprano) Programme:- 1st half:- Rachmaninov's Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G-minor (myself on piano; with Violin, and Cello. Glazunov's Chant du Ménestrel, Op.71 (myself on piano; with 'Cello) From Scriabin's 'Preludes Opus 17' Nos 3 & 6 (myself solo) The 2nd half will feature Olivier Messiaen's wartime masterpiece: Quartet for the End of Time (1944) - with spoken words by Piers Burton-Page (Retired Radio 3 Presenter) Admission - Free with a Retiring Collection. How did it go ? Contact St. Peter's Church
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Sunday 17th June - 7:30pm Royal Marines Museum Southsea, Portsmouth, PO4 9PX I took the Harpsichord part with The Solent Symphony Orchestra Programme: Handel - Concerto Grosso in Bb for Strings and Oboes Danzi - Sinfonia Concertante for Flute and Clarinet (Helen Walton: flute and Robert Blanken: clarinet) Mozart - Symphony 29 See Solent Symphony Orchesta website for full details and ticket information. ------------------
Saturday 7th July - 2:30pm & 7:30pm, Station Theatre, West Town, Hayling Island, PO11 0EH
I provided the Piano/keyboard accompaniment for both Saturday performances.
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Saturday 14th July - 7:30 pm St Peter’s Church, Petersfield
I took the Harpsichord part with The Solent Symphony Orchestra Programme: This is a repeat of the program performed on Sunday 7th June at the Royal Marines Museum, Southsea - of which a reviewer commented :- "This was a summer concert not to be missed ........" Handel - Concerto Grosso in Bb for Strings and Oboes Danzi - Sinfonia Concertante for Flute and Clarinet (Helen Walton: flute and Robert Blanken: clarinet) Mozart - Symphony 29 See Solent Symphony Orchesta website for full details and ticket information. There was a retiring Collection in aid of The Rosemary Foundation : The Rosemary Foundation is a Charity providing a ‘Hospice at Home’ service in Petersfield and the surrounding towns and villages. It is intended to help patients in the latter stage of life threatening conditions.
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Saturday 6th October - St. Thomas' Anglican Cathedral, High St., Old Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 2HA. Sibelius - Finlandia Brahms - Violin Concerto (Soloist: Catherine Lawlor) Saint-Saëns - Symphony 3 (Organ Symphony) (David Price: organ) I, together with one of my students George, took the 4 hand piano part in the Saint-Saëns classic ! Yes it's that one - "That'll do pig; that'll do". Here's a snippet of the finale of the 4th movement :- https://youtu.be/EWZFkib99uo ------------------