St Mary’s Church, Hay-on-Wye, HR3 5EB. Doors open 8.00pm.

Hay Music at the Hay Winter Weekend Festival presents a concert given by this distinguished young cellist, Strings Category winner of the 2018 Young Musician of the Year.

Tickets £15 from the Hay Festival Box Office.

Programme

Johann Sebastian Bach:  Cello Suite No.1 in G Major

George Crumb:  Sonata for Solo Cello (1955)

Gaspar Cassadó:  Suite for Solo Cello (1926)

No interval

Cellist Maxim Calver first gained public recognition as a BBC Young Musician 2018 Grand Finalist and Strings Category winner, where he made his concerto debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Since the competition he has been in high demand as a soloist across the UK and Europe.

Hear him play a programme that includes Bach’s much-loved Cello Suite No.1 in G major, Gaspar Cassadó’s 1926 Suite for solo cello, which combines traditional Spanish dance rhythms with elegant, fluid melodic passages reminiscent of French style, and a rare performance of George Crumb’s Sonata for Solo Cello from 1955.