Event Categories: Classical

Hull Minster Christmas Tree Festival

Christmas Memories

Neil Sands and his wonderful cast are back with the new 2024 production of their hit show, a spectacular spirit lifting, heart-warming, afternoon of festive nostalgia. Join them for a dazzling sleigh ride of yuletide memories, filled with over 60 of your all-time favourite Christmas songs and Carols that will have you singing along from start to finish and bringing back so many wonderful memories of Christmases past. Described as “Like A Sparkly Christmas Card Come To Life” with its shimmering stage set, stunning costumes, beautiful Christmas trees and even falling snow, this is the perfect pre-Christmas treat, warming your heart on the coldest winter’s day, taking us all back to a time when Christmas was “The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year”.

Stage4Beverley: The Bandura

Anastasiya Voytyuk, is a singer and promoter of Ukrainian folk culture and a virtuoso of the Bandura – a Ukrainian traditional instrument.

Anastasiya collaborated with many different musicians and artists and combined the Bandura with percussion, keyboards, saxophone, guitar, clarinet, experimental brass, electronic music, tabla, zheng and many other instruments. She became the author of soundtracks for several plays and performances with which she travelled to Canada and the Lebanon. She has toured many countries of Europe and the World with the Bandura as part of various bands. In the Summer of 2023 she was nominated to take part in Global Music Workshop in the New England Conservatory in Boston, USA, where she collaborated with 70 musicians from all over the world.

Anastasiya leads the Ukrainian folk fusion band Troye Zillia. They give a second breath to Ukrainian folk songs from various regions of Ukraine, releasing the archaic polyphonic singing in contemporary musical forms.

The work of Troye Zillia is a real fusion – the sounds of Bandura and singing with folk notes are accompanied by jazz drums, keyboards and synthesizers, and in the current incarnation also bass and clarinet. In the band’s repertoire you will find both lively and melancholy songs. Since its inception, the line-up has played several hundred concerts on the stages of Europe, North America and the Middle East, winning awards and distinctions at reviews and competitions, in the country and abroad. The last album (2019) entitled ENDORPHINS is a selection of Ukrainian songs about love from various regions of the country. The original sound, sophisticated ethno motifs and positive charge of compositions, mixed with driving styles of R&B, D&B, afro-cuban, jazz, create a special style of the album – folk fusion.

Stage4Beverley: The Beverley Handbell Ringers

THE BEVERLEY TOWN HANDBELL RINGERS

The Beverley Town Handbell Ringers was formed in February, 1981 and, by the loan of a set of old disused bells from Elland in West Yorkshire, were able to set about raising the funds to buy the present ‘long set’ purchased in August, 1983.

They play on a set of 137 Whitechapel bells which cover a range of five chromatic octaves. Using some of the 60 duplicated and triplicated bells permits the execution of the fast chromatic runs.

The ten ringers, four treble, four tenor and two bass, ring ‘off table’ in a traditional ‘Yorkshire Style’ and are directed and conducted by John Atkinson.

At the festival they will be performing a concert with an opportunity for audience participation and an insight into the bells and the ringing style.

They will be playing a varied selection of light classical and modern pieces, each lasting no longer than five minutes many of which are well known marches and waltzes.

Saturday Concert Series: A French Connection

A French Connection
Georgina Dadson & Matthew House present a journey inspired by French music, written and arranged for two guitars. To include works by Ida Presti, Pierre Petit, Roland Dyens and more!

About the Artists.
Georgina Dadson and Matthew House form the Abeto Guitar Duo. They met in Cardiff, Wales where they studied together as a duo for their masters at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Since the duo’s conception, they have enjoyed performing across England and Wales, including Cardiff Guitar Festival and as returning artists to Dillington Guitar Festival. They were finalists in the annual Dora Stouzker Hall concerto competition in Cardiff, 2022. They have commissioned works by Chris Stell which they recorded in summer 2023 and the duo will be recording their debut album with Deux-Elles records in summer 2024.

In addition to their performing, Matt and Georgina both enjoy teaching. Matt is also a keen arranger and publishes his work through is own company, Rosette Editions and Georgina works for Live Music Now, an organisation which provides music performances and workshops in communities where live music is less readily available.

About the Concert
The performance is FREE and will take place in the nave, lasting approximately 1 hour.

If you have access needs which you would like to discuss, please contact us on 01482 224460 so that we can make your experience as fulfilling as possible.

Booking a ticket helps us to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

The Saturday Concert Series is presented by Vox Trinitas as a vehicle to support local talent and the work of musicians at Hull Minster.

Saturday Concert Series: Piano Excursions in the 20th Century

These three pieces offer a look at the artistic and aesthetic concerns of three composers in the 20th Century.

