Our next recital will be on Tuesday 22 October 2024 at 7.15 pm in the Pottery Room at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.  The pianist is Cristian Sandrin who will be playing:

Purcell:               Suite in D minor
Mozart:              Sonata in C major  K279
Mozart:              Sonata in F major  K280
Granados:         The Maiden & The Nightingale
Schumann:        Kreisleriana  Op.16
Pletnev/Tchaikovsky:    The Nutcracker Suite

Non-members welcome.  Tickets at the door are £15; free for under 21s and full time mature students.

Please note that this is an amended programme

The Society is still looking for a new Treasurer.  If you might be interested in this position, please contact our Chairman, David Pennycuick, for further details.  His email is pennycuickdavid@gmail.com

We are pleased to announce the Society’s programme for the 2021-22 season.  There will be seven recitals, all on Tuesdays at 7.15 pm in the Pottery Room of Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.

21 September 2021    Viv McLean

12 October 2021    Iyad Sughayer

9 November 2021     Dominic Degavino

7 December 2021    Pippa Harrison & James Willshire

8 February 2022     Antonina Suhanova

8 March 2022    Cristian Sandrin

12 April 2022    Daniel Lebhardt

We regret that the last recital of the season (Daniel Lebhardt on 18 May) also has to be cancelled.  All this season’s recitals are being rescheduled for the 2021-22 season, which will start with Viv McLean on Tuesday 21 September at 7.30 p.m.   Dates and pianists for the other recitals will be posted when these are confirmed.

Murray McLachlan (Head of Keyboard Studies, Chethams , Manchester & co-author of the Teacher Notes) will  play a selection from all the grades of the ABRSM Piano Syllabus, 2019-20, on our lovely Steinway Grand, on

Friday 11^th January, 2019 @ 7.00 p.m.

at the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens.

Tickets: Adults £10, Children £5 

 from: Museum, Sunderland, SR1 1PP

           Windows Music Shop, Central Arcade, Newcastle  0191 2321356

           N A Swallow 0191 2364864 or sunderlandpiano@outlook.com

Windows will also be selling the pieces before the performance and during the interval

Free nibbles available plus wine for sale

Tickets are limited – so book early (only unsold tickets will be available at the door)

We are delighted to acknowledge a generous grant from Sunderland City Council (East Sunderland Area Committee).  This will be of considerable assistance to the Society for our 74th season 2016-2017.