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2008:
Jan 18, Launch concert for Little Venice Music Festival - Ben Wragg and Kinesis Ensemble play Elgar's epic Piano Quintet alongside lighter works.

Jan 28, St Olave's Church- Ibuki Trio play Bridge & Ravel piano trios.

27 Feb, Florian Leonard Fine Violins - Ibuki Trio play Haydn Shostakovich, Ravel & Piazzolla.

1st March, LSO St. Luke's - Ibuki Trio make their official London debut playing Haydn, Ravel, Shostakovich & Piazzolla.

1st April, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital - Ben Wragg plays a selection of light works including some of his own arrangements for an audience plus in the wards.

8 April, St James's Piccadilly - Ibuki Trio (with Abigail Wragg - cello) play Haydn, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov.
26 May, St Martin-in-the-Fields - Ben Wragg plays Beethoven's Spring Sonata plus lighter works including his own arrangements with pianist kan Tomita.

10 June, Florian Leonard Fine Violins - Preview of next 2 concerts.

13 June, St George's Bloomsbury - Ben Wragg plays Vivaldi's Summer plus more short pieces with The Concordia International Ensemble.

15 June, The National Portrait Gallery -Repeat of previous concert

8 July, Queensgate - Preview concert for Chelsea Schubert Festival. Ben will perform 1st movement of Beethoven’s ’Spring’ Sonata with with the esteemed amateur pianist and supporter of cla
ssical music - RRev Michael Marshall.

25 July- Lyceum School. Ben Wragg London Violin Days Concert: A concert given by pupils of Ben Wragg at the end of his 5 day intensive course.

1 August - St Barnabas Church. Ibuki Trio perform Haydn & Mendellsohn piano trios at Ealing’s new summer proms music festival.

August 23-30th - Ben Wrag Violin Days in Calcinaia, Tuscany. Includes recitals given by Ben Wragg and his pupils.

Sep 4th, 630pm - Ben Wragg appears as guest of Sean Rafferty on Radio 3's In Tune, performing live the 1st movement of Schubert's Sonataina no.2 in A Minor with pianist Annie Yim.

Sep 7th , 3pm- Ben Wragg & Annie Yim play Schubert Brahms & Franck at The Chelsea Schubert Festival.

Sep 7th - 7pm - Ben Wragg & RRev Michael Marshall perform Beethoven's Spring Sonata @ The Chelsea Schubert Festival.

Nov 2nd, 3pm - Ben Wragg plays Franck's majestic Violin Sonata with Pianist Annie Yim @ The Foundling Museum.

Nov 2nd, 8pm- Ben Wragg + guests @ Spice of Life. A programme of extreme virtuosity: Schnittke, Piazzolla, Paganini and more.

Nov 9th, 25 Craven St. - Ben Wragg plays Franck Sonata plus lighter works with pianist Annie Yim to a private audience of Concordia Foundation supporters and sponsors.

Nov 18th - Kinesis Ensemble @ The Lyceum School. A programme of Elgar and more.

Nov 20th, 4pm - Ibuki Trio @ Florian Leonard Fine Violins play Beethoven, Ravel & Tchaikovsky.

Nov 21st, 630pm - Ibuki Trio @ Conway Hall London Chamber Music Series play Beethoven, Ravel & Tchaikovsky.

Nov 27th - 4 of Ben Wragg's most accomplished pupils appear as finalists of The Violin Prize (Intermediate & Senior Divisions) at The Royal Academy of Music , junior dept.

Dec 1st - Ibuki Trio @ St James's Piccadilly play Tchaikovsky.

Dec 3rd, Florian Leonard Fine violins - Kinesis Ensemble play Elgar & more.

Dec 5th, 630- Kinesis Ensemble @ Schotts playing Elgar and more.

