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Sarah Cunningham's new CD, Play This Passionate, music for Solo Viol (Virgin Veritas), includes a recording of John's piece Tombeau. “… the viola da gamba is beautiful and voluptuous. Cunningham explores its repertoire, including some fine modern pieces with intelligence.” (BBC Music Magazine, July 2008). Sarah will be performing the piece in her recital at the East Cork Early Music Festival (see below).

John is writing a piece for the viol consort Fretwork and mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson for a Purcell 350th Anniversary concert at London’s Wigmore Hall in February 2009.

Concerts and events in 2008

Wherever you are in the world, if you are performing some of John’s music, let us know, and we shall happily list you here. Please contact us at info@johnjoubert.org.uk.

Friday 10 October
Lyric Fantasy on themes from the opera Jane Eyre, op.144
Mark Bebbington piano
Sittingbourne Music Society

Sunday 21 September
Tombeau, op.86
Sarah Cunningham viola da gamba
East Cork Early Music Festival

Monday 14 July
String Quartet 'In Retrospect', op.159
ESO Quartet
St Swithun’s Church, The Shambles, Church St, Worcester

29 June
Celebrating English Song Series
Six Poems of Emily Brontë, op. 63
Patricia Rozario soprano
Mark Bebbington piano
St Bartholomew's Church, Tardebigge, Worcs.

6 June
Prelude on ‘York’, op.152
Martin Stacey organ
St Dominic’s Priory, Southampton Rd, London NW5

27 May
Songs from 'The Hour Hand', op. 101
Fanny Silfwerbrand soprano, Christopher Hartland recorder
Old Royal Naval Chapel, Trinity College of Music, Greenwich

22 April
Official Re-opening of Birmingham Town Hall by HRH Prince Charles
This is the Gate of the Lord, op. 164
Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore director
Birmingham Town Hall

19 April
Hymn Tune Preludes: Picardy and The Old Hundredth
Alexander Negrin organ
Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom)

17 April
BBC Radio 3: 'Afternoon on 3'
Symphony No 1
BBC Concert Orchestra, Martin Yates conductor

13 April
Three Carols (Hymn to the Virgin, Be Merry, Lullay), op.102
The Oratory Singers, directed by Peter Litman
Chiesa del Gesu, Frascati, Italy

28 March
Piano Sonata No.1, op.24
Duncan Honeybourne piano
Chapel of the Ascension, University of Chichester

17 March
Divisions on a Ground, op. 154
Alice McVeigh, cello
Bromley Music and Literary Society
United Reformed Church, Widmore Rd, Bromley

14 March — Grange Hall, Southam
18 March — Town Hall, Birmingham
19 March — Civic Hall, Stratford-upon-Avon
Concerto for oboe and strings, op.160
Virginia Shaw, oboe
Orchestra of the Swan, conductor David Curtis

6 March
Before the World Was Made, op. 162
Lesley-Jane Rogers, soprano
John Turner, recorder
Jonathan Price, cello
Powis Hall, University of Bangor

1 March
Rorate Coeli, op. 107
York Cantores Chamber Choir
Marion Best, conductor
St Olave’s Church, Marygate, York

17 February
Divisions on a Ground, op. 154
Graham Waterhouse, cello
Music at the Fitzwilliam, Trumpington Street, Cambridge

25 January
UMS Presidential Visit: John Joubert in conversation
John Joubert discusses his career and musical influences with Colin Timms.
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham

11 January
Lesley-Jane Rogers soprano, John Turner recorder, John Wilson piano
The Rose is Shaken in the Wind, op. 137
The Turning Wheel, op. 95
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham