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East Anglia Music and Arts - Guide to events
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Music
Wednesday 1 August
Music in Felixstowe Young Musicians' Showcase: Harrison Cole - piano., 12pm details at St Andrew's Church
Saturday 4 August
Loki Music Workshop for flute and recorder consorts, 9.30am details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saffron Hall Aurora Orchestra: Shostakovich 9th from Memory, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Sunday 5 August
Loki Music Music from the Olden Times voice, recorders/ flutes, guitars, 3pm details at Walpole Old Chapel, Halesworth, map
Tuesday 7 August
St Mary-le-Tower Church Taylor London (soprano), 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Wednesday 8 August
Music in Felixstowe Young Musicians' Showcase : Sophie Campbell - oboe and flute., 12pm details at St Andrew's Church
Saturday 11 August
Music in Felixstowe Proms on the Prom at the Seafront Gardens, next to the FOPWA Hut (off Undercliff Road East)., 2pm details
Sunday 12 August
Concerts at Cratfield Maxwell Quartet (Cratfield’s young artists concert), 3pm details at Cratfield Church, map
Tuesday 14 August
Friends of the Moot Hall Organ Recital by Stephen King: 'Strictly Come Dancing', 1pm details at Moot Hall Colchester, map
St Mary-le-Tower Church Michael Nicholas (organ), 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Saturday 18 August
St Mary-le-Tower Church Cyrill Ibrahim (piano) - Frédéric Chopin, 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Tuesday 21 August
St Mary-le-Tower Church Daniel Joy (tenor), 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Sunday 26 August
Concerts at Cratfield Kathryn Stott, piano, 3pm details at Cratfield Church, map
Music in Felixstowe I Must Go Down to the Sea Again, 11am details at St Nicholas's, Felixstowe Ferry, map
Music in Felixstowe Quartetto Familia, 3pm details at St Nicholas's, Felixstowe Ferry, map
Tuesday 28 August
St Mary-le-Tower Church Jenny’s Accordionists, 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Wednesday 29 August
Music in Felixstowe Violin and Piano, 12pm details at St Andrew's Church
Sunday 2 September
Loki Music The harpsichord music of Francois Couperin, Yeo Yat-Soon - harpsichord, 3pm details at Walpole Old Chapel, Halesworth, map
Tuesday 4 September
St Mary-le-Tower Church Peter Crompton (organ), 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Sunday 9 September
Concerts at Cratfield Carducci String Quartet with Craig Ogden, guitar, 3pm details at Cratfield Church, map
Essex Chamber Orchestra Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4, 7pm details at Anglo European School, Ingatestone, map
Tuesday 11 September
Friends of the Moot Hall Organ Recital by Ian Ray: 'Only Joking', 1pm details at Moot Hall Colchester, map
St Mary-le-Tower Church Christopher Borrett (baritone), 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Wednesday 12 September
Music in Felixstowe Harbour Lights Folk band, 11.30am details at Orwell Hotel, map
Saturday 15 September
Music in Felixstowe Last Night of the Proms, 7.30pm details at St John the Baptist Church, map
Trianon Remembrance concert, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Thursday 20 September
Roman River Festival 2018 Festival 20 to 30 September - see separate section details
Saturday 22 September
Loki Music Society of Recorder Players, Suffolk branch, A Day of Playing, 9.30am details at Bentley Village Hall, map
Sunday 23 September
Lavenham Sinfonia The High Baroque, 7pm details at Lavenham Church, map
Tuesday 25 September
Snape Maltings Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall Ensemble led by Kenneth Sillito; includes string sextets by Brahms and Borodin., 7.30pm details at Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
St Mary-le-Tower Church Andrew Cantrill-Fenwick (organ), 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Saturday 29 September
Pimlott Foundation Alissa Firsova, Piano, 5pm details at Old House, Great Horkesley, map
Sunday 30 September
Kingfisher Ensemble , 2.45pm details at Lion Walk Church, Colchester, map
Tuesday 2 October
St Mary-le-Tower Church Phillipa Barton (violin) Alasdair Hogarth (piano) César Frank, 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Friday 5 October
Snape Maltings Russell Watson: Canzoni d'Amore, 7.30pm details, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 6 October
Ipswich Chamber Music Society Henschel String Quartet, 7.30pm details at Ipswich School, map
Sunday 7 October
Kingfisher Ensemble , 2.45pm details at Lion Walk Church, Colchester, map
Saffron Hall Heath Quartet: Beethoven, Tippett, 3pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Stour Valley Arts and Music Henschel quartet - Beethoven - Debussy - Mendelssohn, 4pm details at East Bergholt Church, map
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra A Celebration Of Mozart, 7.30pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Monday 8 October
Theatre Royal Bury Anna Noakes ( flute) & Gabriella Dall’olio (harp, 1.10pm details, map
Tuesday 9 October
St Mary-le-Tower Church William Baldry (organ) Including music by Buxtehude, Brahms & J.S. Bach, 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Thursday 11 October
Ipswich School Music Festival Jennifer Pike, violin, 7.30pm details, map
Friday 12 October
Ipswich School Music Festival Alex Mendham and his Orchestra - music of the 1920s and 30s, 7.30pm, map
Saturday 13 October
Halesworth Arts Festival Halesworth Arts Festival 13 to 28 October, 7.30pm details, map
Ipswich School Music Festival Jazz Night: Claire Martin & The David Newton Trio, 7.30pm details, map
Ipswich School Music Festival Come And Sing With John Rutter, 7.30pm details, map
Prometheus Orchestra Schbubert, Beethoven, 7.30pm details at St Mary's Woodbridge, map
Saffron Hall The Hallé R. Strauss, Sibelius, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Trianon Ipswich Community Concert, 7.30pm details at Unitarian Meeting House, Ipswich, map
Wolsey Orchestra Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, 7.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Sunday 14 October
Prometheus Orchestra Vaughan Williams, Tallis, Damase, Mendelsssohn, 4pm details at Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
Saffron Hall The Hallé Family Concert, 11am details, Saffron Walden, map
Monday 15 October
Ipswich School Music Festival Gentlemen of St John’s College, 7.30pm details, map
Tuesday 16 October
Ipswich School Music Festival Sam Wilson And 4-mality, 7.30pm details, map
St Mary-le-Tower Church Andrew Leach (piano) - Debussy, Rachmaninov preludes, 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Wednesday 17 October
Music in Felixstowe The Amaryllis Quartet, 11.30am details at Orwell Hotel, map
Friday 19 October
OperaUpClose Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, 7.45pm details at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, map
Saturday 20 October
Colchester Symphony Orchestra French Music, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
Ipswich Choral Society Bernstein Centenary Celebration, 7.30pm details at St Mary-le-Tower, map
Sunday 21 October
Music in Felixstowe Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time: with a selection of war poetry, 3pm details at St John the Baptist Church, map
Saffron Hall Paul Lewis, Piano - Brahms, Beethoven, Haydn, 3pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 27 October
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Jools Holland and His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra Jools Holland and His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, 7.30pm details, map
Tuesday 30 October
Snape Maltings Dusapin: Passion Music Theatre Wales & National Dance Company Wales with London Sinfonietta & EXAUDI, 7.30pm details, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 3 November
Ipswich Chamber Music Society Trio Asimsiz, 7.30pm details at Ipswich School, map
Sunday 4 November
Pimlott Foundation Singing for Health - workshop with Amy Mallett All day details at Old House, Great Horkesley, map
Monday 5 November
Theatre Royal Bury The Rococo Ensemble - Flute, violoncello da spalla, harpischord and other Baroque instruments., 1.10pm details, map
Thursday 8 November
Kirbye Voices , 7.30pm details at Westgate Chapel, Bury St Edmunds, map
Saturday 10 November
Bury Bach Choir Vauhgan Williams Donna Nobis Pacem, Durufle Requiem, 7.30pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Kirbye Voices , 11am details at Fornham All Saints Church, Bury Saint Edmunds, map
Woodbridge Choral Society Britten: War Requiem with Kingfisher Ensemble. Gainsborough Ensemble, Woodbridge School Cantabile Choir, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Sunday 11 November
Aquarius Singers Remembrance Day concert, 6pm at All Saints Church, Bury St Edmunds, map
Kingfisher Ensemble , 2.45pm details at Lion Walk Church, Colchester, map
Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra Commemoration the 100 years anniversary of the end of the first world war, 3pm details at Saffron Hall, map
Stour Valley Arts and Music Merlin Ensemble - Liszt - R. Strauss - Brahms, 4pm details at Dedham Church, map
Monday 12 November
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra Armistice Day Concert, 4pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Saturday 17 November
