Recording of concert Wapen van Kennemerland published
A recording has been added to the website of the recent concert in het Wapen van Kennerland in Haarlem.
- Sacha and Andrew - Piacevole
- Sacha and Andrew - Elegy No 1
- Sacha and Andrew - Dorian Blue
- Sacha and Andrew - Festivo
- Sacha and Andrew - Song of Spring
- Sacha and Andrew - Song of an Indian Summer
Concert and play
There is an event on Saturday April 23rd at 19.30 in Haarlem featuring Michael’s music.
A play is also performed about Otto Frank, Anne Frank’s father “Otto” written by Sue Saunders.
Michael Jon Smith Viola Solo
A video has been published on YouTube featuring Michael Jon Smith playing a Viola Solo.
After his professional career Michael still enjoyed playing in several amateur orchestras.
His favourite amongst these was the Tourmalijn Orchestra with which orchestra he is playing this Viola Solo.
Michael Smith performing a solo with Toermalijn orchestra in 2006
Michael Jon Smith Scores published
Work has begun to digitize Michael Jon Smith’s music.
There are now several works available to download on this website for Viola/Violin, solo Viola, solo Pianoforte, String Quartet and Flute/Pianoforte.
Please contact us if you wish to perform any of these works.
CD Running To Paradise
The CD Running To Paradise has been released.
Running to Paradise has also been released digitally !
The album is available to buy at iTunes and every other large digital platform !
You can also listen here.
- Running to Paradise - Song and Dance Phantasy No. 1 op. 34 7:39
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - March intro 1:19
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Lament 2:11
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Landlubbers Hornpipe 1:48
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Lenny's Waltz 2:32
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Wally's Jig 1:54
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Pastoral Air 2:13
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Strathspey 1:44
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Dinky's Reel 1:53
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - March exit 1:29
- Running to Paradise - Piacevole 3:00
- Running to Paradise - The Seasons - February 1:50
- Running to Paradise - The Seasons - June 4:33
- Running to Paradise - The Seasons - September 3:53
- Running to Paradise - The Seasons - November 3:42
- Running to Paradise -Running to Paradise - Berceuse Michael Jon Smith 3:13
- Running to Paradise -Running to Paradise - The Lonely Lanes of Ireland Michael Jon Smith 2:43
- Running to Paradise -Running to Paradise - Running to Paradise 4:16
- Running to Paradise -Music for a Marriage 6:18
- Running to Paradise -Modal Duets - Folk Song 0:48
- Running to Paradise -Modal Duets - Scherzo Tranquill 1:46
- Running to Paradise -Modal Duets - Meditations 1:22
- Running to Paradise - Lingmell 13:27
- Running to Paradise - Berthe 2:45
Concert A Friendship in Music
On Friday 21st February 2020 at 7pm there will be a concert in the Lit & Phil Library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England featuring music by Michael Smith and Christopher Wood, both composers from the North East of England.
The same program will be performed in St Mary’s Church Ambleside on Saturday February 22nd 2020 at 7pm.
‘A Friendship in Music’
Christopher Wood / Michael Jon Smith
Works for Cello, Violin, Viola, Piano and Voice
‘The still point of the turning world’ (T. S Eliot)
Friday February 21st. 2020 7 pm
The Lit. and Phil. Library, Newcastle on Tyne
NE1 1SE tel 01912320192
Saturday February 22nd 2020 7 pm
St Mary’s Church Ambleside
LA 22 9DH tel 078341349164
Christopher Wood (1911 – 1990), an international pianist, adopted the North as his home …
Michael Smith (1948 – 2009, a fine violinist and violist, moved away but always came back …
Quirky, sophisticated and romantic by turns, their music defies genre, reflecting the beauty and the drama of the natural world and of humanity within it.
Both composers studied under Herbert Howells – and by a strange twist of fate, neither knowing anything of this connection, they met in 1990, with Smith playing in Wood’s memorial concert at the People’s Theatre a year later.
Includes Deborah Thorne playing Wood’s ‘Lament for a Celt’ and Nicholas Butters on piano, together with members of the Borrowdale Ensemble in Smith’s ‘ Bitter Suite, several of Wood’s beautiful settings of poems Edward Thomas and DH Lawrence for tenor (Austin Gunn) and soprano (Caren Moffett) by, and Dawn Allen leading a group of violinists in Smith’s ‘Enchanted Quartets’.
Tickets available at the door £10
Appearance at Storioni festival
On Saturday May 18th 2019 Michael’s music was performed at the Storioni festival in Eindhoven by Inge IJpelaar, Ien Bouwmans and Marie-Astrid Vermaas.