America, 1924
Charles Ives – Three Quarter-Tone Pieces for Two Pianos
Charles Ives is more known for his wonderfully evocative Places in New England, but here we see him exploring the newer world of microtonal music. The pianos are tuned a quarter tone apart, so when played together, as a duet, we are offered a far wider palette of colours and sonorities.

Germany, 1954–61
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Klavierstucke X
Karlheinz Stockhausen remains one of the most influential composers of the 20th Century. In his Klavierstucke X, the boundaries of performance technique and music composition are stretched, and advises the pianist to wear half-fingered mitts to aid the performance of ‘cluster glissandi’.

Malta, 1950–60
Charles Camilleri – Times of Day
Finally the Maltese composer Charles Camilleri offers us, in Times of Day, a journey through a day filled with influences from as far a field as Asia, Africa and France, lit with the colours of the Mediterranean.

Performers: Nigel Bartram, Stanislaw Hansel, Simon-Mary Vincent and John Stead.

About the Concert
The performance is FREE and will take place in the nave, lasting approximately 1 hour.

If you have access needs which you would like to discuss, please contact us on 01482 224460 so that we can make your experience as fulfilling as possible.

Booking a ticket helps us to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

The Saturday Concert Series is presented by Vox Trinitas as a vehicle to support local talent and the work of musicians at Hull Minster.

Saturday Concert Series: Discours à Quatre

Richard Sleight returns with a band of friends. Whatever he has in store for us, be certain of some excellent playing.

About the Concert
The performance is FREE and will take place in the nave, lasting approximately 1 hour.

If you have access needs which you would like to discuss, please contact us on 01482 224460 so that we can make your experience as fulfilling as possible.

Booking a ticket helps us to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

The Saturday Concert Series is presented by Vox Trinitas as a vehicle to support local talent and the work of musicians at Hull Minster.

Saturday Concert Series: Choirs of Swans

Eclectic music present a concert of music by their Clarinet and Saxophone choirs. A real mixture of styles so there’s something to suit every taste.

About the Concert
The performance is FREE and will take place in the nave, lasting approximately 1 hour.

If you have access needs which you would like to discuss, please contact us on 01482 224460 so that we can make your experience as fulfilling as possible.

Booking a ticket helps us to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

The Saturday Concert Series is presented by Vox Trinitas as a vehicle to support local talent and the work of musicians at Hull Minster.

Saturday Concert Series: Medieval Magic & Mystery

Travel back in time and experience a glimpse of what it might have felt like to be in Hull Minster hundreds of years ago. A multi-sensual performance by Vox Trinitas, featuring a full performance of Byrd’s four-part setting of the latin mass and peppered with delicious plainsong graduals.

About the Concert
The performance is FREE and will take place in the nave, lasting approximately 1 hour.

If you have access needs which you would like to discuss, please contact us on 01482 224460 so that we can make your experience as fulfilling as possible.

Booking a ticket helps us to know how many people are coming but you are very welcome to drop by on the day!

The Saturday Concert Series is presented by Vox Trinitas as a vehicle to support local talent and the work of musicians at Hull Minster.

Interstellar Duo + Amelia Quinn + Toni Oliver

Interstellar Duo are sisters Charlotte and Heather Sterland.  They play original compositions influenced by folk, jazz and classical music.

Their projects range from live concert tours, to film soundtracks to live stage and dance productions.

Performing vocal arrangements from their soundtrack album ‘Adventure 112,’ the duo create a folklorish stage atmosphere, with a show which is both charming and intriguing.

From desert safaris, to being pushed to their limits across dangerous moorlands, and surfing by the beach, their music speaks to all, and tales always contain something of the unexpected…

Finalists for UK Country Duo in 2022, their work has been described as “beautiful, haunting and delicate”, with precise vocal harmonies and instrumentals which produce an “ethereal sound (Devizne magazine).

They released their first EP in 2016, followed by two further EPs, and an album in 2022, a soundtrack to 8 stop-motion short films, ‘Adventure 112’

They have toured all round the UK and internationally, notable tours include Edinburgh Fringe in 2021, as well as their longstanding popular monthly live night in Soho, London, ‘Jazz and Games.’

The Music of James Bond by Candlelight

From Russia with Love comes this incredible night of best-loved Bond themes, performed by candlelight.

Featuring a live cast of West End singers accompanied by an incredible live band, experience the music of James Bond as you have never heard it before.

Guaranteed to leave you on an ‘All Time High’, this concert features some of the most iconic songs of all time including Goldeneye, ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’, ‘A View to a Kill’, ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, ‘Skyfall’ and more.

Join us and The Man With The Golden Gun for an incredible night of music that will leave you shaken, not stirred.

