UPCOMING PERFORMANCES in 2021 and 2022
In July 2020 we launched a performance of Gordon Lewin’s “Grand Old Duke of York” on YouTube. This celebrated our first tour abroad to Finland in 1995. Our rehearsals recommenced this year in July with a concert taking place in St. Peters’ Church, Empingham, Rutland at 15.30 on 31st October. Entrance is free with a retiring collection in aid of EMICS the East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme. The programme includes music by Mozart, Mendelssohn, Grieg, Józef Balogh, Nigel Wood, Andy Scott, Guy Woolfenden, Rimsky Korsakov and Geraldine Green. Our guest soprano soloist is Caroline Trutz
In 2022 a full programme of performances and workshops is being planned with a new commission. Rehearsals will be taking place in Oakham, Rutland and we welcome applications from players who would like to join us. Please use the contact page to register your interest. On the 29th October we will be celebrating our 25th Anniversary with a Gala concert at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London. The programme will include a new major commission and guest soloists.
PAST PERFORMANCES
| 1996 | |
| September | BASBWE Conference at Warwick University |
| November | London debut. Concert in aid of the Voices Foundation with saxophone soloist Kyle Horch |
| 1997 | |
| July | European Clarinet & Saxophone Society Conference, EUROCASS Budapest, Hungary |
| October | British Clarinet Congress, Royal College of Music, London. |
| 1998 | |
| July | EUROCASS Conference, Krakow, Poland. |
| 1999 | |
| April | British Clarinet Choir Convention, Conwy, North |
| July | International Clarinet Association “Clarinetfest”, Ostend, Belgium |
| August | Recording of CD “Gordian Knots”. |
| November | British Clarinet Congress, Royal College of Music, London. The programmed featured the distinguished international clarinet soloist Gervase de Peyer. |
| 2000 | CD “Gordian Knots” launched. |
| 2001 | |
| March | NERV Convention Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| May | British Clarinet Choir Convention held in Llandudno, North Wales. |
| August | ICA Clarfest, New Orleans, USA. Trinity Episcopal Church, New Orleans. |
| November | British Clarinet Congress, RNCM Manchester. |
| 2002 | |
| February | Clarfest of the Colchester Institute, Colchester, Essex |
| 2003 | |
| November | British Clarinet Congress, Birmingham Conservatoire |
| 2004 | |
| March | NERV Convention Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| July | ICA Clarfest – University of Maryland Washington DC USA |
| July | Church of the Epiphany, Washington DC |
| 2005 | |
| February | St Peter ad Vincula Church, Coggeshall, Essex Concert by East Anglian Single Reed Choir -Conductor Angela Fussell & British Clarinet Ensemble – Conductor – Charles Hine |
| Swinburne Hall, Colchester Institute. Lunch time Concert at the Single Reed Festival |
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| April | Darlington Arts Centre |
| July | ICA Clarfest, Tama Tokyo, Japan |
| 2009 | |
| Gordon Lewin Memorial Concert – St John’s Wood , London | |
| 2010 | |
| European Clarinet Festival – Kortrijk, Belgium |
2013
January European Clarinet Festival – Ghent, Belgium
July ICA Clarfest Assisi, Italy
2014
March Swinburne Hall, Colchester, Essex
October Secombe Theatre, Sutton, Surrey
2015
July ICA Clarfest, Madrid, Spain
September European Clarinet Festival – Ghent , Belgium
2016
October our 21st anniversary concert at the Stapleford Granary Arts Centre, Cambridge with guest soloist Anna Hashimoto and on Sunday 30th October at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, as part of the Clarinet & Saxophone Society’s 40th Anniversary celebration with soloists David Campbell, clarinet and Rob Buckland, saxophone.
2017
In August the ensemble gave two performances in Groningen. the Netherlands as guests of the Capriccio Clarinet Ensemble. In September we gave a performance in Caldaro, Italy as guests of the South Tirol Clarinet Ensemble. In October a concert was given in Oakham School Chapel, Oakham, Rutland with soloists soprano Caroline Trutz and clarinettist Antonia Mott.
2018
Our Play Day was held in April at Kingshott School, Hitchin with guests the Capriccio Clarinet Ensemble. In July we performed at the ICA ClarinetFest in Ostend, Belgium. In September we performed at the Clarinet & Saxophone Society’s Single Reed Day held at the University of Nottingham
2019
Our Play Day was held in Sheffield. In June we collaborated with the Colchester Composers Collective to record music composed for clarinet ensemble and also presented a concert at the Headgate Arts Centre.
BCE programmes reflect the ensemble’s policy of commissioning new works for clarinet ensemble and also programming existing repertoire both original compositions, transcriptions and arrangements.
To date the following composers have written works for the BCE:
- Anthony Bailey
- Alan Bullard
- Paul Hart
- Gordon Lewin
- Guy Woolfenden
- Andy Jackson
- Martin Ellerby
- Adam Gorb
- Andy Scott
- Jeffery Wilson
- Stephen McNeff
- Elizabeth Sharma
- Christopher Cave
Click here to see a list of the ensemble’s repertoire.