Michaelmas 2008 Concerts

Choral scholars Clara and Nina Kanter perform a selection of operatic duets including works by Handel, Rossini and Berlioz.

Directed by Michael Waldron, the Queen Mary’s Consort performs a selection of choral works by contemporary composers including Pärt, Tavener and Clements in the setting of St John’s College Chapel.

The start of a new academic year brings with it the annual Freshers' concert. Held in the Master's Lodge, the concert will showcase the newest musical talent to join Trinity College.

Directed by Dan Hill, The Beethoven Ensemble is one of Cambridge's newest and most exciting orchestral groups. Their first concert of the term will open with Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, while soloist Alice Gledhill returns to play Finzi's Clarinet Concerto. The concert will close with triumphant tones of Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.

After their great success last year, Rupert Compston, Hanna Notte and David Foster return to perform Debussy's Piano Trio No. 1 in G major.

The Cambridge Bach Players perform a selection of Bach's most beautiful cantatas, motets and arias. The chorus, composed of current and former Trinity Choral Scholars, will perform Cantatas Selig is der Mann, Du Hirte, Israel höre and the motet Der Geist hilft unser Shwachheit auf. Soloists Lucy Goddard, Guy Hayward and Natasha Goldberg will perform arias from Bach's Passions. Conducted by Michael Waldron and Sam Hogarth.

The Amarilli Ensemble perform selections from Monteverdi's Madrigal Book V. These beautiful madrigals will be performed one-to-a-part by five Cambridge choral scholars: Emily Dickens (soprano), Elizabeth Wheeler (alto), Alex Berman (tenor), Tom Keen (baritone) and Christopher Webb (bass), in the wonderful acoustic of Trinity College Chapel by candlelight.

Under the direction of Nadanai Laohakunakorn and Tom Lovering, Trinity Players return with a programme including Beethoven's Egmont Overture and Symphony No. 2.

For their second concert of the term, The Beethoven Ensemble perform one of Puccini's most beautiful and intimate operas, Suor Angelica. Running for three nights.

For their second concert of the term, The Beethoven Ensemble perform one of Puccini's most beautiful and intimate operas, Suor Angelica. Running for three nights.

For their second concert of the term, The Beethoven Ensemble perform one of Puccini's most beautiful and intimate operas, Suor Angelica. Running for three nights.

For one night only, come and be serenaded by The Fitz Barbershop. Sporting their characteristically bright waistcoats, the group will perform a variety of popular jazz classics and modern a cappella arrangements. An evening not to be missed.

Concordia (formerly the Cambridge Clerkes), Cambridge's premier vocal consort, start this year with a concert of Venetian Madrigals and motets under the direction of Julian Chou-Lambert.

The Newly founded Kallion Ensemble perform two works from the early 1930s, beginning with Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony. Rupert Compston will then play Ravel's remarkable Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in G.

Conducted by Sunil Manohar, the Trinity Singers, one of Cambridge’s finest choral societies will perform a selection of choral works, including Fauré's Requiem.