Kathryn Bennetts and Peter Bowman
Recorders
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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
Our
recordings of Michael Wolters' music are now available from NMC Recordings
- see the 'News' page for more details and some great reviews.
Kathryn presents her third annual recital of
recorder music
composed by
women to celebrate
International Women's Day
The programme will include works by
Chou Chiu-Yu, Gloria Coates,
Sarah Nemtsov,
and Calliope Tsoupaki
Entry free with retiring collection
Saturday 28th March, 7.30pm
A programme to celebrate the music
of
Georg Philipp Telemann
presented
by
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
Sunday May 3rd, 3pm
St Saviour's Church, Dry Hill Park Crescent, Tonbridge
International Dawn Chorus Day!
Come and hear a programme of music influenced by, and in imitation of, birdsong
With refreshments
Retiring collection
Sunday 8th
December, 3pm
at St Saviour's Church, Dry
Hill Park Crescent, Tonbridge
A Christmas Box
An eclectic mix of English Baroque & Classical 3 part glees,
bagatelles from Hook’s Christmas Box, new & old Irish & Welsh
folksong arrangements, with some seasonal fare
Elin Harries -
soprano and harp
Kathryn Bennetts - recorder
William Summers
- flute and recorder
Tickets: £10 at the door
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Wednesday 11th
December, 1.10pm
St Gregory's Centre for Music, Canterbury
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SydneyMicrofest3
20th September 7.30pm
22nd September 3.00pm
13th October 3.00pm
16th October 1.10pm
Telemannia!
Cantatas for Good Friday
19th April -
7.30pm
Tickets £12 at the door, or from Will Summers at www.lokimusic.co.uk/
EUROMicroFest 2019
24th May - 25th May
7th April 2019
23 March 2019
7.30pm Tudeley Church
7.30pm
8th March 2019
International Women’s Day
St Peter and St Paul Tonbridge at 1.00pm
Sunday 16th December
to celebrate the festive season including
cantatas for Advent by Telemann (1681-1767)
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.
'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.
A Baroque Bouquet
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)
Saturday 24 June 2017 at 7.30pm atAll 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
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
22 years old!
It was published by Moeck in 1998
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