2013
21st September
Leighton Buzzard Music Club, Leighton Buzzard Theatre, Lake Street, LU7 1RX
Music from the Land of Don Quixote
Review: ‘The first concert of the season was intriguing, made the toes tap, and taught me much about Spanish country music and baroque instruments. I thank you Galliarda. The evening was a very pleasant meander through largely unexplored territory.’ Judi Moore.
19th October
Horsham Music Circle, The Drill Hall, Denne Road, Horsham West Sussex, RH12 1JF
Music from the Land of Don Quixote
Review: `We are very fortunate in Horsham to be able to listen to performers of such high calibre and international standing in local venues.’ Catherine Andrews for the West Sussex County Times
11th December
Kendal Midday Concert Club, Kendal Town Hall, Highgate, Kendal, LA9 4DL
Josep i Maria’, Christmas programme
Review: `It was delightful fare.’ Brian Paynes for the Westmorland Gazette.
2014
14th March
Scunthorpe and North Lincs Concert Society
The Invenio Academy, 2 Foxhills Rd., Scunthorpe, North Lincs. DN15 8LJ
Britannia Triumphans
Review: ‘What a delightful programme. It was extremely interesting to hear and see baroque instruments and it was altogether a unique evening of music making. Asking the audience join in the last item… just what music is all about.’ Letter from Dena Clatworthy, Secretary of the Scunthorpe and North Lincolnshire Concert Society, 16th March, 2014.
2015
18 November
Galliarda Mediterranean Temperament, Mansfield Palace Music Society, Crescent Centre.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this concert given by the musicians of Galliarda.
2021-22
Baroque and Beyond
Soundbites, Hertford 23rd February 2018
Chris Benham `Our audience really enjoyed your concert, thanks’.
The Sparkle of Classical Keyboard Music ARC, Old Harlow 18th April 2021
English music by Thomas Arne and his Contemporaries
`A lovely, exciting concert.’ Marlies Heinecke.
The ARC Centre, Old Harlow 23rd September 2021
`Peter Thorne’s new piece was so warmly appreciated’.
An Enlightened Heart, Bakewell, Derbyshire 2nd April 2022
`The variety and skill you displayed was amazing. I also learn a lot about composers that I knew little about.’
Judith Taylor
`A lovely concert, thanks for performing for us.’
Dot Bushen
`Many thanks to you for your wonderful concert this morning.’
Steven Taylor
Blenheim Palace Spring residency 24th April – 19th June `Battlefields and Baroque’
June 5th 2022 Karen and Janet Bennett
`My mum and I had a brilliant time today. It was lovely to meet you’.
Jenny Stephenson June 21st 2022 Blenheim
`Thanks for much for playing and telling us about the composers’.
Carmen Alvarez, Blenheim Events June 21st 2022
`Thanks very much for playing for us and for bringing your own beautiful costume.’
Monument Place, Salisbury 10th August 2022
Tom McCartan `The audience feedback continues to be very complimentary and the Chairman (Alexander) called in say how much he and his wife enjoyed the evening and he particularly mentioned the enthusiasm of your approach and coming from an ex colonel of the Grenadier Guards that is high praise.’
St Marys Hertingfordbury 2nd September 2022 Marie-Luise Heinecke
`Many thanks for a most interesting concert. A great audience, too!’
Phillip Juniper `Interesting and fascinating concert, thank you.’
St. Giles, Bletchingdon September 3rd 2022
Judith Ledger `I must write to thank you again for such a wonderful concert. As one of the audience said: “You wouldn’t hear better in any capital in Europe”.
It was a splendid evening and we are so grateful to you. Please let us know when the CD is released.
Contact Magazine Darmstadt, Germany
“In this concert Sara Stowe’s performance of Kagel’s Recitaviarie’ for singing harpsichordist, provides the moment of enlightenment because hers is a splendidly committed representation of the work’s blasphemous protagonist.”
Chrisopher Fox