Program:
Berceuse melancholique and the Lonely lanes of Ireland (piano/flute)
Song of first love and Ennerdale (piano/soprano)
November (piano)
Concert Return To Paradise in Newcastle upon Tyne
There is a concert on October 25th 2018 in Newcastle upon Tyne.
The concert starts at 7.30pm at the Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road in Newcastle upon Tyne.
It features Lydia Abell (Viola), Dawn Allen and John Garner (Violin), Sarah Robinson (Piano), Students of the Royal Grammar school and the Sage, Gateshead and members of the Cobweb Orchestra.
The CD Running To Paradise with music by Michael Jon Smith is to be presented at the concert.
Music by Michael Jon Smith is to be played at the concert.

Presentation CD Running to Paradise in Heeswijk Castle
On February 4th 2018 Running to Paradise is to be presented at Heeswijk Castle.
A coffee concert is planned starting at noon till 1pm.
For details about this concert:
CD presentation Running to Paradise
It’s possible to combine this event with a visit or tour of Heeswijk castle.
Details about Heeswijk Castle:
Heeswijk Castle
CD Running to Paradise released
The CD Running to Paradise has been released.
Running to Paradise has also been released digitally !
The album is available to buy at iTunes and every other large digital platform !
Donations:
Donations can be made out to NL92INGB0008046454, Stichting Michael Jon Smith in the Netherlands
Financial statement 2016
The financial statement for 2016 has been published.
Recording for the CD, Running to Paradise, was completed in 2016.
Preparations for the production of the CD are in the final stages.
The CD is expected to be published in the summer of 2017.
CONCERT MICHAEL JON SMITH – RUNNING TO PARADISE
There will be a concert on May 7th 8:15 PM in the pianola museum in Amsterdam.
This concert is the kick-off for our CD recording project, which has been organised for this year !
(our intention is to have another concert later this year after the CD recording at Heeswijk Castle)
Playing at the concert are:
Emlyn Stam – Viola
Shuann Chai – Piano
Inge IJpelaar – Flute
Programme for the concert:
Song and Dance Fantasy – Viola and Piano
Running to Paradise – Flute and Piano
Berceuse – Flute and Piano
Viola sonata for solo Viola
From ‘The Seasons’: ‘February’ and ‘June’ – Piano solo
interval
From ‘The Seasons’: ‘September’ and ‘November’ (Watendlath) – PIano solo
Caledonian Suite – Viola solo
Piacevole – Flute and Piano
Tickets and information:
Ordering tickets beforehand is advised.
Tickets will be 10 euro.
send an email to: info@pianola.nl
with the details (Concert Michael Jon Smith, May 7th 8:15 PM) of the concert. You will receive an answer about the availability and how to pay for your tickets.
Your tickets will be available at the counter. The museum is open from one half hour before the concert starts.
Please note: If a concert is cancelled, you will get notice and you will get a full refund of the money you paid for the tickets.
Telephone number pianola museum: +31 20 6279624
Adress pianola museum:
Westerstraat 106
1015 MN Amsterdam
Financial statement 2015
The financial statement for 2015 has been published.
Recordings from the concerts in Newcastle upon Tyne (August 7th 2015) and Edinburgh (August 10th 2015) have been added to the website:
Newcastle upon Tyne August 7th 2015
Edinburgh, August 10th 2015
Meanwhile preparations are ongoing for the recordings early next year.
RUNNING TO PARADISE (Tickets on sale in June)
For august 2015 our sister organisation in England has organized two concerts in Newcastle and Edinburgh.
PROGRAMME 2015
Aug 7, 7.30 Newcastle/Tyne: LIt & Phil NE1 1SE
Aug 10, 4.30 pm (1 hr) Edinburgh: St George/ St Andrew EH2 2PA
Running to Paradise – Flute and Piano
Caledonian Suite – Viola solo
Morsels – Flute and Viola
Song and Dance Fantasy – Viola and Piano
‘Ennerdale’ and ‘Song of First Love – Voice and Piano (Newcastle only)
Late Lark,Piacevole, Nostalgia,Song of Spring – Flute and PIano
From ‘The Seasons’: ‘August’ and ‘November’ (Watendlath) – PIano solo
Performance of String Quartet in A by Michael Jon Smith
April 23rd 2014 , 8pm
Café ‘t Wapen van Kennemerlaan , Ramplaan , Haarlem, Netherlands
&
April 26th 2014 7.30 pm
St Mary’s Heritage Centre (opposite the Sage Music Centre, Gateshead on
Tyne, UK)
For further information contact
Quartetto Damiate play String Quartet in A by Michael Jon Smith Opus 3
Ingrid de Vries, 1ste viool
Willemijn Bruins, 2de viool
Loeki Poncin, altviool
Feike van der Heide, cello
Followed by ‘Mostra’, a play about the C18 composer Charles Avison, written
by Smith’s brother, Sue Saunders, with Gordon Russell as Avison. (Directed
by Hugh Keegan)
Smith and Avison – born and brought up in Newcastle on Tyne, England, three
centuries apart
1767 – ‘Such trickery, such a pompous display of art!’ fumes Charles
Avison at the latest musical trends.
