Beethoven 250 programme 2020

Music Assemblies Wednesday 4 March - Lower School Monday 9 March - Middle School Wednesday 11 March - Junior School Monday 16 March - Upper School

Masterclass with Patsy Toh Monday 2 March 2.00pm Old Library Kicking off the Beethoven Piano Sonata week, we are delighted to welcome Professor Patsy Toh from the Royal Academy of Music, also Visiting Professor in conservatoires in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore. Her performance career has taken her around the world and her students are regular prize winners in national and international competitions.

Aquinas Trio

Lunchtime Concerts: Beethoven Piano Sonatas From Tuesday 3 to Friday 6 March 1.30pm Lower Hall

Listen to Dulwich College’s pianists performing a selection of Beethoven Piano Sonatas in preparation for their marathon performance on Sunday 8 March in Oxford.

Aquinas Trio: Concert and Masterclass Wednesday 11 March 1.30pm, Old Library - Lunchtime Concert 2.45pm, Old Library - Masterclass

The 32 Piano Sonatas Sunday 8 March 9.30am - 10pm Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford Over 25 Dulwich College pianists and staff members of the Keyboard Faculty head to Oxford to join forces with Radley College, St Helen’s and St Katharine’s Oxford and St Paul’s Girls’ School to perform all 32 sonatas and the 3 early sonatas. International concert pianists Julian Jacobson and Sofya Gulyak will perform as special guests.

The Aquinas Trio was formed in 2009 and has become one of the UK’s leading ensembles. Their overall fluidity and confidence is matched with exquisite virtuosity from all players, flawless unity and movement. The Aquinas will work with selected chamber groups in the afternoon after their lunchtime concert, which will include Beethoven’s intricate Ghost Trio Op 70 No 1.

Lunchtime Concert Thursday 12 March 1.45pm Lower Hall

Tickets available at the door or at tinyurl.com/DCB250Sheldonian

Two of our senior Music Scholars perform their ARSM Diploma programmes (oboe and singing), taking us through a journey of music and poetry before and after Beethoven.

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