Midlands Classical Music Making

CECILIA ENSEMBLE                                                           Elgar Concert Hall ***** Royal Birmingham Conservatoire graduate David Quigley, now a valued piano tutor there and at the University of Birmingham,(and I am proud to say a brilliant student of mine many years ago) has conceived a chamber ensemble whose opening concert on January 16 in the Elgar Concert Hall at the University proved a portent of an exciting future. Named after the patron saint of music, the Cecilia Ensemble will be flexible in its personnel; for this Barber Lunchtime Concert the line-up was violinists Caroline Pether, Marie Schreer, violist David Aspin, cellist Nicholas Trygstad, all with awesome credentials, an...