Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowman

Recorders

Welcome to our web pages

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

8th March 2019

is

International Women’s Day

Come to St Peter and St Paul Tonbridge for 1.00pm

and listen to Kathryn give a recital of music composed by women

Works by Ana Lara, Betty Beath, Anne Gregson, Margery Smith, Barbara Polacchi

Entry free with a retiring collection

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23 March 2019

7.30pm Tudeley Church

7.30pm

A programme of music by

Georg Philipp Telemann

to celebrate the anniversary of his birth

presented

Kathryn Bennetts - Recorder

Yeo Yat-Soon - Harpsichord

Ibrahim Aziz - Viola da gamba

Tickets £15 at the door

£12.50 booked in advance from Kathryn via the contact link above

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7th April 2019

St. Saviour’s Church

Dry Hill Park Crescent, Tonbridge

3.00pm

Elin Harries - Soprano

Kathryn Bennetts – Recorder

Yeo Yat-Soon – Harpsichord

present a programme of music for Easter

including

Bach's Aria, Seele, deine Spezereien

and

Cantatas by Telemann

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EUROMicroFest 2019

25th May in Freiburg, Germany

Kathryn will give a presentation on the Quarter-tone Recorder Manual

and play two pieces by Donald Bousted:

Study In Transforming Curves (1997) and Telemann Raven Claw (2017)

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Concerts in 2018

Sunday 16th December

St. Saviour’s Church

Dry Hill Park Crescent, Tonbridge

3.00pm

Elin Harries - Soprano

Kathryn Bennetts – Recorder

Yeo Yat-Soon – Harpsichord

present

an afternoon recital of music
to celebrate the festive season including
cantatas for Advent by Telemann (1681-1767)

Tickets: £10 at the door

For more information contact Kathryn on 01580 895177

Wednesday 12th December

St Gregory's Centre for Music, Canterbury

1.10pm

Sunday October 14th, 3.00pm

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

Kathryn presented a programme of new music for recorder with first performances of works by

Lauren Redhead, Robert McCauley and Robert Strobel.

The programme also included works by

Juan Manuel Abras, Betty Beath, Andrea Keller,

Carleton Macy, Elis Pehkonen, and Francois Rossé.

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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

with works by Copland, Debussy and Ibert

Elin Harries - soprano,

Kathryn Bennetts - recorder

William Summers - flute and recorder.

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A Baroque Bouquet

June 17th 2018 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

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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

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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 a 'recital of contemporary music played with impressive virtuosity' The Recorder Magazine, Summer 2017. Works performed included Gerhard Braun's 3 Albumblätter 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 at St Saviour's Church, Dry Hill Park Crescent, Tonbridge

Kathryn presented a recital of Fantasies by Telemann interspersed 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 CD Kathryn 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

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

_{Photo by André Luck}

Detail from Church window by Marc Chagall

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