Alone in his attic study, the composer recalls personal triumphs and family
sorrows – but above all, the loves and friendships that make up his very
own soul music.
with live music from Quartetto Damiate . Singers : Helen Bartlett/Alex
Murchie. Keyboard : John Ward
Concert April 13th 2013
On April 13th 2013 Stichting Michael Jon Smith was presented in the Pianola Museum in Amsterdam.
Due to the limited seating arrangements this was a closed event.
After the opening friends of Michael played several of his compositions.
The organisation would like to thank them and all of the people who attendend this event.
Opname concert Wapen van Kennemerland gepubliceerd
Een opname van het concert in het Wapen van Kennerland in Haarlem is op de website gepubliceerd.
- Sacha and Andrew - Piacevole
- Sacha and Andrew - Elegy No 1
- Sacha and Andrew - Dorian Blue
- Sacha and Andrew - Festivo
- Sacha and Andrew - Song of Spring
- Sacha and Andrew - Song of an Indian Summer
Concert en toneelstuk
Op zaterdag 23 april om 19.30 uur is er in Haarlem een uitvoering van Michael’s muziek.
Er wordt dan ook een toneelstuk opgevoerd over Otto Frank, de vader van Anne Frank “Otto” geschreven door Sue Saunders.
Michael Jon Smith altviool solo
Op YouTube is een video gepubliceerd met Michael als altviool solist.
Na zijn professionele carriere speelde Michael nog graag in amateur orkesten.
Zijn favoriete orkest was orkest Tourmalijn, waarmee hij optreedt op deze video.
Solo optreden van Michael Smith met orkest in 2006
Michael Jon Smith partituren gepubliceerd
Er is een begin gemaakt om de muziek van Michael Jon Smith te digitaliseren.
Er zijn op deze website al diverse werken beschikbaar gesteld voor Altviool/Viool, solo Altviool, solo Pianoforte, Strijkkwartet en Fluit/Pianoforte.
Neem alstublieft contact met ons op indien u een van deze werken uit wilt voeren.
CD Running To Paradise
De CD Running to Paradise is uitgebracht.
De CD is ook digitaal gepubliceerd !
De digitale versie van het album is te koop op iTunes en elk ander groot digitaal platform, de opbrengsten gaan naar Stichting Michael Jon Smith.
De CD is ook hier te beluisteren:
- Running to Paradise - Song and Dance Phantasy No. 1 op. 34 7:39
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - March intro 1:19
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Lament 2:11
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Landlubbers Hornpipe 1:48
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Lenny's Waltz 2:32
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Wally's Jig 1:54
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Pastoral Air 2:13
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Strathspey 1:44
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - Dinky's Reel 1:53
- Running to Paradise - Suite Caledonia - March exit 1:29
- Running to Paradise - Piacevole 3:00
- Running to Paradise - The Seasons - February 1:50
- Running to Paradise - The Seasons - June 4:33
- Running to Paradise - The Seasons - September 3:53
- Running to Paradise - The Seasons - November 3:42
- Running to Paradise -Running to Paradise - Berceuse Michael Jon Smith 3:13
- Running to Paradise -Running to Paradise - The Lonely Lanes of Ireland Michael Jon Smith 2:43
- Running to Paradise -Running to Paradise - Running to Paradise 4:16
- Running to Paradise -Music for a Marriage 6:18
- Running to Paradise -Modal Duets - Folk Song 0:48
- Running to Paradise -Modal Duets - Scherzo Tranquill 1:46
- Running to Paradise -Modal Duets - Meditations 1:22
- Running to Paradise - Lingmell 13:27
- Running to Paradise - Berthe 2:45
Concert A Friendship in Music
Op vrijdag 21 februari 2020 om 19:00 uur is er een concert in de Lit & Phil bibliotheek in Newcastle upon Tyne, engeland met muziek van Michael Smith en Christopher Wood, beiden componisten uit het noordoosten van engeland.
Dit programma wordt ook uitgevoerd in St Mary’s Church Ambleside op 22 februari 2020 om 19:00 uur.
