Amigos de Música de São Lourenço

Dear Amigos,   We have accidentally set ourselves a very difficult task this year. We like to schedule what we think might be the best concert of the year, somewhere towards the end of the season to encourage everyone to renew their subscriptions. However, in September we began our new year with two concerts which [...]

Dear Amigos, What a great year this has turned out to be. Many of us thought that the 2009/2010 season in celebration of the Amigos 20th anniversary would be difficult to follow. But as we come towards the close of the 2010/2011 season marking the 30th birthday of the Cultural Centre, it seems that we [...]

Dear Amigos, I hope everyone enjoyed the concerts from Piers Lane and Michael Collins. Personally I loved the programmes and hearing them play together; a comfortable and easy alliance between two great professionals if ever there was one and I am only sorry that they forgot to bring copies of their rapturously reviewed CD with [...]

Newsletter for April 2011 Dear Amigos, How lucky we were to have three such delightful young musicians to play for us and how well they played too. Uta Kerner, Sunita Mamtani and Julian Reim are old friends whose continual upward progress we have been able to follow over recent years and I think it is [...]

Dear Amigos, Thank you to those who kindly e-mailed me to say how much they had enjoyed the recent concerts given by Katya Apekisheva. I forwarded them on her in the sure knowledge that she would enjoy reading those sweet morsels of praise as much as I had. Have no fear, she is keen to [...]

Dear Amigos, The two concerts from the pianist Joana Gama were a wonderful way to see out the old year and welcome in the new. We were delighted with her and if the attendance on the 4th of January was anything to go by, so was everyone else. She prepared her programmes with great care [...]

Dear Amigos, I must thank all the friends who responded to my call my arms in the last Newsletter and went to hear Antonio Cebola at Vale de Lobo. After his Masterclasses with Paul Crossley in London, his playing was more assured and his presence on the platform was markedly improved. He still has a [...]

Dear Amigos, I hope everyone enjoyed the last two concerts from Constantin Sandu and Horia Vacarescu. Marie and I certainly did and I suspect, remembering the happy look on the smiling faces as people left after the final encores, most others did too. Although at this stage no dates have been mentioned, we have mentally [...]

Dear Amigos, Well what a spectacular way to begin a new season?  It was back in June 2005 that Yevgeny Sudbin last came to play at São Louenço. He was twenty five then and we thought he was excellent. But look at him now, a huge international career established,  married and totally blown away by [...]