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Accomplished musicians and teachers are planning to delight audiences with a special show of chamber music on Friday at one of the best performance venues in the kingdom.
Musicians in residence of the Saar Music Centre along with teachers from the Bahrain Music Institute are coming together to put on a show featuring a piano solo, cello and violin duos, a violin sonata and a piano trio.
Pianists Alice Phelps and Mary Ann C Choco along with string players Christopher Rutland and Mark Heaton will perform music composed by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Hoffmeister and Carl Bohm.
The 75-minute concert will be held at 7.30pm at the Alumni Club, Shaikh Isa bin Salman Cultural Hall, located near Sen—r Pacos in Adliya.
Lydia Auld, director of the Saar Music Centre, said: "The music will be lyrical, very listenable and quite enjoyable. We have got Mozart and Rachmaninoff and some lesser known composers whose music is quite jolly. At the end the audience, I am sure, will feel like coming back for more.
"We are trying to raise the profile of chamber music, which is written for one or more instrumentalists or vocalists that gives listeners a chance to experience a wide variety of music.
"The idea is that people who want to study music in Bahrain have a chance to hear music by professional performing musicians. They get an opportunity to hear these instruments played by the people who are teaching as 'performance' is a big part of learning an instrument.
"Our mission is to provide musicians throughout Bahrain with good quality opportunities to perform."
Organisers are planning to follow up the event with a festive variety concert in December that will feature a mixture of Christmas carols and lighter music. A percussion concert lined up for next year will include a variety of exciting percussion pieces including speech percussion or spoken rhythms.
The Saar Music Centre is running a chamber music programme on Saturday afternoons for any instrumentalists of a reasonable standard. Lydia added: "We want our students to be thinkers not carbon copies of their teachers. I have a firm belief that it is important to develop the whole musician rather than to just develop the technique."
The facility also has a children's, junior and youth choir and also offers lessons in a variety of musical instruments including saxophone, piano, cello, violin, clarinet, flute, African and Arabic fusion drums.
Tickets for Friday's event are priced at BD6 and will be available at both music schools or at the door.
