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
Ben Powell and Harvey Davies
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Concert: General | ||
| 09/12/23 | Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6 Barlow Moor Rd, Didsbury. Ben and Harvey present another exciting programme of music for two pianos. | ||
Pleyel Ensemble
| Date | City | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Concert: Mellor Sunday Afternoon Tea Concerts | ||
| 24/09/23 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20/£5 under-16s. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Programme: Dvořák Piano Quartet Op. 87 and Schumann Piano Quartet, Op. 47 Buy Tickets | ||
| Concert: Beethoven PLUS! | ||
| 30/09/23 | Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6 Barlow Moor Rd, Didsbury. We start the new season with the 25th of our Beethoven Plus! concerts and welcome violinist David Greed to join us for a performance of Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44. The Beethoven will be the great C major ‘Cello Sonata, Op. 102, no. 1 and one of his sets of variations for violin and piano. | ||
| 14/10/23 | Wakefield, Yorkshire | Wakefield Concert Society |
| Time: 7:30pm. A programme of string trios with details of venue and repertoire to be announced shortly | ||
| Concert: Mellor Sunday Afternoon Tea Concerts | ||
| 15/10/23 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20/£5 under-16s. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Programme: String trios by Pleyel, Schubert, Arnold Cooke and Beethoven. Buy Tickets | ||
| Concert: Beethoven PLUS! | ||
| 28/10/23 | Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6 Barlow Moor Rd, Didsbury. Programme tba | ||
| 25/11/23 | Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6 Barlow Moor Rd, Didsbury. Programme tba | ||
| Concert: Mellor Sunday Afternoon Tea Concerts | ||
| 26/11/23 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20/£5 under-16s. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Programme: piano trios by Schubert (Bb) and Shostakovich. Buy Tickets | ||
| Concert: Beethoven PLUS! | ||
| 27/01/24 | Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6 Barlow Moor Rd, Didsbury. Beethoven Plus! continues with the programme tba | ||
| Concert: Mellor Sunday Afternoon Tea Concerts | ||
| 18/02/24 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20/£5 under-16s. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Programme: to include trios for clarinet, cello and piano by Brahms and Milhaud. Buy Tickets | ||
| 23/02/24 | Dolgellau, Gwynedd | Coleg Meirion-Dwyfor |
| Time: 7:30pm. Admission: £12. Box office: (01341) 388329. Address: Ffordd Ty’n Coed. Sarah, David and Heather play a programme of string trios. Buy Tickets | ||
| Concert: Beethoven PLUS! | ||
| 24/02/24 | Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6 Barlow Moor Rd, Didsbury. Beethoven Plus! no. 29 | ||
| Concert: Mellor Sunday Afternoon Tea Concerts | ||
| 17/03/24 | Mellor, Stockport | Mellor Parish Centre |
| Time: 3:00pm. Admission: £20/£5 under-16s. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: Church Road. Programme: Schubert Trout Quintet plus Dussek’s beautiful quintet with piano and double bass. Buy Tickets | ||
| Concert: Beethoven PLUS! | ||
| 23/03/24 | Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6 Barlow Moor Rd, Didsbury. Beethoven Plus! 30 programme tba | ||
| 13/04/24 | Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6 Barlow Moor Rd, Didsbury. Beethoven Plus! no. 31, programme tba | ||
| 25/05/24 | Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Box office: 0161 976 5955. Address: 6 Barlow Moor Rd, Didsbury. Beethoven Plus! no. 32 programme tba | ||
| 22/06/24 | Manchester | Emmanuel Church |
| Time: 11:00am. Admission: £5. Address: 6 Barlow Moor Rd, Didsbury. Beethoven Plus! no. 33 programme tba | ||
‘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