Bishop Auckland Music Society’s Summer Concert season is set to conclude on Friday 5 September with the performance of Lumas Winds, a dynamic chamber ensemble based in London.
Winners of the 71st Royal Overseas League Mixed Ensemble Prize in 2023, Lumas are committed ambassadors for wind chamber music and the rich variety of repertoire that it offers.
The ensemble are currently Kirckman Concerts Young Artists and Britten Pears Young Artists and in 2023/24 were Making Music’s Phillip and Dorothy Green Young Artists.
Alongside performing the classics of the repertoire, Lumas enjoy exploring works not currently in the canon but which deserve to be so.
Their debut album The Naming Of Birds was released in May 2024 by Champs Hill Records.
The album brings together repertoire from every decade from 1960 to the early 21st century and includes three world premiere recordings by Sally Beamish, Gavin Higgins and Elizabeth Maconchy.
Lumas won the Royal Academy of Music’s Historical Women Composers Prize in 2022 with its performance of the latter, a major discovery from the ensemble’s visit to the Maconchy archive at St Hilda’s, Oxford.
Lumas have performed at the Wigmore Hall, and at the Corbridge, Ironstone and Winchester Chamber Music Festivals.
Amongst these collaborations have been performances of Poulenc’s Sextet with pianists Huw Watkins and Benjamin Frith.
They have toured Scottish music clubs as recipients of the prestigious Tunnel Trust award.
Tickets are available from Brian Varley on 01388 606075, from Brotherton’s on Newgate Street, Bishop Auckland, or on the door.
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