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If you are new to Skipton Music, then please allow us to introduce ourselves: founded in 1947, we are a not-for-profit charity run by a team of local volunteers. Each year we organise six world-class chamber music concerts on Tuesday evenings between September and March at the magnificently refurbished Skipton Town Hall.
If you like the look of this year’s concerts, please do consider buying a season ticket. Season tickets offer you a discount (around 30%) and the same seats for every performance. Season ticket sales provide us with a stable financial platform to continue supporting professional musicians as well as enhancing the cultural life of Skipton and the surrounding areas. Our popular concerts have continued to draw larger audiences, and we’re pleased to have been able to keep all our tickets at the same price for a fourth consecutive season.
This season is the first arranged following some changes to the committee. Sally Johnson has now stepped down as Concerts Secretary, a post she held since 2020 after joining the committee eight years ago. She undertook the role with creativity and boundless energy, modernising many aspects of the series and helping to grow our audiences. Sally also oversaw the extremely difficult circumstances around performances during the Covid-19 pandemic with good sense and grace. We are all extremely grateful to Sally for all she has done for Skipton Music and for her help during this transition and we are looking forward immensely to continuing to develop Skipton Music in the coming seasons.
In a similar vein, Peter Leach, our treasurer and a commitee member for eleven years has stepped down from this role and we welcome Stephanie Sayers to the committee as our new treasurer. Also joining the committee, in the role of Press and Publicity, is Pete Stollery.
A new development for this season is the introduction of playlists for each concert which gives you the chance to listen online to some of the music being performed before the concert takes place. These playlists can be found on each of the concert pages on the website. We're also going to try out the idea of a monthly Listening Club - a bit like a book club, taking one of the pieces of music from the upcoming concert. We'll announce the piece a couple of weeks before the concert and then the week before, we'll meet up (probably online for this first season) and listen to the piece before discussing it - we might even be able to get some of the performers to join in as well! If you're interested in joining the Listening Club, please click here!
Looking forward to seeing you at the concerts!
Arthur Keegan
Concerts Programming
