Welcome to “TBS”! We run concerts in Farnham and Godalming including Farnham Sinfonia and a series of Conservatoire Concerts in Godalming, which aims to provide performance opportunities for students and young professionals. Each have their own websites:
www.farnhamsinfonia.org.uk conservatoireconcerts.org.uk
All our concerts are open to the public and you can buy tickets on-line from this website. We are a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) and especially welcome young people and for our Farnham concerts entry for 8-25 year olds is FREE through CAVATINA. A parent or teacher accompanying a child under 16 may also attend FREE – details HERE.
The orginal Tilford Bach Society, founded in 1952 by Denys Darlow with its current Music Director Adrian Butterfield, is a separate charity although this webpage includes information about their past concerts – see Legal note at foot of this page.
Musicians: Please read: A word to our musicians
Music for Lockdown
Conservatoire Concert performances from Godalming starting 6-30pm on 28 March
Click HERE for a collection of links
and scroll down for our last concert
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We support Arts 4 Dementia!
Music is especially helpful for dementia sufferers and they and their carers are welcome to attend our concerts free of charge. Please register with Sue Sagun secretary@tilbach.org.uk 01252 613130 at least a day before the concert if you would like to take up this offer.
Last Farnham Concert for a while took place on 20 March
Double Bass & Piano Recital
CLICK HERE to listen and/or watch
(Apologies that the video lasts only for 29 minutes – the fully charged battery lasts only that long)
This was a “retiring collection” concert so if you enjoy the recordings please consider donating
Will Duerden (double bass)
BBC Young Musician 2018 Strings Finalist.
Listen to his performance here
Haslemere String Competition winner 2019
Programme:
Robert Schumann – Adagio and Allegro Op 70
Emil Tabakov – Motivy – double bass solo
Franz Schubert – Nacht und Traüme
Giovanni Bottesini – Adagio Melancholico et Appassionata
Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit (Ondine & Scapa) – piano solo
Cesar Franck – Sonata in A, Movements 1 & 2
Stuart Sankey – Carmen Fantasy
Gorka Plada Giron (piano)
Born in 2002 in El Puerto de Santa María, Spain, Gorka Plada Giron showed his interest in music at a very early age. He began teaching himself the piano from the age of five, before joining the local music school three years later where he received piano tuition from Maria Jesús Durán.
In 2016, Gorka joined the Yehudi Menuhin School where he now studies piano with Marcel Baudet and was awarded a scholarship by the UK’s Music and Dance Scheme.
Gorka has performed throughout Spain, UK, Germany and Holland participating in festivals including the Wimbledon Festival, Segovia Music Festival and Maryat Players Festival. He has had considerable success in numerous competitions, concerts and festivals as both soloist and chamber musician. He was awarded 1st prize and Chopin prize in the Julio Casas International Piano Competition, 2nd prize in Enschede Piano Competition, 1st prize and audience prize in Lorenzo Palomo chamber music competition, 3rd prize in the Intercollegiate Beethoven Competition, and 1st prize in Santa Cecilia Piano Competition.
Next Godalming Conservatoire Concert
See their website: www.conservatoireconcerts.org.uk
Donations
TBS is a registered charity and we rely on donations as well as ticket sales to cover the costs of our festival. If you would like to make a donation via PayPal please use the button below.
Major Sponsors
We are hugely grateful to our major sponsors:
