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'ASTONISHING' YOUNG STRING QUARTET VISIT CLAYGATE

One of Europe's leading young string quartets and prolific competition winners performs in Claygate's Holy Trinity Church on Saturday November 15 at 7.30pm. The Fibonacci String Quartet has been praised for its "astonishing tonal palette and dynamics" and plays the third concert in the Oxshott and Cobham Music Society's 2025-26 season. It will play quartets by Haydn, Janáček and Beethoven. There will be a free pre-concert talk at 6.30pm.

Now in its 83rd season, the OCMS was formed in 1942 with a recital given by concert pianist, Moura Lympany, in her home in Oxshott. Since then it has grown to present an annual season of six varied world-class quality chamber music concerts from September to March, all in Holy Trinity Church.

Tickets for individual concerts cost either £22 or £25 (with concessions), while Society membership provides entry to all of the season's six concerts for E100. New members are always extremely welcome: for information visit ocms-music.org.uk or contact Cherry Eddy, membership secretary, at cherryeddy102@gmail.com.

The fourth concert in the series, on January 24 at 5.30pm, features Hungarian-born pianist Daniel Lebhardt, who returns to Claygate for his second solo recital. The New York Times described him as playing with "power, poetry and formidable technique". He will play pieces by Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt.

On February 28 Connaught Brass will play arrangements of varied works from JS Bach to Fauré, as well as a new commission by British composer, Dani Howard, plus an exciting version of Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera. The season concludes on March 28, when guitarist Arie Dakesian's programme will include works by Italian composers, with arrangements and compositions by the artist, as well as Spanish folk music.