Chamberhouse Winds

Chamberhouse Winds have been providing high quality chamber music for recitals, weddings, and corporate functions since 2005.

Chamberhouse Winds are: Samantha Moore (flute), Hazel Todd (oboe), Ian Stott (horn), Sally Bartholomew (bassoon) and Caroline Owen (clarinet). The formation of the quintet was a natural progression for these five highly experienced and skilled musicians who found that they were frequently playing together in larger ensembles. All members of the group are established orchestral and chamber players, as well as each being solo artists in their own right.

Chamberhouse Winds’ repertoire can be varied to suit a wide range of occasions, from a formal recital or an occasion more suited to light classics or ‘popular’ repertoire. They have also been the ‘orchestra’ for many small scale opera productions, with strings or just piano, including:

Mozart:
The Magic Flute / Cosi fan tutte / Don Giovanni / La Clemenza di Tito
Donizetti:
L’Elisir d’Amore / Don Pasquale
Rossini:
The Barber of Seville
Mascagni:
Cavalliera Rusticana
Lehar:
The Merry Widow
Offenbach:
Orpheus in the Underworld
Gounod:
Faust
Verdi:
La Traviata /Rigoletto / Il Trovatore
Puccini:
La Boheme / Madame Butterfly / Tosca
Leoncavallo:
I Pagliarcci
Strauss:
Die Fledermaus
Britten:
Albert Herring

Sample Repertoire

Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921-): Dream City
Samuel Barber (1910-1981): Summer Music
Joseph Barnaby (1838-?): O Perfect Love
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Ode to Joy (from Symphony no.9)
Jeremiah Clarke (1670-1707): The Prince of Denmark’s March (‘Trumpet Voluntary)
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Allegro Maestoso (from the Water Music)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1837): Wedding March (‘A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Overture to ‘The Marriage of Figaro’
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908): The Flight of the Bumble Bee
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868): Overture to “The Italian Girl in Algiers”
Alan Ridout (1934): Until the Breaking of the Day
John Philip Sousa (1854-1932): The Stars and Stripes Forever
Luciano Berio (1925-): Opus Number Zoo
Georges Bizet (1838-1875): Habanera (from Carmen)
Jean-Michel Damase (1928-): Dix-Sept Variations
Darius Milhaud (1892-1974): La Cheminee du Roi Rene
Paul Dukas (1865-1935): The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Ferenc Farkas (1905-): Early Hungarian Dances from 17th century
Henry Mancini (1924-1994): The Pink Panther
Carl Nielsen (1865-1931): Wind Quintet
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706): Canon
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Mother Goose Suite
Antoine Reicha (1770-1836): Wind Quintet in Eb
Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Wedding March (from Lohengrin)

Members of Chamberhouse Winds have worked with the CBSO, London Concert Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra and have performed for West End shows and the Proms.

Testimonial

“…the audience thoroughly enjoyed the concert … I have rebooked Chamberhouse Winds … and would be happy to recommend them as very professional hard working musicians who entertain to the highest standards…” (Sarah-Jane Morris, Artistic Director, Melisma Music Concerts)