Christopher Wood / Michael Jon Smith
Works for Cello, Violin, Viola, Piano and Voice
‘The still point of the turning world’ (T. S Eliot)
Friday February 21st. 2020 7 pm
The Lit. and Phil. Library, Newcastle on Tyne
NE1 1SE tel 01912320192
Saturday February 22nd 2020 7 pm
St Mary’s Church Ambleside
LA 22 9DH tel 078341349164
Christopher Wood (1911 – 1990), an international pianist, adopted the North as his home …
Michael Smith (1948 – 2009, a fine violinist and violist, moved away but always came back …
Quirky, sophisticated and romantic by turns, their music defies genre, reflecting the beauty and the drama of the natural world and of humanity within it.
Both composers studied under Herbert Howells – and by a strange twist of fate, neither knowing anything of this connection, they met in 1990, with Smith playing in Wood’s memorial concert at the People’s Theatre a year later.
Includes Deborah Thorne playing Wood’s ‘Lament for a Celt’ and Nicholas Butters on piano, together with members of the Borrowdale Ensemble in Smith’s ‘ Bitter Suite, several of Wood’s beautiful settings of poems Edward Thomas and DH Lawrence for tenor (Austin Gunn) and soprano (Caren Moffett) by, and Dawn Allen leading a group of violinists in Smith’s ‘Enchanted Quartets’.
Tickets available at the door £10
Optreden op Storioni festival
Op zaterdag 18 mei 2019 is muziek van Michael uitgevoerd op het Storioni festival in Eindhoven door Inge IJpelaar, Ien Bouwmans and Marie-Astrid Vermaas.
Uitgevoerd werden de volgende werken:
Berceuse melancholique en the Lonely lanes of Ireland (piano/fluit)
Song of first love en Ennerdale (piano/sopraan)
November (piano)
Concert Return To Paradise in Newcastle upon Tyne
Op 25 oktober 2018 is er een concert in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Het concert begint om 19.30 uur in de Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Het concert wordt gespeeld door Lydia Abell (altviool), Dawn Allen and John Garner (viool), Sarah Robinson (piano), Studenten van the Royal Grammar school en de Sage, Gateshead en leden van the Cobweb Orchestra.
De CD Running To Paradise met muziek van Michael Jon Smith wordt op het concert gepresenteerd.
Muziek van Michael Jon Smith zal te horen zijn op het concert.

Presentatie CD Running to Paradise in kasteel Heeswijk
Op 4 februari wordt de CD Running to Paradise gepresenteerd in kasteel Heeswijk.
Van 12:00 uur tot 13:00 uur zal er in dit kader een koffieconcert zijn.
Voor meer details over dit concert:
CD presentatie Running to Paradise
Het is mogelijk de CD presentatie te combineren met een bezoek aan kasteel Heeswijk of een rondleiding door kasteel Heeswijk.
Meer details hierover:
Kasteel Heeswijk
CD Running to Paradise uitgebracht
De CD Running to Paradise is uitgebracht.
De CD is ook digitaal gepubliceerd !
De digitale versie van het album is te koop op iTunes en elk ander groot digitaal platform, de opbrengsten gaan naar Stichting Michael Jon Smith.
Donaties:
Donaties zijn van harte welkom op rekeningnummer NL92INGB0008046454 ten name van Stichting Michael Jon Smith.
Jaaroverzicht 2016
Het jaaroverzicht 2016 is gepubliceerd.
De opnamen voor de CD, Running to Paradise, zijn in 2016 voltooid.
De voorbereidingen voor de productie van de CD zijn in de afrondende fase.
De verwachting is, dat de CD in de zomer van 2017 gepubliceerd zal worden.
CONCERT MICHAEL JON SMITH – RUNNING TO PARADISE
Op 7 mei om 20:15 uur is er een concert georganiseerd in het pianola museum te Amsterdam.
Dit concert is de start van ons CD opname project, welke in de maanden daarna plaatsvindt !
(de bedoeling is later dit jaar, na de CD opname, nog een concert te organiseren in kasteel Heeswijk, waar de CD opname plaats vindt)
De uitvoerende musici:
Emlyn Stam – altviool
Shuann Chai – piano
Inge IJpelaar – dwarsfluit
Concertprogramma:
Song and Dance Fantasy – Altviool en piano
Running to Paradise – Dwarsfluit en piano
Berceuse – Dwarsfluit en piano
Viola sonata for solo altviool
Uit ‘The Seasons’: ‘February’ en ‘June’ – solo piano
pauze
Uit ‘The Seasons’: ‘September’ en ‘November’ (Watendlath) – solo piano
Caledonian Suite – solo altviool
Piacevole – Flute and Piano
Toegangskaarten en informatie:
Het reserveren van kaarten wordt aangeraden.
