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Our 2008/9 season begins on 17th September with the duo of Aisling Agnew (flute) and Matthew Macallister (guitar), combining the sounds of two of the loveliest instruments in the special surroundings of the Town Hall. This excerpt (click on "Track Listing at the bottom left of their page) which include on from Bizet's "Carmen" illustrates the wonderful effects and technique we may hear.

On 14th October, we give a first welcome to the Auer Quartet of Hungary a well-established ensemble who have been warmly recommended.

Our next concert, on November 11th concert, allows us to welcome back firm favourites - the Kungsbacka trio. On this occasion, they are visiting Scotland on a tour, including the performance of a new commission by Scottish composer Helen Grimes, in addition to trios by Beethoven, Brahms and others.

For our pre-Christmas concert, on 9th December, we hear Latvian pianist Arta Arnicane. Although she doesn't have her own website, of the older Internet links to Arta, perhaps the most fascinating was the link to Glasgow West End Fencing Club, for whom she probably competed while studying there.

On 14th January, we have our opening concert of 2009, when the Frith Piano Quartet join us. All soloists in their own right, they have a special dedication to live chamber music as played at clubs like ours.

For our concert on 12th February, we are lucky enough to have been selected by the Tunnell Trust as a venue for a concert by their prize winners, the Illuminati Wind Quartet. This Divertissement by Marcel Bitsch (click on Audio on the page displayed) gives a taste of what we might expect.

In our concert on 17th March, the all-female French Psophos Quartet are joined by violist Nils Monkemeyer to perform two of the major works of the viola quintet repertoire, by Mozart and Brahms, as well as a string quartet.

Our April concert will be a recital given by the winner of the Moray Piano Competition, 2008, which might well be the first public recital by a future soloist.

On May 13th, our lastl concert of the 2008/9 season will be given by Sax-Ecosse, whose style "Playing a combination of classical music and light jazz" is sure to appeal to our audience for our final concert. These works provide a flavour of the variety of styles available to this ensemble.

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