27 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER October 12, 2018 Dear Amigos, Invigorated by the precious precipitation from up high – finally !!! – here is some Amigo News: Looking back – “Nocturne” the Lucy Parham Chopin performances, well known to Amigos as more than “just” concert evenings, […]
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Thursday, October 11th, 2018September newsletter
Tuesday, September 18th, 201827 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER September 17, 2018 Dear Amigos, Are you still bathing in the memories of the Andrey Gugnin concerts ??? Here we had a Russian pianist with very distinguished playing, looking younger than his 31 years and with many international prizes to his credit. How […]
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Sunday, September 2nd, 201827 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER September 1, 2018 Dear Amigos, Bye bye summer – welcome new Amigo Season and 2018/19 Membership Year Today is the end of summer, meteorogically speaking, and I can imagine that many of you are glad for the cooler temperatures, […]
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Saturday, August 11th, 20182018 September 11th and 13th, Andrey Gugnin, piano October 2nd and 3rd (!) Lucy Parham, piano, Dame Harriet Walter and Paul Guy, actors – Chopin Portrait November 6th and 8th, Charles Owen, piano December 18th and 20th, Pangea Trio 2019 February 26th and 28th Stephen Vanhauwaert […]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2018Dear Amigos, Summer has arrived in the Algarve too and I am happy to forward to you the AMIGOS da Música NEWSFLASH and INVITATION with interesting information on the new Concert Season, the Amigos Annual General Meeting and a Special Summer Invitation. I wish you a pleasant and relaxed summer and look forward to seeing […]
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Saturday, July 7th, 2018Programme details will be published in ‘Forthcoming Concerts’ as they become available from the artists, usually a few weeks before the concert. November: 06 and 08: Charles Owen, Piano December: 18 and 20: Trio Pangea 2019 February: 26 and 28 Steven Vanhauwert, piano March: 19 and 21 […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2018Due to illness Istvan Lajko cannot play. We have been fortunate in securing a wonderful replacement, the Russian pianist, Konstantin Lapshin whose programme is below: Konstantin Lapshin – piano Programme on Tuesday, 12th June 2018: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) – Fantasy in D minor, KV 397 Robert Schumann (1810-1856) – Fantasy op. 17 […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2018Dear Amigos, The 2017/18 concert season is going out with a surprise and it looks like a good one. On the weekend bad news came in about our June artist, the Hungarian pianist Istvan Lajko, who broke a leg and upon medical advice cannot play for several weeks. We wish him a speedy recovery. Fortunately […]
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Wednesday, April 25th, 2018To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton NEWSLETTER —–Dia de Liberdade—- 25 April 2018 Dear Amigos, Big holiday today in Portugal ! The people of this country (ours now, too) had been waiting for a long time to be liberated from dictatorship and the horrors of African wars, and on the 25th […]
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Friday, March 23rd, 201827 Years of Great Music To all Amigos/as From Helga Hampton Easter 2018 Dear Amigos, I really hope and wish that you were among the lucky ones in Os Agostos last week when the great Piers Lane played for us. How privileged we are to have him come to the Algarve again […]
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