Colchester Choral Society Images of Peace Alan Bullard Images of Peace premiere)Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem and Benedicite, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
Saffron Walden Choral Society Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, map
Suffolk Sinfonia Smetana , Vaughan Williams, 7.30pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Trianon Rushmere St Andrew Community Concert, 7.30pm details at St Andrew's Church, Rushmere, Ipswich, map
West Bergholt Concert Band 40th Anniversary Concert details at Coggeshall Church, map
Sunday 18 November
Sudbury Choral Society Haydn: Nelson Mass and Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light, 7.30pm details at St Peter's Church, map
Wednesday 21 November
Saffron Hall Carolyn Sampson, Iestyn Davies & Joseph Middleton, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 24 November
Aldeburgh Music Club Karl Jenkins The Armed Man - 'A Mass for Peace' with Prometheus Orchestra, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, map
Eye Bach Choir Rachmaninov: Vespers, 7.30pm details at Eye Church, map
Hadleigh Choral Society Hadleigh Haydn: The Creation details
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra Beethoven: Piano Concero , with soloist Martin James Bartlett, 7.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Saffron Hall J.S Bach: Christmas Oratorio- Cambridge University Symphony Chorus, East Anglia Chamber Orchestra, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Witham Choral Society Rossini: Petite Messe solonelle details at United Reform Church, map
Sunday 25 November
Beccles Choral Society Bach: Christmas Oratorio details
Saffron Hall Czech National Symphony Orchestra- Bruch Violin Concerto, 3pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 1 December
Ipswich Bach Choir Bach: Christmas Oratorio and Vivaldi: Gloria, selections, 7.30pm details at St John's Church, map
Stour Choral Society Sasha Johnson Manning: The Manchester Carols details at Mistley Church, map
Stowmarket Chorale Handel: Messiah details at St Peter & St Mary’s Church, map
Saturday 8 December
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Haydn, Mozart, Handel, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
University of Essex Choir Pergolesi, Schubert, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Grieg with London Mozart Players, 7.30pm details, Colchester, map
Sunday 9 December
Clacton Choral Society Christmas Music Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, 6.30pm details at St James's Church, map
Colchester Choral Society Christmas celebration, 7.30pm details at Moot Hall Colchester, map
Saturday 15 December
Bury Bach Choir Christmas Celebration Christmas Celebration Christmas Celebration Christmas Celebration Christmas Celebration Christmas Celebration, 7.30pm details at Lavenham Church, map
Phoenix Singers Britten: St Nicholas and Bach: Gelobt seist du, Jesu & Wachet auf, 7.30pm details
West Bergholt Concert Band details at St Botolph's, Colchester, map
Sunday 16 December
Aquarius Singers Bury St Edmunds Christmas concert, 7pm
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Fourtissimo, guitar quartet, 5pm details, map
Sudbury Choral Society Christmas celebration, 2.45pm details at St Peter's Church, map
Thursday 20 December
Kirbye Voices , 7.30pm details at Great Barton Church, Bury Saint Edmunds, map
Friday 21 December
Aldeburgh Voices Handel: Messiah with the The Suffolk Ensemble, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, map
Saturday 22 December
Britten Sinfonia Handel: Messiah, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Kirbye Voices , 7.30pm details at St Mary's Church Bury, Bury St Edmunds, map
Tuesday 1 January
Music in Felixstowe Viennese concert details
Saturday 12 January
Colchester Symphony Orchestra CSO Wind, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
Sunday 13 January
Stour Valley Arts and Music Pelléas Ensemble - Bax - JS Bach - Jolivet - Ravel, 4pm details at Constable Hall, East Bergholt, map
Friday 18 January
Britten Sinfonia Mark Elder conducts Mahler & Brahms, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 26 January
Ipswich Chamber Music Society Castalian Quartet, 7.30pm details at Ipswich School, map
Saffron Hall The English Concert: Vivaldi, Bach, Purcell, Locatelli, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 16 February
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
Ipswich Chamber Music Society Revolutionary Drawing Room, 7.30pm details at Ipswich School, map
Tuesday 19 February
Wolsey Orchestra Walton, Butterworth, Holst, Vaughan Williams, 7.30pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Saturday 23 February
Stour Valley Arts and Music Jazz concert: Embraceable Ella Joanna Eden & Chris Ingham Trio, 7.30pm details at Constable Hall, East Bergholt, map
