Programme for Season 2012
This season has now concluded. We include it for your interest.
Bart Lafollette
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Rhodes Piano Trio
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Kathryn Rudge
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Heath Quartet
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Sunday 21 October 2012 at 4pm
Bart LafollettePiano and Cello RecitalCellist Bartholomew LafollettePiano Mishka Momen
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Artist BiographyCellist Bartholomew Lafollette was a pupil at the Yehudi Menuhin School from 1997 In 2003 he won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he continued his studies with Louise Hopkins. In 2007 he was selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust. As a recitalist and chamber musician Bart Lafollette has appeared at major venues including Wigmore Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Fairfield Halls Croydon, the Purcell Room, St. George's Bristol, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Read more... Pianist Mishka is the youngest pupil ever to have been admitted by the Purcell School at the age of six on a full scholarship and where she was a pupil of Ilana Davids. Mishka is now a final year scholarship student at the Guildhall School of Music and has been studying with Imogen Cooper as her only student since 2006. Mishka has won several prestigious prizes and made her solo debut at the age of 10 since when she has performed in all of London’s major venues, Royal Festival Hall, Purcell Room, Barbican, Wigmore Hall, etc. She is regularly invited to give recitals hosted by the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe and the Chopin Society UK. She has performed abroad in Germany, New York, Prague, Mumbai and is a committed chamber musician. Read more... Programme Notesare available here
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Sunday 18 November 2012 at 4pm
Rhodes Piano TrioPiano TrioViolin Michael GurevichCello David EdmondsPiano Robert Thompson
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Artist BiographyIn 2011 the Rhodes Piano Trio won 2nd Prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. Selected for representation by YCAT in 2010, over the last year the Trio has given recitals at Purcell Room, Bridgewater Hall, the Chester, Lake District Summer Music, Edinburgh Fringe and Festspiele Mecklenburg Vorpommern Festivals. Earlier this year the Trio took part in masterclasses with Menahem Pressler, Mitsuko Uchida in Aldeburgh and with Ferenc Rados and Andras Keller at IMS Prussia Cove. Engagements this season include debut recitals at Wigmore Hall, Barbican and Schwetzinger Festspiele. All three members of the Rhodes Piano Trio enjoy great success individually, Robert Thompson completing his solo studies with Peter Frankl at Yale University, David Edmonds with Gregor Horsch in Dusseldorf and Michael Gurevich as a Junior Fellow at the RNCM and member of the London Haydn Quartet. Read more... Programme Notesare available here
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Sunday 7 April 2013 at 3:30pm
Kathryn RudgeLieder & AriasMezzo Soprano Kathryn RudgePiano James Baillieu
ProgrammeA lighthearted programme of arias from Mozart's "Figaro", Bizet's "Carmen", songs by Schubert, English songs and finishing with Novello
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Artist BiographyMezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge was featured as the new face of classical music in ‘The Times Rising Stars of 2012′. She made her much praised professional opera debut in 2012 as an ENO Young Artist at the London Coliseum in the role of Cherubino in Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’. She was also ‘Debutante of the Month‘ in the International Opera Now Magazine. In 2012 she made her debut with Opera North in the role of Sesto in Handel’s ‘Giulio Cesare’ to critical acclaim. In the autumn of 2012 she made her debut with Glyndebourne Touring Opera revisiting the role of Cherubino in their new production of Mozart’s ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’. In 2013 she will perform the role of Annio in Opera North’s production of Mozart’s ‘La Clemenza di Tito’ Kathryn is currently represented by the Young Classical Artists’ Trust. Read more... Described by The Daily Telegraph as ‘in a class of his own’, pianist James Baillieu has been the prize-winner of the Wigmore Hall Song Competition, Das Lied International Song Competition (in both 2009 & 2011), Kathleen Ferrier and Richard Tauber Competitions. Over the last year he has recorded for BBC Radio 3 with the Elias Quartet and Allan Clayton while giving solo and chamber recitals throughout Europe and further afield, collaborating with singers Jared Holt, Gerard Collett, Sir Thomas Allen, Katherine Broderick, Martene Grimson, Jacques Imbrailo, Sarah-Jane Brandon and Kishani Jayasinghe. Festivals and venues have included Wigmore Hall, Festpillene i Bergen, the Aldeburgh, Cheltenham, Aix-en-Provence, Derry and Norfolk & Norwich Festivals. He was selected for representation by Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2010. Read more... Programme Notesare available here
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Sunday 5 May 2013 at 3:30pm
Heath QuartetString QuartetViolin Oliver HeathViolin Cerys JonesViola Gary PomeroyCello Christopher Murray
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Artist BiographyThe Heath Quartet is rapidly emerging as an exciting and original voice on the international chamber music scene. Selected for representation by YCAT in 2008 they immediately went on to win 1st Prize at the Tromp International Competition in Eindhoven and 2nd Prize at the Haydn International Competition in Vienna. In 2011 they were awarded a prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Special Ensemble Scholarship and in the same year undertook two complete Beethoven Quartet cycles at the Fàcyl Festival in Salamanca Spain and at Greyfriars Church in Edinburgh. The Quartet were presented with a Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award after unanimous praise from The Herald's music critics in Edinburgh. Programme Notesare available here |
