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New Year latest....

10/1/2020

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As we enter a new decade my year ahead contains some exciting events to look forward to as well as my last few concerts with Tasmin Little as she retires from performing in the Summer - I'll be sad to see the end of a collaboration that has lasted more than 25 years! We will be playing in the Queen Elizabeth Hall London (also broadcast live on BBC Radio 3), and Stoller Hall, Manchester as well as a clutch of other concerts up and down the country. Following my Mozart concerto recording with the National Symphony Orchestra last year, I will record Beethoven's Emperor in April, again with Rimma Sushanskaya conducting.

Other highlights are a Wigmore Hall concert with members of the Britten Sinfonia in January and a celebration of the "Centre for Young Musicians" at the Barbican Centre in June. I was lucky enough to be one of the first students there in around 1971 and they are celebrating their fiftieth anniversary. They have invited me to play Saint- Saens "Carnival of the Animals" with an ensemble of past and present students.

By March I will have completed my four concert survey of Beethoven Violin and Piano Sonatas for the Luton Music Club - it's been a joy to perform at the Bear Club with four amazing violinists! There are also more silent film concerts through the year with a new programme being devised to celebrate the 1920s in all its glory and a return invitation to play in the Winnipeg Chamber Music Festival in June.
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September 2019

2/9/2019

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John Lenehan's latest recording of Mozart with the National Symphony Orchestra is issued on 27th September on the Guild Label. Two Beethoven Sonatas (Pathetique and Moonlight) will also be released in the next few weeks - see   http://chasingthedragon.co.uk/compactdiscs.html
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Concert performances this month......


10th - Turner Sims, Southampton - silent films


The season kicks off with a showcase concert for performance of a Laurel and Hardy programme later in the season. This event  is already sold out.
https://www.turnersims.co.uk/events/turner-sims-autumn-season-preview/
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13th - Breinton, Woking - Huw Wiggin
Music from last year's album "reflections" with this brilliant sax player including several of John Lenehan's arrangements.
https://www.breinton.com/
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19-22nd - York Chamber Music Festival - Rossetti Ensemble/Emma Johnson
recitals with Emma Johnson, Martin Jackson, Tim Lowe and chamber music with Rossetti Ensemble all packed into four days! 
https://www.ycmf.co.uk/festival-events
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29th - St. Georges, Bristol - Emma Johnson
Jonathan Dove's "Pied Piper" was written for Emma Johnson and John Lenehan to perform with young recorder players and singers. 
https://www.stgeorgesbristol.co.uk/event/the-pied-piper/

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Concerts in July

8/7/2019

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14th July - 3.00  - Rossetti Ensemble at St. Mary's, Perivale

Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat K.493
August Klughardt:  Schilflieder
(5 Fantasy Pieces for Piano, Oboe and Viola Op.28 )
Interval
Bridge: Phantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minor (1932) 
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin (1917) arr: Rachel Messiter​

http://www.st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2019-07-14
------This event will be live streamed on YouTube------
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC43OVDn283J__YlsucboMlw/featured
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15th July - 8.00 John Lenehan presents "Comedy Classics"
at the Kings Lynn Festival


https://www.kingslynncornexchange.co.uk/whats-on/opera-classical/john-lenehan-piano/
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​19th July - 8.00 - Emma Johnson's "Clarinet goes to Town" 
at Marlborough College
https://summerschool.co.uk/entertainment
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22nd July - recording at Air Lyndhurst Studios, London
Beethoven Sonatas op. 13 and 27 no. 2
(Pathetique and Moonlight)

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Concerts in June

8/7/2019

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8th - Laurel and Hardy silent films - MiddlesboroughTheatre 
https://www.middlesbroughtheatre.co.uk/shows/in-the-footsteps-of-laurel-and-hardy/

22nd - Emma Johnson's "Clarinet goes to Town" - Thaxted Festival

https://www.thaxtedfestival.co.uk/the-emma-johnson-trio.html

​26nd - Emma Johnson's "Clarinet goes to Town" - Beaminster Festival
https://www.emmajohnson.co.uk/events/beaminster-festival-clarinet-goes-to-town/
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28th - my new arrangement of Piazzolla "Libertango"  will be performed by an all star lineup including Jess Gillam, Chloe Hanslip and Martin James Bartlett.
(St. Georges Brandon Hill, Bristol)
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Concerts in May

