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Welcome to “TBS”!  We run chamber music concerts in Farnham with top professional musicians. All our concerts are open to the public and you can register to attend from this website. We are a registered Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO).

Entrance to our concerts is FREE and our concerts are funded primarily through retiring collections and donations. We especially welcome young people and their attendance is supported by CAVATINA.

Conservatoire Concerts in Godalming, which used to be part of TBS, is now a separate charity, see conservatoireconcerts.org.uk , as is Farnham Sinfonia see  www.farnhamsinfonia.org.uk

The original Tilford Bach Society, with its current Music Director Adrian Butterfield, runs the Tilford Bach Festival and is  a separate charity.

Musicians: Please read: A word to our musicians

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Please always check the website shortly before the concert in case of any last minute changes beyond our control. 

Our Next Concert at the Spire Church

Please note that evening parking charges of £2 have been introduced Mon-Sat in Central and South Street car parks,
but not in Waggon Yard

7-30 pm Saturday 26 October 2024 

Ensemble Mirage Clarinet Trio

Matthew Scott – Clarinet
Alexandra Lomeiko – Violin
Thomas Ang- Piano

Saint-Saens – Clarinet sonata
Mozart – Violin Sonata in B-flat, No.26 K.378
Darius Milhaud – Suite, Op.157b
Shostakovich – Five Pieces
Chopin – Ballade
Paul Schoenfield – Trio

Ensemble Mirage is a dynamic flexi-ensemble, focusing on the fantastic range of mixed Wind-String-Piano chamber music. From trios to octets – working with a small group of dedicated, passionate and award-winning chamber musicians – they aim to expand the standard chamber repertoire, bringing to light many often over-looked works. Each programme tends to focus on a particular instrumental combination, presenting the well-known works alongside more rarely heard pieces for that chamber medium.

This mixed programme presents the ‘Clarinet, Violin and Piano Trio’ alongside a couple of instrumental duos and a solo piano work.

Finalists in the 66th Royal Overseas League Mixed Chamber category and Making Music Selected Artists, they were also St. John’s Smith Square Young Artists and held an Aldeburgh Chamber Music Residency. Evolving from Trio Mirage – Royal Academy of Music Chamber Fellows and Harold Craxton Prize winners – the ensemble grew to explore larger repertoire resulting in the foundation of Ensemble Mirage.

Individually members are award winning artists in their own right active across all areas of the profession, from solo, chamber and orchestral, to outreach work; performing with many of the UK’s top orchestras. With many members alumni of the Countess of Munster Musical Trust Recital Scheme and Making Music’s Award for Young Concert Artists, the ensemble has grown and performed in various combinations for Music Societies and Festivals throughout the UK.

To find out more, please visit – www.ensemblemirage.com

Please register to attend. It is not essential but helps us to plan and we can contact you in case of any last minute problems

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3-00 pm Sunday 3 November 2024 

Giordano Buondonno – piano

Claude Debussy – Images Books 1 & 2

Modest Mussorsky – Pictures at an Exhibition

Born in La Spezia, Italy, Giordano Buondonno graduated from Giacomo Puccini Conservatoire with Honours receiving the highest mark in his class. He was mentored by Sergio De Simone, Deniz Gelenbe, Mikhail Kazakevich and Martino Tirimo in London, and now he is pursuing an Artist Diploma at Guidhall School of Music and Drama studying with Ronan O’Hora, Charles Owen and Noriko Ogawa.

At the age of 19, he won first prize at the Clara Schumann Competition. In both 2017 and 2019, he performed for the Piano City Festival in Milan, held at Villa Reale Belgiojoso. He was first prize winner at the PianoLink Concerto Competition, playing Chopin’s First Piano Concerto with the PianoLink Philarmonic Orchestra, in Palazzina Liberty in Milan, conducted by Massimo Fiocchi Malaspina.

He made his debut in Russia with a tour of three concerts for Pianissimo Winter Festival; he played in St. Petersburg at the Hermitage Museum, in the Winter Palace. In Moscow at GES-2 Concert Hall, and in Nizhny Novgorod in the new Pakgauzy Concert Hall

Giordano’s highlight performances include a recital at Steinway Hall, Kings Place, Saint James’s Piccadilly Church in London, and a recital at Henley Park Manor in Surrey, for His Serene Highness Prince Donatus von Hohenzollern; He was finalist at the 2019 Beethoven Society Intercollegiate Piano Competition.

Giordano is a proud recipient of The Leverhulme Trust Scholarship, Arthur Haynes Scholarship, Gladys Bratton Scholarship, two Jaqueline Williams Scholarships and he is supported by The Keyboard Charitable Trust in London

Please register to attend. It is not essential but helps us to plan and we can contact you in case of any last minute problems

Further Autumn TBS concerts at the Spire Church

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Other concerts

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Donations to support Farnham Concerts

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 at Lloyds  38264060  Sort Code  30-90-89. Please put “Farnham” in the reference box.

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 ALL Farnham and Godalming concerts, including the Sinfonia, and need to be completed only once as they remain valid until you tell us to stop using them.

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Next Godalming Conservatoire Concert

See their website: www.conservatoireconcerts.org.uk

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Major Sponsors

We are hugely grateful to our major sponsors: