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 |
Past Performers since 2009-10
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:
- Simon Parkin’s Quartet No. 3 – first performance June 1998 by the Chalabi Quartet (students from the Royal Northern College College of Music);
- 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;
- Philip Wood’s Four Bagatelles performed by Martin Roscoe in September, 1999.
- Philip Wood’s Piano Trio No. 1 – performed by the Lorca Piano Trio (Malcolm Allison – violin, Bovidar Vukotic – cello and Timothy Lissimore – piano)
- 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).
- 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.