Bishop Auckland Music Society Concert
Lumas Winds- Friday 5 th September 2025 7.30pm at Bishop Auckland Methodist Church
LUMAS Winds is a dynamic chamber ensemble based in London.
Winners of the 71st Royal Over-Seas League Mixed Ensemble Prize in 2023, Lumas are committed
ambassadors for wind chamber music and the rich variety of repertoire that it offers. The ensemble
are currently Kirckman Concerts Young Artists and Britten Pears Young Artists and in 2023/24 were
Making Music’s Phillip and Dorothy Green Young Artists.
Alongside performing the classics of the repertoire, Lumas enjoy exploring works not currently in
the canon but which deserve to be so. Their debut album The Naming of Birds was released in May
2024 by Champs Hill Records. The album brings together repertoire from every decade from 1960 to
the early 21 st Century and includes three world premiere recordings by Sally Beamish, Gavin Higgins
and Elizabeth Maconchy.
Lumas won the Royal Academy of Music’s Historical Women Composers Prize in 2022 with its
performance of the latter, a major discovery from the ensemble’s visit to the Maconchy archive at
St. Hilda’s, Oxford.
Lumas have performed at the Wigmore Hall, and at the Corbridge, Ironstone and Winchester
Chamber Music Festivals. Amongst these collaborations have been performances of Poulenc’s Sextet
with pianists Huw Watkins and Benjamin Frith. They have toured Scottish music clubs as recipients
of the prestigious Tunnel Trust award.
Lumas Winds programme includes:
Valerie Coleman Afro-Cuban Concerto (2001)
Darius Milhaud La Cheminée du Roi René op.205 (1939)
Anton Reicha Wind Quintet in Eb major, Op 88, No.2
Leonard Bernstein Suite from West Side Story arr. Richard Price
Astor Piazzolla Histoire Du Tango arr. Ulf Guido-Schafer (1985)
Advance tickets priced £17.50. As always, children are welcome to attend free of charge and they
will have the opportunity to meet the performers, but a ticket is required. Further information
including how to purchase tickets available at:
https://bvemv.orpheusweb.co.uk/BAMSWeb/bams.html
