Join us for Fungi Field Day at the Botanic Garden to celebrate fungi and their relationships with plants in the run up to UK Fungus Day. Highlights include:

🍄 A range of talks from expert speakers about fungi and their interactions with plants.

🔬Science outreach stall with microscopes to view fungi that live deep inside plant roots.

The lights will highlight some of the Garden’s most beloved features, such as the Fountain, Lake and Glasshouse Range, and create special experiences around the rest of the Garden. There will be new, original installations that are unique to the Garden, as well as the return of some of last year’s most popular pieces such as the light tunnel and lilies on the Lake.

The Café will be part of the trail with warm offerings, and food stalls halfway around the route will be serving hot drinks and light bites to revive spirits and warm up any chilly fingers!

About Peter de Bolla

Peter de Bolla has been Professor of Cultural History and Aesthetics since 2009 at the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge.  He has been a visiting Professor in Siegen, at Vanderbilt and will be at New York University in the Fall of 2014 and in Uppsala in the fall of 2015.  He is Director of the Cambridge Concept Lab in the Cambridge Centre for Digital Knowledge at CRASSH.

Full Programme

10 October 2024: The Jim and Helen Eden Concert – Doric Quartet

24 October 2024: Castalian Quartet and Tim Posner, cello

31 October 2024: Sterling Elliot, cello and Gabriele Strata, piano

7 November: Trio Chagall

Programme

JS Bach, Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C BWV 846 

Lili Boulanger, ThĂšme et Variations

Gabriel Fauré, Barcarolle No.4 in A Flat Op.44

Maurice Ravel, Jeux d’eau

Edvard Grieg, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen No.65 Op.6

Astor Piazzolla (arr. Kyoko Yamamoto), Milonga

Dmitri Shostakovich, Prelude and Fugue 24 in D minor Op.87

Graham Fitkin, Scent

Rodgers and Hammerstein/Hough, My Favourite Things

Programme

Michael Head, Over the Rim of the Moon; The Ships of Arcady; Beloved; A Blackbird Singing; Nocturne

Gabriel Fauré, Le papillon et la fleur Op.1, No.1; Green Op.58, No. 3; La rose Op.51, No.4; Fleur jetée Op.39 No.2

Francis Poulenc, Tel jour, telle nuit

Franz Schubert, Der Wanderer an den Mond D.870; Wandrers Nachtlied D.224

Robert Schumann, Wanderung, Op.35, No.7

Clara Schumann, Der Wanderer; Der Wanderer in der SĂ€gemĂŒhle

Programme

Domenico Turi, Sguardi

Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49

Robert Schumann, PhantasiestĂŒcke Op.88

Robert Schumann, Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.63

About Trio Chagall

LORENZO NGUYEN, PIANO

EDOARDO GRIECO, VIOLIN

FRANCESCO MASSIMINO, CELLO

Programme

Amy Beach, Four Sketches, Op.15 III. Dreaming (1892)

Kevin Day, GymnopĂ©die I (2018)

Kevin Day, Cello Sonata (2016)

Amy Beach, Romance Op.23 (1893)

Jean R. Perrault, Brother Malcolm (2009)

George Walker, Cello Sonata (1957)

William Grant Still, Mother and Child (1943)

Programme

Franz Schubert, Quartet No.13 in A minor, D804 ‘Rosamunde’

Gyorgy KurtĂ g, Six moments musicaux Op. 44

Franz Schubert, String Quintet in C major D956

About Castalian Quartet

SINI SIMONEN, VIOLIN

DANIEL ROBERTS, VIOLIN

NATALIE LOUGHRAN, VIOLA

STEFFAN MORRIS, CELLO

TIM POSNER, CELLO (SCHUBERT ONLY)

Programme

Beethoven, String Quartet No.16 in F major, Op.135

Haydn, String Quartet in D major, Op.20 No.4

Beethoven, String Quartet No.15 in A minor, Op.132

About Doric String Quartet

ALEX REDINGTON, VIOLIN
YING XUE, VIOLIN
HÉLÈNE CLÉMENT, VIOLA
JOHN MYERSCOUGH, CELLO

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