Dec 6th, 630 - Kinesis Ensemble @ Burgh House, playing Elgar and more

Dec 17/18th - Ibuki Trio record Ravel & Shostakovich Debut Disc at St. Barthomolew's Brighton. (See www.claudiorecords.com)

Dec 20th 730pm - Concordia Christmas Concert at St Paul's, Covent Garden, featuring Ben Wragg, Ben Wragg's Junior Violin Ensemble, Voces8, & The Wragg Ensemble among others.

Dec 30th all day - Kinesis Ensemble record Elgar Piano Quintet at The Wigmore Hall. The rest of the disc will be recorded in August 09. (See www.sevencedarsrecords.com)

2009:

18 Jan 09, 3pm - Kinesis Ensemble @ St. Mary's, Perivale Lane, Perivale UB6 8SS

March 8, St Mary's Perivale - Ibuki Trio play Mendellsohn & Shostakovich for a private audience.

March 17th, Eaton Square School - Ben Wragg performs for pupils and staff.

March 18th, The Macbeth, Hoxton - Ben Wragg plays a selection of light works with pianist Antoine Francaise.

March 20th, In Studio - Ben Wragg records solo violin soundtrack for new feature film (to be luanched at Canes Film Festival).

April 7-11 - Ben Wragg Junior Violin Days

April 11- Pupils of Ben Wragg perform after attending London Violin Days Junior Course.

April 13-17, Portland Place School - Ben Wragg Violin Days.

April 17th - End of course concert given by pupils of Ben Wragg.

April 30th , Robinsfield School - Ben & Abigail Wragg perform for pupils and staff of the school.

24 June - Ecclestone St, Belgravia - Private Black Tie Launch Concert and Formal Dinner of Wooton Music Festival given by Ben Wragg - violin, Abigail Wragg - cello, James Rhodes - piano & Sally Price - harp. Works by Bach, Franck, Chopin & Faure.

30 June (tbc), 720pm, Florian Leonard Fine Violins - Kinesis Ensemble play Elgar and a new tango by Graham Lynch.

2nd July 09, 7pm - The Lyceum, Paul St EC2. Kinesis play Elgar and a new tango by Graham Lynch.

5th July, 7.30pm - Burgh House, Hampstead. Kinesis play Elgar and a new tango by Graham Lynch

11th July 09, 630pm - Schott publishing Gt Marlborough st. Kinesis Ensemble play Elgar and a new tango by Graham Lynch.

23rd July, 7pm- Holy Trinity, Sloane Square. Ben Wragg plays Franck with pianist Gareth Owen at the preview concert of this year's Chelsea Schubert Festival.

25 July, 1am - Ben Wragg makes his rock festival debut playing a solo violin set at the Truck Festival, Seventon, Oxfordshire.

26 July - 730pm , Craxton Studios - Charity Concert - Ben performs Jewish inspired works by Bloch, John Williams and more.

27th - 31st July - Ben Wragg Violin Days (London)

August 7th, St Barnabas Proms, St Barnabas Church Ealing. 7pm - Ben Wragg plays Massanet & Paganini at The Last Night of the Proms gala concert, which comprises several instrumentalists playing virtuoso ‘party pieces’ plus Rule Brittania etc!

August 12 - St Mary's Perivale, Perivale Lane - Ben Wragg plays Franck Sonata plus Paganini with pianist Kan Tomita.
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24th August, 3.30pm - St. Martins-in-the field afternoon tea concert. Kinesis play Elgar and a new tango by Graham Lynch.

22-28 August - Ben Wragg Violin Days - London.

2 September, Wigmore Hall, all day - Kinesis record Elgar.

5 September, 7pm - St Pancreas Church, Kings Cross, London - Ibuki Trio play trios by Haydn, Schubert & Ravel.

11 September, 7.30pm, Chelsea Schubert Festival, Holy Trinity, Sloane Square - Ibuki Trio play piano trios by Schubert, Haydn & Ravel.

4 October - 1130 am, The Red Hedgehog, 255-257 Archway Road, Highgate, London N6 5BS, 0208 348 5050 (Box Office), www.theredhedgehog.co.uk - Ben performs folk inspired works by De Falla, Bartok & Piazzolla in a new duo with Cuban guitarist Ahmed Dickinson at this exciting new venue in Highgate.

7th October - The Red Hedgehog 1.15pm - repeat programme.

11th October - The Red Hedgehog, 4pm - Ben performs with pianist Kan Tomita, works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Ysaye & Franck.

21st Oct - The Red Hedgehog, 1.15pm - Repeat programme of Violin & Guitar recital.

25 Oct, 630pm, Conway Hall, London - Ibuki Trio perform piano trios by Schubert, Haydn & Ravel at The Conway Hall Chamber Music Series.

November 4 - 8pm - Ben performs as soloist for Italian Fashion Show, Mayfair London.

23 November, 515pm Broadcasting House, Portland Place, London W1 - Live performance and interview of Ibuki Trio on BBC Radio 3's In Tune programme.

25 November, 1pm Bridgewater Hall, Manchester - Ibuki Trio play Haydn & Ravel as part of the Manchester Midday Concerts Series for which they were chosen from auditions.

3 Jan, 730pm- The Little Proms, Spice of Life, Cambridge Circus W1. Ben plays folk inspired works with Cuban guitarist Ahmed Dickinson.

21 Feb, 730pm - First private performance of new arrangement of Elgar's Introduction & Allegro by Kinesis Ensemble. Wooton Hill residence of Heidi & Paul Bate.

4 March, 8 onwards - Ben performs works for unaccompanied violin by Bach, Ysaye & Schnittke at Nonclassical, The Horse and Groom, 28 Curtain Road, Shorditch EC2, Nearest tube – Liverpool Street
8pm – Late
Tickets £3/4.

18 March, 8pm - Kinesis Ensemble give a private performance at Florian Leonhard Fine Violins NW3.

31 March - Kineisis Ensemble recording session, Wigmore Hall, London.

11 April - Ibuki Trio recording session, St Barts Brighton.

12-16 April - Ben Wragg Violin Days.

June 4th, 730pm - St Barnabas, Ealing: Schumann Festival. Ben Wragg & Kan Tomita join an all start line up for a celebration of Schumann's works. We will play Violin Sonata no.1.

June 27th, 3pm - Headstone Church, Harrow - Kinesis Ensemble perform as part of this well established concert series. Works by Chopin & Elgar.

July 3rd, 730pm, Lyceum. - Private performance of Kinesis Ensemble's new arrangement of Elgar's Intro & Allegro followed by drinks & canapes.

July 10th, Clare Hall, Cambridge - Kinesis Ensemble perform programme of Chopin & Elgar at this highly regarded chamber music venue.

August 4th, St Barnabas Ealing, 730 - Ibuki Trio perform Beethoven Eb Trio plus the epic Tchaikovsky Trio as part of the Summer Proms Series.

Oct 3rd, St Mary's Paddington, 730 - Ibuki Trio perform works by Schubert, Ravel & Shostakovich as part of The Little Venice Music Festival.

Dec 5 - Conway Hall, Red Lion Sq, Holborn, 630- Kinesis Ensemble perform works by Chopin, Elgar & Franck at The Conway Hall's prestigious Sunday Chamber Music Series.

Dec 12, St Mary's Perivale, 3pm - Kinesis Ensemble repeat previous programme.

Feb 15 - St mary's, 730 - Ibuki Trio Shostakovich

March 16 - Lyceum - Christchurch Earthquake Fundraiser Concert

29 March, 515pm - In Tune: Live interview and performance with Sean Rafferty, BBC radio 3.

April 1 - 130 Queens Gate , 630 - Ben Wragg & Ahmed Dickinson Launch.

April 11-17 & 18-21, Lyceum School - London Violin Days

May 15 - Harrow School, 3pm - Ibuki Trio Fundraiser for Japan Earthquake Appeal

July 23-29 & Aug 14 - 20: London Violin Days.

Tbc - Ben Wragg returns: Solo Violin @ Non Classical.