Hay Castle, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5DG. Doors open 7.00pm. Bar. Please note change of date and venue from those originally published.

In a relaxed evening’s entertainment of music from films, musicals and stage works, the acclaimed Ferio Saxophone Quartet demonstrates its supreme flexibility of style. We are delighted to welcome the Quartet for the first time to Hay Music.

Tickets: £17.50 (under 25s - £8)

Please note:  we are offering a limited number of free tickets to under 25s on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Tickets are also available from the Hay Tourist Bureau until Thursday, 19 June and at the door if still available (cash or card).

Huw Wiggin - soprano, Ellie McMurray - alto,

David Zucchi - tenor, Katie Samways - baritone

Programme

The Quartet presents a programme of its favourite scores from an eclectic selection of films, musicals, and stage works. Expect to hear a range of music from George Gershwin, Ennio Morricone, Philip Glass, Kurt Weill, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Michael Nyman and more - all arranged for saxophone quartet. 

As one of Europe’s leading saxophone quartets, the Ferio Saxophone Quartet consistently receives a highly enthusiastic reception from audiences and critics alike.  Their four recordings for Chandos Records have all been met with great acclaim in the press and demonstrate the broad range and flexibility of their instruments, repertoire and collaborations.

Accolades and awards have included The Philharmonia/Martin Musical Ensemble Award, the Royal Over-Seas League’s Ensemble Competition prize and selection by both the Tunnell Trust and Park Lane Group.

Concert engagements have taken the ensemble to the leading festivals and concert halls across the UK, as well as on tour to New Zealand, France and Bermuda, and they can frequently be heard on BBC Radio 3 and other national and international broadcasters.

Other important strands of Ferio’s work include a range of educational activity in schools and conservatoires, and developing the saxophone quartet repertoire through commissions, which have included Laura Bowler, Simon Rowland-Jones and Guillermo Lago.

The Quartet was formed at the Royal College of Music in 2012, and has since developed an extraordinary breadth of repertoire, allowing them to draw from an unusually wide range of musical styles and periods in their highly engaging concert programmes.

St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5EB. Doors open 6.30. Bar. Please note change of date and venue from those originally published.

In their wide ranging programme of music from many differing periods the acclaimed Ferio Saxophone Quartet demonstrates its supreme flexibility of style. We are delighted to welcome the Quartet for the first time to Hay Music.

Tickets: £20 (under 25s - £10)

Please note:  we are offering a limited number of free tickets to under 25s on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Tickets are also available from the Hay Tourist Bureau until Friday, 20 June and at the door if still available (cash or card).

Huw Wiggin - soprano, Ellie McMurray - alto,

David Zucchi - tenor, Katie Samways - baritone

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach arr. Farrington:  Fuge in G minor, BWV 578

George Frideric Handel arr. Farrington:  Sarabande from Harpsichord Suite in D minor, HWV 437

Florence Price arr. Farrington:  Three Little Negro Dances

Kurt Weill arr. Harle:  Music from The Threepenny opera

Philip Glass: Saxophone Quartet

Leonard Bernstein arr. Boatman:  West Side Story Suite

As one of Europe’s leading saxophone quartets, the Ferio Saxophone Quartet consistently receives a highly enthusiastic reception from audiences and critics alike.  Their four recordings for Chandos Records have all been met with great acclaim in the press and demonstrate the broad range and flexibility of their instruments, repertoire and collaborations.

Accolades and awards have included The Philharmonia/Martin Musical Ensemble Award, the Royal Over-Seas League’s Ensemble Competition prize and selection by both the Tunnell Trust and Park Lane Group.

Concert engagements have taken the ensemble to the leading festivals and concert halls across the UK, as well as on tour to New Zealand, France and Bermuda, and they can frequently be heard on BBC Radio 3 and other national and international broadcasters.

Other important strands of Ferio’s work include a range of educational activity in schools and conservatoires, and developing the saxophone quartet repertoire through commissions, which have included Laura Bowler, Simon Rowland-Jones and Guillermo Lago.

The Quartet was formed at the Royal College of Music in 2012, and has since developed an extraordinary breadth of repertoire, allowing them to draw from an unusually wide range of musical styles and periods in their highly engaging concert programmes.

A very warm welcome back to Lotte Betts-Dean following her hugely appreciated appearance with the Marsyas Trio in January this year. She returns with the Trio of Helen Vidovich - flute/piccolo, Val Welbanks - cello and Chad Vindin - piano and is joined on this occasion by Raymond Brien - clarinet/bass clarinet and Patrick Dawkins - violin/viola/piano.

Tickets: £20 (under 25s £10)

Please note:  we are offering a limited number of free tickets to under 25s on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Tickets are also available from the Hay Tourist Bureau until Thursday, 24 July and at the door if still available (cash or card).

Programme

Joseph Haydn:  Symphony No. 104 arr. Clementi for flute, violin, cello and piano

Claude Debussy:  Cello Sonata (cello and piano)

Claude Debussy:  ‘Colombine’, ‘Pierrot ‘and ‘Clair de lune’ (from Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse)

Marika Hackman:  Claude’s Girl

Arnold Schoenberg:  Pierro Lunaire in version for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, violin/viola, cello and piano

Lotte Betts-Dean is an Australian mezzo soprano based in the UK with a wide-ranging repertoire and a passion for curation, programming and collaborative project development. Praised for her “irrepressible sense of drama and unmissable, urgent musicality” (The Guardian) and “arrestingly opulent voice” (Gramophone), Lotte is equally at home in chamber music, art song, contemporary repertoire of all kinds, early music, opera and narration.

Lotte is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, an Ambassador for Donne UK - an organization supporting women in music - and she won Young Artist of the Year at the 2024 Royal Philharmonic Society Awards.  She is a regular at major festivals and venues across the UK, Australia and Europe, including Wigmore Hall, Kings Place, Aldeburgh Festival, Oxford Song, West Cork Chamber Music and Australian Festival of Chamber Music, and operatic credits in baroque, 20th century and contemporary opera include Grand Théâtre de Genève, Bayerische Staatsoper and State Opera of South Australia.

A Young Artist alumnus of Britten Pears Arts (2022), City Music Foundation (2019) and Oxford Lieder (2020) Lotte has recorded for Naxos, Divine Art Métier, Another Timbre, Platoon, BIS and Tall Poppies, among others, as well as multiple albums for Delphian Records.  She studied at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Royal Academy of Music, as well as completing a Fellowship at Australian National Academy of Music.