Sunday 3 March
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra Family Concert, 2.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Sunday 10 March
Stour Valley Arts and Music Rautio Piano Trio & Robin Ashwell, viola - Mozart- Mahler - Brahms, 7.30pm details at East Bergholt Church, map
Stour Valley Arts and Music Zelkova Quartet Mozart - Mendelssohn - Dvorak, 7.30pm details at East Bergholt Church, map
Saturday 16 March
Aldeburgh Music Club The Amazing Mr Handel, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, map
Colchester Choral Society Elgar: Dream of Gerontius with Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Daniel Joy, Edward Grint details at St Botolph's, map
Eye Bach Choir Mendelssohn: Elijah with the Kingfisher Orchestra., 7.30pm details at Eye Church, map
Saturday 6 April
Bury Bach Choir Bach: St Matthew Passion details at Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, map
Hadleigh Choral Society Hadleigh Bach: John Passion, 7.30pm details
Ipswich Choral Society Mozart: Requiem, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Sunday 7 April
Sudbury Choral Society Handel: Messiah (parts 1 and 2), 7.30pm details at St Peter's Church, map
Friday 12 April
English Touring Opera Verdi: Macbeth, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 13 April
Clacton Choral Society Gounod: St Cecilia Mass, 7.30pm details at St James's Church, map
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Mozart and Mahler, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
Friday 19 April
Aldeburgh Voices Bach: St John Passion with The Suffolk Ensemble, James Gilchrist Evangelist, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, map
Saturday 20 April
Snape Maltings Fauré: Requiem and Bach: Partita with Tenebrae, Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Gould (violin), 7.30pm details, Aldeburgh, map
Sunday 5 May
Prometheus Orchestra details at Orford Church, map
Prometheus Orchestra details at St John the Baptist Church, Felixstowe, map
Saturday 11 May
Beccles Choral Society Verdi: Requiem, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 18 May
Eye Bach Choir Mozart and Amadeus, 7.30pm details at Eye Church, map
Wolsey Orchestra Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, soloist: Erdem Misirlioglu, 7.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Wednesday 1 August
Snape Proms 1 to 31 Aug details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Thursday 2 August
National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Friday 3 August
Britten-Pears Orchestra & Marin Alsop I, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 4 August
Piccadilly Dance Orchestra & Lance Ellington, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Sunday 5 August
Family Concert: Peter and the Wolf, 11am details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Suffolk Youth Orchestra, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Monday 6 August
The Blues Band, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Tuesday 7 August
Roberto Fonseca, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Wednesday 8 August
Vivaldi's Four Seasons The Queen of the Baroque Violin, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Thursday 9 August
Courtney Pine featuring Omar, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Friday 10 August
Trio Isimsiz, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 11 August
Britten-Pears Orchestra & Marin Alsop II, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Sunday 12 August
Apollo's Fire, An Appalachian folk gathering, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Monday 13 August
West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim, 6.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Tuesday 14 August
John Wilson Orchestra, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Wednesday 15 August
Georgie Fame and BBC Big Band, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Thursday 16 August
Christian Blackshaw & Soloists from the Berliner Philharmoniker, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Friday 17 August
Takács String Quartet, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 18 August
Beethoven's Fifth Aurora Orchestra, without scores, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Sunday 19 August
Woman to Woman: Judie Tzuke, Beverley Craven, Julia Fordham, A trio of female singer-songwriters, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Tuesday 21 August
Angela Hewitt: Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier,, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Wednesday 22 August
Altan, Irish traditional music, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Thursday 23 August
