Lumas Winds

A very welcome return to the Tyne Valley for Lumas Winds. They were Young Artists in Residence at the 2021 Corbridge Chamber Music Festival and now they’re back for a full recital with us at Queen’s Hall.

Lumas have already won several awards and accolades. The Royal Over-Seas League’s Mixed Ensembles prize in 2023, a place on the 2024 Britten Pears Young Artists Programme in Aldeburgh and appointment to the 2024/25 Kirckman Concerts Young Artists scheme are just three of them. They have also recently released their first recording to much acclaim, The Naming of Birds. This ensemble is clearly going places!

The members of Lumas are committed ambassadors for wind chamber music and the rich variety of repertoire that it offers. They are also passionate advocates for works not currently in the canon but which deserve to be. You can see this in tonight’s varied programme, with Mozart and Nielsen framing performances of music by composers such as Oliver Knussen and Willam Mathias.You’ll also hear Summer Music by Samuel Barber – creator of the wonderful Adagio for Strings – and a quintet by Franz Danzi, a contemporary of Beethoven who wrote several works for wind quintet despite being a cellist!

Programme

Mozart - Overture to the Marriage of Figaro

Knussen - Three Little Fantasies, op. 6A

Danzi - Wind Quintet in Bb major, op. 56 no. 1

Barber - Summer Music, op. 31

Mathias - Wind Quintet, op.  22

Nielsen - Wind Quintet, op. 43

Kindly supported by Making Music’s Philip & Dorothy Green Young Artists scheme.