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PLEASE NOTE: The Museum café is unfortunately now closed. We look forward to the superb new café area opening in 2025 after the Museum’s redevelopment.

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LUNCHTIME CONCERT: THURSDAY 11TH APRIL 1PM

THEO PLATT (BARITONE) & KEVAL SHAH (PIANO)

Mortal Wounds: Macmillan; Schumann; Poulenc; Shawn E. Okpebholo; Richard Farina (arr Will Liverman); Margaret Bonds; William Grant Still; Florence Price

This was an outstanding recital from two of Britain’s most exciting young performers.

Rising British-Russian baritone Theodore Platt justified his reputation as one of the most promising young voices of the opera world today. Singing entirely from memory, this was very much a dramatic performance rather than a series of individual songs. The opening, with Theo singing from outside the concert space, before making his way to the stage, set the tone. And what a voice! We were treated to a journey through the extremes of range and dynamics which was incredibly impressive and extremely beautiful.

British-Indian pianist Keval Shah is at the forefront of a new generation of collaborative artists, recognised for the artistic and intellectual originality of his playing and approach to programming. This concert demonstrated those qualities in abundance: he was a flawless and attentive accompanist and the concert held our audience spellbound, particularly during the sequence of works which told of racist atrocities in America.

A very special concert to end our season!

lunchtime concert: thursday 14th march 1pm:

Hélène clément (viola) & alasdair beatson (piano)

We were delighted to welcome back to Leicester the viola player, Hélène Clément, this time not with the Doric Quartet, but with pianist, Alasdair Beatson, brilliant with many instrumentalists and singers on his previous visits. We enjoyed a wonderfully intense hour of music by Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten and Imogen Holst. What a beautiful range of colours they conjured from their instruments!

We had another great audience for Bone-afide’s Lunchtime Concert at the Museum. Their concert ranged from very witty arrangements of popular classics, through Tchaikovsky ballet to recent commissions and toe-tapping jazz and folk. Thank you to this superb group for coming and entertaining us so well.

Festival 2023

Our Artistic Director, Nicholas Daniel assembled a brilliant team of musicians for this year’s Festival, with three contrasting concert experiences to enjoy in the magnificent Victorian Gallery at Leicester Museum.

After a day spent in a local school, Catherine St Infants; Agnes House residential care home, and a much-anticipated return to Leicester's Freedom Youth Club for young asylum seekers, our musicians presented 'Music for Everyone' on Saturday lunchtime, a promenade concert aimed at families and young people. This was the first time since the Covid pandemic that we were able to tour all of the museum's spaces and fill them with musical delights!

There were some familiar faces in Saturday evening's 'Festival Finale' concert, including the horn player, Ben Goldscheider; cellist Ashok Klouda, who was with us last year, and Anna Tilbrook (piano), who certainly needs no introduction to audiences at the Museum.

They were joined by some outstanding new faces for a very exciting programme, combining three of Mozart's great masterpieces with music by Great British Women: Thea Musgrave; Eleanor Alberga, and Nicola LeFanu, whose new for violin, horn and cello, ‘After Farrera’, received its second performance at the festival.

All three of these distinguished and successful women composers have a long-standing association with Nicholas Daniel, of course.

Thank you to everyone who joined us - we hope you enjoyed it!

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LIMF is dedicated to bringing the world's best musicians to Leicester; supporting young artists; delivering valuable education projects locally; commissioning new works and ensuring diversity in all of our concert programmes.

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