Hailey Tuck, jazz singer, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Friday 24 August
Miloš Karadaglic and Friends, Guitar music from Bach to the Beatles, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 25 August
Come and Sing Disney, 4pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
The Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Sunday 26 August
The Dime Notes, Blues-1920s New Orleans jazz, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Monday 27 August
National Youth Choir of Great Britain, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Tuesday 28 August
Gretchen Peters, Nashville songwriter-poet, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Wednesday 29 August
Friday Night is Music Night: BBC Concert Orchestra and guests, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Thursday 30 August
Jon Boden and the Remnant Kings, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Friday 31 August
Abdullah Ibrahim, jazz pianist, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Friday 24 August
The Suffolk Villages Festival 2018, 24 to 27 Aug details, map
Monteverdi: The Courtly Ballets, 6.30pm details at St Peter's Church, Sudbury, map
Saturday 25 August
JS Bach: Harpsichord concertos, preceded by a talk at 5.15 pm, 6.30pm details at Stoke by Nayland Church, map
Sunday 26 August
Love songs: Monteverdi to Purcell - Charles Daniels tenor; pre-concert talk Boxford village hall at 5.15 pm, 6.30pm details at Boxford Church, map
Monday 27 August
Roots of Welsh Traditional Music, 11am details at St Peter's Church, Sudbury, map
Purcell & Handel, 6.30pm details at St Peter's Church, Sudbury, map
Thursday 20 September
Alex Mendham and his orchestra Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, songs by Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin., 8pm details at Mercury Theatre, Colchester, map
Friday 21 September
Giraffes Can’t Dance Especially for Under Fives - and at 1 pm, 11am details at Marks Tey Village Hall, map
From Your Ever Loving Jack- songs and readings relating to the first world war, 6pm details at St Martin's Church, Colchester, map
Don Kipper. Five piece ensemble, traditional Greek and Turkish music and Klezmer, 9pm details at St Martin's Church, Colchester, map
Saturday 22 September
Street Poetry, walking through Colchester, at 11 am and 1pm and 3pm. Also on Sunday 23 details
Drop-In Family Workshop with Julia Cuthbert - and from 11 am to 1 pm 2- 4 pm drop in no booking needed details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Adam Walker in a flute trio - Debussy, Ravel and others, first world war theme, 6pm details at St Martin's Church, Colchester, map
Seckou Keita, Kora, 9pm details at St Martin's Church, Colchester, map
Sunday 23 September
Nicholas McCarthy, piano works commissioned in the 1920s by pianist Paul Wittgenstein, 2pm details at St Martin's Church, Colchester, map
St Mary le Tower choristers with Rowena Calvert, cello, 5pm details at St Martin's Church, Colchester, map
Vein, Swiss jazz trio, 7pm details at Colchester Arts Centre, map
Monday 24 September
Nika Goriç, soprano, sings opera arias, 8pm details at Coggeshall Church, map
Tuesday 25 September
Greenstead Soundscapes children join the festival orchestra, 6pm details at Colchester Academy, map
Wednesday 26 September
Trio Isimsiz, 7.30pm details at Fordham Church, map
Thursday 27 September
The Marian Consort, 8pm details at Stoke by Nayland Church, map
Friday 28 September
Elgar Cello Concerto with Jamal Aliyev and Nika Goriç, soprano, in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony, 8pm details at Stoke by Nayland Church, map
Saturday 29 September
Band of the Parachute Regiment - celebrating the centenary of the first world war armistice - in the Ivor Crewe Hall, 2pm details at University of Essex, Colchester, map
Wagner: Götterdämmerung, orchestral highlights, Debussy, La Mer and music by Johanna Müller Hermann, 8pm details at Stoke by Nayland Church, map
Sunday 30 September
Festival Finale, 4pm details at Stoke by Nayland Church, map
Tuesday 14 August
Glyndebourne Music - live link Samuel Barber:Vanessa, 6.30pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Monday 27 August
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich An Officer and a Gentleman. a new musical, 7.30pm, to 1 Sep details, map
Thursday 6 September
Colchester Operatic Society CO2 Wizard of Oz, to 15 Sep details at Mercury Theatre, map
Thursday 13 September
Sydney Opera House - live link Puccini: La Bohème, 7pm details at Odeon Colchester, map
Theatre Royal Bury Carmen The Gypsy; The Romany Theatre Company, 7.30pm, to 15 Sep details, map
Sunday 16 September
