Past Performers since 2009-10

September

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

2024-25

Marcus Farnworth & Libby Burgess

Siping Guo & Apolline Khou

Marsyas Trio

Bone-Afide

Mithras Trio

Leon McCawley

Alkyona String Quartet


2023-24

Frith Quintet

Maxim Calver & Kumi Matuso

Baroque Alchemy

Elias Quartet

Allison Trio

Sirocco Winds Quintet

Martin Roscoe


2022-23

Laura van der Heijden & Tom Poster

Louise Thompson

Harrner Wind Ensemble

Florilegium

John Paul Elkins

Mathilde Milwidsky & Andrew Zolinsky

Caducci String Quartet


2021-22

The Pelleas Ensemble

Britten Oboe Quartet

Leon McCawley

Gould Trio & Robert Plane

Jennifer Pike & Martin Ro

Patrick Hemmerle

Coull Quartet

Leo Popplewell & Antonina Suhanova

2019-20

The Temple Ensemble

John Paul Elkins

Maggini Quartet

Scottish Ensemble

Elizabeth Bass

The Zadig Trio

Leon McCawley

2018-19

Emma Johnson & John Lenehan

Chamber Philharmonia

Emanuel Bach & Luke Okros

Gould Piano Trio

Endellion Quartet

Northern Chamber Orchestra & Chloe Hanslip

Tom Poster

2017-18

Laura van der Heijden & Martin Roscoe

Anna Tsybuleva

Northern Chamber Orchestra & Viv McLean

Joglaresa

Artington Quartet

Sarah Bennett & Daniel King-Smith

Rautio Piano Trio

2016-17

Leon McCawley

Coull Quartet

Manchester Camerata & Tine Thing Helseth

Nick Daniel & Charles Owen

Endymion Ensemble

Alexandra Lomeiko & Antonina Suhanova

Sitkovetsky Trio

2015-16

Riyad Nicholas

Laura van der Heijden & Huw Watkins

London Mozart Players & Paul Archibald

18th Century Concert Orchestra

Martin Roscoe

Maggini Quartet

Fujita Piano Trio

2014-15

Leon McCawley

Souza Wind Quartet

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Jennifer Pike

London Haydn Strings

Dante Quartet & Michael Dussek

Ellen Hydref

2013-14

The Fibonacci Sequence

Carducci String Quartet

Orchestra of the Swan & Huw Watkins

Jason Gillham

Adelia Myslov & Craig White

Kimon Parry and Tony Ingham

Frith Piano Quintet & Chi-Chi Nwanoku

2012-13

Mark Bebbington

Pyatt Horn trio

Shiry Rashkovsky & Alison Rhind

Kadinsky Piano Trio

Brodsky String Quartet

Nordic Chamber Ensemble

Academy of Ancient Music

2011-12

Kathryn Stott

Atrium String Quartet

Tim Lowe & Annabel Thwaite

Katona Twins

Matthew Trussler & Martin Roscoe

Frith Piano Quartet

Scottish Ensemble & Alison Balsom

2010-11

Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Morgan Szymanski

Martin Roscoe

Claire Jones

Berkeley Ensemble

Sarah-Jane Bradley & Anthony Hewitt

Gould Piano Trio

Carducci Quartet & Brodowski Quartet

2009-10

Leon McCawley

Atrium String Quartet

Eleanor Fagg & Anna Tilbrook

Anthony Goldstone & Caroline Clemmow

Gould Piano Trio

Britten Sinfonia, Pekka Kuusisto & Mark Padmore

Hannah Marcinowicz & Richard Shaw

Commissions of new works:

To date six new works have been commissioned and given their première in Cockermouth. With the support of the Arts for Everyone (A4E) scheme the society commissioned:

  1. Simon Parkin’s Quartet No. 3 – first performance June 1998 by the Chalabi Quartet (students from the Royal Northern College College of Music);
  2. Errollyn Wallen’s Rhapsody, a piece for viola – performed by Malcolm Allison with Timothy Lissimore at the piano in December, 1998 and recorded live by the BBC;
  3. Philip Wood’s Four Bagatelles performed by Martin Roscoe in September, 1999.
  4. Philip Wood’s Piano Trio No. 1 – performed by the Lorca Piano Trio (Malcolm Allison – violin, Bovidar Vukotic – cello and Timothy Lissimore – piano)
  5. Philip Wood’s Diversions for Cello and Piano performed by Rowena Calvert (cello) and Alison Rhind (piano) in January 2009, with funding from Cockermouth Music Society and Cockermouth Neighbourhood Forum (Cumbria CC).
  6. Philip Wood’s Postcards, a piece for piano and orchestra, which was performed by the Papcastle Community Orchestra and sponsored by the Arts Council in 2014.