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 original 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. The website for the original Tilford Bach Society is Tilford Bach Festival 2021 Programme
Musicians: Please read: A word to our musicians
Dates through to May 2022 have been added below
7-30pm Saturday 7 August 2021
Spire Church (URC), South Street, Farnham, GU9 7QU
Summer Concert with the Tomita Family
Coco and Yume Tomita (violins)
Kan Tomita (Piano)
(Coco Tomita is the 2020 BBC Young Musician Strings Winner)
Bartok: selection of duos for 2 violins – Coco and Yume
Mozart: Violin Sonata in F K.376 – Coco and Kan
Poulenc: Violin Sonata – Coco and Kan
Saint-Saens: Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso – Yume and Kan
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir d’un lieu cher – Coco and Kan
Sarasate: Navarra – Coco, Yume and Kan
Mark O’Connor: Limerock Coco and Yume
The UK based Japanese violinist Coco Tomita is a winner of the BBC Young Musician 2020 Strings Category. She has also won other top prizes at international competitions and festivals. Born into a musical family, Coco began to play the violin when she was four years old. At the age of ten, she made her debut at the Cadogan Hall, London performing as a soloist with the Southbank Sinfonia. Since then she has performed and appeared in many prestigious venues in the UK and abroad. After the success of the BBC Young Musician 2020, Coco has signed an exclusive agreement with the Orchid Classics to record her debut album due to be released in early 2022 and has numerous concert engagements lined up including appearances in music festivals and a tour of Japan in the 2021/2022 season.
Yume Tomita was born in the UK in 2008. Initially, she was given a cello at the age of four, but she insisted on following what her big sister was doing, so she began her formal violin study when she was five years old. She was invited to give her first recital at the age of seven in Italy, and in the following year she was awarded a place at the Yehudi Menuhin School where she is currently studying with Ning Kam. Yume has won 1st prize at the Ilona Feher International Violin Competition in Hungary (2019), and has given numerous performances including her concerto debut with Anima Musicae Chamber Orchestra in Budapest in 2019.
Kan Tomita is the father of Coco and Yume. He has been living in the UK for the last 28 years since his family moved from Japan. In his student years, he has won numerous international awards and prizes. Since his concerto debut at the Royal Festival Hall, London at the age of 15, he has been in demand both as soloist and chamber musician performing in the UK , Europe and his home country Japan. Kan now focuses his time on coaching young musicians but still keeping up his playing by regularly collaborating with his two daughters performing many wonderful chamber music repertoires that he adores.
Please reserve your place £3-50 each non-refundable by Paypal or bank transfer by end of Friday 6 August. Depending on COVID restrictions the number of places may be limited
Click HERE to reserve by Paypal. If PayPal is blocked from this link, please use the links on the webpage as access from MailChimp may be blocked. The bank account for transfer is “Tilford Bach Society CIO”, Sort code: 405240 Account: 00030776. If you reserve by bank transfer and are new, please email me so that I have your contact details.
Unless COVID restrictions are withdrawn, please bring your own picnic chair to sit on (this is part of our “Covid” arrangements!)
There will be a retiring collection at the concert with suggested minimum donation of £15-00 per adult.
Please donate generously to support musicians
Click to donate to our musicians for the Farnham based series (including this Sinfonia concert):
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If you do not wish to use Paypal please post a cheque payable to “Tilford Bach Society CIO” to TBS, 1 Adams Drive, Fleet GU51 3DZ or make a transfer to Tilford Bach Society CIO Account 00030776 Sort Code 40-52-40
7-30pm Saturday 2 October 2021
St Andrew’s Church, Farnham, GU9 7PW
Farnham Sinfonia
Violin soloist: Coco Tomita
(2020 BBC Young Musician Strings Winner)
Conductor: Matthew Taylor
Leader: Elizabeth Cooney
Programme
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Farnham Chamber Music Festival
7-30pm Friday 22 October 2021
Spire Church (URC), South Street, Farnham, GU9 7QU
String Trio
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7-30pm Saturday 23 October 2021
Spire Church (URC), South Street, Farnham, GU9 7QU
Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) and Wu Quian (piano)
7-30pm Saturday 30 October 2021
Spire Church (URC), South Street, Farnham, GU9 7QU
Carducci String Quartet
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Future dates to May 2022
Saturday 13 November: Mithras Trio (BBC New Generation Artists)
Haydn, Faure & Schubert
Saturday 18 December: Choir
Saturday 22 January 2022: Mathilde Milwidsky (violin) and Gamal Khamis (piano)
Saturday 26 February 2022: Piano Trio: Yuri Zhislin, Nathalia Lomeiko & Alexander Karpeyev
Medtner, Bruch & Brahms
Saturday 19 March 2022: Farnham Sinfonia
Friday/Saturday 13/14 May 2022: Farnham Chamber Music Festival
Friday/Saturday 20/21 May 2022: Farnham Chamber Music Festival
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New: Arrange your own Private Concert with Farnham Sinfonia Musicians
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If you can, please donate to support musicians through these TBS Farnham Concerts. Thanks to your support, since lockdown started we have paid out over £16,000 in fees to musicians.
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Please click HERE to sign a Gift Aid Form increasing the value of your gift by 25% if you have not already done so. The forms are valid for BOTH Farnham and Godalming concerts.
http://www.tilbach.org.uk/gift-aid
Recommended sites for online concerts
St Mary Perivale
Still running three top quality chamber music concerts a week including some musicians who have played for TBS. These concerts are accessible free in high definition video from their new showcase page. Hugh Mather and his team do more for musicians and audiences than any other group of volunteers that we know and have no Government funding, so do support them.
https://vimeo.com/showcase/6757898
Wigmore Hall
https://wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/event-listing
Do register free and sign in to get access to past concerts.
On-line Concerts and other Music for Lockdown
Read our new guide: How to watch YouTube Concerts on your TV
View our new YouTube Channel
New videos
Bach Goldberg Variations for String Trio
including pictorial biography of JSBach
Alexandra Lomeiko (violin)
Lisa Bucknell (viola)
Timothee Botbol (cello)
The audio plays the full concert but because the video camera switched off after 29 minutes a pictorial biography in slides is displayed for the remainder of the concert.
Watch here or click the image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5G8cx1Aw0w
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Please donate generously to support musicians
Click to donate to our musicians for the Farnham based series:
Donate £5 Donate £10 Donate £20 Donate £50
If you do not wish to use Paypal please post a cheque payable to “Tilford Bach Society CIO” to TBS, 1 Adams Drive, Fleet GU51 3DZ or make a transfer to Tilford Bach Society CIO Account 00030776 Sort Code 40-52-40
A huge THANK YOU to all who have supported musicians through our on-line and live outdoor concerts this summer. From July to mid-September you have donated over £8,000 which has been paid or is being paid to musicians. You can view programmes and find links to YouTube videos on our page of Programmes since 2018.
Conservatoire Concert online performances
Other regular free online concerts
Live concerts from St Mary Perivale at 4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Musicians Company Young Artists at 12 noon on Mondays and Wednesdays
Click HERE for a collection of links to recorded music
Ticket sales are not enough to pay for our concerts!
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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.
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:
