We are friends and colleagues who draw on a wealth of experience gained through many years of music-making. Since our formation, we have given hundreds of concerts, and have an enormous and varied repertoire of chamber music.
Ignaz Pleyel
We take our name from the Classical composer Ignaz Pleyel (1757-1831), a brilliant musician and businessman, who, in addition to writing a large body of accessible chamber music, helped increase the popularity of this wonderful kind of music-making amongst amateurs and professionals as both music publisher and piano manufacturer in the early nineteenth century
Upcoming Concerts
Pleyel Ensemble
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Concert: Schubert Plus! | ||
| 13/09/25 | Didsbury, Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6, Barlow Moor Road. Schubert Plus! no. 9 Trout Quintet and Dussek Quintet (1799) Buy Tickets | ||
| Concert: Mellor Sunday Afternoon Tea Concerts | ||
| 21/09/25 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20 or £5 (under 16s). Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Piano trios: Beethoven’s mighty Archduke Trio Op. 97 plus a trio by our namesake Ignaz Pleyel. | ||
| 19/10/25 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20 and £5 (under 16s). Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Piano Quartets by Mozart (Eb major) and Brahms (G minor). | ||
| Concert: Schubert Plus! | ||
| 25/10/25 | Didsbury, Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6, Barlow Moor Road. Schubert Plus! no. 10 String Quintet in C major D. 956. One of the most iconic pieces of chamber music ever composed and a work of the greatest beauty and genius. | ||
| Concert: Mellor Sunday Afternoon Tea Concerts | ||
| 16/11/25 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20 and £5 (under 16s). Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Piano Duets: Ben Powell and Harvey Davies play a programme to include Schubert’s Fantaisie in F minor D. 940 and some of György Kurtág’s beautiful arrangements of JS Bach and his own miniatures. | ||
| Concert: Schubert Plus! | ||
| 22/11/25 | Didsbury, Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6, Barlow Moor Road. Schubert Plus! no.11 featuring the french horn. Laurence Davies joins Harvey and Sarah for Schubert’s ‘Auf dem Strom’, a new commission from Tim Jackson and Brahms’ wonderful horn trio. | ||
| 06/12/25 | Didsbury, Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6, Barlow Moor Road. Schubert Plus! no. 12 Ben Powell and Harvey Davies explore more of Schubert’s huge output of piano duets including the huge Grand Duo in C major, D. 812 | ||
| Concert: Mellor Sunday Afternoon Tea Concerts | ||
| 08/02/26 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20 or £5 (under 16s). Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Flute, oboe and piano. Fabulous, fun music by Telemann, Saint-Saëns, Madeleine Dring and William Mathias with Jonathan Rimmer, Josh Hall and Harvey Davies. | ||
| Concert: Schubert Plus! | ||
| 14/02/26 | Didsbury, Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6, Barlow Moor Road. Schubert Plus! no. 13. Programme tba shortly | ||
| Concert: Mellor Sunday Afternoon Tea Concerts | ||
| 08/03/26 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20 or £5 (under 16s). Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Piano Trios: Schubert 2nd trio in Eb D. 929 is paired with one of Haydn’s marvellous trios. | ||
| Concert: Schubert Plus! | ||
| 21/03/26 | Didsbury, Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6, Barlow Moor Road. Schubert Plus! no 14. Programme tba shortly | ||
| 18/04/26 | Didsbury, Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6, Barlow Moor Road. Schubert Plus! no 15. Programme tba shortly | ||
| Concert: Mellor Sunday Afternoon Tea Concerts | ||
| 10/05/26 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20 or £5 (under 16s). Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Clarinet trios with Janet Hilton, David Aspin and Harvey Davies. Mozart ‘Kegelstatt’ trio, Schumann’s ‘Märchenerzählungen’ Op. 132 and Rebecca Clarke’s ‘Morpheus’ for viola and piano | ||
| Concert: Schubert Plus! | ||
| 30/05/26 | Didsbury, Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6, Barlow Moor Road. Schubert Plus! no. 16. Programme to include the beautiful Arpeggione Sonata D. 821 played by David Aspin and Harvey Davies. | ||
| 18/07/26 | Didsbury, Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6, Barlow Moor Road. Schubert Plus! no. 17. Programme tba shortly | ||
‘The Ensemble which thrilled us last season’
Rhyl Music Club
‘You are such wonderful communicators – both of the emotional range and variety of the music you played, and of your own infectious enjoyment – that Saturday’s concert was a very special one, hugely relished by the audience’
Banstead Arts Feb. 2020
‘The (Middlewich & District) Society enjoyed a performance by the Pleyel Ensemble that members said was both ‘enthralling and exciting’
Crewe Chronicle