Laura Piras

Flautist specialising in historical flutes. Artistic Director @thevauxhallband

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A very happy team at the completion of the first phase of our recording project with @DeuxClassical 🎶✨

Thank you to everyone for two inspiring days working together to create something truly amazing.

Supported by @ContinuoFndn, @CASSGB and others not on social media.

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Great first day of our recording with Deux-Elles.

Basset Horns: Katherine Spencer, Sarah Thurlow & Fiona Mitchell
Sopranos: Grace Davidson, Julia Doyle
Bass-Baritone: Edward Grint
Horns: Richard Bayliss, Martin Lawrence

Generously enabled by @ContinuoFndn and other supporters

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Do you love 18th-century music as much as we do? 🎶

Become a Friend with a monthly or annual donation, or a Supporter with a one-off donation, and help us bring concerts, recordings & education projects to life.

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Happy New Year from The Vauxhall Band!

Here’s what we’ve been up to in 2025 🎶

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The Basset Horn in Vienna, 13.10.2025

This concert was generously supported by The Vauxhall Band's Friends & Supporters, and project grant awards from Angel Early Music, the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain, and The Golsoncott Foundation.

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Extend your weekend this Monday with a night out 18th-century Viennese style!

📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: £20 full price, £5 for students/under 25s.

https://t.co/fFFVaHBa0r

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Thank you so much to @ContinuoFndn for awarding a project grant to support our 2026 debut recording of chamber and orchestral works featuring basset horns with the renowned @DeuxClassical

We're absolutely delighted and can’t wait to share our project.

https://t.co/7BBZkBMTj9

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#NewConcertMc
13 October 2025 East Finchley
#Dittersdorf in concert thru @ContinuoFndn #continuoconnect!
@TheVauxhallBand present a magnificent concert with #Mozart #Paisiello #Hoffmeister #Druschestzky & #Dittersdorf:
The Basset Horn in Vienna! #Londoners
https://t.co/fAJqIy2WTB

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Hear Mozart’s solemnly beautiful Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music), which includes three basset horns, at our next concert:

🎶 The Basset Horn in Vienna
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, East Finchley
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: https://t.co/fFFVaHACaT

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Join us at our next concert 🎶

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Did you know Georg Druschetzky wrote a concerto for not one, not two, but THREE basset horns?

Hear Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow & Katherine Spencer perform this amazing work:

📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, London N2 9DP
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ https://t.co/fFFVaHACaT

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Concert! 🎶

Discover the sounds of the basset horn in Vienna at the height of its popularity there in the 1780s. Orchestral and chamber music by Mozart and his contemporaries.

Book tickets here:

https://t.co/fFFVaHACaT

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The Vauxhall Band Basset Horn Trio, Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow and Katherine Spencer, along with special guest, bassoonist Chris Rawley, return to perform in the amazing Salon Music Supper Concert series in Highgate, London on the 6th July.

🎟️ https://t.co/6NoN3mWbTj

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Beautiful, sad, profound... How can we even begin to describe the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem?

Here’s a moment from rehearsals for our performance with the Choir of St Philip’s Church, directed by Sam Coates, in April.

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The bassets are back! And this time…with a bassoon!

Music by Druschetzky, Hoffmeister, Nudera and Mozart plus an 18th-century inspired supper created by host & food historian Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.

📆 6th July 2025
📍 Highgate
⏰ 18.30
🎟️ https://t.co/JBcoBqZCb7

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We had a great time last night performing Mozart's Requiem with the amazing Choir of St Philip's Church, which includes Libera, directed by Sam Coates.

Here we're rehearsing the terrifying and awe-inspiring Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) 😱


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Join us this Sunday 6th April when we’ll be performing Mozart’s Requiem with the amazing all boys and young male voice Choir of St Philip’s, which includes members of Libera.

No advance tickets. Please make a donation of your choice after the concert.

https://t.co/v0PC5J2OAX

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Scotch Gavotte from the Overture to Thomas Arne's opera Thomas and Sally.

Hear us perform this jolly little tune plus other folk-inspired pieces, trio sonatas & traditional folk music at the @LHandelFestival

Tuesday 1st April, 1pm
The Charterhouse

🎟️ https://t.co/EzS2ajeVlt

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Join us at our @LHandelFestival concert to experience music from 18th-century London’s many pleasure gardens.

🎶 Garden Folk
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
⏰ 13.00
📍 The Charterhouse, London EC1M 6AN

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We're looking forward to performing Mozart's awe-inspiring Requiem with the amazing St Philip's Choir of men and boys.

📆 Sunday 6th April 2025
📍 St Philip's Church, London SW16 4NW
⏰ 18.30
🎟️ No advance tickets. There will be a retiring collection

https://t.co/8tzIwh0UbQ

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Trustee Vacancy: Treasurer

We're seeking an individual with a finance background and an interest in the arts to join The Vauxhall Band's Board of Trustees as Treasurer.

For further info and to apply please visit: https://t.co/c80iucfeDI