Programme for Season 2020
Unfortunately this season had to be canceled due to Covid-19. We include it for your interest.
Giuseppe Guarrera
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Jamal Aliyev
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Ben Goldscheider
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Sunday 5 April 2020 at 4pm
Giuseppe GuarreraPiano
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Artist BiographyIn 2017 Giuseppe won 2nd Prize at the Montréal International Competition along with five other awards including the People’s Choice. Over the last year Giuseppe has won a prestigious Klavier Ruhr Festival scholarship and the Tabor Foundation Award at the Verbier Festival Academy. He completed his studies at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin with Nelson Goerner and has now joined the Faculty. This season Giuseppe makes his debut with the New Generation Orchestra in Florence, the Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen in Cremona and at the Al Bustan Festival in Lebanon. Other highlights include recitals at Wigmore Hall, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Societa dei Concerti in Milan, Festival Armonie in Valcerrina and Lingotto Giovani series in Turin. Giuseppe has performed widely in Europe, recently giving recitals at the Boulez-Saal, Klavier-Ruhr Festival, the Luis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, Estivales de Musique en Médoc and Lerici Festivals. Solo appearances include the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (with Vasily Petrenko), the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (with Claus Peter Flor) and the Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice. In 2017 he premiered a concerto by Benjamin Attahir with the Pierre Boulez Ensemble conducted by Daniel Barenboim. He was selected by YCAT in 2018.
Programme Noteswill be available at the concert.
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Sunday 19 April 2020 at 4pm
Jamal AliyevCello
Jâms Coleman Piano
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Artist BiographyIn 2019 Jamal made his debut with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra at the St. Magnus Festival broadcast by Radio 3. Other highlights include appearances as soloist with the City of Birmingham Symphony, Philharmonia, Royal Northern Sinfonia, London Mozart Players, CBSO Youth Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra Simón Bolívar of Venezuela. He gave recitals across Turkey with renowned pianist Fazil Say including the Ataturk Culture & Congress Center and TIM Maslak Show Center, took part in the Istanbul Music Festival, and appeared as soloist with Presidential Symphony and Istanbul Symphony Orchestras. This season Jamal makes his debut performing the Elgar Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and at the Trans-Siberian Festival with the Tomsk Philharmonia. He returns to Wigmore Hall, records with Fazil Say and gives recitals throughout the UK and in Turkey. In 2017 Jamal made his BBC Proms debut and won the Arts Club – Sir Karl Jenkins Music Award. His debut CD Russian Masters was released by Champs Hill Records to critical acclaim. He was selected by Young Classical Artists Trust in 2017 and Concerts Artists Guild in New York in 2019. Born in Baku, Azerbaijan, Jamal studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal College of Music. He is currently undertaking an Artist Diploma at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. .
Jâms Coleman is a Welsh pianist who enjoys a rich and varied musical life performing as a soloist, chamber musician and vocal accompanist. He finds it inspiring to collaborate with different musicians and values the rewards of this process. Chamber-music engagements include performances in the UK and across Europe with instrumentalists Luke Hsu, Clio Gould, Maggie Faultless, Timothy Ridout, Laura van der Heijden, Jamal Aliyev, Joy Lisney and Marcin Zdunik. As a vocal accompanist, he enjoys collaborating with many singers and his engagements include recitals with such Ailish Tynan, James Gilchrist, Sir John Tomlinson, Robert Murray, Nicholas Mulroy, Robert Murray and Andrew Kennedy at festivals such as the Leeds and Oxford Lieder Festivals. Recent highlights include performing the three Schubert song cycles at the Two Moors Festival and an evening song recital at Wigmore Hall. He will return to Wigmore Hall in November where will perform in a showcase for Samling Arts alongside Nicky Spence, Julien van Mellaerts, Svetlina Stoyanova, Christopher Glynn and others. Jâms enjoys performing as a concerto soloist and has performed repertoire including Beethoven’s Third, Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos and concertos by Chopin, Brahms and Mozart. Jâms read Music at Girton College, Cambridge, where he was also a choral scholar. In 2016 he completed a Masters at the Royal Academy of Music where he then stayed on as a Fellow. He also has experience of working as a Musical Director and repetiteur and in 2014 he conducted fifteen performances of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin across Wales. He is the Artistic Director of a new concert series based in St Clement Danes Church in Central London which featured twenty-four lunchtime concerts and five evening concerts in 2018.
Programme Noteswill be available at the concert.
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Sunday 10 May 2020 at 4pm
Ben GoldscheiderHorn
Richard Uttley Piano
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Artist BiographyIn 2020 Ben makes his debut at the Mozartwoche Festival in Salzburg At the age of 18 Ben was a Concerto Finalist in BBC Young Musician Competition. Highlights since then include his debut at the BBC Proms, solo appearances with the Lucerne Symphony, Britten Sinfonia, Aurora, English Chamber, Hallé Orchestra, Manchester Camerata, the Prague Philharmonia and Sinfonie Orchester Berlin at the Berlin Philharmonie. In 2018 his debut album was released, and he was selected as a BBC Music Magazine Rising Star and Gramophone Magazine One to Watch. A committed chamber musician, Ben has collaborated with Julian Prégardien at Wigmore Hall, Sergei Babayan at the Verbier Festival, Daniel Barenboim and Martha Argerich at Salzburg Festival and Matthias Pintscher at the Pierre Boulez-Saal. > This season Ben makes his debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and the Mozarteum Orchestra in the Mozartwoche Festival (Salzburg). He returns to give a solo recital at the Pierre Boulez-Saal. In demand as guest principal Ben has appeared with the Staatskapelle Berlin, West-Eastern Divan and Philharmonia Orchestras. He studies at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin with Radek Baborák and was selected by YCAT in 2019. Ben Goldscheider is YCAT’s inaugural Ann Driver Trust Artist.
Noted for the integrity and breadth of his musicianship as soloist, chamber musician and recording artist, Richard Uttley has been recognised for his ‘musical intelligence and pristine facility’ (International Record Review), ‘amazing decisiveness’, and ‘tumultuous performance’ (Daily Telegraph). His playing is frequently broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and has featured on BBC Two, BBC Four, Classic FM and Sky Arts. He won the British Contemporary Piano Competition in 2006 and was selected for representation by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2011. Highlights this season include solo recitals in Modulus Festival (Vancouver), Gershwin’s Concerto in F at Queen Elizabeth Hall, a complete cycle of Beethoven’s sonatas for piano and violin with Savitri Grier, a series of chamber music concerts curated by clarinettist/composer Mark Simpson at Saffron Hall, and the premiere of a new work written for Richard by Kate Whitley. Richard read Music at Clare College, Cambridge, graduating with a double first in 2008, and then studied at Guildhall School with Martin Roscoe. Richard teaches at City University, Guildhall School and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
Programme Noteswill be available at the concert.
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