Guildford International Music Festival 2007
Events for Wednesday 14 March 2007
Lunchtime Recital
Event number: 23
University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 1.10pm
Free
Short recitals performed by students of the University of Surrey's Department of Music and Sound Recording.
The programme for this event can be emailed to you on the morning of the recital by c.gardner@surrey.ac.uk
Organ Recital by Andrew Millington
Event number: 24
St Mary's Church, Quarry Street, 1.10pm
Free
organist and choirmaster Exeter Cathedral
(formerly at Guildford Cathedral)
The Unknown Elgar 
Amanda Pitt soprano, David Owen Norris piano
Event number: 25
Hatchlands Park, East Clandon, 2pm
£12 including tea and biscuits
Elgar's reputation has grown enormously over the last twenty years, and he is now perceived as an intriguing and complex composer of towering stature. Through a series of historical accidents, almost no-one knows how this fascinating character expressed himself in piano music and song. This programme includes all Elgar's significant piano music, most still unpublished, and the very best of his songs, played on the composer's own Broadwood piano of 1844.
To book tickets please visit www.cobbecollection.co.uk and print off a booking form or send a cheque made out to The Cobbe Collection Trust with sae to Cobbe Collection Trust, Hatchlands Park,East Clandon GU4 7RT.
The Development of the Big Swing Bands
Talk by Dennis Staples
Event number: 26
Guildford Institute, 2.45pm
£3, free to Institute members only
Stories and sounds of the big bands of the 1920s to the 1950s
Tickets available from Guildford Institute 01483 562142
Promoted by Guildford Institute
Joyce Dixey Composition Award
Final concert and judging
Event number: 27
Matthew King Professor of Composition at Guildhall School of Music and Drama
University of Surrey, PATS Studio One, 7pm
Free
Students of the University of Surrey 's Department of Music and Sound Recording compete annually 
for this composition award presented by the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS). The finalists are selected from the first round performances that take place in February.
Surrey County Youth Jazz Orchestra and Youth Choir
Event number: 28
The Electric Theatre, 8pm
£8 full/senior citizens, £5 concessions
An evening that celebrates the best of Surrey youth music. SCYJO was formed over twenty five years ago; along with the Surrey County Youth and Wind Orchestras it is one of the flagship ensembles organized by Surrey's award-winning County Arts service.
SYC was founded in 1987 and since then has established itself as one of the leading youth choirs in the country, comprising around 50/60 singers, between the ages of 12 and 21 from all parts of Surrey. Join them for a musical night to remember with a mixed programme of jazz and classical favourites.
