Sunday 25 January 2026 at 3pm

Lion Ballroom, off Broad Street, Leominster HR6 8BT

Leading British Pianist Duncan Honeybourne at the Lion Ballroom

Duncan Honeybourne is a leading British pianist who has given a large number of recitals and played many concertos at major venues and leading festivals to great critical acclaim.

‘… pianism of rarefied emotions and storming virtuosity …’ MusicWeb International

‘… unerring sense of colour and narrative …’ Musical Opinion

The concert opens with a wonderful work, which Schubert composed at the very end of his life. Here, one finds a distillation of his soundworld: glorious lyricism, daring harmony, wistfulness … This is followed by one of Schumann’s most loved compositions, with its enchanting reminiscence of childhood, and then Liszt’s arrangement of Schumann’s famous song Widmung. The second half opens with a work by the highly acclaimed West Country composer Clive Jenkins and ends with Chopin’s final Sonata, a creation of grandeur and consummate beauty.


Schubert Drei Klavierstücke D946
Schumann Kinderszenen Op 15
Schumann/Liszt Widmung
Clive Jenkins Four Piano Pieces
Chopin Sonata No 3 in B minor Op 58


Tickets £20 (students half-price and carers free) from Leominster TIC on 01568 616460 and The Courtyard, Hereford on 01432 340555 and online at www.courtyard.org.uk




Sunday 22 March 2026 3.00pm

Christ Church, Avenue Road, Malvern WR14 3AY

Orchestra Pro Anima
Directed from the violin by Michael Bochmann MBE
Piano soloist: Tim Sidford

Orchestra Pro Anima will perform music covering the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, including a Mozart Piano Concerto and Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending.

‘Each work illuminated the expressive power of strings, whether in intimate reflection or collective exuberance. Brian Owen (Worcester News)

Tim Sidford – ‘ … a soloist centre-stage and in full command.’ ’ Peter Williams (formerly Hereford Times)

The concert opens with a much-loved Concerto Grosso by Corelli in which the dialogue between the solo instruments and the orchestra is particularly telling. There follows a well-known Vivaldi Concerto in which the texture of the four violin solo parts is constantly varied. To complete the first half, the fine pianist Tim Sidford is the soloist in a most charming, intimate Mozart Piano Concerto.

Tim begins the second half with Chopin’s exquisite G minor Ballade, a most poetic work in which virtuosity is at the service of art. The orchestra then returns, with Michael Bochmann as soloist, in Vaughan Williams’ famous, highly evocative The Lark Ascending. The programme finishes with Holst’s lyrical Brook Green Suite, the concluding Dance of which provides a most vibrant end to the concert.


Corelli Concerto Grosso in D major Op 6 No 4
Vivaldi Concerto for four violins in B minor RV580
Mozart Piano Concerto No 12 in A major K414
Chopin Ballade No 1 in G minor Op 23 (piano solo)
Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending
Holst Brook Green Suite H190


Tickets : £22 and £17 students half-price and free entry for children aged 10 and under from
online at www.courtyard.org.uk

and Malvern TIC, The Lyttelton Well Courtyard, 6 Church Street, Malvern WR14 2AY (01684 892289)





Saturday 16 May 2026 7.00pm

Lion Ballroom, off Broad Street, Leominster HR6 8BT

Bochmann String Trio
Michael Bochmann (violin)
Carol Hubel-Allen (viola)
Nicola Tait Baxter (cello)

The highly acclaimed Bochmann String Trio play an exciting early composition by Beethoven; a folk-inspired work by the Hungarian composer Kodály; and Mozart’s sublime Divertimento for String Trio K563.

Michael Bochmann – ‘ … treated us to an endless flow of golden melody.’ Daily Telegraph

Carol Hubel-Allen – ‘ … her playing is always a delight.’ The Sanctuary Studio and Gallery, Newnham on Severn

Nicola Tait Baxter – ‘… performed in an intoxicating and beautiful way.’ The Bremervorde Regional Art and Music Festival, Lower Saxony, Germany

The Bochmann String Trio, favourites at the Lion Ballroom, open their programme with an early work by Beethoven, one of great youthful energy in which there are glimpses of what was to come from this great genius. Kodály’s compositions are infused with the folk music of his homeland of Hungary and this is reflected in his serenade-like Intermezzo which follows. In the second half there is just one work: Mozart’s expansive six-movement Divertimento K563, a work of ever-changing beauty.


Beethoven String Trio in D major Op 9 No 2
Kodály Intermezzo for String Trio
Mozart Divertimento for String Trio in E flat major K563


Tickets : £20 (students half-price) from
online at www.courtyard.org.uk