Er is een beperkt aantal toegangskaarten beschikbaar.
De toegangsprijs zal 10 euro bedragen.
zend een bericht naar: info@pianola.nl
met uw naam en het gewenste aantal kaarten plus de naam en de datum van het concert (Concert Michael Jon Smith, 7 mei 20:15 uur). U krijgt per email een bevestiging van uw bestelling plus een instructie voor de betalingswijze.
De kaarten liggen dan op uw naam klaar. Het museum is tenminste vanaf een half uur voor aanvang van elk concert geopend.
Wijzigingen voorbehouden. Bij onvoldoende reserveringen of door andere omstandigheden kan een concert alsnog afgelast worden. Indien u gereserveerd hebt en een concert toch niet door zou kunnen gaan, krijgt u daarvan tijdig bericht en krijgt u uiteraard uw geld teruggestort.
Telefoonnummer pianolamuseum: 020 6279624
Adres pianolamuseum:
Westerstraat 106
1015 MN Amsterdam
Jaaroverzicht 2015
Het jaaroverzicht 2015 is gepubliceerd.
Nieuwsbrief
Er is weer een nieuwsbrief gepubliceerd !
Nieuwsbrief 30 november 2015
Opnames van de concerten in Newcastle upon Tyne (7 augustus 2015) en Edinburgh (10 augustus 2015)
zijn toegevoegd aan de website:
Newcastle upon Tyne 7 augustus 2015
Edinburgh, 10 augustus 2015
Ondertussen gaan de voorbereidingen voor de opnames begin volgend jaar door.
RUNNING TO PARADISE (Kaarten verkrijgbaar vanaf juni)
Voor augustus 2015 heeft onze zuster organisatie in engeland
twee concerten georganiseerd in Newcastle en Edinburgh.
PROGRAMMA 2015
Aug 7, 7.30 Newcastle/Tyne: LIt & Phil NE1 1SE
Aug 10, 4.30 pm (1 hr) Edinburgh: St George/ St Andrew EH2 2PA
Running to Paradise – Fluit en Piano
Caledonian Suite – Altviool solo
Morsels – Fluit en altviool
Song and Dance Fantasy – Altviool en Piano
‘Ennerdale’ en ‘Song of First Love – Sopraan en Piano (alleen in Newcastle)
Late Lark,Piacevole, Nostalgia,Song of Spring – Fluit en Piano
Uit ‘The Seasons’: ‘August’ and ‘November’ (Watendlath) – Piano solo
Nieuwsbrief 1
De eerste nieuwsbrief is verzonden !
Nieuwsbrief 29 april 2014
Uitvoering String Quartet in A van Michael Jon Smith
23 april 2014 , 20:00 uur
Café ‘t Wapen van Kennemerland , Ramplaan , Haarlem, Netherlands
&
26 april 2014 19.30 uur
St Mary’s Heritage Centre (tegenover the Sage Music Centre, Gateshead on
Tyne, UK)
Voor meer informatie neem contact op met
Quartetto Damiate spelen String Quartet in A van Michael Jon Smith Opus 3
Ingrid de Vries, 1ste viool
Willemijn Bruins, 2de viool
Loeki Poncin, altviool
Feike van der Heide, cello
Aansluitend ‘Mostra’, een toneelstuk over de 18e eeuwse componist Charles Avison,
geschreven door Michael Smith’s zus, Sue Saunders, met Gordon Russell als Avison. (geregiseerd door Hugh Keegan)
Smith en Avison – geboren en getogen in Newcastle on Tyne, England, drie eeuwen van elkaar
1767 – ‘Such trickery, such a pompous display of art!’ fumes Charles
Avison at the latest musical trends.
Alone in his attic study, the composer recalls personal triumphs and family
sorrows – but above all, the loves and friendships that make up his very
own soul music.
with live music from Quartetto Damiate . Singers : Helen Bartlett/Alex
Murchie. Keyboard : John Ward
Openingsconcert 13 april 2013
Op 13 april 2013 is de stichting gepresenteerd in het Pianola Museum te Amsterdam.
Wegens het beperkt aantal plaatsen was deze gelegenheid besloten.
Bij de opening waren diversie optredens te horen van vrienden van Michael.
Onze dank gaat uit naar hen en iedereen, die aanwezig was.
Het bestuur van Michael Jon Smith bestaat uit de volgende personen:
Penningmeester: Christopher Smith
Secretaris: Loeki Poncin