Saffron Opera Group Wagner: Parsifal, 2.30pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Wednesday 19 September
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Shout! Category Image September Wednesday 19th - Saturday 22nd at 7.30 SHOUT! The Mod Musical The Mod musical, Brightlingsea Musical Theatre Group, 7.30pm, to 23 Sep details, map
Thursday 20 September
Australian Ballet The Merry Widow, 6.30pm details at Odeon Colchester, map
Monday 1 October
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich The Return Of The Soldier, a chamber musical based on Rebecca West's 1918 novel. Various times, to 6 Oct details, map
Tuesday 9 October
Bury St Edmunds Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society High Society, to 13 Oct details
Saturday 13 October
Snape Maltings Zurich Youth Symphony Orchestra, 7.30pm details, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 20 October
Sydney Opera House - live link Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor, 7pm details at Odeon Colchester, map
Tuesday 23 October
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Gilbert & Sullivan: The Gondoliers Ipswich Gilbert & Sullivan's Society, 7.30pm, to 27 Oct details, map
Friday 26 October
English Touring Opera Triple Bill: Purcell, Gesualdo, Carissimi, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 27 October
English Touring Opera Handel: Radamisto, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Sunday 28 October
Royal Opera House - live link Wagner: Die Walküre, 5pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite
Monday 29 October
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Fame, the musical, Selladoor Productions, 7.30pm, to 3 Nov details, map
Friday 2 November
English Touring Opera Handel: Radamisto, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 3 November
English Touring Opera Triple bill: Dido & Aeneas/ Jonas / I Will Not Speak, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Sunday 4 November
English Touring Opera Bach: St Matthew Passion, 3pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 10 November
Britten Sinfonia Nico Muhly: The Last Letter, commemorating the first world war, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Friday 7 December
Snape Maltings Christmas Spectacular: The Nutcracker various times, to 16 Dec details, Aldeburgh, map
Tuesday 22 January
Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society Guys And Dolls, 7.30pm, to 26 Jan details at Theatre Royal Norwich, map
Royal Opera House - live link Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades, 6.45pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite and at Odeon Colchester and at Odeon Colchester
Thursday 11 April
English Touring Opera Rossini: Elisabetta, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 13 April
English Touring Opera Mozart: Idomeneo, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Tuesday 30 April
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Avenue Q, 8pm, to 4 May details, map
Sunday 5 May
Royal Opera House - live link Gounod: Faust, 6.15pm details at Odeon Colchester, map
Saturday 22 September
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Scheherazade and 1001 Nights - Company of Dreams, 7.30pm details, map
Monday 15 October
Royal Ballet - live link Mayerling, 7.15pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite and at Firstsite
Thursday 1 November
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Ballet Black, 7.30pm details, map
Tuesday 13 November
Royal Ballet - live link La Bayadère, 7.15pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite and at Firstsite and at Odeon Colchester and at Firstsite and at Firstsite and at Odeon Colchester
Thursday 28 February
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Cinderella, 7.30pm details, map
Friday 1 March
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich The Nutcracker, 7.30pm details, map
Saturday 2 March
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Swan Lake, 7.30pm details, map
Saturday 6 April
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Giovanni Pernice – Dance Is Life, 7.30pm details, map
Thursday 16 May
Royal Ballet - live link Flight Pattern/Within The Golden Hour/New Work, 7.15pm details at Odeon Colchester, map
Friday 27 July
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Babe Various times: based on Dick King-Smith's book about a small pig, to 26 Aug details, map
Monday 30 July
Theatre Royal Bury The Case Of The Frightened Lady by Edgar Wallance, 7.30pm, to 4 Aug details, map
Tuesday 31 July
Bury Theatre Workshop Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice in the Abbey gardens, 6.30pm, to 4 Aug details at Bury St Edmunds Abbey, map
Tuesday 7 August
