Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowman

Recorders

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This site contains information about all our recorder-based activities, including current publishing and recording projects, performances, research, writings, and teaching.

Please contact Kathryn or Peter if you would like more information

UPCOMING CONCERTS

A Baroque Bouquet

June 17th2018 at 7.00pm

St Dunstan’s Church, Cranbrook

A concert of chamber music to include works by

Telemann, Handel, Couperin and CPE Bach

Kathryn Bennetts – Recorder

Yeo Yat-Soon – Harpsichord

Ibrahim Aziz – Viola da Gamba

Tickets: £12.50 (£5 for students)

Available from Baldwin’s Travel Agents, Carrier Road, Cranbrook,

by phoning 01580 895177

and at the door on the night

Sunday September 16th, 3pm

at St Saviour's Church, Dry Hill Park Crescent, Tonbridge

'Of Love and Desire’

A programme of songs and instrumental pieces

including works by Copland, Debussy and Ibert

with

Elin Harries - soprano,

Kathryn Bennetts - recorder

William Summers - flute and recorder.

More details to follow.

Sunday October 14th, 3.00pm

at St Saviour's Church, Dry Hill Park Crescent, Tonbridge

Kathryn presents a programme of new music for recorder to include works by

Lauren Redhead and Juan Manuel Abras.

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The Quarter-Tone Recorder Manual, written in 1997 in collaboration with composer Donald Bousted, is now 20 years old! It was published by Moeck in 1998

Concerts in 2018

Saturday 7th April 8pm

Garrick's Temple, Hampton

'Love and Desire' - a programme of mostly French music by Philidor, Debussy, Pessard, Ibert and Copland with:

Elin Harries - Soprano

William Summers - Flute, Recorder

Kathryn Bennetts - Recorder

Thursday 8th March 1.00pm

Tonbridge Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul

A recital of music by women to celebrate International Women's Day

The programme included works by Fumiko Hyachi, Liza Lim, Eleni Ralli, Nicola Termöhlen and Calliope Tsoupaki

Kathryn's recital for the Durham Society of Recorder Players has been reviewed as being a 'recital of contemporary music played with impressive virtuosity'. The Recorder Magazine Summer 2018. Works performed included Maki Ishii's east•green•spring and Calliope Tsoupaki's Charavgi.

Concerts in 2017

22nd October 2017 at 3.00pm at.St Saviour's Church, Dry Hill Park Crescent, Tonbridge

Kathryn presented a programme of Telemann Fantasias, together with the premieres of Andreja Andric's Interleaved Sequence (2017) and Donald Bousted's Telemann Raven Claw (2017)

Saturday 24 June 2017 at 7.30pmat All Saint's Church, Tudeley, Tonbridge, Kent

Kathryn Bennetts (Recorder) and Yeo Yat-Soon (Harpsichord) 

A concert of Fantasias and Sonatas to mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Georg Philipp Telemann held in this rural church in the heart of Kent made famous throughout the world for its exceptional stained glass windows by Marc Chagall, which were designed and installed over a period of nearly 20 years between 1967 and 1985.  

19th March 2017 at 3.00pm atSt Saviour's Church, Dry Hill Park Crescent, Tonbridge

Kathryn presented a recital of Fantasies by Telemanninterspersed withYun's Chinese Pictures

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REVIEW

We had a fantastic review in a recent edition of the online music journal 'Tempo' (April 2015). Here are some of the highlights - you can download the whole review by clicking here

General comments about the Michael Wolter's CDKathryn and Peter Play the Recorder:

“Kathryn and Peter Play the Recorder” offers a lovely sound-world in which to get lost."

"utterly beguiling"

"teasing, characterful works."

About She Stays and My Own Step-song:

"She Stays is a kaleidoscopic pas de deux, the two recorders curling around each other serpent-like, whilst My Own Step-song is a tense, expostulatory recital spotlighting Purkis that uses harpsichord and recorders, again exploiting the fruitful contrast of diatonic sequences and curving, sighing microtones above them, to frame and qualify the singer’s anxious verses.

About "Kathryn und Peter durchqueren die Antarktis":

"austere and still"; "Bennetts and Bowman’s playing is delicate and mesmerizing throughout.”

The CD Kathryn and Peter Play the Recorderis available from either of us, cost £10. Individual tracks can be purchased online from the Birmingham Record Company by clicking here

"The recorder-playing throughout the evening displayed musicianship and virtuosity of the highest order along with the adventurous and challenging programming we have learned to expect from this outstanding duo. I came away with a sense of privilege at having been present at the first performance of (Gavin Bryars') Two Lines"

The Recorder Magazine, Autumn 2007

In performance

Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowman are the UK’s leading recorder duo. Together they have commissioned and given first performances of many works creating an entirely new repertoire for the genre of recorder duo. A particular focus of the duo has been the use of microtonality and projects to extend this work have included ‘The Quarter-tone Recorder Manual’ (Moeck Ed. 2084), a CD of Donald Bousted’s quarter-tonal tour de force ‘Journey Among Travellers’ (1998) and a DVD of the radio opera from 2005, Kathryn und Peter Durchqueren die Antarktis (‘Kathryn and Peter Cross Antarctica’) by Michael Wolters and Marcus Dross.The initial work to develop dedicated fingerings for quarter-tones on the recorder has been adapted over the last fifteen years for other microtonal possibilities: third-, sixth- and eighth-tones. Regular performances and radio broadcasts have enabled their work to be heard throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.

Kathryn and Peter in Performance

Detail from Church window by Marc Chagall

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