Something to entertain you in the long winter months

St Peter’s Methodist Church in Canterbury has announced its forthcoming season of concerts. It opens on September 21 with the Lawson Trio, one of the UK’s finest young chamber ensembles, who will perform works by Schubert, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich, and who have recently been recorded for BBC Radio 3. The Sacconi Quartet will bring music by Haydn, Britten and Beethoven as part of the Canterbury Festival.

They perform regularly around Europe and are Quartet in Association at the Royal College of Music and Quartet in Residence at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre.

Also as part of Canterbury Festival, oboeist Nicholas Daniel will perform with Julius Drake, a specialist in chamber music who is artistic director of the Machynlleth Festival in Wales. Korros Ensemble featuring harpist Camilla Pay, flautist Elizabeth Marshall and clarinetist Nicholas Ellis, will perform in November.

Then there will be Timothy Orpen and Daniel Tong in January, while in February Freddy Kempf will perform Beethoven, Schumann and the Mussorgsky work Pictures at an Exhibition. Benyounes Quartet, winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s prestigious Julius Isserlis Scholarship, will perform in March and the Frith Piano Quartet in April.

The annual subscription is £60 and most concerts are £6 each. Season tickets can be obtained from Jenny Devenish on 01227 456359. Single tickets for concerts will be available from Poppins Restaurant and Canterbury Festival concert tickets from the Marlowe box office.

From left, Freddy Kempf, the Lawson Trio and Nick Daniel are appearing in St Peter’s Methodist Church concert season

When Midnight Strikes will be the first musical performed in the Marlowe Studio