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Play in a Week Young people and profesionals create a play. Performance at end of week, to 11 Aug details, map
Friday 24 August
Theatre Royal Bury Goodnight Mister Tom by David Wood, adapted from the book by Michelle Magorian, 7.30pm, to 8 Sep details, map
Friday 31 August
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Oscar Wilde: A Woman of No Importance- DOT Productions, 7.30pm details, map
Thursday 6 September
National Theatre - live link Strindberg: Julie, 7pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite
Tuesday 11 September
Sudbury Dramatic Society Make Way for Lucia. Based on E F Benson's novels, 7.45pm, to 15 Sep details at The Quay Theatre, map
Wednesday 12 September
Royal Shakespeare Company - live link Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, 7pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite and at Lakeside Theatre
Monday 17 September
Theatre Royal Bury My Mother Said I Never Should; The London Classic Theatre, 7.30pm, to 20 Sep details, map
Monday 24 September
National Theatre - live link Julie: a new version of Strindberg's play Miss Julie, 1.30pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Tuesday 25 September
Theatre Royal Bury Private Peaceful; a first world war soldier faces the firing squad; Scamp Theatre, 7.30pm, to 29 Sep details, map
Wednesday 26 September
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband, 7.45pm, to 29 Sep details, map
Thursday 27 September
Bury Theatre Workshop Harold Pinter: Betrayal, 7.30pm, to 29 Sep details at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, map
National Theatre - live link Shakespeare: King Lear, 7pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite
Friday 28 September
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Moll Flanders a play about Daniel Defoe's novel, 7.30pm, to 13 Oct details, map
Sunday 30 September
National Theatre - live link Julie: a new version of Strindberg's play Miss Julie, 2pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Thursday 4 October
Globe Theatre London - live link Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale, 7.15pm details at Odeon Colchester, map
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Boeing - Boeing by Marc Camolet- The Reject Theatre Company, 7.30pm, to 6 Oct details, map
Theatre Royal Bury Sherlock Holmes: The Sign Of Four; Blackeyed Theatre In Association with South Hill Park, 7.30pm, to 6 Oct details, map
Friday 5 October
The Quay Theatre The Devil's Bride, Rumpus Theatre, 7.30pm details, Sudbury, map
Monday 8 October
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Alan Bennett: The Habit Of Art, a play about a meeting between the poet WH Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. Vasrious times, to 13 Oct details, map
Tuesday 9 October
Vaudeville Theatre London - live link Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest, 7.15pm details at Odeon Colchester, map
Thursday 11 October
Headgate Theatre, Colchester The Mariner by Pat Whymark Common Ground Theatre Company, 7.30pm, to 13 Oct details, map
Friday 12 October
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Silence by Nicola Werenowska, 8pm, to 20 Oct details, map
Saturday 13 October
National Theatre - live link Shakespeare: King Lear, 2pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Tuesday 16 October
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Madagascar - A Musical Adventure; Dreamworks, 7pm, to 20 Oct details, map
Wednesday 17 October
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Be My Baby Headgate Theatre Productions, 7.45pm, to 20 Oct details, map
Thursday 25 October
The Quay Theatre The Time Machine. Dyad Productions -a radical interpretation of the HG Wells novel, 7.30pm details, Sudbury, map
Friday 26 October
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Not About Heroes - Stephen MacDonald’s play about the friendship between cfirst world war poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon., 7.30pm details, map
Monday 29 October
National Theatre - live link Shakespeare: King Lear with Ian McKellen - Chichester Festival Theatre’s production, 1.30pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Tuesday 30 October
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Shakespeare: Othello - an English Touring Theatre, Oxford Playhouse and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory production - various times, to 3 Nov details, map
Theatre Royal Bury Shakespeare: Henry V Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, 7.30pm, to 3 Nov details, map
Wednesday 31 October
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Buckets by Adam Barnard Colchester Institute Students CP3, 7.45pm, to 1 Nov details, map
Friday 2 November