1/5/2019

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4th - Rossetti Ensemble at Welwyn Garden Concert Club
Mozart: Piano Quartet in E flat K.493
August Klughardt:  Schilflieder
(5 Fantasy Pieces for Piano, Oboe and Viola Op.28 )

Interval
Bridge: Phantasy Piano Quartet in F sharp minor (1932) 
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin (1917) arr: Rachel Messiter
http://wgconcertclub.org.uk/index.php/current-season/rossetti/

​16th - BBC Concert Orchestra at Queen Elizabeth Hall
I'll  join the orchestra for the world premiere of John Harle's Saxophone Concerto performed by Jess Gillam. The newly refurbished hall opened earlier this mon
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23-29 - Concerts in Taiwan with violinist Nai-Yuan Hu
​A return to Taipei to perform Elgar's Violin Sonata with this prize-winning violinist.
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Catch up

1/5/2019

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March and April were spent primarily writing - including library music for West One Music and a new arrangement for Maksim Mrvica. Concerts included an informal private performance with the marvellous tenor Joseph Calleja at the Overseas League House in London. He casually mentioned that he had stopped in London on route from Munich where he had finished singing the part of Don Jose in Carmen, to New York for the Met's new production of Tosca! Other concerts were with Emma Johnson in Exeter, Wadsworth and Middlesborough where we performed Jonathan Dove's "Pied Piper" with 100 local school children - a memorable experience. Other highlights included playing the opening concert of the St. Endellion Easter Festival and a concert with the Rossetti ensemble at the Purcell School. 
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February news

1/1/2019

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My performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto at St. Martin-in-the-Fields with the Locrian Ensemble of London cond. Rimma Sushanskaya was recorded live by Chasing the Dragon audiophile recordings  and is already available to purchase as LP or CD at their website                                        http://www.chasingthedragon.co.uk/livebeethovenseries.html

On the same day (1st February) Chandos released my recording with Tasmin Little of music by  Amy Beach, Clara Schumann and Dame Ethel Smyth. The recording has already received fabulous reviews - Editors's Choice in Gramophone and Chamber Music choice and a 5 star review from BBC Music Magazine. Read the reviews here....
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​Other concerts this month

6th - Rossetti Ensemble at Riverside Barn, Walton on Thames

8th - BBC Radio 3 "In Tune" -  interview and music by Mozart, Brahms and Bernstein with Emma Johnson

10th - Laurel and Hardy Film programme at Strode Theatre, Somerset

13th - BBC Radio 3 "In Tune" -interview and 
music by Amy Beach and Clara Schumann with Tasmin Little
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15th-18th - 4 Concerts in Scotland for Absolute Classics

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January concerts and recordings

1/1/2019

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The year ahead gets off to a flyer with the remaining day of recording at Henry Wood Hall of the complete chamber music of Robert Furstenthal. Works to be added are sonatas for Flute, horn and oboe in which I will be joined by Kathryn Thomas, Nicholas Korth and Malcolm Messiter. The project stretches to 4 CDs involving members of the Rossetti Ensemble and will be issued by Toccata Classics later this year. It has been a privilege to get to know and perform this highly personal music (much of it never played before) by a composer totally unknown to the general public. Some further info on Furstenthal here.......
https://toccataclassics.com/discovering-robert-furstenthal-and-his-lost-lieder/

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Also three recitals with Tasmin Little this month in Bradford, Oswestry and Mold (Theatre Clwyd). Details on Tasmin's website here.....
http://www.tasminlittle.com/pages/02_pages/02_set_concerts.htm

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Most excited to be preparing for my performance of Beethoven Emperor Concerto on February 1st at St. Martin in the Fields. Details here...
https://www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/whatson-event/beethoven-by-candlelight/
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Happy Christmas!

21/12/2018

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December Concerts and Recordings

2/12/2018

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​6th - Morpeth Music Society
Recital with Emma Johnson (clarinet)

https://www.morpeth-musoc.org.uk/britain-s-favourite-clarinettist-emma-johnson-and-pianist-john-lenehan-are-coming-to-morpeth

11th - CD Recording at Henry Wood Hall, London
Mozart Piano Concerto no. 21 K467 - National Symphony Orchestra/ R. Sushanskaya


17-19th - CD recording: The chamber Music of Robert Furstenthal (vol.2)
with the Rossetti Ensemble (for Toccata Classics)
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