Group is ‘pulling out the stops’
Festival of Chichester regulars Ensemble Reza are determined that the show will go on in 2022.
After all the disappointments of the past couple of years, they are pulling out the stops to develop new audiences in Crawley and to consolidate their home audiences in Haywards Heath.
They are also lining up a concert in Chichester for the Chichester Music Society, a ticketed evening event on February 9 at the Chapel of the Ascension, University of Chichester.
For Chichester, the performers will be Miriam Teppich and Andrew Thurgood (violins); Anna Cooper and Matthew Quenby (violas); and Sarah Carvalho Dubost and Pavlos Carvalho (cellos) with a programme to include: Schumann Concerto for cello and string quartet; Brahms Sextet No 2 in G; Clara Schumann (arr. Anna Cooper) Piano quintet Romanze No 1 Op.21. Tickets from the Chichester Music Society.
The Crawley and Haywards Heath concerts, however, are lunchtime events and are free admission.
EnsembleRezamanaging director Hannah Carter said: “We have decided to dive in and keep the shop open. It’s business as usual. We held out at the beginning of January when we just didn’t know what was going on. I did cancel some work that we had in schools and that was sensible because it was literally the first few days back. We just postponed it until February.
“But we just really want to get going now.”