Mercury Theatre, Colchester 6 Hands Trio, guitar, 7.30pm details, map
Monday 5 November
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Ian Hislop And Nick Newman: Trial By Laughter - various times, to 10 Nov details, map
Tuesday 6 November
Sudbury Dramatic Society Man and Boy, 7.45pm, to 10 Nov details at The Quay Theatre, map
The Cut Arts The Mariner; Common Ground Theatre; adapted from Coleridge'a Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 7.30pm details, Halesworth, map
Thursday 8 November
Bury Theatre Workshop Lysistrata (The sex strike) After Aristophanes, by Germaine Greer and Phil Wilmott, 7.30pm, to 10 Nov details at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, map
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Lest We Forget - Headgate Theatre Productions, 7.45pm, to 10 Nov details, map
The Cut Arts Rebellious Sisterhood - Votes For Women Broad Horizons Theatre Company, 7.30pm details, Halesworth, map
Saturday 10 November
Mercury Theatre, Colchester For The Fallen: poems and music fo commemorate the first world war, 7.30pm details, map
Wednesday 14 November
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Marjorie Prime - Headgate Theatre Productions, 7.30pm, to 17 Nov details, map
Royal Shakespeare Company - live link Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida https://www.odeon.co.uk/films/rsc_live_troilus_amp_cressida/17837/, 5pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite
Saturday 17 November
The Cut Arts Terence Rattigen: The Browning Version Open Space Theatre, 7.30pm details, Halesworth, map
Monday 19 November
Theatre Royal Bury Beauty & The Beast; Ballet Theatre UK, 7pm, to 21 Nov details, map
Tuesday 20 November
National Theatre - live link Alan Bennett: The Madness of George III Live from Nottingham Playhouse, 7pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite
Wednesday 21 November
Headgate Theatre, Colchester The Ladykillers by Gordon Linehan- Colchester Theatre Group, 7.30pm, to 24 Nov details, map
Saturday 24 November
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Jack and the Beanstalk, to 20 Jan details, map
Thursday 29 November
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Cinderella, to 2 Feb details, map
Friday 30 November
Theatre Royal Bury Sleeping Beauty, 7.30pm, to 13 Jan details, map
Tuesday 4 December
National Theatre - live link The Madness of George III, by Alan Bennett, 1pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map and at Firstsite and at Firstsite
Monday 10 December
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Charles Dickens : The Bagman's Uncle and The Bagman's Uncle's Friend , Robert MacCall, 7.30pm details, map
Friday 14 December
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Happy Holidays, Mad Hatter Productions, 7.45pm, to 15 Dec details, map
Thursday 20 December
Headgate Theatre, Colchester The Scarlet Pipistrelle December Thursday 20th - Sunday 22nd at 7.30pm Matinée 4pm Sunday 22nd The Scarlet Pipistrelle es by Pat Whymark & Julia Harris; Common Ground Theatre Company, 7.30pm, to 23 Dec details, map
Sunday 23 December
National Theatre - live link Shakesperae: Antony and Cleopatra, 6pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map and at Firstsite and at Firstsite
Thursday 7 March
Bury Theatre Workshop Sartre: No Exit (Huis Clos), to 9 Mar details at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, map
Sunday 5 August
Firstsite, Colchester The Producers: 50th Anniversary, 2pm details, map
Wednesday 15 August
Dedham Films Finding Your Feet, directed by Richard Loncraine (2017), 7.30pm details at Assembly Rooms, map
Wednesday 19 September
Dedham Films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Directed by Martin McDonagh (2017), 7.30pm details at Assembly Rooms, map
Wednesday 17 October
Dedham Films The Mercy, the sory of Donald d Crowhurst's disastrous yoyage,directed by James Marsh 2017, 7.30pm details at Assembly Rooms, map
Sunday 2 December
Christmas Concert with guest artistes and the Community Choir details
Saturday 8 December
Christmas music details
Sunday 9 December
Christmas concert, 6.30pm details at Aldham Church, Colchester, map
Tuesday 11 December
Sounds Like Christmas, 7.30pm, to 13 Dec details at St Peter's by the Waterfront, map
Wednesday 12 December
Christmas words and music details at Orwell Hotel, map
Friday 14 December
Christmas concert with carols with Castleton Brass, 7.30pm details at Eye Town Hall, map
Wednesday 5 December
Aladdin, 7pm, to 9 Dec details, map
Friday 14 December
Snow White - various times; no shows on 18, 25, 31 Dec and 1 Jan, to 2 Jan details, map
Sunday 28 October
Stour Valley Arts and Music Peter Medhurst on Gilbert and Sullivan - parody & satire, 4pm details at Constable Hall, East Bergholt, map