George Ko in Concert – A sonic cinematic piano experience

Indulge in an evening of cinematic piano as Young Steinway Artist George Ko serenades you with his new originals inspired by the sounds of anime, Ghibli, jazz, and classical masterpieces, completely improvised! Heralded by Steinway & Sons for “making classical music exciting and accessible for the masses,” pianist George Ko has encapsulated audiences worldwide with his classical improvisations on the piano. He has been presented at Carnegie Hall 9 times, and his piano compositions have appeared in films at the Tribeca Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, and Netflix. George’s music can also be heard on records by The Black Keys, Foster The People, and Beck.

G4 Christmas – Hull Minster

Get ready for a spectacular Christmas celebration with G4.
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Escape into their world of mesmerising harmonies, beautifully-blended voices and impeccable showmanship within an idyllic festive setting.

Jon, Jai, Mike and Duncan are delighted to bring their hotly-anticipated, 20th Anniversary ‘G4 CHRISTMAS’ tour across the UK in 2024, with more dates than ever before!

Selling out year after year, it is clear that audiences cannot get enough of this breathtaking festive experience, that will warm your soul and bring the true spirit of Christmas to life.

Step into G4’s world of vocal enchantment as they take you on an awe-inspiring musical journey. From traditional carols to sacred contemplations, classical classics to popular favourites; all the way to modern festive hits.

G4’s extraordinary and unique vocal renditions will leave you with chills of delight and a heart full of Christmas spirit.

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VIP ‘Meet and Greet’ tickets are available at all venues

Artists: G4, Jonathan Ansell, Mike Christie, Jai McDowall, Duncan Sandilands

London Film Music Orchestra: The Best of Hans Zimmer & Film Favorites

An immersive tribute to Hans Zimmer and the most iconic music of film with a live chamber orchestra illuminated by light.

Hear the mesmerising music of the most iconic movie moments from E.T., Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, Batman V Superman, Inception, Man of Steel, Star Wars, Memoirs of a Geisha, Gladiator, Indiana Jones, The Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean + MORE

Candlelight Hull: Valentine’s Day Special

Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations like never seen before in Hull. Get your tickets now to discover the music of Valentine’s Day Special at Hull Minster under the gentle glow of candlelight.

Choral Classics

Join the Tallis Consort as they take you on a journey of the finest choral music written over the last five hundred years. Come and hear the early music genius of Claudio Monteverdi, the best of continental Europe courtesy of Mozart and Fauré, to the contemporary harmonious wizardry of Eric Whitacre and John Rutter.

The professional singers are accompanied by former Beverley Minster Assistant Organist Ian Seddon, and joined by BBC Chorister of the Year participant (2023) Rhys Powell in one of the nation’s favourites – Mendelssohn’s well-loved ‘O for the Wings of a Dove’.

Programme:
The professional singers are accompanied by Ian Seddon (organ) and joined by BBC Chorister of the Year participant (2023) Rhys Powell in one of the nation’s favourites – Mendelssohn’s well-loved ‘O for the Wings of a Dove’.

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643) – Cantate Domino (1620)
Thomas Tallis (1505 – 1585) – If Ye Love Me (1565)
Robert Parsons (1535 – 1572) – Ave Maria (155?)
Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695) – Hear my prayer, O Lord (1682)
George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759) – And he Shall Purify the Sons of Levi (Messiah) (1741)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1758 – 1791) – Lacrimosa (Requiem) (1791)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore) (1780)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) – The Heavens are Telling (Creation) (1798)

INTERVAL

Felix Mendelssohn (Bartholdy) (1809 – 1847) – Hear my Prayer (1844) (with treble soloist, Rhys Powell)
Gabriel Fauré (1845 – 1924) – Cantique de Jean Racine (1865)
Michael Tippett (1905 – 1998) – Steal Away (Five Spirituals – A Child of Our Time) (1941)
Eric Whitacre (1970 – ) – Lux Arumque (2000)
John Rutter (1945 – ) – The Lord bless you and keep you (1982)

Rebecca Caine – Dividing Day

Join international soprano Rebecca Caine (Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, English National Opera, Opera North) on a musical journey of self-discovery with help from writers such as Bernstein, Bucchino, Guettel, LaChiusa, Sondheim, Weill and Yeston, with Nathan Martin at the piano.

Rebecca created the role of Cosette in Les Misérables for the RSC, was a celebrated Christine in Phantom of the Opera both in the West End and for the Canadian premiere, and recently played Iris Robinson in the critically acclaimed opera Abomination at the Southbank Centre and Magdalene in the musical Propaganda, both with the Belfast Ensemble.

“Spotless soprano” – Independent

“Caine gives a terrific central performance as Iris, sumptuously sung, acted with considerable subtlety” – Guardian

“The production is carried, brilliantly, by the soprano Rebecca Caine. Her Robinson combines burningly neurotic conviction with riveting vulnerability” – Financial Times

“The remarkable Canadian soprano Rebecca Caine is outstanding” – The Observer

“As played and sung by the superb Rebecca Caine, Robinson is far more interesting than a ranting caricature” – The Times